Hooked On Mobb Phonics, Infamous Bonics

BL suggested that I should do a post on the history of slang. I was like negro thassa book. Not a post. But in the spirit of researching for it, I found this, Rudy Ray More site, Dolemite.com. I kid you not. I can't belive that this is black art from the 70's. And you no know what no one talks about is how Blacksploitation saved Hollywood from bankruptcy. Yall' better get up on 'nat Van Peebles flick and getcha mind right.

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This captures ebonics ever so eloquently,

``Most people won't understand you if you speak (black English),'' Tatum said, her round face serious as she explained how the program has helped her. ``This teaches us how to learn the right language so that if you meet a group that speaks (standard English) you will know how to talk to them.'' [ Thats right baby, gon' and learn that job innnerview tawk].The subject of ebonics was swept onto the national stage this week when the Oakland school board unanimously approved a districtwide policy to recognize black English as a full-fledged language. District officials say ebonics will not be taught, but teachers will be instructed to respect the language and help children learn how to translate it into standard English. [How in the hell you gon' teach something that the kids allready don' learnt at home. Stupid a$$ reporters. Allways tryna sensationalized something].

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Oh. Black people don't do consonant clusters by the way. IF ANYTHING IS EBONICS, then that is. A linguist RULE TO BOOT.

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Oh. This site as been up and has represented lovely for a hot minute.

Bubble- Any luxury car with tha bubbled out eyes.
Bubbling - Rising up, coming up. Bubbling under.
The Burg - Stands for the city of Pittsburg, home to rappers such as the Mob Figaz, Laze, and Bobby Blake
Bluebird - Refering to something that is hassling or bothering you. It could refer to anything from the police to a nagging girlfriend.
breakin pockets- when a nigga be gettin hella money from hella hoes makin dem broke.
Breezy - Female, broad.
Broccoli - Marajuana, weed.
Burners - A cellular telephone that is being used illegally.

Sideshow - The act of spinning your car real fast in an intersection (Oakland). Skully Mouldaz - Headshots, headerz, oral sex. Sco - Short for San Francisco Scrilla - Money. Cash. Also Scrill. Gotta get my scrill on. Scratch - Money Scratch Paper- Money Scrub - Triflin, layzie ass dude. Scurvey (sheisty, shadey) - being greedy with your stuff or holding your shit back. To hog on it yourself
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The innernet is crazy. This cat requested for people to call in speak ebonics and has provided the quicktime and transcripts to support it. Deep hunh. He claims that THIS IS NOT ebonics and that he is NOT MAKING FUN. If that is the case, then what exactly are his intentions?
I guess this is what happens when well meaning liberals get hold of a website.

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So nan. Gotty. This is proof that I can blog about ONE TOPIC. SO HAR! I think Imma go to harlem and get me veggie jawns and take care of the financial aid papers I have been procrastinating on.

I know. I am a MM and I should know better.

Sh*t just gets complicated sometimes blog family. Whats complicated in your life? What have you procrastinated on? I know I am not alone on this. [ Sits patiently and waits for replies].[Gets angry two minutes later b/c I am notoriously impatient.].

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Oakland/ Brooklyn Intuition

At the end of the DAY, the only thing that you have is yo heart, spirit, and your intuition.

Sista's we gotta use it. Real talk.

My intuition is teaching me to talk about the founk I have directly with the person I have it with and NOT tha' homies.

When that voice in your chest and in your head is telling, PLEASE BELIVE something, then gon' ahead and do it. God have you that gift for a reason. Use it.

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Ms. Ahmad said something in the comments section that was SUPER real talk. In the movie Keeping Up With the Steins, they have a bar mitzfah. And she commented that Model Minorities need one too so we CAN END THE EXTENDED CHILDHOOD for NUCCA'S who aint tryna group up. But you don't hear me though.

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Two 14 year olds. got killed. in the town last week. Did I. MENTION. That both incidents happened in Broad Daylight?

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More East Oakland Murder gulliness. We gon' have a hundred murders by Labor Day if they keep acting up like this.
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Talk about getting MAD MONEY OF THE BOOKS THIS YEAR.
LEGALLY. UM. GO CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

James Simons, a math whiz who founded Renaissance Technologies, made $1.5 billion in 2005, according to the survey by Alpha, a magazine published by Institutional Investor. That trumps the more than $1 billion that Edward S. Lampert, known for last year's acquisition of Sears, Roebuck, took home in 2004. (Don't fret for Mr. Lampert; he earned $425 million in 2005.) Mr. Simons's $5.3 billion flagship Medallion fund returned 29.5 percent, net of fees.

No. 2 on Alpha's list is T. Boone Pickens Jr., 78, the oilman who gained attention in the 1980's going after Gulf Oil, among other companies. He earned $1.4 billion in 2005, largely from startling returns on his two energy-focused hedge funds: 650 percent on the BP Capital Commodity Fund and 89 percent on the BP Capital Energy Equity Fund.

Mean Sexy. We need to start that list of billionaires to invite to the fund raiser for our school and put these negros at the top of the list.

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At least you are not in her shoes. How you 'gone MAKE somebody be your maid.
They need to go to jail for 19 years.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A federal jury found a wealthy suburban couple guilty Friday of harboring an illegal immigrant and forcing her to work as their maid for 19 years.

The Filipino national testified during the eight-day trial that she felt like a prisoner in Jefferson and Elnora Calimlim's home.

The couple was found guilty of harboring an illegal immigrant for financial gain, conspiracy to harbor an illegal immigrant for financial gain, forced labor and attempted forced labor.

I would suggest as punishment, that they work for someone for the same amount of time. Poetic justice of the best sort right.

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ATTENTION: The bi-weekly meeting of Republicans for Affrimative Action group will meet at Union Square on Saturday at 3 pm. This guy is going to be there.

The nation's most prestigious business school has accepted Blake Gottesman, a college drop-out whose whopping resume includes having dated Jenna Bush and supplying the President with breath mints.

Gottleman, who dropped out of Claremont-McKenna College in California after one year, landed a sweet job as Bush's personal assistant thanks to his long ties to the Bush family.

According to the Harvard Crimson:

Gottesman performs a wide range of duties, from dog-sitting the president's Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, to carrying the president's speeches and giving him the "two-minute warning" before a speech begins.

He need to get on his knees and thank Martin Luther King jr. Every. Night. For real though.

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So life is about to become real hectic for a sista. Pray for me. I don't do change very well. Um. I think I am gonna blog till the wheels fall off this week and take a break and get acclimated to the new jobs next week. How are you all handling the heat?

Grown Folks Bin'ess right huuuure.

Peep that Jackson Pollock. Its fitting my mood right now yall.

One of the things that I don't like about not posting, is that I get backed up.
Thats why I am not a represser. Gotta constantly let of that steam.

I have been around. Um. Lets see. So many ideas flowing. I don't know where to begin. On, Saturday, we went to the BAM African Street Festival. Had my first funnel cake. Tasty yet messy. 2 fer uno frozen rita's w/ BL and Mean Sexy at Moes afterwards. Some clean Bkl'yn fun. That is was life is about.

Chilled w/ BL and his peeples in Flatbush yestuhday. Why one of his homies is like
the crazy chef and roasted a WHOLE PIG. I would have taken a picture of
it IF I could have looked at it long enough to do so. It freaked me out. Snout and Alll blog family.

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Happy Born Day Chidi. Gemini's stand up. When we getting those mo-jitas?

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I might go to Joes Pub tonight. Or I might lamp here. I have not decided.
When that first hot weekend happen, you be feeling like you gotta take advantage
'cuz it might be leaving you soon.

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Looks like Danyel was right about Dallas. Har!
Lebron -a-be-back. He just need him a Pippin is all.

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Its warm across the country. Wach'all do this weekend? Potato salad, ribs and veggie chicken hunh? I know. I be knowin'.

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Revenge of the Hip Hop Nerds.

Another beautiful jawn from the folks at digital gravel. It looks all scientific and NASA like right!?!?!

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I think I saw John McWhorter on the train yesterday which made me think about the way that he feels about our slum beautiful children. Brown and black children can read, write and are fully capable of meeting any challenge you put in front of them.

However, THEY have to make a conscious choice of WHAT kind of life they wanna lead. They know that this is a world that is indifferent to their existence. In fact, one of the reasons I think I have enjoyed being around young bucks so much recently is because they are so perceptive about humans.


Which is the exact opposite of being around wanna be attorneys who want to argue to see who can out-obnoxious one another. For example, even with all the education and opportunites I have had [and happily took advantage of], at the end of the day, I had to make a choice that I was going to move forward, and be responsible for my life.

I remember after graduating, and I knew that I wanted to publish a book about natural hair. What I did not understand was THAT BOOK publishing is a side hussle. That I needed to work and pay bills but continue to work on my side hussle. What I did not understand then, that I get NOW is that working for your self is a PRIVILAGE, not a right.


At that time I did not see myself working everyday for someone else. I think I just went wonder years on yall. Walk with me now. However if you wanna EAT in NYC, you learn to do jobs that YOU NEVER thought you would do, and you do them sh*ts WITH a smile.

I saw Keeping up with the Steins with Bronx Logic, I loved it, he tolerated it. The movie touched me because it was about class, growing up, forgiveness between a father and a son and familial rituals. I sat there wishing that negroes had something similar to a bar/bat mitzah.


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How come no one has said anything about the Common and Rakim show. Lupe 'gon be there too. I learned about it of all places, Fat Beats.

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You think po po can't run up into your spot and seize evidence. Well, the court is getting ready to flip the script. What ever happened to Due Process? No taking of property with out proper procedure being followed? Who needs a constitution anyways?

The case tests previous Supreme Court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and
announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches. The court has said that police can enter after giving people 15 seconds to 20 seconds to get to the door.

In this case, officers called out their presence at Hudson's door then went inside three seconds to five seconds later.

The ruling will be announced next month, and liberal justices declared that the stakes are high.

Justice Stephen Breyer said if the court rules against Hudson "we'd let a computer virus loose in the Fourth Amendment. ... It strikes me as risky and unprecedented".

Justice David H. Souter said that the court has said "there is enough respect for a person's home. ... The police should not barge in like an invading army."

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Nagin won. Surprise, surprise. Seriously. With the wealth transfer and land grab that is gonna take place down there, I figured BIG REAL ESTATE would ensure that he was removed.

Nagin won back some of the conservative white voters who supported him four years ago but abandoned him during the primary.

Many had sought new leadership after complaining of the slow rate of rebuilding and Nagin's tearful plea for the federal government to "get off their (behinds) and do something" in the aftermath of Katrina. His remark on Martin Luther King Day that God intended New Orleans to be a "chocolate" city sparked outrage — and then an apology from Nagin.

But during the run-off campaign, Nagin actively courted conservative white voters by emphasizing his business background in contrast to Landrieu, a longtime politician and a member of Louisiana's equivalent to the Kennedy family. He would have been the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father, Moon, in the 1970s.

"After the Martin Luther King comments and his post-Katrina comments, his political obituary had been written," Lee said. But Nagin won with "an unusual political shotgun marriage between conservative whites and progressive African-Americans," he said.

Speaking of Nagin. Corey Booker won in Newark home of corrupt cops and and mad block huggers. These two new black mayors need to be easy and not oversate exactly what they will be able to accomplish. There is a reason why Detroit mayors, Oakland Oakland mayors and LA Mayors have never been able to return their cities to previous
glory.

Their motivation is admirable. But, I will tell you, I had to learn the hard way, watching Mayorga lose to De La Hoya a few weeks ago that Heart w/o fundementals is a recipe for failure.

Newark nor New Orleans has the infrastructure that necessary to sustain a town. Booker is in a better position because is town wasn't demolished by an act of nature. However, I fear, that in setting their goals too high, that they will not meet them and thus be considered failures. I will keep and eye on them in the up coming months to see how they progress.


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1/136 Americans in Jail. Hmm. Who is going to do something about it? I wonder how many of them have felonies, and consequently CAN'T VOTE nor qualify for government benefits.

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You thought the LA police was gully. These fools have 'em beat. New York City Cop was real serious about keeping it all up in the family.
She helped her UNCLE ROB D-BOYS. Hard out here for a cop-pimp hunh?!?!

A former New York City police officer was indicted on charges of helping her uncle rob drug dealers while she was still on the force, the authorities said yesterday. She got involved in the plot, they said, after she borrowed money from her uncle to pay for a class to prepare for a sergeant's test.

The officer, Kirsix De La Cruz, accepted the loan from her uncle last July, the authorities said. Soon after, he asked her if she could help him find someone to help him rob drug dealers, and she introduced him to Luis German, a drug dealer known as Pedro, they said.

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So the New York Times thinks that Italian teenagers in Howard Beach are tolerant [read not racist] because they listen to 50 cent and wear "baggy clothing". I would have been more interested in hearing what the kids parents had to say about the way their children dressed.

It has been two decades since a gang of whites here chased a black man to his death, and about a year since Nicholas Minucci was accused of fracturing the skull of a black man with a baseball bat. [Just a friendly game of baseball hunh?!?!?] Howard Beach is still a mostly white, mostly Italian neighborhood, with a lingering — and, people there insist, unfair — reputation for prejudice.

But it is now also a neighborhood where the mostly white, mostly Italian kids favor the same style and music as their peers over in East New York and New Lots.

There may still be a few people around here "who have a problem," Mr. Rea allows. "But if they don't like black people," he said, "they're still dressing in the clothes, listening to the music."

Whether such emulation is heartfelt or superficial is always up for debate, and it is in the hate-crime trial of Mr. Minucci, who admitted to investigators that he called out a too-familiar word beginning with the letter "n" to the man said to be his victim, preceded by the greeting "What up?"[ Gotty I know you gone have something to say about this and I am not trying to fight wichu about it. I like sayin it niggie, niggie, niggie, niggie].

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Dude. They had me at "Digital Chocolate". That is pure marketing genius.

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So blog family. It has warmed up a bit here. But it's mad windy. Im still bumping that Lupe the killer and OH Word got some "Stop Shootin" tee-shirts they selling, so gon' head and spend some money with tha folks.

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Does Hip Hop Love Women?

This song is hella Fresh. Its called your my Number 1. Peace to spine mag for the hook up. It sounds Pharrell and Ye ye don' went to the 80's and brought us back some dance music. "She might be nothing to you/ But she the s-it to me". I love it, I love it, I love it.

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Did jall know the Giants are paying the A's this weekend. Watch Bonds knock it out the park and my brother get the ball and we become RICHBEECH!

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About.com, randomly, has one of the best interviews about Hip Hop that I have seen in hot minute. The interview is with Dreddy Krueger, the cat who did that Think Different Wu Tang Album.

The only Doom record I was anxious to hear was the one that didn't make the cut [Charlie Brown]. I already heard the rest on Special Herbs.To me, Pete Rock had the best beat on there. But, "R.A.G.U." was the best song on there, beat-wise.
Song-wise, "Kilo" was one of the best records on there. Ghost is really separating himself from the Wu. You read the tabloids, you've seen what's going on. He's doing his own thing right now. I don't think that's a good move. People are gonna know when they hear how much better Raekwon's album is than Ghost's. People have no idea. I'm hearing the songs almost everyday. RZA's doing the whole album, and Dr. Dre will have 3 joints on there. [ For the record I have ALLWAYS rode for RAE, ALLWAYS. If what DREDDY is saying is right, then this is going to be a watershed year for that image saturated street talk hip hop= B girl happiness]. The sh*t's going to be incredible. It's going to be one of those records where n***as is like "Yo, Rae is back!"

Wow, you've got a ton of music coming out this year.

Man, we got a whole lot. Inspectah Deck, GZA, and RZA's projects are going to be the highlights of the year out of the 9 generals. RZA's about to give GZA a whole album again on some Liquid Swords sh*t, and he's doing the same with Deck. RZA's in that zone again, where he's just concentrating on putting his beats together to try and bring the Wu sound back. That's why you ain't seeing him that much. The "W" has bullet holes in it right now, and it's about to fall. I think when I released my compilation, I held it up a little bit. It gave us a little bit more life, like "OK, these n***as ain't dead, they still got some creative thoughts and everything."

How soon should we look forward to the Ghostface and MF Doom record?

That's coming out this spring. All we're waiting on is for Def Jam to clear Ghostface. Def Jam still hasn't cleared Ghost. [Somebody get Bob Simon, head of contracts and releases at Def Jam on the phone so he can do tha dam thyang, so I can have me so good summer fall music.] They kept telling us that we have to wait till Ghost's album drops. His album has dropped, but they still haven't signed the papers yet.

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Why inna h*ell is this not happening at summer stage. You would have every boho, buppie and b-boy in 'nere repping. San Bernadino. Dude. Give US US HIP HOP in BK, tha Bronx, Atlanta, Richmond, DC, Detroit, notinnogotdamn San Bernadino.

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Women Don't Like Music Nerds. Um. No. Tara Henely of XXL thinks so. She says,

But anyway, as it happens, Bol makes an excellent point. It is true that the music blog phenomenon—and a certain level of dialogue on music in general—is pretty much a male thing. I’m not saying females can’t love music in the same detail-oriented, collector, trivia-obsessed sort of way that most male hip-hop heads do. I’m just saying that, by and large, they don’t.

I feel your pain, ONE. And I hate to tell you this—but you all do it to yourselves. Female heads are about as welcome in hip-hop culture as a sober Jehovah’s Witness is at a crunk Christmas party.

Hip Hop on the Green. Thembisa's hip-hop show at Mills in what, er '94. All them Black Lily shows, Wetlands shows. Tramps shows. Sista's allways were presents, accounted for and just doing them. Trust. We are there. Just because the online community is not OVERFLOWING with women yapping about the hop, [Present company excluded of course], does not mean that they do not exist. that jus means that men like to talk more. Well duh!

I feel your pain, ONE. And I hate to tell you this—but you all do it to yourselves. Female heads are about as welcome in hip-hop culture as a sober Jehovah’s Witness is at a crunk Christmas party.

I had the exact opposite experience. I found that being into "THE HOP" as a teenager, dudes would wannna chop it up about the latest source cover, and who was coming on the wake up show, and how they met black moon and Jeru at the GAVIN last February. Granted. Some were tryna smash. But by in large, being into the hop afforded me the opportunity to forge friendships w/ folks based on THAT common intrest. While I do concede that my evidence is anecdotal also, it does infact, fly in the face of the idea of women NOT BEING WELCOMED in the hop. THE Hop is ambivilent about women. It loves us, it sexualizes us, it wants us to be Bonnie, and to be its Ride or Die chick Dear Momma's us and i. But guess what, American culture does the EXACT SAME THING TO WOMEN. Tell me whenna go.

But anyway, for the most part, girls that are really into hip-hop tend to be isolated, and end up having to seek out dudes to converse with. [This is derisive. B-Girls Stand UP].You all know what happens next. If you are kicking it with a dude, he probably has other things on his mind than having a friendly chat about hip-hop. (Word to When Harry Met Sally.)

When it comes to groups of guys, they typically don’t have any desire whatsoever to have a female present for their hip-hop powwows. I grew up with a brother and our apartment was always full of dudes talking about hip-hop, but most female hip-hop heads don’t have access to that type of environment. A while back I was talking to one of my bro’s friends about this exact dynamic—and he was like, “Come on, T. No group of guys is ever sitting around, like ‘You know what we need? We really need a female friend in our crew to give us another perspective on hip-hop.’” My point exactly. [Fine. He can be dismissive, but its anecdotal at best. There is a place for women in Hip to be both accepted by men, to interact with them, and to maintain our own critcal voice while appreciating the music].

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Straight bangin' has a review up of the roots show. This is my favorite part.

Now, about going to church. The Roots are arguably the best live act in the history of hip-hop, and remain quite capable of offering one of the best concerts you'll find in any genre.

Over the years, I have had the privilege of regularly seeing them perform, and around the time of Things Fall Apart, they were putting on some shows that engendered unadulterated euphoria. I mean, you couldn't help but jump up and move with the spirit. You know? Cast out sin, touch my forehead, testify--the Roots crew was in the house, and you were rocking with the best. It was exhilarating.

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Oh oh oh. Unckut has the first annual WC awards.


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Dude. Where is the Sun. I wanna wear a dress and my new flip flops. Arrrg. Watch it get hot when my break is over. What 'chall doing this weekend? Yall seen Mission Impossible 2? How about over the hedge?

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I Think I'm Stuck off the Realness.

Isn't that image hella fresh. Its actually on a hoodie. I don't know sponge bob. I have been feeling the graphic heavy, skater meets hippety hop type jawns lately. The dope thing about copyright law is that THE artist HAVE A RIGHT to incorporate M-O-B-B into their art. I heart america. I heart the old M-O-BB too.

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Blog family. I am in HIP- HOP HAPPYLAND. I managed to "PROCURE" The World is Yours remix, where he says in the Hook, "Keep the La's inna Air". Dude. When I heard that sh*yesterday, I started dancing around. That song, in and of it self, in its brief three minutes represents me in 94, and who I wanted to be. Someone, actually, I think my first ol' boy, gave it to me on a memorex mix tape, but it was f*cked up because the song would cut off at the end of the tape .

"The fiend of hip hop/ got me stuck like crack pipe."
[ Ol' boy is sayin' that the crack is like the rap, and he stuck on stupid. Dayuuum GINNNNAH.]
"Holding a stolen cops glock w/ g-notes in my hand."
[ First of all dude. This sounds like nothing but trouble. But as soon as he said it, I had a mental image of that scene in Clockers where the young buck was holding the bench down. Talk about a saturated visual. Mental note to self, saturated visuals is hella fresh.].

"The mic is my religion/ the system is the devils lasso."
[ Did god put him on earth to make such poetic songs. Could you imagine the fights that he and Kelis has. Does he leave her little notes. Prolly poetic text messages hunh. I know>>>>hopeless romantic = me<<<<<<]

For nas bloggery, peep fletch and his family.

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Up bloggin' as the sun rises. God. I love life.

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New interview with Rakim where he discusses Nas's song, his new label and how it feels to perform in '06, and his family.
Peace to spine mag.


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In keeping with my Pharcyde documentation happening here at sex hip hop and power, here is an interview with J-Swift producer of Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde. Who knew that he been to hell and back, on crack and errry thing. It's a reminder thatn anybody cand get f*cked off inna game.

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Bilal got a bangin' a*s pull up ya skirt and get low wicha' ol boy type song, called don't make me over. This song is like Al Green on a Jay Dee beat. Yes I said it n*ggas. Peep it here.

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My friend puts the side show's into context eloquently.

Experiencing the different cycles of the Sideshow and now documenting the newest wave, Drop observes, “The newer generation, they’re more concerned with being just hyphy, just being seen. Just kinda bein’ out there, drivin’ crazy. [Notice how he talked about the young bucks w/o being derisive]. Not so much about the actual doughnuts and the swingin’ any more. It’s just kind of more, ‘Hey, see me stunt!’ It’s kind of like a cry for help almost, like the young people are like, ‘I wanna be seen…I wanna be heard! Otherwise, I get no chance to really be noticed.’”

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Spine got a new Roots jawn, It Don't Feel Right. Oh. And it knock too blog family. Cool a*ss hook. They scratching and got a CLEAN A*SS EPMD Sample, OH the Beauty of being on Def Jam.

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Kristof gets to the bottom of THE ASIAN MODEL STUDENT MYTH.

In the U.S. ethinc Koreans are academic stars. But in Japan, Ethnic Koreans languish in the underclass, often doing poorly in schools and becoming involved in the yazuka mafia.

[Here is the good part] One lesson may be that if you disciminate against a minority and repeatedly and shove its members off the social escalator, then you create pathologies self doubt that become self sustaining.

[Kristoff for Mayor anyone? This is the most analytical I have every seen a WHITE PERSON be about NON-White achievement and how the public school system, local government all collude to enables and perpetuate negros falling off the social escalator]

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That was a fun post blog family? Now its time to get something to eat. Waffles!?!?!? Trix. Who knows? Raekwon and Boot Camp are gonna be at BB Kings in June. Who going?
The sun is finally out here, but it ain't 80 degrees like how is inna bay right now. I'm jelli.

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Michael Jackson is Super Gully.

I don't know sponge bob. But Lupe Fiasco is a more marketing savvy, likeable Talib Kweli. Peace to Brooklyn. Trust.But, I haven't hear a song KNOCK this SOULFULL since Jay D's jawn. It is the perfect begining of the summer ipod knock.

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Yall know Micheal and Paul McCartney fell out over the Beatles catalogue. Well, the Times gave up the game this weekend on the entire story. I loved reading every word. Who ever talks about financing ANYTHING in the culture. Its all about buy, consume, get fat.

Mr. Jackson's pre-expense share of the "Thriller" bounty — including the album, singles and a popular video — surpassed $125 million, according to a former adviser who requested anonymity because of the confidential nature of Mr. Jackson's finances. Below I have posted an excerpt.

Those who counseled him in the "Thriller" era credit the pop star with financial acumen and astute business judgment, evidenced by his $47.5 million purchase of the Beatles catalog in 1985 (a move that served to alienate him from Paul McCartney, the Beatles legend who imparted the financial wisdom of buying catalogs to Mr. Jackson during a casual chat,[ note to self, have more casual chats with yt's re finance] only to see Mr. Jackson then turn around and buy rights to many of Mr. McCartney's own songs).

The Dope part about it is that McCartney apparently was the one who TOLD MICHAEL to to invest in that sh*t in the first place.

Ha. They beefin' over Beatles cash.

Sony was worried because Mr. Jackson was the company's partner in a lucrative music publishing business that included songs by the Beatles and other musicians. If Mr. Jackson became insolvent, his 50 percent share of that
$1 billion business would be up for grabs to the highest bidder, leaving Sony to confront the uncomfortable possibility that it would be forced into a new, unpredictable partnership not of its own choosing. [ Sony would rather deal with the eccentric artist that they know, as opposed to say, Mark Cuban with hot tempered ass. Could you imagine having an investment so attractive that your partner can bring BANKS to the table to give you LOANS when you are TENS of MILLIONS of dollars in the hole mainly because of interest on your currrent LOANS. HA. I love CORPORATE FINANACE. WHERE IS THE VASELINE?]

Peace to the New York Times for writing something analytical 'bout Mike for once.

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Ceo's might wanna heed Mr. Aks warning regarding what the future holds if nigg*s don't get decent health care.

If those at the top of the heap are really so smart, they
should start advocating some orderly increase in redistrbution- at the very least, in the form of national health care coverage. They shoud do this if only to maintain social peace- to prevent the less fortunate, in other words, from losing their heads. Because if that happens, the rich may lose theirs as well.

Daniel Aks, New York Times, April 30th 2006

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Straight form the Bay. Brian Copeland in "Not a Genuine Black Man". He apparently had SOLD OUT shows in 'Frisco and is doing the damn thing in NYC.

Thats hella fresh.
Im tryna peep it. Who going with me?!?!!?
DR2 103
E15th 212 239 6200
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Yall know I liked to call NYC Millionaire city. Well. This cat lamented, over the weekend, over the changes in The Village.

These days, I hardly recognize the student population, or at least what I hear about it. Every few months there seems to be a tabloid scandal involving someone conspicuously identified as "an N.Y.U. student": a young woman raised in a New
Jersey mansion arrested on charges of dealing drugs; a student accused of running a $7.4 million hedge-fund scam in Greenwich, Conn. These strike me as the transgressions of young people who act as if they can get away with whatever
they please.

Even in my day, commuting students like me weren't fashionable. We hadn't taken part in half a dozen after-school activities by the time we were 12. We hadn't played lacrosse in high school. But we did, I think, give an often cold and impersonal institution a soul, a grounded identity. The Olsen twins, for all the news media hype surrounding their presence at N.Y.U., do not.

MAYBE it's just me becoming an old coot. But in my mind, N.Y.U. feels like nothing so much as an enclave of downtown elitism. Its relentless expansion has the air of manifest destiny. The Palladium an N.Y.U. dorm? It still feels like a joke.

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These innernets been kinda quiet yall. Where yall at? Watchall doing?
And why is it so hot in cali and so dreary here man. This s*it is wack. ***logs off and eats trader joes tamale and scrounges around for another stella.

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Bill Cosby is in My Brain. (New CNN Video)

Bill Cosby has a new interview out where he discusses pimps, our cousin laquanda and why Black women will NEED to lead until our potential spouses get outta jail. Here are some excerpts below.

"This is not your grandmothers world, and you have to
think about you taking charge in business, family, raising your
home".

We are many many things, we are the weakest, we are the
strongest, within ourselves.

All women have been brainwashed to be subservient to men. Not just Black women.

Our females are graduating 70 to 30.

I have a problem with the silence of the scholars. It is very problematic that the scholars are not writing articles and publising books about people who are not offering things to our youth.

Also. I found it irresponsible and inconsiderate for CNN to title the clip "People have Gone Crazy". It is sensationalizes the issue of horribile Black Male to Femal graduation rate. Maybe I will e-mail CNN and let them n*ggas know they wrong for that.

In the spirit of Cosby's words, Imma post what Mac Jay spoke from his soul about what it means to actually BE PRESENT in class. Take that BILL!!
[From his site Yay Mecca posted on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 titled i never could pass, cut class like scissors.]

Those problems are pretty small compared to all the positives
that come outta being a good student. I know I'm rambling and don't really have any idea where this post is going, but I'ma let you in on the secret to what's helped me the most... reading. If you read the textbooks and go to class, this school shit is so simple mayne. On mommas. I already been knowin' I coulda
pulled these grades in Arizona but I didn't read shit, I'd look over my books like the night before a test and go in the next day praying that I'd pass. I'd always be hella pissed when my tests came back with a shitty grade, all like "what the fuck happened"? Well, I was an idiot. But I stand there saying "da fuck was I supposed to know that" and thinking the teachers was trying to play me and do the exact same shit next test. When really they wasn't, read the books and you cool. Now I go to tests prepared, like it's nuuuthiiin'. De nada, blood.
Sorry for boring you with this shit, jus been pullin' these grades lately n hella excited mayne. Now on to tha biz....

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The biggest victories are won by the smallest margins.

Dallas vs San Antonio 104-103

L.A. Clippers vs Phoenix 114-107

Latley, the semifinals have exemplified that. Who knows that Lebron will do. I was happy to see that the other players got involved last night. Cleveland won by what one or two Friday night. It is hard to BE PRESENT, if you are not INVOLVED with what the game.

I was thinking about that quote when I was studying for my finals. And it is true.

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So much blogging such little time. Y'all catch that segment of VH1 SOUL that is all Old School Reggae jawns. Pass the Dutchie on the Left Hand Side, Ting-a ling a ling Huh - BoyaKA-BooyaKA and Flex- Time to have Sex.

Where is the old school 89-92 reggae and Hip Hop Party. I can't believe noone has done this yet. *forrows eye brow up*.
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Family over at Nah Right has revisited the 50 vs. O factor again.
One of the best responses suggested that O needs to have some emcees on there and put her Oprah's Book Club magic 'onnem, first up, THE Roots anyone!?!?!!?
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Even though I read Slap Boxing with Jesus a minute ago i am gonna gon' head and big up Victors book. In the spirit of Fletchies Illmatic posts.

I will say that ANYONE who names his book after a Quote from Illmatic is a damn GENIUS.
I also remember being moved by how nuanced the characters are.
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Anyone heard The Brand New Heavies have reunited. God, I usta wanna be N'Dea Davenport.
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I came across this quasi disturbing article about how there are few women in hip hop who "love it" as much as the dudes do.
So gotty, neo, ms. ahmad, tpw, walt, what 'chall think about it?
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Alice Smith is my FAVORITE FIZZLE right now.
Man. I think I would sing her typa songs.
Peep the fader blog, They given her some muched deserved burn.

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The A's beat the Yankees. Yippie. I hate when the A's come here and get mopped by the Yankees and fat a*sed GIAMBI. If Anyone is on steriod's its his big a*s.
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I found stella money on the subway. 10 bones right on the ground at Borough Hall. I think it was god's way of telling me, baby girl, gon' head and get cha mind right and chill with yo folks. Happy Mothers Day to The Prisoner's Wife/Poet/Momma and friend * [AND TO THE OTHER MOMMA READERS].

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Gurrl, I was out w/ Bronx Logic and his baby cousin's [5,6 &11years old)yesterday. I have never been in the bathroom so many times in my life. I forgot that you can take little boys to the ladies bathroom. When you are out with kids you have to plan when and where you will take the kids to pee. Who knew?!?!!? And doing that 'ish in NYC is the truth.

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Hip Hop *IS* Who We Are.

I was about to spread the thighs/ but she surprised me when she said/ "oh like that? You know I don't get down"** /I know my homies gonna clown cause I let her stick around when/ ... She said... It'll be good if you stayed with me tonight so I granted her wish/.
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Um. This week. Really for the last month I have been a 'onna pharcyde jawn. They represents a convergence of several of my life's elements.
Cali Slanguage.
An independent b-girl identity.
Jay D's grumbling soulful basslines.
'94.

All those issues were jumbled up and kickin' it together.
** When was the last time you heard a someone rap/discuss/ write about the politics of sexual interaction, INSTEAD OF ABOUT sex ITSELF!?!?!?!
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Whats good blog family? Life is good and love is love. Shout out the the fam at Nah Right for giving me the CRAZY PLUG. I never let a statue tell me HOW NICE I AM.

I never let a statue tell me HOW NICE I AM/Comin' with more hits than the Braves and the Yankees/Livin mad phat like an over sized Bam-bi/The wackest
crews try to dis, it makes me laugh/When my track record`s longer than a DC-20
aircraft/So, next time that you think you want somethin here/Make somethin deffer, take that garbage to St. Elsewhere/.

Recognition from my peers re my-blog game made my cheeks blush, and I think Zora and James winked at me too.

I made it to the end of the semester even those some little shark bait a**ed nigg@s tried to snitch. That's cool though, because where I am from, and what I have seen, it will only make me come with more of a beast jawn. It hurt. Yup. I ain't gon' lie. But once I got over the pain of it, I realized that I need to aknowledge that not only do some people need to win, but the NEED TO ANNIHILILATE YOU TOO!
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Peep the techinque about HOW POWER is PARLAYED in NEW YORK CITY AMONGST IT'S ELITE.

In the terminology of foreign affairs, influence is soft power—the ability to shift the course of events through ideas or relationships rather than coercion or enticement. Influence is Jacobs, holding no office and possessing no institutional leverage, inciting a bottom-up movement that stopped Moses in his tracks. Now, New York has always been obsessed with power: getting it, wielding it, harnessing it, and, most of all, keeping it.

Power is what Moses employed to historic effect for nearly 40 years. Influence, by contrast, is more subtle, more indirect, more de facto than de jure.

Instead, we look around and see an increasingly Jacobean city—a place where moguls, machers, pooh-bahs, and potentates are seeing their collective mojo rivaled by a newer class: the influentials.

That being taken into consideration, what is HIP HOP [IN NYC] about, if not POWER AND IT'S RESPECTIVE DYNAMICS & BENEFITS

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Peace to the Jujitsu school in the Bx. I will be tryna holler at them this summer to get my gully ninja on!

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Cody's is gone.
How much time have I spent reading at Cody's book store in Berkeley. University press publised books. Out of Print Graffitti jawns. Women Power Manifestos. Apparently Telegraph Ave is having 'prollems. Well, you can't have aggresive a*s HUMAN Punk ROCK kids sleeping and pan handling in front of stores and npot expect people to take their business ONLINE or to strip-malls closer to their homes. REAL TALK.
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LOOK at this video where Mr. FAB talks about the HYPHY movement on
Channel 5 news. N*ggas is blowin' up fam. (Mac Jay, I see you).

Mr. Fab is so cute with his little hyphie love.
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Did you know that Puerto Rico got shut down.

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DUDE. New Orleans looks like Oakland. Is that legal?

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Looks like a beech gon' have to change the title to Model Majority.
Could this fact be why congress wanted to call 20 million people
illegal?
Of course not! Tongue is in cheeck so hard I feel blood.
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Wait, so she got invitro, with her husbands sperm and STILL GOT FIRED.
This, blog family may go to the supremes. Talk about a violation of privacy.
Wow. Welcome to the 21st century.
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Writers and editors told the
New York Times that Beloved is [one of] the best book written in the last 25 years.
I coulda told ya ass that.

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My horoscope is on point. Libra's stand up.

The leaves on the persimmon tree outside my door
are growing so fast I swear I can see them expanding right in front of my eyes. Like them, you are in a period of almost maniacal fertility. The ripening process is so
elemental that you may feel as if unpredictable forces of nature have been unleashed inside you. As long as you keep your sense of humor about it, however, nothing too out-of-control will happen. At worst, you'll resemble a funny monster with a brilliant future, like an awkward kid destined to grow up to be a cute genius.

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NY Times rape case.

The report applauded Dr. Brodhead's "personal commitment to address all of the issues" and found no effort to cover up the incident or to deceive anyone. But it found problems with how the investigation, involving a student at nearby North Carolina Central University who had been hired to dance at a party for the lacrosse team, had been handled from the beginning. The two experts said
that although the Duke police knew that the woman, who had been taken to the emergency room of Duke University Hospital, is black and that the players she
said had assaulted her are white, "information about her race and about racial aspects of the case did not reach key administrators" including Dr. Brodhead
until March 24, 10 days after the party.

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Duke said they were just lissening to the Po Po. They figgerd that po po said the case would go away, THEN the case would GO AWAY.

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Sarah Jones WINS a TONY. GO SARAH its your birthday. GO SARAH!

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My OLD MIDDLE SCHOOL. YOung Bucks acting up robbing old folks.

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9 Great NON DINNER dates.

Here are FIVE of my own.

a. Home Depot. Ladies. Ya'll seen a brotha get OOOPEEN in the saw/drill/workhorse isle. They be LOVING that sh*t. Me I like the plant jawns and the shelf isle. But still its fun to peruse together.

b. Grocery Shopping. Getting frisky in the bread Isle What. And don't let the Becks be on sale.!?!!?!?!

c. The Subway. Sometimes you can just take a train ride wicho sweets. You gettin' on the A, Im gettin' on too, okay, I'a ride with you to 14th street. Yall will both laugh when dude get on there with the sandwiches talking about noone should go hungry tonight, with the irony being that you BOTH heard his routine so much you know the words.

d.Walking. Just walking together. Across one-25th. Or from Canal to Astor. Another jawn is the BK promenade. Walking and talking can be someone of the best jawns you ever had.

e.Barnes and Nobles. Gurrrl, Lemme tell you. Lucky magazine. The Economist. Black Issues Book Review. Mags on Organic Living. Bronx Logic and a hot steaming coffee. Tell *me* WHENNA GO.

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Blog family. Needless to say. On the real. When those wack lil shark bait biddles were asocial, racist and "liberal" yall came through checking for a sista', sending kind words, letting me know that you missed the blawg when it died a lil bit in March. Y'all helped me get through the last 8 months. <<<