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I am a leader not a follower, I chose and lay the path I take, I let the Almighty God control this path. With out him all things are impossible, With him all things are possible. God has taught me to love myself and to share that love with others. With out this knowledge I am nothing. God has given me a gift to see things and accept them as they are. He has brought people in my life for a reason and a season.
Hate me or love me, would not matter, I'm still going to be me. Get ready, cause the the truth hurts, they say it hurts, Get used to it! There are no secrets, There is nothing to hide, I am my Brothers Keeper! Hate it or love it, and I Luv it, still on top.
A Black Queens Dream:
Keep your lies and negative thoughts to yourself. I don't have time for negative energy, There is no time to waste. I have plans for bigger and better things. I will not sink to your level, Because you are not happy with yourself. I told you this is a womans world, So Stop blaming me, for your Failures. You are old news, like yesterday news, this right here is new news!
You want to know me, you want to know what I'm about? You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
We Making moves, Expanding, Growing, Will soon be in other states, While you are still stuck in one place!
She is HIP HOP: Baby Girl
1. 1973-4: DJ Kool Herc rocks the block South Bronx in the Seventies was a ghost town,' Rodney Cee of old school pioneers Funky 4 + 1 tells OMM. Not welcome in the glitzy discos of the era, the borough's residents turn to Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant who adapts reggae's sound-system culture for New Yorkers, staging impromptu street parties, powering his twin record decks from lampposts. (According to Cee, the police weren't too concerned about the illegal use of the city's power supply because 'it kept all the kids in one place, they could keep an eye on us.') Playing the rock-hard funk ignored uptown, Herc notices the dancers' energy peaks during the records' instrumental passages. His crucial innovation is to isolate these segments, or 'breakbeats', cutting back and forth between two tunes, calling on 'B-boys' ('break-boys') to let fly. It takes until late 1979 and early '80 for hip hop to find its own distinct voice, but the story starts here.
2. 1979: Rappers' delight As rap spreads across New York, Sylvia Robinson, former r'n'b singer turned boss of independent label Sugar Hill, assembles the Sugarhill Gang with the specific aim of bringing out the first rap record. For 'Rapper's Delight', they borrow the rhythm track from Chic's 'Good Times' and appropriate rhymes from Casanova Fly of rival MCs the Cold Crush Brothers (on the record, Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank spells Caz's name out as if it's his own). The South Bronx's original crews, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 and Funky 4+1, are, of course, furious that someone has stolen their baby, but no one can deny that the record opens doors for everyone. Released at the tail end of 1979, 'Rapper's Delight' becomes a global hit (with many radio DJs playing the full-length 16-minute version), spreading rap beyond New York for the first time. Within weeks Furious 5 ('Superappin") and Funky 4 ('Rappin' & Rocking The House') release their own singles, before touring in support of the Sugarhill Gang - presumably feeling less envious than before.
3) 1979: Kurtis blow makes the break Major labels move quickly to secure a piece of the action and Mercury are first in the queue with Kurtis Blow, releasing 'Christmas Rappin' in late '79, followed by his single 'The Breaks', the first hip hop disc to be certified gold. Sadly, Blow proves less durable than his manager Russell Simmons, also the founder of Def Jam, and hip hop's first great mogul.
4) 1982: Get the message A blistering protest record marks the moment rap attains gravitas - and it makes the UK Top 10. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five initially reject 'The Message', written by teacher Duke Bootee - but the Sugar Hill label assure them it has street cred. Melle Mel provides the hard-hitting climactic verse, Bootee does the rest.
5) 1984: War on wax Verbal wars become a feature of hip hop, sparked by a 'beef' between a group of sexists (UTFO) and feisty teenage single mum (Roxanne Shante). Others join in, including UTFO's own protegee the Real Roxanne, inspiring untold records, but Shante's original 'Roxanne's Revenge' is the clear winner. She later earns a psychology PhD.
6) 1986: Run DMC walk this way These days rappers launch their own clothing brands before the ink is dry on their first royalty cheque, but it was Run DMC who bagged the first sponsorship deal thanks to the most original pitch imaginable. The New York trio had recorded 'My Adidas', more as statement of identity than tribute, and Russell Simmons (now the group's manager) determined to capitalise on their endorsement. Headlining Madison Square Garden in 1986, Simmons has a bunch of the clothing company's executives stand in the wings. Before performing the song, an R'n'B Top 10 single, Russell's brother and group frontman, Joseph 'Run' Simmons, invites the 20,000 crowd to peel off their Adidas trainers and wave them in the air. The assembled bigwigs can't help but be impressed. The group get their deal, worth $1.5m, and the company begin manufacturing Run DMC tracksuits and 'shelltoe' trainers. It is the group's next single, however, that really catapults them into the mainstream. Producer Rick Rubin, who'd grown up a heavy metal fan, decides they should cover Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way' with the rockers themselves. Run DMC are aghast, denouncing the track, which they've never previously heard beyond the drum-break intro, as 'hillbilly gibberish bullshit'. But the collaboration proves ingenious, boosted by a canny video depicting the two groups as warring neighbours banging on each other's walls. The fledgling MTV, which had reluctantly accepted their 'Kings of Rock' video, embraces 'Walk This Way' with relish. It crashes into charts worldwide and Raising Hell , the accompanying album, becomes hip hop's first multi-platinum seller.
7) 1987: Ladies Love Cool James LL Cool J, a teenage braggart wearing big gold chains, is hip hop's first major solo star but causes outrage among hardcore fans by changing direction with the soppy ballad 'I Need Love'. It proves the ladies do love Cool James - and women grow to love hip hop too.
8) 1987: The Beastie Boys Kick It The Beasties' arrival in the UK, supporting Run DMC on tour, marks the great British public's first - and very inauspicious - exposure to hip hop. The enfants terribles of rap are beasted by the tabloids, who accuse them of mocking handicapped kids, inspiring the mass theft of BMW insignia and smashing a beer can into a girl's face onstage in Liverpool. Scolded, the Beasties (unlike the tabloids) rethink their approach, turning towards Buddhism and befriending the Dalai Lama among other pursuits. In the UK, the seed of an idea is sown...
9) 1987-88: Fight the power Public Enemy are fronted by an eloquent militant, Chuck D, with a gurning sidekick called Flava Flav, flanked by 'security forces' who parade toy guns. Albums such as Fear of a Black Planet show once and for all how hip hop can get political on yo' ass, even if Professor Griff maintains that white people are descended from an experimental cross-breed of humans and dogs.
10) 1998: Salt-n-Pepa push it Other female MCs were more gifted but none could match the sense of unbridled fun that made Salt-n-Pepa hip hop's first female stars. Singles such as 'Push It' rival Madonna in their overt celebration of female sexuality, and though their ghost-written lyrics irritate purists, no other group can boast a woman DJ, as scratch-track 'Spinderella's Not a Fella' makes plain.
11) 1990: Vanilla Ice's Flava Hip hop claims to be the 'realest' but it's also uniquely suited to novelty records, as hits from comedian Mel Brooks ('Hitler Rap') and TV puppet Roland Rat ('Rat Rappin") prove. Others who profitably mine a pre-adolescent mindset include Will Smith, whose hits include 'Parents Just Don't Understand', and MC Hammer, whose all-round showmanship and voluminous Aladdin pants conceal everything but his overarching ambition. Most controversial, though, is a white Texan, Vanilla Ice. In 1990, Ice and Hammer are the bestselling artists of the year. Alas, both try to reinvent themselves as credible performers, and suffer as a result. Hammer returns as a gangsta with Funky Headhunter to uproarious laughter, while Vanilla Ice's career founders when he protests too loudly about his street credentials. 'What street?' asks Ice-T. ' Sesame Street' ? He later ekes out a living on reality TV while Will Smith, who never pretended to be anything he wasn't, becomes a movie star.
12) 1989: The daisy age No single record does more to broaden hip hop's appeal than De La Soul's 3 Feet High & Rising , a kaleidoscopic montage of gameshow skits, pop samples and witty lyrics. Out go gold chains, aggro and a bad attitude; in come African beads, female fans and songs about losing your virginity.
13) This is London calling Britain has latched on to hip hop quickly but is slow to develop its own style. Some acts, like Derek B, ape America; female duo Cookie Crew make a hip-house single; and Rodney P's London Posse and Bristol's Wild Bunch start to explore their reggae roots. But by 1988 the dominant UK offshoot of American hip hop isn't reggae-rap but 'Britcore', a hyper-speed blizzard of noise indebted to Public Enemy. Its leaders are Hijack, a south London quartet who wear paramilitary clothing. When Tim Westwood plays their 'Hold No Hostage' on his Capital radio show, studio guest Ice-T signs the group to his Rhyme Syndicate label. The next year, 'The Badman Is Robbin' is the first UK rap single to be released on a US label.
14) 1990: 2 Live Crew get horny The Miami group 2 Live Crew earn the distinction of releasing the first record in America to be deemed legally obscene after a Florida judge studies the sleeve and listens to the lyrics (featuring almost 700 profanities) of their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be . Sales inevitably soar, the group are arrested performing in an adults-only club, liberal America rallies to their cause, and the court decision is overturned on appeal. 2 Live Crew's own career proves shortlived, but misogyny becomes a casual hip hop staple.
15) 1989: The West gets attitude The West Coast's first major stars, NWA, emerge from the suburb of Compton to offend everybody with their trailblazing portrayal of gang culture. Liberals hate their nihilism, parents their violence, reactionaries their licentiousness; but most of all, the FBI loathe their song 'Fuck tha Police', sending a 'cease and desist' letter. The group refuse to do so; rap takes off in the Sunshine State.
16) 1992: Hip Hop turns dope 'I don't smoke weed or sess, cause that'll only give a brother brain damage,' rapped Dr Dre on NWA's 'Express Yourself'. Now Dre has mellowed, releasing The Chronic , titled after a potent strain of weed. It features Snoop Dogg, an MC so laid back he'd happily watch ceiling-paint dry, and soon every album carries its own mary-jane eulogy. Before long, rappers even try ecstasy.
17) 1993: The Wu-Tang Brand The nine-strong Wu-Tang Clan challenge industry orthodoxy with a record deal that allows each member to sign a solo contract, letting them develop their own separate styles - it's a hip hop version of the Spice Girls. Method Man is sexy, GZA brainy, Raekwon scary and Ol' Dirty Bastard - who sadly dies as a result of his drug intake in 2004 - bonkers.
18) 1992: Rules of the biz A landmark legal case as Seventies soft-rocker Gilbert O'Sullivan sues much-loved comedy rapper Biz Markie for sampling his song 'Alone Again (Naturally)' without permission. The court rules that the samples be paid for, Biz's album ( I Need a Haircut ) is withdrawn and his career never recovers momentum. Hip hop's smash-and-grab culture is checked.
19) 1994: Dirty down south The success of OutKast's debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik breaks the East and West coast stranglehold on hip hop and paves the way for Master P (from New Orleans) and Nelly (St Louis) - although it's the Atlanta duo again who monopolise the top two slots in the US chart for a record eight straight weeks in 2003 with 'Hey Ya' and 'The Way You Move'.
20) 1996-7: Mad at cha The most infamous chapter in hip hop's history sees its two biggest solo stars murdered within six months of each other. It is the culmination of a feud, the East-West beef, sparked by the rivalry of two record label bosses (Death Row's Suge Knight representing LA and Puff Daddy of Bad Boy in New York) and personal animosity between the two stars, who are former friends. Although many assume these drive-by shootings are the inevitable conclusion of a conflict that is spilling over from art into life, the truth is more complicated. Biggie and Bad Boy were restrained in remarks about Tupac and Death Row despite the non-stop barrage aimed in their direction. Nick Broomfield's ..ary, Biggie and Tupac, implicates Knight in both slayings, but both cases remain unsolved.
21) 1991: Introducing Le 'Ip 'Op French-Senegalese artist MC Solaar becomes the first non-English-speaking rapper to earn critical renown - even if his appeal is restricted to the acid-jazz crowd. France still takes its place at the forefront of international hip hop.
22) 2000: Dido says 'Thank you' Hip hop has changed so much that the world's biggest star is a white rapper, a skinny kid from the trailer parks of Detroit who brilliantly marries an attitude and style borrowed from black culture with the angst of Kurt Cobain. And when Eminem lands a huge hit with 'Stan' by sampling Dido's 'Thank You', it is the hitherto unknown MOR chanteuse whose career suddenly takes off rather than vice versa. Last heard, Dido is threatening to sue her benefactor for $1.8m - but given the 12 million sales of her debut album No Angel , Eminem probably feels she owes him.
23) 2003: Dizzee Rascal fights the UK corner The prestigious Mercury Music Prize award marks an extraordinary triumph for Dizzee Rascal; not just because the 18-year- old debutant beats Coldplay, but also because UK hip hop has spent most of the Nineties rivalling teeth and British cuisine as a source of national embarrassment. Dizzee (Dylan Mills to his mum) bulldozes the most salient complaint - that domestic rappers are but pale imitations of their American counterparts, riding the wave of east London's new grime sound, which is equal parts hip hop, garage and demented techno. The future of the music looks as bright as ever.
24) 2004: Don't knock the hustle Sean Combs has mixed business interests with a performing career (with increasingly absurd aliases), but it's the ascent of former drug-dealer Jay-Z to the boardroom as head of Def Jam Records that truly defines hip hop's new capitalist ethos.
25) 2004: Fade to grey Producer Dangermouse proves that hip hop's outlaw spirit lives on, mixing and matching samples from the Beatles' White Album with material from Jay Z's Black Album to create his Grey Album . EMI halts a commercial release, so millions download the record from the web for free. The ultimate rap mix Twenty years of hip hop on an (old school) cassette tape? This is how we did it 1980 Kurtis Blow - The Breaks 1981 Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5 - Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels Of Steel 1982 Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock 1983 Run DMC - Sucker MCs 1984 Roxanne Shante - Roxanne's Revenge 1985 LL Cool J - Rock The Bells 1986 Eric B & Rakim - Eric B Is President 1987 Big Daddy Kane - Raw 1988 EPMD - You Gots To Chill 1989 NWA - Straight Outta Compton 1990 A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? 1991 Naughty By Nature - OPP 1992 Gang Starr - DWYCK 1993 Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck 1994 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin & Juice 1995 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt II 1996 Fugees - Killing Me Softly 1997 Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See 1998 Noreaga - Superthug 1999 Eminem - My Name Is 2000 Jay Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It To Me) 2001 Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope) 2002 Missy Elliott - Work It 2003 Dizzee Rascal - I Luv You 2004 Kanye West - Jesus Walks 2005 The Game featuring 50 Cent - How We Do 2006 Mary J Blige 2007