Classic Mos Def.

We both on assignment to unearth the diamond
When you start climbin’
And them eyes start shinin’
You be strugglin’ and strivin’
And they think you prime-timin’
Maintain and keep silent make note and observation
This confrontation
This is the daily operation
My concentration
Stay focused on my recitation
‘Bout to reach my destination with no pause or hesitation
Baby make the preparation ‘cuz this ain’t no recreation
This is Pro Ball!
And we lettin you know y’all
At the show y’all
Doin’ this for dough y’all
Get the phone call
And I’m ready to blow y’all
‘Bout to go y’all
Been a pleasure to know y’all

I guess great minds think alike. I just posted this Exhibit A / B / C track last week. It randomly popped back up in my mind after so many months and now its the audio they choose to use for this Boondocks season 3 trailer.

This upcoming season will be the FINAL SEASON. Pour some out.

Shout out to Donwizzy for the heads up.

Timothy Elpadaro Thedford aka Jay Electronica (Je’Ri Allah) is a rapper and producer known for his use of percussionist film soundtracks as a background for his abstract lyrical style, and his associations with Erykah Badu, Just Blaze and Nas.

He produced the first track, “Queens Get the Money”, on the 2008 Nas album Untitled. The unconventional nature of much of his music, and the lack of conventional release methods for that music, have since 2007 made him the object of much attention. He was perhaps best known for the piece of music Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), until the release of the Just Blaze-produced track “Exhibit C” in late 2009.

Tracks like this prove why Nas is one of the top (and one of my favorite) emcees.

Yes, over Jay-Z.

Quiet confession,
the system’s supplying the pressure
my mind is guessing
Is living and dying a lesson
but not to be obliged with the mirage
of cars taking you off track
from with the gods focus on hard…

Before Mary J Blige made “My Life” Trends of Culture dropped this. Both contain samples from the Roy Ayers classic “Everybody Loves The Sunshine.”

Prior to this Trends Of Culture dropped Off and On. But you knew that already.

Seeing as how today is the anniversary of the untimely demise of arguably one of the greatest emcees I think its only right.

During my teenage years I lived only a few blocks from where Notorious BIG lived and hung out. A few blocks from Fulton Street in Bedstuy. The corner and blocks that you see in the Juicy video are literally a few blocks from where I lived. So yeah we were excited when that video came out. I also lived across the street from Buckshot at one point but I’ll save that for another time.

In any case one summer day after Ready To Die really just started to pick up steam in the streets we were hanging out on the block sitting on my steps cracking jokes. So a van pulled up with camera men and BIG rolled up in a truck. There was this illmatic vintage grafitti mural from the 80’s on my corner back then that said “Happy Birthday Best” (no one ever tagged over it) some will know where I am talking about strictly off that because there was also one of the biggest weed spots in Brooklyn around the other corner of this very same block. Even your favorite rappers from New Jersey made appearances to cop some there so yeah it was one of the buddah spots in Brooklyn back then. That is until on my way home from school one day there was a shooting in front of said weed spot and I saw a man murdered. But again that’s a tale for another day.

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