New To You Music Sundays – Christina Aguilera feat Niles Rodgers – “Telepathy”

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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 – Wu Tang Clan – “Deadly Melody”

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[Masta Killa]
As we return, to the 36 Chambers
The RZA, the GZA
The Ol Dirty BZA
U-God, Chef, the Ghostface Killah
And Meth, Rebel I soldier for the foreclosure
Don’t forget about the Masta, yo

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – The Notorious B.I.G. Feat Method Man – “The What”

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Bad Boy Records, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Christopher Wallace, Clifford Smith, college, Duo, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hockey, Key Yemaya Walker, Method Man, music, New York, Ready to Die, Shaolin, Staten Island, The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan

[Verse One: Notorious, Meth]

I used to get feels on a b—h
Now I throw shields on the d–k
To stop me from that HIV s–t
And n—-z know they soft like a Twinkie filling
Playin the villian
Prepare for this rap killin
Biggie Smalls is the illest
Your style is played out, like Arnold wondered
“What you talkin bout Willis?”

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Ghostface Killah feat RZA and Solomon’s Child – “Stroke of Death” #WuWednesdays

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2000, actor, Ain't No Sunshine, Alize, Bobby Digital, Boy George, Brooklyn, Clarks, David Banner, Dennis Coles, Epic, Epic Records, Florida, GFK, Ghostface Killah, Harlem Underground Band, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Killa Bamz, Larry Johnson, Miami, Mink, New York, New York City, Prince Rakeem, Producer, Razor Sharp, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, RZA, Rzarector, Solomon Childs, Sony, Staten Island, Stroke of Death, Supreme Clientele, The Abbot, The Scientist, Tony Starks, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wallabee, Wu-Tang Clan, WuWednesdays

[Solomon’s Child (formerly known as Killa Bamz)]
Yeah, Soloman marked for life, a million to life
Thug for life, forever eyein the kid
’89 stick-up kid, King of New York
Regulation party, daddy hard body
Rowdy Brighton God-body
Smooth like a leather bop, ’83 hip-hop
Top of the world, get it rizzight
Big to your wizzife, murder cats for the right prizzice
Four-hundred and fifty-six on the dizzice
This is real lizzife, ain’t nothin sweet God
Sit down and think it through God
Cuz comin all outta ya face’ll get ya clap God

[Girl]
You are now listening to the sounds of Supreme Clientele

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Raekwon feat Method Man & Ghostface Killah – “New Wu”

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[Intro: Raekwon]
Uh-huh, what up son? Yeah
Maintaining, maintaining, you know?
You good, right? Everything proper, still, right?
Of course, come on, man, what’s the matter wit you, man?
Ain’t nothing, I just want us to be on

[Chorus: Method Man]
Tell a friend, it’s that symbol again, that W
Coming through, bust a shot on your block, give me a suu
Get it right, all my chicks hold ya t-ts, let’s get it in
All my n—as take a toke off this weed, let it begin
Here we go, yo, ya’ll already know what it do
Brand new, n—a, back from the slums, it be the Wu
Now throw ya W’s up, back from the slums, it be the Wu

[Raekwon]
You know how to dress a lad, get rocked, hundred bags, black doorags
Ski masks is on, g-rags
N—a try to take pictures, relax, still in the grass
You’ll learn respect, burst when I ask
Rhyme master busy, Rizzy on the subject
Love Deck, thug buried, drug vest, snub sets, killing the most
Night time toast, gorillas in boats, three boats
Realers is killa, gangsta feel notes
Hibernation yo, switch up, liver nation, fly information
Vivid vacation, deliberation moments
Move like ’91 Romans, cloning everything
Gents only, the rent’s on the stove, I’m in Rome
Maxed out, Amex style, my team brand bandits
Make a move and get blown off the planet, baby
Hold that cannon, just understand we got the whole s–t
Padlocked down, my n—as won’t have it

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – GZA/Genius feat Inspectah Deck & D’Angelo – “Cold World (RZA Remix)”

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1995, 1996, 4th Disciple, actor, Allah Justice, Angeles Records, Babygrande, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Cold Chillin', Cold World, Cold World (RZA Remix), D'Angelo, Dot Da Genius, East Coast Hip-Hop, Frank Zappa, Gary Grice, Geffen, Geffen Records, Geffen/MCA, Genius/GZA, GZA, GZA Entertainment, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, In The Rain, Inspectah Deck, Jason Hunter, JUSTICE, Key Yemaya Walker, Koch, Life, Liquid Swords, Loud, Lyricist, Maximillion, MCA, Michael Eugene Archer, music, New York, New York City, Park Hill Projects, Plastic People, Producer, Rapper, Relativity, Rocket Love, RZA, songwriter, SRC, Staten Island, Stevie Wonder, The Bronx, The Dramatics, The Genius, the Head, traffic, United States, Universal Republic, Urban Icon, Wu-Tang Clan

Intro: (first three lines LP only)

I had a bad dream
Don’t be afraid, bad dreams are only dreams
What a time you chose to be born in…

Babies crying brothers dying and brothers getting knocked
S–t is deep on the block and you got me locked down
in this cold, cold world…

Verse One: The GZA

It was the night before New Year’s, and all through the f–kin projects
Not a handgun was silent, not even a Tec
Outside as I’m stuck, by enemies who put fear
and blasted on the spot before the pigs were there
You know hoods robbers snipers new in sight f–k blue and white
They escape before them flash the f–kin lights
Gunshots, shatter first floor window panes
Shells hit the ground and blood stained the dice game
Whether broke callisthenic, any style you set it
Beat n—az toothless, physically cut up like gooses
But with iron on the sides thugs took no excuses
Therefore, your fifty-two handblocks was useless
Links was snatched off necks, scars on throats
Jackets took, after bullet rips through coats
Against those who felt the cold from the steel made em fold
and squeal, once the metal hit the temple of his grill
Destruction worker, who was caught for his bomber
No time to swing the hammer that was hangin from his Farmer’s
And it’s bugged how some n—az catch slugs

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Genius/GZA – “Liquid Swords”

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100 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums, 1995, 4th Disciple, Angeles Records, Babygrande, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Lines Coachella Weekend 2012, Brooklyn, Coachella, Coachella 2012, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Cold Chillin', college, DC-Milestone Comics, Denys Cowan, DJ Muggs, Easy Mo Bee, Geffen, Geffen/MCA Records, Genius, Genius/GZA, Geoffrey L. Garfield, Gold, Groovin', GZA, GZA Entertainment, GZA GrafX, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Intro, Key Yemaya Walker, Liquid Swords, Loud, MCA, Mercy, music, New York, November, October, October 10, RZA, Shaolin, Shogun Assassin, Soul Assassins, Staten Island, The Black Keys, United States, Willie Mitchell, Wu-Gambinos, Wu-Tang Clan

Intro Two: RZA

See, sometimes…
You gotta flash em back
See n—az don’t know where this s–t started
Y’all know where it came from
I’m sayin we gonna take y’all back to the source
We bounce, yo

Chorus: RZA, GZA

When the MC’s came, to live our their name
And to perform (forrrrm)
Some had, to snort cocaine (caiiinnne) to act insane (sannne)
with before Pete Rock-ed it on, now gone
that the mental plane (plaaanne) to spark the brain (brainnn)
with the building to be born
Yo RZA flip the track with the what to gut
Check em check chicka icka etta UHH

Verse One:

Fake n—az get flipped
In mic fights I swing swords and cut clown
S–t is too swift to bite you record and write it down
I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe
on some wild out s–t, to insert a fiend
But it was yo out the shop stolen art
Catch a swollen heart from not rollin smart
I put mad pressure, on phony wack rhymes that get hurt
S–t’s played, like zodiac signs on sweatshirt
That’s minimum, and feminine like sandals
My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
Energy is felt once the cards are dealt

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Raekwon the Chef – “Ice Cream”

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1995, A Time For Love, Bettye Swann, Billie Jean, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, butter-pecan, Cappachino, Cappadonna, caramel sundaes, chocolate-deluxe, Dear Uncle Sam, Earl Klugh, Eddie Murphy, French-vanilla, Ghostface, Ghostface Killah, Ghostface Killer, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ice Cream, Incarcerated Scarfaces, Johnny Blaze, Key Yemaya Walker, Lou Diamonds, Method Man, New York, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Raekwon, Raekwon the Chef, Shallah Raekwon, Shaolin, Staten Island, The Charmels, The Purple Tape, Then You Can Tell Me, Tony Starks, Wu-Gambinos, Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Wear

Intro: Method Man (Johnny Blaze)

Hey mom, can I have some money?
The ice cream man is coming!

Chorus:

Watch these rap n—az get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up
(The ice cream man is coming!)

Verse One: Ghostface Killer (Tony Starks)

Yo honey-dips, summertime, fine Jheri drippin
See you on Pickens with a bunch of chickens how you’re clickin
I catch shootin strong notes as we got close
She rocked rope, honey throat smellin like Impulse
Your whole shell baby’s wicked like Nimrod
Caught me like a fresh-water scrod, or may I not be God
Attitude is very rude Boo, crabby like seafood
It turns me on like Vassey and Lahrule
They call me Starky Love-hun, check the strategy
By any means, Shirley Temple cross was done by Billie Jean’s
Black Misses America, your name is Erica, right true
Lazy eyeball, small piece, six shoe
Caramel complexion, breath smellin like cinnamon
Excuse me hon, the Don mean no harm, turn around again
God damn, backyard’s bangin like a Benz-y
If I was jiggy, you’d be spotted like Spudz McKenzie
I’m high powered put Adina Howard to sleep
Yo pardon, that b—h been on my mind all week, but uhh
Back to you Maybelline Queen let’s make a team
You can have anything in this world except CREAM
So whatchu wanna do? Whatchu wanna do?
Let’s go ahead and walk these dogs and represent Wu

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Ghostface Killah feat Raekwon, U-God, Masta Killa, & Cappadonna – “Winter Warz”

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Al Capone, Blue Lines, Cappadonna, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood, Georgia Tech, Ghostface Killah, Golden Arms, Inspectah Deck, Key Yemaya Walker, Madison Square Garden, Malcolm X, Notre Dame, P.L.O., Park Hill, Raekwon, Rzarector, Shaolin, Soundtrack, Staten Island, SWV, The RZA, U-God, U.S.S.R., Vidal Sassoon, Weak, Wu-Tang Clan

I remember first hearing this song on Georgia Tech’s campus, visiting for the holidays from Bridgeport, CT. We went to see “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood,” and listened to this gem from the soundtrack.

It’s on…
[Cappa]
Where your sparkle at kid? Rzarector…

[Break: Raekwon the Chef]

Yes the s–t is raw, comin at your door Start to scream out loud, Wu-Tang’s back for more Yes the hour’s four, I told you before Prepare for mic fights (and plus the cold war)

[Verse One: U-God]

This rhyme you digest through the RZA console
Ask why I slam nine diagram pole
Raekwon dropped the bomb, Hunchback, Notre Dame Golden Arms is bronze, buddah palm hit Qu’ran
It blows extreme, mean stream be the theme Supreme team, America’s Cream Team,

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Raekwon the Chef feat Ghostface Killah – “Rainy Dayz”

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1994, 1996, Ain't No Sunshine, Barbra Streisand, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Raspberry, Corey Woods, Dennis Coles, Donna Summer, Ghost Deini, Ghost Face Killah, Ghostdini, Ghostface, Ghostface Killah, Ghostface Killer, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ironman, Key Yemaya Walker, Lex Diamonds, Lou Diamonds, Loud Records, Mafioso rap, Michael Jackson, music, New York City, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, P Tone, Pretty Toney, Raekwon, Raekwon the Chef, Rainy Dayz, Robert Diggs, Shallah Raekwon, Staten Island, The Killer, The Wallabee Kingpin, The Wally Champ, Tony Starks, United States, University Of Bridgeport, Wu-Tang Clan, You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good

Fits with the weather today in Atlanta…rain and tornadoes.
Intro: Blue Raspberry

Summer’s dream inside
Of how I’m gonna get mine
I’m thinkin bou-owowow-out so many ways
Of how to conquer, these raihahahahahny days…
[You sang beautifully just now]
[ I sang for him, and he isn’t here]
*birds craw and cackle*