Filed under: Back In The Days, Graffiti, Inspiration | Tags: Boston, Boston Legend, Breakdancing, Cash, Cash Lee Foreman, Cousin CASH, Coz, DJing, Graffiti, Hip-Hop, R.I.P.
Boston lost a legend last week. CASH/COZ, a big inspiration to me and my generation in Boston graffiti late 80’s/ early 90’s.
If you’re in Boston tonight…
CASH/ COZ in action. Dudley Station Boston, 1986 (*flick stolen from internet).
Filed under: Inspiration, Music | Tags: 1993, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Classic Hip-Hop, Digable Planets, Hip-Hop, Inspiration, Music, New York City, NYC
“NY is a museum with its posters and graffiti
If you’re in the city
on Sunday
come check me”…
– “Pacifics” from Digable Planets…
20 years after being released, this song is still one of my favorite hip-hop tracks to just straight up CHILLLLL out to.
Filed under: Inspiration, Music, YouTube | Tags: Animated, Atmosphere, Cartoon, God Loves Ugly, Hip-Hop, Lyrics, Rhymesayers, Video
Cool little animated video for “God Loves Ugly” by Atmosphere..
Dope lyrics. Feeling the beginning..
“I wear my scars like the rings on a pimp,
I live life like the captain of a sinking ship”
and the ..
“appears more clear in its simplest form,
nobody sees tears when you’re standing in a storm,
abandoning the norm, and handling the harvest,
measuring the worth by the depth of the hardships,
I welcome all the hatred you can aim at my name,
I held on to the sacred ways of how to play the game,
when the soldiers started runnin short on rations,
I began tappin the egg, to spark the hatchin,
make it happen,
and take this captain to the gallows,
I keep steerin us into an area thats shallow,
talkin to my shadow, he advised me not to worry,
he said I should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury,
so give me some light, a little love and some liquid,
I’m gonna creep through the night,
and put a plug in the spicket,
and when the water grows,
and the dam starts to overflow,
I’ll float atop the flood, holding on to my ugly”
Filed under: Inspiration, Music | Tags: Hip-Hop, Lyrics, Quotes, Skitzophreniks
Most hip-hop these days really sucks. But every once in a while, someone says something good..
“Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery, today’s a gift.. that’s why its called the present”
– from “Revenge Of The Herbs” by Skitzophrenics (Boston/Cambridge)