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jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

“The Ghetto” is a 1990 single by Oakland rapper Too Short from his album Short Dog’s in the House. The song was featured on the fictional radio station Radio Los Santos in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The instrumental was based on the Donny Hathaway song of the same name. The song discusses the struggles of living in the ghetto and the difficulty of getting out of the ghetto to live a more successful life. It also discusses issues such as drug abuse and racial pride. Too Short is mostly known for his raps relating to sex and women, however he did have some songs with a deeper message and serious economic and social commentary. “The Ghetto” being an example of this.

https://genius.com/Too-short-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

“The Ghetto” is a 1990 single by Oakland rapper Too Short from his album Short Dog’s in the House. The song was featured on the fictional radio station Radio Los Santos in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The instrumental was based on the Donny Hathaway song of the same name. The song discusses the struggles of living in the ghetto and the difficulty of getting out of the ghetto to live a more successful life. It also discusses issues such as drug abuse and racial pride. Too Short is mostly known for his raps relating to sex and women, however he did have some songs with a deeper message and serious economic and social commentary. “The Ghetto” being an example of this.

https://genius.com/Too-short-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Life’s a bitch and then you die

Can’t say it much better than that. Nas and AZ get existential and reflect on their lives and life in general.

As well as being AZ’s debut on wax, this song is notable for the trumpet solo at the end, performed by Nas’s father, Olu Dara.

Nas wanted to sample Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” but producer L.E.S. brought The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” instead, which was fortunate since The Notorious B.I.G. would use the Mtume sample on his single “Juicy” released the same year.

L.E.S. provided some background information about the track in an interview with XXL:

AZ was there. Nas was like, ‘A, you got something for this?’ A just went in the booth and spit it, and Nas came right behind him. AZ had a chorus. They vibed, and before I even blinked, I left the studio, went back to the projects, and niggas was like, ‘We love that Nas joint.’ I was like, ‘Damn. Word? How they get that?’

AZ added:

After the hook was there, they was like, ‘Damn, you gotta spit, dawg.’ I was like, ‘Aight, fuck it. If you like it, you like it. You don’t, you don’t.’ I did it, and everybody liked it. That was it. It was history made.

https://genius.com/Nas-lifes-a-bitch-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Life’s a bitch and then you die

Can’t say it much better than that. Nas and AZ get existential and reflect on their lives and life in general.

As well as being AZ’s debut on wax, this song is notable for the trumpet solo at the end, performed by Nas’s father, Olu Dara.

Nas wanted to sample Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit” but producer L.E.S. brought The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” instead, which was fortunate since The Notorious B.I.G. would use the Mtume sample on his single “Juicy” released the same year.

L.E.S. provided some background information about the track in an interview with XXL:

AZ was there. Nas was like, ‘A, you got something for this?’ A just went in the booth and spit it, and Nas came right behind him. AZ had a chorus. They vibed, and before I even blinked, I left the studio, went back to the projects, and niggas was like, ‘We love that Nas joint.’ I was like, ‘Damn. Word? How they get that?’

AZ added:

After the hook was there, they was like, ‘Damn, you gotta spit, dawg.’ I was like, ‘Aight, fuck it. If you like it, you like it. You don’t, you don’t.’ I did it, and everybody liked it. That was it. It was history made.

https://genius.com/Nas-lifes-a-bitch-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

https://genius.com/Immortal-technique-harlem-streets-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

https://genius.com/Immortal-technique-harlem-streets-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

https://genius.com/Busta-rhymes-in-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

https://genius.com/Busta-rhymes-in-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

This song is about the cycle of poverty and violence, using bookends to imply that the baby being born at the end of the song is going to meet the same fate as the young man who dies. It also doubles as a call to action for the listener, saying that without help the protagonist will “grow to be an angry young man someday” yet seemingly already defeated as Elvis notes that we’ll be tempted to look the other way as the world keeps turning.

https://genius.com/Elvis-presley-in-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

The song that quite possibly got 50 Cent shot – and maybe Jam Master Jay as well. 50 names plenty of names of old-time Queens drug dealers.

From Vibe:

You’ve come under attack for violating the code of the streets with songs like “Ghetto Qu'ran,” where you mention names. Is that a fair criticism?

Everything that’s in “Ghetto Qu'ran” is in Cop Shot—a book in the fucking library. Everything in that song was in the newspapers at the time that it went on. The shit that these niggas is talking don’t make fucking sense.

https://genius.com/50-cent-ghetto-quran-forgive-me-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

The song that quite possibly got 50 Cent shot – and maybe Jam Master Jay as well. 50 names plenty of names of old-time Queens drug dealers.

From Vibe:

You’ve come under attack for violating the code of the streets with songs like “Ghetto Qu'ran,” where you mention names. Is that a fair criticism?

Everything that’s in “Ghetto Qu'ran” is in Cop Shot—a book in the fucking library. Everything in that song was in the newspapers at the time that it went on. The shit that these niggas is talking don’t make fucking sense.

https://genius.com/50-cent-ghetto-quran-forgive-me-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

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Written by Donny Hathaway and Leroy Hutson. Released in 1970 as a single by Hathaway. This song connects to other soul/jazz songs released by African-American artists of the early ‘70s such as Curtis Mayfield. This song, although it does not use very heavy lyrics, uses instruments to send its message. The Ghetto uses conga drums, electric piano, improvised vocals by Hathaway, and beats with Afro-Caribbean influence.

https://genius.com/Donny-hathaway-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Written by Donny Hathaway and Leroy Hutson. Released in 1970 as a single by Hathaway. This song connects to other soul/jazz songs released by African-American artists of the early ‘70s such as Curtis Mayfield. This song, although it does not use very heavy lyrics, uses instruments to send its message. The Ghetto uses conga drums, electric piano, improvised vocals by Hathaway, and beats with Afro-Caribbean influence.

https://genius.com/Donny-hathaway-the-ghetto-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Diamond Days is the First official single for band Cruel Youth. The band members include Teddy Sinclair with the previous moniker Natalia Kills along side her husband.

https://genius.com/Cruel-youth-diamond-days-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Brown began to write “Chicken Fried” with Wyatt Durrette several years before the song’s release. The two met when Brown was playing at a tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. According to Country Weekly, Brown had already started the song when he and Durrette began listing off “things that are very southern or characteristic of the South to put into this song.”

https://genius.com/Zac-brown-band-chicken-fried-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

I would be really careful when labeling it in that way.

If Iran nuked Israel, the US would join in even more and retaliate for Israel, since most of our gov't and politicians get some form of donations or help from AIPAC and such.

This would start WWIII at a much quicker rate than what it currently is, not to mention Russia and China would also have to join in.

Zionists would be a better word, IMO, force a ceasefire and sanction Israel would be the minimum.

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Rapper Macklemore went after President Biden in a new song on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and recent pro-Palestinian student protests.

“The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all,” the rapper says in a video featuring the song, titled “Hind’s Hall,” seemingly in reference to what pro-Palestinian protesters renamed a building on Columbia University’s campus when they took it over last week. The video was posted Monday to the social platform X.

Macklemore was previously a speaker at a pro-Palestinian protest in the fall of last year in Washington, D.C., shortly after the current conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas began.

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

In “Passin' Me By,” The Pharcyde refer to the aphorism of someone being “out of your league”—no matter how much you long for someone, it doesn’t mean that your wish will come true.

The song is the second single from The Pharcyde’s debut album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde.

It peaked at #1 on the Hot Rap Singles, #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #28 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks charts in the spring of 1993. Later, Pitchfork Media included the song at #41 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90’s.

https://genius.com/The-pharcyde-passin-me-by-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

In “Passin' Me By,” The Pharcyde refer to the aphorism of someone being “out of your league”—no matter how much you long for someone, it doesn’t mean that your wish will come true.

The song is the second single from The Pharcyde’s debut album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde.

It peaked at #1 on the Hot Rap Singles, #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #28 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks charts in the spring of 1993. Later, Pitchfork Media included the song at #41 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90’s.

https://genius.com/The-pharcyde-passin-me-by-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

“Freak on a Leash” was Jonathan Davis' complaint against the music industry that abuses him, leaving him feeling like “a freak touring corporate America fucking making all the money while it’s taking a part of me.”

The music video was directed by Todd McFarlane, with help from Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and features animated segments reminiscent of the Follow the Leader cover drawn by McFarlane himself. It won Best Editing and Best Rock Video at the MTV Music Awards in 1999, as well as the Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video in 2000.

https://genius.com/Korn-freak-on-a-leash-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

“B.Y.O.B.” (“Bring Your Own Bombs”) is the first single released from American heavy metal band System of a Down’s fourth album Mezmerize.

Like their earlier song “Boom!,” it was written in protest against the Iraq War.

B.Y.O.B. means “Bring Your Own Bombs,” as opposed to the common interpretation “Bring Your Own Booze,” referring to the Iraq War as one big party for the United States, where instead of Jägerbombs they drop real ones.

It made onto numerous “Top 40” playlists around the globe, including Germany, New Zealand, Australia and the United States, and occasionally made it to #1 on other music shows.

https://genius.com/System-of-a-down-byob-lyrics

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Much is needed to teach and learn other views we do not agree with or when it comes to understands our view of topics.

...But yes, it seems many social media people get into bad habits of just downvoting all they do not like or agree with.

Thank you for sharing your views on the matter, I welcome criticism or the bonding of ideas way more than downvotes or upvotes!

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

You are welcome!

So random how I found out about the song, hahahaha

jimmydoreisalefty , 1 month ago

They already got their cut.

Do you know how difficult it is for mom and pop shops to get the license in major cities and in general...

Even getting a bank account is really difficult, from what I remember...

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I stand corrected the article below:

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05/01/cannabis-marijuana-drugs-legalization-reclassification-schedule/

jimmydoreisalefty OP , 1 month ago

Oh, lord!

Me:

Time: Passin' Me By

jimmydoreisalefty , 1 month ago

The ghetto is like a prison with invisible bars

No matter where you at, it always follows you where you are