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This iz the muthafuckin nigga. Bodie Broadus. True Soldier!!! My nigga A.I. keepz shit hood yo! Martin Scorsese aka The Mastermind of gangster drama The mad man Bobby D. Larenz My girl MiMi Jessica(sigh)!!!
My Favorite albums both rap and r&b in no paticular order.Tupac Shakur Me Against The World released February 27, 1995 Favorite track: Outlaw; On it2pac vents about violence in the ghetto and being wrongly convicted.This is without a doubt my favorite 2pac album. It was recorded before and while he was recovering from his Novermber 1994 shooting as well as during and after his sexual abuse trial. As a result of these circumstances, Me Against The World has been known to create deep feelings of paronoia, lust, violence, passion, hope, and nostalgia in the hearts of it's listeners. A remarkable and insightful musical achievement. The Notorious BIG Ready To Die released September 13, 1994. Favorite Tracks: Things Done Changed; A cynical song that opens with Biggie describing the good ol' days of peace and prosperity then flashes 15 years later to the same neighborhood overcome with graphic violence, drug dealing, and robbery. Set in 1993 Brooklyn./ Warning; Biggie recieves word that his enemies are plotting to assassinate him. Here he describes his paranoia, war tactics and defense strategies./ Ready To Die is what I consider to be the Koran of crime rap. But it's much more than that. It's songs contain everything from homicide narratives ("Warning") to braggadocios battle raps ("The What," "Unbelievable"). Finally, the album ends with "Suicidal Thoughts," a song where The Notorious B.I.G. cotemplates suicide and then actually commits it. A masterpiece.Jodeci The Show, The After Party, The Hotel released July 18, 1995 Favorite track: Freek N You; Sexually explicit track. Production wise Devante takes it to the album to the next level and with their soulful deliveries, front men Kci & Jojo seal the deal. The Show is electrifying, The After party rocks, and The Hotel sizzles. 2Pac All Eyez On Me released Febuary 13, 1996 Favorite tracks: Ambitious Az A Ridah; Probably the most sinister song on the album./ Got My Mind Made Up; With the addition of Red and Meth, this track is a lyrical master piece./ No More Pain; Intensly emotional and full of rage. One of my favorite songs, period./ What more can i say? It's All Eyez On Me! If u don't know u better ask somebody muthafuckaaaaaa!!!! Nas It Was Written released July 2, 1996 Favorite Track: Shoot Outs; Narative about violent shoot outs which take place in broad day light in and around the Queensbridge Housing Projects, hence the title shoot outs. With vivid descriptions of it's enviorment and well rounded characters shoot outs is not just one of my favorite Nas tracks but one of my favorite in hip hop history./ It Was Written is the second album by Queensbridge rapper Nas. Primarily produced by Poke and Tone of Trackmasters Entertainment, It Was Written was a departure from the underground flavoured Illmatic, towards a more commercial fare. Although, upon its release, critical reaction to it was divided, the album's standing has improved considerably over time. It remains Nas's best-selling album. Aaliyah One In A Million released August 27, 1996 Favorite track: One In A Million; the album was notable for being Aaliyah's breakout album and for being a major landmark in the careers of songwriter/producer Missy Elliott and Tim "Timbaland" Mosley. Elliott and Mosley wrote and produced the bulk of the album. Makeveli The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory released November 5, 1996 Favorite Tracks: Me & My Girlfriend; Dark and bloody tale about a man and his "girl friend" going to war with makaveli's numerous enemies. The term Girl Friend in this song is used as a metaphor for fire arm. This is without a doubt 2Pac/Makaveli's most creative song. It's never mentioned that the song is metaphoric but rather it is up to the listener to figure this out by using the clues given in the songs lyrics. Such as, "I love finger fucking you/ all of a sudden i'm hearing thunder/ when you bust a nut, niggas be duckin and taking numbers" or " Picked you up when you was 9/ started out my life of crime with you/ bought you some shells when you turned 22", etc./ The album was completely finished in a total of seven days during the month of August of 1996. The lyrics were written and recorded in only three days and mixing took an additional four days. Hence tthe title The 7 Day Theory. These are among the very last songs he recorded before his fatal shooting on September 7, 1996. Although The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released almost two months after his death, on November 5th 1996, it is not a true posthumous album in the way that the later 2Pac albums are, since he completed the album before his death. It has been recognized as a classic by many critics and fans. The raw emotion and anger showcased on the album has been admired by a large part of the hip-hop community, including other rappers. The album made its debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 663,000 copies in the first week, making Shakur the first rapper to have two #1 albums in one year. As of 1998, the album had sold over seven million copies in America alone and 28 million copies worldwide.
Anything by Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarrantino, The Hughes Brothers and Michael Mannn.
The Wire, Oz, and The Sopranos are the greatest shows in television history. Period!Horror writer Stephen King's review of HBO's The Wire:In David Simon's version of Dante's Inferno, Hell is played by Baltimore and all seven of the deadly sins are doing just fine, thanks. Midlevel drug dealers welcome fall by giving their corner boys money for new clothes — a little perk to keep them happy and moving those spider-bags and red-tops. The bigger crooks give to the politicians to make sure the influence keeps flowing. The only difference is the amount changing hands. And Lester Freamon, a detective Sherlock Holmes might hail as a peer, has an aha moment while looking at an abandoned row house — one of thousands in the city's decaying core — on a chilly winter afternoon. ''This is a tomb,'' he says.Welcome to Hell...and to the world of The Wire, season 4, bowing on HBO in September.Lester's right, by the way. There's a body in the row house he's looking at, and two dozen or so others. They are victims of a stealth gang war being waged by Avon Barksdale's successor, the handsome, dead-eyed Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector). But it wasn't Marlo who kept me riveted, or kept me plugging HBO's semidefective preview discs into my DVD player with increasing dread and fascination; that honor belonged to Marlo's hired hit team of Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and Snoop (Felicia Pearson). The latter is perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series. When you think of Chris and Snoop, think of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, only smart.And with a nail gun.The Wire is smart too, but never too smart for its own good. There's enough going on about the decay of the urban environment to scare the living crap out of you, but no one climbs up on a soapbox. Not even Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen), the white man who would be mayor in a black city, does any preaching; he only runs, harder and faster, as he sees a chance of winning — slim, but real — appear late in the primary campaign.Season 4 of The Wire is a dazzling three-ring circus of interwoven plot threads, and its take on America's drug war makes Miami Vice look like a Saturday-morning cartoon, but what I kept coming back to was Detective Freamon looking at that boarded-up row house and saying, ''This is a tomb.'' Simon and his gifted co-conspirators (they include novelists Richard Price, George Pelecanos, and Dennis Lehane) aren't shy about extending the metaphor to all of Baltimore...and then suggesting you connect the dots to your own urban jungle.Roland ''Prez'' Pryzbylewski has quit Baltimore PD to become a middle-school math teacher, only to discover that in the age of No Child Left Behind, he's working another part of the same cemetery. He scrapes the gum off the bottoms of desks, takes attendance, passes around out-of-date textbooks (while new computers gather dust in unopened boxes due to a bureaucratic snafu), and preps students to pass state tests. He finds himself still ''juking the stats'' to please his superiors, only now in his grade book instead of his arrest reports. And cleaning up the blood when a disturbed child cuts another in class, disfiguring her badly. Prez gets at least some good news (because even in Hell, there's good news): The kid who was cut tested negative for HIV. So no worries there, mate.When this run of 13 episodes begins, the original wire — a listening post designed to target and build cases against drug barons like Marlo — has been taken down, mostly by that constant need to juke the numbers. But in the school where Prez is actually making some progress, another kind of wire pops up: a unique class for corner boys and girls, the Marlos of the future, run by another Baltimore PD burnout who veteran Wire watchers will recognize: Maj. Howard ''Bunny'' Colvin, now retired. It's a classroom where there's some hope for change; it's also a room where adults can look — and listen in — on a world that is otherwise closed to them.In a normal TV series, this is where AU (Automatic Uplift) would kick in. Not in Simon's Baltimore, where uplift is possible...but where viewers will also be shocked when one beloved character inadvertently feeds his friend a hot shot, killing him. Shocked, but not surprised. Because the world of The Wire is a tomb filled with the living dead. A few fight their way out, but not unless they can beat the streets, themselves, and the vast dead engine of the entrenched bureaucracy.Even City Hall is a tomb, as Tommy Carcetti learns: ''You're sitting eating s--- all day long, day after day, year after year,'' a former mayor tells him. For a politician in David Simon's Baltimore, there's only one thing worse than losing, and I probably don't need to tell you what that is.The Wire keeps getting better, and to my mind it has made the final jump from great TV to classic TV — put it right up there with The Prisoner and the first three seasons of The Sopranos. It's the sort of dramatic cycle people will still be writing and thinking about 25 years from now, and given the current state of the world and the nation, that's a good thing. ''There,'' our grandchildren will say. ''It wasn't all Simon Cowell.''No. There was also Chris and Snoop. Their terrible nail gun. And the empty houses that have become tombs, standing as silent symbols for what has become of some of our inner cities. The Wire is a staggering achievement. - Stephen King August 5, 2006
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