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{{Friday's Five Freshest}}




















"and then She arrived. like daybreak inside a railway tunnel. like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines, like high noon to a drunkerd. Sudden." ~Mos Def











5 Thought provokiing songs

Click the tiny play button on the boombox above to hear the songs; all the buttons work.


5} iignorant shiit: Jay Z {ameriican gangster}






"ii make some thoughful, vocal shiit"...





the True mr. Carter haiils iin the iintro of the song.

and thus he does.

the take of thiis partiicular song,

iis hiis iironic depectiion of hiim gloriifiing

iignorant shiit".



the chorus goes on to giive you

"that iignorant shiit you need".

from Hov's standpoiint,

he iintends to send a deeper

more iintellectual message


that screams *Poliitiics*!!!!!





iin the 3rd verse

Jay speaks Truth,

"are you sayiiin what iim spiittiin/

iis worse than these celebrutants

showiin thiier kiitten/

you kiiddiin'!/

lets stop the Bullshiittiin'/

to we all wiithout siin?/

lets quiit the pullpiittiin'."

now who learned a

Valuable lesson from

Hov today?

Feel It

4}glorious: Sa-Ra {the hollywood recordiings}

Sa-Ra's melodiic beat

and robotiic vocals

wiill sparks some seriious

Thoughts.

thiis song iis

buiilt around an

One Word Chorus.

{Gloriious}

iits an uncanny Love Song

that expresses depth

of a Woman's beauty,

conviiently deemiing the song

and iits Muse,

Gloriious.

"and even iin the Darkness/

ii can stiill see you/

ii'm iin awe of your Beauty/

and your Essence/

tell me thiis iis true/

GLORIOUS."

ahhhhh shiit!

iits bananas.

please check iit out.

Feel It

3}put you on Game: Lupe Fiasco {the cool}

"they love my darkness/

ii make them heartless/

and iin return they have become/

my martyrs."

WTF Lupe?!

you done diid It agiian!!!!

and ii love It!

thiis song entaiils deep thought.

who or what iis he exactly

tryiing to showcase iin thiis song?

iis He money?

"one of the most anciient-est of thiings/

speak every siingle language on the planet/

Yao Miing?"

iis He politics?

"ii am the ameriican dream/

the rape of Afriica/

the undyiing machiine/

the overpriiced mediicine/

the murderous regiime."

iis He violence?

"the gun shots iin the class/

and you cant pass iif you miissiin G/

ii taught them better than that/

ii taught them aiim for the head/

and hope they never come back."

deep lyriical content there...

can you fucks wiith it?

leave comments,

to diiscuss Lupe's complex

storytelliing.

hell, ii wanna know too!

Feel It

2}on & on:Erykah Badu {baduizm}

throughout thiis song,

Erykah Badu discusses

The Nation of Gods and Earths;

more commonly known as,

the Five Percent Nation.

she descriibes the teachiings

and the beliief system,

iin whiich they do beliieve.

"iif we were made iin

Hiis iimage,/

then call us by our name/

most iiintellects do not beliieve

iin God/

but they fear Us just the same.

thiis lyriic depiicts thiier beliief.

they viiew themselves as God;

iindiiviidually and collectiivley.

Very iinterestiing song/art.

iits very abstract,

yet fulfiilliing.

good liisten.

Feel It

1}gotta fiind Peace of miind:Lauryn Hill {mtv unplugged}

not only does thiis musiic

provoke thought,

iit also evokes emotiion.

ms. Hill's raspy voiice

over striipped acoustiic guiitar notes,

exudes a poiignant message.

we all are famiilar of

L Boogiie's struggle wiith her

battle of

Geniius

and

iinsaniity.

and iin thiis very song

she addresses that exact

feeliing.

the song transforms from a chant

to an Heartfelt Prayer.

there iis a turniing poiint

iin the song,

when she crys,

"Touch my mouth wiith Your hands".

after a few more harmonies,

she begiins to speak pharses that hold

Serious Substance.

she speaks as iif she holds

Revaltiions iinside her beiing.

"He's my Peace of Miind/

what a Joy iit iis to be Aliive/

to get another chance/

Every Day's another chance/

To get IT Riight thiis tiime."

although she criies whiile siingiing,

iit iis very pleasant to liisten.

iit is,

Poetry from the Heavens.

FEEL IT.

floatiing hiigh.

the Words are Aliive.

~???