Music Mondays – Run The Jewels – “Talk To Me”

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2016, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Big Dada, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, Chapel Hill, Company Flow, Dungeon Family, El-P, Fool's Gold, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Jaime Meline, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Killer Mike, Lazerface, Mass Appeal, Michael Render, Mike Bigga, New York, New York City, North Carolina, OutKast, RTJ, Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 3, Sacramento, Talk To Me, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, Deadly Melody, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, Ghost, Ghostface, Ghostface Killah, GZA, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Inspectah Deck, iPhone, iPhone Post, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Method Man, music, New York, New York City, Raekwon, Raekwon the Chef, RZA, Sacramento, Staten Island, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Tang Forever

[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 – Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram) – “Born to Shine” feat Run the Jewels

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alternative hip hop, Antwan André Patton, Atlanta, Big Grams, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Lines Coachella Weekend, Brooklyn, California, Charlie Everywhere, Coachella, Coachella Festival, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, college, Company Flow, East Coast Hip-Hop, El-P, Electronica, experimental, Georgia, Governors Ball, Greenwich, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Indie pop, iPhone, iPhone Post, Jaime Meline, Josh Carter, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Killer Mike, Michael Render, Mike Bigga, music, New York, New York City, North Carolina, OutKast, Phantogram, Photography, Rapper, Run the Jewels, Sacramento, Sarah Barthel, Savannah, Shoegaze, southern hip hop, trip hop, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Verse 1 – Killer Mike:]
I walk in
Ric Flair’in’, long fur coat wearin’
Rolex rockin’, silk shirt wearin’
Silk socks, and b—s need to breathe
So b—h the draws cotton cause you gon’ suck me when you leave
In a big Benzo on Lorenzos
With your homegirl LaQuinta who said she never did but she would try it
And as she higher than the f–kin’ Hyatt
She jet settin’, Moët’n, the God blesses
Against him prospers no weapon, champaignin’
Campaignin’, gator shoes high steppin’
My dopey eyes just hide behind my Dita frames
I heard this n—a say he don’t like me, well he the lame

[Hook – Sarah Barthel:]
It’s not your fault baby
We were just here born to shine

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Butter” RIP Phife Dawg

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1991, A Tribe Called Quest, adidas, Alexander O'Neal, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Battery Studios, Bell Biv Devoe, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, college, Contra Costa County, Dynomutt, East Coast Hip-Hop, Flo, Freaks, Garvey High, Georgia, Heavy D, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jamie Summers, jazz-rap, Jive, Jonathan Davis, Julie, Karen, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Malik Izaak Taylor, Malik Taylor, March, Margarine, Native Tongues, New York, New York City, November, Parkay, Parker Brothers, Phife, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Queens, Rapper, RCA, Sacramento, Sharon, Skeff Anselm, Soundtrack Studios, St. Albans, Stacy, The Five Footer, The Five-Foot Assassin, The Five-Foot Freak, The Low End Theory, Tina, Tomika, Tonya, Tracy, Trinidad and Tobago, Underground hip hop, United States, Vocals, Zomba

[Verse One: Phife Dawg]

1988 Senior Year, Garvey High
Where all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly
Loungin with the Tipster, Coolin with Sha
Scopin out the honeys – they know who they are
I was the b-ball playin fly rhyme sayin
Fly girl gettin but never was I sweatin
Cause when it came to honeys I would go on a stroll
Until I met my match – her name was Flo
Yeah – I messed around with the one called Flo
All the troopers round the way used to call her a ho
But deep down in my heart I knew that Flo was good to go
Cause I thought it was me – like Bell Biv Devoe
But little did I know that she was playin’ with my mind
The only thing I learned is, good girls are hard to find
I feel like Heavy D I need somebody for me

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Bonita Applebum”

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1990, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bonita Applebum, California, Chapel Hill, Charles Stone III, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive Records, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Mr. Muhammad, New York, New York City, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Intro: Q-Tip]

Do I love you?
Do I lust for you?
Am I a sinner cuz I do the two?
Could you let me know
Right now, please
Bonita Applebum

[Chorus:]

Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on [x4]

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Electric Relaxation”

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1993, 1994, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Alternative, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, conscious hip hop, East Coast Hip-Hop, Electric Relaxation, Five Foot Assassin, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, Malik Isaac Taylor, Malik Taylor, MC Love Child, Midnight Marauders, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, Phife Dawg, Phife Diggy, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, The Abstract Poetic, The Five Footer, Underground hip hop

Relax yourself girl, please set-tle down [4X]

[Verse One: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg]

Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized
With your black hair and fat-a-s thighs
Street poetry is my everyday
But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way
If I was working at the club you would not pay
Ayo, my man Phife Diggy, he got something to say

I like em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation
Told you in the jam that We Can Get Down
Now let’s Knock the Boots like the group H-Town
You got BBD all on your bedroom wall
But I’m Above the Rim and this is how I ball
A pretty little something on the New York street
This is how I represent over this here beat
Talking bout you

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 – Boot Camp Clik feat. Illa Noyz – “Illa Noyz”

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1997, Black Moon, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Boogie Brown, Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn, Brownsville, Buckshot, Da Beatminerz, Duck Down Records, East Coast Hip-Hop, Evil Dee, Flipmode, For the People, hardcore hip hop, Heltah Skeltah, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illa Noyz, Key Yemaya Walker, Lord Have Mercy, Macarena, Mr. Walt, music, New York, O.G.C., Priority Records, Rampage, rock, Ruck, Sean Price, Shawn J. Period, Spliff Star, Underground hip hop

[ Illa Noyz ]
You didn’t know so let it flow my slang bang ya
Crews move to my tunes before the Macarena
Consider it danger
Mongol slay it, play a beat like a perfect stranger
Simple and plain give me the lane-ahh
Catch the beat like grand groove
My hustle is mad smooth
Tight platoon since the rise of the black moon
Since you assume, youve seen my sun shining
And O.G.C you notice me with Heltah Skeltah vibing
Wack venetian blinding
Wreck from mine, charged for manslaughtering at times
The Bucktown Judy
Flow like a swan with rhymes, who you be?
The Illa
You feel me in your inner
I deliver deadly like postmen
Im holding
Hold up thats an understatement
When the beats break it aint no move faking
Im more them FBI guys with the rude awakening
Further contemplation
May lead to some titles being taken
When its Noyz your facing
Your placed in a stressful situation

Chorus: Illa Noyz and Heltah Skeltah
And it does
Sound ill like noise in Brownsville
Yes it does
Sound ill like noise in Brownsville
Yeah it does
Sound ill like noise in Brownsville
Yes it does
Sound ill like noise in Brownsville

New To You Music Sundays – Big Boi feat A$AP Rocky and Phantogram – “Lines”

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2012, A$AP Mob, A$AP Rocky, alternative hip hop, Andre 3000, Andre Patton, Antwan André Patton, Atlanta, Big Boi, Billy Ocean, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Chief, Daddy Fat Sax, Dungeon Family, East Point, Electronic rock, Francis the Savannah Chitlin' Pimp, General Patton, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hot Tub Tony, Indie pop, Josh Carter, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Lines, music, music video director, New To You Music Sundays, New York, New York City, OutKast, Phantogram, Rakim Mayers, Rapper, Rapping, Sarah Barthel, Saratoga Springs, Savannah, Sgt. Slaughter, Sir Lucious L. Leftfoot, southern hip hop, The Son of Chico Dusty, U.S., Underground hip hop, USA, Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, West Savannah

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 – Del the Funky Homosapien – “Catch A Bad One”

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1993, A-Plus, alternative hip hop, Bay Area, Bay Area Hip-Hop, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Casual, Catch A Bad One, Da Lench Mob, Del, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Del The Funky Homosapien, Del The Ghost Rapper, Deltron, Deltron 3030, Deodato, Domino, El-P, Elektra Records, Eric Dolphy, Extra Prolific, Funk, Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling SChool, Hiero, Hiero Golden Age, Hieroglyphics, Hieroglyphics Crew, Hieroglyphics Imperium, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ice Cube, Jay Biz, Jon Owens, Key Yemaya Walker, Lyrics, Mrs. Parker of K.C.(Bird's Mother), music, New school hip hop, No Need for Alarm, Oakland, Producer, Rapper, Rhapsody In Blue, SD50's, Singer, Sir Dzl, Snupe, Souls Of Mischief, Tame One, Teren Delvon Jones, U.S., Underground hip hop, United States, Unwritten Law, USA, Vocals, West Coast hip hop

Verse One:
People have a memory loss they don’t remember I’m the boss
You’re claustraphobic when I close it
In on your men and your faculty you wack’ll be
Out my face you must be basin’ if you think
That you could tackle the triumphant I pump it
The volume increase as you mices get sliced to pieces
Please listen to my album even if you’re white like talcum
And I paid t’getcha stay here
Tuned with my tune and I presume if you see doom designated
To anyone who stated, a word against me
I serve an mc, simply
Put like my foots up your anus, ya shame us
Tryin’ to get over, I’ma go for mine
You know the time now they are older
I’m gonna rip n—a’s heads with the said salutations
Introducing Del and his bid for boosting tails
Of my adventures, attempt to try
And you will limp or die, whichever I choose, you lose
Crews get ashamed cause we blame them for bitin’
You might win if you start writing, and stop fighting
No time for games, I’ll rearrange my vocals
In your headphones, I hold til I get a answer
Acknowledge and abolish all the wack records
Hieroglyphics, you know, repect ’em

Chorus: [repeat 2X]
Who caught the harm, you bought the farm
If you’re friend, there’s no need for alarm