Music Mondays – Sting – “Shape of My Heart”

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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 – Beatnuts – “Props Over Here”

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Showing love, with the f–king bass in your face
New York City have mercy one time, introducing the crew

[Fashion]
Hey, you ain’t really you and you ain’t really down
Plus I’m tired of seeing you f–king for they face of ground
‘Cause when I sit back and think back of how you found me
It make me react react my f–king yammy
Now I don’t cock, though my mnd is in the sewer
I just kick back six pack and then I do ‘er
But she gets stuck on crowing like a cat
‘Cause the toes got sucked on she don’t know how to act
Back in the days I am 237, used to rumble Kevin
Backing hoes was like heaven
Eleven, years later I tried to hide
And hoped they pass me by like I’m the Pharycyde
Just let me puff and lounge with my n—-s
Don’t have no time to fake funk with triggers
Don’t believe in kids with that puts cat say
F–k around with Fashion get your whole s–t bit
Spend crazy years with the blues pay dues
Before I met the Psycho is in the junk yard juice
But now the crew combined and we can’t be stopped
Going around the globe to collect the props

30 Day Photo Challenge – Day 9 – A Picture of the Person Who Has Gotten You Through the Most

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My Trini Brooklyn, NY homegirl I met in college. Someone I have always been, and will always be able to talk to. It’s amazing I’ve known her for 18 years. Wow.

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 – Total (feat The Notorious B.I.G.) – “Can’t You See”

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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.

30 Day Song Challenge – Day 5 – A Song That Reminds You Of Someone – BeBe & CeCe Winans – “If Anything Ever Happen To You”

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When I first went away to school, my mother told me that she was driving and the song came on. She had to pull over off the road because she just began crying. Though not a song that would be in my catalogue, this song will always remind me of her. And to counteract the “Song For Mama,” post, this was the song that was supposed to play.


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.

Blue Lines Blog – Love At First Sight – Blue Lines Chapter 12: Chance – Excerpt

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This Blue Lines excerpt is from Chapter 12: Chance. The scene takes place as our protagonist Key Yemaya Walker happens upon the antagonist Blue Hurt while he writes on a bus headed to the local mall. Though Blue Lines takes place in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina, the real life imagery starts with her chance meeting him on the bus, which was the public transit I and friends would take from the University of Bridgeport at the Main Street stop by our dorm Bodine Hall, to Trumbull Mall, now Westfield Trumbull. The mall used in the writing process was a amalgam of Trumbull Mall in Connecticut, and Lenox Mall in Atlanta, Georgia, or Buckhead rather.
As I always state, Blue Lines, is a piece of fiction that evolved from real events, places, and people, therefore elements of this selection, as well as the entire work contain real experiences, and events of the time period in which my manuscript takes place. I’ll be honest, looking over this selection, I may not leave it up, though the work is copywritten. Please enjoy, this early Christmas present.
Blue Lines Chapter 12: Chance

We got together, like, the first week of school and through this I have actually become accustomed to being alone. If he’s not at practice, he’s with his boys and the few times I see him, it’s always conversation about basketball or trying to get ass.”

“And the lack thereof doesn’t do anything for you two.”

“No,” she pursed her lips realizing that she had answered his latent question, “plus all the rumors,” she continued. “I confronted him and I know that he’s lying to me but I don’t care.”

“It seems like you keep mentioning that he isn’t around. Do you think that it would have been different if he was there and spent more time with you?”

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

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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*

Being Stupid – Blue Lines Author pre Blue Lines

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Circa 1994 at the University of Bridgeport

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 – Method Man & Redman – “How High”

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Whoa, had a flashback as we rode back from Athens last week, and this took the place of the scheduled Hip-Hop Quotable for this week after an all out performance with Ike on 316. We weren’t listening to the “Fly Robin, Fly,” version.

Intro:

Takin it from the top?
Tippy? Tippy?

How High?….
The Ultimate High….

Verse One: Method Man

Scuse me as I kiss the sky
Sing a song of six pence, a pocket full a rye
Who the f–k wanna die for their culture
Stalk the dead body like a vulture
Tical get, HMMM
Blacker than your blackest stallion
Hit your house’n projects
I represent the Shaolin my n—a
Hell yes, Apocalypse now, the gun blow
It be goin down, diggy diggy down diggy down down

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Fab 5 – “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka”

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Flah leflour eshkoshka

Intro:

Yes
The name of this shit here is
Leflour leflah eshkoshka
The Fab 5

Chorus: Rock

Yes yes y’all (yes y’all)
O.G.C., heltah skeltah be the best y’all (best y’all)
Fab 5 slam from east to west y’all (west y’all)
Sound pound straight through your bubble vest y’all (vest y’all)
And check yo chest y’all (chest y’all)

Verse one: Starang, Rock, Louisville

Ay curumba Starang gun clappa number
One on tha set man I cut ya like lumber
Still play the back in my thundergear down to my underwear
Make all you motherf–kers wonder where
I come from, cuz motherf–k dapper dan
I’m a gun clappa fan plus I run rappers stand
Fab 5, mad live blow up the spot
Dru ha gets the paper black moon still gets the props