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The Show

The Show - The Soundtrack 1995
(Def Jam )

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1. Hip Hop Is...
2. Live - Onyx
3. Move On... - Slick Rick
4. My Block - 2Pac
5. What's Up Star - Suga T
6. Headbanger Boogie - Method Man
7. How High - Redman & Method Man
8. It's Entertainment... - Dr. Dre
9. Everyday Thang - Bone Thugs N Harmony
10. Everyday It Rains - Mary J Blige
11. It's All I Had - Notorious BIG
12. Ol' Skool - Isaac 2 Isaac
13. Domino's In The House - Domino
14. Summertime In The LBC - Dove Shack
15. West Coast - Treach
16. Sowhatusayin - South Central Cartel Productions
17. Zoom Zoom And Wam Wam - Jayo Felony
18. Droppin' Bombz - Tray D & So Sentrelle
19. Save Yourself - Snoop Doggy Dogg
20. Still Can't Fade It - Warren G Productions
21. Papa Luv It - LL Cool J
22. Glamour And Glitz - A Tribe Called Quest
23. Nuttin' But A Drumbeat...
24. Kill Dem All - Kali Ranks
25. Me And My Bitch - Notorious BIG
26. It's What I Feel Inside...
27. Show Theme - Stanley Clarke Slick Rick

Keith Sweat

Keith Sweat - A Christmas Of Love 2006
(Rhino)

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1. Be Your Santa Claus
2. Party Christmas
3. It's Christmas Again
4. The Christmas Song
5. All I Want For Christmas
6. Once A Year
7. Nothing Like Christmas
8. Point Of Christmas
9. Under The Tree

MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL YA'

The Smell of Oppression

Sunday I walked out of my door and was greeted by the most awful stench. Not the normal city smell of garbage and pollution, but it was more of a stale musty smell as if Detroit was in desperate need of a bath. I shook it off thinking "Man this city stinks literally" and got in my car and drove to work laughing at the little joke I made. I grabbed a newspaper from the girl selling them on the corner on the way for my dad, who is currently working in Afghanistan and has no way to get a local paper, so that I could send it to him. Since I had tons of time on my hands (we get next to no business for hours on Sundays at my job) I decided to take a look at the paper. I don't want it to seem as if I detest reading the paper but it seems as if everytime you open it there's never anything positive. I'm not saying that the good things about Detroit never get printed but it does seem as if the negative makes the headlines, which probably says something about us as a city but I'm not sure what yet. Every issue seems to get more and more like the tabloids with constant coverage of our city's scandals and downfalls. It makes it very hard to see the silver lining when the black and white tells you that there isn't one. But fortunately I, like many other of our cities residents, have mastered the art of making myself numb to the negativity.
But not this week. This week I allowed all of my built up emotions over ride my brick wall that I was trying to build. I may seem a bit over emotional but that's what happens when you love your city and you have to watch it fail. It's like loving someone knowing everyday that you will probably have to leave them. It's a sad feeling sometimes. So I look at the front page and I read in big bold letters, "It's ok,mommy...don't cry" and there's this picture of a woman hugging her little boy. I stared at the picture for awhile, all the time halfway listening to my co-worker talk about someone's wedding. I tried hard to show that I was paying attention by chiming in with a "yeah", "no way", or "I hear ya' " every now and then at the appropriate times as I read the article. There were stories about various families who have become victims of  Detroit's economic crisis, all of whom never knew where their next meal was coming from. A father who sacrificed eating a good meal for his children, a mother who had no choice but to depend on the free lunch and breakfast programs to feed her son, parents who had to figure out how to tell their young children that there would be no Christmas. How do you tell a 5 year old that Santa was affected by the recession? I'm sure that's a confusing bed time story.
These stories moved me. I looked at my medium coffee and breakfast sandwich from Dunkin Donuts and felt sick. My hunger suddenly disappeared knowing that some little kid would love the luxury of being able to grab a quick morning breakfast, but the thought of wasting food when there were so many hungry out there made it return quickly. I gobbled down my breakfast appreciating every bite as I never had before. I felt guilty for having enough as if I didn't deserve to eat until I was satisfied anymore. I threw the remains of my crime in the garbage and covered it with a paper towel as if to hide the evidence of my greed.
By the time I finished the article I was grief-stricken. I had never really thought about how scarce food was for other people and I thought about the many ways I had taken food for granted.  It was then that I realized that the stench I smelled that morning was the smell of an oppressed city full of people filled with hopelessness. And I decided that I couldn't be numb anymore. I couldn't just pretend that it wasn't happening just because it wasn't directly affecting me. I decided that I had to do something and soon. But what?
My first step is this blog post.
I want people to understand how serious this hunger issue is.
Here are some statistics from soundvision.com:
-According to the Bread for the World Institute 3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.
-America's Second Harvest (http://www.secondharvest.org/), the nation's largest network of food banks, reports that 23.3 million people turned to the agencies they serve in 2001, an increase of over 2 million since 1997. Forty percent were from working families.
33 million Americans continue to live in households that did not have an adequate supply of food. Nearly one-third of these households contain adults or children who went hungry at some point in 2000
-According to America’s Second Harvest, over 41 billion pounds of food have been wasted this year.
-According to a 2004 study from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, on average, American households waste 14 percent of their food purchases.
Fifteen percent of that includes products still within their expiration date but never opened. Timothy Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology who led the study, estimates an average family of four currently tosses out $590 per year, just in meat, fruits, vegetables and grain products.
Nationwide, Jones says, household food waste alone adds up to $43 billion, making it a serious economic problem.
- Official surveys indicate that every year more than 350 billion pounds of edible food is available for human consumption in the United States. Of that total, nearly 100 billion pounds - including fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, and grain products - are lost to waste by retailers, restaurants, and consumers.




Isn't that bad?

So here's how to help...

First thing is to absolutely make sure that you cut down on food waste. Think about hungry children every time you are about to.

Here's a list of website sthat you can go to if you want to go a step further and donate time or money.

http://thefoodpantry.org/

http://foodpantries.org/

http://www.cofchrist.org/hunger/pantry/default.asp

http://www.lssco.org/lsspantry.html

Also Detroit's Ultimate Fashion week will be giving a portion of the proceed directly to feed the hungry. To become a sponsor visit here.


If you or your business support charities please let me know by sending an email to mzknowitallblog@yahoo.com and I will post a link to your website on the blog.
Read the entire article by Jeff Seidel by clicking here.

Kulcha Don

Kulcha Don - Blood Ina Me Eyes - Vengeance 2001
(Roots Entertaiment)

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1. Intro-Here I Come
2. Mc Is My Ambition
3. Big Things
4. Champagne and Alize
5. Hot, Black and Sexy
6. You Didn't Know Huh?
7. Interlude
8. Don't Test Me - Kulcha Don,
9. Ride With Me
10. Satisfaction
11. Sometimes I Feel...
12. Hot, Black and Sexy [Remix]
13. Mc Is My Ambition [Remix]

Kulcha Don

Kulcha Don - Original Wucka Man 1997
(Ruffhouse, Columbia)

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1 You Own Da Man 4:06
2 Bellvue "Da Bomb" 4:07
3 Who's The Don? 4:14
4 Original Wucka Man 4:52
5 Down In The Ghetto 4:20
6 Glamorous Girls 4:48
7 Cold Blooded 4:04
8 Posse Git Flat 3:47
9 Wind Your Body 4:06
10 U Turn Me On 3:57
11 Gangstarr 4:30

Kris Kross

Kris Kross - Young Rich & Dangerou$ 1996

(Ruffhouse, Columbia)

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1. Some Cut Up

2. When The Homies Show Up

3. Tonite's Tha Night

4. Interview

5. Young Rich And Dangerous

6. Live And Die For Hip Hop

7. Money Power And Fame (Three Things That's Necessities)

8. It's A Group Thang

9. Mackin' It Ain't Easy

10. Da Streets Ain't Right

11. Hey Sexy

12. Tonite's Da Night

Celebrity Infidelities

So Tiger Woods has rocked the media for the past few weeks with the news of his car crash due to infidelity, rumors of a baby out of wedlock, and him leaving golf indefinetly because he needs to be with his family. Yes he has rocked it for sure, so much so that he has inspired my newest blog post. But I don't want to talk so much about Tiger Woods as an individual but more about male celebrities as a whole.
What is it that makes a man think that just because he makes millions that he has the right or the privelege to cheat on his wife? And what is it that makes a woman think that money is a good enough reason to forgive a man for his infidelities?

Is it true what they say? Can money really buy happiness? I'm not sure. I mean I am a woman who loves money but think about this. When your man is famous that makes you semi-famous. So that means everywhere you go you will be known as the dummy who stayed with him. And I'm not saying that if a woman goes back to her man after he has cheated then she is a dummy. What I am saying is that this world is full of nay sayers.

People who are always talking about what they would have done if it was them, the ones who always have the perfect response to a situation that they have never been in. So you have to be prepared for that as a woman. You also have to be prepared to be that woman that every cehating lying dog of a man will use as an example when he comes home with some sorry gift and an excuse for why he cheated. I don't think man ever think about the fact that the media makes a heart break even worse. I mean look at Kate Gosselin, I guarantee if Jon wasn't all in the media talking about how she abused him and making a fool out of him her and tehir basketball team of children, she would have stayed. My conclusion...if you are a celebrity you better either not have a relationship or make sure that you keep everything(and that includes your penis) under wraps!



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Kris Kross

Kriss Kross - Da Bomb 1993

(Ruffhouse, So So Def)

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01. Intro

02. Da Bomb

03. Sound Of My Hood

04. It Don't Stop (Hip Hop Classic)

05. D.J. Nabs Break

06. Alright

07. I'm Real

08. 2 Da Beat Ch'yall

09. Freak Da Funk

10. A Lot 2 Live 4

11. Take Um Out

12. Alright (Extended Remix)

Huey

Huey - Notebook Paper 2007

(Jive)

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1 "Notebook Paper (Intro)" Laudie 4:09

2 "Bout Dat" The Bakery Productions 4:11

3 "Aye" Laudie 3:51

4 "Pop, Lock & Drop It" The Bakery Productions 4:21

5 "Closet Full of Clothes" Laudie Kydd Trell 4:03

6 "2 Nite" Laudie 4:20

7 "Tell Me This (G-5)" Jay Wes and Laudie MeMpHiTz & T-Pain 6:30

8 "Money Ova" Diamond & Yo Gotti 5:02

9 "My Zone" Mannie Fresh 3:28

10 "When I Hustle" Jazze Pha Lloyd 3:31

11 "Luv N Ya Life" Raw Beats Asia Cruise 3:54

12 "Nobody Loves the Hood" Stargate Jon of (One Chance) 4:08

13 "Glad 2 Be Alive" T-Pain 3:53

14 "Pop, Lock & Drop It (Remix)" The Bakery Productions Bow Wow & T-Pain 4:30

Skinny Jeans : A Not So New Trend

I remember when I was younger about once very year my mother and I would go through her large clothes collection and weed out the things that she had finally decided were definetly out of date, couldn't fit her, or just weren't her style. This was a wonderful time for me because I would then sort through her piles take the rejects and make my own piles. Being the fashionista that I am one pile would be things that I thought were so cute my mother had to be crazy to let go, things that I could cut up and reconstruct to be something totally new, and the absolutely hideous things that I can't believe my mother ever wore and I was so glad that she was giving away-this pile ususally ended up at Salvation Army or donated to some sort of charitable clothing drive. Amongst these piles some time in the late 90's I remember seeing my mother's skinny jeans tossing them to the side thinking it was another fad and would never come back much like the shoulder pad. My mother would say, " You should keep them, everything goes in a big circle there's nothing new.".
It's amazing how many times in life as I grow up and had one of those moments when I realized that the things I thought my parents were absolutely crazy for saying when I was younger come true when I get older. I think about moments like these everytime I slide myself into my skinny jeans, throw on some bangles, and decorate myself with neon make-up and glitter. I look at todays music videos and think " so this is what it looked like back in the day".

So how is it that some people are so shocked and even disgusted by young males wearing skinny jeans? Aren't they just copying the style of men in the 80's who wore straight leg Levi's as they perfected their break dance moves?

Even the founder's of hip-hop Run DMC used to wear skinny jeans and Adidas back in the day? So why is it that now wearing skinny jeans for a male raises unneccesary questions about sexuality?

Come on guys baggy jeans can't last forever. I can't believe rappers such as Jay-Z have actually went as far as to criticize the New Boyz for wearing skinny jeans. Come on they're just kids doing something different.

I'm glad that they are confident enough to go against the grain and try something new. Besides I think skinny jeans are cool and a part of true hip hop.

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Houston

Houston - It's Already Written 2004

(Capitol Records)

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1. It’s Already Written (Part I)

2. I Like That (featuring Chingy, Nate Dogg & I-20)

3. Twizala Intro

4. Twizala

5. Ain't Nothing Wrong

6. My Promise (featuring Letoya)

7. Keep It On The Low (featuring Don Yute)

8. What You Say

9. Love You Down

10. Allright

11. Bye Bye Love

12. Didn't Give A Damn Interlude

13. Didn't Give A Damn

14. She Is

15. It's Already Written Part II (Thunder)

Raekwon

Raekwon - Immobilarity 1999
(Loud Records)

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1 "The Beginning (intro)"
2 "Yae-Yo"
3 "Casablanca"
4 "100 Rounds"
5 "Real Life"
6 "Power"
7 "Ansaphone Phone Call (skit)"
8 "All I Got Is You Pt. 2"
9 "Jury"
10 "Fuck Them"
11 "The Meeting (skit)"
12 "Live From New York"
13 "My Favorite Dred"
14 "Friday"
15 "The Table"
16 "Sneakers"
17 "Raw" Naheen
18 "Pop Shit"
19 "Heart To Heart"
20 "Forecast"
21 "Phone Call (outro)"
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Monogamy of the Black Man

Okay so we have heard all about the Tiger Woods infidelity scandal. I'm not going to go to much into that. If you wanna hear about that its all over the blog-o-sphere. What I want to talk about is a comment that I heard the other day related to this issue. I'm not sure what radio station I was listening to during my daily commute but they were taking callers and this one young lady called in and said that she wasn't suprised to find out that Tiger cheated because he was a black man and that black men are incapable of being monagomous. I am shaking my head as I read this.
When will we stop making excuses like this?
If we all remember Tiger Woods never identified himself as a black man. He was canablanasian or some Harry Potter type species. When he won the PGA tour we didn't say that he won because African American males have greater athletic ability than any others and thats why he won. No he won because he was a great athletic male period!
Besides...to make statements like that woul mean that only black celebrities cheat. Hmmm....so I guess we forgot about David Letterman and his secretary, Josh Duhamel and a stripper, Jude Law and his nanny, and the infamous Bill Clinton scandal(wait you guys consider the last one to be black).
What I am saying is this....every time a black man does something negative it is not because he is a black man. That is another cope out excuse. There are plenty of good black men in this world who don't cheat. I'm proud to say that I have one. And if you are a woman who can't seem to find a good man maybe it's because you aren't a good woman.

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Heavy D

Heavy D - Vibes 2008
(Stride Entertaiment)

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Mirrors

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1. Long Distance Girlfriend
2. No Matter What
3. Queen Majesty
4. Love Me Like This
5. My Love Is All I Have
6. Hugs and Kisses
7. Private Dancer
8. Delilah
9. Chasing Windmills
10. Sincere

1967 - 2011

Kris Kross

Kris Kross - Tottaly Crossed Out 1992

(Ruffhouse, So So Def)

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1. "Intro Interview"- :51

2. "Jump" - 3:17

3. "Lil' Boys in da Hood"- 3:05

4. "Warm It Up"- 4:09

5. "The Way of Rhyme"- 2:59

6. "Party"- 4:03

7. "We're in da House"- :39

8. "A Real Bad Dream"- 1:58

9. "It's a Shame"- 3:48

10. "Can't Stop the Bum Rush"- 2:57

11. "You Can't Get With This"- 2:24

12. "I Missed the Bus"- 2:59

13. "Outro"- :43

14. "Party" (Krossed Mix)- 4:11

15. "Jump" (Extended Mix)- 5:10



Totally Krossed Out is the debut album by rap duo, Kris Kross. The album was released on March 17, 1992 for Ruffhouse Records and was produced by Jermaine Dupri. Totally Krossed Out was huge success for the duo, selling over four million copies and making it to #1 on the Billboard 200 and #1 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album also produced four singles including "Jump" and "Warm It Up", both of which made it to #1 on the Hot Rap Singles, as well as two other successful singles "I Missed the Bus" and "It's A Shame". The album was certified 4x platinum by the RIAA. Music videos were released for the four singles and well as one for the song "The Way of Rhyme."