I’ve been working a bit on the lyrics pages in our blog. I put a main lyrics page (A Look Inside the Lyrics) thats going to have the main posts about the lyrics on the top level. I put in a mini-highlight of Pigeon John already into the second tier, and will update it if I find more videos and interviews. I was thinking about doing one or two more artists to highlight specifically, as well as the “how-to” idea. If you guys think of any artists that would be good to highlight, reply here and I’ll check them out!
Dale
Daily Archives: April 16th, 2008
KRS-ONE BIOGRAPHY:
KRS-One was born on 1965, in Brooklyn, of Nigerian and Jamaican descent. The rapper left home at the age of 14 to play basketball and read books, free of his authorities, his mother and the New York City public school system.
KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone).
KRS caused controversy when he was quoted in a panel discussion hosted by The New Yorker magazine as saying that “we cheered when 9/11 happened”. The comment drew criticism from many sources, including the New York Daily News that called KRS an “anarchist” and said that “If Osama bin Laden ever buys a rap album, he’ll probably start with a CD by KRS-One.” In late 2005, KRS released a remix of the song “Bin Laden”, which blames U.S. conservatives, the Reagan Doctrine and U.S. President George W. Bush for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The album, titled Hip-Hop Lives, was released in May 2007 with Marley Marl as the executive producer. This is a historical hip hop album in the sense that 20 years ago, KRS and Marl were once bitter rivals involved in the legendary Bridge Wars. It all happened with one phone call,” Marley Marl told during a March 2006 interview. “They called me and he jumped on the phone and told me it would be spectacular for Hip Hop…My reason for doing this is to show these kids that Hip Hop beefs are not that serious.” Read more about KRS-One’s envlovement in the Bridge Wars in our beef section by clicking here. “Kill A Rapper”, a track from the album focuses on the unsolved murders of several of rap’s biggest stars and asks why no one has ever been brought to justice.
KRS-One & Marley Marl Lyrics
Hip Hop Lives
Hip Hop
We gotta think about the children we bringing up
When Hip and Hop means intelligence springing up
We singing what?
Sickness Hatred Ignorance and Poverty
Or Health Love Awareness and Wealth
Follow me
I come back
Every year I get newer
That’s right
I come back
This Hip Hop
We gone last forever
KRS-ONE & Marley Marl “Hip Hop Lives”
Been working a little bit on the project. I setup the blog into pages to allow the user to choose between pages as they wish but each page will have a suggestion (link) to continue to the next page in our order. I’ve looked at a lot of material for the underground to include in my section. I already starting put a little up that can be checked out here.
I also started with the Mixtape using Miwwit. Just ran into a little problem. I included the link to the mixtape but couldn’t get it embedded into the post. Whats the tip? I used the code tried through HTML, ect. Any suggestions please let me know. I chose 12 or 13 songs I think and I listed them out in the post. I havent gone through and given a description / reason for my choices yet though.
I’ll post more about my topic throughout the week.
-Ray
We’ve decided on Get Low by Lil Jon (i believe) for our DJ for a day. To me this song is about as crunk as it gets. Just watching the video is convincing enough. I’ll provide a link to the music video as well as the lyrics. To me, the most important aspect of the song is who it targets. The target group is people in their 20’s: people that would frequently go to clubs and parties (i.e. college kids). The song has themes that, although may seem extremely offensive and inapporpirate to some, the targeted group can associate and relate to. They include dancing, drinking, and sexy or wild acts, all of which can easlily be understood as party activities. It easy to see how easy this music is accepted, almost needed, in social situations where people are having a good time.
