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2’s and 4’s

I’ve been listening to hip hop and Prince for the past week. What does it mean?

Does anything good come out of Cincinatti? Yes: Hi-Tek.
My kung fu is powerful because of my repeated listening to Wu-Tang’s 8 Diagrams.
I’m hearing different and new things when listening to the Purple Rain soundtrack.
I’m discovering why The Roots are also known as The 5th Dynasty.
I want to live Talib Kweli’s “Joy.”
“If we doin’ alright then hip hop is gonna be doin’ alright.” - Mos Def

Posted 1 year ago

Tags: hip hop, Hi-Tek, Prince, Wu-Tang,

”Upload: a 2-party system
The lesser of 2 dangers
Illusion of choice
Download: a veiled form of fascism
Nothing really ever changes
U never had a voice

Prince (from “Colonized Mind” on the Lotusflow3r album)

Posted 1 year ago

Tags: prince, democrat, republican,

Assemble your crew

If Prince had a Tumblr, he would say “This bores me” and challenge all his followers to a game of basketball. Then, he’d post pics of blueberry pancakes.

Posted 10 months ago

Tags: Prince, pancakes,

A massacre of dead birds doing the mambo

New tuneage I got from Amoeba today:

Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boing
Around the World in a Day by Prince & The Revolution
Mambo Sinuendo by Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán
Kenny Burrell with John Coltrane (Kenny Burrell - guitar, John Coltrane - tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan - piano, Paul Chambers - bass, Jimmy Cobb - drums)
Feelin’ the Spirit by Grant Green
Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock (with Freddie Hubbard, George Coleman, Ron Carter and Tony Williams)
Bird: The Original Recordings of Charlie Parker (Verve Records; featuring Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Red Rodney, Thelonious Monk, and Lester Young)
X&Y by Coldplay
by Prince & The New Power Generation
Wu Massacre featuring Raekon, Ghostface Killah, and Method Man
do you want more?!!!??! by The Roots
House of Music by Tony Toni Toné