Just a Harlem New Yorker just trying to find himself in the madness we call life. My motto is "No idea is original nor is anything equivalent to the New York State of mind."
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Thank God for the Hip-Hop blogs because I’m mad I missed this one, even though it might have been an online exclusive. One of all-time favorite Black Star songs, shit gives me goosebumps.
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the ultimate duo in hip-hop, Black Star, perform their unreleased song “Fix Up”. On the Colbert Report.
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Black Star - Definition x Respiration Live on Party Groove (BET), 1999
“People thinking “MC” is short hand for MisConception”
"On the corner, units stormed out
Ghetto lookin bombed out
Police waited to roll, for those who walk the wrong route
Shorties goin all out, they got they swords drawn out
Ready to brawl out, gettin fought til they fall out
Black like Morehouse, 40 o’z is tossed out
For brothers that they mourn bout, get wrecked til it’s dawn out
Whether they broke or flossed out, honeys pass they draws out
Lookin for a ticket out the poor-house
A jungle out here
Lions keep they claws out, fangs and jaws out
Weak just get forced out
Names is called out, ghetto-fame is sought out
You wanna be the man that they talk bout
I walked out
I had some things on my mind to sort out
I thought bout the wild circumstance we born out
Remember myself at your age, when I was just like you
If that was now, I don’t know what I would do
My answer’s closest to me
So what I say to you is goin for me
Son we both still growin indeed
But where you at, I was, and where you been, I left
Utilize my experience to guide your step
Some people get love but don’t command respect
It’s somethin that you can’t ride with a check
Over-rollin your lex or icy links that hang from your neck
If it’s real, who need to deal with the special effects?"
— Mos Def’s verse on Little Brother. One of my all-time favorite hip hop songs, take a listen to it here.
