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05.08.03 09:22 PM
five questions for ya'll
1. When listening to K-OS, aren't you longing all the more for a true return of Lauryn Hill?
2. Aren't Just Blaze and Kanye West's productions adding a Black Exploitation soundtrack aesthetic to hip-hop?
3. Why de artists dem feel dat putting a "Diwali Riddim" 'pon dere songs dem mean dey gwan' haf a club banger?
4. Isn't it time that Mo'nique get content with her large-sized frame so she could stop focusing on dissing skinny chicks and truly rise to her comedic abilities?
5. What does it mean that no music artist has really been able to knock 50 Cent off his top Billboard spot since his debut in February?
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why the hell does lil mo continue to use her face as her canvas? *cringes*
posted by hardCore | May 9, 2003 4:53 PM #
Why aren't YOU doing the "Twenty Questions" on Vibe's last page?
I haven't thought about the Just and Kanye productions in that light before but hmm...
posted by Nadine G. | May 9, 2003 6:46 PM #
The implications of the failure of any artist to knock 50 Cent off his top Billboard spot? The coming of the Apocolypse.
posted by sadia | May 9, 2003 6:51 PM #
1. K-OS has me fiending for the new Black Eyed Peas joint. Isn't he really just Will.I.Am in a cheap disguise?
2. I've got The Saturday Night Agenda LP that says that Inebriated Rhythms has the blaxploitation vibe on lock. Just Blaze makes Just Bangers. The hottest kind. I'm feeling his production so hard core right now.
3. Because that Sean Paul joint is sellin' like hot cakes, ma, and he doesn't have a goofy vibe like Shaggy so it makes it okay. And because Kardinal Offishal's joint was so hot last year and he still came off hardcore.
4. I'm keepin' my mouth shut.
5. It means that Aftermath knows what the hell they are doing. It means that pop music is real whack right now (how many american idol albums in the top 10 right now?) and it means that Dre can afford to pay that 1.5 million dollar settlement without breaking a sweat.
posted by Jason | May 9, 2003 7:45 PM #
You are not ready for me to bring the realness, but here it goes:
1. Ah, no. If Lauryn still wants to cry on records, I would rather wait until after she does rehab or something. She should really dry those pretty eyes of hers and reunite with Wyclef and Pras for a Fugees CD. We all know Pras needs the bread.
When I listen to K-Os, I'm longing for a true return of the boom bap. A return to reflective lyrics, skillful productions and no gimmicks.
Oh how I love her so, hip-hop is a superstar.
2. "Black Exploitation soundtrack aesthetic" . . . damn say that a hundred times. I think Just Blaze digs in the crates to damn much looking for soundbites. ("Oh Boy") But Just can whip up a party jam ("Yeah, Yeah You Know It"). Kanye West on the other hand -- to me -- is the man. I feel his beats. I don't think his production is a throwback to anything. Just soulful -- kinda like Jay Dee's production style or beatmaker No I.D.'s earlier stuff with Common.
3. Becuz its da shit bumpa clot. De know wha dere doin main. Give dem de lite -- in this case de "Diwali Riddim" -- and those record labels will clone dat beat and put it on e'eryting dey can think of, so they can make a profit.
Anyway, de next wave in music is
Bhangra. I like to call it Bhangra-Hop.
So Heads Up -- Britney Spears is already jumping on the craze, that wild white pop tramp. She also got Bussa Buss on a Bhangra-style track -- dat banger is wikkid. Word.
Ane-way, Diwali get dem girls shakin' dat booty. So for that, I say,
"Yo sexy ladies want par with us
In a the car with us
Them nah war with us
In a the club them want flex with us
To get next to us
Them cah vex with us . . ."
To my Bhangra gurls:
"Mimian tho buch chir pakay rakh ley
Palanay chai mukhra lukhakay rakh ley . . . "
More Diwali/Banghra Hip-Hop. Bo! Bo! Bo!
Shabba!
4. Mo' nique really needs to focus on clothes that can fit her. Have you watch her on "Showtime at the Apollo"? She is wearing horrible outfits. If her outfits not showing her big flat booty, it's showing her cottage-cheese thighs, skinny-ass legs and crusty toes. Oh and she's not funny neither. Rise to her comedic abilities? She hasn't been funny since Def Comedy Jam back in '95.
But on the real, ththese skinny-ass girls that make fun of big women need someone like Mo' to keep them in check. Unfortunately, she dresses like a color-bling drag queen.
5. That 50 Cent is the shit!
posted by Trent | May 10, 2003 10:04 AM #
1. I gave up on Lauryn Hill after she lectured me for an entire track on her last album. If I wanted church I'd go to one. kthxbi.
2. Just Blaze won me over with "Oh Boy" last summer. And Girls, Girls, Girls was the shizzle too. "This Can't Be Life" on Roc-La-Familia still puts me in a deep trance and sometimes makes me feel the way I feel while watching the last scene of "The Color Purple". It's like watching "Claudine" or that movie with Diahanne Carroll, Rosalind Cash and Irene Cara when they were all sisters and their father died - can't think of the name right now.
3. I love reggae/dancehall so more please.
4. If Mo'Nique didn't have skinny jokes she wouldn't have an act.
5. The production on that 50 Cent album is out of this world. All the songs are tight, most especially the ones they aren't playing on the radio.
posted by MONIQUE | May 10, 2003 3:28 PM #
I like this. I think I'm going to do one once a week. On #2 Mo' are you talking about the movie Sparkle?
And I think it would be unfair for me to put down answers to these questions.
posted by lynne | May 10, 2003 8:44 PM #
awwwww cmon Lynne, I love when you get into the discussion and cut it up.
I am a little ashamed to admit I either don't know or haven't heard much of anyone you've mentioned, so I don't have anything to contribute except that, yeah, Mo'nique's outfits on Apollo are horrendous. It took me forever to decide for sure that the woman in the grotesque bunchy leather hot-pants-jacket (doesn't she make enough to either get a tailor or a buying consultant? Macy's offers that shit free) was the same lady my girl watches on the Parkers *shudder*
posted by gwen | May 10, 2003 9:25 PM #
too many lauryn haters in the comments, i actually fell in love with the raw honests of her MTV Unplugged joint. so what it wasn't all polished and formatted, THAT'S THE POINT! guess yall didn't get it.
hate kayne west production! okay, not hate, but i'm not feeling it.
am i the only one anxiously waiting the gang starr album? oh yeah, can't wait for nas to drop the second installment of the Lost Tapes.....one.
posted by hardCore | May 10, 2003 9:52 PM #
nah...i think we're all waiting for Gang Star. and there is a 2nd installment of the lost tapes?? shit....i can't wait for THAT (i stilllllll love Nas, he was so cute back in the Illmatic days :) ).
about # 3--i LOVE dancehall, so this so-called "new expolision" is fine w/ me. although we know it's nothing new. remember the early 90s when Puffy, uhh, i mean Diddy was tryna flex his patios skills in the "Dolly My Baby" RMX? shit...WHERE IS SUPERCAT?? at any rate....the more riddims, the better.
yuh dun no.
posted by britni | May 11, 2003 5:28 AM #
i got lauryn's "unplugged" point...and i'm longing for more of whatever she'll bless us with. a fugees "reunion" would be dope...but lauryn solo would be just fine, too.
posted by lisa | May 12, 2003 5:55 PM #
1. i long for lauryn everytime i turn on the radio.
2... JUST BLAZE!
3. no clue, but it works.
4. she does need to step up her game.
5. 50 is hot, but why?maybe i should i buy the cd. and i know that by the way sales are going i am probably the only one who doesn't have it.
posted by kevinrscott | May 12, 2003 10:20 PM #
1. I'm not a Lauryn hater. I just wasn't ready for where she was at that point in her life. I've progressed to a new point in my life. Perhaps another listen is in order. We'll see.
2. the move was called <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084688">sister, sister</a>.
3. Don't you just love to shake it to songs like this?
4. what i said before
5. He's a mutha f--ckin' P.I.M.P
posted by monique | May 13, 2003 7:19 AM #
on #3 folks i was thinking about the new ol' dirty b's first roc-a-fella joint when i wrote this. and then that song, with the puerto rican chick whose name i can't remember...i just know she keeps singing "uh oh" over and over again.
posted by lynne | May 13, 2003 7:49 PM #
#1 I'm probably in the minority here, but I loved Lauryn's MTV Unplugged stint. I really appreciated her honesty. That's something that's lacking in alot of music these days. I do long for something new by her though. I listen to my Mis-Education of Lauryn Hill religiously. I'm not really feeling K-OS, i just get a weird feeling when I see his video.
#2- I'm not really feeling Just Blaze. Kanye West got my attention when I heard "Guerilla Monsoon Rap" on Talib Kweli's latest album. I saw West on Def Poetry Jam friday night. I couldn't really get into what he was saying.
#3- wha gwan? Diwali Riddim is only cool in Wayne Wonder's joint. I heard Sean Paul live...I'll never listen to him again.
#4- Mo'nique needs to lighten up on the skinny girls. It's almost as if she's insecure...but hey...that's comedy right? Big girls need love too. lol
#5- I won't go on to cause an uproar with my 50 Cent rant. Just know that I'm not too fond of the brotha. And the fact that he cant be knocked off the charts proves that this world is going to hell on a space ship.
posted by Timi | May 13, 2003 9:49 PM #
I just want to say I LOVE KANYE WEST and 50 CENT
posted by Mae | July 1, 2003 8:34 AM #
Lauryn's unplugged was ok - but how can you preach to someone when you have 3 babies by already married bootleg Marley?
By the way - I Want KANYE WEST and I'm not a groupie chick but I am serously feelin him.
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posted by nikki | October 28, 2003 12:26 PM #
i like it so much you no
posted by matt | December 19, 2003 3:32 PM #