hiphop lola i got a letter from the government the other day, opened it, read it, said they were suckers. they wanted me for their army or whatever, picture me giving a damn, i said never. i say conscious, you say ness conscious ness conscious ness i say fresh, you say rock fresh rock fresh rock i say hip, you say hop hip hop hip hop i say don't, you say stop don't stop don't stop switch on, switch off self preservation, a flashback from way back do you know what it's like to struggle? have you ever had to struggle? self preservation keeps the crowd alive, we found a new place to live. (youknowwhati'msayin'?) 000527 ... jestification yeah, i remember you. you told me to pick my head up. you taught me to make my own place instead of searching for one that already exists. you let me dance. you held my hand once, and i told all my friends. they watched me blush......they watched me grow. you always understand when i wanna hang out with my other friends, and sometimes you come along for art's sake. sometimes, you just pick on me in that big brother way and send me on off because you know i'll always be back. 011207 ... MC Squillo on tha Mic 1979 the sugar hill gang and kurtis blow and DJ's spinning the dub tracks in the back (childhood memory, i never learned to breakdance but i always though it looked cool) these are the breaks! let the beats pile up over the years till they pile up high rock rock to the planet rock don't stop. then i heard the kings of rock and the man who couldn't live without the radio and suddenly it was time to get ill and go back to cali [it was strictly business, never personal] time passed, a lot of people came and went, a lot of one_hitter_quitters the tide was well above three feet high and rising something was coming straight outta compton, it was nothin' but a G thang, baby, but i was born ready to die, so one day i woke up at six in the morning and screamed "fuck_the_world" unfortunately, murder was the case that they gave me and it was looking like it might become and extinction level event without the help of some ol' dirty bastard, he was as cool as an ice_cube some people said it wouldn't last, but by the time i get to arizona, it will take a nation of millions... 011207 ... jestification yeah well, i see mos def and bahamadia and dead prez and krs-one and common sense and the roots and and deltron and talib kweli and even sarah jones and black eyed peas and........*sigh* 011207 ... Tank www.okayplayer.com 011208 ... ClairE I never thought in '95 that I'd love you. I'm still learning. My friend Mel likes to quote Talib Kwali (sp?): hiphop, you love of my life 011208 ... Tank it's kweli. "these cats drink champagne to toast to death and pain, like slaves on a ship talkin bout who got the flyest chain." that's my favourite lyric of his. see reflection_eternal 011210 ... codosYculos She was more than a sapling, less than a tree, primed for her very first tapping from me. 020307 ... Annie111 From "OK, Let's talk about this ice that I'm carryin'/All these karats like I'm a fuckin' vegetarian" to "Don't everybody like the smell of gasoline?/Well burn motherfucka burn American Dream". I honestly think everyone should at least make somewhat of an effort to appreciate hip hop. BECAUSE I WANT TO FUCK IT AND HAVE ITS CHILDREN. 031124 ... Shinnokxz repeat chill hiphop while faded 061207 ... unhinged my current favorite (for years running) atmosphere brother_ali killer_mike - run_the_jewels rhymesayers living_legends 180615 ... silentbob Kendrick! Chance! 180630 ... unhinged i want to go to amazon headquarters and stand on the sidewalk with an old school boom box and blast humble for as loud as i can as long as i can sa-roc proof pretty much anything rhymesayers 180630 ... unhinged prof prof prof fucking autocorrect 180630 what's it to you? who go blather from