Generation Y, “our” generation changed the standard of music that’s being broadcasted on the radio. The brainless nuisance Charles is describing would be “dance and/or party” music. (as said in above lines about listening to Plies)

The examples Charles listed (as if he were to intentionally diss someone) are referring to people that actually invigorated knowledge in their music and were innovators during their prime. Their music was embraced and broadcasted everywhere when they were popular and accepted in mainstream media.

• Quincy Jones is a legend, and has been sampled countless times in hip-hop. Example 1, Example 2. He’s been nominated for 79 Grammys, winning 27 of them. He also discovered Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop.” Quincy is an innovator and brought a lot of change towards music.

• KRS-One, founder of the Stop The Violence Movement which was a response to violence in the hip hop and black communities. Also the founder of The Temple of Hip Hop which its goal is to maintain and promote hip-hop Culture. Released 12 solo albums, along with 7 group albums with Boogie Down Production. KRS was also an innovator in hip-hop for actually preserving the nature of hip-hop and recognizing it as a culture. He’s also said “With the new book I’m writing, hip-hop could even become a religion in the next 100 years.”

• Q-tip, him along with The Native Tongue Posse were a breath of fresh-air during the late 80s and early 90s. Gangsta rap dominated the radio waves and alternative rap was being over-looked. But, in 1990, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm was released, thus bring conscious rap back into the spotlight. The production style on this album was: soulful, jazzy, and funky, something that wasn’t really popularized during the early 90s.

Today’s music hasn’t really changed, (for the better) in terms of preserving the culture. That’s the main point being thrown out.

Finesse and KRS-One are Golden-era rappers. Their terms of ill deal with lyricism.

• Finesse is a punchline rapper. Meaning, sentences which is intended to be funny or to provoke laughter or thought from listeners. Many of his peers would consider him the “master” punch-line rapper.

• KRS-One is a very conscious rapper. He’s the epitome of hip-hop in every sense. If he notices rapper’s that don’t come correct, he’ll let them know. In 1993, KRS-One and his crew rushed on stage on threw P.M. Dawn off.

In these terms, they’re not down with the MC Hammer’s, Vanilla Ice’s etc.. etc..

There’s been a lot of conspiracies as to who killed Notorious B.I.G. Saigon, and in his multiple-question concept has four questions being posed.

• Puffy put a hit on Tupac and he owed the Southside Crips money for doing the hit.

• During this time, Tupac and Biggie were beefing. Accusing a John Lennon type-fan of killing Biggie. (To my knowledge, Biggie didn’t even have beef with Tupac. Some speculate there were “subliminal” shots towards him.)

• The government wanted to silence Pac for his ideas and trying to empower the black community and/or the theory of killuminati.

• We’ll Be Missing You is a song by P. Diddy AKA Puff Daddy. The last opinion by Saigon.

Linebackers are the portrait of toughness and grit, Big Pun sacks any wack-rapper that tries to cross the line into his zone.

Big Pun is describing a method called Backmasking. When backmasking first came in the popular eye, many artists were being accused. Electric Light Orchestra was accused of hiding a backward Satanic message, and Styx was accused of putting the backward message “Satan move through our voices”

Clever similes being used by Kweli.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

“Blunt and pass it” Refers to slang terms:

• Take two pulls and pass – Gang Starr

• And if you don’t like it, pass the blunt to the nigga on your left – Jimmy, from South Park

The microphone represents his opportunity because it gives him his chance to express himself. It gives him the opportunity to influence others.

Israel is singing about three Hawaiian natives that went on to make history as being sumo wrestlers in Japan:

• Akebono Tarō – Born in Waimānalo, Akebono made history by becoming the first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo.

• Musashimaru Kōyō – Born in Samoa, and moved to Hawaii later in life, became the second foreign-born wrestler in history to reach the rank of yokozuna.

• Konishiki Yasokichi – Born in Honolulu, was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to reach ōzeki, the second highest rank in the sport.

Waimanalo, Nanakuli, and Waianae are cities in Hawaii.

These lyrics are also sampled on Soichi Terada’s album Sumo Jungle released in 1996.

Garnet Reid is Matt “Doo” Reid’s brother.

Matt Reid was a graffiti style-esque artist from the 90s. He did various artworks for magazines and album covers:

• Organized Konfusion – Stress: The Extinction Agenda

• Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus

• Various Artists - Tags of the Time Vol. 1 & 2

On December 12th, 1998, Matt Reid killed himself.

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