We used to be number 10
Now were permanent one,
In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm
Pistol nozzle hits your nasal, blood becomes lukewarm
Tell the woman be easy Naah squeeze the Charmin
Test Wyclef, see death flesh get scorned.
Beat you so bad make you feel like you aint wanna be born
And tell your friends stay the hell out of my lawn.
Chicken George became Dead George stealin chickens from my farm.
Damn, Another dead pigeon
If your mafiosos then Im bringin on Haitian Sicilians
Nobodys shootin, my bodys made of hand grenade
Girl bled to death while she was tongue-kissing a razor blade.
That sounds sick maybe one eday Ill write a horror
Blackula comes to the ghetto, jacks an ACURA
Stevie Wonder sees Crack Babies Be-Coming Enemies of their own families.
Whats going on?
Armageddon come you know we soon done
Gun by my side just in case I gotta rump
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like hes down with Mount Zion.
Oooh La La La, Its the way that we rock when were doing our thang
Oooh La La La, Its the natural LA that the Refugees Bring
Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet Thing
With his latest Soul Mates Project, Amerigo Gazaway imagines a studio session between The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone, and living legend, Lauryn Hill. Continuing the “collaborations that never were” theme of his previous releases, the producer seamlessly connects the dots between Hip-Hop and the genre’s predecessor, Soul.
Tracklist:
01. Feeling Good 0:00
02. Ready Or Not feat. The Fugees 4:58
03. Doo Wop (That Thing) 10:28
04. To Zion feat. Carlos Santana 14:57
05. Fu-Gee-La feat. The Fugees 20:43
06. The Sweetest Thing feat. John Forté 25:41
07. Take It Easy 31:00
08. Peace Of Mind 35:38
09. Lost Ones 39:59
10. Killing Me Softly 44:44
11. If I Ruled The World feat. Nas 50:49
12. How Many Mic feat. The Fugees 54:40
13. So High feat. John Legend 1:00:23
14. Care For What 1:04:16
15. Angel Of The Morning 1:07:12
16. The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon 1:10:54
*17. Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Remix) [Bonus Track] 1:15:54
Back in 2016, I had the pleasure of discussing my conceptual collaboration projects via a roundtable discussion at MoPOP’s annual POP Conference in Seattle. During our discussion, a fellow panelist, writer and professor, Zandria Robinson, posed an interesting question: “where’s your project celebrating women artists?”
Two years later and I’m excited to finally share the answer with my new Nina Simone Lauryn Hill mixtape, “The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon”. Given the project was, in part, inspired by Zandria’s question, she got the first listen and has written a few words on the album below. -AG
“Soul Mates’ “collaborations that never were” enters new territory with a now familiar deft and verve, this time highlighting intergenerational conjurings between two black women cultural workers from the civil rights and hip-hop generations. With Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill seated together at the table, collaboration transforms into vivid conversation, call and response, and a call to action--private, personal, and public--across space, time, and realm.
With «The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon», Amerigo Gazaway renders listeners children in the backseat of a shiny black Chevy, transfixed by the mysteries of grown women’s conversations. We ride along and listen quietly as Hill drives down South to retrieve Simone from North Carolina and the two travel back north together, to New Jersey and then to New York, and onward to woman-ish soul eternity.
Gazaway does a different kind of labor in this mashup, creating a private, interior space for these women to speak the truths of their lives, both to themselves and to each other. As they come to know each other across the project’s apt sample and song combinations and interview snippets, Simone’s piano accompanies and buoys Lauryn and Lauryn sings back Nina’s words and sounds a resonant understanding with her acoustic guitar. They become gold- and white-framed mirrors, dancing to breakbeats around each other’s personal and political struggles and triumphs with all the freedom being seen, being recognized, brings.
In this curated interior space, audiences are compelled, at last, to listen to all of what and who these women were and are and to really hear those truths: to listen and learn about care, alienation, desperation, motherhood, women’s work; about the unending strivings for interpersonal peace and understanding; and about the necessity for liberation.” - Zandria Robinson
Produced by Amerigo Gazaway
Executive Producer: Rickey Mindlin
Soul Mates 2018
Lyrics:
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
TOYODA Freestyle (Official Video) by Al-Doms
Produced by HighDefRazja
Lyrics (Russian):
Эти ниггеры, как электрику – вкрутить лампочку
Но я занижу свою планку, чтобы выпить с вами – карликами
Все эти ебучие сравнения, так кто же тут батя, ниггер?
Пытаются зачеркнуть Al-Doms, я молюсь что Господь с ними
Религиозно распял их каждой строчкой, что я написал
Ниггеры должны уважать это, потому что их суки ведутся на это
Она ненавидит делиться, но делит мой шест, она не суеверна
Просто телекинез – ее рот держит меня в воздухе
Вcё равно вызываю ей убер быстро, ниггер
Я родился в сочельник, поэтому читать рэп для меня ожидаемый подарок
Такой уверенный и остроумный
Скажи, правда идёт к свету, поэтому они не могут сиять со мной
Чтобы понимать дела, ниггеры должны следить за мотивом
Сделать это в настоящем, но мой фокус на будущем
Играю с зеленью как с игрушечным иодой
Чтобы поставить Forgiato на Рендж Ровер
Пенни и мольба, чтобы приблизить мечту
Я не закончил, пока та жирная сука не запоёт
Держу свои карты за спиной, если эти ниггеры передо мной
Держу моих сук на своей стороне, все мои шлюхи получают все что хотят
Кроме моего сердца, ниггер
Держу свои карты за спиной, если эти ниггеры передо мной
Держу моих сук на своей стороне, все мои шлюхи получают все что хотят
Кроме моего сердца, ниггер
On a lighter note, to end the year I release spells AKA beg friend. Written around SENSI times, I guess this one explores the idea of tribalism and the want / illusion or desire to please everyone, thus gain acceptance. The process of travelling through that and coming out of the other end rather comfortable in yourself.
Этот эпизод посвящен истории успеха Сони Миро: дизайнер по образованию, рассказала о том, как стала успешным визажистом, превратила фэйсчарт в искусство и начала давать мастер-классы по всему миру…
