They calling it reverse racism Nas – N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave and the Master)
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Nas refers to the belief that anytime blacks speak truthfully about America’s historical and current racism, they are accused of ‘reverse racism’. This basically means that Whites don’t want to hear blacks and other minorities speak about past injustices, so they label anyone who talks about it as a “racist” against white people.
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In 1997, then Golden State Warriors Small Forward Latrell Sprewell was suspended for the remainder of the 1997-1998 NBA season for choking his Head Coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
Lil B is saying he’ll choke a coach just as Sprewell choked Carlesimo.
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Crosby, Stills & Nash performed the song for the first time at the legendary Woodstock festival. The song is ranked 418th on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song was written by Stephen Stills to his then girlfriend, singer Judy Collins.
Its unique division to sections and a coda makes it a pioneering, innovative and unique classic.
The title has a remarkable double entendre – the word “Suite” describes the construction of the musical creation, but it is also heard as ‘Sweet Judy Blue Eyes" which would have been just as an apt title.
In the 1991 boxed set of CSN work, Stills said:
It started out as a long narrative poem about my relationship with Judy. It poured out of me over many months and filled several notebooks. I had a hell of a time getting the music to fit. I was left with all these pieces of song and I said, ‘Let’s sing them together and call it a suite,’ because they were all about the same thing and they led up to the same point.
Collins has said of the song:
[Stephen] came to where I was singing one night on the West Coast and brought his guitar to the hotel and he sang me “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, the whole song. And of course it has lines in it that referred to my therapy. And so he wove that all together in this magnificent creation. So the legacy of our relationship is certainly in that song.
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