Mos Def performing travellin’ man with dj honda
lyrics:
Intro:
yeah yo yo what time the plane leavin?
ahhh alright, i see you at the airport
*samples of “r-r-r-r-rock on”*

Chorus:
Memories don’t live like people do
They always remember you
Whether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don’t live like people do-o
Baby don’t forget me, I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
GOD willin’ I’m comin back to you
My baby boo

I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But GOD willin’ I’m comin back to you
Baby boo
I’m leavin

Verse 1:
Well go ‘head and leave
The call heard ’round the world from the wives of MC’s
These cats is payin’ more that half a pound
A garment bag we snatch it down
Ain’t got the state but we could prob’ly run a blacker town
Scenarios like this is tear jerkers
For the modern MC I ain’t a blue collar worker
‘Cuz this thing called rhymin’ no different from coal minin’
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond
When you start climbin’
And them eyes start shinin’
You be strugglin’ and strivin’
And they think you prime-timin’
Maintain and keep silence make note and observation
This confrontation
This is the daily operation
A concentration
Stay focused on my recitation
‘Bout to reach my destination with no pause or hesitation
Baby make the preperation ‘cuz this ain’t no recreation
This is Pro Ball!
And we lettin you know y’all
At the show y’all
Doin’ this for dough y’all
Get the phone call
And I’m ready to blow y’all
‘Bout to go y’all
Been a pleasure to know y’all
And I’m lettin’ you know that…

Chorus:
Memories don’t live like people do
They always remember you
Wether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don’t live like people do-o
Baby don’t forget me, I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
GOD willin I’m comin back to you
My baby boo

I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But inshallah I’m comin back to you
Baby boo
I’m leavin

Verse 2:
But God willin’ I’ll be back home
To drop these heavy ass bags up off my backbone
Around the world with a catalog of rap songs
My baby girl is walkin, been away for that long
But no you haven’t well at least that’s how it seem to me
My home town is like a whole different scenery
The old timers on the stoop leaning leisurely
The new jacks up in the bar smokin greenery
Easily taken for granted when you up in it but its sweet scented
When you been down for a minute
Move around city limits
Break it down with the vintage
The innovative
Classical B-Boy image
Collect the winners
‘Cuz thats the reason that we came here
This thing is not a game here
The fortune not the fame here
From New York to the Cakalaks
Cali in the Caddilacs
Chicago know we innovate
Infiltrate Virginia State
DC make me stimulate
Philly know we penatrate
Georgia make us generate
Let’s set a date to get the pace
They celebrate to my jams in foreign lands
Even your mans in Japan know who I am
Minasan, make everybody out in Nippon
Say ichiban, make yard man know where ya getti from ??
Phenomenon, ‘scuse me that’s a phone call
Its the show y’all
Tryin’ to get this dough y’all
‘Bout to blow y’all
Been a pleasure to know y’all
And I’m lettin’ you know that…

Chorus:
Memories don’t live like people do
They always remember you
Wether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don’t live like people do-o
Baby don’t forget me, I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But inshallah I’m comin back to you
My baby boo

I’m a travellin’ man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But GOD willin I’m comin back to you
Back to you

I’m leeaaavvvvinnn’!
I’ll be back to you
I’m leeaaavvvvinnn’!
I’ll be back to you

All over the world we go
DC all over the world we go
VA all over the world we go
The Cakalaks all over the world we go
London all over the world we go
Japan we go over the world we go
Paris we go over the world we go

(Beat playing in background and samples of
*samples of “r-r-r-rock on”*)
1-2, 1-2…All aboard!

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house music spawns a surrogate child (techno)

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Music video by Ludacris performing My Chick Bad. (C) 2010 DTP Records, LLC

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From 1990 Album: “Fear Of A Black Planet”. Song first appeared on the 1989 Soundtrack: “Do The Right Thing”…..

Public Enemy Official Site:

http://www.publicenemy.com/

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Public Enemy, also known as PE, is an influential hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for its politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community.

In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Public Enemy number forty-four on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Acclaimed Music ranks them the 29th most recommended musical act of all time and the highest hip-hop group. The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local mc who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene.

This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D’s songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled.

According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, “represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we’re not third-world people, we’re first-world people; we’re the original people [of the earth].”

On the track “Louder Than a Bomb” from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck D reveals that the D in his nickname stands for Dangerous.

Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father’s business, Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record “Check out the Radio,” backed by “Lies,” a social commentary—both of which would influence RUSH Productions’ Run-D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. The group was signed to the still developing Def Jam Recordings record label after co-founder Rick Rubin heard Chuck D freestyling on a demo.

Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Rubin and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song “Public Enemy Number One” he had heard from Andre “Doctor Dré” Brown. According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, “Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric “Vietnam” Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group’s Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born.” Public Enemy opened for The Beastie Boys on some of their East Coast concerts, including Philadelphia, Newark and Brooklyn.

Further info at:

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Music video by Public Enemy performing Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos. (C) 1988 The Island Def Jam Music Group

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Drake Performs “Bedrock” with Nicki Minaj on Jimmy Kimmel Live

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From 1993 Album: “Looks Like A Job For..”…..

Big Daddy Kane’s Myspace:

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Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York)[1] better known by his stage name, Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group, the Juice Crew. He is considered one of the most influential and greatest MCs in Hip Hop.

Regarding the name Big Daddy Kane, he said: “The Big Daddy part and the Kane part came from two different things. The Kane part came from my fascination with the Martial Arts flicks when I was young. The Big Daddy came from something that happened on a ski trip one time involving a young lady.”

In 1984, Kane became friends with Biz Markie, and he would co-write some of Biz’s best-known lyrics.[citation needed] Both eventually became important members of the Queens-based Juice Crew, a collective headed by renowned producer Marley Marl. Kane signed with Marl’s Cold Chillin’ Records label in 1987 and debuted the following year with the 12″ single “Raw,” an underground hit. Kane is known for his ability to syncopate over faster hip hop beats, and despite his asthmatic condition he is acknowledged as one of the pioneering masters of fast-rap. His sense of style is renowned and set a number of late-1980s and early-1990s hip hop trends (high-top fades, velour suits, and four-finger rings). The backronym “King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal” is often applied to his moniker. His name “Kane” came from Caine from the popular TV show Kung Fu. The “Big Daddy” came from Vincent Price’s character in an old Frankie Avalon movie, Beach Party.

He released his debut album under Cold Chillin’ Records in the early summer of 1988 called Long Live the Kane which featured the hip hop hit “Ain’t No Half Steppin”. The following year, he released his second album and biggest hit to date It’s a Big Daddy Thing which included 1970s sample throwbacks like “Smooth Operator” and the Teddy Riley produced track “I Get the Job Done” which hit the R&B top 40 during the closing of the 1980s. He also had a memorable verse on the Marley Marl produced track “The Symphony” released in late 1988 which included Juice Crew member Craig G, Masta Ace, and Kool G. Rap (later remixed to include Big Pun, DMX and KRS-One).

Big Daddy Kane appeared on Patti Labelle’s 1991 effort, “Burnin’”. He provided the rap chorus to the single “Feels Like Another One”. He also appeared on the video release “Live in New York”.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers during the “golden age” of hip hop (19861993), Kane’s experimentation with R&B beats and his alignment to the Five Percent faction drew criticism. Later albums, such as Looks Like a Job For, were acclaimed, but he was never able to return to the commercial and artistic success of It’s a Big Daddy Thing. However, he still tours extensively.

As an actor, he debuted in Mario Van Peebles’ 1993 western, Posse, and appeared in Robert Townsend’s 1993 Meteor Man. Big Daddy Kane also posed for Playgirl and Madonna’s Sex book during the 1990s.

During the early 1990s, Jay-Z is known to have been Big Daddy Kanes hypeman, and Kane helped him early on in his career – Ice-T says, I actually met Jay-Z with Kane. Kane brought Jay-Z over to my house. Kane himself says that Jay-Z wasnt technically his hypeman in the true sense of the term he wasnt a hypeman, he basically made cameo appearances on stage. When I would leave the stage to go change outfits, I would bring out Jay-Z and Positive K and let them freestyle until I came back to the stage. Jay-Z was also featured on Big Daddy Kanes track Show & Prove from Daddys Home (1994), as well as in the video.

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_daddy_kane

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From 1993 Album: “Here Come The Lords”…..

Lords Of The Underground Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/lordsoftheunderground1

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The Lords of the Underground (L.O.T.U.G.) are a hip-hop trio based in Newark, New Jersey. MCs Mr. Funke and DoItAll Dupré met DJ Lord Jazz (a native of Cleveland) when all three were undergraduates at Shaw University.

The three are perhaps best remembered for the singles “Funky Child”, “Chief Rocka” and “Tic Toc”; all of which were wildly eccentric manifestos. The music video for “Funky Child” features one of the group members parading around in a diaper.

Their chief producer was Marley Marl’s protégé, K-Def. Pete Rock remixed their songs “Flow On” and “Check It” in 1994 .

In their initial releases, their first two albums Here Come The Lords (1993) and Keepers of the Funk (1994), earned them an award from Black Entertainment Television in 1993 . They collaborated with George Clinton; their second album’s title track, which samples his work, features him in a cameo. The track is generally more abrasive and less conventionally tuneful in its instrumentation than most of their work.

Gangster posturing was rhetorically referenced, but never outright indulged in, by the group, except on their 1995 single “Burn Rubber”, which took a cavalier pro-carjacking attitude and featured a line where Mr. Funke unapologetically said he’d “even jeopardize [his] friends” for the sake of a jacking. However, the song was recorded for and prominently featured in the Newark car-jacking film “New Jersey Drive,” and can be seen as a reflection of that film’s mentality, as well as the popularity of joyriding carjacks in that city in the 1990s, rather than an endorsement of violent crime. Because their dalliance in gangsterism was half-hearted, they were one of a number of groups lost in the shuffle when gangsta rap became dominant.

Their reunion album Resurrection (1999), released via Queen Latifah’s Jersey Kidz imprint, was so small-scale a release that few realized it had been recorded. Da Brat made an appearance on it.

The Lords are best remembered in connection with the golden age of hip hop. As such, when Nas decided in 2007 to do a remix of his song “Where Are They Now?”, which asked of the fates of several long-forgotten golden age rappers, the Lords were among those requested to appear. DoItAll Dupré performs eight bars on the track. The others featured include Positive K, Father MC, Rob Base, Redhead Kingpin, Monie Love, and members of Black Sheep, Salt-N-Pepa, Three Times Dope, the Jungle Brothers, the Fu-Schnickens and Das EFX.

DoItAll appeared briefly in the final scene of the final episode of The Sopranos credited as Du Kelly, as one of a series of potentially ominous figures entering the diner. He also appeared on other TV shows Law & Order as Two Tone, on OZ the HBO series, & On the Christmas episode of 30 Rock on NBC (2008). He has also been in Independent movies such as SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY with Bai Ling, American Rap Stars, Rhyme & Reason, Durdy Game(Xenom), Cash Rules (Koch) With Treach of Naughty By Nature, & he has also starred in an off broadway play entitled Diss, Diss, & Diss, Dat.

Lords of the Underground also made a featured appearance on Pete Rock’s 2008 album “NY’s Finest” on the track “The Best Secret”.

DJ Lord Jazz currently resides in Paris, France.

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_Of_The_Underground

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Music video by Method Man, Redman performing Mrs. International. (C) 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group

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Music video by Cameo performing Attack Me With Your Love. (C) 1985 The Island Def Jam Music Group

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