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    Nov 23, 2006
    ALWAYS UP TO SOMETHING

    SOURCE: JUICY NEWS
    (their title...not mine)
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    AllHipHop.com Alternatives: How does a girl from Athens, Georgia, go on to become on of the top names in video modeling?
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    Buffie the Body: Basically, some photos taken of me were released on the internet without my permission. I did a photo shoot with a photographer back in Baltimore, because I wanted personal pictures for myself.
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    AHHA: How did you feel when you first found out about the pictures being released?
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    Buffie: I was upset! I got into a big argument about it because [the photographer] didn't have my permission to do it. I was mad at him, but then I saw the response and what people were saying about the pictures. Everyone was overwhelmed. I don't even know the words to describe it. All of a sudden, I wasn't upset anymore. I was like, "Damn, people are acting like this about my pictures? I might be able to do more." King Magazine saw the pictures and then they hit me up on the e-mail. That's how everything began. The King spread, and then the Tony Yayo ["So Seductive"] video is what set things off.
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    LOL!? Are you mad? I wonder .....do I know the photographer?
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    posted by C Love "The Rap Addict" @ 11/23/2006 10:41:00 AM   0 comments
    HAPPY THANKSGIVING YALL!!! HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME OUT TO THANK THE CREATOR FOR ALL OF YOUR BLESSINGS!!!
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    SAVE SOME TURKEY FOR ME!!!
    & SOME CRANBERRY SAUCE & SOME SAUERKRAUT & SOME SWEET POTATO SOUFFLE & SOME BUTTERED ROLLS......ESPECIALLY THE ROLLS!!!
    & AFTER YOU FEED YOUR STOMACH.....SOMETHING TO FEED YOUR MIND:
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    Interesting HIP HOP facts:
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    Source:
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    Although he denied firsthand experience of illicit drugs, Calloway did admit to certain vices-fast cars, expensive clothes, "gambling, drinking, partying [and] balling all through the night, all over the country" (Calloway, 184).
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    LOL! Was Jim Jones biting? The root word being BALL. Is he paying tribute? What does BALL mean...idk? *blushing* He prolly doesn't even know where the word originated? Just some ole Harlem slang that has stood the test of time?
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    Not sure exactly how he was using it, but Calloway was a Harlem performer and forever changed the way Americans speak, with the publication of Professor Cab Calloway's Swingformation Bureau and The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive (1944), which became the official jive language reference book of the New York Public Library. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Calloway's song "Jitter Bug" as the first published use of that term.
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    Please read the rest of this interesting article (the "Origins of Hip Hop" when you get a chance.
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    Do we (this generation) really know where any of our slang originated?
    what about the word YO?
    IMO We say Yo alot in Baltimore.
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    This is hillarious:
    "Yo" has even become part of the vernacular of world leaders. On July 17, 2006, President George W. Bush addressed UK Prime Minister Tony Blair with the words, "Yo, Blair. How are you doing?", during a conversation overheard in the margins of the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised nations ("G8") in St Petersburg, Russia. When Blair rose to make a statement in the House of Commons on July 18, he was greeted with cries from the Opposition benches of "Yo!" (Today, BBC Radio 4, 19 July 2006). Former British Government Minister Denis MacShane observed that "Yo, Blair" was the American equivalent of "wotcha, mate" and that metaphorically Bush and Blair had been addressing each other in the French "tu" [you] (as opposed to the more formal "vous") (Times, 22 July 2006).
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    WTF? g DUBYA is a Funny dude!
    Thanks Wiki!
    Is he using the word correctly?
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    BALTIMORE HIP HOP HISTORY:
    (I hope the link works. If not hit the blog writer (The White Noise Revisited) up for more info. )
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    Entry Exerpt:
    I didn't buy this one, my mate Lee did, but I was there with him at the time, which would have been late 1985, or possibly early '86. I can remember him picking it out purely because of the cover. For once, the record didn't have a plain white sleeve, it had a black and white picture sleeve featuring pictures of the Z-3 MC's, three skinny black kids from Baltimore, crouching by a giant ghetto blaster and just generally hanging out. It also had the immortal word "Beat Box Convention" which hinted that the record might well feature human beat box, something that me and all my mates were totally obsessed with. Purchased for the cover alone the record could still have been a let down, but on getting back to Lee's house and playing it for the first time, we weren't disappointed. Heavy, heavy beats, urgent rapping, razor sharp cuts from DJ Cheese, a King Tut keyboard riff and some awesome beat box combined to make this a sensational purchase. I can remember he let me tape it on the spot, which was rare as normally everything had to be traded for something, a track for a track or whatever, often on the understanding that you couldn't then let someone else tape it off you. It wasn't unusual for fights to break out when somebody found out their record had been dealt without their consent.
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    posted by C Love "The Rap Addict" @ 11/23/2006 10:04:00 AM   2 comments
    Nov 22, 2006
    REVIEW: KINGDOM COME (BALTIMORE SUN)
    Originally published Nov 20, 2006
    The king is back
    DROPS: Glenn Gamboa
    Jay-Z is a bit older but no less bolder - and he shows the 'young'uns' he's still on top

    Who is the best rapper in the game right now? Jay-Z Eminem 50 Cent The Game Ludacris Snoop Dogg Lil Wayne No one will ever touch Rakim Someone else

    Jay-Z got it right the first time.
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    When he "retired" in 2003, he strutted off the stage in near-perfection, with the stunning, powerful legacy-builder "The Black Album" (Roc-a-Fella) and his equally on-point farewell concert at Madison Square Garden memorialized in the movie "Fade to Black."
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    How could you top all that? Why would you even want to try?
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    In his years of "retirement," Jay became President Carter, head of Def Jam Records. He made some high-profile appearances on singles from Beyonce, Rick Ross and Young Jeezy, as well as that hot "Dear Summer" freestyle he did on Hot 97 last year. But it was this summer's spectacular concert marking the 10th anniversary of the release of the "Reasonable Doubt" album that suggested Jay may be able to pull off the near-impossible, that he could somehow top his pre-retirement self with his comeback album "Kingdom Come" (Roc-a-Fella).
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    Well, he doesn't. But he comes close.Let's not twist it - it's great to have him back. Jay-Z's return livens up a season in which hip-hop has grown stagnant on retreads and wanna-bes and "Kingdom Come" serves notice to the raft of would-be pretenders to his throne that they've been too lazy and too unwilling to stray from previously winning formulas. (Jay warns them in the single "Show Me What You Got" by proclaiming, "The King is back! Y'all got less than two months to get y'all thing together. Good luck.")
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    "Kingdom Come" opens by tossing down the gauntlet with three of the year's best-sounding hip-hop songs one after another - the startling gospel wails and grand runs of "Oh My God," the massive title track, built on a slowed-down sample of Rick James' "Super Freak," and the playful "Show Me What You Got" - all from producer Just Blaze
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    Like much of the album, his lyrical concerns on those songs focus on his return and how he is bigger-better-stronger-faster than the "young'uns" who have taken his place. In a way, all that protest is a sign of President Carter thinking too small.
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    He moved so far beyond that theme years ago that who's-better-than-who? is like child's play to him now. He mastered it long ago, so for him to rap about it now is like whipping out the AK-47 when a guy comes at you with a toothpick.
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    And if there were any questions left about his relevance, "30 Something" puts them all to rest, when he declares "30's the new 20, I'm so hot still" and "I'm a bully with the bucks." He churns out one slam after another: "I'm young enough to know the right car to buy, but grown enough to know not to put rims on it" or "I used to wear my hoodie like that, five deep in a hoopty like that, now I got black cards, good credit and such, ba' boy, 'cause I'm all grown up."
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    Then he delivers the final blow: "Y'all respect the one who got shot, I respect the shooter."
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    It's not until songs like "Hollywood," featuring girlfriend Beyoncé, and "Minority Report," a searing indictment of the government's handling of Hurricane Katrina, that Jay-Z shows how far ahead of the rap pack he really is. "Hollywood" features a lighthearted, danceable beat with delicate synths and sweeping strings, not to mention Beyonce's sultry-sweet vocals, to balance the darkness of his rhymes about the necessary love-hate relationship with fame. Jay ticks off fame's casualties, including John Belushi, Janis Joplin and River Phoenix, as he asks, "You sure you want it?"
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    "Minority Report," featuring Ne-Yo, as well as a host of news clips about the Katrina disaster, is a stark change of pace, with Jay's delivery taking an emotional turn that he rarely reveals in his music. "Wouldn't you loot if you didn't have the loot?" he asks in a disbelieving voice. "Baby needed food and was stuck on the roof.... Can't say we're better off than we was before. In synopsis, this is my minority report."
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    "Beach Chair," with its massive-sounding drums and strange, vaguely Eastern-sounding keyboards, is another major departure. Jay pushes the hip-hop envelope musically, as well as thematically, considering future generations and his legacy. Either would be startling, but together the result is a full-fledged freak-out the first few times you hear it.
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    Love "Beach Chair" or not, you have to give props to Jay-Z for trying it - a sentiment that pretty much extends to all of "Kingdom Come."
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    The album has its missteps - "Do U Wanna Ride," featuring John Legend and produced by Kanye West is bland and outright boring, while "NYthing," featuring Usher, Pharrell and producers The Goodfellas, is a bloated disappointment. But overall, "Kingdom Come" takes more risks and breaks more ground than any hip-hop record since OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" and it does it while still providing everything Jay-Z fans have come to expect from his previous albums.
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    And that is reason enough to celebrate his return.
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    KINGDOM COME. Jay-Z's long-awaited comeback to show the world what he's (still) got. In stores tomorrow. Grade: A-
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    Contact Glenn Gamboa at 631-843-3434 or glenn.gamboa@newsday.com. check me out on MYSPACE @ www.myspace.com/clove or www.myspace.com/itsbaltimorebaby
    posted by C Love "The Rap Addict" @ 11/22/2006 03:08:00 PM   0 comments
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