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Happy Birthday Biggie
Today, BIG would have turned 40. Do you believe he would have had the same longevity as Jay-Z, or would he have long faded from the mainstream?
What’s your opinion?
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Michael Skolnik speaks out and stands up against racial profiling.
“So, I fight for Trayvon Martin. I fight for Amadou Diallo. I fight for Rodney King. I fight for every young black man who looks “suspicious” to someone who thinks they have the right to take away their freedom to walk through their own neighborhood. I fight against my own stereotypes and my own suspicions. I fight for people whose ancestors built this country, literally, and who are still treated like second class citizens. Being quiet is not an option, for we have been too quiet for too long.”
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
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This!
Jay-Z
Marcy Projects, Brooklyn, October 6, 1998
“We basically shot him in and around the Marcy Projects, where he grew up. I think he felt very comfortable. I love it because you never see him like this anymore. In a lot of the pictures, he’s kind of making fun expressions and stuff, and he just would never do that now.” - Chris Buck (Respect Mag Issue 2)
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Keisha Morris has some reservations. While preparing for a XXL photo shoot at a New York City studio on a rainy June evening, the pint-sized, caramel-complected 38-year-old sits on a folding chair, straight-faced and uneasy. The first and only wife of Tupac Shakur hasn’t done any interviews…
I’m hearing all of the jokes, I know that they tryna push me
I know that showin’ emotion don’t ever mean I’m a pussy
Know that I don’t make music for niggas who don’t get pussy
So those are the ones I count on to diss me or overlook meDrake - “Lord Knows ft. Rick Ross”
I have been…
