Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Noreaga feat Nas – “Body In The Trunk”

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1998, actor, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Body in the Trunk, Capone-N-Noreaga, CNN, Criteria Studios, Dame Grease, East Coast Hip-Hop, Electric Lady Studios, Florida, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Key Yemaya Walker, Miami, music, Nas, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, Nasty Nas, New York, New York City, Noreaga, P.A.P.I., Penalty Records, Queens, Queensbridge, Rapper, reggaeton, sampler, U.S., United States, Victor Santiago Jr., Vocals

[Verse 1]
[Noreaga]
Got out the mall yo
This weeded cat rockin a fade
In my face askin can he see the grenade
I woulda let him see it
The way he came across yo I said nah, beat it
Steph told me buck him
When I reacted Will said chill f–k him
Yo it’ a small world ya know that we’ll see him again
He said f–k you
I said what, repeat it again

[Nas]
Chill son you’e weeded again
Slow down god you’re speedin again
Face lookin like you’re fiendin for Hen
Who that wit you, hide the gat yo n—a come here
You got a pistol that must mean you slingin again

[Noreaga]
Hey yo f–k it yo, I bucked him son
Cause he was on some stupid s–t
Thinking he the real thing
When he was just a duplicate
Saying that he hate our clique
Hate our s–t
Hate the Firm album and the CNN clique
He said he hate you and wish you ain’t have a six
He had coliseum jewelry no Tito tricks

Music Mondays – Imogen Heap – “Hide And Seek”

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2005, Almo Sounds, Alternative, alternative rock, ambient, array mbira, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, cello, clarinet, dream pop, drums, East London, Electronica, England, ethereal wave, folktronica, Frou Frou, guitar, Hang, Havering, Hide And Seek, Immi, Imogen Heap, Imogen Jennifer Heap, indie rock, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, keytar, Megaphonic, Megaphonic Records, music, Music Mondays, nail violin, organ, pop, RCA Victor, RCA Victor (Sony), rock, sampler, Speak for Yourself, synthesizer, Synthpop, vocal percussion, Vocals, vocoder

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics – “Sally Got a One Track Mind”

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1969, 1992, 88-Keys, Big L, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Born To Be Blue, Bronx, Buckwild, Chemistry, D.I.T.C., David Perez, Diamond D, Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics, Diggin' in the Crates, Diggin' in the Crates Crew, DJ Mark the 45 King, drum machine, Fat Joe, hip hop producer, Hip-Hop, hip-hop group, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, It's a New Day, Jack Bruce, Jazzy Jay, Joseph Kirkland, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Lord Finesse, MC, Mercury, music, New York City, O.C., PolyGram Records, Producer-MC, Q-Tip, sampler, Showbiz, Showbiz & A.G., Skull Snaps, Sparkling in the Sand, Strings, Stunts Blunts and Hip Hop, The Yeezus Tour, Tower of Power, Turntable

I met Diamond D at the Kanye show the other night, so why not post the legend’s 1992 single.

[Hook]
Sally got a one track mind
It doesn’t matter if it’s yours or mine
Cause if ya getting dough and you wanna get with her
Yeah (YOU CAN HIT HER!)

[Verse 1]
I knew a girl named Sally who’s tastes were exquisite
Saks Fifth Avenue, bad made or is it?
When she was a child, her parents had money
She was spoiled rotten, and how things has gotten
Worse, she’s a professional (uhh!)
She’ll start to switch if her palms begin to itch
I watched her grow into a neighborhood ho
Ran around town with every Tom, Dick, and Joe
Quite amusing, but little did she know
That word got around that Sally was down
Sweet 16 but she looked 21
If the price was right, she’ll be twice as nice
Dissed her friends for a man in a Benz
Then he cuts you off when he hits the skins
Now you got another one, he drives a Beamer
Wake up girl, don’t be a day dreamer

Text Tuesdays – The Yeezus Tour – Blue Lines Blog Review

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808 & Heartbreak, 88-Keys, Ackee Juice Rockers, All Of The Lights, Alone, Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Anthony Kilhoffer, Arca, Article, Atlanta, Ben Bronfman, Benji B, Black Skinhead, Blood on the Leaves, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Lines Blog Review, Bon Iver, Boogz & Tapez, Bound 2, Brodinski, Can't Tell Me Nothing, Carlos Broady, Che Pope, Chicago, Chief Keef, Clique, Coachella, Coachella Festival, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Cold, Coldest Winter, College Dropout, Cruel Summer, Cruel Summer (GOOD Music album), Daft Punk, Dan Black, Def Jam, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, Director, Dom Solo, DONDA, Donda West, Edgar Allen Poe, entrepreneur, Eric Danchick, Evian Christ, fashion designer, Flashing Lights, Georgia, Gesaffelstein, Glow In The Dark Tour, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, GOOD, Good Life, GOOD Music label, Graduation, Guilt Trip, Heartless, Hip-Hop, Hit-Boy, Hold My Liquor, Hudson Mohawke, I Am a God, I Don't Like, I'm In It, Illinois, Illmind, Instagram, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, Jack Donoghue, Jeff Bhasker, Jesus Walks, Justin Vernon, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Ken Lewis, Kendrick Lamar, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Late Registration, Lifted, Lost in The World, Lunice, Lupe Fiasco, Mannie Fresh, Mano, Mercy, Mike Dean, Mike Will, Mountain, Mufasa, music, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, N.E.R.D., Nas, New Slaves, Nine Inch Nails, No ID, Noah Goldstein, On Sight, percussion, Philips Arena, Power, Rapper, record producer, Rick Rubin, Rihanna, Roc-A-Fella, Runaway, S1, sampler, Send It Up, Sham Joseph, Singer-songwriter, Stronger, synthesizer, Text Tuesdays, The Lion King, The Twilite Tone, The Yeezus Tour, Through the Wire, Tommy Brown, Travi$ Scott, Travis Scott, U.S., United States, Very GOOD Beats, Vocals, Yeezus, Young Chop

“…As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still…”
Excerpt from “Alone” by Edgar Allen Poe.

A top the mountain.

Atlanta – December, 2013

A mountain, a mask, and a fashion of playing to an audience while hiding behind something…

In one of the strangest performances that I have witnessed since Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s opening for Nine Inch Nails, Chicago artist, Kanye West returned to the city of his birth with The Yeezus Tour in support of the aforementioned 2013 album. Poised to present his first solo tour in 5 years (previously touring with his Glow In The Dark Tour featuring Rihanna, N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco, and Nas) with opening act Kendrick Lamar.

An elaborately choreographed presentation spanning Kanye’s College Dropout, Late Registration, with some focus on Graduation, but, to my liking, taking the majority of the direction from Yeezus, and 808 & Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with preceded it, the tour arrived amid the inordinate press that has been known to follow Kanye since 2007. Recent remarks, and blowups have litter current media with talking points regarding the Chicago artist have also followed with the “Talk My Shit,” interludes that now litter dates of his tour.

Ye in action.

The performance intelligently began with Yeezus content, with Yeezy perched atop a mountain with a moon like video board that tempered the climate of the show, whether creating a moon effect, displaying weather, or giving a close up of the performance. Though Kanye, tends to project a larger than life persona, the use of four ornate masks, he plays a high energy show, allowing a separation between he and his audience. Kanye conceals himself for 85% – 90% of the performance. The anonymous and uniform theme is extended to the female dancers and male extras who are covered in full bodysuits, allowing all attention to be focused on the act, Kanye himself.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Blu & Exile – “Dancing In The Rain”

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2007, Aleksander Manfredi, alternative hip hop, Below the Heavens, Blu, Blu & Exile, Blu And Exile, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Dancing In The Rain, DJ, Exile, hip hop DJ, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Johnson Barnes, Key Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, MPC, music, Producer, Rapper, record producer, sampler, San Pedro, Sire, Sound in Color, Sound in Color Records, Turntable, U.S., Underground hip hop, Warner Bros. Records, West Coast

Fitting for this monsoon coming down in Chicago this evening.

[Verse 1:]
It’s six o’clock I’m hoppin’ out of the bed
Rain fallin’, callin’ ex but my phoneline is dead
I guess my bills ain’t paid
No ride to work for the day
Second option hop the bus but there’s a traffic delay
My boss trippin’ cause I’m runnin’ late and ain’t no excuse
When I’m about to be 22 without a whip I could swoop
Feel like I’m fixin to shoot my own dome with chrome to escape
Zonin’ out cause workin workin out ain’t worth what I make
My lady callin’ buggin’ always fussin’ just cause we ain’t ballin’
But it’s hard because her cousin is f–kin’ rich cause her husband’s hustlin’
And I ain’t f–kin touchin’ nothin’ but a mic
Five o’clock and off of work ready to go home and write
But I ain’t got a buck to catch the bus, chillin’ at the stop
Rain fallin’ hard as ever and it’s soakin’ my socks
F–k it, kick my kicks off and took off my jacket
Roll my jeans up beat up and my headphones blastin’
Blazed some weed up and started laughin’
While I’m splashin’ in puddles like
Mothaf–k a struggle we dancin’ in the rain

[Chorus 1:]
Don’t nobody wanna dance slow in the rain
Just move yo a-s… just move yo a-s
Don’t nobody wanna liberate the way to the pain
Just move yo a-s… just move yo a-s

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Award Tour” requested by Promoter Ike’s World

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12" maxi single, 1993, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, bass, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Braves, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Dallas, David Jude Jolicoeur, DC, De La Soul, Delaware, digital download, DJ, Dove, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Houston, Jarobi White, Jazz Merchant Music, jazz-rap, Jive Records, Jonathan Davis, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, L.A., Large Professor, London, Long Island, Malik Isaac Taylor, Malik Izaak Taylor, Maryland, Midnight Marauders, Motown, music, N.C., Native Tongues, New Orleans, New York, New York City, New York Yankees, NJ, Nodlew Music, November, NY, Oaktown, Phife Dawg, Producer, Q-Tip, Queens, Queens New York City, Rapper, S.C., sampler, San Fran, Skeff Anselm, Spokane, St. Albans, St. John, Tokyo, Trinidad and Tobago, Trugoy, Trugoy The Dove, Turntables, Unichappell Music Inc., United States, Universal Music - Z Tunes LLC, USA, VA, Vocal, Weldon Irvine Jr, Yankees

[chorus Dove from De La Soul:]
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
New York, NJ, N.C., VA
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John

[Q-Tip:]
People give your ears so I be sublime
It’s enjoyable to know you and the concubine
N—az, take off your coats ladies, act like chorus Dove from De La Soul:
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
New York, NJ, N.C., VA
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John

[Q-Tip:]
People give your ears so I be sublime
It’s enjoyable to know you and the concubine
N—az, take off your coats ladies, act like GEMS
Sit down, Indian style, as we recite these hymns
See, lyrically I’m Mario Andretti on the mo-mo
Ludicrously speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo
Heard me in the eighties, J Beez on the promo
On my never ending quest to get the paper on the
Caper

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Common feat Kanye West and John Legend – “They Say”

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2005, actor, Atlanta, Be, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Chicago, Common, Common Sense, fashion designer, film director, Georgia, good music, hip hop soul, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illinois, jazz fusion, jazz-rap, John Legend, John Roger Stephens, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Lonnie Lynn, Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., May, music, music video director, neo soul, Ohio, percussion, quiet storm, R&B, Rapper, record producer, sampler, Singer, songwriter, Sony Music Studios, Soul, Spoken Word, Springfield, synthesizer, United States, Warner Bros., Writer

[Chorus: John Legend]
They say “What’s happenin’?”
We say the facts and if, they lie…
We comin’ back for them
They might say… but they don’t know!
(They say, They say…)
They don’t knowwwww

[Verse 1: Common]
They say a n—a lost his mind
But in the scheme of things I never lost a rhyme
The thin line between love and hatred
I’m the black pill in the Matrix, the saturated life
They say life is what you make it
So I wait quick on a spaceship so I can take it
As high as the stakes get when paper get low
I be tellin Derick, “Tell Kara get us a show”
Little Com, I make righteous bitches get low

Hip Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It”

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1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Abstract, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, American hip hop, ATCQ, bass, Battery Studios, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Calliope Studios, Can I Kick It, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Dance of the Knights, David Porter, DJ Pete Tong, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Dr. Lonnie Smith, drums, Dumb D.J. Towha's DewDrop Inn, East Coast Hip-Hop, Five Foot Assassin, Fried Okra, Garden Seeker Productions, Golden age hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hot Chocolate, Ian Dury, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive, Jive/RCA Records, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Lou Reed, Malik Isaac Taylor, MC Love Child, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Piano/keyboards, Q-Tip, Queens, R&B, sampler, Sergei Prokofiev, Soul, Soul Con-certo, Spinning Wheel, St. Albans, Sunshower, The Way You Do the Things You Do, Turntables, U.S., United States, USA, Vocal, Vocals, Walk on the Wild Side, What a Waste, You Sexy Thing, Zomba

[Q-Tip]
Can I kick it? (Yes, you can!) *7X*
Well, I’m gone (Go on then!)

Can I kick it? To all the people who can Quest like A Tribe does
Before this, did you really know what live was?
Comprehend to the track, for its why cuz
Gettin measures on the tip of the vibers
Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug
Afrocentric living is a big shrug
A life filled with *HORN* that’s what I love
A lower plateau is what we’re above
If you diss us, we won’t even think of
Will Nipper the doggy give a big shove?
This rhythm really fits like a snug glove
Like a box of positives is a plus, love
As the Tribe flies high like a dove

Music Mondays – Norah Jones – “All A Dream”

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2012, Actress, Adult contemporary, All a Dream, alternative hip hop, alternative rock, ambient, artist, Athens, bass, bass guitar, Beatboxing, Big Beat, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Note, breakbeat, breakbeat hardcore, Brian Burton, Brian Joseph Burton, Brooklyn, California, Cee Lo, Cee-Lo Green, Country, Danger Mouse, DAW, Denton, drum and bass, drum machine, drums, Electro, Electro Vox Studios, Electronica, Folk, Folk rock, Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, Georgia, Gnarls Barkley, grime, guitar, Hip-Hop, indie rock, Jazz, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Little Broken Hearts, lo-fi, Los Angeles, Mondo Studio, music, Music Mondays, music producer, musician, neo soul, neo-psychedelia, New York, Norah Jones, oldschool jungle, organ, percussion, piano, Piano/keyboards, Rapping, Ravi Shankar, roots rock, sampler, saxophone, Singer-songwriter, Sue Jones, synthesiser, synthesizer, Texas, trip hop, Turntable, U.S., United States, United StatesWhite Plains, USA, vocal jazz, Vocals, White Plains

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Frou Frou – “The Dumbing Down Of Love”

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2002, ambient, array mbira, Atlanta, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Celesta, cello, clarinet, Clavichord, details, downtempo, dream pop, drums, Dumb, electronic, Electronica, England, folktronica, guitar, Guy Sigsworth, Hang, harpsichord, Havering, Ilkley, Imogen Heap, Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap, India, Island Records, Joel Peissig, Jon Hassell, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, keytar, London, Los Angeles, Love, MCA, Monday, Mumbai, music, Music Mondays, nail violin, organ, rock, Sacramento, sampler, San Francisco, Simple, synthesizer, trip hop, United Kingdom, Universal Records, vocal percussion, Vocals, vocoder, West Yorkshire, women

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.