The Smoking Section (Masthead) Respect Our Fresh!

I'M B.O.S. SO YES I'M BOSSY...

We're off and loungin...or at least we'll be sporadically updating over the next few days.

Time to enjoy the fam, the fun and the sun..fuck that, the A/C...




"I came from the town that invented the style of throwing up throwin it down.."

There's something about straight, no chaser style of music and GLC's got it captured in this video.

No flash, no floss...

No big bubble booty girls droppin it like it's hot...

It really feels and looks like he either took the money out his pocket to put this together or pocketed the money the label gave him and gave us this...

But it's cool.

He brings out a certain "regular Joe" look, something more realistic, by capturing his hood, his boys, the landmarks and blemishes of the city...all in less than five minutes.

GLC- CHI STATE OF MIND







Fresh off his RCMH performance, Jay-z took the time to do another one of his chats with his fans via the Roc-A-Fella website. I could've chopped it up and quoted various things but I'll just give you the most important lines...


Will you appear on Nas' Def Jam debut Hip Hop Is Dead?

Jay-Z: Absolutely


"Oh baby!"

Jay-z Chat Transcript

Aiyo...somebody who knows somebody tell Jay we want a Smoking Sessions chat!



After hearing Crazy Baby steadily screaming "it's the piano!" all day long, I let Rhianna's "Unfaithful" spin a few times and discovered I actually like the song.

But, I kept thinkin back to Mario Winans' "I Don't Wanna Know" and now this? I then started to ponder "Are motherfuckers really allowing all this cheatin'"?


Who are these sorry sap, sacks of shit posing as men that are barring this?


My dudes, if your chick is singing along to loudly to this or you're in this situation for sure, you are granted a few options...


1.) Throw a brick through her momma's plate glass window...

2.) Put one of her friends in the cobra clutch on the couch while you videotape the whole episode...

3.) The all-inclusive option is to bounce.


Anything less would be uncivilized...


Salute!

Gotty™




Stray Shots

Adult Swim + Chocolate Industries - Chocolate Swim EP

Aloe Blacc - Shine Through (2006)

Dudley Perkins - Expressions (2012 a.u.)

Rasco - Time Waits For No Man (1998)

The Brand New Heavies - Get Used To It

Lily Allen - Alright Still

K-Dee - Ass, Gas or Cash (Nobody Rides For Free)

Big Mike - Still Serious

The Mossie - Have Heart Have Money

Gangsta N.I.P. - South Park Psycho

N2DEEP - Golden State

C-Bo - Gas Chamber

U.N.L.V. - Uptown 4 Life

Top Authority - Something To Blaze To

Tela - Piece of Mind

Immortal Technique - Behind the Bars

Get Rich or Die Tryin OST



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Respect My Fresh!

Respect The OG Purple Haze...



loosies

Andre 3000 - Idlewild Blues

Big Boi - Morris Brown

50 cent & Tony Yayo - 5 Heartbeats

Obie Trice - Switched Up (Feat. Dina Rae)

Chino XL feat. Snoop Dogg - Don't Run From Me (Produced by Cool & Dre)

Cee-Lo and Panda Jack as Heart Attack - Two Leaked Tracks

The Clipse - You'll See

Royce 5'9" - Ultimate Hustle

Pharoah Monche - Lets Go (Produced By Black Milk)

50 - Paper Chaser

J-Hood - Keepin It In

Bobby Valentino - Gold Digger

Young Capone - What It Is

Jadakiss ft Nas - Hustler's Wifey

Jae Millz - My Swag

Ludacris feat. Lil Wayne and Baby - Down South

The Roots - The Pros

Young Jeezy - I Do This

Red Cafe - Diddy Bop

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Allure...




Cha·ris·ma - Pronunciation Key (k-rzm); n. pl. cha·ris·ma·ta (-m-t)

I'm back, Mr. Magic City
Blowin Color Purple I make it rain on yo fo'head
Thought I had a fan the way I blow that money
You'd thought I had a plan the way I throw that money
The Feds outside and they checkin his tag
But still the boy move wit'a helluva swag

a. A rare personal quality attributed to individuals who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm.

It's like the soundtrack to my life
Everyday I'm under investigation
But I will not stop, so you can stop the hatin
What more can I say, it's like my gift and my curse
To fail or succeed, I don't know whats worse...
They just tryin to find a glitch in my matrix

b. Personal magnetism or charm: a television news program famed for the charisma of its anchors.

One slip and I'm back to the basics
Red or blue pill what would you do?
When the same aggins you love got hate in they blood

2. In Christianity, an extraordinary power, such as the ability to perform miracles, granted by the Holy Spirit.

I know God's watchin over me, so is the Feds
When love turn to hate and aggins rather ya dead
Lord have mercy, Jesus Christ
All the bad I done will you still protect my life?
Maybe...maybe not
Until I keep an extra clip in that Glock...


young jeezy - "i'm back"



Stray Shots

Omillio_Sparks-The_Inauguration-2006

DJ Radio & The Kid Domination - Styles P Pressure Mixtape-2006

Dj Konflikt - Best of Talib Kweli

King and I - Contemporary Jeep Music

Frank Sinatra Jr. - That Face! [2006]

Ella Fitzgerald -- Lady Be Good

Smooth Jazz - The Quiet Storm [2001]

Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course

Celly Cel - Heat 4 Yo Azz

B-Legit - Tryin to Get a Buck

JT the Bigga Figga - Playaz N the Game

Yesterdays New Quintet - Stevie (An Instrumental Tribute to Stevie Wonder)

Peanut Butter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs a Ton

Quasimoto - The_Unseen

The Game - Welcome to Compton Part 5

Dipset - The Movement Moves On

Juelz Santana - From Me To U

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So... the buzz is that Gillie The Kid wrote for Weezy...

"Not for Carter 2," Gillie laughed. "I wasn't around for Tha Carter 2. Give all the credit to Lil Wayne for that. But it was a whole lot of things going down for Carter 1. Holla at your boy, Wayne."
Source - MTV.com


Did Gillie Write For Weezy F. Baby?
Yeah...I can hear some Philly bravado in there.
"Who?"
Enh...Weezy's doesn't need that dude's help.
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A Piece of Soul Food


CunninLynguists are geniuses. Not just for their namesake, but because they are one of the most original and creative groups making hip-hop today, and released the best album you probably haven’t heard this year. Their third album is appropriately titled “A Piece Of Strange,” the album’s dark feel evokes a unique blend of emotions. This is soul music.

“A Piece of Strange” conjures memories of Outkast with DJ Kno’s (native ATLien) smooth smoke infused grooves and Deacon the Villain’s Kentucky fried slang-filled introspection, or it may cause flashbacks to “Aquemini” on spaced out rock tracks like the album’s Chonkyfired last song, “The Light.” But more than anything else, this album causes the listener to contract a severe case of déjà vu to “Soul Food.”

Just like the GooDie MOb’s debut (hip hop’s most fitting acronym considering their current group status) they sing hooks together on “Nothing To Give,” “What Will You Do,” “Remember Me,” they have a reverence to the group’s most notorious song about mental prison on “Brain Cell,” and by the fourth song it’s no coincidence that one Cee Lo Green is the album’s first guest on “Caved In.” Just check out the hook on the second song “Since When,”

I heard ‘em say Southern folk can’t rhyme
Some of yall must be out ya Goddamn mind
Yeah its about that time, we got that shine, and n….s been about them lines
Since when?
Ever since a pocket full of stones
Ridin dirty in the Chevy sitting heavy on chrome
Ever since Goodie Mo’ had Food for Soul and them dirty red dogs hit the do’”


But don’t get me wrong, they don’t rely on Jay-Z’s liberal interpretation of imitation (or biting) being the highest form of flattery to their heroes. In fact, the parts of the album that don’t sound like it was produced in the The Dungeon during the mid 90s are its highlight.

DJ Kno orchestrates a masterpiece theatre which features multiple interludes which serve as effortless instrumental segues to Deacon’s narrated sinful themes like their hood’s way of life on “Nothing To Give,” a Crash-like racial narration featuring Tonedeff at “The Gates,” and a love song to everyone’s favorite Mary on “Beautiful Girl.” Kno, who was the group’s second MC on CL’s first two albums has allowed newest group member Natti fill his vocal role and now elects to strictly handle the beats. And it’s Kno’s essentially southern, but not regionally biased, sound that gives this album it’s cohesive yet diverse feel. Especially in his excellent usage of guitar throughout the album, it’s almost as if Kno chooses to speak through the beats and his best verses are his guitar solos.

This album is a multi-layered refreshing sound for the ‘06 that is open for many interpretations and comparisons. Now listen for yourselves…


Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange


For more info, visit...

http://www.whatisapos.com/

http://www.myspace.com/cunninlynguists


PEACE,

Yikes!



Stray Shots


Some classic OOP shit mixed in here so be sure to grab it...


Tru_Life-The_Journal_Vol_1-Promo-2005

K-Solo - Time's Up

Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - Make It Reign

AZ & Mobstyle - Game Of Death

TRU-Hangin In The Hood Maxi Cassette (1992)

Kingpin Skinny Pimp - 2000 Rap Dope Game

Brand Nubian- Fire in the Hole

Brand Nubian- Foundation

Eric Benet - A Day In The Life

Isley Bros - Beautiful Ballads

Blu_Cantrell-From_L.A_To_L.O-2004

Marcus Coleman - Marcus Coleman (2005)

Boyz II Men - Greatest Hits


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Real Recognize Real




When Siegel got shot, a few things ran across my mind...

1.) "Bang bang Siegel Street Gang!"

2.) Damn this dude has the worst fuckin luck - jail, stepdad gets murdered, his record label essentially dissolves.

3. Son gully for taking pics fresh out of the hospital...and this dude is chubbier than a motherfucker. Hit the treadmill Beans, we seen what happened to Pun.

4.) Wow! Son stay in the hood. He keeps it real.

Then, you start to wonder "what's real?"

For rapper's it's always a thin line but at some point these dudes gotta get smarter...

Once one starts acquiring gold and platinum plaques, there's no need to stay in the hood coppin quarter waters and splittin sacks with the crew.

To Beans and even regular folk who've found some level of success - Understand that real is based off reality.

Your reality now is you have concierges or at least lil fellas happy to be your weed carriers. No need to handle the late nite runs for that purp or take that burner charge.

Your reality is now that you have the ability to sign checks and create at least a few business opportunities.

Your existence now has you flying around the country and the world. Your vision should expand. No one said say fuck the hood...but we understand that your visions and experiences are further than a few blocks radius.

At a certain point, you have to help end this backwards thinking that's been perpetuated for years.

No other race or culture takes offense that it's members achieve like Black folks and hip-hop culture.

Understand - if you made it out the hood, we're happy for you. We're glad to see you achieve things.

You don't have to try to stay in the hood to prove a point.

Prove a point by taking a piece of the hood with you and speak for the rest of the hood as you're out connecting with people who otherwise wouldn't hear the voice of South Street Philly, The Wild Hundreds in Chi or South 8th out here in Cashvegas...let'em know we exist.

Use the power and the voice you have.


I made it so, you could say Marcy and it was all good
I ain't crossover I brought the suburbs to the hood
Made em relate to your struggle, told em bout your hustle
Went on MTV with do-rags, I made them love you
You know normally them people wouldn't be fuckin witchu
Til I made em understand why you do what you do © Jay-z


I was gonna speak on this song anyways but the past few days, time has had a way of having it's own way of timing...



This track showed me two things...

* It was good to hear Snoop come back to the mic with some passion and, really, he sounds like at any given time he can get back on that "Deep Cover" shit whenever he chooses...

* It was even better to hear someone finally say fuck the Terminator. No, it won't have the same effects of Kanye's spazz on Bush but it still needed to be recorded so that it could be stored as a piece of auditory history for future generations to reference just so they know "nah, folk wasn't cool with that."

Snoop - "Tookie"

We *cough*Gotty™*cough* always show love to Big Mike and been waitin on dude to drop...but wasn't expecting this in the least.

Big Mike - "I will not lose"

Do some searching and you can find the origins of the riff.



Stray Shots

Lil Flip - I Need Mine (Explicit Retail) w/ 4 BONUS TRACKS

40_Cal.-Trigger_Happy

Bella - 1st Edition Baby Boss Mixtape (Hosted By Don Cannon)

Brand Nubian- One For All

Brand Nubian- Everything is Everything

Omar - Sing (If You Want It)

Latif - Love In The First-2003

Smooth Grooves: After Hours

G Unit - Ski Mask Way

Waist Deep OST

Bobby_Creekwater-Trust_Us_Sampler-Promo


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Half My Heart....

HALF MY HEART SET!


I recently found out that I'm Mr. Big.

Nah for real....hear me out.

I'm a Gemini and I've been told before that I definitely have two sides.

Recently, a female friend imparted to me...

I've known you for years and it feels like I just met you. I get all excited when you show your feelings. I like it. It's actually a very attractive side you have. But you are soooo complex...one minute you're natural and have feelings. But then the "fuck it" side kicks in..."fuck everybody!" I see you have this amazing side that you only show tiny bits of...Then the rest is "fuck it all" and untouchable. Funny thing is I'm intrigued by both because one is just as interesting as the other.

She went on to tell me "
you have this mystique, like Mr. Big"


Big and his broad, cig in hand...I could dig this persona


Here...let me show that I do have a softer side as well as the ability to reveal my emotional side.


The World's Greatest Joys According To Gotty™ AKA The Softer Side Of Things AKA Half My Heart...

1. Having someone intimate, not just a random someone, soft on the other side of the bed when you wake up.

2. There's nothing better than hearing a small child's laughter or seeing them smile with that twinkling glow in their eyes.

3. Watching the syndicated episodes of
Sex In The City and learning that, as much as I think I know, I know so little about how women's brains work. Women are peculiar creatures.

4. The most magnificient thing in the morning is enjoying a cup of coffee and a cigarette in your sock feet, boxers and no shirt.

5. Layin back coolin' with a good book > hittin up the club.

6. There's something attractive about when a women whines "
Teee-whyyyyy" because of some dumb shit I've done and quite possibly it's the reason why I do ignorant shit.

7. Although most men, myself included, are often called "selfish," there's generally nothing more rewarding than ensuring the happiness of those around us.

8. I get that "sugar lump" in my throat every time I watch
Hardball and G-Baby gets killed.


There you have it...

Salute!

Gotty™


StereoTee went another step and created a "commercial" on behalf of the TSSCrew...

Watch @ your own risk LOL



I love this dude no homo



Stray Shots

DJ_Burn_One_And_Young_Dro-Future_Legends_Vol_2_(I_Still_Got_That_Dro)

Fiend-The_Addiction-2006

Sickamore_and_Co_Reed-Swaggman

Lord Have Mercy - Sword and Shield

Brian McKnight - U Turn

Michael Jackson - History (2 Disc Set)

Kane and Abel-Am I My Brother's Keeper

LL Cool J-Radio

A Tribe Called Quest-Beats, Rhymes and Life

Celly Cel-Killa Kali

E-40-Breakin News

E-40-Grit and Grind

DMX-It's Dark and Hell is Hot

De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising

Tha Alkaholiks-Likwidation

Tha Liks- XO Experience


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"Fourty-Four Fours Motherfucker I'm Nice..."



Jay-z wows the crowd by performing "44 Fours's" as the second verse of "22 Two's"


Plus since some of you just have to have the audio...

Jay-z - "44 Fours" mp3




Stones Throw: Ten Years (2006)

Don Cannon and Jody Breeze - Best Kept Secret

Ziggy Marley - Love Is My Religion (2006)

Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary

Donnell Jones - Journey Of A Gemini

Hood News - Got Heat?

Brand Nubian- In God We Trust

DJ J. Period - The Best Of Nas (Limited Edition - Hosted By Nas)

DJ Big Juice 700 Presents Big R'n'B Vol. 1 (B4 They Become Hitz)

DJ Dlee - Blazin' Hip-Hop & R&B In Da Mix Vol. 3

Madonna - I'm Gonna Tell You A Secret

Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over

Tha Alkaholiks- Coast 2 Coast

Fiend-There's One in Every Family

Mr. Gabba - Tha Booty Care

Eightball - Lost (With Bonus Disc)

E-40 - In a Major Way

De La Soul-Buhloone Mindstate

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"I Thought I Told You..."


I'm a No Limit motherfuckin soldier till I die
We run this place, and I say the same shit, with a gun up in my face
I ain't scared to die, bitch like I said before, hoe
3rd Ward, I'm from that motherfuckin Calliope
Projects supported worldwide by drug dealers
Transformin wimpy ass niggaz into killers
Taking over, worldwide, doin shows oversea
Bringing bitches to the telly, put them hoes upon they knees
Gangstafied, like my motherfuckin homies Kane and Abel
No Limit, the world's number one fuckin rap label (worldwide)
Competition get smoked like we smokin blunts
I take a playa hata and knock out his fuckin fronts
Dope slanga, now I'm slangin CD's
A million records (platinum), it used to be some QUARTER KI'S
TRU tattooed on my back bitch thats my click
Ready to hop into some motherfuckin gangsta shit
I say No Limit loud, cause we ain't scared of nobody
Organized by P or should I say, John Gotti
Real niggaz, put ya guns up if ya feel me
But if ya talk shit, bitch ya betta kill me
Like Skull I'm a hoodlum 4 life, I told ya
We be some motherfuckin No Limit TRU soldiers


Whew...

Sometimes, it's not what you say but how you say it that makes a rapper enjoyable and well liked.

It's mostly the voice © Guru


On one of the hardest first songs on a compact disc ever, C-Murder went comatose on that verse from the crew's early days, setting the mantra for the label as well as his own future...






Stray Shots

Lil Boosie and Juvenile - Life After Katrina Vol. 1

Kurupt AKA Young Gotti - Same Day Different Shit

Dr. Dre-Chronicles (Death_Row_Classics)

The Roots - The Foundation: The Best Of The Roots (Mixed by DJ Konflikt)

Big Mike & Evil Empire - Interstate Trafficing 2.0

P.O.S. Audition

Bottom Posse - 2 Saggin' Straight From Hell

Twelve-A-Klok Presents - The Real Cut Throat Comitty - Blood In, Blood Out (2 Years Later, A Few Months After)

Juvenile - Soulja Rags

DJ Drama & La The Darkman-Dead Presidents

King Gordy - King Of Horrorcore

Trae & Z-Ro - Assholes By Nature

Dilated_Peoples-20-20

Talib_Kweli-Kwelity_Music-(The_Best_Of_Talib_Kweli)-Mixed_By_DJ_Konflikt

Strange_Fruit_Project-The_Healing

Messy_Marv_And_San_Quinn-Explosive_Mode_2-Back_In_Business



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Which Label/Crew Had The Greatest Impact During It's Prime?
Bad Boy - B.I.G., Mase, Black Rob
Cash Money - Hot Boyz, Juvenile, BG, Lil Wayne
No Limit - Master P, Mystikal, TRU,
Death Row - 2Pac, Snoop, Tha Dogg Pound
Rawkus - Blackstar, Company Flow
Loud Records - Wu, Boot Camp Click, Big Pun
Shady/Aftermath - Eminem, 50 Cent, G-Unit
Rocafella - Jay-z, Kanye West, Beanie Siegel
Def Jam - LL, Redman, Method Man
Organized Noize/Dungeon Family - Outkast, Goodie Mob
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A Paradox We Call Reality...


Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar


"Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound/Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown..."


Hip-Hop History Lesson...

Remember that ill clip @ the beginning of "Respiration"?

You know...

"what'd you do last night? "

"we did umm, two whole cars

It was me, Dez, and Mean 3 right?

And on the first car in small letters it said

all you see is.. and then you know

Big, big, you know some block silver letters

That said ..crime in the city right? "



"it just took up the whole car? "

"yeah yeah, it was a whole car and shit..."


The homie Neil Diamonds has really been chastising me for not showing resepct to the roots, especially graff...

So my son went straight to the PO & shot me this movie...

And I remembered something...

Graff is truly a part of the essence of hip-hop - a rugged & raw form of expression showcased in any area where young cats are strugglin to find ways to let the world know what's goin on with them.








Some diggin and a gem was discovered amongst all the many pieces of entertainment YouTube has to offer...




Stray Shots

Money Boss Players - Ghetto Chronicle Daily

Witchdoctor - A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual

J Dilla - The Shining Advance

De La Soul - The Impossible: Mission Mixtape

Ras Kass - Goldyn Child

Ricky Fante-Rewind (2004)

Juelz Santana - What The Games Been Missing

Cool Breeze - East Point's Greatest Hits

Gnarls Barkley - St.Elsewhere

Chris Brown - Chris Brown

P Diddy - Welcome to Bad Boy

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Polly...Paulie...Pauwee....



cookiehead: lemme use that waterbaby pic...
pauiie:k
cookiehead: hmm....i'mma need a lyric to match it...
cookiehead: let me scan my memory bank...
pauiie: lol
cookiehead: Ahh....i got it
pauiie: ?
cookiehead: We heart Nirvana
pauiie: they named a song after me
pauiie: =D
cookiehead: ?
pauiie: there's a song named "paulie"
pauiie: by nirvana
cookiehead: Polly
cookiehead: not paulie
pauiie: i renamed it foo
pauiie: so it's PAULIE
cookiehead: the fuck outta here lol
pauiie: cuz i fucken said so


More Loosies

David Banner and Yola Da Great - "Get Money"

Ludacris - "War With God"

T.I. and Mackboney - "See The World"

AZ - "The Format"

Royce The 5'9" - "Ding Ding"

Famlay and Pharrell - "Beeper"

Lloyd and Lil Wayne - "You"

Project Pat Young Jeezy and Lyfe - "Tell"

Redman - "Let's Go"

Rick Ross - "Blow"

Rick Ross - "Hustlin" (Refix)

Nelly Furtado feat. Rick Ross - "Promiscious" Remix

Cherish feat Young Joc, Chingy, Jody Breeze and Fabolous - "Do It Do It" (Remix)

Frankie J feat. Slimm Thug and Mannie Fresh - "That Girl"

Common_Ft_D_Angleo-So_Far_To_Go_(Prod_By_J-Dilla)

Common Ft. D'Angelo "So Far To Go" (Produced By J-Dilla)

Montana ft. Yola da Great - "Get Drunk"

Mia X Feat. Lil Jon - "Who In Here"[She's Back]

Stack Bundles, Max B and Mel Murder - "New York, New York"

Saigon - "Don't Do That" (Produced By Just Blaze)

Ali Vegas - "I Had To Hustle Hard"

Loosies







Did Busta's Big Bang live up to the hype?
Yessir! That's my jawn right now!
Enh...it's aiight.
Fuck no...Son needs to find Dinco & the rest of the Leaders and try again
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M-I-YAYO!!!



Somebody tell these boys that 'Zo's still a beast in the paint...

Play some gutta ass Miami shit for the cause.

Trick Daddy and Cee-lo - "Dro In The Wind"

Original Gangsters...


My daughter apparently loves me...


Did you see Shaq's stepfather @ the games when the camera pans to him after Shaq hits from the charity stripe? The release and relief on his face almost saying "thank you Jesus!" and looking damn near ready to shed a tear.

I remember feeling that same zeal when I taught my daughter to confidently swim...at that moment, I felt a certain joy for her that, even as a verbose dude, I can't find the words to describe...there was so much happiness in that moment that it simply made me well up.

I imagine that any father would have to be proud if his son "made it" in entertainment as parents often live their dreams and measure their success by the successes of their children.

Therefore realize there has to be a certain joy shared by Common & his father each time the elder is invited into the studio for "Pop's Rap."

Com has always maintained a contextual balance between aspiring to show his growth and new knowledge while still keeping it simple enough for the average cat to follow. And, when you hear you his father speak @ the end of tapes, you realize why Com's roots are so firmly entrenched in the streets and his heart so open to change. Pops emits that rugged, "I'll cut you to the white meat", old street aggin speak and, at the same time, an enlightenment that only life, age and experience can give a man.

We, as men, emulate the strong alpha males in our lives, whether they be our biological fathers, uncles, stepfathers, coaches, the local store owner, the hustlers...we aspire to be "men" but have hearts for those around us, just like those select males who balance the scale between disciplined and caring.


Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense © Jay-z

But when you hear Pop's rap, you realize that Lonnie Lynn just wants to share the lessons imparted to him by his own Dad throughout his life and give a stage to thoughts of the man who raised him
.

Common - "Pop's Rap II - Fatherhood"


Respect due to my own father and both my grandfathers, the men who raised me...it's hard being a goddamn King but they've shown me that, with fortitude, it's possible to do it.

Happy Father's Day to all those men who take the time to be fathers and not just daddies.

Salute!

Gotty™

Southern Fried...

Written by K1NG



DTP has been known to host a varriety of flops. Whether it be I-20, or Shawnna, the label has never really had much Disturbing of the peace, other than it's originator Ludacris.

Two men will change that streak in the VERY near future.

Shawn Jay and Smoke.

The two combined are the very country-oriented hip hop group Field Mob.

Their new album, Light Poles and Pine Trees, is full of bangers for the ride, the club, or just to sit back and nod your head to.

The lead single,"So What" featuring Ciara, is a Jazze Pha production with funny yet inspired lyrics about a relationship between the Mob and some ladies with hating ass friends. Yet, the album goes deeper than just a couple of hot singles.

More standout tracks are...

Smilin' Feat. Ludacris, which is one of the best hater songs ever created, with a guest appearance from one of the leaders of Southern hip hop, makes for a great song. Blacker The Berry, which explains the hardships of being a dark skinned-person growing up and contains a well-placed Tupac sample.

Eat Em Up, Beat Em Up, is the sexually laced track about how perverse the two are, with outrageous lyrics such as

You're pregnant?
Glad it ain't mine
It's a fact I was strapped I ain't lyin'
Doctor said it's a little girl?
Good. Now I get pussy AND head AT the same time

Pistol Grip, which is a track explaining why they make sure they are always holding, and using metaphors including comparing banging a chick and getting shot by a dude. (Just listen, you will get it). Sorry Baby Feat. the only other DTP member worth listening to (Bobby Valentino), which is a song about not getting tied down by chicks true to hip-hop's "I just crush alot" mantra. It's Over, which is a track about the come-up and how underrated they are, which is very true considering most fans outside of the South hadn't heard of the group until recent years. The second verse of this song is straight FIRE!

Basically, I had low expectations for yet another Ludacris weed carrier, but I was pleasantly surprised by the lyrical content and flow of the two country boys.


Light Poles And Pine Trees(2006)

From Tha Roota To Tha Toota(2002)

6:13: From Ashy To Classy(2000)



K1NG Out!



Stray Shots

TOO SHORT:

Dangerous Crew - Don't Try This At Home

Nationwide - Independence Day: The Compilation

What's My Favorite Word

Chase the Cat

You Nasty

Can't Stay Away

Gettin It

Cocktails

Short Dog's In The House

Get In Where You Fit In

Okayplayer - True Notes

Usher - My Way

Geto Boyz - Till Death Do Us Part

Yo Gotti - Gettin Money Like A Mutha Fucka (Mixtape)

Yo Gotti - Life

Yo Gotti - Self Explantory

Yo Gotti Presents The Blackout Squad

Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

DJ York - R&B Mix Vol. 3

KOOL KEITH-THE COMMI$IONER

Tony Rich Project (2006)

Janet Jackson : The Black Album : Greatest Hits Volume One

Little Mo - Meet The Girl Next Door


6.17 Stray Shots Text File

6.17 Stray Shots Changelink Page

Concrete Jungle...


Picture of BMF's Meech & his victim Wolf during better times...
Photo courtesty of http://jimiflixx.com

Rusky Mafioso usually keeps me on my toes about all things hip-hop and social.

Today, we were rappin when he posed a question to me that had been asked of him..

"Someone asked me about gun culture in rap, and why there have been a slew of shootings lately...Why can my white washed roomate go to any concert he wants to (rock shit, of course) and NEVER have a story about dudes beefin or someone getting shot outside. BUT, if I talk to my bird who likes to go to the reggae club every week and who used to promote at hiphop and reggae spots in L.A. and H'wood, she's got all kinds of tales about dudes knifing in the club...shooting at the club afterwards...all kinds of violent shit...Why is gun culture so prevalent in hip-hop and not white music. Ann brought up this point of how Johnny Cash and some othe older kuntry cats used to sing about killing dude and loading their guns....but theres not a connection with violence stemming from that or surrounding that genre of music."


Immediately after that, I started peeping some recent hip-hop news and it wasn't hard to find some worthy tidbits...



All in all, it's interesting...

Is hip-hop becoming a musical incarnate of Lionel Tate?

Can we not grow, move forward and leave some of the negative behind?

I'd like to think so but we have to be aware of the constant spotlight on us, as artists and fans. With privilege and entitlement comes responsibility that we all have to accept, like it or not.

As the floodgates are opened and more seedy characters enter the game, will outsiders to the culture label everyone involved with the culture as negative?

In the studio surrounded by weed carriers and hangers-on, can a rapper be held in complete accountability for the action around him?

In a way, yes and no.

No, in the sense that you have to seperate yourself from certain elements that could endanger your livelihood. But at the same time, you are expected to maintain some connections to your original crew who held you down when you were splitting pizzas and sleeping on random couches.

Thin line...

In Jacob's case, with the amount of money being exchanged, yeah he prolly knew some things & yeah the Feds are prolly getting some help from...let me stop speculating. But if I'm Jacob, as long as these dudes are bringing me lump sums a few dollars under $10K, I'm taking that shit, I'm not asking questions. I'm watching my cash register cake up & my name as well as my product spread even further around the country.

Although none of us can claim to know the intricate dealings of Jacob or buddy from DFB, it reeks of guilt by association...

As for the comments made by the rep from Cristal, it does indeed have some underhanded swipes that hint @ race. He reportedly says hip-hop but in general, when you say hip-hop, who does that include as the racial majority in the eyes of most?

Is hip-hop shooting itself in the proverbial foot? As we progress in terms of financial stature & gain some forms of leverage, are we eating ourselves alive from the inside out?

Perhaps. Although it was based on a rebellious nature and a vehicle of expression, shit's changed. Cats are feeding their families off their rap hustle. But how many outsiders want to be directly associated negative connotations that hip-hop carries with it as baggage.

While the little $200 we spend in the club to feign status prolly won't effect Cristal's profit margin, one has to wonder how much disgust they have for hip-hop as a community to turn down the free fuckin advertising rappers give them...

Sorry fam, no real answers or solutions today.

Just observations and opinions.

Feel free to add your .02 in the comments section.

The game's almost on.

I'd like to send a special *golf clap* out to Shaq for hitting those clutch freebies the other night. The whole goddamn bar breathed the proverbial sigh of relief & every brother in the spot, no matter who they were cheering for, gave each other a pound LOL.

And I know I ain't the only one who let out a "hell motherfuckin yeah" when they seen Mr. Mean (GP for the unintiated) hit that goddamn jumper...


Salute!

Gotty™



Oh yeah...whoever sent me Monty Alexander - Concrete Jungle: Music of Bob Marley, bless you. Shit's blue flame!



Stray Shots

Champ Bailey - Champ_Bailey-2006-CR

B.G. - Its_All_ON_U_(Vol.1)-1997-ZOA_INT

DJ Whoo Kid & Chamillionaire -Chamillionaire The Truth

Styles P - The Ghost In the Machine

Reggae Party - Adventures In Music

GZA - Legend of the Liquid Sword

Premier - Unreleased Beats

Jay Dee - Welcome to Detriot

Ohmega Watts - The Find

Eliot Lipp - Eliot Lipp

Lil_Boosie_And_Webbie-Gangsta_Musik-2004-SUT

VA-Lil_Wayne_Presents-Da_Drought_2-2004-SUT

AZ-A.W.O.L-2005-CMS

Black Bill Gates/Ludacris Presents: Playaz Circle Pound 4 Pound Mixtape

VA-DJ_Whoo_Kid-Pow_Radio_Vol._2-Hosted By Young Buck

Portrait Portrait

Portrait - All That Matters

Young Jeezy - Come Shop Wit Me

Young Jeezy -Hustle And Snow

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Magical Journey (4 CD Boxset) (2003)

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Eric Clapton (2003)


6.15 Stray Shots text file

RESPECT MY MOTHERFUCKIN FRESH!


Feel free to incorporate the above phrase in to your daily slanguistics


I'm poppin off by myself I don't need no Cam
I don't need you Jim, Juelz I got these aggins
I don't care if they small or some stocky aggins
I just grace 'em then erase 'em, I forgot these aggins....
What they name again?....What they claim again?
Yeah these faggots hated, cause I'm they rappers' favorite
You procrastinated so I got you assasinated
Shoot 'em up, bang bang, bullets in his Red Monkey's
Thought he was a gorilla? Nah, he a dead monkey


Rell is that dude...

war

There is no direct correlation between the picture, the title and the lyrics quoted...except they all fresh.

Apparently, "the crackas wasn't playin fair @ Jive..."

Luckily, it apparenly hasn't effected the video budget for these dudes...



Again...

RESPECT MY MOTHERFUCKIN FRESH!



Stray Shots

J-Live Presents Ghostface Street Savior Mixtape

Donell_Jones-Journey_Of_A_Gemini [Retail][2006]

SHAWNA - BlOCK MUSIC

Vakill-Worst_Fears_Confirmed

Mark Morrison - Innocent Man

DJ Virus - Promo

L.D._and_Ant_Banks-Ghetto_Platinum-2006

R. Kelly- 12 Play

Team Invasion Presents The Keyshia Cole Mixtape

Level 42 - The Definitive Collection (2006 Special Edition)

Nina Simone - The Very Best Of Nina Simone (2006)

King Sun-XL

The Fam-Lee -Runs In The Fam-Lee

Portrait - Share My Love

Big L – J-Love Presents In Memory Of Big L Vol. 2

Monty Alexander - Concrete Jungle: Music of Bob Marley

The UBC - 2 All Serious Thinkers

Vicious Beat Posse - Legalized Dope

MC Rod - Life's a Bitch

Papoose-Mixtape_Murder_(Runnin_The_City)-(READ_NFO)-2005-C4

DMX_-_Grand_Champ

DMX_-_The_Early_Years

Lil' Flip - Underground Legend (Bonus Disc)-2002 (EAC)

Joe Budden - Mood Muzik 2 (No DJ Version)

Kanye West - Freshmen Adjustment

Akon- Trouble (Platinum_Edition)

Sheek Louch - After Taxes

Cormega-Special_Edition [True_Meaning_&_The_Realness]-RETAIL-2CD

Sway & Tech - Wake Up Show Freestyles Vol. 4

Ghostface Killah and Trife Da God - Put it on the Line Retail 2005

JIMI HENDRIX - Blues (1994)

6.15 Stray Shots text file

"The More You Know, The More You Owe..."


A man is only the sum total of the parts that have been put into him....To the kid of the street, for whom there is nothing particulary compelling about the tomorrows of adulthood, ambition is an item of immediancy. It's about accumulating repsect and its various accoutrements- about getting the rep, about having things; about making people evnious or intimidated if not both. The pressure on the homie is not to get into Stanford but to be a man; to be a man here and now becuase it's time to do something and people are watching...




Right now, I'm working on the other side of town.

And although the Eastside ("Out East" as everybody in the hood says) is only twenty minutes away, it's a whole world away socially and economically.

The look of poverty and struggle that's so impassionately repped in our current music sounds like a Wonderland of guns, violence & excitement that you can exit like a game of Laser Tag...it's not.

I understand that some people haven't really had to experience situations like this on a daily, hands-on basis. The hood looks just fine when you're listening about it or you're looking out of your car window.

But when you get into it & get on its level, the face of it is filled with anger...its eyes are simulatenously ferocious and frightful.

And it's not reserved strictly to one ethnic group.

Yesterday's hood was stereotyped as being full of Black folk.

Today's hood, and today's America, is filled with socioeconomically disadvantaged people.

I care for them all, but of course, my affection of for the young Black males.

It is similar to being face to face with Bigger Thomas' multiplied and personafied.

And when I see it, I wonder if that's what I looked like to the people who reached and put a hand out to pull me up to the next level.

Because there's one thing about being a Black male, regardless of your geographical location; hood or the burbs - you know at all times you are or could become a target.

Nothing can buy you a new skin color.

I was recently rappin' with a female counterpart as she explained her disgust that 40K women had been "shipped" into Germany for the World Cup, strictly for the purpose of prostitution.

I asked her to pardon my ignorance, but I don't give a fuck about a tramp turning tricks in Germany.

Nope.

I understand the dynamics of power & oppression.

I understand that what happens/is happening on a global level, and even with that particular situation, is part of the system of oppression of that tells certain groups that they have no other choices and they must accept what's given to them.

That same system of oppression is the one that tells these same young cats I deal with daily that they can either sling crack rock or have a wicked jumpshot © Biggie (can we add rap to that equation?)

But, I know I can't change the whole world.

Again, pardon my ignorance, but if it don't happen in the 615 or 931...fuck it.

Those are areas I can have an impact on & see direct effects.

If I can reach back & pull up one of these lil knuckleheads like someone did me, all is well. Allah U Akbar.

Salute!

Gotty™


Mood Music - Mos Def - Mighty Marvel


Interesting read...

At the Corner of Progress and Peril From The Washington Post


Stray Shots

Fort Minor/DJ Green Lantern – We Major

Jazzy Jeff – The Magnificent

Pete Rock – Pete Rock Years Vol. 2 (For Props Sake)

Prefuse 73 – Reads The Books

Questlove – Sample Lesson Mix

Reef The Lost Cauze – Invisible Empire

Smiley Da Ghetto Child – Wake Up Call 12”

T La Rock – On A Warpath

Sway & Tech - Best Of The Wakeup Show Freestyles Vol. 4

Road Warrior #46 Raw Reggae Warrior

Tuff Crew – Back To The Wreck Shop

Digital_Underground_-_Sex_Packets-Retail-1990

Boys_II_Men_-_Cooleyhighharmony-Retail-1993

Too_Short_-_Born_To_Mack-Retail-1989

Big Mike & Big Stress - R&B Jumpoff Vol. 24

Big Mike & Big Stress - Somethin For The Radio Vol. 16

DJ_Heat_&_Lloyd_Banks-My_New_York_Shit_Vol_2-

Zapp And Roger – The Greatest Hits

DJ Wally Sparks & Sleepy Brown: Funk Soul Brother (2 Disc Mixtape)

GZA - Beneath the Surface

Bob Marley And The Wailers – Soul Revolutionaries – The Early Jamaican Albums – 1970-1971 (4CD)

Boogie Nights Soundtrack Vol. 1 & 2

Life by KRS-One

Ben Westbeech - So Good Today

Jimi Hendrix - The Master's Masters (1967)

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - The Best Of The Blues (2003)


6.14 Stray Shots text file




Postscripts

To whoevever commented that I lost the passion in my writing, nah homie. None of that. It's just that a.) we've been trying to keep it focused on music b.) we have indeed been hella busy behind the scenes gettin ready for changes and c.) I try to leave the politricks and social commentary to other folk.

But since some of you all want passion, I'm gonna give it to you.

Oh yeah, to the dumbass(es) who frequently try to question my "hood status", this is the difference between me and you.

1. I hustled, pullin kick-doors, and busted shots shoulder to shoulder with some of these same youths older brothers, cousins, uncles, etc. Real recognize real. I was Gotty™ way before I got on the fuckin internet.

2. I've been working with the youth for the past eight years & they know I care about them. So I can go where I need to go...and I'm comfortable. Gimme a pack of Kools and a bottle water; I'm home.

And It's A Bitch Girl...






One look at these dudes and three words may come to mind: "Ambiguously Gay Duo." And that maybe true. But damned if these melanin lacking motherfuckers don't have soul. Dudes rattled out hits on the soul tip for years. And to my knowledge, one of the first to say the word "bitch" on a commercial track, and have it aired on the radio (see "Rich Girl").





Truth be told, I didn't even know this pair were white till i saw some of their album covers. Yeah, some of their joints sound like they could be aired on old ass TV shows, but these dudes always come correct. It's hard enough finding a duet of singers with good chemistry, much less two male singers. I'd group Hall and Oates into semi-soul, semi-pop. Mild electronic overtones are blended into instrumentals, giving the group a distinct sound to their joints. Careers spanning nearly three decades gives Hall and Oates a more than decent track record as well.





I'm highlighting Hall and Oates because I always appreciate artists going against the grain in what was the norm for music in their time periods. Or at least doing things different. Hair bands and pre-emo rock groups seemed to dominate music during an era of the late 70's and early 80's. But for the most part, Darryl Hall and John Oates kept it true to their blueprint of success, and belted out a stupid amount of hits.




This has been Retro's Soul Centric Public Announcement. Shoutout to my dude Big Fame One as well for hitting me off with these gems.







Retro Out



Stray Shots - Soul Centric Style

Al Green - Livin For You

Amel Larrieux - Morning

The Funk Brothers - Best Of

Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine

Roy Ayers - Vibrations

Brick - Good High

Shabba Ranks - Greatest Hits





I'm coming for you.

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