Most Important Word to Common

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"My journey in love has led me to this place: of loving with my whole heart, of embracing the opportunity to build a life with someone else. I read somewhere that on average people have about sixty thousand words in their vocabulary, but that on most days we use only a fraction of them. As someone who creates with language, I'm fascinated by the shades of meaning and the range of sounds that different words can create. For all the words I may use in an average day, though, the most important word in my vocabulary is love."

Common from the memoir "One Day It'll All Make Sense"

A Funky Introdcution of How Nice I Am

"Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram
I'm like an energizer 'cause, you see, I last long
My crew is never ever wack because we stand strong

Now if you say my style is wack that's where you're dead wrong
I slayed that body in El Segundo then 'Push it Along'
You'd be a fool to reply that Phife is not the man
'Cause you know and I know, that you know who I am

A special shout of peace goes out to all my pals, you see
And a middle finger goes for all you punk MC's
'Cause I love it when you wack MC's despise me
They get vexed, I roll next, can't none contest me

I'm just a fly MC who's five foot three and very brave
On job remaining, no I'm chaining 'cause I misbehave
I come correct in full effect, have all my hoes in check
And before I get the butt, the jim must be erect

You see, my aura's positive, I don't promote no junk
See, I'm far from a bully and I ain't a punk
Extremity in rhythm, yeah, that's what you heard
So just clean out your ears and just check the word."

- Phife Dawgs verse from "Check The Rhime" by A Tribe Called Quest

It Was A Good Day

"Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barking from the dog, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog
I got my grub on, but didn't pig out
Finally got a call from a girl wanna dig out
Hooked it up for later as I hit the door
Thinking will i live, another twenty-four
I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop
Had to stop at a red light
Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight
And everything is alright
I got a beep from Kim and she can f*ck all night
Called up the homies and I'm askin y'all
Which park, are y'all playin basketball?
Get me on the court and I'm trouble
Last week f*ck around and got a triple double
Freaking niggaz every way like M.J.
I can't believe, today was a good day

Drove to the pad and hit the showers
Didn't even get no static from the cowards
Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
Saw the police and they rolled right past me
No flexin, didn't even look in a niggaz direction
as I ran the intersection
Went to Short Dog's house, they was watchin Yo! MTV Raps
What's the haps on the craps
Shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em
Roll em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break em
With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven
Seven even backed on little Joe
I picked up the cash flow
Then we played bones, and I'm yellin domino
Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.
Today was a good day

Left my niggaz house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin to f*ck since the twelfth grade
It's ironic, I had the blunt she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep, so deep, so deep
put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, and then chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder

Two in the morning got the Fatburger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day."

- Ice Cube "It Was A Good Day" from the album "The Predator"

Not Everything Needs to be New

"It's almost impossible to start something new nowadays. Hip-hop is like a [slam] dunk contest. There's not too many dunks left that someone can do. You can only jump from the free-throw line so many times, you can only put it through your legs some many times, windmill, whatever. All we're doing right now is preserving. We're not claiming to start anything new or try to be something new. I'm just preserving the shit that I used to listen to and the era I grew up in."

- The Left, hip-hop group

This is a section of an interview from The Scrunch Face Show: Episode 24

Lola is Free Falling

I like the sound of this performance a lot. I hope the finished record sounds this nice!

Here it is, Lola Maxwell "Free Falling."

Inspiration

This song has a beautiful and tragic story. When I spoke to Classified about it last year, he told me that it was true as well.



- Classified "Inspiration" from the album "Self Explanatory"

Music Hits You Without Pain

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“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain”

- Bob Marley

I stumbled upon this site - http://www.copiousquotes.com/bob-marley-quotes.html

and was surprised to see that Bob Marley said this quote. I thought it was Dead Prez. See, it's good to know your history.

Kadyelle - Diluted Shadows

Kadyelle is my new favoruite emcee. I absolutely love her album Earthworthy and if you like this track, you can go over to her bandcamp page to get it.

Slow Down

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Let's bump this tune. It's a good one!



- Eighttrack Mind "Slow Down"

Manchild

Today's What!?! Wednesday features the amazingly talented Amanda Diva.

This song is from her upcoming (and apparently last album) Boo! I love her music and want her to keep producing it.

Crates to Concrete

"From my beginnings as a studio rap tunes 
Kids cut class but I'd be rapping in my high school bathrooms 
Clap boom with freestyle and mix while
thick tiles, reviberatin' sounds I kicks wild
Whatever worked I rearanged it right
Putting my brain in tight flows
remained in night mode,
it strained til light glows til sunrise,
burnin' my eyes til I'm close so I finished it right,
Yo put up the mic, ah one two, check it check
and yo don't step I keep my memory set
maintained and do I screwed up to get ahead, but like my man said
it's gonna turn from green to red
so bring the breaks for the lyrics tapes so they can hear it
thinks they don't fear it wait til they can clear it
with tapes and the emcee at the mix shows thinkin' in quick flows,
I'm waitin' for my chance to flip prose
Save the drama for your baby mama 
I wrote a comma at the end of ninety one
I'm back to bomb ya kid
you better come correct to streets save the week,
cause we're brining it from crates to concrete.

- Kish "Crates to Concrete" from the 1994 album A Nation of Hoods.

Check out Silent Cacophony today to see the autograph I got from Kish back when this album first dropped.

Lost Sight

Here it is, Muneshine's favourite track from the legendary emcee, D-sisive.



- D-sisive "Lost Sight" Remix

If you like this old school track, check out

D-sisive Then - The university newspaper article / interview I wrote from nearly 10 years ago.

D-sisive Now - The radio interview I did with him earlier this summer.

Teachers Suck

- Tom Green "Teachers Suck"

It's almost back to school time.
Thought I'd share this with you.
Love this track (which is weird since I am a teacher)
But it's funny.

Say Hello, Not Goodbye

- Eternia and MoSS "Goodbye" from the amazing album "At Last"

"Many labels slept on a chick,
 they wouldn't sign me."

I don't get that at all. She is awesome. Go buy her album and support real hip-hop.

I Got A Man

Remember this jam from way back in the day. Positive K "I Got a Man" from 1992.

Canadian Hip-Hop Heads Need To See This

"They call me the Godfather of Canadian hip-hop, but I’ve been studying Shad, studying D-Sisive, I’ve been studying Saukrates. I’m a student of hip-hop – that’s how we grow."

- Maestro Fresh Wes

This is an amazing post and video that every Canadian hip-hop head needs to check.

http://www.astorynoonetold.com/blog/2010/7/1/pass-the-mic-8-mcs-blow-up-the-history-of-canadian-rap.html

I've only taken one small piece of it to post up on Anything Goes Fridays. Please click the link to see and read more.

This Female MC is Amazing!

I've been a fan of Eternia since I first heard her about ten years ago. I recently met her and conducted an interview that will be posted on Silent Cacophony soon. I tell ya, if I wasn't a fan before that, I love her even more now. She was such an awesome person to talk to.

Her new album, At Last with producer MoSS came out yesterday. It is simply amazing. I love it.

If you like this video, please go out and support two amazing artists by buying their album. MoSS has been making a lot of noise lately producing some bangers for quite a few different artists.

I hope you enjoy this video.

Wedding Funeral

What?!? Wednesday this week is featuring Ivan Ives "Wedding Song"

It's the fifth release for his "First of the Month" project. He releases a new song and video on the first day of every month. Support it if you like it and go buy his stuff. I've been copping all these on iTunes. One dollar a month is manageable isn't it?

Shad Always Comes Correct

Shad always come correct when it comes to music and video. This one is simply amazing from start to finish.

Check it out - "Rose Garden" from the album TSOL

The LOST Mixtape

"Making a mixed CD is an art. When done well, the end-result is a beautiful, well-constructed piece of work... A true mixed CD requires thought. It's a recipe, a thought process, an expression."*

With that said, I'd like to present you with "The LOST Mixtape"

I made it partially because things have been up in the air for me a bit lately. I've been feeling kind of lost. That tied in with the LOST television series finale that aired this weekend and sparked the idea for this tape.

This is a mixed tape where all of the songs blend into each other. It's based on the show and focused around the theme of being lost.

I hope you enjoy it.

Create a playlist at MixPod.com

You can also download this tape for free, Side A and Side B

Enjoy! 

Oh, and just for fun, please leave me a comment either here or on Twitter about this mix. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the theme, the song selection, the order of the songs, and how they tie in to the LOST television series. 

The best comments will be put into a draw and you could win something. I'm not sure what yet but it will be cool. However, it might just get "lost" in the mail (I'm kidding.)

*Quotation is from "Tape That" by Roxanne Hathway-Baxer from Andy Magazine: 100 Mile Music Issue, Spring 2010