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Lennox — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:27:24 -0000

Tay, I love your writing, man, but you're wrong (and totally right at the same time). Struggle sees no color, amigo.

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thefoulness — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:16:05 -0000

ah ha ha jigga what? funny funny

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CitizenE — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:16:56 -0000

But with popular music isn't that the way. Like your pop, I find, sometimes, rap lyrics novel--love the bounce, the roll of syllables, the syncopation, the drive for meaning coupled with percussive virtuosity, but ultimately hiphop style doesn't speak to me the way other music does. But what I want is for every generation to dream up its own songscape, as long as they can remember what went down before once drove the whole world wild, what will come after will be strange and maybe elusive.

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MPresto — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:53:06 -0000

TNC,

I'm always pleasantly surprised by your love for W Coast Hip-Hop.

Xzibit is one of the more underrated MCs in the game for sure. Not as underrated as Ras Kass, but that's a diff story/

I've got to say that for my money my favorite video is by the Pharcyde - Drop.

Good lookin out on the posting a vid from the Black Bruce Willis!

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Dan Fox — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:33:13 -0000

definitely, that's a great video

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Dan Fox — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:32:11 -0000

best part of the question is that the OP basically originally asked "jigga who? jigga what?"

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EllisCarver — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:03:27 -0000

My favorite hip-hop video was Ghostface's Daytona 500, where it was made to look like Speedracer and co. were spitting Wu lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKJZJITZHw

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TKG — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:24:41 -0000

I remember being blown by the interview with Willie D where he explained moving to Azerbaijan because he wasn’t comfortable raising his kids in the permissive media culture of Paris. Willie D saw naked people in the pool, and sex on TV and felt he couldn't raise his kids there. I think the quote was"Just like you need to let a hoe be a hoe you neeed to let a kid be a kid"

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thefoulness — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:16:33 -0000

OK, I grew up banned from watching MTV, which was total bullshit, so I feel the need to go a different route with my daughter. But TNC, at what age did you start letting the kid listen to Ghostface? When Fishscale came out, did you explain that bit of title slang to him? Does he sing along to stuff like Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin to Fuck With?

How do you draw the line on what the kid can and can't listen to? And did it start at a certain age? Or was it okay to bump Slick Rick at age 6?

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thefoulness — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:12:55 -0000

ah ha ha ha ha! that's some funny shiz

jigga is jay-z

aka jay-hova (jehova, the god mc)

aka hova

aka jigga man

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sporcupine — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:06:29 -0000

House rule that mattered to our daughters: no MTV without dad.

House rule that matters for our son: you can stay up until midnight to watch Colbert with your parents only if you can get out of bed on your own in the morning.

So far, the results are highly satisfactory, as well as fun.

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Jonathan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:55:12 -0000

In comparison, my pop finds rap lyrics novel, but ultimately they don't speak to him. Despite his being in many ways more liberal - more out there - than me, his cultural and artistic values are from another time. We do occasionally smoke an old man pinner together, but he's not in my world; I wish he were. I can't imagine what that might've been like. It excites me for parenthood in the hope that I can be that.

Xzibit's one of the Nicest Guys In Show Business, and this video is his crowning achievement. Class act, that one.

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Jordan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:35:58 -0000

See, the idea that hip-hop heads would never have kids seems odd to me. I've certainly heard enough of them rapping about either a) having kids someday (for some reason I'm thinking Ghostface, but I can't remember the details at the moment) or b) already having kids (most notably in my mind, Outkast). On the flip side, there's certainly that bit from Illmatic "I won't plant seeds, don't need another mouth I can't feed".

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keith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:05:27 -0000

I hear ya, I too suffer from "good ole days" syndrome. This video kind seems like the hip-hop version of Jill Scotts, "A Long Walk".

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sansouci — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:46:01 -0000

C'mon, give it up, he was hilarious on "Pimp My Ride". But point taken.

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sansouci — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:43:37 -0000

That is a hot one, definitely one of the greats. This back to back with Cube's "It Was a Good Day," is a hell of a parallel imagining. This is why my (college) students always hear me sound like grumpy old guy when I talk about contemporary mainstream hip hop. Where's the thought, the creativity? Where's the complex Vision? "You whippersnappers get off of my lawn!"

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yoshi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:05:56 -0000

who, or what, is jigga?

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blackink — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:54 -0000

Dude, it's sad to think that Xzibit will probably be remembered more for "Pimp My Ride" and not "At the Speed of Life" or "40 Dayz and 40 Nightz."

Yep. This video was a classic.

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Kobayashi Maru — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:16:55 -0000

Hmmm... an Xzibit video embedded in your post?

MUST... RESIST... "'SUP DAWG" MEME!!!!!