The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, Rebekah P…
Rebekah P.: Like the part where Talib goes from referencing ‘Clan of the CaveBear’ – ‘The Cable Guy’ 🙂
Soon the New Day – Talib Kweli ft. Norah Jones:
Rayn: “Shorty paint her face like a clown, but can’t take away the frown!” Ha! Word!
Rebekah P.: Thought you’d appreciate the metaphors, yo! They always play Norah J on my Fiona Apple station 🙂
Rayn: Skillz!
“Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)”
Yesterday, Lauryn Hill released a new song, entitled, “Neurotic Society”!
You can purchase a digital copy of the track from iTunes, here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/neurotic-society-compulsory/id644961710?ls=1
Ms. Hill also made a statement about the details of her single’s release on her Tumblr account:
http://mslaurynhill.tumblr.com/post/49613417504/hello-all-here-is-a-link-to-a-piece-that-i-was
Here is my effort to decipher the lyrics:
(update: on May 13, Ms. Hill was kind of enough to release the actual lyrics to this song, here! I’ve now added a strike-through to each part that I got wrong)
Verse 1:
We’re living in a joke time
Metaphorical coke time
Commerce and guru men
Run the whole world men
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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
My Commentary: Awesome work, by my friend, Damion Sanders! A powerful song, and a great video! Very touching and moving! Check it out! 🙂
The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of fellow emcee, Tru Leo, after he shared a captioned photo from here…
Tru Leo:
Hold Up! Lil’ Mama Will Never Match Up To Left Eye’s Legacy!
http://bit.ly/XU4ohq
Rayn: Word! Lil’ Mama couldn’t hold a candle to her! Left-Eye will always remain my original inspiration to rhyme – even before Lauryn Hill, who actually contributed to it, later, by virtue of her skills on the Fugees album, “The Score.” And, it was Left-Eye’s verse on “Waterfalls,” alone, that actually did it for me! 🙂 I played that portion of the song so very many times that my damn “CrazySexyCool” album stopped working properly SOLELY on that part – skipping it’s way through, instead!
