I don't even know who Ricardo Willalobo is

[John Clees]

^^

ask him:





N.Y. State Of Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjj4hk0pV4

Intro: Nas

Yeah yeah, aiyyo black it's time (word?)
(Word, it's time nigga?)
Yeah, it's time man (aight nigga, begin)
Yeah, straight out the fuckin dungeons of rap
Where fake niggaz don't make it back
I don't know how to start this sh!t, yo, now

Verse One: Nas

Rappers I monkey flip em with the funky rhythm I be kickin
Musician, inflictin composition
of pain I'm like Scarface sniffin cocaine
Holdin a M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now
Bulletholes left in my peepholes
I'm suited up in street clothes
Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay
I keep some E&J, sittin bent up in the stairway
Or either on the corner bettin Grants with the celo champs
Laughin at baseheads, tryin to sell some broken amps
G-Packs get off quick, forever niggaz talk sh!t
Remeniscing about the last time the Task Force flipped
Niggaz be runnin through the block shootin
Time to start the revolution, catch a body head for Houston
Once they caught us off guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and
I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin
Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up," the Mac spit
Lead was hittin niggaz one ran, I made him backflip
Heard a few chicks scream my arm shook, couldn't look
Gave another squeeze heard it click yo, my sh!t is stuck
Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot now I'm in danger
Finally pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber
So now I'm jetting to the building lobby
and it was filled with children probably couldn't see as high as I be
(So whatchu sayin?) It's like the game ain't the same
Got younger niggaz pullin the triggers bringing fame to they name
and claim some corners, crews without guns are goners
In broad daylight, stickup kids, they run up on us
Fo'-fives and gauges, Macs in fact
Same niggaz'll catch a back to back, snatchin yo' cracks in black
There was a snitch on the block gettin niggaz knocked
So hold your stash until the coke price drop
I know this crackhead, who said she gotta smoke nice rock
And if it's good she'll bring ya customers in measuring pots, but yo
You gotta slide on a vacation
Inside information keeps large niggaz erasin and they wives basin
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind

("New York state of mine" --> Rakim *repeat 4X*)

Verse Two: Nas

Be havin dreams that I'ma gangster -- drinkin Moets, holdin Tecs
Makin sure the cash came correct then I stepped
Investments in stocks, sewein up the blocks
to sell rocks, winnin gunfights with mega cops
But just a nigga, walking with his finger on the trigger
Make enough figures until my pockets get bigger
I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin
Give me a Smith and Wessun I'll have niggaz undressin
Thinkin of cash flow, buddah and shelter
Whenever frustrated I'ma hijack Delta
In the P.J.'s, my blend tape plays, bullets are strays
Young bitches is grazed each block is like a maze
full of black rats trapped, plus the Island is packed
From what I hear in all the stories when my peoples come back, black
I'm livin where the nights is jet black
The fiends fight to get crack I just max, I dream I can sit back
and lamp like Capone, with drug scripts sewn
Or the legal luxury life, rings flooded with stones, homes
I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain
and be prosperous, though we live dangerous
cops could just arrest me, blamin us, we're held like hostages
It's only right that I was born to use mics
and the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dice
I'm takin rappers to a new plateau, through rap slow
My rhymin is a vitamin, Hell without a capsule
The smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in your box if your sh!t eats tapes
The city never sleeps, full of villians and creeps
That's where I learned to do my hustle had to scuffle with freaks


I'ma addict for sneakers, twenties of buddah and bitches with beepers
In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
Nothing's equivalent, to the new york state of mind

("New York state of mind" --> Rakim *repeat 4X*)
("Nasty Nas" --> cut and scratched 8X)

[grace anxiety]

Sinatra and Notorious B.I.G. New York New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZ6Uq4L ... re=related

[ballyhoo]

what is the point of this kind of attitude?

the detroit debate has been of hot contention for as long as i can remember. i don't know why or when exactly, but part of the attitude stems from the fact that, though people always credit detroit as the birthplace and a major point in history, no one gives it anything more than that. its just a footnote to people, and anyone that has worked so hard to get where they are and do what they do, especially in a city as desolate and harsh as detroit, only to get brushed under the rug and to play second fiddle to people that used their concepts (or even their loops) and made something else that garnered a lot of praise? that sht hurts, man. .

I've never actually read anything to date other than the above to even "attempt" to put things in perspective..

its very difficult (almost impossible) to "explain" detroit to others.. it's a state of mind..

but this analogy - is pretty much right on the mark....

fantastic incite eric - I thought this should be noted..

seconded. while i can never empathize with detroit, i am respectful of this mindset.

johnclees, the author of the omar-s interview made the case for detroit here (the meatiest exchange was part III): http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2008/06/det ... -part.html

if you read the dude's blog infinitestatemachine though, you see how ugly the defense mechanism element.8 talks about can get. they post good mixes though.

[cloutier]

seconded. while i can never empathize with detroit, i am respectful of this mindset.

johnclees, the author of the omar-s interview made the case for detroit here (the meatiest exchange was part III): http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2008/06/det ... -part.html

if you read the dude's blog though, you see how ugly the defense mechanism element.8 talks about can get. they post good mixes though.

wait, is it pipecock that did the interview and such? if so, it really explains a lot...

[ballyhoo]

yeah pipecock wrote the omar-s interview. i kinda question his journalism, given what i know about his position on dance music. it reminds of a political blog, because there's a subtext to what's being written.

even though i want to just read and listen to dance music without getting too serious about it, i'm not going to shy away from trying to understand what people's motives are. it's my responsibility to be an informed citizen; it's no different when it comes to understanding music and culture.

[Del]

I'm surprised nobody has made comparisons to the Jay Haze interview a couple of years back when he was 'dissing' Hawtin and co. Again that was blown all out of proportion.

For what it's worth, I'm SURE Omar S has heard of Ricardo Villalobos and is aware of the hype that (rightly) surrounds him. In saying that he may never have met him, heard him DJ or own any of his records so when he says "who the fck is Willaloboss" I'm not entirely sure it should be taken so literally...

[antonio_pt]

the craze has started... just got sent this:

[Ingemar]

obviously techno is starting to move past the music