Guantanemera

If your name was Chun-Li, we'd be playin Street Fighter.



I could actually argue that the Carnival was a better album than the Score but I'd probably cause a whole set of hoopla amongst Hip Hop fans. I can remember when I first heard both albums though which is kind of rare given the amount of music I listen to. Heard the Score the Friday before Reading week late Feb 1996. Was actually on my way to the bus station to head for "the D" when I decided to kill some time and stop in Play De to see what was new. Surprise of surprises a new Fugee album. Somehow back then all the really good album releases snuck up on me. Anyway bought the cassette and well needless to say I killed that ish on the 5 hr bus ride and when I came back me and my boys was all over that album. My favorite song was Zealots with lines from Clef like
I haunt MC's like Mephistopheles, bringin swords of Damocles
Secret service keep a close watch as if my name was Kennedy
Abstract raps simple with a street format
Gaze into the sky and measure planets by parallax

and Lauryn with the
"behold, as my odes, manifold on your rhymes Two MC's can't occupy the same space at the same time".

That was some crazy we got to rewind that joint ish.

The Carnival well bought it late Spring or early summer of 97. Was finishing up Grad School and living in a basement in the Annex. I remember listening to it once and being like whatever, then when I settled down for the crazy intensive thesis write up this album was my theme music.

Anyway I've decided to revamp the blog a bit with the help of Youtube. Now I'll just be dropping a video (and I might throw in some reggae some of the time), and dropping a couple of paragraphs.

Peace!

one more time

I posted this one in may last year and no one got it so i'm bringing it back once again

Its kinda like that movie falling down with Michael Douglas
I feel the struggle is ill I smuggle this ......

this one is easy

I plan to grow dreads
but first a nappy fro
the longer the hair
the easier to scare a foe

"We can Fight the Power like this was P.E. class"

Happy new year. Here's the first one of the new year, lets see who gets it.

Pataki,
got all kinds of undercovers coming at me,
perhaps he, won't be happy, til they snatch me,

Amateurs get hung by their own gold chains

a bit more

no one is getting this one so maybe a bit more of the song will help. The other clue is that although this artist has quite a few albums the song was never on any album.

I had it up to here and I swear I'm bout to pull a colin ferguesson
gonna shoot the nervous one
and the brave one
I'm misbehaving
now today a mild mannered citizen no longer wants to play
Its kinda like that movie falling down with Michael Douglas
I feel the struggle is ill I smuggle this ......

come test it

Walk, like a ninja, on the asphalt
Here talk is cheap, you're outlined in chalk

i'm back

another easy one for you folks but you have to be specific on the answer


"I'm not Koresh
Cause I control minds wit rhymes, so FBI don't test
I got a no. 2 pencil and I'm a scribble all over your face"

another easy one i hope

ya whole aura is plexiglass

guess this

ok the solution to the last one was Tragedy Kahdifi - Trag Invasion from back in like 1988 off the Intelligent Hoodlum album. See told you it was obscure. Think I got a little carried away with that one

here's a new one which should prove easier


Salutes 2 action be tha latest enter-ree
4 illadel colonies da get da cream like cherry jubalee -
my steeze puts ya at ease like methamphetamines
or like Tony Starks fantasies about his wallabess

obscure

kind of obscure ok really obscure

I snatch the party and squeeze it like Play-Dough
I grab the mic and I kick it like Kato
Rap so fierce, the deejay is Fatal
You can't hang, so it's back to your cradle

been a while

It's a mad [mad] mad [mad] world and it's best to never wild out
Go against me and I'm, quick to pull out
The driveway by the way hey
Picked up your girl cause she was goin MY WAY

name the mc, and the song

turn the party out

Ok easy one here. Yes the last lines been sampled quite a bit but this is the original verse.

I go for what I know doin a show for human beings
I'm guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout
I'm bound to wreck your body and say turn the party out

its been a long time

I lef the last quote up quite a while and while couple of folks got the song no one got the actual artist whose verse it was. Good job though. So here's the next one.

Right now I'm smiling
Taking advantage of this moment
Cause there might not be another soon
Holding on to memories like roller coaster handle bars
tightly cause I'm slightly off my rocker--But to you
I may appear to be your average joe
But little do you know
that even joe got problems that he gots to joust with

crime side of life, foul price to pay
illegal life, trigger trife till we old and gray
when the flesh dry up and the world decay
reach heaven in a pearly white ACUR-ay

Was going to post this last week after hearing this song on the radio. lets see who gets it

I wrote this, I smoke this mic until it's heated
The kid he tried ta battle me but then he got defeated

This could be tricky but I know you guys will get it

Then I take a thought around the world twice
From knowledge is born back to knowledge precise
Across the desert, that's hot as the Arabian

Lets see who got skills

He owes some Benjamin Franklins, every last bit of em
But Jimmy's pockets are empty, so now we gotta get rid of him
But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her
Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver

another "easy" one

Come on you guys must know this one

Droppin lyrics that be hotter than sex and candlewax
And one-dimensional MC's can't handle that