“Snitchin’ For Dummies”: Prodigy Fingers Jay-Z & Cam’ron

Breaking news: There are different levels (subcategorization dun) of snitching??!!!


+NEGRO PLEASE: Prodigy Fingers Jay-Z & Cam’ron in “Snitchin’ For Dummies”: XXL: Blogger's Note
+For all intents and purposes, the long feud between Mobb Deep and Jay-Z is dead[?]: MTV: Mixtape Monday

Political Jay-Z?

Ready for change?
Depends on the change(s).

The Last Poets: Black Woman
Right On! (Juggernaut, 1968)

+A Vote of Allegiance?

For the full article by DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer from Monday, March 24, 2008; C01: Washington Post l Playahata

In the Obama-Clinton Battle, Race & Gender Pose Two Great Divides for Black Women

Woman has an ocean of wrongs too deep for any plummet, and the Negro, too, has an ocean of wrongs that cannot be fathomed. There are two great oceans; in the one is the black man, and in the other is the woman. . . . I will be thankful in my soul if any body can get out of the terrible pit."

-- Lucy Stone, 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist, after women were excluded from the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote.

The "isms" have once again been pitted against each other. Sexism or racism -- which ism is deepest? All things being equal, should a woman or a black man be lifted to the presidency? Which "first" is the imperative first?

The admonitions of white feminists urging black women to vote gender over race have cracked open a scab, a festering sore, that had crusted over the history of this country's competing isms. A scab that covered the lingering tension between some white feminists and some black women, with their dual historic burden of race and gender. It is black women, after all, who have faced both sexism and racism in their lives.

In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, which ism goes first? Some women fear the question, say it is divisive, explosive, should never be asked. But it has been asked -- in the recent writings of feminists including Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan. The question is ripe, reeling under the surface, discussed with muffled outrage by black women grown weary of white feminists seeming to tell them what to do.

BTW
Eff that too…

Jay-Z: Like an Easter Egg Hunt

Jay-Z’s coded references meet double-entendres in a gray area such that they vacillate in qualifying as such. Yet he talks a length with MTV: Nov 27 2007 3:14 PM EST in an article by Jayson Rodriguez and titled: Jay-Z, Behind The Rhymes: Hidden Britney Spears Reference Is Just One Trick Of Hov's Trade - in part two of our four-part series, Jay talks about his love for lyrics that reveal their meaning over time, 'like an Easter egg hunt' in the aforementioned regard. He ends his interview as follows:

"My voice, is less than 10. Let's just say that. I never thought I had a great pitch. ... What I do is overcompensate with words and flow."

Catch-up…

American Gangster: Samples

Jay-Z: American Gangster: Samples
From ? (?,?)
Sharebee

The redundancy deity will revel in this act, a precious humble duplicity, as Shake of 2DopeBoyz posted the following first on November 15^th:

Tracklist:

01 Hank Marvin: New Earth (Pray)
02 Marvin Gaye: Soon I'll Be Loving You Again (American Dreamin)
03 Beastie Boys: Hello Brooklyn (Hello Brooklyn 2.0)
04 Barry White: Love Seranade (No Hook)
05 The Menahan Street Band: Make the Road By Walkin (Roc Boys)
06 Rudy Love & The Family: Does Your Mama Know (Sweet)
07 Little Beaver: Get Into The Party Life (Party Life)
08 The Isley Brothers: Between The Sheets (Ignorant Shit)
09 Tom Brock: The Love We Share Is The Greatest Of Them All (say hello)
10 Larry Ellis & The Black Hammer: Funky Thing, Pt.1 (Success)
11 The Dramatics: Fell For You (Fallin)
12 En Vogue: Hold On (Blue Magic)
13 Curtis Mayfield: Short Eyes (American Gangster)

+ Shake of 2DopeBoyz also posted: Kayne West: Graduation Sample : HipHopDX l 2DopeBoyz
+Carrot eyes: 2DopeBoyz post discovered by 2 Liter

Drinks on the House

AHH: Rapper Jay-Z Takes On Elvis For Most #1 Albums, published Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 9:44 AM by Houston Williams:
If all goes Jay-Z's way, the rap mogul will tie rock legend Elvis for the most number one albums in history, a feat that depends on the success of the rapper's American Gangster album.
If Jay-Z's American Gangster sells well, only The Beatles would have offered the music world more number one albums, with an incredible 19.

In related news, Jay-Z announced that the American Gangster album will not be available on iTunes.
"As movies are not sold scene by scene, this collection will not be sold as individual singles," Jay-Z said, noting that the album could be purchased online at Rocafella, Amazon and Rhapsody.
In addition to debuting a video for "Roc Boys" this week, Jay-Z will be featured on VH1's Storytellers series, which airs on November 8.

No Standing

Jay-Z: American Gangster (entire album)
From: American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella, Nov. 6, 2007)

Read: It Is What It Is by Elliott Wilson (YN) from his On and On: The Jigga Opinion relative S Dot’s take on:

• First week album sales predictions
• Curtis, Marshall and Andre
• The best MC’s today (present company excluded)
• Ann Jones’ baby boy
• Foxy Brown
• The rocks thrown at his Presidential throne
• Failing to acquire the rights to rename the NJ Nets arena
• The real Frank Lucas.

Also note It Is What It Is by Elliott Wilson (YN) from his The Making Of…: “Roc Boys” produced by: Sean “Puffy” Combs and The Hitmen (LV, Sean C, D-Dot, and Mario Winans) and the Uncontrollable Hustler’s Ambition entry.

+Rolling Stone: Jay-Z Returns to His Roots For “American Gangster” - Inspired New Album

Lords of Dopetown

Below find excerpts from: Lords of Dopetown written by Mark Jacobson and published October 25, 2007 by the New York Magazine in their Dirty Money current issue:

During the Harlem heroin plague of the seventies, few dealers were bigger than Frank Lucas and Leroy “Nicky” Barnes. Both made millions selling dope, lived the wide-brimmed-hat high life, enabled the addiction of whole neighborhoods, and, eventually, got caught. Both were locked up and later cooperated with authorities—some might call it snitching. Now, with Lucas confined to a wheelchair and Barnes in some Witness Protection Program locale, each is the subject of a current film. Barnes reports on his life and times in the flava-full documentary Mr. Untouchable. Lucas hit the ultimate Hollywood jackpot, getting Denzel Washington, no less, to play him in American Gangster (reviewed this week in “The Culture Pages”).
And so, three decades after their heyday, these former street titans are still generating commerce. This makes sense, as both insist they were businessmen, first and foremost. The trick for an ambitious black man in the seventies dope game was to minimize the sway of the Italian distributors who had controlled the Harlem scene for decades. Using sheer volume as an edge, Barnes cut increasingly favorable deals with his Mafia partners. He had the biggest clientele—hundreds of thousands of repeat (and repeat) buyers. It was a captive market, and he was their low-cost retailer. Lucas, more of a boutique operator, managed to bypass the Italians altogether by establishing the grisly but exceedingly lucrative “cadaver connection”—a direct line from Asia’s “Golden Triangle” poppy growers straight to 116th Street, smuggling heroin inside the coffins of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.
When the possibility emerged that these two old-school street rivals might be willing to engage in what could only be called a historic conversation—they haven’t spoken in 30 years—it was easy to envision yelling, phone slamming, and maybe even a death threat or two.

My two cents:
I was made privy to copy of American Gangster this past Saturday. Although I am a fan, Denzel’s pageantry of signature facial expressions and standardized cavalier bravado have been mundane since Ricochet yet for AG they’re chock full (no-homo). Though casting was “best in years” for a Hollywood A-movie the action was shiftless and the idleness molded boredom save for the shooting scenes which best explicated the destruction of a bullet.
Get in gear to ready yourself for Dame Dash's (producer) Mr. Untouchable.

+Mr. Untouchable trailer: YouTube
+Hi-Tek & Dame Dash: Mr. Untouchable Mixtape
+No I.D. (formerly known as Immenslope & Kanye's mentor) produces Jay-Z's Success featuring Nas for American Gangster: XXL

Brothered by Jay-Z, Mentored by No ID

50 Cent: Part-Time Lover (addressing Lil Wayne & Baby)
From: Sabrina's Baby Boy

Kanye accuses Jay-Z of biting off of him in the form of a “cold collabo” with Chris Martin of
Coldplay. In the song called “Big Brother” he raps: “I told Jay I did a song with Coldplay, Next thing I
know he did a song with Coldplay.”
The banal precursor of September 11^th finds Singer Kenny Chesney Challenging 50 & Kanye.

+Kanye: Official site I MySpace I MTV I Rocafella I Art Born of Outrage in the Internet Age
+No ID: Discogs I NNDB I Wiki I Whudat
+Tim Westwood: Official site I BBC

The Surface

THESAURAL

Let me see...
I can fit you in on Monday at 3:00
Tuesdays is use days
And Wednesdays is friends days
And Thursdays is hers days
And Fridays is my days
And Saturdays is fun days
And Sundays the one day
I rest, give thanks and bless
Again on Monday I will be back

Jay-Z's 99 Problems of The Black Album (Def Jam, November 14, 2003) interpolates Ice T's 99 Problems of Home Invasion (Priority, March 23, 1993) adapting the song title and refrain "...Got 99 problems and a bitch ain't one... ...Hit me..."

9th Wonder explains how in 2003, he created one of the most fan-friendly trends - remixing entire albums. Problemo?

Jay-Z: 99 Problems (9th Wonder Remix)
From: Black Is Back (White Label?, 2004?)

Entry Word: problem

Function: noun
Text: 1 something that requires thought and skill for resolution problem of world hunger>
Synonyms case, knot, matter, trouble
Related Words issue, question; challenge; corner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, pickle, predicament, situation; glitch, hitch, snag; conundrum, enigma, mystery, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle; brainteaser, perplexer, poser, stumper
Antonyms answer, solution
2 an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge problems on the exam, but they were all challenging> -- see QUESTION 1
3 something that is a source of irritation problem in the evenings> -- see ANNOYANCE 3

*9th Wonder (b. Patrick Douthit, January 15, 1975) is a hip hop producer from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

*Already know the island I'm from
And y'all don't want no problems with them

*Island I'm from: Manhattan: Harlem: Sugar Hill subdivision