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April 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
These should be interesting…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
The-XFacta Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Mark Twain Fame Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Foekist Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
*farts*
man i got enough gas to fill a phuckin H2 tank up (c) sheek
^^^
better stop messin with those lunch truck burritos.
^^
(c) Roach Coach
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Graduation, classic or no?
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
stop
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
are the videos supposed to have nothing to do with the songs?
April 4th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Spitzer 4 President Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Graduation, classic or no?
—
Negative
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
… isnt “Graduation” quite old and stale? … why the influx of video projects pertaining to said lp ? …
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I’m po pimpin’ …
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Spitzer 4 President Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Graduation, classic or no?
^^^
Close, but no cigar. If you had asked me three months ago, I woulda said yea, but Late Registration still stands as his masterpiece IMO.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Spitzer 4 President Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Graduation, classic or no?
^no
April 4th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
nh ahead of tiem but, BT look like he workin out with a trainer or sumthin…use to be a lil skinny mutha…well ?uest did say to P Roseberg that he has soem ex military dude going with them on tour, so they all prob gettin on them regimenes.
################################
Foekist Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
why people never come around till you fart? phuck it, they should’nt’ve came by my desk, it’s they fault.
^^^
ha lol…good logic…yeah you tell em…
you comin by my desk better bring a mask cause I’m tearing a hole in the ozone right now so it’s on you if you wanna walk past…I warned ya’ll muhfuckas!
###########################################
once again…about prancer…and her juicy…
damn she had them light gray tight sweat pants on…them joints with the sexy, or princess typed words on the ass, or numbers, etc…well anyways they showed one scene when they was yappin bout something (again, bewitched with the booty so no I dont know whut they was sayin) in they bedrooms and it showed a backshot of Prancer standign there tlakin or something and them lil slick ass sweatpants were just slightly in her asscrack, like slight wedgie style, shit was beautiful…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
well msot these videos are jsut the kanye track playing over a old movie or cartoon, etc…
the first three were–
I wonder = Tron
Good Mornin’ = 2001: a Space Odessey
Stronger = Akira
4th one I havent seen yet…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Damn Es or Nation…how about Drunk and Hot Girls is NSFW????m Thanks!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
>>… isnt “Graduation†quite old and stale? … why the influx of video projects pertaining to said lp ?
these are from the listening session he held before the release, try to pay attention Land.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Most overrated LP’s:
1) Kingdom Come
2) Graduation
3) All Eyes On Me
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
green eyes Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
# ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
green eyes Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
fuck. today is slow as hell.
^^^
yea, its a Fuck slow day also… so whats up, im on Ocean Drive, wanna “do†lunch?
^*tells staff to leave early*
*locks up*
heads to ocean drive*
^^^
*makes sure iCon not around*
(rides BMX to greenys)
*turns on LL Cool J “Loungin Remix” on handelbars bombox*
(88 sings)
Jew-als and Cristal gotta mack a phony style
He ain’t watchin you he rather watch his money pile
Can’t protect treasures when its in a glass house
Soon as he turn the corner I’ma turn that ass out
Full blown, frontin in the 6 wit the chrome
Yo B, why you leave your honey all alone wit me
Just because you blessed wit cash
doesn’t mean your honey won’t let me finesse that ass
So see the moral of the story is a woman need love
The kind you so-called players never dreamed of
You gotta try love, can’t buy love
If you play your hand then it’s bye-bye love.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
… isnt “Graduation†quite old and stale? … why the influx of video projects pertaining to said lp ? …
^^^these are all videos Kanye used to accompany the songs off the album at his listening party way back. he’s putting them out now.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
The-XFacta Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Most overrated LP’s:
1) Kingdom Come
2) Graduation
3) All Eyes On Me
^^^^^^
I though niggas hated kingdom come, that was underated
April 4th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Thought*
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Damn Es or Nation…how about Drunk and Hot Girls is NSFW????m Thanks!
^^^
ha…got some stuff flopping aorund huh?!…
whut is it babyd…cant see it for soem reason.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yo Esk what you thought was better Kingdom Come or AG??
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
D_block_4_life Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yo Esk what you thought was better Kingdom Come or AG??
^^
Both are good to break your weed up on
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
^^^
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
# BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
^^
*Looks at LL crazy before he puts the chocolate syrup on my legs*
LOL
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Mark Twain Fame Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Damn Es or Nation…how about Drunk and Hot Girls is NSFW????m Thanks!
^^^
ha…got some stuff flopping aorund huh?!…
whut is it babyd…cant see it for soem reason.
^It’s an anime’ cartoon and the chick is naked…touching her breasts…it’s not a sex scene or anything or at least I don’t think it is because I clicked out of it, but damn a warning woulda been nice!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
*daps X-Facta*
jk
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
^It’s an anime’ cartoon and the chick is naked…touching her breasts…it’s not a sex scene or anything or at least I don’t think it is because I clicked out of it, but damn a warning woulda been nice!
^^^
ha lmao…kanye loves that anime stuff…he prob watch that anime porn too…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
CiCi The Intern Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
# BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
^^
*Looks at LL crazy before he puts the chocolate syrup on my legs*
LOL
^LOL
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Jay is the “Mike Jordan’ of this rap shit. So Kingdom Come and American Gangster represent his years as a Wizard
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The-XFacta Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Most overrated LP’s:
1) Kingdom Come
2) Graduation
3) All Eyes On Me
^^^
All Eyez on Me is arguably the most overrated album in the history of mankind. I mean, its pretty good, and really influential but niggas be acting like its the Holy Grail or some shit.
Dont really understand KC being on there, everybody hated that shit.
And Graduation got the props it deserved. No classic ratings from major mags, but everyone agreed it was real, real dope.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
^^
Both are good to break your weed up on
^^^^
Fair enough if thats how you feel bou it
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
lol @ big homie moping thru his work day
lol @ the fart discussion and @ dudes posting their bodily function on NR
*eats lunch*
*digests*
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
LMFAO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-g4-w-Hyww
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
CiCi The Intern Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
# BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
^^
*Looks at LL crazy before he puts the chocolate syrup on my legs*
LOL
^LOL
^oh yeah…no ‘bo
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzTQt7-qT8
^^^
Mannnnnnnnnn, all Chips on the Table, Hov is that Nigga, But Uncle L… that nigga in the top 3 of G.O.A.T.s… i cant even say theres a No.#1.
LL is that Nigga.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
>>these are from the listening session he held before the release, try to pay attention Land.
^LOL @ Esk treating Land like the dude in the back of class who’s always sleeping.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Who do you Lovvvvvvvvvve…are you for surrrrrrrrre
^^^
LL riding 10 speed = classic.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
eskay Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
>>… isnt “Graduation†quite old and stale? … why the influx of video projects pertaining to said lp ?
these are from the listening session he held before the release, try to pay attention Land.
——————–
… i did … the lp just wasnt that interesting in the 1st place …
April 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I like the Druken & Hot Girls video more
April 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I would love for Total to make a come back.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzTQt7-qT8
^^^
Mannnnnnnnnn, all Chips on the Table, Hov is that Nigga, But Uncle L… that nigga in the top 3 of G.O.A.T.s… i cant even say theres a No.#1.
LL is that Nigga.
^^^
bitch, them total broad & the redbone in this video Got my party Meatz Excited… that broad is Bad!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The-XFacta Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Jay is the “Mike Jordan’ of this rap shit. So Kingdom Come and American Gangster represent his years as a Wizard
—————
… more like Emmitt Smith as an Arizona Cardinal …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 blaze the hot trizz-ack, shine like heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MupTZv61VsY&feature=related
April 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzTQt7-qT8
^^^
Mannnnnnnnnn, all Chips on the Table, Hov is that Nigga, But Uncle L… that nigga in the top 3 of G.O.A.T.s… i cant even say theres a No.#1.
LL is that Nigga.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cosign.
When I said this before, breddahs acted like I was on a spaceship…SMH…
LL’s underrated.
*spuds 88*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
lol @ party meatz. only crazy.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
… more like Emmitt Smith as an Arizona Cardinal …
^Ouch. Lol at Land
April 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I would love for Total to make a come back.
^^
i would love to come on a total bitch’s back.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Can we stop comparing Jay-Z to Michael Jordan of Rap. Jay-Z is the Brett Favre of Rap.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Is it true Brett Farve is thinking about coming back next year but with another team?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
# landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The-XFacta Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Jay is the “Mike Jordan’ of this rap shit. So Kingdom Come and American Gangster represent his years as a Wizard
—————
… more like Emmitt Smith as an Arizona Cardinal …
^^^
LMAO, thats a low blow, emmit smith was garbage when he was with the cowboys…. Nigga had like 4 ft holes and shit, I would have averaged a thousand yards with that o-line.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Nevermind. I saw the report yesterday on ESPN but realized he denied the rumor. lol
April 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Jay-Z is the Brett Favre of Rap.
^^
old, passed his prime and with nobody looking forward to a comeback?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
all eyez on me has some shittastic beats…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
LL defintely deserves to be somewhere near the top. nhoc. I wouldn’t say he’s underrated.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Can we stop comparing Jay-Z to Michael Jordan of Rap. Jay-Z is the Brett Favre of Rap.
^^^
Hmmm…intriguing…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The reason dudes don’t like LL is because he caters to the female demographic.
Have LL rap about guns, shootouts, drug wars, misogyny, rims, chains….
Everyone would be calling LL the Greatest Rapper Alive.
Look at LL’s catalogue…He is the greatest.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Can we stop comparing Jay-Z to Michael Jordan of Rap. Jay-Z is the Brett Favre of Rap.
^^^
GET’em HOOTS!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I don’t believe this sean coonery is the original fellow. This new reincarnation is too nice.
just my thoughts.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
“Creep louch…what’s floppin homie???” — J-Hood
Sliverback gorilla 17k 1st week…that’s what’s floppin
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Brett Favre should play quarterback for the Dolphins.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
LL’s top 10 no argument. Top five 8 days out of 10. Hell, top 3 more than likely. But I’d probably have to keep BIG and Jay in the 1 and 2 spots.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
sean coonery doesn’t have the swagger that hoodtalk had.
sean coonery is the wizards era michael jordan of nahright.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
b-ease Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
LL’s top 10 no argument. Top five 8 days out of 10. Hell, top 3 more than likely. But I’d probably have to keep BIG and Jay in the 1 and 2 spots.
^^^
LL is That Nigga. Top 3 Dead or Alive.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
*sings*
here we go again
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
sean coons fell off… or maybe he got neutered
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Two-Times Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
“Creep louch…what’s floppin homie???†— J-Hood
Sliverback gorilla 17k 1st week…that’s what’s floppin
^^^^
Lol, thats was rough the nigga sheek….i might consider qutting after some shit like that…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
G7 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
LL defintely deserves to be somewhere near the top. nhoc. I wouldn’t say he’s underrated.
^^^^^
So why dont he get mentioned next to Kane & Rakim???
Or even Jay & Nas?
Its a joke when you REALLY think about it…
IMO G Rap & LL are both super slept on
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Skip Bayless > Catch22
April 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Mark Twain Fame Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
all eyez on me has some shittastic beats…
^^^
Indeed…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
*sings*
here we go again
^
*floor*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
*sings*
here we go again
^^^
hah! this bitch boy is cryin….lmao
April 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The reason dudes don’t like LL is because he caters to the female demographic.
Have LL rap about guns, shootouts, drug wars, misogyny, rims, chains….
Everyone would be calling LL the Greatest Rapper Alive.
Look at LL’s catalogue…He is the greatest.
====
good points
n/h
April 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
and yaboy is joining Catch22 in the corner crying… the 2 e-thugs by themsleves……where’s m-roc at to join yall
lmao
April 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Whats messed up is that the sheek album was actually iight…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
anybody got any eyecandy? where the bitches at? …wheres the ass pic of the Deer lookin broad… from, PRANCER… yes, her.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
and yaboy is joining Catch22 in the corner crying… the 2 e-thugs by themsleves……where’s m-roc at to join yall
lmao
^
you stay losing. go pick up 50s luggage or something…
tinypic.com/6i8nih.jpg
April 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
IMO G Rap & LL are both super slept on
^ co-sign on g rap.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sheeks album is in rotation. I like about 80% of that album
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
IMO G Rap & LL are both super slept on
^^^
Fo show… it was nice to see Kool G Rap on that Q.U.E.E.N.S track with 50, Yayo and Prodigy… and that song is a classic too…classic beat…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
You can never lose swagger. Swagger is inherited. Swagger should only be exhibited offline though.
Swagger on the internet is a fantasy, might as well go watch porn.
It’s just so easy to lie on the internet. Everyone on the internet has a hot girlfriend like Lindsay Lohan, Played Varsity Football in High School and was on the College Basketball Team…
Be weary of those that focus on their e-life more than their actual one.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
… LLCoolJ > Tupac …
… inarguable truth …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The reason dudes don’t like LL is because he caters to the female demographic.
Have LL rap about guns, shootouts, drug wars, misogyny, rims, chains….
Everyone would be calling LL the Greatest Rapper Alive.
Look at LL’s catalogue…He is the greatest.
^^^
yeah I give you that.
#########################################
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
sean coonery doesn’t have the swagger that hoodtalk had.
sean coonery is the wizards era michael jordan of nahright
^^^
*waits for hoodtalk-esque ethering*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
… Prancer’s crooked mouth > Eve’s crooked mouth …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
the 2 e-thugs
^^
damn right. god son across the e-belly
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
RIGZ…
you need to the instrumental to this just holla at me… i just got this yesterday….
http://www.tinyurl.com/55k93m
pow…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Mark Twain Fame Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The reason dudes don’t like LL is because he caters to the female demographic.
Have LL rap about guns, shootouts, drug wars, misogyny, rims, chains….
Everyone would be calling LL the Greatest Rapper Alive.
Look at LL’s catalogue…He is the greatest.
^^^
yeah I give you that.
#########################################
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
sean coonery doesn’t have the swagger that hoodtalk had.
sean coonery is the wizards era michael jordan of nahright
^^^
*waits for hoodtalk-esque ethering*
^^^
*88 grabs popcorn, waits also*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
*waits for hoodtalk-esque ethering*
^^
thats what i was waiting for. i miss (-) the old hoots. i was trying to bait him out of e-tirement.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
wehn seeing some of those random Roots jam session/listen session videos…
I love the decent amount of asian and white girls attendees…or in that case just sexy and fine females of all races that attend.
I mena my girl likes the roots somewhat…but I mena these chicks seem die hard style fans…
damn I need to go to one of them parties…
eskay hook me up bro…tell ‘em I’ll bring the kegs!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
i told you Yaboy would start cryin… lmao!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Two-Times Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
RIGZ…
you need to the instrumental to this just holla at me… i just got this yesterday….
http://www.tinyurl.com/55k93m
pow…
^^^^^^^^
How the FUCK did you get that shit so quick???
On some real shit, WHO ARE YOU 2?
Your either someone in the industry, or your a crazed G-Unit stalker…You know too much to just be an average “fan”…lol
But I’ll holla. I do need that beat…That tracks ill…G-Unit make some of the illest music in HipHop when they havent got one eye on soundscan
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
RIGZ Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
G7 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
LL defintely deserves to be somewhere near the top. nhoc. I wouldn’t say he’s underrated.
^^^^^
So why dont he get mentioned next to Kane & Rakim???
Or even Jay & Nas?
Its a joke when you REALLY think about it…
IMO G Rap & LL are both super slept on
^I think he should. His run is unparalled. He’s been around since 84. I was still shittin’ my pants back then. Anybody who knows hip hop should have LL somewhere near the top. G Rap too, but he’s a bit different. He’s had no commercial success at all in his career as where LL has had plenty. There’s probably some people on here that have never heard a G Rap album before.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
… LLCoolJ > Tupac …
… inarguable truth …
^You just don’t like Tupac at all….You’d probably say Lil Wayne over Tupac…
Tupac is without a doubt Top 5 Dead or Alive.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
… LLCoolJ > Tupac …
… inarguable truth …
^^^
co-sign 100.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
“Im in a Crip town, gettin Blood money”
April 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
*waits for hoodtalk-esque ethering*
^^
thats what i was waiting for. i miss (-) the old hoots. i was trying to bait him out of e-tirement.
^^^
(Hoots Voice)
…Listen, im sorry two’times was too much man for you, Cock in your ass is bad for your health, and yes, its a catch 22. But tryin To bait me? come on, you niggas need a Hobby… and that dont mean Jackin off to internet Cockfights & ether battles. Go find some Pussy & Stand Up Straight. Stop Lookin for Male Attention, there are Enuff women Here To Pass Around.
…1… (c: LandLORD)
Oh, and Eskay… Fuck you, Dunny.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
2x is secretly Sha Money XL….foreal tho
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Two Times is on the G-Unit payroll…The G-Unit apparell is included.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
… The Roots seem pretentious and somewhat overrated … ?usetlove is a solid drummer … thats about it … Black Thought’s freestyles are better than his studio lp songs .. i aint feelin them ….
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
start crying? smh…
someone come claim this kid.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
(no shots)
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
that was perfect 88
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
true hooty…
but to get things straight with myself…I stay pretty true to life…jsut casue I dont see why mofos need to make shit up…
I played football…but only like 2 years, my grades werent the best.
and my girl is def not like linsay lohan…she has alot more meat and thickness on her. I like to grab hold of something with my women.
lindsay lohan is not hot to me…who thinks shes hot?…I dotn get it…
she had a slight cuteness when she first came out with them movies like mean girls n shit…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
LL is not the greatest. He’s great. but not the greatest.
They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
http://www.tinyurl.com/65uxz5
^ There you go Crazy
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sheeks album is in rotation. I like about 80% of that album
====
there’s a few fillers on it, but it is solid. his album making ability is slept on. Like Ty said he makes that Lox type music.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Champion Hoody circa ’95 > G-Unit Hoody
Russell Athletic Hoody > G-Unit Hoody
Nike Hoody circa ’94 > G-Unit Hoody
G-Unit Hoody > Vokal Hoody
April 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Plug Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
LL is not the greatest. He’s great. but not the greatest.
They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^^^^^^
Whats that got to do with the price of fish?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
lindsay lohan is not hot to me…who thinks shes hot?…
^^
wale
April 4th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Plug Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
LL is not the greatest. He’s great. but not the greatest.
They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^LOL…but why is that? LL been around so long and has done a lot for the rap game…what is stopping him from getting the recognition he deserves? Is it really because 99% of his fans wear high heels?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
… LLCoolJ > Tupac …
… inarguable truth …
^You just don’t like Tupac at all….You’d probably say Lil Wayne over Tupac…
Tupac is without a doubt Top 5 Dead or Alive.
—————–
… false, not true … Tupac is one of my favorite ACTORS of all time … and his first lp was a classic … in my opinion, his tough-guy posturing and ThugLife motif ruined a potentially great future … he was an average to good MC, technically speaking … his larger than life persona and screen presence, masked his lyrical shortcomings …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
Crazy: http://www.tinyurl.com/6s7p8m a lady at my job lol
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Plug Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
LL is not the greatest. He’s great. but not the greatest.
They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^Yeah I heard about that. I think it’s San Diego State, has a Tupac literature class where they treat Pac’s music like poetry and analyze it.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
>>They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^I guarantee if Pac was alive they wouldn’t have classes for him at universities. Being dead is the biggest career boost for any musician.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
where they treat Pac’s music like poetry and analyze it.
^^
pac wrote alot of poetry.
ll wrote pink cookies in a plastic bag
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Plug Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
LL is not the greatest. He’s great. but not the greatest.
They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^LOL…but why is that? LL been around so long and has done a lot for the rap game…what is stopping him from getting the recognition he deserves? Is it really because 99% of his fans wear high heels?
^^^^^^
Basically, yeah.
And thats some battyman shit. Straight.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
… The Roots seem pretentious and somewhat overrated … ?usetlove is a solid drummer … thats about it … Black Thought’s freestyles are better than his studio lp songs .. i aint feelin them ….
^^^
you crazy Land…but it is your opinion…if I do at all slightly go stanley on anybody its the roots…
they as a whole, a band, are dope.
Quest is a musical cat man…he does alot of stuff…doin scores, doin production and directing live shows…dude does some serious stuff, he suppose to be working on AL Green’s new album.
but I feel ya some people dont dig them…I dotn think they overatted though…if they was overatted they would def have alot more coverage, and mainstream shine.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
G7 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
>>They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^I guarantee if Pac was alive they wouldn’t have classes for him at universities. Being dead is the biggest career boost for any musician.
^^^^
“Dead Rappers get better promotion” (c) Jadakiss
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
G7 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
>>They have Tupac classes at Universities. they dont have LL Fool J classes
^I guarantee if Pac was alive they wouldn’t have classes for him at universities. Being dead is the biggest career boost for any musician.
^oh yeah, I forgot about that. Excellent point…disregard my earlier question. LOL!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
… LLCoolJ > Tupac …
… inarguable truth …
^You just don’t like Tupac at all….You’d probably say Lil Wayne over Tupac…
Tupac is without a doubt Top 5 Dead or Alive.
—————–
… false, not true … Tupac is one of my favorite ACTORS of all time … and his first lp was a classic … in my opinion, his tough-guy posturing and ThugLife motif ruined a potentially great future … he was an average to good MC, technically speaking … his larger than life persona and screen presence, masked his lyrical shortcomings
^I have to co-sign that. That is all true.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
Crazy: http://www.tinyurl.com/6s7p8m a lady at my job lol
^^^
Nigga YOU fuckin WISH!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
^oh for sure. no doubt. I just try to spread the gospel that Sheek makes better albums than Jada.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
… probably the only reason there are classes about Tupac, is that someone came to the conclusion that ALOT of these misguided youth wont pay attention to anything NOT related to Tupac …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
^oh for sure. no doubt. I just try to spread the gospel that Sheek makes better albums than Jada.
^^^
Kiss makes poors album based on his expectations but his LP’s are still better there Sheek’s IMO
April 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
spread the gospel that Sheek makes better albums than Jada.
^^
preaching to the choir
*rimshot*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
The first thing that comes to my mind about Tupac is his role in Juice
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
speaking of LL, what happend to (not the rappa)?
*pastes picture on milkcarton)
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
a hundred dollar bill, look achoooo, achoooo
a hundred dollar bill look achoooo, achooo
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
Crazy: http://www.tinyurl.com/6s7p8m a lady at my job lol
^^
Ummm, no shots… But is that Babydoll? …DAMN they Look Just alike! WHO THE FUCK IS THAT!… thats not that prancer chick!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
This is STILL one of the best Hip-Hop tracks ever…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1wNnjpCII
One of the best cameo-vids too…
“Give ‘em the fiiinggaaaa…”
April 4th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
brb…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
The first thing that comes to my mind about Tupac is his role in Juice
^^^
The first thing that comes to my mind about Tupac is the gumby he had in that one old interview clip. Or the video he made with Jada at Wild World looking like his wrist was broken in 14 places.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
Crazy: http://www.tinyurl.com/6s7p8m a lady at my job lol
^^
Ummm, no shots… But is that Babydoll? …DAMN they Look Just alike! WHO THE FUCK IS THAT!… thats not that prancer chick!
^Nigga shut the fuck up and clean your glasses. Take a look again…she look like one of your BM’s that you ain’t claiming.
*smacks 88 upside the head*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
^LOL…but why is that? LL been around so long and has done a lot for the rap game…what is stopping him from getting the recognition he deserves? Is it really because 99% of his fans wear high heels?
————-
LL fool J = Patrick Ewing. He had a wonderful career, lots of awards and records… but no
ringsclassic albums… maybe 1 out of 20Pac = Jordan. He did and lived everything he said and rapped about. even his death
name one LL album that might be classic?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Big Homie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
G7: True but I still like Styles P’s albums better
Crazy: http://www.tinyurl.com/6s7p8m a lady at my job lol
^^
Ummm, no shots… But is that Babydoll? …DAMN they Look Just alike! WHO THE FUCK IS THAT!… thats not that prancer chick!
^Nigga shut the fuck up and clean your glasses. Take a look again…she look like one of your BM’s that you ain’t claiming.
*smacks 88 upside the head*
^^^
(looks again…)
…You see the Cuff in her ass!?!?!? …im Claimin that 1.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
G7 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
speaking of LL, what happend to (not the rappa)?
*pastes picture on milkcarton)
^she recently re-joined ning lately…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
sippin’ hennessee wit’ my enemiiiiieeeeeeeeees
April 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
name one LL album that might be classic?
Bad, Bigger and Deffer, Mama Said…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
remember pac in that chevy chase movie, “nothing but trouble”? cooning around in the background while digital underground played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQX-v-KuC4
April 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
a hundred dollar bill, look achoooo, achoooo
a hundred dollar bill look achoooo, achooo
——————
… hook of the year …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
a414.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_952dbfaf8d15a2a53bf91d34bd681eb5.jpg
^Who is that?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Kill That Faggot
April 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Lawd have mercy that chick is fine!!!!!!! MMMMM!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
everybody nose is a tight song.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
b-ease Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
name one LL album that might be classic?
———–
… Mama Said Knock You Out … Walking With A Panther … 14 Shots to The Dome …
… you cant be serious …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
daaaaaamn
nigga said
“men lie, women lie, numbers dont!”
http://realtalkny.rawkus.com/2008/04/topic/topic/news/top-40-hip-hop-blogs-i-think-not/
April 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
catch22 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
everybody nose is a tight song.
^co-sign and speaking of Lindsay Lo…she is rumored to be in the video. Oh, the irony if that’s true…LOL!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
*daps Darius*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01541/18/05/1541265081_l.jpg
^^^
@ BABYDOLL & HOMIE… THIS THE SHIT IM TALKIN BOUT!!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
A&P
by john updike
In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I’m in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don’t see them until they’re over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She’s one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I knowit made her day to trip me up. She’d been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before.
By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag — she gives me alittle snort in passing, if she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem — by the time I get her on her way the girls had circled around the bread and were coming back, without a pushcart, back my way along the counters, in the aisle between the check-outs and the Special bins. They didn’t even have shoes on. There was this chunky one, with the two-piece — it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit) — there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn’t quite frizzed right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was too long — you know, the kind of girl other girls think is very “striking” and “attractive” but never quite makes it, as they very well know, which is why they like her so much — and then the third one, that wasn’t quite so tall. She was the queen. She kind of led them, the other two peeking around and making their shoulders round. She didn’t look around, not this queen, she just walked straight on slowly, on these long white prima donna legs. She came down a little hard on her heels, as if she didn’t walk in her bare feet that much, putting down her heels and then letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra action into it. You never know for sure how girls’ minds work (do you really think it’s a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glassjar?) but you got the idea she had talked the other two into coming in here with her, and now she was showing them how to do it, walk slow and hold yourself straight.
She had on a kind of dirty-pink – - beige maybe, I don’t know — bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down. They were off her shoulders looped loose around the cool tops of her arms, and I guess as a result the suit had slipped a little on her, so all around the top of the cloth there was this shining rim. If it hadn’t been there you wouldn’t have known there could have been anything whiter than those shoulders. With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty.
She had sort of oaky hair that the sun and salt had bleached, done up in a bun that was unravelling, and a kind of prim face. Walking into the A & P with your straps down, I suppose it’s the only kind of face you can have. She held her head so high her neck, coming up out o fthose white shoulders, looked kind of stretched, but I didn’t mind. The longer her neck was, the more of her there was.
She must have felt in the corner of her eye me and over my shoulder Stokesie in the second slot watching, but she didn’t tip. Not this queen. She kept her eyes moving across the racks, and stopped, and turned so slow it made my stomach rub the inside of my apron, and buzzed to the other two, who kind of huddled against her for relief, and they all three of them went up the cat-and-dog-food-breakfast-cereal-macaroni-ri ce-raisins-seasonings-spreads-spaghetti-soft drinks- rackers-and- cookies aisle. From the third slot I look straight up this aisle to the meat counter, and I watched them all the way. The fat one with the tan sort of fumbled with the cookies, but on second thought she put the packages back. The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle — the girls were walking against the usual traffic (not that we have one-way signs or anything) — were pretty hilarious. You could see them, when Queenie’s white shoulders dawned on them, kind of jerk, or hop, or hiccup, but their eyes snapped back to their own baskets and on they pushed. I bet you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by and large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering “Let me see, there was a third thing, began with A, asparagus, no, ah, yes, applesauce!” or whatever it is they do mutter. But there was no doubt, this jiggled them. A few house-slaves in pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct.
You know, it’s one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A & P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages, with her feet paddling along naked over our checkerboard green-and-cream rubber-tile floor.
“Oh Daddy,” Stokesie said beside me. “I feel so faint.”
“Darling,” I said. “Hold me tight.” Stokesie’s married, with two babies chalked up on his fuselage already, but as far as I can tell that’s the only difference. He’s twenty-two, and I was nineteen this April.
“Is it done?” he asks, the responsible married man finding his voice. I forgot to say he thinks he’s going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it’s called the Great Alexandrov and Petrooshki Tea Company or something.
What he meant was, our town is five miles from a beach, with a big summer colony out on the Point, but we’re right in the middle of town, and the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street. And anyway these are usually women with six children and varicose veins mapping their legs and nobody, including them, could care less. As I say, we’re right in the middle of town, and if you stand at our front doors you can see two banks and the Congregational church and the newspaper store and three real-estate offices and about twenty-seven old free-loaders tearing up Central Street because the sewer broke again. It’s not as if we’re on the Cape; we’re north of Boston and there’s people in this town haven’t seen the ocean for twenty years.
The girls had reached the meat counter and were asking McMahon something. He pointed, they pointed, and they shuffled out of sight behind a pyramid of Diet Delight peaches. All that was left for us to see was old McMahon patting his mouth and looking after them sizing up their joints. Poor kids, I began to feel sorry for them, they couldn’t help it.
Now here comes the sad part of the story, at:least my family says it’s sad but I don’t think it’s sad myself. The store’s pretty empty, it being Thursday afternoon, so there was nothing much to do except lean on the register and wait for the girls to show up again. The whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn’t know which tunnel they’d come out of. After a while they come around out of the far aisle, around the light bulbs, records at discount of the Caribbean Six or Tony Martin Sings or some such gunk you wonder they waste the wax on, sixpacks of candy bars, and plastic toys done up in cellophane that faIl apart when a kid looks at them anyway. Around they come, Queenie still leading the way, and holding a little gray jar in her hand. Slots Three through Seven are unmanned and I could see her wondering between Stokes and me, but Stokesie with his usual luck draws an old party in baggy gray pants who stumbles up with four giant cans of pineapple juice (what do these bums do with all that pineapple juice’ I’ve often asked myself) so the girls come to me. Queenie puts down the jar and I take it into my fingers icy cold. Kingfish Fancy Herring Snacks in Pure Sour Cream: 49¢. Now her hands are empty, not a ring or a bracelet, bare as God made them, and I wonder where the money’s coming from. Still with that prim look she lifts a folded dollar bill out of the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top. The jar went heavy in my hand. Really, I thought that was so cute.
Then everybody’s luck begins to run out. Lengel comes in from haggling with a truck full of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER behind which he hides all day when the girls touch his eye. Lengel’s pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest, but he doesn’t miss that much. He comes over and says, “Girls, this isn’t the beach.”
Queenie blushes, though maybe it’s just a brush of sunburn I was noticing for the first time, now that she was so close. “My mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks.” Her voice kind of startled me, the way voices do when you see the people first, coming out so flat and dumb yet kind of tony, too, the way it ticked over “pick up” and “snacks.” All of a sudden I slid right down her voice into her living room. Her father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them. When my parents have somebody over they get lemonade and if it’s a real racy affair Schlitz in tall glasses with “They’ll Do It Every Time” cartoons stencilled on.
“That’s all right,” Lengel said. “But this isn’t the beach.” His repeating this struck me as funny, as if it hadjust occurred to him, and he had been thinking all these years the A & P was a great big dune and he was the head lifeguard. He didn’t like my smiling — -as I say he doesn’t miss much — but he concentrates on giving the girls that sad Sunday- school-superintendent stare.
Queenie’s blush is no sunburn now, and the plump one in plaid, that I liked better from the back — a really sweet can — pipes up, “We weren’t doing any shopping. We just came in for the one thing.”
“That makes no difference,” Lengel tells her, and I could see from the way his eyes went that he hadn’t noticed she was wearing a two-piece before. “We want you decently dressed when you come in here.”
“We are decent,” Queenie says suddenly, her lower lip pushing, getting sore now that she remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs the A & P must look pretty crummy. Fancy Herring Snacks flashed in her very blue eyes.
“Girls, I don’t want to argue with you. After this come in here with your shoulders covered. It’s our policy.” He turns his back. That’s policy for you. Policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency.
All this while, the customers had been showing up with their carts but, you know, sheep, seeing a scene, they had all bunched up on Stokesie, who shook open a paper bag as gently as peeling a peach, not wanting to miss a word. I could feel in the silence everybody getting nervous, most of all Lengel, who asks me, “Sammy, have you rung up this purchase?”
I thought and said “No” but it wasn’t about that I was thinking. I go through the punches, 4, 9, GROC, TOT — it’s more complicated than you think, and after you do it often enough, it begins to make a lttle song, that you hear words to, in my case “Hello (bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)”-the splat being the drawer flying out. I uncrease the bill, tenderly as you may imagine, it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla I had ever known were there, and pass a half and a penny into her narrow pink palm, and nestle the herrings in a bag and twist its neck and hand it over, all the time thinking.
The girls, and who’d blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say “I quit” to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they’ll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero. They keep right on going, into the electric eye; the door flies open and they flicker across the lot to their car, Queenie and Plaid and Big Tall Goony-Goony (not that as raw material she was so bad), leaving me with Lengel and a kink in his eyebrow.
“Did you say something, Sammy?”
“I said I quit.”
“I thought you did.”
“You didn’t have to embarrass them.”
“It was they who were embarrassing us.”
I started to say something that came out “Fiddle-de-doo.” It’s a saying of my grand- mother’s, and I know she would have been pleased.
“I don’t think you know what you’re saying,” Lengel said.
“I know you don’t,” I said. “But I do.” I pull the bow at the back of my apron and start shrugging it off my shoulders. A couple customers that had been heading for my slot begin to knock against each other, like scared pigs in a chute.
Lengel sighs and begins to look very patient and old and gray. He’s been a friend of my parents for years. “Sammy, you don’t want to do this to your Mom and Dad,” he tells me. It’s true, I don’t. But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it’s fatal not to go through with it. I fold the apron, “Sammy” stitched in red on the pocket, and put it on the counter, and drop the bow tie on top of it. The bow tie is theirs, if you’ve ever wondered. “You’ll feel this for the rest of your life,” Lengel says, and I know that’s true, too, but remembering how he made that pretty girl blush makes me so scrunchy inside I punch the No Sale tab and the machine whirs “pee-pul” and the drawer splats out. One advantage to this scene taking place in summer, I can follow this up with a clean exit, there’s no fumbling around getting your coat and galoshes, I just saunter into the electric eye in my white shirt that my mother ironed the night before, and the door heaves itself open, and outside the sunshine is skating around on the asphalt.
I look around for my girls, but they’re gone, of course. There wasn’t anybody but some young married screaming with her children about some candy they didn’t get by the door of a powder-blue Falcon station wagon. Looking back in the big windows, over the bags of peat moss and aluminum lawn furniture stacked on the pavement, I could see Lengel in my place in the slot, checking the sheep through. His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he’djust had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
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^^^
@ BABYDOLL & HOMIE… THIS THE SHIT IM TALKIN BOUT!!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
^Who is that?
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… random porn star …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Just wanted to be clear that it wasnt me that asked which LL album mite be a classic…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
all the girls standing in the line for the bathroom, all the girls standing in the line for the bathroom
April 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
**
meant to put “Radio”, not “Bad”. SMH at myself…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
That chick is Lacey Duvalle
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
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^^^
@ BABYDOLL & HOMIE… THIS THE SHIT IM TALKIN BOUT!!!!
^Oh…That still ain’t me *smacks 88 again*
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
… i like when they slow the beat down and he says : “achoooooooooooooooooooo …. achoooooooooooooooooooo” …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Walkin’ With A Panther=Classic, ahead of its time
Radio= Classic IF you remove “You Can’t Dance” ad “You’re A Liar”
Momma Said Knock You Out= Classic
14 Shots to The Dome= Brick, though plat. LL foray into Gangsta Rap
Mr. Smith= Hotness
Bigger And Deffer= Classic
LL bridged the old school and the new school. Don’t front on LL’s ego-crushing skills. Why y’all think KRS(The Best, No Khalid), Kane and them NEVER went at him? How many cats crushed 3 people on ONE song?
Moe Dee(Who SLAYED Busy Bee), Ice T and Hammer….Now it’s 3 cats crushing one person…
LL top 5 of all time.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Who got the East? Detroit or Boston?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Babydoll must look fine as hell if she look like her.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
landLORD Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
… The Roots seem pretentious and somewhat overrated … ?usetlove is a solid drummer … thats about it … Black Thought’s freestyles are better than his studio lp songs .. i aint feelin them ….
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Damn, was writing a blog post so similar to this..
“i love my alternative hip-hop as long as it doesn’t sound like some pompous ish.”
Beastie Boys > The Roots
[on both the hip-hop/ and instrumental ish
April 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
b-ease Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Just wanted to be clear that it wasnt me that asked which LL album mite be a classic…
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… duly noted … my apologies …
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01541/18/05/1541265081_l.jpg
^^^
@ BABYDOLL & HOMIE… THIS THE SHIT IM TALKIN BOUT!!!!
^Oh…That still ain’t me *smacks 88 again*
^^^
(88 bites lip)
…harder…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Babydoll must look fine as hell if she look like her.
^let’s go ahead and put this to rest now…I don’t look nothing like any of these chicks that are being posted all around here. No disrespect to any of ya’ll that actually think these birds look good…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Sean Coonery Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Who got the East? Detroit or Boston?
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either will suffice
April 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
if you wanna see baydoll…click her blue name dorks…
damn…again brb…in 15…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Beastie Boys > The Roots
[on both the hip-hop/ and instrumental ish
^^^^
Never that. Beasties got D.J. Money Mike and he KILLS the 1′s ad 2′s but there’s NO WAY the Beasties match the Roots in creativity. NO TWO Roots shows are the same. Don’t let the non-Hip-Hop endeavors fool you(Free Tibet and such)
Gimme ?Love, Tariq and Scratch and I’ll gaurantee (sp) a victory in a Hip-Hop Battle.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I know I’m late to the convo, but are we seriously questioning LL’s legacy?
Kill. Your. Self.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Mark Twain Fame Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
if you wanna see baydoll…click her blue name dorks…
damn…again brb…in 15…
^or not…either way just know them chickens ain’t me
April 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
from 2046
April 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
*peruses Myspace*
Ok MULLY! Mean ass flip on that reggae beat.
Mully = BMore G.O.A.T.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
BabyDoll Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
ELECTROGREMLINcs88 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01541/18/05/1541265081_l.jpg
^^^
@ BABYDOLL & HOMIE… THIS THE SHIT IM TALKIN BOUT!!!!
^Oh…That still ain’t me *smacks 88 again*
^^^
(88 bites lip)
^ Roxy Reynolds. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
April 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
D. Billz Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I know I’m late to the convo, but are we seriously questioning LL’s legacy?
Kill. Your. Self.
^^^^^^^^^
My sentiments EXACTLY.
Whoever said LL aint got no classics…Dont be a Dumm Dummy (c) Ricky D
…The things you can read on blogs…
April 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Wassup DBillz? I’m tryin to told ‘em. LOL
Wassup, BD? LOL at the “Looklike” game.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
this should have been tha official.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Flashing lights vid was the movie 2046. one of my favorites.
May 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
[...] nation’s edit: Dude who put up the video is claiming that this is indeed official and that this is the second out of three versions that were made for almost everyone’s favorite song on the album. There was this fairytale version that was the the first one to have been made, and subsequently trashed, then came the one you see above and the third one with Rita G that made it to OnSmash’s front page. Oh yeah, and this one too. [...]