Saturday, June 18, 2011
SHADES (Wale ft. cressete)
(Boy) Beautiful [x7]
[Verse 1:]
[Wale]
Chip on my shoulder
Big enough to feed Cambodia
See, I never fit into they quotas
Sneakers wasn't fitting and my knees needed lotion
Long before I knew the significance of a comb
I roam like phone with no vocal reception
Immigrant parents had me feeling like a step-kid
And black Americans never did accept me
That's why I thrive so much, win and respect dig
I never fit in with them light skins
I felt the lighter they was the better that they life is
So I resented them and they resented me
Cheated on light-skinned Dominique when we was seventeen
I figured I'd hurt her, she'd evidently hurt me, and all women who had light features
See, I never let a light broad hurt me
That's why I strike first and the first cut's deep
[Chorus]
All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers
Shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy you're so beautiful boy you're so beautiful shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy (beautiful caramel),
Boy (beautiful coffeepot)
Boy (Beautiful chocolate)
Boy (Beautiful toffee)
Boy (Beautiful pecan)
Boy (beautiful licorice)
(boy you're so beautiful)
[Verse 2:]
Just another knotty head nigga
Hoping Wes Snipes make my life a bit different
In middle school, I had the right to be timid
I had beautiful words but girls never listened
Listen, blacker the berry, sweeter the product
Well, I'm fruit punch concentrate and they water
Walk into my room thinking how to make moves
Ain't thinking like a student but how Ice-T do it
Light dudes have the girls looking there all year
It's not fair, the ones with the good hair
Couldn't adapt to naps, I wavecap they naps and slept on me
Man, I hate black
Skin tone, I wish I could take it back
Or rearrange my status, maybe if I was khaki
Associating light skin with classy
The menstrual show showed and me, that was not me
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
They say black is beautiful
But ask them beautiful light girls if its black they attract to usually
What if Barack skin was all black, truthfully?
Would he be a candidate or just a black in community?
Because black dudes tend to lack unity
And them blacker girls ain't on the tube, usually
Right now, at 23, I ain't mad at them reds no more
But for long time I had gone cold
Blindfolded my own insecurity was holding me back to reds, I ain't know how to act
They would get the cold shoulder and know it was an act
A defense mechanism what I thought that I lacked
Confidence
[Chorus]
[Verse 1:]
[Wale]
Chip on my shoulder
Big enough to feed Cambodia
See, I never fit into they quotas
Sneakers wasn't fitting and my knees needed lotion
Long before I knew the significance of a comb
I roam like phone with no vocal reception
Immigrant parents had me feeling like a step-kid
And black Americans never did accept me
That's why I thrive so much, win and respect dig
I never fit in with them light skins
I felt the lighter they was the better that they life is
So I resented them and they resented me
Cheated on light-skinned Dominique when we was seventeen
I figured I'd hurt her, she'd evidently hurt me, and all women who had light features
See, I never let a light broad hurt me
That's why I strike first and the first cut's deep
[Chorus]
All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers
Shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy you're so beautiful boy you're so beautiful shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy (beautiful caramel),
Boy (beautiful coffeepot)
Boy (Beautiful chocolate)
Boy (Beautiful toffee)
Boy (Beautiful pecan)
Boy (beautiful licorice)
(boy you're so beautiful)
[Verse 2:]
Just another knotty head nigga
Hoping Wes Snipes make my life a bit different
In middle school, I had the right to be timid
I had beautiful words but girls never listened
Listen, blacker the berry, sweeter the product
Well, I'm fruit punch concentrate and they water
Walk into my room thinking how to make moves
Ain't thinking like a student but how Ice-T do it
Light dudes have the girls looking there all year
It's not fair, the ones with the good hair
Couldn't adapt to naps, I wavecap they naps and slept on me
Man, I hate black
Skin tone, I wish I could take it back
Or rearrange my status, maybe if I was khaki
Associating light skin with classy
The menstrual show showed and me, that was not me
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
They say black is beautiful
But ask them beautiful light girls if its black they attract to usually
What if Barack skin was all black, truthfully?
Would he be a candidate or just a black in community?
Because black dudes tend to lack unity
And them blacker girls ain't on the tube, usually
Right now, at 23, I ain't mad at them reds no more
But for long time I had gone cold
Blindfolded my own insecurity was holding me back to reds, I ain't know how to act
They would get the cold shoulder and know it was an act
A defense mechanism what I thought that I lacked
Confidence
[Chorus]
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Paramount
Police probing into letter from convicted felon, Dexter Issac, which was posted on website AllHipHop.com.
If AllHipHop.com wasn't a familiar website to internet readers before Wednesday, it certainly is a household name now.
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Prisoner Confesses to Tupac Shakur Shooting From 1994
Tupac Shooting Confession: Twitter Users React to Dexter Isaac Claim
According to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Police Department has announced it will launch a formal investigation into claims from a prisoner, who maintains he's responsible for the 1994 shooting and robbery of late rapper Tupac Shakur.
The web was abuzz with reports of the Tupac shooting confession after AllHipHop.com posted a letter by convicted felon, Dexter Issac, who says in 1994 he was paid by James Rosemond to rob the rapper outside of Quad Studio.
“He [Rosemond] gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery," said the letter.
Immediately after the report surfaced, The Hollywood Reporter requested a statement on the alleged confession from Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, via her L.A.-based Amarau Entertainment, but has still not heard back.
In addition to details of his alleged crime, the Issac statement also included a mea culpa to Tupac's loved ones: "I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did… I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and Biggie's] mothers some closure."
The social network and Twitterverse expressed some initial confusion when it wasn't clear if Issac's confession was in reference to the fatal shooting which claimed Tupac's life. Tupac was actually gunned down and died two years later in 1996.
The letter which was posted by Issac mostly directs its ire at the individual who he claimed hired him to commit the crime against Shakur.
Isaac is believed to be serving life in prison at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
For the record: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified Tupac as "Shukar" but the correct spelling of the late rapper's last name is "Shakur."
Paramount
Police probing into letter from convicted felon, Dexter Issac, which was posted on website AllHipHop.com.
If AllHipHop.com wasn't a familiar website to internet readers before Wednesday, it certainly is a household name now.
our editor recommends
Prisoner Confesses to Tupac Shakur Shooting From 1994
Tupac Shooting Confession: Twitter Users React to Dexter Isaac Claim
According to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Police Department has announced it will launch a formal investigation into claims from a prisoner, who maintains he's responsible for the 1994 shooting and robbery of late rapper Tupac Shakur.
The web was abuzz with reports of the Tupac shooting confession after AllHipHop.com posted a letter by convicted felon, Dexter Issac, who says in 1994 he was paid by James Rosemond to rob the rapper outside of Quad Studio.
“He [Rosemond] gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery," said the letter.
Immediately after the report surfaced, The Hollywood Reporter requested a statement on the alleged confession from Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, via her L.A.-based Amarau Entertainment, but has still not heard back.
In addition to details of his alleged crime, the Issac statement also included a mea culpa to Tupac's loved ones: "I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did… I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and Biggie's] mothers some closure."
The social network and Twitterverse expressed some initial confusion when it wasn't clear if Issac's confession was in reference to the fatal shooting which claimed Tupac's life. Tupac was actually gunned down and died two years later in 1996.
The letter which was posted by Issac mostly directs its ire at the individual who he claimed hired him to commit the crime against Shakur.
Isaac is believed to be serving life in prison at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
For the record: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified Tupac as "Shukar" but the correct spelling of the late rapper's last name is "Shakur."
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