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| {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T08:42:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 94679, "text": "PEACE\nits 2008 a.d.\nas much as i would love to be JUST a recording artist, i am\nnot.-theres a difference\ni am a performance artist first - theres a difference.\ni write lots of my material with you in mind- there is a\ndifference\ni am very honored that you all care....love or hate (as you call\nit) same energy to me.\ni am also surprised you dont expect me to fire back- its the best\npart.\nsome cant see us... we are a dying breed.\nif you did , you'd also see the humor in my fuckery\nand perhaps even understand this hightened ability... to know YOU\nso well.\ni seriously enjoy you all.\nkeeps me alert and informed.\nthis year i turned 36.\nmy ass and legs have gotten thick.\nmy children are brave\ni feel exquisitely honest... and\nsince bunches of you are uninformed, i feel compelled.\ncome on ...\nthis is therapy for me\nwe're all (most) on this board for the same reason... so\nhere is my undivided attention (no \"fuck yous\"- i cant promise,\nhowever) for a few hours.\nill be logged in the next couple of days.\nill answer any question with in reason.\nthat way you dont have to guess.\nim here.\ni hear.\nclock is ticking.\nlovers grab your hearts...\nhaters take your marks...\nokay.... go.\nfeed me.\n\nbadu", "author": 1, "id": 1, "subject": "eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "http://www.last.fm/user/_CondoM_/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T08:49:00+00:00", "text": "Nevermind the first questions lol, I found the\nthread.", "mesg_id": 94680, "mesg_num": 1, "author": 2, "id": 2, "subject": "Who would you most like to work with that you haven't already?"}, {"signature": "Everything is Determination\n\n\nI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly,\nbut I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James\nBaldwin", "date_time": "2007-11-18T08:50:00+00:00", "text": "most or still listen to alot?\n\nIs there going to be an european tour in the future (not\nfestivals)?\n\nedit: what's up with Jay Electronica..is he on the new one?\n\n2nd edit: what music from other artists you've been listening\nto/enjoying the past few months?\n\n\nPeace", "mesg_id": 94681, "mesg_num": 2, "author": 3, "id": 3, "subject": "So far, looking back..what album of yours do you enjoy"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T08:57:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 3, "mesg_id": 94682, "text": "I am young but I can play the music and I want\nto so bad.\n\nMy background is jazz, rnb and stax soul...and playing bass in your\nband is my dream gig at the moment. I am outta NYC right now, and I\nam trying to take lessons with your man Chris Dave as soon as I get\nenough cash to make his time worth it.\n\nGimme some advice in terms of stepping it up so that someday I\nmight be able to play my shit with Ms. Badu.", "author": 4, "id": 4, "subject": "How can we work together", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:00:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 4, "mesg_id": 94683, "text": "you gotta play here again soon, I have been\nbumpin Baduizm live like it is my job...Hubert Eaves is such a bad\nman.", "author": 4, "id": 5, "subject": "P.SI missed the New York hit this summer...", "children": [{"signature": "\"You Kids better buy my rookie card now, cuz\nafter this year the price ain't going down\"- Mos Def", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:30:00+00:00", "text": "Yes we need a show in NY Heart broken after\nRock The Bells day 2.", "mesg_id": 94684, "mesg_num": 61, "author": 5, "id": 6, "subject": "RE: P.SI missed the New York hit this summer..."}]}]}, {"signature": "88-Keys of Locksmith Music, LLC\n\nhttp://eightyocho.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:02:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 5, "mesg_id": 94685, "text": "What's up e.? Let's link the next time you're\nin The Rotten Apple. I want you & Jay to hear what I've made\nfor my album so far. I'd also like to get Jay on the mixtape I'm\nworking on . I'll hit you on AIM the next time I see you logged on.\nAight... Love!", "author": 6, "id": 7, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "\nDrokayplayer \u2122\n\n\n>you're like the most known unknown poster\n- Mr. Buildingblock", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:18:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94686, "mesg_num": 57, "author": 7, "id": 8, "subject": "hmmmm"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:36:00+00:00", "text": "peace\nmiss you family", "mesg_id": 94687, "mesg_num": 191, "author": 1, "id": 9, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}]}, {"signature": "\n_________________________________________________________\n\nOKAsians: Be part of the movement...\nhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=282355633325\n\nhttp://www.angryasianman.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:09:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 6, "mesg_id": 94688, "text": ">my ass and legs have gotten thick.", "author": 8, "id": 10, "subject": "The most important part of this post:", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:27:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 10, "mesg_id": 94689, "text": "", "author": 9, "id": 11, "subject": "i KNEW someone would zero in on that.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T04:55:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 631, "mesg_id": 94690, "text": "What a cute muppet u seems to be !!! Thanks\nfor ur so bright & relevant remarks.I'm under ur\ncharm...Hush.Call me went u want,dear,dear!", "author": 10, "id": 12, "subject": "RE: i KNEW someone would zero in on that.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T04:58:00+00:00", "text": "..Forgot to sssssik u!Done x", "mesg_id": 94691, "mesg_num": 632, "author": 10, "id": 13, "subject": "RE: i KNEW someone would zero in on that/2"}]}]}, {"signature": "------\n\nFOLLOW ME ON TWITTER\n\n@fcthetruth\n\nwww.twitter.com/fcthetruth", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:27:00+00:00", "text": "n/m", "mesg_id": 94692, "mesg_num": 11, "author": 11, "id": 14, "subject": "^^underrated reply of the year!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:28:00+00:00", "text": "\n************************\nYou must not know bout me, you must not know bout me, to the left,\nto the left (C) \"Killa\" Camron", "mesg_id": 94693, "mesg_num": 19, "author": 12, "id": 15, "subject": "I'm sayin...everything else became a blur after thatWhat?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:31:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 20, "mesg_id": 94694, "text": "thought better of it. Only cus if my wife sees\nBadu cuss me out online she gonna crack jokes for at least a week\nb4 printing that ish out and putting it on the fridge.\n", "author": 13, "id": 16, "subject": "I can't lieI was tempted to ask for a mandateBut I", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:02:00+00:00", "text": "it might be worth it. You can say Lady Badu\nripped you a new one. lol", "mesg_id": 94695, "mesg_num": 347, "author": 14, "id": 17, "subject": "lol funny But.."}]}, {"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:29:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94696, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 15, "id": 18, "subject": "6. \"smh...lol"}, {"signature": "\nDrokayplayer \u2122\n\n\n>you're like the most known unknown poster\n- Mr. Buildingblock", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:16:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94697, "mesg_num": 55, "author": 7, "id": 19, "subject": "Zing!"}, {"signature": "<--- MF KOBE\n\ni be tumblin\nhttp://suchtypicalrappers.tumblr.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:47:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94698, "mesg_num": 67, "author": 16, "id": 20, "subject": "first thing I saw."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:58:00+00:00", "text": "\n<----Money in the bank...", "mesg_id": 94699, "mesg_num": 70, "author": 17, "id": 21, "subject": "even Pavlov's dog had to shout...."}, {"signature": "Ayah - '4:15' album available now on\nwww.ayahmusic.com\nwww.twitter.com/AyahMusic\nwww.myspace.com/AyahMusic", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:10:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94700, "mesg_num": 77, "author": 18, "id": 22, "subject": "cosign fams lol"}, {"signature": "_____\n\n\"and just like that..... *poof* he's gone\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:15:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 94, "mesg_id": 94701, "text": "http://static.flickr.com/86/211257476_63f1a811ee.jpg", "author": 19, "id": 23, "subject": "RE: The most important part of this post:", "children": [{"signature": "____________________________\nThe full-length release from afra behn \"THE VIBEMACHINE\" IS ON SALE\nNOW!!!!\nCheck the afra behn myspace page!\nhttp://www.myspace.com/afrabehn", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:25:00+00:00", "text": "damn...you ain't bullshitin for real!", "mesg_id": 94702, "mesg_num": 338, "author": 20, "id": 24, "subject": "RE: The most important part of this post:"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:34:00+00:00", "text": "that's not a lady... that's a LADY...", "mesg_id": 94703, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 21, "id": 25, "subject": "10. \"In-mudafuken-DEED"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T04:42:00+00:00", "text": "And...when could we see ur real face-ass\n?", "mesg_id": 94704, "mesg_num": 630, "author": 10, "id": 26, "subject": "RE: The most important part of this post:"}]}, {"signature": "\"She may not be you.........but she looks just\nlike you\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:46:00+00:00", "text": "I wanted to make a comment, but I thought I'd\nkeep it to myself and try to come up with a real question or\nsomething.", "mesg_id": 94705, "mesg_num": 322, "author": 22, "id": 27, "subject": "My immediate response was DAMNIT!"}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:31:00+00:00", "text": "......", "mesg_id": 94706, "mesg_num": 452, "author": 23, "id": 28, "subject": "PING!"}]}, {"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:19:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 8, "mesg_id": 94712, "text": "if it is, i love that you are carrying it out\nwith the same elegance, humor and flyness you bring to everything\nyou do.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(yes, i am jocking)", "author": 9, "id": 29, "subject": "is this damage control to avoid a Lupe-esque 'Badugate' situation?", "children": [{"signature": "\"You post like you look your barber in the\neyes when he lines you up.\"\n\nhttp://twitter.com/semiautomatic_C\nPSN ID: killacontact_71", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:54:00+00:00", "text": "This is a whole different world from\nArtist.", "mesg_id": 94713, "mesg_num": 68, "author": 25, "id": 30, "subject": "I think she just wants to build and see what's going on in here..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:00:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 251, "mesg_id": 94715, "text": "what happened to Lupe?", "author": 1, "id": 31, "subject": "RE: is this damage control to avoid a Lupe-esque 'Badugate' situation?", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:46:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 257, "mesg_id": 94716, "text": ">what happened to Lupe?\n\ni don't know where to START, but let's just say that he might have\npossibly killed his career behind responding to snark on this\nboard.", "author": 9, "id": 32, "subject": "ooooooooohhhhhh mama, what HAVE you been?", "children": [{"signature": "_____________________________\n\"If you had any idea who I was, or what I've done in the past,\nyou'd know that i'm not bluffing.\"\n-Jack fukking Bauer\n\n\nwww.vondarrien.wordpress.com\nhttp://twitter.com/Vondarrien", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:15:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 299, "mesg_id": 94717, "text": ">i don't know where to START, but let's\njust say that he might\n>have possibly killed his career behind responding to snark\non\n>this board.\n\nThat's a bit much.", "author": 26, "id": 33, "subject": "Killed his career?", "children": [{"signature": "--------------------------------------\nI'm a real bitch, nigga. What are you into huh?\n\nwww.blackgirlpain.com", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:15:00+00:00", "text": "he should have stopped while he was ahead but\nhe got myspace on lock so maybe he will still do those great\nnumbers he did first time around...oh wait...*frowns*", "mesg_id": 94718, "mesg_num": 312, "author": 27, "id": 34, "subject": "He lost alot of fans with his lying ways"}]}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:07:00+00:00", "text": "are ya'll talking about all the stuff with\nATCQ?? What else happen? We need the link to that posting.", "mesg_id": 94719, "mesg_num": 348, "author": 14, "id": 35, "subject": "RE: ooooooooohhhhhh mama, what HAVE you been?"}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:07:00+00:00", "text": "are ya'll talking about all the stuff with\nATCQ?? What else happen? We need the link to that posting.", "mesg_id": 94720, "mesg_num": 349, "author": 14, "id": 36, "subject": "RE: ooooooooohhhhhh mama, what HAVE you been?"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "---\nAVY: HUSH/SLUT.\n\nhttp://soundcloud.com/hush-slut\nhttp://vahe.bandcamp.com\nhttp://confessionsofacurlymind.wordpress.com\nhttp://facebook.com/unfunkwitables\nhttp://twitter.com/vahekosh\nhttp://soundcloud.com/mista-vee\n\nDROkayplayer\u2122", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 9, "mesg_id": 94721, "text": "if not, would u like to? \ntis nice.\n\noh and hello.\n\nV.", "author": 28, "id": 37, "subject": "hav u heard this new Kero One remix of \"on & on\"?", "children": [{"signature": "\n_________________________________________________________\n\nOKAsians: Be part of the movement...\nhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=282355633325\n\nhttp://www.angryasianman.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:43:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 14, "mesg_id": 94722, "text": "Kero is that dude. His production is on\npoint.\n\nIt always makes me happy when a fellow asian brother makes some\ndope shit.", "author": 8, "id": 38, "subject": "Can you hook me up with this, man?", "children": [{"signature": "---\nAVY: HUSH/SLUT.\n\nhttp://soundcloud.com/hush-slut\nhttp://vahe.bandcamp.com\nhttp://confessionsofacurlymind.wordpress.com\nhttp://facebook.com/unfunkwitables\nhttp://twitter.com/vahekosh\nhttp://soundcloud.com/mista-vee\n\nDROkayplayer\u2122", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:00:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 34, "mesg_id": 94723, "text": "ill inbox u the entire mixtape its from. very\nvery cool shit man. best mix ive heard in a while.\n\nV.", "author": 28, "id": 39, "subject": "ya gimme a ticgot ppl over atm.", "children": [{"signature": "aborted child", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:05:00+00:00", "text": ">ill inbox u the entire mixtape its from.\nvery very cool shit\n>man. best mix ive heard in a while.\n>\n>V.\n\n\nif u dont mind to double that inbox...thanks", "mesg_id": 94724, "mesg_num": 125, "author": 29, "id": 40, "subject": "RE: ya gimme a tic. got ppl over atm."}, {"signature": "I know I'm weird... acceptance is the first\nstep", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:10:00+00:00", "text": "can i pretty please get a copy of that song as\nwell?", "mesg_id": 94725, "mesg_num": 310, "author": 30, "id": 41, "subject": "RE: ya gimme a tic. got ppl over atm."}, {"signature": "--------------------------------------\n\nhttp://www.last.fm/user/hilfger21\n\n\"we venture through the streets in search of funky beats\nextensive is the travels and it's heavy on the sneaks\"", "date_time": "2007-11-21T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "thanks ahead of time", "mesg_id": 94726, "mesg_num": 599, "author": 31, "id": 42, "subject": "can we triple that inbox request??"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "--\nwhat", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:32:00+00:00", "text": "I enjoyed you heartily on the Wu-Tang song.\nHow'd that come about?", "mesg_id": 94737, "mesg_num": 12, "author": 35, "id": 43, "subject": "what happened now?"}, {"signature": "Peace & Pizza Grease!\n\nMy Links:\nhttp://DjJoeyJoeMixes.podOmatic.com\nhttp://mixcrate.com/DjJoeyJoe\nhttp://myspace.com/DjJoeyJoe\nhttp://DjJoeyJoe.bandcamp.com\n\nhangout: http://turntable.fm/Forgotten_Lessons", "date_time": "2007-11-18T09:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 13, "mesg_id": 94738, "text": "I know that you might put out your new album\nin February of 2008 but what else do you plan on doing?", "author": 36, "id": 44, "subject": "So What Do You Actually Have Planned For Your Albums In 2008?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:03:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 16, "mesg_id": 94739, "text": "This man's work is like crack to me now! I\nhave $20.00.\n\nWith $10.00 of it, i'm going to eat with (i got a tank full of gas\nalready) and the other $10.00 i'm going to Best Buy today to pick\nup The Clarence Greenwood Recordings.\n\nI wish i knew about this cat when i got my heart broken in April,\nit would've help massage my heart, lol! His material has a healing\neffect on my being right now (along with worshiping at the Kingdom\nHall)", "author": 37, "id": 45, "subject": "How D'Angelo really doing?/You know about Citizen Cope?", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 21, "mesg_id": 94740, "text": ">His material\n>has a healing effect on my being right now (along with\n>worshiping at the Kingdom Hall)", "author": 9, "id": 46, "subject": "wait a minute..you're JW?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:53:00+00:00", "text": "Yes", "mesg_id": 94741, "mesg_num": 24, "author": 37, "id": 47, "subject": "RE: wait a minute... you're JW?"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "http://www.last.fm/user/_CondoM_/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 17, "mesg_id": 94742, "text": "What do you think of some of the international\nsingers getting shine these days, like Corinne Bailey Rae and Amy\nWinehouse?\n\nWill there be a tour of Australia?\n\nWould you sing at my wedding, and how much would it cost?", "author": 2, "id": 48, "subject": "A couple more questions...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:51:00+00:00", "text": "seeing as theyre both obviously influenced by\nerykah and have become so succesful...", "mesg_id": 94743, "mesg_num": 23, "author": 38, "id": 49, "subject": "yeah id like to know her thoughts on CBR and AW"}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:10:00+00:00", "text": "good luck with that one.", "mesg_id": 94744, "mesg_num": 351, "author": 14, "id": 50, "subject": "lol"}]}, {"signature": "************************\nCURRENT PLAYLIST:\n\nHollie Smith & Mara Tk - Band Of Brothers, Vol. 1\nHollie Smith - Humour & The Misfortune of Others\nRobert Glasper - Black Radio\nLalah Hathaway - Where It All Begins\nEsperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society\nQuadr", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:24:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 18, "mesg_id": 94745, "text": "Erykah, I have been hyped about this project\nsince I first heard about it and kinda hoped it would the first of\nthese \"3 albums\" to be released. I think partly that is the reason\nI was kinda let down by Honey/Real Thing, but we WON'T get into all\nthat again.\n\nANYWAY, what can you tell us about the project?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.... and I recant the whole foods comment, I kinda turned into a\n\"LESSONARY\" for a minute", "author": 39, "id": 51, "subject": "Edith Funker Project.....Details? Info?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:58:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 214, "mesg_id": 94746, "text": "oooh i was bout to get in yo AAAsssss...\nthat was cute\nwe all need that humor sometimes.\ni wish it coulda kept going.\ni was bout to turn into the girl richard pryor on ya'll\n\n\nno pressure family", "author": 1, "id": 52, "subject": "RE: Edith Funker Project.....Details? Info?", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:20:00+00:00", "text": "I'm sorry I want to feel the Erykah FIRE!! You\nare so awesome I'm giddy at work. lol", "mesg_id": 94747, "mesg_num": 353, "author": 14, "id": 53, "subject": "RE: Edith Funker Project.....Details? Info?"}, {"signature": "************************\nCURRENT PLAYLIST:\n\nHollie Smith & Mara Tk - Band Of Brothers, Vol. 1\nHollie Smith - Humour & The Misfortune of Others\nRobert Glasper - Black Radio\nLalah Hathaway - Where It All Begins\nEsperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society\nQuadr", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 401, "mesg_id": 94748, "text": "to get in my ass, but you know I would have\nfired right back at you. In all honesty Erykah, I have been down\nsince that live performance on Video Soul back in the day, and I\nthink that was before Baduism even dropped.\n\nI truly love MOST of what you do. I am just at a point where I have\nout-grown 98% of hip-hop because most of it is ignorant drivel. I\neven make a point of not even listening to a track that uses the N\nword (Foreign Exchange gets a pass.... I love that album), but that\nis another story. Speaking of Foreign Exchange, Connected was the\nlast hip-hop album I fell in love with (and yeah, like the other\nposter said, you need to get up with Nicolay).\n\nI didn't like WU when it dropped but live performances of Danger, I\nWant You and Back In The Day made me appreciate the songs a bit\nmore. STILL, they were no Mama's Gun. I will more than likely check\nout the album, if I hate it I'll tell ya and if i like it, I tell\nya that too. I'm not all hate.\n\nI'm waiting on Edith Funker and Loretta Brown.", "author": 39, "id": 54, "subject": "and you would have had EVERY right......", "children": [{"signature": "<<<<\"I'll take you on a\nplatter...\" \u00a9 LL Cool J", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 485, "mesg_id": 94749, "text": "In all honesty Erykah, I have been down since\nthat\n>live performance on Video Soul back in the day, and I\nthink\n>that was before Baduism even dropped.\n>\n\nIt wasn't Video Soul, it was Planet Groove. I still got that joint\non tape somewhere.\n\n\n>I didn't like WU when it dropped but live performances of\n>Danger, I Want You and Back In The Day made me appreciate\nthe\n>songs a bit more. STILL, they were no Mama's Gun.\n\n\nI don't know why Worldwide Underground gets so much hate on the\nboards here. I love the album myself. I thought that it was funky,\nsoulful, smooth, and gritty. What was it missing that garners so\nmuch hate from some of you?", "author": 40, "id": 55, "subject": "Slight correction here.", "children": [{"signature": "************************\nCURRENT PLAYLIST:\n\nHollie Smith & Mara Tk - Band Of Brothers, Vol. 1\nHollie Smith - Humour & The Misfortune of Others\nRobert Glasper - Black Radio\nLalah Hathaway - Where It All Begins\nEsperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society\nQuadr", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 567, "mesg_id": 94750, "text": "and the host was Rachel. Not sure why Donnie\nwasn't there. they did a few live sets on Video Soul back\nthen.\n\n\n", "author": 39, "id": 56, "subject": "NO..it was Video Soul", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-24T03:54:00+00:00", "text": ">and the host was Rachel. Not sure why\nDonnie wasn't there.\n>they did a few live sets on Video Soul back then.\n>\n>\n\nrachel hosted planet groove.", "mesg_id": 94751, "mesg_num": 619, "author": 41, "id": 57, "subject": "RE: NO..it was Video Soul"}, {"signature": "<<<<\"I'll take you on a\nplatter...\" \u00a9 LL Cool J", "date_time": "2007-11-27T03:36:00+00:00", "text": "I told you I got that joint on tape didn't\nI.\n\n\n>and the host was Rachel.\n\nYou kinda contradicted yourself and proved my point right here. As\nnoted by the posted below, Rachel was the one who hosted Planet\nGroove.\n\n\nNot sure why Donnie wasn't there.\n>they did a few live sets on Video Soul back then.\n>\n\nDonnie wasn't there because that wasn't his show. It's that\nsimple.", "mesg_id": 94752, "mesg_num": 655, "author": 40, "id": 58, "subject": "How you gon' tell me?"}]}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T10:46:00+00:00", "text": "i didnt hear a 'bag lady' or 'on and on' in\neither of those two new songs as far as first singles/leaked album\npreviews go (well honey was cool but the other one was more like an\ninterlude). hopefully its just a case of there being better stuff\non the albums though. still, i look forward to the new\nalbum(s).", "mesg_id": 94753, "mesg_num": 22, "author": 38, "id": 59, "subject": "you are my favourite modern female artist, but"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T11:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 25, "mesg_id": 94754, "text": "Just saying.\n\nNicolay\n\nhttp://www.nicolaymusic.com\nhttp://www.myspace.com/nicolay\nhttp://www.last.fm/music/Nicolay", "author": 42, "id": 60, "subject": "When are we doing something?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:28:00+00:00", "text": "Call this man!!", "mesg_id": 94755, "mesg_num": 29, "author": 43, "id": 61, "subject": "SAY NO MORE!! just do it!!"}, {"signature": "<-- F(R)AIL\n\nRIP JDILLA\nTHE ILLEST THAT EVER DID IT", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:51:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94756, "mesg_num": 49, "author": 44, "id": 62, "subject": "^^ very important request ^^"}, {"signature": "------------------\nhttp://twitter.com/DJCHIEFONE\nhttp://soundcloud.com/DJCHIEFONE\nhttp://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Chief+One\n\nDJ CHIEF ONE - 1991 & 1992 MIXTAPES:\nhttp://soundcloud.com/djchiefone/1991-mixtape\nhttp://soundcloud.com/djchiefone/1992-mixtape", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:14:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94757, "mesg_num": 168, "author": 45, "id": 63, "subject": "^^^ that would be the ill combo son!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 196, "mesg_id": 94758, "text": "i guess im out the loop ... school me", "author": 1, "id": 64, "subject": "RE: When are we doing something?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:55:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 292, "mesg_id": 94759, "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolay_%28musician%29", "author": 46, "id": 65, "subject": "!", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:21:00+00:00", "text": "I need to wikipedia-ed", "mesg_id": 94760, "mesg_num": 355, "author": 14, "id": 66, "subject": "shoot"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:44:00+00:00", "text": "\n<-------- ah dread inna suit\n\n\n\nBlack History Month, the yout dem ah try ah ting---------->\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8", "mesg_id": 94764, "mesg_num": 373, "author": 47, "id": 67, "subject": "this is a unintentionally funny ass reply..n/m"}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:32:00+00:00", "text": "Peace.", "mesg_id": 94765, "mesg_num": 453, "author": 23, "id": 68, "subject": "U NEED TO HOOK UP WIT NICOLAY ON A SERIOUS TIP"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:36:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94766, "mesg_num": 512, "author": 48, "id": 69, "subject": "thats a good ass question"}]}, {"signature": "OKP TILL IM WOKE!", "date_time": "2007-11-18T11:55:00+00:00", "text": "you did something so strong when you dedicated\n2000 ad to Mandela...\n\nfunny i stay in a part of the country where every dang building,\nidea, cutlery is named of this greatness and am so weary of how\nmuch thought my people put bihind celebrating our heroes.\n\nI constantly refer to that performance (and always quote lyric)when\ndebating this...\n\nwhere you truly aware of the relevance thou?\n\nP.S. take your time, change your hair, confuse them all...its\nalways worth your luv at the end...", "mesg_id": 94767, "mesg_num": 26, "author": 49, "id": 70, "subject": "Luv B! When you performed in South Africa...."}, {"signature": "\"That ain't gold. That's fools gold!\" - Young\nZ", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:13:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94769, "mesg_num": 27, "author": 50, "id": 72, "subject": "*Does the Creed B-day skip in this post*"}, {"signature": "___________________________\nHe has the confidence of Vernon Maxwell on a yayo binge.\n\nhttp://www.2amDonuts.bandcamp.com\n\nhttp://www.twitter.com/mykblauuw", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:14:00+00:00", "text": "since the okay boards talk alot about how you\n\"changed\" common, i was wondering:\nwhat you think your effect (if there was one) on him...and did he\nchange you (personally, artistically,etc.)\n\noh, n btw, im really feeling that honey joint.", "mesg_id": 94770, "mesg_num": 28, "author": 51, "id": 73, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "-------------------------------\nPoetry\nhttp://analogtransmission.wordpress.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:29:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 30, "mesg_id": 94771, "text": "and I'm pretty drunk right now...let the\nvillain ask these two questions:\n\n1. What's your favorite album AT THE MOMENT.\n2. What's your favorite food AT THE MOMENT.\n\nand if you learn anything from your experience at\nOkayplayer......don't drink Everclear. That shit is dangerous.\nlol", "author": 52, "id": 74, "subject": "Since you're gunna be here for a few days...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:20:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 254, "mesg_id": 94772, "text": "drank ever clear once in a drinking game in\ncollege...\nwoke up naked with one boot on besid a white woman from laffayette\non a cold trailor floor\nwith a empty bag of FUNIONS on my head.\n... can still remember the song playing in the bg.\nit was 'cool like that' by diggable p's.\ndun da da\ndun da da\ndun da da\ndun da da\nshout out to mecca.\n\nhhhhhhhh... those were the days.\n", "author": 1, "id": 75, "subject": "RE: Since you're gunna be here for a few days...", "children": [{"signature": "_____________________________\n\"If you had any idea who I was, or what I've done in the past,\nyou'd know that i'm not bluffing.\"\n-Jack fukking Bauer\n\n\nwww.vondarrien.wordpress.com\nhttp://twitter.com/Vondarrien", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:20:00+00:00", "text": ">with a empty bag of FUNIONS on my\nhead.", "mesg_id": 94773, "mesg_num": 300, "author": 26, "id": 76, "subject": "LOL"}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:30:00+00:00", "text": "that is rather hilarious", "mesg_id": 94774, "mesg_num": 361, "author": 14, "id": 77, "subject": "wow"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:44:00+00:00", "text": "I had a similar experience with the clear\nliquid of death... LOL\n\nFunny how a drink called everclear really clouds up your\njudgement...", "mesg_id": 94775, "mesg_num": 415, "author": 21, "id": 78, "subject": "*shyly raises hand*"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:31:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 31, "mesg_id": 94776, "text": "Happy with the results?\n\n\nI know just hearing the possibility last year made me less sane, so\nI hope it went good, and for more in the future.", "author": 43, "id": 79, "subject": "How was working with Madlib?", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:01:00+00:00", "text": "erykah, in what ways did madlib as a producer\nhelp you achieve your artistic vision on the songs you worked\ntogether? what did you learn from madlib?\n\nand now a specific question, what did madlib do in the studio? did\nhe play any instruments like he does on certain projects of his own\nor was it strictly sample-based?\n\nthanks.", "mesg_id": 94777, "mesg_num": 161, "author": 53, "id": 80, "subject": "piggybacking off this comment"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:32:00+00:00", "text": "that's all. carry on.", "mesg_id": 94778, "mesg_num": 32, "author": 54, "id": 81, "subject": "i love you.."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T12:50:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 33, "mesg_id": 94779, "text": "i know that soulquarians period is pretty much\nbehind you now, but seriously - you, poyser, and quest have made\nsome beautiful music in the past. otherside of the game, sometimes,\npenitentiary philosophy, ad 2000, etc. are there any plans to work\nwith those two in the future?", "author": 55, "id": 82, "subject": "any plans to work with james poyser and quest again?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:50:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 197, "mesg_id": 94780, "text": "'mamas duce duce'\nalbulm 2 of the 3 features james , quest , pino etc....\n\neach project of mine calls for diff sound\n\njames played keys on honey and few other joints\non this albulm : albulm 1\n\nalbulm 3 is also quest , james , karriem , thundercat ,pino\netc...\n'lo down loretta brown'\n\nwe are all three in a group called EDITH FUNKER\nhad show thur night in l.a.\n\nwe've never not worked together FYI\n\nspeak daily\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 83, "subject": "RE: any plans to work with james poyser and quest again?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:45:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 209, "mesg_id": 94781, "text": "A Jay Electronica album?", "author": 46, "id": 84, "subject": "What's the good word on Control Freaq Records and...?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 213, "mesg_id": 94782, "text": "jay soon come", "author": 1, "id": 85, "subject": "RE: What's the good word on Control Freaq Records and...?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:44:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 288, "mesg_id": 94783, "text": "Kisha Jackson? Chinahblac? sis Nayrok?", "author": 46, "id": 86, "subject": "Any other artists coming out on Control Freaq Records?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:06:00+00:00", "text": "i am still recuperating. funk/rock for\ndays.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 94784, "mesg_num": 504, "author": 56, "id": 87, "subject": "nayrok is BLAZINGi saw her live once"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:23:00+00:00", "text": ">'mamas duce duce'\n>albulm 2 of the 3 features james , quest , pino etc....\n>\n>each project of mine calls for diff sound\n>\n>james played keys on honey and few other joints\n>on this albulm : albulm 1\n>\n>albulm 3 is also quest , james , karriem , thundercat\n,pino\n>etc...\n>'lo down loretta brown'\n>\n>we are all three in a group called EDITH FUNKER\n>had show thur night in l.a.\n\nESPECIALLY this part:\n\n>we've never not worked together FYI\n>\n>speak daily\n\n\n\n<<< tREB\nSimpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "mesg_id": 94785, "mesg_num": 569, "author": 57, "id": 88, "subject": "Now THIS is good to hear..."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:05:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 36, "mesg_id": 94786, "text": "mike. afro guy. RC. yo sis. but couldnt get u\nyeyo, hard to find. And YOU, breathtaking.\nwouldnt y'all get down on yo legs n kiss her feet?\nI DID. Thank you for giving me this gift: Pleasures will await you\nby the seashore.\n\nWho do you belivie in? Allah? you consider yoself as a muslim? Why\ndid u name yo comin album The kabah? That's the black stone i\nmekka. Is Islam yo religion?\n\n~ dreams fly away like birds in the winter, im the polar\npersonified", "author": 58, "id": 89, "subject": "enjoyed u at way out west sweden", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:45:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 321, "mesg_id": 94787, "text": "you left out\n\nbig jake, rapping pooky , uncle jimmy and cousin squirel, oh and\nwhy not little slappy.....\nhey lets just sign this whole board..\nwhat was i thinkin.\n\n(wink)", "author": 1, "id": 90, "subject": "RE: enjoyed u at way out west sweden", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:48:00+00:00", "text": "ooops that was meant for the CF records\nquestion....", "mesg_id": 94788, "mesg_num": 324, "author": 1, "id": 91, "subject": "RE: enjoyed u at way out west sweden"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:10:00+00:00", "text": "Music is therapy.\n______________________________\n\n\nR.I.P. - The Curse\n\nLet's hug it out bitch\nwww.lhiob.com\n\n1918-2004\n\n<----- Ha Ha!", "mesg_id": 94789, "mesg_num": 37, "author": 59, "id": 92, "subject": "What is your honest opinion of Common's \"I Want You\"?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 38, "mesg_id": 94790, "text": "other recording of the cannabinoids\npreformence?\nlivin in europe but im tryin to feel the vibes.\n(((love you ebi)))\n\n8 turntables, 4 MP\u2019s, 3 laptops, 2 motif\u2019s, 1 funk box,\nno rehearsal.", "author": 58, "id": 93, "subject": "the cannabinoids, is the going 2 be some sort of dvd or anything?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:53:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 198, "mesg_id": 94791, "text": "we do unannounced underground shows\nperforming , creating on the spot..\nall electronic impromptu\ncreating beats on stage\nreal art right now", "author": 1, "id": 94, "subject": "RE: the cannabinoids, is the going 2 be some sort of dvd or anything?", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:36:00+00:00", "text": "ever coming to Maryland??", "mesg_id": 94792, "mesg_num": 366, "author": 14, "id": 95, "subject": "RE: the cannabinoids, is the going 2 be some sort of dvd or anything?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:17:00+00:00", "text": "\nThe camel never sees its own hump but that of its brothers is\nalways before its eyes - North African proverb\n\nXbox360 gamertag: AFRICAN STAR\nAdd me...", "mesg_id": 94793, "mesg_num": 39, "author": 60, "id": 96, "subject": "*tail gates* I'm just here for the entertainment...."}, {"signature": "lessgentlemen.com\nvimeo.com/39350635\nIkir\u00e9 Jones is coming.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:24:00+00:00", "text": "can't wait to hear a recorded version of\nthat.\nkeep on keeping on.", "mesg_id": 94794, "mesg_num": 40, "author": 61, "id": 97, "subject": "\"its bigger than religionthis one's for diiiiiilla\"."}, {"signature": "\uffed\uffed\uffed\uffed", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 41, "mesg_id": 94795, "text": "", "author": 62, "id": 98, "subject": "what makes you decide to work with a producer?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T06:48:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 230, "mesg_id": 94796, "text": "sympathetic vibration.\ni am a producer , writter and arranger\ni choose like- spirited producers.\ni used to listen to dilla's beat tapes, madlib's , karriem's,\nsa-ra's 9th jah born etc...\ni felt the soul of the fresh choices they made\nwe vibrate together sympathetically.\ntheyd always give me beats to vibe to from 1999.\nalot the beats are older too lol. yet ageless.\nbeen riding to them forever.\n\nreally this internet exchange stuff/ itunes on my mac /ichat\nprompted these collabs\nfor \"kahba\" (working title).\n\ni put all my beat tapes into itunes and also started using ichat\n.\nheads were sending me beats.\n\nthis quickened everything .\ni took my music every where i went now.\n\n(keep in mind i was the chic in 2004 a.d. with an xtra lg tub of 4\ninch reels - not rims -every city i went to ...getting held up in\nsecurity. )\nthus, the name analogue girl.\n\nfast forward to 2006\n\none day i got on garage band ( a hybrid of logic) and started to\ndrag the beats from itunes to a track.\nthen i just layered several vox trx over that beat .\nGot about 9 songs in one day...\nmessing around.\nthat was the beginning of this particular project.\n\nthis made me more independent.\ncould work quicker and more often.\nthe kids usually took first seat to creating music.\nnow it was different.\n\ni chose the beats that i felt had a certain hump to me.\n\nthe project really started to pop after i met mike chavaria an\nengineer from detroit.\nhe was working wth jay 'tronic at the time.\ni like his fx and ideas.\n\nwhy these particular producers?\ni have so much respect for these cats and what they do.\nive know the process and the wealth of knowlege that they all share\nabout music and sonics across the board.\nscientists and geniuses.\ntheir music collections are extra- ordinary .\nwe all just click.\nsame tribe i guess.\ni choose all them like this . or something just draws our minds\ntogether.\nie: quest, poyser ,pino , jeff lee , doc gibbs, ron carter,\netc....\n\nFYI : baduism was compiled of carefully selected trx as and 2 live\njoints from the roots.\n\nfor this project KAHBA , i was def thinking ahead and not\nbackwards.\n\nyou guys are in for an interesting ride.\n\nby the way\nthe term neo soul was created by Kedar Massenburg the former\nmanager of D'angelo and former prez of kedar/ motown .\nthis man signed me in 1995 after hearing baduism in its entireity\nminus the roots .\n(i brought the roots on board after being given a budget.)\nanyway this title NS was originally given to d and i to set us\napart from music in REGULAR radio rotation since we were a little\nto the left of that time's sonic sound (1995).\n\nkeep in mind my music and d's music sound nothing alike .\nInstead what we had in common was an exexcutive who had an ear for\ninteresting underground talent.\n\nneither d nor i had ever heard this term NS before, nor did we\naccept it as who or what we were.\nTHE NAME TOOK A LIFE OF ITS OWN.\n\nim a theatrical soul singer with a mc background i sing soul music\ninfluenced by everthing.\nd has a church backgroud with a heavy soul influence . i think hes\na diamond who would just rather be cole.\n\nits 1:23 am\n\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 99, "subject": "RE: what makes you decide to work with a producer?", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:49:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 259, "mesg_id": 94797, "text": ">im a theatrical soul singer with a mc\nbackground i sing soul\n>music influenced by everthing.\n>d has a church backgroud with a heavy soul influence . i\n>think hes a diamond who would just rather be cole.\n\nbecause while i know (think?) that she meant \"coal,\" i thought\nabout it and went \"hmmm... D'Angelo IS kinda like Cole from Martin,\nisn't he?\"\n\nwas that on purpose? if so, good one!", "author": 9, "id": 100, "subject": "i LOLed at this.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:28:00+00:00", "text": "That's funny. I really hope it was intentional\nbut I don't know...", "mesg_id": 94798, "mesg_num": 273, "author": 63, "id": 101, "subject": "LOL I thought the same thing!!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:52:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 327, "mesg_id": 94799, "text": "no. i meant COAL.\nnever was a great speller.... damn.\ngood catch.\nwhat are you some straight A student.\nrub it in my face , why dont cha.", "author": 1, "id": 102, "subject": "RE: i LOLed at this.", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:45:00+00:00", "text": "if anything, i was complimenting you for the\nsubtlety of your wordplay!\n\nso just go on and pretend that that's what you meant and take the\nprops!", "mesg_id": 94800, "mesg_num": 375, "author": 9, "id": 103, "subject": "don't worry...i wasn't laughing at YOU."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:50:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 381, "mesg_id": 94801, "text": "\n<-------- ah dread inna suit\n\n\n\nBlack History Month, the yout dem ah try ah ting---------->\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8", "author": 47, "id": 104, "subject": "^^^^^^Pay attention Nicolay and all other beggy beggy producers..n/m", "children": [{"signature": "\n\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\n\nDon't like whatchu get???\nChange whatchu GIVE....", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:07:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 390, "mesg_id": 94802, "text": "u ain't got NO sense....\n", "author": 64, "id": 105, "subject": "*yanks u outta post*...c'mon hea.....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:30:00+00:00", "text": "\n<-------- ah dread inna suit\n\n\n\nBlack History Month, the yout dem ah try ah ting---------->\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8", "mesg_id": 94803, "mesg_num": 450, "author": 47, "id": 106, "subject": "oooooooh Lovejonz *cops a feel* n/m"}]}]}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:38:00+00:00", "text": "Peace.", "mesg_id": 94804, "mesg_num": 513, "author": 23, "id": 107, "subject": "this was a good read here"}, {"signature": "\uffed\uffed\uffed\uffed", "date_time": "2007-11-20T16:04:00+00:00", "text": "that definitely more than answers my\nquestion", "mesg_id": 94805, "mesg_num": 577, "author": 62, "id": 108, "subject": "thank you"}]}]}, {"signature": "But anyway back to furry Kangols, Jamaican\nwallabies.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:45:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94806, "mesg_num": 42, "author": 65, "id": 109, "subject": "kenny dust woz ere. 18-11-2k7."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T13:47:00+00:00", "text": "..whats the best way to get it to you?", "mesg_id": 94807, "mesg_num": 43, "author": 66, "id": 110, "subject": "Say i have some music I think you'd like....."}, {"signature": "--------------------\n\nblah blah blah", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:02:00+00:00", "text": "I just needed a reason to post.\nCan't wait for the new album.", "mesg_id": 94808, "mesg_num": 44, "author": 67, "id": 111, "subject": "Clinton or Obama?"}, {"signature": "peace\nmike\n\nhttp://theonlyblogthatmatters.wordpress.com\nhttp://www.last.fm/user/mdrohan/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:31:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 47, "mesg_id": 94810, "text": "i'm assuming you took one look at that crowd\nand said you weren't performing for that, which was a good\ncall.\n\nalso funny story: my friend, a 22 year old white dude, bought your\nt-shirt with your face printed real big on it and the lady working\nthe merch booth goes, \"you're sure?\"\n\n\nONE MORE QUESTION: what's up with jay electronica? he's signed to\nyour label/in your camp, correct? full album coming anytime\nsoon?", "author": 68, "id": 112, "subject": "random question, but what happened at rock the bells this summer?", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:04:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 163, "mesg_id": 94811, "text": ">also funny story: my friend, a 22 year old\nwhite dude, bought\n>your t-shirt with your face printed real big on it and\nthe\n>lady working the merch booth goes, \"you're sure?\"\n\nthat's not funny.", "author": 53, "id": 113, "subject": "RE: random question, but what happened at rock the bells this summer?", "children": [{"signature": "peace\nmike\n\nhttp://theonlyblogthatmatters.wordpress.com\nhttp://www.last.fm/user/mdrohan/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:54:00+00:00", "text": "\n>that's not funny.\n\nthat's not necessary.", "mesg_id": 94812, "mesg_num": 186, "author": 68, "id": 114, "subject": "RE: random question, but what happened at rock the bells this summer?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:04:00+00:00", "text": "my flt was stuck on the run way for hours ...\nbad storm that night.", "mesg_id": 94813, "mesg_num": 231, "author": 1, "id": 115, "subject": "RE: random question, but what happened at rock the bells this summer?"}]}, {"signature": "---------------------------\nAlcohol & Oates: Sailing the Sweet Seas of Inebriation ---\nwww.tinyurl.com/alcoholandoates\n\nwww.dlrnmusic.com\nwww.12ftdwende.com\nwww.twitter.com/stankpalmer", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 48, "mesg_id": 94814, "text": "to prepare for/help us understand KAHBA?\n\n?uesto posted a list for D'Angelo's album awhile back. Shit that D\nwas listening to/influenced by while working on his new album. I\ndiscovered some really good music from that.", "author": 69, "id": 116, "subject": "Can you hip me to 3-5 albums to listen to and study", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 78, "mesg_id": 94815, "text": "KAHBA means HOE/SLUT in arabic.\nKnow the diffrence.\nThe kabah.\nThink twice.\nfool", "author": 58, "id": 117, "subject": "fo the rec, ppl.", "children": [{"signature": "---------------------------\nAlcohol & Oates: Sailing the Sweet Seas of Inebriation ---\nwww.tinyurl.com/alcoholandoates\n\nwww.dlrnmusic.com\nwww.12ftdwende.com\nwww.twitter.com/stankpalmer", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:40:00+00:00", "text": "fool.", "mesg_id": 94816, "mesg_num": 131, "author": 69, "id": 118, "subject": "so eryKAH BAdu's new album isn't called KahBa?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:09:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 234, "mesg_id": 94817, "text": "that is corrrrrect.", "author": 1, "id": 119, "subject": "RE: fo the rec, ppl.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:18:00+00:00", "text": "\n\nwhat does tha album name mean according to you?", "mesg_id": 94818, "mesg_num": 352, "author": 58, "id": 120, "subject": "KAHBA-hoe or The KABAH-the holiest place in Islam?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:07:00+00:00", "text": "i really dont know...\n\ni could do that for duce duce tho ... but later.", "mesg_id": 94819, "mesg_num": 232, "author": 1, "id": 121, "subject": "RE: Can you hip me to 3-5 albums to listen to and study"}]}, {"signature": "...minor keys and drugs don't make a roller\nskate jam.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 50, "mesg_id": 94820, "text": "the costumes and wigs are cool but....\nsometimes they can come across as over the top and can distract the\nlistener from getting in2 the music.", "author": 70, "id": 122, "subject": "when will u lose the costumes/props onstage and just be urself?", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:34:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 62, "mesg_id": 94821, "text": "\"be yourself\"?\n\nSMH", "author": 9, "id": 123, "subject": "you have something against showmanship?", "children": [{"signature": "...minor keys and drugs don't make a roller\nskate jam.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:59:00+00:00", "text": "nope showmanship is cool\nbut sometimes the music can get overshadowed by 'showmanship'\n\n2 stories come 2 mind with with this. the one is the story about\nbill graham challenging jimi hendrix. he told him he thought he\ncouldn't perform with out gyrating, tongue-licking, pyrotechnics.\nthis pissed jimi off and he went out and did one of his best\nshows--just him and his guitar\n\nanother example would be p-funks anti-tour. one of their best tours\n(imho again) because they lost all of their costumes and props and\njust got onstage and funked.\n\nthe moral of the story is, I THINK it would be nice 2 c erykah\nperform without the costumes and props. just erykah, straight no\nchaser.", "mesg_id": 94822, "mesg_num": 71, "author": 70, "id": 124, "subject": "RE: you have something against showmanship?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 96, "mesg_id": 94823, "text": "that is myself lol\npisces baby.", "author": 1, "id": 125, "subject": "RE: when will u lose the costumes/props onstage and just be urself?", "children": [{"signature": "...minor keys and drugs don't make a roller\nskate jam.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:56:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94824, "mesg_num": 108, "author": 70, "id": 126, "subject": "same here 3/9...keep on keeping on"}, {"signature": "\"That ain't gold. That's fools gold!\" - Young\nZ", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 110, "mesg_id": 94825, "text": "clothes. And when I'm feeling really righteous\nI go without toilet paper.\n\n\nRegrettably, my writing career has yet to get off the ground.", "author": 50, "id": 127, "subject": "me tooI haven't showered in over a week and I rarely change my", "children": [{"signature": "\n\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0\u201d\u02dc\u00a8\u00a8\u02dc\u201d\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4\u2022\n\nDon't like whatchu get???\nChange whatchu GIVE....", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:10:00+00:00", "text": "u needsta warsh yo...", "mesg_id": 94826, "mesg_num": 392, "author": 64, "id": 128, "subject": "this was funnnty...."}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:56:00+00:00", "text": "that's not pisces kid. That's gross. lol", "mesg_id": 94827, "mesg_num": 419, "author": 14, "id": 129, "subject": "RE: me tooI haven't showered in over a week and I rarely change my"}]}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:57:00+00:00", "text": "I swear us pisces gonna take over the\nworld!!!", "mesg_id": 94828, "mesg_num": 421, "author": 14, "id": 130, "subject": "RE: when will u lose the costumes/props onstage and just be urself?"}, {"signature": "DROKAYPLAYER -05\n\nFantasia Barrino- http://anax8a.pressmart.com/Bleulife/Index.aspx\n\nGeorgia Rule - http://artnouveaumagazine.com/blog5/2009/08/05/georgia-rule/\n\nepiphany chrisette michelle - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/bleu/2009spring/#/90\n\nMos Def E", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:10:00+00:00", "text": "YESSSSSS!, love her.", "mesg_id": 94829, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 71, "id": 131, "subject": "32. \"lmaootfr"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:37:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 94830, "mesg_num": 496, "author": 72, "id": 132, "subject": "tell 'em again"}]}]}, {"signature": "AYANA SOYINI\nKhamouflage Productions\nwww.khamouflage.com\n\n\nMarketing is psychological WARFARE!", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:57:00+00:00", "text": "I LOVE the music you have made over the years!\nThanks for the inspiration. Hetep!\n\nSo with that said let me take a moment to plug my own shit since\nthis thread will prolly get alot of views and a sista like me needs\nsome exposure.\n\nappearing live....................TONIGHT\n\nAYANA SOYINI and THE KHAMOUFLAGE BAND\n\nSunday, November 18, 2007\n\nLeopard Lounge\n\n85 2nd. Ave @ 5th Street, NYC\n\nDoors @ 9:00pm - $5.00 cover\n\nspecial guests: EARTHMAN w/ DJ HARD HITTIN' HARRY\n\nPlease join Ayana Soyini and The Khamouflage Band as they ROCK\nLeopard Lounge on Sunday November 18, 2007 playing Hip Hop, Reggae\n& Soul music from Ayana's Remix Sessions album. Plenty of good\nvibes, positive people and niceness! Special guests Earthman &\nDJ Hard Hittin Harry plus music by DJ Soul Selector.\n\nThere's a audio clip on my MYSPACE of one of my tunes, WARRIOR\nperformed live. Check it out so yall have an idea of some of what\nwe sound like.\n\nWe'll be recording the audio and video as well as taking lots of\npictures for a few websites. I hope to see yall there!\n\n*wink* LMAO", "mesg_id": 94831, "mesg_num": 51, "author": 73, "id": 133, "subject": "I don't really have much to say except..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T14:57:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 52, "mesg_id": 94832, "text": "", "author": 74, "id": 134, "subject": "Record your voice for me and say something :)", "children": [{"signature": "\"This is one race of people for whom\npsychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.\" Sigmund Freud.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:16:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 54, "mesg_id": 94833, "text": "do you plan on performing with the roots when\nthey play the entire things fall apart album in june? i hope so,\njilly is a little too much for me. i like you a hundred times\nbetter.", "author": 75, "id": 135, "subject": "Hey E", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 235, "mesg_id": 94834, "text": "jill scott is the truth\nneeds an orchestra behind her\nshes a dynamo.\ni have alot of respect for her.", "author": 1, "id": 136, "subject": "RE: Hey E", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:47:00+00:00", "text": "i finally got to see her perform this spring.\nshe has amazing energy and power onstage. very gracious, too.\n\nif people don't like her style, that's one thing. but don't hate.\nshe definitely deserves respect.", "mesg_id": 94835, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 76, "id": 137, "subject": "23. \"cosign^^^"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:55:00+00:00", "text": "Jilly has a siren... that woman can sing the\nskin off ya bones...\n\nIt all depends on how you feeling at the time... I'll marry yall\nboth for yall voices alone... lol/jk", "mesg_id": 94836, "mesg_num": 418, "author": 21, "id": 138, "subject": "Indeed"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:09:00+00:00", "text": "just saw stevie last night..he performed with\nprince and tony bennett...made me wonder...if you could assemble a\nband or do a duet with anyone, who would be your co-conspirators\nand why? and i've read that you and dilla had a unique\nrelationship...how would you describe it?", "mesg_id": 94837, "mesg_num": 53, "author": 77, "id": 139, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "the world is a toll-free toilet-george\nclinton", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:16:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 56, "mesg_id": 94838, "text": "what will it takes besides money", "author": 78, "id": 140, "subject": "how can we get you to lafayette louisiana", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:59:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 250, "mesg_id": 94839, "text": "do ya'll even have electricity?", "author": 1, "id": 141, "subject": "RE: how can we get you to lafayette louisiana", "children": [{"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:56:00+00:00", "text": "lol... judging from that everclear story\nearlier you might meet an old friend... ", "mesg_id": 94840, "mesg_num": 420, "author": 21, "id": 142, "subject": "RE: how can we get you to lafayette louisiana"}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:03:00+00:00", "text": "Lol, damn. This is entertaining.", "mesg_id": 94841, "mesg_num": 427, "author": 14, "id": 143, "subject": "RE: how can we get you to lafayette louisiana"}, {"signature": "the world is a toll-free toilet-george\nclinton", "date_time": "2007-11-20T05:19:00+00:00", "text": "surprise the white woman didnt tell you that.\nbesides youll be shock at the love you get out here", "mesg_id": 94842, "mesg_num": 546, "author": 78, "id": 144, "subject": "yes it has electricity"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:24:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 94843, "text": "ain't it grand?\nand amazing how\nno matter how \"not ready\"\nyou think you are\nyou just GET READY\nand then\nnothing else is ever the same\n\nand then\nyou start to forgive yourself\nfor being flawed\nbecause after all\nif you can give life\nthen certainly\nyou can forgive yourself\nand affirm your own\n\nand then\neverything else just falls away\nand you find yourself\nforgiving motherfuckers\nwhen before\nyou would have just said\n\"fuck you\"\nand let it be\n\ni just got off the phone w/my uncle\nin houston\nwho\namong other things\nis a raging alcoholic\nhe was getting drunk\nat 9:30 in the morning\nbut needed to hear my voice\nand i talked to him\nfor almost an hour\nthat was church\nand i'm better for it\n\n", "author": 79, "id": 145, "subject": "8. \"motherhood", "children": [{"signature": "\"This is one race of people for whom\npsychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.\" Sigmund Freud.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:27:00+00:00", "text": "who are some of the funniest people you have\ngotten to know or have hung out with through this business?", "mesg_id": 94844, "mesg_num": 59, "author": 75, "id": 146, "subject": "One More"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:43:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 102, "mesg_id": 94845, "text": "thats good FOR YOU\nlong as you growing", "author": 1, "id": 147, "subject": "RE: motherhood", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:51:00+00:00", "text": "so...\nyeah\nit's still a blessin\nand a lesson", "mesg_id": 94846, "mesg_num": 105, "author": 79, "id": 148, "subject": "i'm the only one in the family that will talk to him"}]}]}, {"signature": "\"You post like you look your barber in the\neyes when he lines you up.\"\n\nhttp://twitter.com/semiautomatic_C\nPSN ID: killacontact_71", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 63, "mesg_id": 94847, "text": "You say people are uniformed, why?\n", "author": 25, "id": 149, "subject": "What do you feel the people who don't like your songs are missing?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:53:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 106, "mesg_id": 94848, "text": "missing nothing\nbut there is a song for them too im sure\nonly takes 1\nits like that pill\nre: matrix\n\nbut they probably shouldnt 'listen' till they are really\nready\ndenial tends to set in.\ni think im more effective in person , however.\nis this cocky?", "author": 1, "id": 150, "subject": "RE: What do you feel the people who don't like your songs are missing?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:01:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 136, "mesg_id": 94849, "text": "but i think what people are missing is the\nlyricism displayed on mama's gun and baduizm. those songs were very\nwell written. your work since has seemed almost freestyled in\ncomparison (only going by WU and the two new singles).\n\nan honest inquiry...are you spending as much time on your lyricism\nnow as you did when mama's gun dropped?\n\nor was it b/c there was collective inspiration from MG being\nrecorded near the same time as voodoo and lwfc?\n\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 151, "subject": "your live performances are pretty amazing", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:36:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 145, "mesg_id": 94850, "text": "have you listened to the lyrics on real\nthing?\nlisten then come back", "author": 1, "id": 152, "subject": "RE: your live performances are pretty amazing", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T00:04:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 177, "mesg_id": 94851, "text": "okay, some thoughts...this all comes from that\ndangerous love they call fandom...ha.\n\nthe third verse was where you were bringing it...but the first two\nverses didn't do much for me. your writing used to be the strongest\npart of your armor, queen. your ability to ride a groove\nmajestically was a vital second. since WU, that's been inverted.\nyou're flowing, but the pen game is less lethal.\n\nis this a variation of the 'don't go talking that shit, badu' that\nyou freaked on 'on & on', like you don't want to bring it on\nthe level of the third verse through the whole song b/c you don't\nwant to lose people?\n\nhmmm.\n\nedit: the world needs a jay electronica album as soon as possible.\njust thought i'd throw that out there.\n\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 153, "subject": "listened again", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:06:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 200, "mesg_id": 94852, "text": "i dont give it that much thought\nnever have.\n\noh honey you so sweet\nsugar got a long way to catch you\nyou so sweet\nall i gotta do is add a little lemmon\nyou my favotite drank\nyou make me thank\now honey you so sweet...\n\nthats enough for that song.\n\ni dont shout on Q...\n\nlisten to wwu again\ni want you\nblock on lock\n\ni wrote my ass off chile\nlisten again\n\nphrasing and rhythm important to\n\nwhere one falls short ther other picks up\n\nsome of the greatest songs are the simplest ones\n\nits not poetry\nits SONG writting\n2 diff arts.\n\nand sometimes you just dont have nothin to say . lol\n\nthanks for that compliment.", "author": 1, "id": 154, "subject": "RE: listened again", "children": [{"signature": "yep.\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/therealspreadbitch\n\nTHE PHILOSOPHY - \"In the Trenches\" LP\nhttp://cdbaby.com/cd/philosophy\nhttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=200892909\nhttp://myspace.com/the1philosophy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:54:00+00:00", "text": "you put it nicely\n\n(the part about songwriting and writing being two seperate\nthings...I agree with this even as an MC...it's music...even if it\nis just beats and rhymes, the beats and rhymes that work together\nto make real music are the ones that remain timeless)", "mesg_id": 94853, "mesg_num": 212, "author": 80, "id": 155, "subject": "i agree with this"}, {"signature": "DROKAYPLAYER -05\n\nFantasia Barrino- http://anax8a.pressmart.com/Bleulife/Index.aspx\n\nGeorgia Rule - http://artnouveaumagazine.com/blog5/2009/08/05/georgia-rule/\n\nepiphany chrisette michelle - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/bleu/2009spring/#/90\n\nMos Def E", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:15:00+00:00", "text": "point blank.\n\n(this is like a dream, I still want a interview!)", "mesg_id": 94854, "mesg_num": 435, "author": 71, "id": 156, "subject": "I love you..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T16:48:00+00:00", "text": "Am i the only on who loves WWU as much as the\nother two albums.,..i just love being able t witness and artist\nlike ms. badu evolve...i wanna b dwn with ur kind and make\nmusic!", "mesg_id": 94855, "mesg_num": 579, "author": 81, "id": 157, "subject": "RE: listened again"}]}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:19:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 109, "mesg_id": 94856, "text": "i say people are uninformed because of the off\ncomments and incorrect facts they are stating within their\nopiions.\n\ni KNOW people are uninformed about me and the music i\nproduce.\n\nthey can only assume, espeacially\nif they havent followed my career or even 'soul music ' for the\nlast 15 years.\n\nim dedicated to this.\n\nim not in a rush. for what?\n\ni love life, my community, the world community, travel,\nmetaphysics, friends, family, exploring, teaching school, going to\nschool, acting, writting, film, styling/ fashion..\n\ni bet people dont know that i write like im writtin rhymes and\ndeliver the song like im singing blues.\n\ni feel that some fans here are uninformed because they've not\nexperienced my love .\n\nothers just like to be comical... so do i , so it dont bother me\nunless im PMSing.\n\ntheats when the other fish shows her fins and bubbles.\n\nbut yo,\n\nbaduism is an experience. not a single or a beat.\n\ncheck out a show.\n\nget informed.\n\nbut just dont look me DIRECTLY in the eye.\n\nDANGER.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 158, "subject": "RE: What do you feel the people who don't like your songs are missing?", "children": [{"signature": "\"You post like you look your barber in the\neyes when he lines you up.\"\n\nhttp://twitter.com/semiautomatic_C\nPSN ID: killacontact_71", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 118, "mesg_id": 94857, "text": "But the next time you come around, if I can\nget there, i'll be there.\n\nI know that the music you do means something different to you\nbecause its yours, you have a different connection than everybody\nelse.\n\nBut it doesn't make somebody's opinion of your music invalid\nbecause they don't know every little detail of how you created\nit.\n\nI'm sure you understand that everybody aint gon dig everything you\ndo...that don't mean they don't know, they just might not like the\nshit.\n\n", "author": 25, "id": 159, "subject": "I can't check out a show, you aint done Milwaukee in like 3 years.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 146, "mesg_id": 94858, "text": "yes sir.", "author": 1, "id": 160, "subject": "RE: I can't check out a show, you aint done Milwaukee in like 3 years.", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:19:00+00:00", "text": "Call me a groupie a yes man, or just a crazed\nfan...I have to disagree though.\n\nI like EVERYTHING you DO Queen Badu.\n\nEven if I didn't like it at first (Orange Moon) after a couple\nlistens I wised up and can't get enough of it. OOOOO and \"my eyes\nare greeeeennnn because I eat a lot of vegetablesssssssss. It don't\nhave nooootthiiinnnnggg tooo do with your new ffriieeeenndddssss.\"\nOh man CLASSIC", "mesg_id": 94859, "mesg_num": 440, "author": 14, "id": 161, "subject": "RE: I can't check out a show, you aint done Milwaukee in like 3 years."}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 170, "mesg_id": 94860, "text": "...you NEED to bless us again...\n\nSame venue, too... DO NOT do The Rave please :^)\n\n_________________________________________________________\n\nwww.myspace.com/bigsoulmusic1", "author": 82, "id": 162, "subject": "Yeah..that last Milwaukee show was dope!", "children": [{"signature": "\"You post like you look your barber in the\neyes when he lines you up.\"\n\nhttp://twitter.com/semiautomatic_C\nPSN ID: killacontact_71", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:40:00+00:00", "text": "By the time I found out, them tickets was\ngone...a friend of mines said she killed it tho.", "mesg_id": 94861, "mesg_num": 172, "author": 25, "id": 163, "subject": "I was mad that I couldn't go too..."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:34:00+00:00", "text": ">but just dont look me DIRECTLY in the\neye.\n>\n>DANGER.\n\ni saw you a few years back in philly when you did a show with mos\ndef...i was pretty close to the front of the stage...me and you\nmade eye-contact for a few seconds and i swear to god you were\nstaring into my soul...in kind of a scary way...like f'real...you\nice-grilled the fuck outta me...i was shook.\n\n\n\nwww.theyesyesyalls.com\nwww.virb.com/theyesyesyalls\nwww.myspace.com/shamelessplug\nwww.myspace.com/theyesyesyalls\nwww.myspace.com/dumhi\n\nthe REAL story behind mark ronson's rubber pig: www.sochrispy.blogspot.com", "mesg_id": 94862, "mesg_num": 454, "author": 83, "id": 164, "subject": "yo i can vouch first-hand for this part right here..."}]}]}, {"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:38:00+00:00", "text": "not just phrases here & there, or\ncollaborating\nw/different international artists...but i think\nit would be so dope to hear you singing entire\nsongs in portuguese, swahili, or french.\n\nhave you done any records like this or\nconsidered it?", "mesg_id": 94863, "mesg_num": 64, "author": 15, "id": 165, "subject": "non-english records."}, {"signature": "\"You Kids better buy my rookie card now, cuz\nafter this year the price ain't going down\"- Mos Def", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:39:00+00:00", "text": ">my ass and legs have gotten thick\n\nI know its been addressed already but Preach!!!!", "mesg_id": 94864, "mesg_num": 65, "author": 5, "id": 166, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:44:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 66, "mesg_id": 94865, "text": "u should holla at nicolay he got heat.\n\nis u tryin to use okp the same that you,kweli n lupe did?\nget that hype/hate going n shit. you got me is some dopeshit\nthough.", "author": 84, "id": 167, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 111, "mesg_id": 94866, "text": "im just replying\nim no diff than you, beloved\nthe subject is just my music\n\nwho has to campaign to be \"hated on\"\n\ndig?", "author": 1, "id": 168, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:05:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 124, "mesg_id": 94867, "text": "well i imagine no one wants to be hated\nespecially if theyr sensitive.\nthat would mean to say shit to avoid hate & not just feedin\nflames.\n\nbut i got one question though imma inbox if thats ait?", "author": 84, "id": 169, "subject": "ait", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 147, "mesg_id": 94868, "text": "ask here .", "author": 1, "id": 170, "subject": "RE: ait", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:02:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 151, "mesg_id": 94869, "text": "thanks for answerin my posts.\nlisten to john books cover idea.\np's", "author": 84, "id": 171, "subject": "damni would need to do an alias for that :)", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-19T04:37:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94870, "mesg_num": 219, "author": 53, "id": 172, "subject": "^tryna hit"}]}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "me and my army\n\nwww.donwill.bandcamp.com\nwww.tanyamorgan.bandcamp.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T15:55:00+00:00", "text": "how many joints did madlib do?\n\nwho else besides him and 9th got tracks on there?\n\nwhats up with jay electronica? tell him don from tanya morgan said\nwhatup. that dude is so hard to find... dont he live in brooklyn\nnow?", "mesg_id": 94871, "mesg_num": 69, "author": 85, "id": 173, "subject": "3 questions"}, {"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:01:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 72, "mesg_id": 94872, "text": "and since you made a forum for my gripe I'll\njust put that out there. i wonder if when you listen to that song\nyou cringe as much as I do when your verse starts.\n\nthat said, you should work with some of the cats round here, just\non some one-off tip, myself included.", "author": 86, "id": 174, "subject": "my only musical gripe with you was your verse on \"Liberation\"", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:05:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 73, "mesg_id": 94873, "text": "re: verse on liberation", "author": 15, "id": 175, "subject": "why is that?", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 76, "mesg_id": 94874, "text": "the song is about liberation and she's griping\nabout how she's being treated in first class. the trials and\ntribulation of stardom? just seems waaaaaaaaayyyyyy off topic, and\ndistracting. fortunately joi cleans it up with 'shake that load\noff' but its still there and i don't like it.", "author": 86, "id": 176, "subject": "RE: why is that?", "children": [{"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:28:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 80, "mesg_id": 94875, "text": "we all have our individual frame of\nreference.\n& i don't curse celebrities *just* for being\nsuperstars, in fact i may be one of the few\nppl in the world who actually feels sorry\nfor say...a britney spears. they don't\nlive the lives that we lead.\n\nfirst class is HER reality, & if you're in\nfirst class, & mofos tryna treat you like\nyou're on a buddy pass (which has happened\nto me a couple times, only i really was\nin first class on a buddy pass :-P) you\nhave the right to feel some kinda way about\nit.\n\ni know *I* did...\n\nthere's a lot more going on in that verse\nthan the first class gripe. i mean how\nwould any of us (regular folk) feel if\n*everybody* was a yes man, & wanted to be\nour friend, and we couldn't sift through\nthe fake/genuine? personally, that would\nfuck my head up. i thought her verse was\napprop.\n\n\nFolk in your face, you're a superstar\nNiggaz hang around cause of who you are\nYou get a lot of love cause of what you got\nSay they happy for you but they really not\nSell a lot of records and you rollin in\nSwoll up in the spot, now you losin friends\nAll you wanna do is get to where you are\nbut the label tried to make you compromise your art\nYou make a million dollars, make a million mo'\nFirst class probably treat you like a nigga po'\nYou wanna say \"Wait!\" but you're scared to ask\nas your world starts spinning and it's moving fast\nTry to stay sane, it's the price of fame\nSpending your life trying to numb the pain\nYou shake that note off and sing a song\nLiberate the minds, then you go on home..", "author": 15, "id": 177, "subject": "did you really listen to the lyrics tho?", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:37:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 83, "mesg_id": 94876, "text": "its just very egocentric on a theme that\nshould be devoid of ego. and don't confuse me with others - i\ndidn't curse her.", "author": 86, "id": 178, "subject": "but other than the last line what's it got to do with liberation", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:29:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 113, "mesg_id": 94877, "text": "actually i was speaking from the mind of a\nliberator\n\nyou dont have to get it . its waaay cool.\n\nis there a song you like , however?", "author": 1, "id": 179, "subject": "RE: but other than the last line what's it got to do with liberation", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:34:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 157, "mesg_id": 94878, "text": ">actually i was speaking from the mind of a\nliberator\n\ni'm not trying to knock you or where you were at the time. not even\ntrying to knock the message of what you were trying to convey, it\njust through me off thematically. its like the song to that point\nis reflective in a way accessible to most listeners, but your voice\nwas very specific toward your own experiences. i listen to the song\nand when your verse comes on all eyes are put on you as opposed to\nthe inner reflectivity the rest of the song allows for.\n\n>you dont have to get it . its waaay cool.\n\nnot getting or not getting, its just something i wondered if you\nthought about. or more speficically if anyone had ever brought it\nup to you. and its not a im hating on you, just sharing how i felt\nabout the song.\n\n>is there a song you like , however?\n\nactually there are quite a few. i'll go on record as being one of\nthose that loved Worldwide Underground and almost consider it your\nbest work but only the tip of your potential, which i only hope\ncontinues to flourish in your future endeavors.", "author": 86, "id": 180, "subject": "which is a bit egocentric yes?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T00:18:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 180, "mesg_id": 94879, "text": "re-listening to 'liberation' again, e's verse\narguably fits in with the 'there's a fine line b/t love and\nhate'/'can't worry about what another n---a think' concept laid out\nin the song's opening (love of fans/hate from others, including\nairport personnel (heh)/can't worry about what people think once\nyou're famous, etc).\n\nsomeone could just as well make the argument that 'i sacrifice\nevery breath i breathe to make you believe i'd give my life away',\netc, is as much of a self-involved line as e's verse, on a 'look at\nme, i'd die for you' level.\n\ni don't think the song is so singularly focused that e's verse\ndoesn't fit.\n\nit's all perception.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 181, "subject": "you know y'all are basically agreeing to disagree, right?", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:04:00+00:00", "text": "for how many years now? seriously. that's\npretty dope, even if we're just agreeing to disagree or\nwhatever.", "mesg_id": 94880, "mesg_num": 187, "author": 86, "id": 182, "subject": "hey i'm just happy to have her speak on something i've thought about"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:13:00+00:00", "text": "wow .\nwhats your major ?", "mesg_id": 94881, "mesg_num": 204, "author": 1, "id": 183, "subject": "RE: which is a bit egocentric yes?"}]}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:07:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 429, "mesg_id": 94882, "text": "just know liberation got me out of some hard\nspots... thanks \n\n\"There's a fine line between love and hate...\" you know the\nrest...", "author": 21, "id": 184, "subject": "SHEEET", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T21:41:00+00:00", "text": "Cosign...when i heard \"liberation\" it was just\nlike \"damn that's my shit! It was the last song on the Cd and a\nperfect ending. I loved the entire song including Erykah's verse. I\nliked it so much that in my directing class (Mr. Norman, GSU btw) I\nchose to make a video using that song..it was sooo dope, at least\nwe thought it was (LOL!) I had my homeboy in jail congregatin wit\nthe other incarcerated fellas, we had a slick deputy that was\nreally down for the cause, pregnant girlfriend coming to visit her\nman, and by the end of the song the sly deputy had freed all the\nbrothers from jai. Mr. Norman was telling us I'm going to show this\nto Erykah, we were all so psyched! What do you think of your\nexperience in the theater dept at GSU? Did you consider an acting\ncareer before you made it in the music industry? I know you're a\nhell of an actress, I saw you in the House of D, i enjoyed your\nperformance, i would love 2 see you in a major role that would give\nyou a lot of emotional range. Is an acting career a part of your\nfuture goals? Last ques. did you attend booker t for dance or\ntheater?", "mesg_id": 94883, "mesg_num": 602, "author": 87, "id": 185, "subject": "RE: SHEEET"}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:20:00+00:00", "text": "people treating u like a nigga po just because\nu know u deserve better. like white folk love to do. but hey. no\nracecardo", "mesg_id": 94884, "mesg_num": 470, "author": 88, "id": 186, "subject": "i took \"first class\" as a metaphor for \"high concept of self\""}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 138, "mesg_id": 94885, "text": "i never noticed e was more self-involved than\nthe more general verses that apply to anyone (non-celebs we mostly\nare) till you brought it up, but yeah, that verse does seem out of\nplace now. but hey, when that verse was recorded, e had just became\nfamous right? i imagine it's a bit of a mind-blowing experience. it\nmight have been her first chance to speak on it. to feel liberated\nenough to speak on it, if you will. *wink*\n\nthe 'shake that load off' breakdown, btw, is one of the most\nawesome moments in music. heh.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 187, "subject": "shake that load off came BEFORE e's verse", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:20:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 205, "mesg_id": 94886, "text": "actually i recorded my verse second. had only\nheard dre's.\nandre 1st\nthen me 2nd\nthen bb 3rd\njoi and peach 4th\nlo 5th\n\ndre edited to his taste.\n\nwe didnt hear each others verses\nweren't even in same cities. lol\n\ndre just gave us the title and how many bars...\nthe rest up to us.\n\ndo you even know what liberation means?\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 188, "subject": "RE: shake that load off came BEFORE e's verse", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T06:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 223, "mesg_id": 94887, "text": "in the recorded version of the song, 'shake\nthat load off' precedes your verse.\n\ni know what liberation is.\n\ndo you know what underestimation is?\n\ni'm more on your side than you realize. be peace.\n\nps: you probably replied before you read post 180. let me\nhelp:\n\nhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=1473672&mode=full#1474352\n\npps: i've come to the conclusion that i actually DON'T want to know\nhow a song was recorded. it's sort of like knowing the secret to a\nmagic trick. i'd rather just be amazed.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 189, "subject": "i didn't mean order of recording, i meant order in the final song", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 236, "mesg_id": 94888, "text": "sorry beloved that was meant for mcsvpl or\nwhatever that screen name is\nnot you spirit..", "author": 1, "id": 190, "subject": "RE: i didn't mean order of recording, i meant order in the final song", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:17:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 253, "mesg_id": 94889, "text": "cause it would seem you got two columns, and\nby initiating this line of thought i've been put into the hater\ncolumn.\n\nbut yes i know what liberation is. and putting it into a song is no\neasy task. but i do know is assuming oneself a liberator is a\nposition of ego, particularly from someone who cannot prove they\nhave been liberated (shit that sounds snarky, its not meant to be).\ni guess its a hard critique this many years later. i'm not\nexpecting you to go retract the verse etc. seriously, you put\nforward the space where i could speak to you candidly, and i shared\na thought i'd always had about a song you were on. because i\nquestion it, doesn't mean i'm against it. i just wondered if you\nhad thought about it. it would seem not and so i'm glad i put it\nout there.\n\nif this makes me a hater in your eyes, that's kind of fucked up,\nand actually reinforces my critique about the song. because what is\nhate? someone trying to have a true discussion about a serious\ntopic? what is love? someone who'll go along with whatever you\nthink because of who you are?\n\ni got love for you e, i speak from a position of love. as human\nbeings on our own paths to liberation, with the hope that this\ndiscourse might help us both in that regard.\n\nbut on a more serious note:\n\ndid you vaccinate your children?\n\nand while we're here.... click on the link in the sig\nVVVVVVVVVV", "author": 86, "id": 191, "subject": "how do i answer that free of snark re: knowing liberation", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 255, "mesg_id": 94890, "text": "ah youth.\nwasted on the young.", "author": 1, "id": 192, "subject": "RE: how do i answer that free of snark re: knowing liberation", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:42:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 256, "mesg_id": 94891, "text": "my wife and i read an article you did for a\nsmall paper/magazine on parenthood. it was refreshing to hear\nsomeone like you speak on such things.", "author": 86, "id": 193, "subject": "LOL...did you vaccinate though?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:02:00+00:00", "text": "if you decide to get them done, PRESS the doc\nto find out if they contain thimerosal(which contains methyl\nmercury)...it's a preservative that should've been outlawed ages\nago, as it's partially responsible for the epidemic rise in autism\nspectrum disorders.", "mesg_id": 94892, "mesg_num": 331, "author": 76, "id": 194, "subject": "RE: LOL...did you vaccinate though?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:03:00+00:00", "text": "no i did not .\ni practice holistic and preventitive med.\nwe heal ourselves unless there is some grave emergency .\nour healing/ living practice is just as much mental /spiritual as\nit is vital.\nbecause you asked this question , im sure you're hip ...", "mesg_id": 94893, "mesg_num": 332, "author": 1, "id": 195, "subject": "RE: LOL...did you vaccinate though?"}]}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "'Boom buh chalk buh boom buh chalk'", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:38:00+00:00", "text": ";-)", "mesg_id": 94894, "mesg_num": 478, "author": 89, "id": 196, "subject": "that is one of the most beautifullest songs ever."}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "elaborate re: LIB", "mesg_id": 94895, "mesg_num": 112, "author": 1, "id": 197, "subject": "RE: my only musical gripe with you was your verse on \"Liberation\""}]}, {"signature": "<----holler at a player when you see him in\nthe streets (c)Stuart Scott\n\nwww.brucegeetz1.bandcamp.com\nhttp://brucegeetz.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:08:00+00:00", "text": "I just want to say keep doing your thing,\ncause I really appreciate the great music you put out.\n\nand oh yeah, I played \"Honey\" on my radio show last night \n\nyou should come to Lancaster, PA and so I can give you an in-studio\ninterview one of these days lol", "mesg_id": 94897, "mesg_num": 74, "author": 90, "id": 198, "subject": "not much to say erykah"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:10:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 94898, "mesg_num": 75, "author": 91, "id": 199, "subject": "what's your favorite Miles Davis recording?"}, {"signature": "-------\ni left my chick for cheatin on me\nnow the bitch is miserable\n-Ghost", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:24:00+00:00", "text": "just kidding\n\non and on was part of a time period that changed my life...thanks\nfor that", "mesg_id": 94899, "mesg_num": 79, "author": 92, "id": 200, "subject": "inbox of the new album?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:30:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 81, "mesg_id": 94900, "text": "which IMO will be one of the VERY few songs\ncreated in my adulthood years (late 90s to the present) that is a\nverifiable classic that will be played for decades into the\nfuture\n\nyou & r kelly are the only real artists left in popular Black\nmusic IMO\n\nkeep doing your thing\n\n\n<------ picture me rolling", "author": 93, "id": 201, "subject": "i just want to thank you for making green eyes", "children": [{"signature": "___________", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:24:00+00:00", "text": "\n>you & r kelly are the only real artists left in popular\nBlack\n>music IMO", "mesg_id": 94901, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 94, "id": 202, "subject": "81. \"shenanigans"}, {"signature": "http://www.myspace.com/justplainant\n\nEat two wee wees and die you dick in the booty hole ass nigga. (c)\nShade", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:28:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94902, "mesg_num": 360, "author": 95, "id": 203, "subject": "word?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:35:00+00:00", "text": "certified eMambo:\n\n>i am also surprised you dont expect me to fire back- its\nthe\n>best part.\n>some cant see us... we are a dying breed.\n>if you did , you'd also see the humor in my fuckery\n>and perhaps even understand this hightened ability... to\nknow\n>YOU so welL.\n\nthank god for your brutal honesty. it has made for some of the most\nauthentic OK-internet reading/lurking that i've done in a long,long\ntime. my question: When, oh, when will you return to the stage or\nscreen? as you know, we are much more interested in seeing you on\nthe stage...\n\nviva la soul nation.\n\n***This message has been brought to you by Tyrone \u00a9,\nSooouuul.Nation! Member #7, of the LADallasDCPrurieViewNYC\nCollective***", "mesg_id": 94903, "mesg_num": 82, "author": 96, "id": 204, "subject": "Sooouuul.Nation! Member #7--THE Tyrone \u00a9"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:46:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 84, "mesg_id": 94904, "text": "If you've got \"talent\", but literally nothing\nelse, i.e., no money, no connections, just dreams and aspirations,\nwhat's the best way to break into this music thing?\n\nComing from a young fan and aspiring artist.", "author": 97, "id": 205, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:15:00+00:00", "text": "cream floats to the top.\n\nhustle on.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 94905, "mesg_num": 140, "author": 56, "id": 206, "subject": "keep performing and keep banging"}]}, {"signature": "________________________________________\nwho gonna check me boo?!\n\nwww.myspace.com/pfirepfire100\nwww.twitter.com/firefire100\nwww.philadelphiaeagles.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:52:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 85, "mesg_id": 94906, "text": "once you get past that you'll be better\noff", "author": 98, "id": 207, "subject": "lesson #1: the lesson hates female artists", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:56:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 86, "mesg_id": 94907, "text": ">once you get past that you'll be better\noff", "author": 99, "id": 208, "subject": "RE RE RE: lesson #1: the lesson hates BLACK female artists", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 260, "mesg_id": 94908, "text": "", "author": 9, "id": 209, "subject": "you're cosigning that madness, SPE?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:41:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 94909, "mesg_num": 265, "author": 99, "id": 210, "subject": "lol..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:11:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94910, "mesg_num": 637, "author": 98, "id": 211, "subject": "there's truth in madness (c) vincentina van go"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T17:32:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 89, "mesg_id": 94911, "text": "ur sig aint true imo.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNtjGZuBUo\n\nBig L rest in peace ", "author": 84, "id": 212, "subject": "i dont hate women though", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:00:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 94912, "mesg_num": 90, "author": 99, "id": 213, "subject": "u might not, but the lesson..by n large...does."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:12:00+00:00", "text": "hollars", "mesg_id": 94913, "mesg_num": 638, "author": 98, "id": 214, "subject": "name a harlem rapper better than cam & i'll send u one hundred"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:33:00+00:00", "text": "ah.. i see.\ni didnt get that tho.\n", "mesg_id": 94914, "mesg_num": 115, "author": 1, "id": 215, "subject": "RE: lesson #1: the lesson hates female artists"}, {"signature": "\"You post like you look your barber in the\neyes when he lines you up.\"\n\nhttp://twitter.com/semiautomatic_C\nPSN ID: killacontact_71", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:44:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 120, "mesg_id": 94915, "text": "The same one who just said Mama's Gun was the\nbest out of all the Soulquarians albums?\n", "author": 25, "id": 216, "subject": "You mean the same lesson thats the hardest on D and Prince?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:15:00+00:00", "text": "i don't have time to elaborate now but if i\nbecome unbusy within the next week or so, i'm will finally\nelaborate my theory via a separate post.", "mesg_id": 94916, "mesg_num": 639, "author": 98, "id": 217, "subject": "yes, the lesson hates women (c) fire"}]}, {"signature": "yep.\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/therealspreadbitch\n\nTHE PHILOSOPHY - \"In the Trenches\" LP\nhttp://cdbaby.com/cd/philosophy\nhttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=200892909\nhttp://myspace.com/the1philosophy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T04:05:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 216, "mesg_id": 94917, "text": "and you're a female artist...don't put us all\nthere", "author": 80, "id": 218, "subject": "you know i love you baby", "children": [{"signature": "________________________________________\nwho gonna check me boo?!\n\nwww.myspace.com/pfirepfire100\nwww.twitter.com/firefire100\nwww.philadelphiaeagles.com", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:16:00+00:00", "text": "when they have it's all been positive that may\nbe due to the fact that i'm family (c) me via morris day", "mesg_id": 94918, "mesg_num": 640, "author": 98, "id": 219, "subject": "the lesson loves me and the lesson also hasn't critiqued my music"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T16:57:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94919, "mesg_num": 87, "author": 100, "id": 220, "subject": "what are your three favorite incense scents?"}, {"signature": ".................. ___@@@__\n......_____//____\u00d8_____\\\\__________\n--o---------ASYLUM POLICE---------------@)\n---- `----(@)=========+====(@)---'", "date_time": "2007-11-18T17:09:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 88, "mesg_id": 94920, "text": "", "author": 101, "id": 221, "subject": "what Shampoo do you use?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:37:00+00:00", "text": "i love you.\nlol", "mesg_id": 94921, "mesg_num": 117, "author": 1, "id": 222, "subject": "RE: what Shampoo do you use?"}]}, {"signature": "\n*******************************************************\ni will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope\n- Cory Booker\n\nforgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:04:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 91, "mesg_id": 94922, "text": "", "author": 102, "id": 223, "subject": "i hope my avy doesnt offend u, if it does plz lemme know", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:45:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 121, "mesg_id": 94923, "text": "why would it offend me?", "author": 1, "id": 224, "subject": "RE: i hope my avy doesnt offend u, if it does plz lemme know", "children": [{"signature": "\n*******************************************************\ni will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope\n- Cory Booker\n\nforgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:05:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94925, "mesg_num": 152, "author": 102, "id": 226, "subject": "aight cool..yo, who u feelin musically lately?..u copped that jigga?"}]}, {"signature": "Now Playing:\nA Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory\nDe La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead\nThe Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde\nIce Cube - Death Certificate\nDr. Dre - The Chronic\nKanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:25:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94926, "mesg_num": 189, "author": 103, "id": 227, "subject": "amen for that avy fam"}]}, {"signature": "http://www.myspace.com/lovingrnbfromthe1990s", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:07:00+00:00", "text": "alot of people miss good R&B, wtf is\nhappening to these artists that just fall off the face of the\nearth, the A&R's, what's good?", "mesg_id": 94927, "mesg_num": 92, "author": 104, "id": 228, "subject": "WTF IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE INDUSTRY"}, {"signature": "_____\n\n\"and just like that..... *poof* he's gone\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 93, "mesg_id": 94928, "text": "", "author": 19, "id": 229, "subject": "how tall is pete rock?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:47:00+00:00", "text": "tall enough for a medium woman , i guess", "mesg_id": 94929, "mesg_num": 122, "author": 1, "id": 230, "subject": "RE: how tall is pete rock?"}]}, {"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:16:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 95, "mesg_id": 94930, "text": "I know you do.\nYou know you do.\nHolla!\nlol.\nNo. Seriously. Holla!", "author": 105, "id": 231, "subject": "DO YOU NEED A PERSONAL ASSISTANT???", "children": [{"signature": "Ayah - '4:15' album available now on\nwww.ayahmusic.com\nwww.twitter.com/AyahMusic\nwww.myspace.com/AyahMusic", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:23:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 94931, "text": "", "author": 18, "id": 232, "subject": "7. \"^^^^Stan", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:27:00+00:00", "text": "Hehe!!", "mesg_id": 94932, "mesg_num": 98, "author": 105, "id": 233, "subject": "Yep!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:44:00+00:00", "text": "\nR.I.P, lil Bro. Words cannot express how I feel inside. 4ever a\npart of me; my soul, my pride.", "mesg_id": 94933, "mesg_num": 148, "author": 13, "id": 234, "subject": "so?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:33:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 143, "mesg_id": 94935, "text": "peace KIS\nnothing can ever compare to what you' ve done for my spirit.\nit just transferes to the people.\ni love you , sis. (re: eryka-badu.com)\n\nthis woman is on top of her shit.\nwhats real is she doesn't like everything i create and expresses\nit.\nthe thing is , she just gets it.\nshe seems to know where it all starts for me.\n\ngreat work kis.", "author": 1, "id": 235, "subject": "RE: DO YOU NEED A PERSONAL ASSISTANT???", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 184, "mesg_id": 94936, "text": "i'm not Kister, i do know who she is\nthough...i'm signed up at the other site too but i'll just pretend that the compliments you wrote for\nher were intended for me, lol. still and will always have love for\nya...\n", "author": 105, "id": 236, "subject": "WRONG PERSON ERYKAH:(", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:27:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 206, "mesg_id": 94937, "text": "ooops\n\nbut 1/2 of that WAS for you\nthe relating to the source shit.\nyou obviously get it.", "author": 1, "id": 237, "subject": "RE: WRONG PERSON ERYKAH:(", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:17:00+00:00", "text": "this has made my day/week/dam, my whole\nLIFE!!!\n\n**gets into super crazy Stan mode**", "mesg_id": 94938, "mesg_num": 313, "author": 105, "id": 238, "subject": "o i got cha!!!"}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:37:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 99, "mesg_id": 94939, "text": "also, will jay be on your new album? can we\nget a jay elect verse on a remix or something? please?\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 239, "subject": "jay electronica release date...please?", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:43:00+00:00", "text": "thanks for this one buddy!", "mesg_id": 94940, "mesg_num": 103, "author": 105, "id": 240, "subject": "good question"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:02:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 150, "mesg_id": 94941, "text": "I'm interested to know this too! jay\nelectrolysis got that heat\n______________________________________________________________\n\nI love hip hop, I just hate the niggaz in it (c) Phonte\n\n\nwww.last.fm/user/soulsupreme/\nwww.last.fm/group/OKP+inToronto", "author": 106, "id": 241, "subject": "RE: jay electronica release date...please?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:31:00+00:00", "text": "soon\njay doesnt like to discuss his plans\nhe just likes to drop.\n\nact 2\n\ncoming soon", "mesg_id": 94942, "mesg_num": 207, "author": 1, "id": 242, "subject": "RE: jay electronica release date...please?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:39:00+00:00", "text": "i'm sure you saw the radiohead experiment...is\nthat the type of digital distribution platform you might consider\nin the future?\n\nopinions on the future of the industry generally, if you feel\ncomfortable commenting publicly?\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 94943, "mesg_num": 100, "author": 56, "id": 243, "subject": "opinions on the recording industry's future, if you can freely speak?"}, {"signature": "_______________________________________\nThe Unfunny Truth about Scientology\nhttp://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/\n\nget out there\nhttp://seattlecosprotest.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:40:00+00:00", "text": "good work ma.", "mesg_id": 94944, "mesg_num": 101, "author": 107, "id": 244, "subject": "Hell yeah your ass and thighs got thick!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T18:50:00+00:00", "text": "TAGS UP: Shooter", "mesg_id": 94945, "mesg_num": 104, "author": 108, "id": 245, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "http://kingakai.com <-prod. for Royce da 5'9,\nMTV,D-12..ect\n\n..Lead the wild into the ways of the man,FOLLOW ME!\nhttp://twitter.com/KingAkai\n\nMe on allhiphop.com!\nhttp://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2008/08/28/20452303.aspx", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:32:00+00:00", "text": "Being that you JUST got finished with your\nalbum and all..\n\nSo I do want to reach out just in case you looking to collaborate\nwith production/songwriting..I do have some tracks and sound beds\nthat may trigger some feeling and emotion to come up with songs,\nand then go from there..\n\nmy contact is..\n\nemail: alphabet380@gmail.com\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/bangonthetableproductions\n\nThanks in advance for the time to listen..", "mesg_id": 94946, "mesg_num": 114, "author": 109, "id": 246, "subject": "I know most songwriters never 'take a break' from writing.."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:42:00+00:00", "text": "and some publishing too.\n\nThanks.\n\nOh yeah, where can I buy or even listen to \"Props To The Lonely\nPeople\"?", "mesg_id": 94947, "mesg_num": 119, "author": 110, "id": 247, "subject": "Can I get some points on your next album."}, {"signature": "If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it\nwill be from playing my stereo too loud. ~Anonymous\n\nwww.maybesomethingbeautiful.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T19:53:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 123, "mesg_id": 94948, "text": "Why not one big release????\n\nWhat is the message, vibe or theme behind each of the\nthree???\n\nany rituals before u perform or record????\n\nAny why doesn't annie wear panties???", "author": 111, "id": 248, "subject": "Why 3 albums next year????", "children": [{"signature": "If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it\nwill be from playing my stereo too loud. ~Anonymous\n\nwww.maybesomethingbeautiful.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 127, "mesg_id": 94949, "text": "What artists or albums have shape your musical\nidentity???\n\nis there a song u wish u had written??\n\na artist that has made song that felt like he or she was singing\nwas from your soul?\n\nwhat peak your interest in music (family, a concert, etc)???\n\nwhat song do u sing to your children at night???\n\nwhat do want your legacy to be???\n\nwhen your in chicago, sing orange moon for Aya Cook (a person i\nlove that enjoys your music more then i)", "author": 111, "id": 249, "subject": "More questions???", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:49:00+00:00", "text": "before the kids go to bed i sing\na rick james song of their choosing.\n\nkidding .\nits 3:15 am\n\nyou have lots of questions.\nill pick 1.\n\n\n\ni wish i had written 'working class hero 'by john lennon", "mesg_id": 94950, "mesg_num": 258, "author": 1, "id": 250, "subject": "RE: More questions???"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:11:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 94951, "text": "I heard \"Baduizm\" for the first time a few\nmonths ago.\n\nAnd I loved it.\n\nMy question is, when is this sound going to return? Could you\nperhaps release an instrumental version of \"Baduizm\"?\n\nAnd I highly suggest that you work with Dangermouse. I HIGHLY\nsuggest it. Do an album with that guy because creatively he'll take\nyou there.\n\n\n\nPlease respond to me, thanks a bunch! ", "author": 74, "id": 251, "subject": "26. \"********************************IMPORTANT*******************************...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:54:00+00:00", "text": ">I heard \"Baduizm\" for the first time a few\nmonths ago.\n>\n>And I loved it.\n>\n>My question is, when is this sound going to return? Could\nyou\n>perhaps release an instrumental version of \"Baduizm\"?\n>\n>And I highly suggest that you work with Dangermouse. I\nHIGHLY\n>suggest it. Do an album with that guy because creatively\nhe'll\n>take you there.\n>\n>\n>\n>Please respond to me, thanks a bunch! ", "mesg_id": 94952, "mesg_num": 175, "author": 74, "id": 252, "subject": "Aiight someone just lost a customer, peace!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:08:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 333, "mesg_id": 94953, "text": "will never be another BADUISM.\n\nwhy for?\n\nwe have THAT one.", "author": 1, "id": 253, "subject": "RE: ********************************IMPORTANT***************************...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:40:00+00:00", "text": ">will never be another BADUISM.\n>\n>why for?\n>\n>we have THAT one.\n\n\n\nI thought you were just gon ignore me.\n\nBut work with Danger Mouse, ma!\n\nKeep doing your thing.", "mesg_id": 94954, "mesg_num": 497, "author": 74, "id": 254, "subject": "Ok, you redeemed yourself :)"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:20:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 128, "mesg_id": 94955, "text": "I think it would be great to hear you do Inez\nCheatham's part in a cover of Eddie Bo's \"Lover And A Friend\".\nThere are a lot of similarities, and that's one song that would be\nas valid today as it was 40 years. It would be cool to hear you\nsing \"I'll stand on the corner just like you, fight all my battles\njust like you, and try... and try... to satisfy you\", because when\nI first got the 45, I thought \"it's kinda Badu-ish\".\n\nGo all out, release it as a limited edition 45, have it available\nonly at shows or through Okayplayer or something.\n\nI throw out loads of ideas in this place, at least someone should\ngo for one. Otherwise I may have to step my game up in the new year\nand do it myself.\n\n\n\nME: http://www.myspace.com/crutmusic\nWRITE: http://www.musicforamerica.org/node/114548\nHEAR: http://booksmusic.podomatic.com/\n\nGIVE: http://www.hawaiifoodbank.org\n\nABB: http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/index.php?vst=45730", "author": 112, "id": 255, "subject": "I know you write your own material, but there's one song you should cove...", "children": [{"signature": "www.twitter.com/willsessions", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 94956, "text": "a dilla story...i live in detroit and have\nloved all of his stuff (like everyone else!) eversense i got the\nfantastic vol. 2 cassette tape back in the day!! perks of living in\nthe D! anyways, i know you were tight...so share a good\nstory......how often are you in the D? i know jay elect does some\nrecording here, you ever record here?", "author": 113, "id": 256, "subject": "29. \"share..", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:39:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 130, "mesg_id": 94957, "text": "I can share a \"I sat right behind Q-Tip at NMS\n11\" story, though.\n\n\nME: http://www.myspace.com/crutmusic\nWRITE: http://www.musicforamerica.org/node/114548\nHEAR: http://booksmusic.podomatic.com/\n\nGIVE: http://www.hawaiifoodbank.org\n\nABB: http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/index.php?vst=45730", "author": 112, "id": 257, "subject": "I never met him, so I can't share any stories like that", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:56:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94958, "mesg_num": 134, "author": 114, "id": 258, "subject": "lol."}]}]}]}, {"signature": "...with who? THA DOODOOMAN!!!\nwww.homestarrunner.com/vcr_poop.html\n\nkill all whites today & we'll still be f'd up. we fight over BS\npolitical ideas & ethnic allegiances but scared to defend\nresources of our own land. the only savior is self--thegodcam", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:47:00+00:00", "text": "Now, what were you doing walking down Melrose\nwith homeboy last month?", "mesg_id": 94959, "mesg_num": 132, "author": 115, "id": 259, "subject": "Kuah Allah's in the house."}, {"signature": "supporting a friend: www.clutchmagazine.com ...at a local newsstand near\nyou, soon!\n_____________________________\nI'm not a businessman, I'm a BUSINESS man! (c) S. Carter", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 133, "mesg_id": 94960, "text": "is this intentional?\n\ncats seriously think thrice before purchasing a ticket...", "author": 116, "id": 260, "subject": "do you know that you have a rep of always being late to concerts?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:17:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 153, "mesg_id": 94961, "text": "i didnt know that...", "author": 1, "id": 261, "subject": "RE: do you know that you have a rep of always being late to concerts?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 290, "mesg_id": 94962, "text": "http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=5430677&mesg_id=5430677&listing_type=search", "author": 46, "id": 262, "subject": "Yes(click link)", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:16:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 334, "mesg_id": 94963, "text": "oh\ni see.\nlet me hip you to a little secret.\nBLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN OBSERVE THE IDEA OF TIME.\nWE CREATED TIME FOR THE WHITE RACE.\nits a fact. look it up on ebay.", "author": 1, "id": 263, "subject": "RE: Yes(click link)", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:06:00+00:00", "text": "is a fucking fantastic reply.\n\nBwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha\n\n\n<-------- ah dread inna suit\n\n\n\nBlack History Month, the yout dem ah try ah ting---------->\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8", "mesg_id": 94964, "mesg_num": 389, "author": 47, "id": 264, "subject": "now this..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:06:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94965, "mesg_num": 484, "author": 46, "id": 265, "subject": ":D"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:51:00+00:00", "text": ">BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN OBSERVE THE IDEA\nOF TIME.\n>WE CREATED TIME FOR THE WHITE RACE.\n\nHAAA!!!! ...if we could only get white folks to see/ know this\n;^)\n\n_______________________________________\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/bigsoulmusic1", "mesg_id": 94966, "mesg_num": 516, "author": 82, "id": 266, "subject": "RE: Yes(click link)"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:26:00+00:00", "text": "i had to unlurk for this one.\n\n-------------------------\n\"when you apply his techniques from Donuts to other types of music\nbesides soul/R&B, the possibilites are endless.\"- Small Pro", "mesg_id": 94967, "mesg_num": 534, "author": 117, "id": 267, "subject": "ahaha"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T12:06:00+00:00", "text": ">oh\n>i see.\n>let me hip you to a little secret.\n>BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN OBSERVE THE IDEA OF TIME.\n>WE CREATED TIME FOR THE WHITE RACE.\n>its a fact. look it up on ebay.\n\n\nHolla @ us!!!\n\nmyspace.com/auraclevision", "mesg_id": 94968, "mesg_num": 564, "author": 118, "id": 268, "subject": "lol"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T20:21:00+00:00", "text": ">oh\n>i see.\n>let me hip you to a little secret.\n>BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN OBSERVE THE IDEA OF TIME.\n>WE CREATED TIME FOR THE WHITE RACE.\n>its a fact. look it up on ebay.\n\n\n\nOh, and your manager was interested in a track called \"Can I Come\nOver\" from A Piece of Strange Productions (my production\nteam)...ya'll need to still see about that LOL", "mesg_id": 94969, "mesg_num": 601, "author": 119, "id": 269, "subject": "Funniest shit I read all week."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-24T03:19:00+00:00", "text": ">oh\n>i see.\n>let me hip you to a little secret.\n>BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN OBSERVE THE IDEA OF TIME.\n>WE CREATED TIME FOR THE WHITE RACE.\n\n---->its a fact. look it up on ebay.\n\ndamn u made me laugh. I feel better now thank you.", "mesg_id": 94970, "mesg_num": 618, "author": 120, "id": 270, "subject": "RE: Yes(click link)"}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "____________\n\n\"If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just\nlet's pretend we never met before.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T20:57:00+00:00", "text": "or that track based on \"Dollars\nCirculate\"?\n\nYou had a bunch of material with your band (Funk Sway). Will those\nsee the light of day?", "mesg_id": 94971, "mesg_num": 135, "author": 121, "id": 271, "subject": "will \"Black Girl Lips\" or \"Annie\" be on the album?"}, {"signature": "*********************\nwww.dumhi.com", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:06:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94972, "mesg_num": 137, "author": 122, "id": 272, "subject": "hi"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:15:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 139, "mesg_id": 94973, "text": "two great songs, released in a period of four\nmonths.\nthese songs made me really hungry for WU (sept 2003).\nthen when the EP dropped it turned out to be a totally different\nrecord.\nit was nothing in the line of these songs and i couldn't get myself\nto appreciate the album.\n\nnow it's nov 2008 and 'real thing' and 'honey' have been\nreleased.\nare these tracks any indication of what to expect from the upcoming\nrelease 'kahba'?\nor will i get fooled again? (imho i'm kind of hoping for the\nlatter.)", "author": 123, "id": 273, "subject": "jimi was a rock star (dec 2002) / poetry (may 2003)", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 155, "mesg_id": 94974, "text": "this albulm is beat heavy.\nyou might not like it ...\n\nalbulm 2 :mana's duce duce is in that vein\n\nalbulm 3 :lo down loretta brown is funk", "author": 1, "id": 274, "subject": "RE: jimi was a rock star (dec 2002) / poetry (may 2003)", "children": [{"signature": "************************\nCURRENT PLAYLIST:\n\nHollie Smith & Mara Tk - Band Of Brothers, Vol. 1\nHollie Smith - Humour & The Misfortune of Others\nRobert Glasper - Black Radio\nLalah Hathaway - Where It All Begins\nEsperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society\nQuadr", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:13:00+00:00", "text": "I am hoping they will. I will check all three\nbut I kinda think 2 and 3 will be more my speed.\n\nDid you ever think of doing a double album? Your own\nSpeakerbox/Love Below.", "mesg_id": 94975, "mesg_num": 167, "author": 39, "id": 275, "subject": "will Motown REALLY let you release 3 albums in a year?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T00:08:00+00:00", "text": "\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 94976, "mesg_num": 179, "author": 56, "id": 276, "subject": "<--- officially geeked on mana's duce duce w/o even hearing it"}]}]}, {"signature": "--------------------------------------\nhttp://www.thahiphop.com\nAlways looking for writers and contributors, so hit me up!", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 142, "mesg_id": 94977, "text": "And what are your favorites sport teams?", "author": 24, "id": 277, "subject": "Who do I holla at to get an interview?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:15:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 183, "mesg_id": 94978, "text": ".", "author": 124, "id": 278, "subject": "^^^^^my question.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:28:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 447, "mesg_id": 94979, "text": "THIS is my last interview.", "author": 1, "id": 279, "subject": "RE: ^^^^^my question.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:33:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 94980, "mesg_num": 475, "author": 124, "id": 280, "subject": "a reply from the University of Prince....damn."}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:36:00+00:00", "text": "Yeah wus happening?!\n\nSO put me on to some shit.....\nwhat books you reading right now? on the non-fiction side...and\nummm who you listening to nowadays?", "mesg_id": 94981, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 125, "id": 281, "subject": "44. \"@#$<------"}, {"signature": "*IDEAS.*", "date_time": "2007-11-18T21:47:00+00:00", "text": "it's the most beautiful place on earth.\nthere's alotta great cities out there...but dallas got the weather,\nthe food, the everything.\n\ndid i mention food?\n\ni got to see you for the first time @ that free show you did\ndowntown...even tho me and my girl were almost trampled.\nhaha.\n\nbut yeah, i moved to help open a studio ( http://www.the808studio.com , plug plug plug). myself\nand another producer, j. rhodes, do production. we'd throw out\nroses, coming to america style if you ever came through. lol.\n\nand finally, thanks for continually making quality joints. other\nside of the game is one of the best songs in life, as are others\nyou've put in to the air. god bless.", "mesg_id": 94982, "mesg_num": 149, "author": 126, "id": 282, "subject": "as a recent dallas transplant, lemmie say:"}, {"signature": "mistermaxxx\n\n\nmy favs\nR.Kelly Michael Jackson Bee Gees Steely dan ,Lionel Richie, Stevie\nWonder,Smokey Robinson Gladys Knight,Jackie wilson, Sam\nCooke,\ncrusaders, Rick James, Shaq,EWF, Isley Brothers,Bobby Womack Tiger\nWoods Ba", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 154, "mesg_id": 94983, "text": "and update your sound and stop being so\nprentenious and over the top and acting so important with the\nmusic. lighten up and have some fun. enjoy the music with your\naudience and stop trying to be over the heads of your\naudience.\n\nask R.Kelly for a soulful playful hit.", "author": 127, "id": 283, "subject": "beg R.Kelly for a Hit", "children": [{"signature": "\n*******************************************************\ni will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope\n- Cory Booker\n\nforgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:27:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 156, "mesg_id": 94984, "text": "smh", "author": 102, "id": 284, "subject": "this nigga yo....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:57:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94985, "mesg_num": 159, "author": 54, "id": 285, "subject": "comedy right?"}]}, {"signature": "_____\n\n\"and just like that..... *poof* he's gone\"", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:07:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94986, "mesg_num": 165, "author": 19, "id": 286, "subject": "THESE GIRLS ARE TRYNA BE QUEENS, LU!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 171, "mesg_id": 94987, "text": "ill try.", "author": 1, "id": 287, "subject": "RE: beg R.Kelly for a Hit", "children": [{"signature": "U don't have to be great to start, but you\nmust start to be great.--Sabah", "date_time": "2007-11-25T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "why, why, why are you entertaining these small\nignorant and probably too young to understand the concept of REAL\nARTISANS in music???WHY?\\ tell em to eat a fat one and\nchoke...damn..I'm annoyed with the line of\ncomments/questioning..aintchu?", "mesg_id": 94988, "mesg_num": 636, "author": 128, "id": 288, "subject": "RE: beg R.Kelly for a Hit"}]}, {"signature": "Hip-hop could never be a way of life / It\ndoesn't teach you how to raise a kid or treat a wife -- Q-Tip", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:19:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94989, "mesg_num": 188, "author": 129, "id": 289, "subject": "^^^^never heard \"tyrone\"^^^^"}, {"signature": "--------------------------------------\nI'm a real bitch, nigga. What are you into huh?\n\nwww.blackgirlpain.com", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 316, "mesg_id": 94990, "text": "oh my God, get off his dick. Unless you like\nbeing pissed on.", "author": 27, "id": 290, "subject": "So wait, R Kelly makes SOULFUL hits", "children": [{"signature": "\"\"look at how many posts you have, do you work\nhere or something?\"\"\n\u00a9Erykah Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:27:00+00:00", "text": "!!!!", "mesg_id": 94991, "mesg_num": 535, "author": 130, "id": 291, "subject": "LMAO"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:52:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94992, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 48, "id": 292, "subject": "17. \"^^^^Yadgyu"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:47:00+00:00", "text": "explain.", "mesg_id": 94993, "mesg_num": 158, "author": 131, "id": 293, "subject": "mom vsmusical artist"}, {"signature": "______________\nthe trill of it all.", "date_time": "2007-11-18T22:58:00+00:00", "text": "when will you pose for playboy?", "mesg_id": 94994, "mesg_num": 160, "author": 132, "id": 294, "subject": "how the fuck did your ass get so fat?"}, {"signature": "www.thekoshow.com\nwww.k-otix.com\nhttp://www.myspace.com/thelegendarykokotix\nwww.rappersiknow.com\nwww.ethosmusicgroup.com/mp3player.swf", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:01:00+00:00", "text": "We all know you got lyrical skills.", "mesg_id": 94995, "mesg_num": 162, "author": 133, "id": 295, "subject": "Can we get an Erykah Free rap album?"}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:05:00+00:00", "text": "why did you sing over dr. dre's \"xxplosive\"\nfor the single edit?", "mesg_id": 94996, "mesg_num": 164, "author": 53, "id": 296, "subject": "\"bag lady\" radio mix"}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 166, "mesg_id": 94997, "text": "", "author": 53, "id": 297, "subject": "what do you think of Tarika Blue's song \"Dreamflower\"?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:14:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 298, "mesg_id": 94998, "text": "", "author": 134, "id": 298, "subject": "i would imagine she thinks highly of it...she used it.", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 94999, "mesg_num": 358, "author": 53, "id": 299, "subject": "hence the question"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:21:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95000, "mesg_num": 169, "author": 135, "id": 300, "subject": "I am feeling the new song ''Honey''peace! n/m"}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:50:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 173, "mesg_id": 95001, "text": "we have a moderator here (fire) who claims she\nheard almost a whole lost outkast album 3 years ago. do you know\nanything about this? if you heard it, describe what you thought and\nwhat went wrong that they decided not to finish it.", "author": 53, "id": 301, "subject": "Does Andre play you unreleased/new Outkast songs?", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:51:00+00:00", "text": "what DID you think of his \"a day in the life\nof benjamin andre\" off of 'the love below'? do you think it was all\nfair and accurate?", "mesg_id": 95002, "mesg_num": 174, "author": 53, "id": 302, "subject": "also on the topic of Andre"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T21:29:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 643, "mesg_id": 95003, "text": "", "author": 98, "id": 303, "subject": "that was lame", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-26T12:39:00+00:00", "text": "only lame part would be asking erykah badu\noutkast questions, but it's not like andre or big boi post here, do\nthey?", "mesg_id": 95004, "mesg_num": 649, "author": 53, "id": 304, "subject": "how was it lame? i still want to know"}]}]}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-18T23:55:00+00:00", "text": "how much of your 3(?) new albums are they\nplaying and when is the tour?\n\ni'm looking forward to seeing you live for the first time so i hope\nthe tour's soon.", "mesg_id": 95005, "mesg_num": 176, "author": 53, "id": 305, "subject": "who's in your current touring band"}, {"signature": "U don't have to be great to start, but you\nmust start to be great.--Sabah", "date_time": "2007-11-19T00:07:00+00:00", "text": "Well E...We shared some dialogue in the\nartist's section, but I gotta say that you are one of my favorites\nin this era simply because like life, your music ever grows,\nchanges according to your changes, and keeps moving..as much as I\ndig all of your work, I like the fact that you keep it moving and\nexplore..you have one of the best shows I have been to and that is\nmany..you are a consumate artist and it shows..so no dick ridin\nhere..just giving props where due and keep on! And I won't badger\nyou about that other thang that I usually do..you already know what\nI gots ta say bout that one..just keep on for the ones that can\nappreciate ART...please..PEACE and appreciation sister..", "mesg_id": 95006, "mesg_num": 178, "author": 128, "id": 306, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 181, "mesg_id": 95007, "text": "I remember you performed that in Orlando some\nyears ago. It was a track that didn't make the Baduizm album I\nbelieve. Is that gonna be on one of the three albums???\n\nIt's definitely a song that I would love to hear as a studio\nmix.", "author": 136, "id": 307, "subject": "Dear Misery", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:31:00+00:00", "text": "i have to pull that up .\ngood call.\nappreciate that , fam.", "mesg_id": 95008, "mesg_num": 238, "author": 1, "id": 308, "subject": "RE: Dear Misery"}]}, {"signature": "'a baker earns his living by baking. a\ncarpenter, by building things. youre a rapper, RAP MOTHERFUCKER' -\nlyor cohen\n\nssbb fc:5455-9051-5437 tag: hlbx9", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:15:00+00:00", "text": "and does dude just blow your mind every time\nyou hear music from him?\n\n\nprops on signing him, dude is the best new mc i've heard in years,\nand im getting old and jaded.\n\ni know him and just blaze are friends, can we expect any\ncollaboration from the two? id love to see someone w/ as raw of a\nsound as JB be willing to go way left of center, with an mc w/ the\ntalent to do that vision justice.", "mesg_id": 95009, "mesg_num": 182, "author": 137, "id": 309, "subject": "whats the status on the jay elec material?"}, {"signature": "Sha-Mecca - No Make\nUp:\nhttp://shamecca.bandcamp.com\n\nPharoah Ra-Zah - Making African History In America EP\n@ www.royallegacy.org\n\nFollow The Leaders... @ROYALLEGACY1ST\nhttp://i50.tinypic.com/bgv3n7.png\nwww.printfection.com/royallegacy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T01:44:00+00:00", "text": "PEACE QUEEN, YOU ROCK MAD HARD!!!!!!", "mesg_id": 95010, "mesg_num": 185, "author": 138, "id": 310, "subject": "i missed all the craziness just wanted to say"}, {"signature": ")))--#####----###-->>>>\na born-again hooligan only to be king again", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:31:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 190, "mesg_id": 95011, "text": "2- why cant all yall 'block party' mofoes get\na tour going? & include joi, zap mama & wunmi\n\n3- did your kids crank dat soulja boy this summer?\n\n4- learning any new instruments?\n\n5- so u gonna let me hit them skins, or what?(c)tre in boyz n the\nhood\n\n\n\nim bs-in, but fwiw WWU>>> mams gun imo", "author": 139, "id": 311, "subject": "1-any more movies? cider house rules was wack!", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:40:00+00:00", "text": "yup. they need to do that. just let me know\nwhen so i can prepare for the end. ha-ha.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95012, "mesg_num": 195, "author": 56, "id": 312, "subject": "erykah/joi tour would create a psionic firestorm that'd destroy earth"}]}, {"signature": "http://mephonics.tumblr.com/\n\n***** VID-JOES *****\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrsi9x42EM\n\"Jimi Lives!\"\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y17GMWEaQEQ\nVideo for \"Water\" - NWS\n**********************\n\nhttp://soundcloud.com/mephonics/rkhd25\nNew joint\n\n\"Hip-", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:37:00+00:00", "text": "\nand all that jive....\n\n\nI just appreciate yo mu-ack...\n\n\nkeep doin yo thing mama....", "mesg_id": 95013, "mesg_num": 192, "author": 140, "id": 313, "subject": "Peace Love and Understanding..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:39:00+00:00", "text": "I just re-bought Mama's Gun. Thanks for\nyour\ncontribution to honest music that touches your soul.\n\nPS You Rock! can't wait to see u live.\n::::", "mesg_id": 95014, "mesg_num": 194, "author": 141, "id": 314, "subject": "You're brave for responding to that last thread"}, {"signature": "Peace\n\nWendell", "date_time": "2007-11-19T02:57:00+00:00", "text": "Ever considered making a album with central\ncharacter or theme? I love the way the character from \"Other side\nof the game\" showed up later in \"Danger\".\n\nIt doesn't have to be her (of course), but there is so much to say\nabout what's going in today's world and so many artist's either\ndon't have the vocabulary or the balls to speak \"truth\".\n\nAnyways, Peace to you and yours. Good luck with the coming\nreleases.", "mesg_id": 95015, "mesg_num": 199, "author": 142, "id": 315, "subject": "Concept album"}, {"signature": "http://www.twitter.com/LipstikActivist\nTweet Me.\nhttp://thelipstikactivist.tumblr.com/\nTumbl Me. (rawr)", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:06:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 201, "mesg_id": 95016, "text": "\nTo get into the mind of every woman when writing Mama's Gun? What\nplace did those lyrics and that music come from?\n\nBecause seriously-- that albums got me through a lot and your\nentire body of work is amazing in my opinon.\nBUT that album is like the \"Requiem\" of your body of work.. I love\nit.", "author": 143, "id": 316, "subject": "How did you manage..", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 211, "mesg_id": 95017, "text": "the music inspires me.\n\nalways music first.\n\ni choose and create it carefully.\n\nthe words already live there.\n\ni listen inside the song for the melody thru rhythmic babble /\nfreestyle\n\nthe rhythm leads me to the words\n\nsimple.\n\nunder it all is experiences from the past -\n\nsometimes the future\n\nso in that case i learn from the song later .\n\nthere is no time or color here.\n\nbut yeah,\n\nit all depends on the music body ive choosen.\n\nwhat ever the music choice ... still expressing the same way\n-honestly.\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 317, "subject": "RE: How did you manage..", "children": [{"signature": "http://www.twitter.com/LipstikActivist\nTweet Me.\nhttp://thelipstikactivist.tumblr.com/\nTumbl Me. (rawr)", "date_time": "2007-11-19T04:21:00+00:00", "text": "\nAnd I feel you. I've been writing forever but your universial\nability is something I definetly admire.\n\nKeep doing your think E its appreciated and respected.\n\nMuch love from DC.", "mesg_id": 95018, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 143, "id": 318, "subject": "18. \"thank-you."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T06:07:00+00:00", "text": "\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95019, "mesg_num": 222, "author": 56, "id": 319, "subject": "that was a GREAT replywowzers."}]}]}, {"signature": "Follow me on Twitter, and talk shit\nLIVE!\nhttp://twitter.com/dlemoncomedy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 203, "mesg_id": 95021, "text": "", "author": 144, "id": 320, "subject": "Blunts or Papers?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:35:00+00:00", "text": "deffinately papers.", "mesg_id": 95022, "mesg_num": 239, "author": 1, "id": 321, "subject": "RE: Blunts or Papers?"}]}, {"signature": "COMING SOON via Windimoto\nMusic:\nDVS is DVS in DVS Jackson, Esq. - DVS for\nAlderman", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:39:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 208, "mesg_id": 95023, "text": "First off...I didn't feel \"Honey\" for a myriad\nof reasons....\n\nThe beat was okay.....but the thing I've been MISSING from you...is\nyour words....\n\nYou are a thinker...an artist....you give of yourself freely when\ninspired....and, more than other artists....one can catch glimpses\nof your essence through your words.\n\nI miss that....COHESIVENESS that led to a \"Mama's Gun\"....the\npassion and organization of that project....\n\nOr even the fresh innovation of a \"Baduizm\"...the way that when you\nsang \"Otherside of the Game\"....you FELT THAT SHIT in your\nchest....\n\nHonestly, as an outsider...it just feels like you've been in a\nwriting rut since those two albums...\"Worldwide Underground\" had a\nfew gems...but it wasn't the cover to cover read that your previous\nwork was.\n\nNow, you gotta understand....I luh you guhl...like...my wife\nunderstands that you are one of the few women I'm leaving her for,\nsight unseen!!\n\nBut as a result....I EXPECT more out of you than I do these other\ncookie cutters...\n\nSo where do I fit in....as a fan who wants to let you grow...yet\nthirsts for you to strive for the excellence you've shown in the\npast?\n\nReal talk, babe....that's the only way I serve it.\n\nWhatever the outcome...keep shining.\n\nMike", "author": 145, "id": 322, "subject": "My honest criticism", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:39:00+00:00", "text": "i feel you , babe.\ngot somethin for you\ntrust.", "mesg_id": 95024, "mesg_num": 242, "author": 1, "id": 323, "subject": "RE: My honest criticism"}]}, {"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:48:00+00:00", "text": "I stopped reading right here...\n\npic violation!!!!!!", "mesg_id": 95025, "mesg_num": 210, "author": 146, "id": 324, "subject": "RE: my ass and legs have gotten thick."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T03:58:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 215, "mesg_id": 95026, "text": "\n", "author": 46, "id": 325, "subject": "Why are you, often, late on start-times for your concerts?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 241, "mesg_id": 95027, "text": "cause.", "author": 1, "id": 326, "subject": "RE: Why are you, often, late on start-times for your concerts?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:46:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95028, "mesg_num": 289, "author": 46, "id": 327, "subject": "'cause' what?? C.P.T. is not a good look."}]}]}, {"signature": "..|.,\n\nIf you still don't know what Jade Typhoon is, click here:\nhttp://jadetyphoon.blogspot.com/ (WS)\nhttp://jadetyphoon.tumblr.com/ (NS4W)<--new", "date_time": "2007-11-19T04:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 217, "mesg_id": 95029, "text": "", "author": 147, "id": 328, "subject": "did you draw your avatar?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:40:00+00:00", "text": "yes. part of the wwu art work .", "mesg_id": 95031, "mesg_num": 243, "author": 1, "id": 329, "subject": "RE: did you draw your avatar?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T04:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 220, "mesg_id": 95033, "text": "Hey I don't really care much about you, and I\nhope you don't care much about me.\n\nThat said, some of my favorite memories so far are blizzard days\nwhere I didn't have to go to school or class and I got really high\nand played strategy video games and listened to albums like Mama's\nGun, Liquid Swords, Generation Starwars, Black on Both Sides, From\nthe Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, Odelay, L.A. Woman, Dig Your Own\nHole, The Fat of the Land, Pre-Millenium Tension, Protection,\netc....\n\nAnyway, I hope you keep singing till you can't. You should.", "author": 148, "id": 330, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:42:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 244, "mesg_id": 95034, "text": "i got bad news for you:\n\ni love you endlessly.", "author": 1, "id": 331, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:45:00+00:00", "text": "that's the bad news i like to hear. ditto,\nLady.", "mesg_id": 95035, "mesg_num": 245, "author": 148, "id": 332, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T05:47:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 95036, "text": "I enjoy all your shit, but the first time I\nheard this song I damn near cried... it was one of them songs that\nhad me drivin' around the block like 6 times until I was ABLE to\nget out the ride...\n\ny'all captured a vibe/ zone that's indescribable...\n\nI'm sure Ayers had to be like \"damn... is this 1978..??\"....\nExcellent job!\n\n____________________________________________________\n\nwww.myspace.com/bigsoulmusic1", "author": 82, "id": 333, "subject": "21. \"Cleva...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:48:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 246, "mesg_id": 95037, "text": "i just had a revelation 2:15am\n\ni know what some of you mean by missing that soul\nthat spark\nthat 'music'\n\ni got it now.\ntrust.\n\ni was quite sensitive yesterday.\n\nbut i got it .\njust when homie described that drive.\n\ndamn it.\ni know.\nok.\n\ni feel that .\ni get it.\n\ni got ya'll tho...\nme soon come.\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 334, "subject": "RE: Cleva...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:40:00+00:00", "text": ">i just had a revelation 2:15am\n>\n>i know what some of you mean by missing that soul\n>that spark\n>that 'music'\n>\n>i got it now.\n>trust.\n>\n>i was quite sensitive yesterday.\n>\n>but i got it .\n>just when homie described that drive.\n>\n>damn it.\n>i know.\n>ok.\n>\n>i feel that .\n>i get it.\n>\n>i got ya'll tho...\n>me soon come.\n>\n\ni can't wait!!!\n", "mesg_id": 95038, "mesg_num": 276, "author": 55, "id": 335, "subject": "^^best reply in this entire post^^"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:53:00+00:00", "text": "...thanks for the replay... and for comin' on\nhere and blessin' us, baby...\n\n...Okayplayer blazed a beautiful trail on the artist/ fan\nrelationship, so its real dope of you using this tool\n\none more thing... your live show is off the chain! I had the live\nCD for a cool minute before I got to check the show in person and I\nwas blown out. I been to maaad shows, and only 3 of them really\nstuck with me as like \"WOW\"... I can't even explain the vibe in\n'em\n\nSade- Love Deluxe tour\nBadu- (tour when WWU came out)\nTribe/ De La- Midnight Marauders/ Buhloone mind tour\n\nonce again... kudos, baby!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_______________________________________\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/bigsoulmusic1", "mesg_id": 95039, "mesg_num": 499, "author": 82, "id": 336, "subject": "RE: Cleva..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:39:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95040, "mesg_num": 531, "author": 149, "id": 337, "subject": "god, erykah you always remind me of why i love you"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:35:00+00:00", "text": "\nR.I.P, lil Bro. Words cannot express how I feel inside. 4ever a\npart of me; my soul, my pride.", "mesg_id": 95041, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 13, "id": 338, "subject": "95. \"Cosign."}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T06:41:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 229, "mesg_id": 95042, "text": "i think its cool that you finally teamed up\nwith RZA in your 36th year, i always had this feeling you were a Wu\nhead, were you totally happy with \"My heart gently weeps?\"", "author": 150, "id": 339, "subject": "36th Chamber of Badu", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:51:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 247, "mesg_id": 95043, "text": "funny.\nrza goes for an off soul singer kinda thing\nhe allowed me to do the joint once and was like , \"thats the\none\"\n\nif rza liked it.. i loved it\nhe knows his chambers.", "author": 1, "id": 340, "subject": "RE: 36th Chamber of Badu", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:53:00+00:00", "text": "wow, thankyou for that i cant beleive i just\nspoke with you", "mesg_id": 95044, "mesg_num": 266, "author": 150, "id": 341, "subject": "RE: 36th Chamber of Badu"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 95046, "text": "Gitoufrumwayfrum them cars!\n\n---\nBaduistic beats right here ---> www.myspace.com/konvee", "author": 151, "id": 342, "subject": "37. \"Remember....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:53:00+00:00", "text": "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSA", "mesg_id": 95047, "mesg_num": 248, "author": 1, "id": 343, "subject": "RE: Remember...."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:11:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 271, "mesg_id": 95048, "text": "That was the funniest!\n\nPS - That was the best performance of Next Lifetime... Especially\nwhen you looked into the camera as you sang (as you most always do)\nat the end of the song.\n\n\"I be da moon, shine on you\" I was like HELL YEAH!!. That's one\nreason why I'm STUCK on you today. Them eyes... I looked in your\neyes! Damn!\n\n3/4ths of purity... wow!", "author": 136, "id": 344, "subject": "RE: Remember....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 335, "mesg_id": 95049, "text": "give us a link", "author": 1, "id": 345, "subject": "RE: Remember....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:25:00+00:00", "text": ">give us a link\n\nDamn, I wish I could... I can't believe you're asking me for a link\n(wow)... I kept that in my head. I even tried to buy it from NBC\n(The Jay Leno Show). I feel like I'm letting you down.\n\nCan anybody hook us up??? I know somebody out there got\nit!", "mesg_id": 95050, "mesg_num": 471, "author": 136, "id": 346, "subject": "RE: Remember...."}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:14:00+00:00", "text": ">That was the funniest!\n>\n>PS - That was the best performance of Next Lifetime...\n>Especially when you looked into the camera as you sang\n(as\n>you most always do) at the end of the song.\n>\n>\"I be da moon, shine on you\" I was like HELL YEAH!!.\nThat's\n>one reason why I'm STUCK on you today. Them eyes... I\nlooked\n>in your eyes! Damn!\n>\n>3/4ths of purity... wow!\n\ndude!!! why'd you do it!!!!! I was at the fillmore in san fran\nwatching her show from the balcony. I swear she looked right at me\n& I froze like a bird in front of a cobra..dem\neyes...demdamneyes", "mesg_id": 95051, "mesg_num": 525, "author": 41, "id": 347, "subject": "RE: Remember...."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:14:00+00:00", "text": ">That was the funniest!\n>\n>PS - That was the best performance of Next Lifetime...\n>Especially when you looked into the camera as you sang\n(as\n>you most always do) at the end of the song.\n>\n>\"I be da moon, shine on you\" I was like HELL YEAH!!.\nThat's\n>one reason why I'm STUCK on you today. Them eyes... I\nlooked\n>in your eyes! Damn!\n>\n>3/4ths of purity... wow!\n\ndude!!! why'd you do it!!!!! I was at the fillmore in san fran\nwatching her show from the balcony. I swear she looked right at me\n& I froze like a bird in front of a cobra..dem\neyes...demdamneyes", "mesg_id": 95052, "mesg_num": 526, "author": 41, "id": 348, "subject": "RE: Remember...."}]}]}, {"signature": "Everything is Determination\n\n\nI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly,\nbut I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James\nBaldwin", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:37:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 240, "mesg_id": 95053, "text": "\n\nI heard you saw her performing once, while she was living in the\nUS\nand you just connected...\nfill me in,\nBandy Bandy is one of my fav. songs btw", "author": 3, "id": 349, "subject": "How did you hook up with Marie Daulne back in the day?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T07:56:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 249, "mesg_id": 95054, "text": "ZAP aka supermoon is one of my BEST\nfriends.\nwe just connect.\ni met her walking down the st. in NY\nasked her to come hang out at electric lady and the rest is\n....", "author": 1, "id": 350, "subject": "RE: How did you hook up with Marie Daulne back in the day?", "children": [{"signature": "Everything is Determination\n\n\nI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly,\nbut I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James\nBaldwin", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:00:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95055, "mesg_num": 261, "author": 3, "id": 351, "subject": "Thank you"}]}]}, {"signature": "-love, lalafre$h.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T08:06:00+00:00", "text": "erykah will you marry me?", "mesg_id": 95056, "mesg_num": 252, "author": 152, "id": 352, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:23:00+00:00", "text": "i really would like to hear the rest of\nthat\nshit was heat", "mesg_id": 95057, "mesg_num": 262, "author": 153, "id": 353, "subject": "the end of \"i want you\""}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:23:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 263, "mesg_id": 95058, "text": "(apart from questlove obviously...)", "author": 38, "id": 354, "subject": "this might be the best post by an ok-artist in the lesson", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T10:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 267, "mesg_id": 95059, "text": "we all know she's sensitive about her shit,\nbut the way she went at imcvspl (who is obviously a big fan of\nhers)... uncalled for.", "author": 9, "id": 355, "subject": "i fear that she might end up alienating some fans, though.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:04:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 269, "mesg_id": 95060, "text": "THATS what you think is uncalled for?\n\n>we all know she's sensitive about her shit, but the way\nshe\n>went at imcvspl (who is obviously a big fan of hers)...\n>uncalled for.", "author": 99, "id": 356, "subject": "of all the shit that's been said about Erykah as an artist", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 272, "mesg_id": 95061, "text": "yeah, there's a lot of assholes in here trynna\nshit on Erykah and i understand her being testy about that\n\nbut here's one guy who is OBVIOUSLY a fan, OBVIOUSLY loves her\nwork, OBVIOUSLY has been thinking about it on a deeper level\n\nhe asks her a question about a verse she dropped 10 years ago, and\nshe comes at him sideways... and the more he's trying to make peace\nand explain that he meant no harm, the more she insults him\n\ni don't think that's right", "author": 9, "id": 357, "subject": "damn right i think it's uncalled for!", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:31:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 95062, "mesg_num": 275, "author": 99, "id": 358, "subject": "boo. hoo."}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:04:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 279, "mesg_id": 95063, "text": "imagine if all artists opened themselves up\nfor the hard and serious questions all of us fans have about their\nart. it would be a really interesting experience for all involved,\nbut it's the artists who can't handle that.", "author": 53, "id": 359, "subject": "i admire him for sticking to his guns", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:35:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 283, "mesg_id": 95064, "text": "before, it was just a one way process - there\nwas hardly any chance artists would hear what people were saying\nabout their music or them, but now its much easier to find out.\nideally it might help both sides - i.e. fans might understand what\nthe singer meant in a certain song, and the artist might take on\nboard some of the (hopefully constructive) criticism. not\nnecessarily a bad thing.", "author": 38, "id": 360, "subject": "its why artists should stay away from the internet", "children": [{"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:39:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 284, "mesg_id": 95065, "text": "technology has evolved and there's no turning\nback\nartists can no longer pretend to be oblivious to criticism\n(positive and negative) and we shouldn't coddle them\nultimately, the artists should get something out of the exchange,\nat the very least knowing what their art means to those who\nexperience it\n\ni have SO MANY questions for my favorite artists and since i'm not\nin the music industry or so-called music journalism (thank God),\nthe internet has been my only outlet for my questions. it's been\nreally nice getting answers over the years.", "author": 53, "id": 361, "subject": "it's why artists SHOULDN'T stay away from the internet", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 350, "mesg_id": 95066, "text": ">ultimately, the artists should get\nsomething out of the\n>exchange, at the very least knowing what their art means\nto\n>those who experience it\n\nquite nice actually, though im starting to feel like im with those\ntype of fans you see screaming outside hotels where michael jackson\nis staying lol.", "author": 38, "id": 362, "subject": "this is definitely one of the more 'appreciative' posts on the lesson", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:44:00+00:00", "text": "\n>those type of fans you see screaming outside hotels where\n>michael jackson is staying lol.\n>\n\ni've done that. i've waited outside the hotel. but i swear i wasn't\nscreaming. it was the germans...honestly. some of them was beating\nthemselves upside the head.", "mesg_id": 95067, "mesg_num": 572, "author": 154, "id": 363, "subject": "*raises hand sheepishly*"}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:02:00+00:00", "text": "E said 'I can tell by your question that\nyou're hip' or something of that nature. It ended on a friendly\nnote. And she wasn't cussing him out for his question like in that\nother thread. This one's been on the cool.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95068, "mesg_num": 503, "author": 56, "id": 364, "subject": "uh, the last reply in their exchange ended on a friendly note"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:52:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 277, "mesg_id": 95069, "text": "i mean, that sounds totally nuts, even to a\ncurmudgeonly figure like myself.", "author": 38, "id": 365, "subject": "he said 'songwriting died with mamas gun' in that other post", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:57:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 278, "mesg_id": 95070, "text": "http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=1448840&mesg_id=1448840&page=#1450416\n\nand to concede that on second thought, maybe i'm NOT completely\nsure about his motivations...", "author": 9, "id": 366, "subject": "yeah, i was just about to link that post", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:24:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 317, "mesg_id": 95071, "text": "that other post was a bit over the top but is\nhow i feel about mg. i can't listen to it. and as i said in this\nthread i think worldwide is the best work of her catalog but only\ntouches on her potential as an artist. the reason being she tamed\ndown the writing and took it back to letting her voice ride the\ngroove rather than trying to have a groove and force all this deep\nhighfalutin artsy fartsy into it.\n\nyou'll also note the chronology. lib is before mg. and so perhaps\nmy question is at the heart of my later (or this time prior)\ncritique.\n\ni have no ulterior motives. they're just my thoughts.\n\nincidently my bday is 319", "author": 86, "id": 367, "subject": "i spoke nothing but how i felt", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:45:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 343, "mesg_id": 95072, "text": "the reason being she\n>tamed down the writing and took it back to letting her\nvoice\n>ride the groove rather than trying to have a groove and\nforce\n>all this deep highfalutin artsy fartsy into it.\n\ni like the more relaxed feel of some of the songs on worldwide\nunderground but some of it though is just a bit aimless and erykah\nperforming below par. id agree that there was a bit of slightly\ncontrived hifaultin-ness on baduizm but on MG it didnt seem\naffected at all. so id be interested to hear what songs youre\ntalking about.\n", "author": 38, "id": 368, "subject": "what lyrics/songs in particular are you talking about?", "children": [{"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:23:00+00:00", "text": ">i like the more relaxed feel of some of\nthe songs on worldwide\n>underground but some of it though is just a bit aimless\nand\n>erykah performing below par.\n\nthat's why i say it only touched on her potential, but i feel like\nthat was her lane.\n\n>id agree that there was a bit of\n>slightly contrived hifaultin-ness on baduizm but on MG it\n>didnt seem affected at all. so id be interested to hear\nwhat\n>songs youre talking about.\n\nthat'd mean listening to it again. don't worry i got you just not\nthis week.", "mesg_id": 95073, "mesg_num": 356, "author": 86, "id": 369, "subject": "RE: what lyrics/songs in particular are you talking about?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:21:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 354, "mesg_id": 95074, "text": "me too. lol\n\npardon me ,but\ni think our exchange was very fair and sober minded ,\nbeloved.\n\nyou expressed yourself inteligently and i gave you a few facts\n.\n\nbut your 'attourney 'seems to dissagree.\nand O.N. may be JUST a 'lil disagreeable period- needs a point to\nargue . (scroll up , peep game. )\ndoesnt matter who , O.N. gone find SOMEBODY to defend. ... must be\na sag.\n(glad you on our side, sh...)\nhey dont get mad either, just my oppinion ..\n\nanyhow,\n\n... i have grave respect for you and your critique.\nyou gave it.\nim here to give you feed back. im sorry it hurt you if it did.\nhhhhhhhhh.\n\nNOW\nwhen i asked you if you knew what liberation was, you said yes but\ndid not define it.\n\nagain .\nwhat is liberation.?\nwhat does it mean to liberate or be liberated ?\nim asking sincerely , for , we may have a fundamental diff in opp\nof the definition.\n\nas i stated above ( and this is when i wish i knew how to drag a\nquote in here. lol)\nthat none of us (artist on song) heard the others verses.\nwe just gave our interp. of LIBERATION. scroll up read that\n\nQUESTION2:\nwhats the fundamental diff between my verse and andre's or big boy'\ns- besides mine being longer?\n\ni bet if you answer you'll see the point.\n\nyou didnt think it fit . its cool\nnow what do we do?\n\"i saaaaiid , FINE WIT ME!\" - color purple / mis sophia\n\n\nand let me clear this up .\nwe are having an EXCHANGE of energy here .. all of us.\ndebate is healthy .\n\n\"artist should stay away from the internet\" lol\nwhat am i an alien from another world?.\n.....ok , well maybe i am . but ...\n\noh whats the use .\n\n\n\nwhat else.\n\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 370, "subject": "RE: i spoke nothing but how i felt", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:37:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 369, "mesg_id": 95075, "text": ">and O.N. may be JUST a 'lil disagreeable\nperiod- needs a point\n>to argue . (scroll up , peep game. )\n>doesnt matter who , O.N. gone find SOMEBODY to defend.\n...\n>must be a sag.\n\nARIES, MAYNE!", "author": 9, "id": 371, "subject": "not a Sag..but close.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:19:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 397, "mesg_id": 95076, "text": "you have no knowledge of self... fucking\ncoconut...\n\n\n<-------- ah dread inna suit\n\n\n\nBlack History Month, the yout dem ah try ah ting---------->\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8", "author": 47, "id": 372, "subject": "FOH, you ain't no Aries", "children": [{"signature": "This post was paid for by the following.\n\nwww.twitter.com/13Rose\nwww.debunkthemyth.net\nhttp://dashaunworld.wordpress.com/\nwww.mothergreen.com\n\nRemember MJ The Great!\nPSN: ThirteenRose", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:16:00+00:00", "text": "damn that was funny.", "mesg_id": 95077, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 155, "id": 373, "subject": "37. \"HAHAHHAHAAHAH"}, {"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:16:00+00:00", "text": "i thought we were bros!\n\nLOL", "mesg_id": 95078, "mesg_num": 468, "author": 9, "id": 374, "subject": "what the fuck, dude?"}, {"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:46:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95079, "mesg_num": 479, "author": 15, "id": 375, "subject": "LMAO wowz."}, {"signature": "But anyway back to furry Kangols, Jamaican\nwallabies.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:49:00+00:00", "text": "lmao\n", "mesg_id": 95080, "mesg_num": 482, "author": 65, "id": 376, "subject": "DON'T TASE HIM BRO!"}]}]}, {"signature": "________\nBig PEMFin H & z's\n\u2588\u2586\u2587\u2585\u2587\u2588\u2587\u2586\u2584\u2581\u2583\n\n\"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one\nthing, a musician.\" \u00a9 Miles Davis\n\n\"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:51:00+00:00", "text": "> ... i have grave respect for you and your\ncritique.\n>you gave it.\n>im here to give you feed back. im sorry it hurt you if it\n>did. hhhhhhhhh.\n\nno hurt feelings. and thank you for the exchange.\n\n>NOW\n>when i asked you if you knew what liberation was, you\nsaid\n>yes but did not define it.\n\nasking someone if they know what liberation is, is not asking\nsomeone to define it. its actually pretty condescending, but a\ngrain of salt....\n\n>again .\n>what is liberation.?\n\nhehehehe.... okay so to understand liberatioin one must understand\nthe yin to its yang, i'll here represent as the perception of\nthings inhibiting one from the full potential of their being. in a\nword lets say oppression. you can have personal oppression and\nsocial oppression, even global oppression. as such liberation can\nbe personal, social or even global. even further perhaps racial\n(homosapien) liberation, perceptual liberation... blah blah blah.\nthing about liberation is that it exists only as a reaction to the\noppression. would someone who's not oppressed need worry about\nliberation? and so our ideas about liberation are all theoretical\nuntil we put them to practice, the practice of actually\nliberating.\n\nthere's stages right, we work through those things that personally\noppress us, opening us up to those things that socially oppress us,\nopening up further to what globally oppresses us.\n\nthe thing about your verse IMHO, is not that its so much about\npersonal liberation, but its about personal liberation from\noppression you chose to put yourself into. the trials and\ntribulation of fame... that was a choice. and in the scheme of\nthings you being a person fighting on that social/global level of\nliberation, you gotta expect that type of stuff. i'm talking here\nabout the hatred, the lack of faith in your ability to stay true,\nthe people that still see you as just another niggress no matter\nhow much you achieve. those are things you gotta expect signing the\ndotted line. and so i don't really want to hear about how hard that\nis for you. no offense. i know its hard. i know of many the artist\nthat has struggled with those issues, but its par for the course.\nnot something i see as being relevant to the discussion of social\nliberation. if you didn't want those things, you shouldn't have\nsigned on the dotted line, and found another way of achieving your\nmission.\n\n>what does it mean to liberate or be liberated ?\n\nat the end of the day only we can free we. we individually must\nfree ourselves from personal oppressors so that we collectively can\nfree ourselves from social oppressors, so that we can free\nourselves from global oppressors. you are among many trying to\nshare the light, but none of you are liberators.\n\n>QUESTION2:\n>whats the fundamental diff between my verse and andre's or\nbig\n>boy' s- besides mine being longer?\n\nfor one, neither of them are in this exchange. i would have\ncritique for dre as well (not worrying about what another nigga\nthink, is not liberation), less so for big boi. that said as i\nstated above the thing that set your verse apart is that its about\nan oppression you chose to put yourself into.\n\n>what else.\n\nany invalubale resources you found along the way in the education\nof your children? books, models etc...\n\ni'd also like to take this time to shout out asoyini - see what\nhappens when you start talking to artists (e if you're bored you\ncan search the forum for what this is referencing).", "mesg_id": 95081, "mesg_num": 417, "author": 86, "id": 377, "subject": "RE: i spoke nothing but how i felt"}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "ladies and gentleman....", "mesg_id": 95082, "mesg_num": 357, "author": 1, "id": 378, "subject": "RE: i fear that she might end up alienating some fans, though."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T09:27:00+00:00", "text": "like maybe the 3 albums you love this\nweek?\n\nFor me it's Sarah Vaughan live at Monterey '71, RH Factor's\nDistractions, and that Ray Charles / Count Basie joint.", "mesg_id": 95089, "mesg_num": 264, "author": 4, "id": 379, "subject": "Albums you listening to lately?"}, {"signature": "\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nhttp://onetwann.blogspot.com\nhttp://blackmarvel.bandcamp.com", "date_time": "2007-11-19T10:50:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 268, "mesg_id": 95090, "text": "hate to have such a shallow contribution to\nthis thread,\nbut that made me laugh out loud. my girl fell in love with your\nmusic a long time ago (as did i... i just found the cover to this\nkedar promo tape the other day with an early version of on & on\nand an a capella rendition of 'ain't nobody's business' on it...\nthat was love @ first hearing back in...96?) but when she came back\nfrom your amsterdam show earlier this year she was in physical love\nas well...\n\nfor the thickness visuals click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvwuVdffvO0\n\neither way... don't get it twisted this is a compliment. you make\nthat 36 look gooooooooood, queen.\n", "author": 156, "id": 380, "subject": "about that thickness...", "children": [{"signature": "----------------------\nNow listen to this\nwww.undefinedsite.be", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:05:00+00:00", "text": "\n\nI saw your perfomance this summer, your live show is\nbeautiful.\n\nAt a certain moment, you went off stage to kinda blend in with the\nfront row, and you gave your mic to a woman there, and she\nsoulfully sang 'i love you' to you, great moment\n\nI know for a fact you make lots of people happy with your\nwork\n\nhope to see you again soon\n\nlove", "mesg_id": 95091, "mesg_num": 270, "author": 157, "id": 381, "subject": "RE: how did you like belgium?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:34:00+00:00", "text": "holla.", "mesg_id": 95092, "mesg_num": 364, "author": 1, "id": 382, "subject": "RE: about that thickness..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:34:00+00:00", "text": "holla.", "mesg_id": 95093, "mesg_num": 365, "author": 1, "id": 383, "subject": "RE: about that thickness..."}, {"signature": "______________________________________\n\nhttp://controversy.wearscience.com/img450/devil.gif\n\n\n\nhttp://www.gifflix.com/files/a5ce6cf63c93.gif", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:27:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 473, "mesg_id": 95094, "text": "Thanks for the link...\nShame , what the blind can't see.", "author": 158, "id": 384, "subject": "Lord have mercy....", "children": [{"signature": "Now Playing:\nA Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory\nDe La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead\nThe Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde\nIce Cube - Death Certificate\nDr. Dre - The Chronic\nKanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", "date_time": "2007-11-20T05:39:00+00:00", "text": "amen!", "mesg_id": 95095, "mesg_num": 547, "author": 103, "id": 385, "subject": "Shame , what the blind can't see."}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:17:00+00:00", "text": "\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95096, "mesg_num": 507, "author": 56, "id": 386, "subject": "thank you, god, for black women"}, {"signature": "\"noodles is noodles\" (c) GFK\n\n| http://www.twitter.com/liveguy |\n| http://www.myspace.com/ogleedoglee |\n| http://soundcloud.com/liveguy |\n| http://www.soulargrooves.com |", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:21:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95097, "mesg_num": 533, "author": 159, "id": 387, "subject": "and there you have it!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-26T18:27:00+00:00", "text": "\n\n\n\"Fuck the streets!\"\n\n-?uestlove\n\nwww.myspace.com/djjedi1", "mesg_id": 95098, "mesg_num": 652, "author": 160, "id": 388, "subject": "Good Lord!"}]}, {"signature": "ah youth. wasted on the young.\n(analoguegirl)", "date_time": "2007-11-19T12:29:00+00:00", "text": "Hi E.\n\njust a short question, when and were will honey be released on a CD\n? Or will it be only downloadable ? As I can find it nowhere in the\nnet to buy.\nCan't wait to get it in my hands, as all the new stuff (Real Thang,\nYour Mind etc.) which I got as live or demo versions sounds very\ngood, even with poor sound quality.\nHope to see ya on tour in Europe.", "mesg_id": 95099, "mesg_num": 274, "author": 161, "id": 389, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:06:00+00:00", "text": "Cause your live joint is one my Favorite LIVE\nalbums of all time\nNext Lifetime always gives me chills when I heard it.\n\nalso:\n\nMama's Gun helped me through some ill times for real. When it\ndropped my i had a fire in July of that year and lost everything I\never had in my life except the guess cargos i had on, my wallet,\nand a mechanical pencil that was in my pocket.I aint even have any\nshoes. By the years end I would have lost 2 close friends and 2\nfamily members. If it wasnt for a cd man,and a copy of mamas gun i\nwas finally able to cop i prolly would have lost my mind. The crazy\npart about it is that when I think of 2000 Mama's Gun is one of the\n1st memories that come to mind. It was just such an inspirational\nlp for real. I am sure you hear that 1000x a day and i didnt but it\njust brought back memories for me.\n\nI look forward to the new LP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "mesg_id": 95100, "mesg_num": 280, "author": 162, "id": 390, "subject": "Do you think you will do another live album?"}, {"signature": "___________", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:29:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 282, "mesg_id": 95101, "text": "because ?uest would post here kind of implying\nthat it was done quickly", "author": 94, "id": 391, "subject": "how long did yall (the Soulquarians) work on Mama's Gun?", "children": [{"signature": "XBL GamerTag: Tha End | PSN ID: KnowOne215", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:39:00+00:00", "text": "lol", "mesg_id": 95102, "mesg_num": 285, "author": 163, "id": 392, "subject": "^stole my question^"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:43:00+00:00", "text": "Wut it dew homegurl...\n\nU already know wut i think about ya....lol\n\nCant work to work with ya again!!!!! \n\nS1", "mesg_id": 95103, "mesg_num": 287, "author": 164, "id": 393, "subject": "Waddup E!"}]}, {"signature": "XBL GamerTag: Tha End | PSN ID: KnowOne215", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:39:00+00:00", "text": ";-)", "mesg_id": 95104, "mesg_num": 286, "author": 163, "id": 394, "subject": "*just here 2 show sum luv*"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:54:00+00:00", "text": "I am so sad that I missed you on Girlfriends.\nI did catch you at the Carolina Music Festival. Amazing performance\n\n\nWhere can I hear \"Honey\"?\n\n\n\"Where are my biiitches!\" (c) Dr. Tigglesworth\n\nCurrent Playlist:\nThe Getback - Little Brother\nAmerican Gangster - Jay-Z\nThe Best of the Doobies - The Doobie Brothers\nSoul Survivor II - Pete Rock and nem", "mesg_id": 95105, "mesg_num": 291, "author": 165, "id": 395, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T13:56:00+00:00", "text": "Or another (not-in-the-summer) Sugar Water\nFestival?", "mesg_id": 95106, "mesg_num": 293, "author": 46, "id": 396, "subject": "Any plans to do Broadway or Off-Broadway theater?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T14:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 294, "mesg_id": 95107, "text": "I'd like to expound on my thoughts of:\n\n>\"The music is the star,\" says Erykah,\n>\"I just laid down my vocals and let the\n>music breathe while the melodies tell the stories.\"\n\nand exactly why I feel it is the BIGGEST load of bullshit I've ever\nheard.\n\nYou simply CANNOT create a masterpiece and then come behind that\nwith some writer's block type bullshit.\n\nPerformance artist or not, you gotta come with the dope shit.\n\nErykah, please understand that I am not a hater. My comments were\nnot those designed to applaud any failure - the wackness of\n\"Worldwide Underground\" hurt me two-fold because I kept the faith\nthat you would come with the same strength of \"Mama's Gun\", and\nTHEN I had to defend that fuckery to other people who KNEW I was a\nfan/supporter of your work:\n\n\"What's up wit ya girl Erykah, tREB? All that \"I-I-I-I-I-I\"\nshit...It sounded like the CD was skippin' nigga!\"\n\nYeah, you never asked me to, but in this business, you KNOW you\nhave die-hard fans that want to see you win regardless of what\nbullshit or greatness you put out. That's how I feel about Mary J.\nBlige and Jill Scott. The spirit they exude on their recordings and\nin their performances keeps me supporting them regardless of how\ntheir efforts come out.\n\nSo, in reply to your comment of \"fuck you\", instead of the\nsmart-ass reply of \"name a time and place - I'm down to get fucked\nby you and start wearing crocheted hats and pants\", I'll just say\nthat I wish you peace and I hope this album is better than\n\"Worldwide Underground\".\n\nI'm ready to accept the fact that you're not consistent enough to\ndrop another great album like \"Mama's Gun\". If it turns out that\nI'm wrong and your new album IS the shit, I'll GLADLY be the first\nperson to step up to the bar and put hot sauce on my foot and begin\na chow-down.\n\nSincerely Yours,\n\ntREBLEFREE\n\n\nP.S. - Don't forget to bitch-slap all of your yes-men and yes-women\non your way down.\n\n\n\n<<< tREB\nSimpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "author": 57, "id": 397, "subject": "Since the other post got locked...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:44:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 303, "mesg_id": 95108, "text": "http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=1473672&mesg_id=1473672&page=#1474700\n", "author": 55, "id": 398, "subject": "check out post 246...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T16:31:00+00:00", "text": "<<< tREB Simpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "mesg_id": 95109, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 57, "id": 399, "subject": "09. \"Thanks."}]}, {"signature": "...minor keys and drugs don't make a roller\nskate jam.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:37:00+00:00", "text": "i appreciated reading that bro\nheartfelt (no hate)\ni had a similar gripe but was placed as a 'hater'\nlol", "mesg_id": 95110, "mesg_num": 367, "author": 70, "id": 400, "subject": "^^real talk"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:40:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 371, "mesg_id": 95111, "text": "thankyou..?", "author": 1, "id": 401, "subject": "RE: Since the other post got locked...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:12:00+00:00", "text": ">thankyou..?", "mesg_id": 95112, "mesg_num": 433, "author": 57, "id": 402, "subject": "You're welcome"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:59:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 500, "mesg_id": 95113, "text": ">I'd like to expound on my thoughts\nof:\n>\n>>\"The music is the star,\" says Erykah,\n>>\"I just laid down my vocals and let the\n>>music breathe while the melodies tell the stories.\"\n>\n>and exactly why I feel it is the BIGGEST load of bullshit\nI've\n>ever heard.\n\nif you posted something and someone replied that your post was \"the\nBIGGEST load of bullshit I've ever heard\", you wouldn't take that\nas an acrimonious, fighting words style of reply?\n\nnot the best way to lead into an honest critique, fam.\n\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "author": 56, "id": 403, "subject": "you have a funny way of not being a hater", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:19:00+00:00", "text": ">>I'd like to expound on my thoughts\nof:\n>>\n>>>\"The music is the star,\" says Erykah,\n>>>\"I just laid down my vocals and let the\n>>>music breathe while the melodies tell the\nstories.\"\n>>\n>>and exactly why I feel it is the BIGGEST load of\nbullshit\n>I've\n>>ever heard.\n\nFirst of all, that statement was copied and pasted from the first\npost where Ms. Wright handed out \"fuck you\"s like she would throw\nCDs from the stage at a show...\n\nThat post was locked, so I replied to it here - hence my\ntitle...\n\n>if you posted something and someone replied that your post\nwas\n>\"the BIGGEST load of bullshit I've ever heard\", you\nwouldn't\n>take that as an acrimonious, fighting words style of\nreply?\n\nI take it for granted that everybody who posts here has at LEAST a\nhigh school education and can read and comprehend at no less than a\n10th grade level.\n\nThat being said, no, I would not take it as a - how you say:\n\n>acrimonious, fighting words style of reply\n\nbecause that all depends on what follows it.\n\nI can respect somebody calling my music bullshit IF they back up\ntheir opinion with solid reasoning.\n\n\"I ain't feelin' it man\" while acceptable is REALLY weak.\n\nAs you can see, in THIS post, I gave her FULL reasoning why I felt\nthat \"Honey\" was not up to par. It's almost like Jesus creates the\nheavens and earth, and you ask him for a blessing and he tells you\n\"Sorry, I'm all out. No soup today.\"\n\nWTF?\n\nAnyways, yeah, in my opinion, I didn't post that to bait her -\nErykah comes here...what...once a year? If that? I posted that to\nstart a discussion.\n\n\n\n<<< tREB\nSimpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "mesg_id": 95114, "mesg_num": 568, "author": 57, "id": 404, "subject": "In my opinion?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T14:21:00+00:00", "text": "Do you have any unreleased music featuring\nartists that would surprise most folks? Something not many people\nhave heard about?\n-------------------------------------------\nFlickr\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/chaidealo/", "mesg_id": 95115, "mesg_num": 295, "author": 166, "id": 405, "subject": "Can you name 10 living musicians that you would love to work with?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:13:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 297, "mesg_id": 95116, "text": "when she was watching you play on stage before\nher?\n", "author": 167, "id": 406, "subject": "do you think jill scott came off jealous in the block party movie?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:41:00+00:00", "text": "hhhhhhhhh.", "mesg_id": 95117, "mesg_num": 372, "author": 1, "id": 407, "subject": "RE: do you think jill scott came off jealous in the block party movie?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:07:00+00:00", "text": "that shit was vibetastic...\nI'm guessin' u didn't catch the sugar water concert...\nneither...", "mesg_id": 95118, "mesg_num": 523, "author": 168, "id": 408, "subject": "Theee Feeeeezie!!??!?!?!?"}]}, {"signature": "_____________________\nputtin' the roota in the\ntoota since 98'", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:33:00+00:00", "text": "lol\n\nhey badu!", "mesg_id": 95119, "mesg_num": 301, "author": 169, "id": 409, "subject": "Sankofa \"To My Chagrin...\" Feb14th!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:34:00+00:00", "text": "I just wanna say \"hey\"\n\n\n\nI've had you in rotation at work for a couple of weeks so I'm in\nFULL BADU mode. Please come to Norfolk when you decide to\ntour.\n\nThat's all...LOVE!!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou don't impress me!!\n\nThe better side of me : http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i243/va_khalil19/Nita.jpg", "mesg_id": 95120, "mesg_num": 302, "author": 170, "id": 410, "subject": "I don't have a question...."}, {"signature": "http://twitter.com/TheCoOp420\nhttp://twitter.com/TheRapture\nhttp://twitter.com/MoneyStax\n\nhttp://theco-opconscienceoperations.bandcamp.com\n\nhttp://themuthafuckinrapture.bandcamp.com\n\nhttp://itsaviciouscycle.bandcamp.com\n\n\n\nhttp://i51.photobucket.com/album", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:49:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 305, "mesg_id": 95121, "text": "I ain't got no questions....\n\n\n\nMe and the wife love ya...it's us with the NJ/TX license plate CD\ncover...completing our album (helluva feeling)...we got an event\npopping off called the SPEAK-UP....next one will be at the Liquid\nLounge, and we're holding it in conjunction with the\nBeatdown....\n\nboth events are live contests....Speak-Up is MCs spitting written\nwork, not freestyles, Beatdown is a producer battle held by Rob\nViktum...as a matter of fact, HeadKrack is competing in this one,\nso if you're interested or even in town, holla at him for more\ndetails and whatnot...Dec. 6, Liquid Lounge....I know you got an\near in the lil underground scene out here, we trying to make it do\nwhat it do...a blessing from you would ice the cake lovely...ether\nway, can't wait for the new shit...\n\n\nONE\n\n\nTHA MUTHAFUCKIN RAPTURE...", "author": 171, "id": 411, "subject": "*waves hi*", "children": [{"signature": "http://twitter.com/TheCoOp420\nhttp://twitter.com/TheRapture\nhttp://twitter.com/MoneyStax\n\nhttp://theco-opconscienceoperations.bandcamp.com\n\nhttp://themuthafuckinrapture.bandcamp.com\n\nhttp://itsaviciouscycle.bandcamp.com\n\n\n\nhttp://i51.photobucket.com/album", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:25:00+00:00", "text": "standing on tippy toes*", "mesg_id": 95122, "mesg_num": 400, "author": 171, "id": 412, "subject": "*waves hi while hopping over the crowd"}]}, {"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:56:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 306, "mesg_id": 95123, "text": "do you watch those judge shows? like\njudge mathis, judge alex, people's court, etc.\n\n& what about maury povich's dna testing\nshows...yay or nay?", "author": 15, "id": 413, "subject": "do you listen to wendy williams?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:44:00+00:00", "text": "kinda have no choice...\njudge maebaline its ma dukes best friend.", "mesg_id": 95124, "mesg_num": 374, "author": 1, "id": 414, "subject": "RE: do you listen to wendy williams?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T15:58:00+00:00", "text": "any thoughts about the state of hip hop? do\nyou like kanye? jay z?\npeace out\n\n@}-,-`-\n\n\"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known\nand unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.\" - Gordon\nParks", "mesg_id": 95125, "mesg_num": 307, "author": 172, "id": 415, "subject": "what do you think of hip hop's climate today?"}, {"signature": "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nYour nudes are safe with me.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:11:00+00:00", "text": "\n>this year i turned 36.\n>my ass and legs have gotten thick.\n\n\n\nROWR", "mesg_id": 95126, "mesg_num": 311, "author": 173, "id": 416, "subject": "I forgot what I was going to ask after this:"}, {"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:18:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 314, "mesg_id": 95127, "text": "i hav mini one that i puff at the crib...what\nabout you???", "author": 105, "id": 417, "subject": "DO YOU SMOKE A HOOKAH PIPE???", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:47:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 378, "mesg_id": 95128, "text": "i have before . liked strawberry.\n\ni dont any more, makes my voice choppy.\n\ntobacco no good.", "author": 1, "id": 418, "subject": "RE: DO YOU SMOKE A HOOKAH PIPE???", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:29:00+00:00", "text": "my fave flavor is skittles though...", "mesg_id": 95129, "mesg_num": 406, "author": 105, "id": 419, "subject": "strawberry's cool..."}]}]}, {"signature": "I got a good life man", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:21:00+00:00", "text": "but none the less keep on doing what u like\nand i'm sure the rest of us will appreciate it... for those that\ndon't u can't worry about them.", "mesg_id": 95130, "mesg_num": 315, "author": 174, "id": 420, "subject": "i mean u did tell us u were a artist and sensitive about ur shit"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:33:00+00:00", "text": "Just wanted to say thank you for giving me so\nmuch great music over the years. Baduizm and Mama's Gun are still\njust as powerful for me as when they dropped.\n\nLooking forward to the upcoming projects in '08.", "mesg_id": 95131, "mesg_num": 319, "author": 175, "id": 421, "subject": "Peace, E."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:41:00+00:00", "text": "do you mean brave as in \"oh, you think you're\ngrown now\" or \"I can't belive they're handling what they're\nhandling\"???\n\n\nCuz, my daughter has been testing me extra hard this week. The\nwhole weekend was practically all about her and she was still goin'\nhard on some \"I need attention\" steez last night.\nThe school nurse called me this morning tawkin'bout \"I'm positive\nshe's faking, but I'll give her an ice pack for her ego.\"\n\nDo your kids test you like this?", "mesg_id": 95132, "mesg_num": 320, "author": 176, "id": 422, "subject": "when you said your children are brave..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:49:00+00:00", "text": "never seen you live though.\nthe scene in Block Party when you and Jill Scott were singing\ntogether, that shit was dope as hell. it gave me chills fareal.", "mesg_id": 95133, "mesg_num": 325, "author": 177, "id": 423, "subject": "I dig your music"}, {"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:52:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 326, "mesg_id": 95134, "text": "will that ever happen??", "author": 146, "id": 424, "subject": "I want a Badu/Nas collabo...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:49:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 380, "mesg_id": 95135, "text": "sooner than you think.", "author": 1, "id": 425, "subject": "RE: I want a Badu/Nas collabo...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:59:00+00:00", "text": "\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95136, "mesg_num": 501, "author": 56, "id": 426, "subject": "^ ^ this could be epic"}]}]}, {"signature": "I am me and can only be me...so if you don't\nlike it...die motherfucker!", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:56:00+00:00", "text": "No disrespect meant by my title post. But I\njust needed to get your attention. I can't count how many shows of\nyour I have been too. But here is my situation. At one of your ATL\nshows a few years ago, I was really going through some rough shit\nin my life. And you did \"Dear Mysery\". It really took me through\nit....but at the end, i think the song says something like \" Let me\ngo\" or something like that. And i just felt the heavyness of my\nproblems lift off of me. Badu, you need to release that song! Some\nof us need that really bad to get through some of the shit we gotta\ngo through in life. So if you have no intentions on putting it on\nany album, can you just release it as a gift! Can you help a nukka\nout please?", "mesg_id": 95137, "mesg_num": 328, "author": 178, "id": 427, "subject": "Listen Badu!!!!"}, {"signature": "\"hey, make this right mayne\nstop at the light mayne,\nmy yester night thang got me hung off the night train \"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T17:57:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 329, "mesg_id": 95138, "text": "Your one of the few artist I fucks with. Ceelo\nand Lauren Hill being the others. Lauren perhaps is gone and may\nnever come back. Not to many of u out there, cant lose another\none.\n\nBut if she does or does not, can you get a song with you, Ceelo and\nLauren(when she comes back not in this current state)?\n", "author": 179, "id": 428, "subject": "I just want to say stay sane", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:01:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 384, "mesg_id": 95139, "text": "funny.\nill give you guys some inside news.\n\nMrs. Lauren hill is an intelligent woman\nbrilliant artist, still.\nthat doesnt leave you.\njust had her 5th child.\ntheres not a damn thing wrong with the queen's mind.\ntrust.\n\nya'll believed what they told you about\n911\niraq\nsanta\ncuba\nhealth care\nthe planet\nyour own black asses\n\nwake up guys ... really\n\nms . hill is a powerful force.\none of the bravest BEINGS to ever walk this earth.\nyou will see in due time.\ni know.\n", "author": 1, "id": 429, "subject": "RE: I just want to say stay sane", "children": [{"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:05:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 385, "mesg_id": 95140, "text": "What happened with that?? why did she back\nout?\n\nSong was still dope without her though", "author": 146, "id": 430, "subject": "Wasn't Lauryn suppose to get on that track with you and Pharoahe Monch?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:10:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 393, "mesg_id": 95141, "text": "\"...leading the witness , your honor..\"\n\nthere was never any say about that .\ni'm not aware of that at all.", "author": 1, "id": 431, "subject": "RE: Wasn't Lauryn suppose to get on that track with you and Pharoahe Mon...", "children": [{"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:29:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 407, "mesg_id": 95142, "text": "1. Illmatic or Reasonable doubt\n2. India Arie's \"Acoustic Soul\" or Alicia's \"Songs in a\nminor\"\n3. You're a vegan right? if so.. do you miss fried chicken?\n4. Fav Book?\n5. fav Roots album?\n6. What do you think about rappers like Soulja Boy, D4L, and\nHurricane Chris?\n7. Fav Dave Chappelle skit?\n8. Robin Harris or Bernic Mac\n9. Fav Actor?\n10.Whats your opinion thanksgiving?\n\nAlsooo.... do you think Dr. York is innocent?", "author": 146, "id": 432, "subject": "aight...quick random joints", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-26T02:28:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 647, "mesg_id": 95143, "text": ">1. Illmatic or Reasonable doubt\ntwo dif worlds to me - both very relivant in my life\n\n>2. India Arie's \"Acoustic Soul\" or Alicia's \"Songs in a\n>minor\"\ntomatoe tomatoe\n\n>3. You're a vegan right? if so.. do you miss fried\nchicken?\nnaw ... we got substitutes thats kickin chicken's ass\n\n>4. Fav Book?\nphysics of love by tesla and keeley\n\n>5. fav Roots album?\n'do you want more' , ofcourse\n\n>6. What do you think about rappers like Soulja Boy, D4L,\nand\n>Hurricane Chris?\ni like the songs that jammin' ... i m not familiar wiith their\n'body' of work yet\n\n>7. Fav Dave Chappelle skit?\nkeepin it real\n\n>8. Robin Harris or Bernic Mac\nc'mon... they both have exquisite timing ...\n\n>9. Fav Actor?\nDUSTIN HOFFMAN (sp?), PHILIP SEMORE HOFFMAN (sp?) , gene\nwilder\n\n>10.Whats your opinion thanksgiving?\ni used to stress the historical facts but now i stay woke as i give\nthanks with and for my family... still aware of the ugly\nhistory\n>\n>Alsooo.... do you think Dr. York is innocent?\nwell,\nas weird as it sounds, yes..... too powerful..... they must find a\nflaw to discredit him.\nis he perfect ? no.\nis he where he should be now?\nwe all are.\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 433, "subject": "RE: aight...quick random joints", "children": [{"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-26T17:17:00+00:00", "text": "\n>>Alsooo.... do you think Dr. York is innocent?\n\n>well,\n>as weird as it sounds, yes..... too powerful..... they\nmust\n>find a flaw to discredit him.\n>is he perfect ? no.\n>is he where he should be now?\n>we all are.\n\nThanks for answering the questions...\n\nthis is interesting... I love ya' and respect your opinion but did\nyou see that \"Montell\"(hes biased and married to a white woman...I\nknow, I know)episode they had on him?\n\nHere it is incase you missed it....\n\nhttp://www.zshare.net/video/38449030165a98/", "mesg_id": 95144, "mesg_num": 651, "author": 146, "id": 434, "subject": "RE: aight...quick random joints"}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "\"hey, make this right mayne\nstop at the light mayne,\nmy yester night thang got me hung off the night train \"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:30:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 474, "mesg_id": 95145, "text": "My point is that taking to much on your plate\nconcerning this world (in ref. to her def poetry jam piece)and\ndealing with your own personal life can destroy some. Change is a\nslow process and consuming youself with it can be madding. Not that\nI know whats in her mind.\n\nThe facts are that she has not release much since that first solo\nproject.\n\nYou have already put out a lot of material. Please continue.", "author": 179, "id": 435, "subject": "I dont doubt that in the least", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:28:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 491, "mesg_id": 95146, "text": "were talking about an artist made of nothing\nbut quality .\nNOW, does less work equal 'not as important' or' not worthy of\nrespect.'\n\nplease if i may speak freely...\n\nfreedom of speech is a great law and should be reinforced\nbut what the hell is you freely speaking about?\n\nit is not against this governments laws to speak freely\nbut isnt their a univeral law in YOUR beleif that is against\nkilling- with words?\n\nrasta's call it chant chant chant you down.\n\nhow many of you would go to work or school or church with no mask,\nmake-up or fear .\nstand before all and say , im going thru pain , be patient with\nme.\n\nthats what she is on trial for?\n\nladies and gentleman , please look at this world more\nclosely.\nthat woman is nothing but GOOD/ GOD./ PURE LIGHT.\n\njust misunderstood.\n\nartist/ celebs hate this position. ( to be misunderstood)\nthe scarf you took 10 years to create can be unravled in 13 seconds\nwith one persons viral oppinion.\n\nwhat do we love to do more than watch for people , who we consider\ngreat, to fall?\ndo it with someone else.\n\nthe new motto should be:\n'if you cant say something nice- come sit by me.'\n\nwe're sick.\nall of us.\nLIBERATION starts with me.\n\nwe love you L. BOOGIE\none of the most important people of our time.\n\nhiphop is bigger than religion\nbigger than polotics\nbigger than the government.\n\nwe got muslims, christians, hebrew israilites, budists, catholics,\njews, blacks whites, asians latinos , men , women , rich and poor\nall on this board right now.\n\ndont tell me this aint liberation .\n\nnow lets come up with a plan\ncause ill be damned if my children end up in a world where we cant\nagree to disagree without WAR.\nstop waging war against yourself first\nstop waging war against your loved ones\nand got damn it, by all means , stop fighting those who are brave\nenough to stand up\nfor creativity\nfor growth\nFOR YOU\nin this systematic , programmed, fear based society created to\nspawn complacient workers who compete to be last one standing on\ntop of a big pile of filth that dont belong to you in the first\nplace.\n\nill save the rest for another time.\nand yes that goes for me too.\n\ni loooove to have fun .\ni also would love to kill 'lucifer.'\n\ntime to make up our minds.\nwhat we gone be?\n\njust sayin.\n\nexcuse the typos\n\n\n\n", "author": 1, "id": 436, "subject": "RE: I dont doubt that in the least", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:13:00+00:00", "text": "co-sign on the call ot lay off L-Boogie.\nShe'll be back when she gets back.\n___\n\nmyspace.com/spiritequality\n\n\"the aim of an argument, or of discussion, should not be victory,\nbut progress\" - Joseph Joubert, essayist, 1754-1824", "mesg_id": 95147, "mesg_num": 505, "author": 56, "id": 437, "subject": "^ ^ underrated reply....E, you're killing it in here!"}, {"signature": "\"hey, make this right mayne\nstop at the light mayne,\nmy yester night thang got me hung off the night train \"", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:40:00+00:00", "text": ">were talking about an artist made of\nnothing but quality .\n> NOW, does less work equal 'not as important' or' not\nworthy\n>of respect.'\n>\n>please if i may speak freely...\n>\n>freedom of speech is a great law and should be reinforced\n>but what the hell is you freely speaking about?\n>\n>it is not against this governments laws to speak freely\n>but isnt their a univeral law in YOUR beleif that is\nagainst\n>killing- with words?\n>\n>rasta's call it chant chant chant you down.\n>\n>how many of you would go to work or school or church with\nno\n>mask, make-up or fear .\n>stand before all and say , im going thru pain , be\npatient\n>with me.\n>\n>thats what she is on trial for?\n\nI understand. It's an up hill battle that not only artist but\neverybody, me speaking as a black American, have to deal with. What\nI'm saying is I wish or hope she doesnt let the criticisms get to\nher. As u maybe can tell I make statements and stand by myself\neveryday all day.\n\nI'm sure she loves making music. I wish she would just still make\nmusic and say fuck the criticism. Easier said than done, but thats\nwhy I wish and hope she can pull it off.\n\n\n\n>\n>ladies and gentleman , please look at this world more\n>closely.\n>that woman is nothing but GOOD/ GOD./ PURE LIGHT.\n>\n>just misunderstood.\n\nStrong minded minorities are portrayed to be just that. We know sho\ncontrols the media so we cant respect the perception. Peer pressure\nis a mf'er at any age or any stage.\n\n\n\n\n>artist/ celebs hate this position. ( to be misunderstood)\n>the scarf you took 10 years to create can be unravled in\n13\n>seconds with one persons viral oppinion.\n>\n>what do we love to do more than watch for people , who we\n>consider great, to fall?\n>do it with someone else.\n>\n>the new motto should be:\n>'if you cant say something nice- come sit by me.'\n>\n>we're sick.\n>all of us.\n>LIBERATION starts with me.\n>\n>we love you L. BOOGIE\n>one of the most important people of our time.\n>\n>hiphop is bigger than religion\n>bigger than polotics\n>bigger than the government.\n>\n>we got muslims, christians, hebrew israilites, budists,\n>catholics, jews, blacks whites, asians latinos , men , women\n,\n>rich and poor all on this board right now.\n>\n>dont tell me this aint liberation .\n>\n>now lets come up with a plan\n>cause ill be damned if my children end up in a world where\nwe\n>cant agree to disagree without WAR\n>stop waging war against yourself first\n>stop waging war against your loved ones\n>and got damn it, by all means , stop fighting those who\nare\n>brave enough to stand up\n>for creativity\n>for growth\n>FOR YOU\n>in this systematic , programmed, fear based society created\nto\n>spawn complacient workers who compete to be last one\nstanding\n>on top of a big pile of filth that dont belong to you in\nthe\n>first place.\n>\n>ill save the rest for another time.\n>and yes that goes for me too.\n>\n>i loooove to have fun .\n>i also would love to kill 'lucifer.'\n>\n>time to make up our minds.\n>what we gone be?\n>\n>just sayin.\n>\n>excuse the typos\n\nSaid beautifully.\n\nBut to keep my sanity I'll play my part in the advancement respect\nthe oppositions gangster and the games they play. To me thats how\nwe got in this position in the first place, be complacent and\nwishing and hoping others will see that light and stop playing\nmeaningless games. Even the most noble must keep venom.", "mesg_id": 95148, "mesg_num": 514, "author": 179, "id": 438, "subject": "I dont want to argue"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:28:00+00:00", "text": "\n_______________________________________\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/bigsoulmusic1", "mesg_id": 95149, "mesg_num": 529, "author": 82, "id": 439, "subject": "yeah..that was dope!"}, {"signature": "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ni got my season tickets to watch my favorite team...where are\nyours?", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:34:00+00:00", "text": ">what do we love to do more than watch for\npeople , who we\n>consider great, to fall?\n>do it with someone else.\n>\n>the new motto should be:\n>'if you cant say something nice- come sit by me.'\n>\n>we're sick.\n>all of us.\n>LIBERATION starts with me.\n>\n>we love you L. BOOGIE\n>one of the most important people of our time.\n>\n>hiphop is bigger than religion\n>bigger than polotics\n>bigger than the government.\n>\n>we got muslims, christians, hebrew israilites, budists,\n>catholics, jews, blacks whites, asians latinos , men , women\n,\n>rich and poor all on this board right now.\n>\n>dont tell me this aint liberation .\n>\n>now lets come up with a plan\n>cause ill be damned if my children end up in a world where\nwe\n>cant agree to disagree without WAR.\n>stop waging war against yourself first\n>stop waging war against your loved ones\n>and got damn it, by all means , stop fighting those who\nare\n>brave enough to stand up\n>for creativity\n>for growth\n>FOR YOU\n>in this systematic , programmed, fear based society created\nto\n>spawn complacient workers who compete to be last one\nstanding\n>on top of a big pile of filth that dont belong to you in\nthe\n>first place.\n>\n>ill save the rest for another time.\n>and yes that goes for me too.\n>\n>i loooove to have fun .\n>i also would love to kill 'lucifer.'\n>\n>time to make up our minds.\n>what we gone be?\n>\n>just sayin.\n>\n>excuse the typos\n>\n>\n>\n>\n>", "mesg_id": 95150, "mesg_num": 530, "author": 180, "id": 440, "subject": "i love it!!!!! thank you for this!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T12:21:00+00:00", "text": ">were talking about an artist made of\nnothing but quality .\n> NOW, does less work equal 'not as important' or' not\nworthy\n>of respect.'\n>\n>please if i may speak freely...\n>\n>freedom of speech is a great law and should be reinforced\n>but what the hell is you freely speaking about?\n>\n>it is not against this governments laws to speak freely\n>but isnt their a univeral law in YOUR beleif that is\nagainst\n>killing- with words?\n>\n>rasta's call it chant chant chant you down.\n>\n>how many of you would go to work or school or church with\nno\n>mask, make-up or fear .\n>stand before all and say , im going thru pain , be\npatient\n>with me.\n>\n>thats what she is on trial for?\n>\n>ladies and gentleman , please look at this world more\n>closely.\n>that woman is nothing but GOOD/ GOD./ PURE LIGHT.\n>\n>just misunderstood.\n>\n>artist/ celebs hate this position. ( to be misunderstood)\n>the scarf you took 10 years to create can be unravled in\n13\n>seconds with one persons viral oppinion.\n>\n>what do we love to do more than watch for people , who we\n>consider great, to fall?\n>do it with someone else.\n>\n>the new motto should be:\n>'if you cant say something nice- come sit by me.'\n>\n>we're sick.\n>all of us.\n>LIBERATION starts with me.\n>\n>we love you L. BOOGIE\n>one of the most important people of our time.\n>\n>hiphop is bigger than religion\n>bigger than polotics\n>bigger than the government.\n>\n>we got muslims, christians, hebrew israilites, budists,\n>catholics, jews, blacks whites, asians latinos , men , women\n,\n>rich and poor all on this board right now.\n>\n>dont tell me this aint liberation .\n>\n>now lets come up with a plan\n>cause ill be damned if my children end up in a world where\nwe\n>cant agree to disagree without WAR.\n>stop waging war against yourself first\n>stop waging war against your loved ones\n>and got damn it, by all means , stop fighting those who\nare\n>brave enough to stand up\n>for creativity\n>for growth\n>FOR YOU\n>in this systematic , programmed, fear based society created\nto\n>spawn complacient workers who compete to be last one\nstanding\n>on top of a big pile of filth that dont belong to you in\nthe\n>first place.\n>\n>ill save the rest for another time.\n>and yes that goes for me too.\n>\n>i loooove to have fun .\n>i also would love to kill 'lucifer.'\n>\n>time to make up our minds.\n>what we gone be?\n>\n>just sayin.\n>\n>excuse the typos\n>\n>\n>\n>\n>\n\n\nHolla @ us!!!\n\nmyspace.com/auraclevision", "mesg_id": 95151, "mesg_num": 565, "author": 118, "id": 441, "subject": "^^^made this post worth readin'"}, {"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-21T04:59:00+00:00", "text": "you speak mad wisdom for real E...", "mesg_id": 95152, "mesg_num": 586, "author": 105, "id": 442, "subject": "this some real life shit right here..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:43:00+00:00", "text": "\n\n>the new motto should be:\n'if you cant say something nice- come sit by me.'<\n\ni say it to my students in class all the time.\n\nhow are you educating your children? at home? philosophy?", "mesg_id": 95153, "mesg_num": 641, "author": 181, "id": 443, "subject": "such a great motto..."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:35:00+00:00", "text": "after watching this, I don't see how anyone\ncan think she lost it.\n\nhttp://cocoamode.podbean.com/2007/08/08/shawna-renees-interview-with-lauryn-hill", "mesg_id": 95154, "mesg_num": 494, "author": 182, "id": 444, "subject": "I can't wait"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T06:53:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 551, "mesg_id": 95155, "text": "And I love you Erykah. I just finished reading\nthis whole entire thread and I have a newfound respect for\nyou.\n\nI'm so glad that Lauryn was brought up in the discussion because I\nwas talking about her earlier. I'll admit that I wasn't the biggest\nLauryn fan in the beginning of her career, but as I watch her\nnow...it's like if you don't get or FEEL Lauryn NOW then your not\nliving. It's as simple as that.\n\nThanks so much. Can't wait for the next project!", "author": 183, "id": 445, "subject": "I love this reply!", "children": [{"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-20T09:33:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 562, "mesg_id": 95156, "text": ">but as I watch her now...it's like if you\ndon't get or FEEL\n>Lauryn NOW then your not living. It's as simple as\nthat.", "author": 15, "id": 446, "subject": "lol what the fuck ever.", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-24T00:32:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 615, "mesg_id": 95157, "text": ".", "author": 184, "id": 447, "subject": "lol", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-26T02:01:00+00:00", "text": "get out.", "mesg_id": 95158, "mesg_num": 646, "author": 1, "id": 448, "subject": "RE: lol"}]}]}]}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:01:00+00:00", "text": "We walked in together-well actually\nbogarded--the doorman at Tariq's BDay party last month! Didn't want\nto be on some male groupie s%#@! But damn--just wanted to tell you\nthat you have the prettiest smile!!", "mesg_id": 95159, "mesg_num": 330, "author": 185, "id": 449, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"what? did i die & go to simple bitch hell?\" \u00a9 j\n_____________\nKamikaze Genes\n_____________\nflyin the friendly fries", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:23:00+00:00", "text": "i just gave birth to my first son in\naugust\nyoung master J.E.T. Jones\n*awaits applause*\n& all @ once i want to do everythin i said i would\nseven things i forgot to do\n& twenty-five things i realize i could have always done\n\n& still\ni find myself throwin clocks @ the wall\nmaybe if they couldn't work\ni'd trick the sun into providin more light\n\nhow do u do it???\n& how did u do it the second go round???\nincorporatin the woman u are now into the woman w/out\nquestion???\n\nwhere can i find kewl baby clothes???\n\n\n~k\n\n", "mesg_id": 95160, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 186, "id": 450, "subject": "36. \"greetings..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:25:00+00:00", "text": "so 36 is the age of the good spread now *does\na 5.11 year count down*\n\nwhats your overall goal in music? In other words when its all said\nand done what do you want folks to remember most about your music?\nwhere do you see yourself continuing w/\nfilm(act/produce/direct/write)and other arts?\n\n", "mesg_id": 95161, "mesg_num": 337, "author": 187, "id": 451, "subject": "ha, let me try to squeeze in here"}, {"signature": "\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n\nOooo baby I like it raw. Oooo baby I like it RAAAW!(c)ODB- Shimmy\nShimmy Ya", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:26:00+00:00", "text": "1. Why did you highlight KAHBA in your name,\nand what does that mean?\n\n2. Is it true, in your opinion, that as a Pisces, you'll do one\nthing to take you to the next level professionally, as well as\npersonally, then you will turn right around and do something to\nsend you in the opposite direction?\n\n3. What community work are you doing in Dallas? Prince made\nreference to it in an interview, and I was wondering to what he was\nreferring.\n\n4. What are your most and least favorite things about being a\nmother?\n\n5. Do you formally consult the Ancestors before making music, or do\nyou wait for it to come to you through dreams? how does that work,\nexactly?\n\nLastly, I just wanted to say thank you. If you write what w/ you\nwrite w/ your fans/admirers in mind, then, thanks. I truly believe\nthat many of your songs speak TRUTH to Sistahs, in a way that maybe\nour generation had not heard before, from someone FROM that same\ngeneration.", "mesg_id": 95162, "mesg_num": 339, "author": 188, "id": 452, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "I know I'm weird... acceptance is the first\nstep", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:35:00+00:00", "text": "How do you feel abou the Common's album,\nespecially I want you?\n(PS. have you ever played his I want you and yours at the same\ntime...hotness!!)\n\nWhen are we gonna get those 3 albums?\n\nAre you gonna do another show with Jill Scott in Prospect Park, in\nBrooklyn?\n(I lost my voice it was sooooo good)\n\nI see you every time you come to NY, and I survived the moron that\nis my ex on Mama's Gun\n\nThank YOU\n", "mesg_id": 95163, "mesg_num": 340, "author": 30, "id": 453, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:36:00+00:00", "text": "GSU??? Por favor.", "mesg_id": 95164, "mesg_num": 341, "author": 189, "id": 454, "subject": "Will You ever come back to Gram"}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 342, "mesg_id": 95165, "text": "How did you not laugh while shooting\nGirlfriends? That was hilarious. Joane had me rolling on the floor\nand I don't even watch Girlfriends much. Also any chance we might\nget a full mp3 version of the song you performed?", "author": 14, "id": 455, "subject": "I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU LADY BADU!!!!...well maybe two", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:46:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 344, "mesg_id": 95166, "text": "Meaning, do you have at least 1 million\ndollars in your checking/savings account?\n\nJust asking, as i've never met an actual millionaire (knowingly) in\nmy life, as humble as you are.\n\nAnd thanks for answering my D'Angelo question in a indirect way, as\ni saw you mentioned him as a diamond wanting to be coal,\nhyperbole.", "author": 37, "id": 456, "subject": "Are you a millionaire?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:08:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 391, "mesg_id": 95167, "text": "i could've been.\ni can be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmoney dont come to people\nmoney come to ideas.\n", "author": 1, "id": 457, "subject": "RE: Are you a millionaire?", "children": [{"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:34:00+00:00", "text": "Hmph pooh...", "mesg_id": 95168, "mesg_num": 477, "author": 14, "id": 458, "subject": "No reply to my question?"}]}, {"signature": "Follow Me @iLLProphet\nhttp://www.twitter.com/iLLProphet\n\nWEBSITE -\nhttp://www.ILLPROPHET.com\n\nHIT ME UP ON AIM @ S/N:ILLPROPHECIES\n\nEmail me @ REBELPROPHETS@GMAIL.COM\n\n#ORANGE\n\nPEACE*LOVE&SPACESHIPS\n\nLive In Color", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:06:00+00:00", "text": "LOL", "mesg_id": 95169, "mesg_num": 463, "author": 14, "id": 459, "subject": "RE: Are you a millionaire?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T18:46:00+00:00", "text": "I loved see you and Jill preform at\nMerrierweather in 05 and 06.\n\nWill you two go on tour again soon or do another Sugarwater\nFestival tour?", "mesg_id": 95170, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 190, "id": 460, "subject": "45. \"Sugarwater"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:00:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 346, "mesg_id": 95171, "text": "", "author": 191, "id": 461, "subject": "who is your favorite rapper?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T21:42:00+00:00", "text": "AY!", "mesg_id": 95172, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 98, "id": 462, "subject": "44. \"cam'ron"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:24:00+00:00", "text": "Hi Erica,\nTrying this way to \"get\" u...why not ?\nHow do u feel,u & ur little sheep ? \nDoes ur new cd will be in Europe the 26.02.08 too ?\nDoes the tittle \"vibrate on\" will be in this album ?\nCan u put the clip \"kiss me..\" live in Rome 2001 on upload section\n(\"..your source\") please ?-thanks.\nCould u send me a dedicace picture ?\u00a7? In real size(' got a\nbig mailing box).Or u in real...i prefer-thanks.A plot!\n- because...-", "mesg_id": 95173, "mesg_num": 359, "author": 192, "id": 463, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:32:00+00:00", "text": "\n*sprinkle coke on this post make it drug related*\nhttp://www.lessondaryradio.blogspot.com\n<<<peace\nqueens", "mesg_id": 95174, "mesg_num": 362, "author": 193, "id": 464, "subject": "im just here to swoon."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:37:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 368, "mesg_id": 95175, "text": "\n'THE GOOD WORD' on 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh\nSaturday @ Midnight till 3 AM\nwww.myspace.com/thegoodword883", "author": 194, "id": 465, "subject": "who would you rather fight, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys or Jill Scott?", "children": [{"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:38:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95176, "mesg_num": 370, "author": 9, "id": 466, "subject": "^^best question in the whole post^^"}, {"signature": "<--- Blame this lady for Nutty.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:47:00+00:00", "text": ":(", "mesg_id": 95177, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 195, "id": 467, "subject": "77. \"shameful"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:17:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 394, "mesg_id": 95178, "text": "lol\nwell lets see....\n\nalicia seem like she a 'face scratcher'\nso imma pass .\n\njill will beat THEE shit out a nigga\nso im straight.\n\nill go round with L boogie tho\nwe in the same weight class and if i train for a few months i just\nmight knock the zion out that ass....\n\nseriously tho...\nwe'll just let our kids fight\nyou know like a 'cock fight\"\n\n911!!", "author": 1, "id": 468, "subject": "RE: who would you rather fight, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys or Jill Scott?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:25:00+00:00", "text": "\n'THE GOOD WORD' on 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh\nSaturday @ Midnight till 3 AM\nwww.myspace.com/thegoodword883", "mesg_id": 95179, "mesg_num": 402, "author": 194, "id": 469, "subject": "lol ur funny"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:01:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95180, "mesg_num": 424, "author": 162, "id": 470, "subject": "lol"}, {"signature": "Sha-Mecca - No Make\nUp:\nhttp://shamecca.bandcamp.com\n\nPharoah Ra-Zah - Making African History In America EP\n@ www.royallegacy.org\n\nFollow The Leaders... @ROYALLEGACY1ST\nhttp://i50.tinypic.com/bgv3n7.png\nwww.printfection.com/royallegacy", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:42:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95182, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 138, "id": 471, "subject": "56. \"lmaoooooooo"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:42:00+00:00", "text": "all the spinach in the world won't make that\nfight fair.", "mesg_id": 95183, "mesg_num": 457, "author": 187, "id": 472, "subject": "c'mon that's like 5 to 2"}, {"signature": "---\n\nSKIN IS IN!! -> http://blackgirlfit.com/\nLIKE THIS: http://www.facebook.com/blackgirlfit\nTWEETS: http://www.twitter.com/kokupuff\nTUMBLR: http://oldheadyoungclothes.tumblr.com\n\n| FOR RENT |", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:49:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95184, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 15, "id": 473, "subject": "81. \"LOLOLOL"}, {"signature": "__________________\nhttp://www.stonesthrow.com/vex\nhttp://twitter.com/theloniousfunk\nhttp://havetravelled.blogspot.com\n\n\"I got a indoor pool, a outdoor pool! I got a indoor basketball\ncourt, and a outdoor basketball court!\" - Ray J", "date_time": "2007-11-20T16:52:00+00:00", "text": ">lol\n>well lets see....\n>\n>alicia seem like she a 'face scratcher'\n>so imma pass .\n>\n>jill will beat THEE shit out a nigga\n> so im straight.\n>\n>ill go round with L boogie tho\n>we in the same weight class and if i train for a few months\ni\n>just might knock the zion out that ass....\n>\n>seriously tho...\n>we'll just let our kids fight\n>you know like a 'cock fight\"\n>\n>911!!\n>", "mesg_id": 95185, "mesg_num": 580, "author": 196, "id": 474, "subject": "classic post"}, {"signature": ".", "date_time": "2007-11-21T05:11:00+00:00", "text": ">i just might knock the zion out that\nass....\n>\n>seriously tho...\n>we'll just let our kids fight\n\ni dunno, 5 against 2? that's not a fair fight.", "mesg_id": 95186, "mesg_num": 587, "author": 197, "id": 475, "subject": "LMAO"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:49:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 379, "mesg_id": 95187, "text": "what would it be.", "author": 134, "id": 476, "subject": "If you could record one song of Minnie Ripperton's", "children": [{"signature": "_________________\n\nI bring a sword.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:19:00+00:00", "text": "any room for a strong Black man in your\nlife?", "mesg_id": 95188, "mesg_num": 395, "author": 198, "id": 477, "subject": "Hey there Queenie"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:19:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 396, "mesg_id": 95189, "text": "memory lane", "author": 1, "id": 478, "subject": "RE: If you could record one song of Minnie Ripperton's", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:38:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95190, "mesg_num": 412, "author": 46, "id": 479, "subject": "Can you add it into your concert set list?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:19:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95191, "mesg_num": 438, "author": 134, "id": 480, "subject": "I can hear that."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T19:52:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 383, "mesg_id": 95192, "text": "I've heard you reference that your here on\nearth to do the creators work through your music..\n\ncan you sum that up and if the most high had one message for you to\ndeliver through your music what song clearly defines that\nmessage?", "author": 199, "id": 481, "subject": "The creator's work??", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:23:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 399, "mesg_id": 95193, "text": "when i say some shit like that???\n\n\n\n\nkidding , but i dont know in what context i said it in ,\nbeloved.\n\nmust have been 7 or 8 years ago , huh?", "author": 1, "id": 482, "subject": "RE: The creator's work??", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:27:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95194, "mesg_num": 445, "author": 134, "id": 483, "subject": "lol"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T05:05:00+00:00", "text": "You got a purpose?", "mesg_id": 95195, "mesg_num": 545, "author": 199, "id": 484, "subject": "LOL ok.."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:05:00+00:00", "text": "Wanted to let you know I really dig the music.\nI get your work more than I get any other artist's work. I get it\nwithout having to think about it. As a fellow Pisces and artist,\nyour work has left quite an impact on me. \"Didn't Cha Know\" just\ngets me in so many places. Thank you much for that.\nSo check it, I downloaded a live bootleg of yours, I think it was a\nconcert you performed on your birthday. I ain't too inclined to be\ndownloading artist's whole albums, especially cats I like. Way I\nfigure, I don't generally pay more than $10 for a CD, so that means\nI owe you $10. How you figure I can get that ten spot to ya?\nAlso, do you have any other acting projects lined up? I was a big\nfan of yours in Cider House Rules, and I'm still trying to find a\ncopy of the joint you did with the X-Files guy.\nLooking forward to your new work.\nTake this positive energy with you into new endeavors.\nPeace\n\n\"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has\nbeen given for you to understand.\" Saul Williams", "mesg_id": 95196, "mesg_num": 386, "author": 200, "id": 485, "subject": "Yo! A fellow Pisces, $$$ I owe you, and movies"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:05:00+00:00", "text": "when i was a kid you came out with\nbaduism...which my parents bought and i listened to while i played\nmy video games. i remember the way your melodies got to me....they\nstill do and i keep on listening and listening since then. some of\nyour stuff i understand, some of it, well, i have no IDEA, but all\nof it i learn from. what i want to know is-- do you have your\nperformances in mind before you write your music, or do you write\nit and fuck with it when you do it live. you record beautifully,\nbut, MAN are you even more amazing in person. i dont know what\nyou're feeling on stage and i wish i did, but is that feeling\ncoming from your music, or is your music coming from that\nfeeling?\npeace\nsam", "mesg_id": 95197, "mesg_num": 387, "author": 201, "id": 486, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:06:00+00:00", "text": "is that the album cover of an upcoming\nproject?\nit would certainly make for a great vinyl spread a la ohio\nplayers.\ncan you tell me anything about that?", "mesg_id": 95198, "mesg_num": 388, "author": 123, "id": 487, "subject": "your myspace artwork"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:22:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 398, "mesg_id": 95199, "text": "on your next tour or whatever... I'd just\nreally like to go see a live show (since I haven't gotten to yet\n=/) Thanks!", "author": 202, "id": 488, "subject": "Will you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do a show in PHOENIX, AZ?..", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:25:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 403, "mesg_id": 95200, "text": "promise.", "author": 1, "id": 489, "subject": "RE: Will you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do a show in PHOENIX, AZ?..", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:55:00+00:00", "text": "Can't wait...", "mesg_id": 95201, "mesg_num": 519, "author": 202, "id": 490, "subject": "=D"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:55:00+00:00", "text": "Can't wait...", "mesg_id": 95202, "mesg_num": 520, "author": 202, "id": 491, "subject": "YAY!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T07:10:00+00:00", "text": "thanks e. badu\n_______________________________\nhttp://www.myspace.com/danceonconstellations\n\nhttp://www.last.fm/user/legendary9/", "mesg_id": 95203, "mesg_num": 553, "author": 203, "id": 492, "subject": "awwi'm already excitedlol"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:26:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 404, "mesg_id": 95204, "text": "Ms. Badu - my boyfriend keeps having dreams\nthat you and he are friends (nada mas) and you both help each other\nout of sticky situations with irate youngsters. What does this\nmean? Do you dream of a sexy English white boy with a shaven head?\nP.S. you are a queen x", "author": 204, "id": 493, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "La_Saz.... peas x", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:12:00+00:00", "text": ">Ms. Badu - my boyfriend keeps having\ndreams that you and he\n>are friends (nada mas) and you both help each other out\nof\n>sticky situations with irate youngsters. What does this\nmean?\n>Do you dream of a sexy English white boy with a shaven\nhead?\n>P.S. you are a queen x", "mesg_id": 95205, "mesg_num": 434, "author": 204, "id": 494, "subject": "i realise if i put something else in the subject you may read it... peut..."}]}, {"signature": "~~~~~~~~~~~~\nheh is mine.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:27:00+00:00", "text": "thats all\n\n*smooch*", "mesg_id": 95206, "mesg_num": 405, "author": 205, "id": 495, "subject": "stay safe and healthy"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:30:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 408, "mesg_id": 95207, "text": "I don't really have a question, just showing\nlove. Thanks for hitting the boards... we really appreaciate\nit.\n\nHope to see you in New Orleans soon...\n\n-Craig", "author": 21, "id": 496, "subject": "Ms. Badu...", "children": [{"signature": "\"I am awake; my mind is free\" -E. Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:24:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 443, "mesg_id": 95208, "text": "just putting it out there--R.Kelly is wack.\nKnow that was a while ago but....let's be real.\n\nAnyway....\n\nOhio would love to see you on the next tour and not just Cleveland\n(everyone goes to Cleveland and leaves us in the dust! =(\n)....Columbus....Cincy....we all love Badu!\n\nHoney is great, looking forward to all 3 albums.", "author": 206, "id": 497, "subject": "So I'll probably be called a hater but...", "children": [{"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:40:00+00:00", "text": "R.Kelly is a flavor of R&B, and I'll cop\nout of this response by not putting in a pee joke...\n\ndude just don't fit my style... wont bash, but you won't find him\nin my stash either...", "mesg_id": 95209, "mesg_num": 455, "author": 21, "id": 498, "subject": "RE: So I'll probably be called a hater but..."}]}]}, {"signature": "\n_____________________________________________________________________\n\n\"In show business at the end of the day, talent is just another\ngimmick.\" -forgivenphoenix\n\n\"I don't like it like, judgmentally, but it's nice if I'm just\nvibing on it\" -Nodima", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:31:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 409, "mesg_id": 95210, "text": "it helps you", "author": 53, "id": 499, "subject": "Erykah, click where it says \"Reply With Quote\"", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:50:00+00:00", "text": "What was going on in your life that led to the\nbeauty that is mama's gun? it is such a beautiful strong album..\nand lastly when you gonna deliver a show in Salt Lake City, UTAH?\nwe need some real talent to bless our city..\n\np.s. your show at the fillmore san fran this past may was the most\nbeautiful thing i have ever witnessed..\n\npeace and love,\nGrandie", "mesg_id": 95211, "mesg_num": 416, "author": 207, "id": 500, "subject": "two fish one swimming upstream"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:36:00+00:00", "text": "thanks for that.\n\nmore people should see it.\n\nhave you gotten much feedback from people about it?", "mesg_id": 95212, "mesg_num": 411, "author": 32, "id": 501, "subject": "good to see your contribution to Before The Music Dies"}, {"signature": "___________________________\ntwitter: http://twitter.com/qwimby", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:43:00+00:00", "text": "any chances of working with DJ Premier, yall\nboth dope artists from Texas or Devin, both luv that kush.", "mesg_id": 95213, "mesg_num": 413, "author": 208, "id": 502, "subject": "craziest/best concert experience?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:44:00+00:00", "text": "Christmas wish......Just a simple hello to\nme....please!!!!\n\nGood luck on the upcoming albums....can't wait to hear the\ncreativity.", "mesg_id": 95214, "mesg_num": 414, "author": 209, "id": 503, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "DROKAYPLAYER -05\n\nFantasia Barrino- http://anax8a.pressmart.com/Bleulife/Index.aspx\n\nGeorgia Rule - http://artnouveaumagazine.com/blog5/2009/08/05/georgia-rule/\n\nepiphany chrisette michelle - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/bleu/2009spring/#/90\n\nMos Def E", "date_time": "2007-11-19T20:58:00+00:00", "text": "I was recovering from a hang over yesterday...\nand I missed this?\nOMG think quick JB...\nuummmm e.badu\nmy question\nWhat is your stand on using your celebrety to help other artist,\ngiving chances to writers singers etc.? Would you put your name on\nthe line for some one else?\n\nAlso when doing a show, how many familiar faces do you see, and how\ndo you feel about your fan base?", "mesg_id": 95215, "mesg_num": 422, "author": 71, "id": 504, "subject": "WTF!?"}, {"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:01:00+00:00", "text": "ok, this is my last question...i'm dead\nserious though...i'll get it started and stuff...will quit my\njob...stop my life...for real badu, lol. for real ", "mesg_id": 95216, "mesg_num": 425, "author": 105, "id": 505, "subject": "CAN I BE PRESIDENT OF YOUR FAN CLUB???"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:02:00+00:00", "text": "The last Album I felt that I HAD to listen to\nall the way through is The Love Below just because every song was\ntied into each other so well like a movie... So when I get the time\nI def have to listen to at least three or four together... just\nfeels right...\n\nso...\n\nHow do you like your albums heard, chopped up or all the way\nthrough? and why?", "mesg_id": 95217, "mesg_num": 426, "author": 21, "id": 506, "subject": "Okay, just thought of a question..."}, {"signature": "Stay strong\n\nLexx\n\niamlexx.com\nnewvintagegroup.com\naim: lexx3001", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:03:00+00:00", "text": "Meaning, did you have to change your material\nbecuase the label asked? or someone else? if someone else, then who\nelse has that power?\n\nI love your music, ever since Baduism. i just wonder if every album\nyou made was made exactly how you envisioned it.", "mesg_id": 95218, "mesg_num": 428, "author": 210, "id": 507, "subject": "How much did you have to deal with a compromise?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:08:00+00:00", "text": "Did you plan all along for it to be such a\ngrand, sweeping work or was it once a shorter version that ended up\ntaking a life of its own?\n\n\n\n\n\nI'm tired of the \"worst song I've ever heard\" being something new\nevery month.\n-okp simpsycho\n\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/livesociety", "mesg_id": 95219, "mesg_num": 430, "author": 211, "id": 508, "subject": "Green Eyes is one of the most heartfelt records I've ever heard."}, {"signature": "if you didn't define yourself for yourself\nyou'd be crunched into other peoples fantasies of you an eaten\nalive.\n\naudre lorde", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:10:00+00:00", "text": "i love the song u did on Girlfriends ...is\nthat gonna be on ur new album?\n\n...BTW...i'm 38 and legs and ass get thick. and lovely...but we\nchicas can handle it...so hold ur own gurl...miss k", "mesg_id": 95220, "mesg_num": 431, "author": 212, "id": 509, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:15:00+00:00", "text": "I have nothing to add here, I'm just posting\nin the same thread as one of my favorite artists. ", "mesg_id": 95221, "mesg_num": 436, "author": 213, "id": 510, "subject": "sup erykah"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:19:00+00:00", "text": "You were listed as hosting the Dead Prez show.\nI was\njuiced just to see the crew do their thing live, but you\ncame out doing some wild ish on an MPC and I think CDJ.\n\nanyways, thanks.\n(that was one of the best hip-hop shows I've seen in Sac)\n_____________________\ni like bj\u00f6rk\nhttp://myspace.com/entitee", "mesg_id": 95222, "mesg_num": 439, "author": 214, "id": 511, "subject": "A few years ago in this small city called Sacramento"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:20:00+00:00", "text": "\n@}-,-`-\n\n\"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known\nand unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.\" - Gordon\nParks", "mesg_id": 95223, "mesg_num": 441, "author": 172, "id": 512, "subject": "Why do you answer some questions and not others?"}, {"signature": "the jack", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:21:00+00:00", "text": "will Funksway ever come to light with a tour\nor an album? I think you should take that band in the studio and\nmake a funk record to educate the peeps and industry about\noverlooked talent that is uuuzzzzing from Doyle, Wendy, Lisa,\n?uesto, James, and yourself of course......all Funk in the\nFamily!\n\nholla\n\nwww.myspace.com/lojackfunk\n\nps. I'd also like to send you my own record to talk about a deal\nwith your label. How's the label going anway?\n", "mesg_id": 95224, "mesg_num": 442, "author": 215, "id": 513, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:25:00+00:00", "text": "Ms. Badu,\n\nI'm curious as to what you have to say about this day in which the\nMayan Calendar ends? Someone just explained the planetary shift\nthat is supposed to go down that day and I'm trippin on it...and\nwondering what you think?\n\nBy the way, I saw you twice this year: 1st on New Year's at the\nHouse of Blues LA -and- 2nd in San Diego at Humphrey's by the\nBay...\nBoth amazing performances\nTrue artistry, honesty\nFunky as sh*t\nMy friend fell in love with you at the first show and then\ndedicated his heart to you at the second...still talks about you\nwith a twinkle in his eye \nLoving the new jams you did, Annie and Hip Hop\nAlways inspired by the outfits and hairdo's\nThank you for your generosity\n", "mesg_id": 95225, "mesg_num": 444, "author": 216, "id": 514, "subject": "Badu...What do you think of 12-21-12?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:28:00+00:00", "text": "but i just wanted to say thank you for\nengaging us all...please believe even the so called haters and\nthose that give you a hard time is appreciating you for conversing\nwith your fans.\n\nbtw, you're one of the sexiest bitches on the planet.", "mesg_id": 95226, "mesg_num": 448, "author": 134, "id": 515, "subject": "not a question"}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:29:00+00:00", "text": "........", "mesg_id": 95227, "mesg_num": 449, "author": 23, "id": 516, "subject": "except, it's not 2008 yet ^^^^^TIME TRAVELLER^^^^"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:50:00+00:00", "text": "1) Does it come to you easily or do you really\nhave to approach it as work and glue yourself to a chair?\n\n2) and how do u always stay so fresh, comin up with different\nstyles in music but yet keepin tru to your Badu (ism) ??\n\n3) And finally are you planing a European tour in 2008? ", "mesg_id": 95228, "mesg_num": 458, "author": 217, "id": 517, "subject": "What do you do to get the creative jucies flowing?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T21:58:00+00:00", "text": "what does your muse require as payment? i'm a\nnovelist my muse likes her s**t up front... thanks for making music\nfor grown folk. mama's gun feels like opera for the hip-hop\ngeneration. keep being brave and bold.thanks for sharing!", "mesg_id": 95229, "mesg_num": 459, "author": 218, "id": 518, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "\"Forget Black History Month, how about live an\nAfrican History Life\"-Ansley Burrows", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:01:00+00:00", "text": "\nanaloguegal, that was a tease. I wished you could of extended it.\nThe track was fiyah. By the way, I remember the show you did at the\nTea Party in Brooklyn a few moons back. Holla at yah boooowy!\n", "mesg_id": 95231, "mesg_num": 461, "author": 219, "id": 519, "subject": "I felt cheated with the Lenny Fravitz track on World Wide"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:14:00+00:00", "text": "If not, what's your favorite junk food?", "mesg_id": 95233, "mesg_num": 465, "author": 97, "id": 520, "subject": "Do you eat ketchup chips?"}, {"signature": "Futuristiclyric, one love, one life.", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:15:00+00:00", "text": "I want my wife to look like you do at\n36...\n\nsoooo killing two birds with one stone,\n\nWill you marry me? lol/jk\n\nKeep up the good music... It really helps some of us get through it\nall...", "mesg_id": 95234, "mesg_num": 466, "author": 21, "id": 521, "subject": "P.S."}, {"signature": "--------------\nDaren, I'll never forget you\nhttp://www.fayemurman.com/extras/magee/daren/\n\nhttp://www.kiananunn.com\nhttp://www.estavamorioka.com", "date_time": "2007-11-19T22:16:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 467, "mesg_id": 95235, "text": "i could never explain the feeling\ni had for a love lost\n\nuntil this day i like talking about that song\ni cant wait for what spiritual journey\nyou will take me on next album", "author": 220, "id": 522, "subject": "thank you for 'I want you'.......", "children": [{"signature": "Positive Energy Activates Creative\nElevation.... PEACE!\nWat Good Do Yo Wordz Do If They Cant Undastand U?-E.Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:48:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 480, "mesg_id": 95236, "text": "now that i have ur attention!\n\n- Can we expect to hear u rappin on the album? The freestyle on Rap\nCity was hot i wanted more!!!!!!\n\n- 'I Want You' was brilliant cats still dont appreciate it, i was\n17 wen i first heard and it blew my mind at the end wen u said 'jus\nbecause i tell u i love u dont mean that i do' the depth,the\ndepth!\n\n- u have to come to ALABAMA!!! We could use u in the diry south!!!!\nMontgomery to be exact u kno the birthplace of the civil rights\nmovement come on E, last time i saw u in ATL, u signed autographs\nwit my pen and i stood around and waited for u to finnish! I have\nit in a case!!!!\n\n- any acoustic cuts?\n\nBows to Erykah!", "author": 221, "id": 523, "subject": "ERICA WRIGHT!", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:12:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 486, "mesg_id": 95237, "text": ">>i have it in a case!!!!>>\n\nROTFL!!!\n\nThis is some crazy shit i would've done, lol", "author": 105, "id": 524, "subject": "YOU SOUND LIKE ME, LOL!!!", "children": [{"signature": "Positive Energy Activates Creative\nElevation.... PEACE!\nWat Good Do Yo Wordz Do If They Cant Undastand U?-E.Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:50:00+00:00", "text": "Right!!!! Im the biggest Badu fan in the dirty\nsouth!!!!", "mesg_id": 95238, "mesg_num": 498, "author": 221, "id": 525, "subject": "RE: YOU SOUND LIKE ME, LOL!!!"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-19T23:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 483, "mesg_id": 95239, "text": "I know you probably have lurked and seen some\nof the OK gathering photo's of these guys here.\n\nYou may or may not be aware of the General discusion female\nconcensus of what/who they are attracted to but, do you differ in\nopinion, as you have firsthand experience in interacting with the\naverage joe, then onto the more affluent/eccentric personalites\n(Common's, Dre 3000's, DOC's)\n\nLastly, why have none of those guys wifed you?\n\nI never understood that, somebody need to 'Bret Farve' Dre 3000 for\nthat!", "author": 37, "id": 526, "subject": " You ever been attracted to any of the OK males here?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:19:00+00:00", "text": "^\nhttp://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc173/FrankLongo/popcorn.gif\n\nI jacked this gif, but this represents my demeanor/feelings as i\nawait your answer, lol!\n\nJust teasing you!", "mesg_id": 95240, "mesg_num": 489, "author": 37, "id": 527, "subject": "RE: You ever been attracted to any of the OK males here?"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:35:00+00:00", "text": "Yes.... Thank you.", "mesg_id": 95241, "mesg_num": 493, "author": 136, "id": 528, "subject": "RE: thank you for 'I want you'......."}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:17:00+00:00", "text": "Thank you.\n\nIt gets me through rough days.\n\nThat all.\n\nPeace", "mesg_id": 95242, "mesg_num": 487, "author": 124, "id": 529, "subject": "for the \"betcha love can make it better\" part of bag lady...."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:19:00+00:00", "text": "I don't really have a meaningful or clever\nquestion, but I just wanted you to know how inspiring and admirable\nyour art is to me personally. You da shit Erykah, I'm looking forward to the new\nalbum!!\n", "mesg_id": 95243, "mesg_num": 0, "author": 222, "id": 530, "subject": "88. \"*Blank*"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:19:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 490, "mesg_id": 95244, "text": "If a negro took you to McDonalds, would you\ncuss him out immediately or you're a 'go with the flow' type of\ngirl and down for whatever?", "author": 223, "id": 531, "subject": "Let's talk you on a date.....", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:31:00+00:00", "text": "That was within reason dammit!\n\nOk....what music a dude has playing in the car is a dealbreaker to\nyou on a date?\n\n*shakes head*\n\nI give up.", "mesg_id": 95245, "mesg_num": 511, "author": 223, "id": 532, "subject": "\"ill answer any question with in reason\"....LIAH!!!"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T00:33:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 492, "mesg_id": 95246, "text": "Love and Peace always, Queen........", "author": 224, "id": 533, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:01:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 502, "mesg_id": 95247, "text": "for all of your energy .\ni hope this gave you all as much pleasure as it gave me.\ni needed that.\nplease forgive any insults or smart remarks.\n\n\nas you can see im no diff than you\n(besides being a lot smarter , richer and happier.\nbut whos counting.)\n\n\n\n\nlets do it again soon.\n\nhave great week .\ncommit random acts of kindnesssssss.\n\nahmir, i want my money in cash.\nno F that , in gold..\n\nok back to jupiter.\n\nshout out to jay elect.\n\n\n\n\n\npeace\n\ne. badu\n2007 a.d.", "author": 1, "id": 534, "subject": "give thanks okay....", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:16:00+00:00", "text": ">as you can see im no diff than you\n>(besides being a lot smarter , richer and happier.\n>but whos counting.)\n\ni heart you badu...countdown to saviours day begins...can't\nwait...peace and blessings", "mesg_id": 95248, "mesg_num": 506, "author": 105, "id": 535, "subject": "this is why i worship this woman..."}, {"signature": "-----------------------------\nhttp://kennykeil.blogspot.com/\nhttp://talestosuffice.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:18:00+00:00", "text": ">as you can see im no diff than you\n>(besides being a lot smarter , richer and happier.\n>but whos counting.)\n\n(It is also why I think it's perfectly reasonable to wear wicker\npants and a viking helmet for this woman.)", "mesg_id": 95249, "mesg_num": 508, "author": 225, "id": 536, "subject": "and that, friends, is how you ether a message board"}, {"signature": "<-----Look into THE FYOOCHER...yes they are\navailable", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:20:00+00:00", "text": "what is your second passion? I mean we are all\ngeniuses in some way shape or form and maybe in various arts or\ntrades. So if you were not entertaining what would you be doing?\nand dont tell me nothing seriously.....\n\nand If I wanted you to speak or perform at my university who would\nI contact......?", "mesg_id": 95250, "mesg_num": 509, "author": 226, "id": 537, "subject": "RE: give thanks okay...."}, {"signature": "\"I am awake; my mind is free\" -E. Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-20T08:18:00+00:00", "text": "\n>as you can see im no diff than you\n>(besides being a lot smarter , richer and happier.\n>but whos counting.)\n\n\nlol\n\n\n", "mesg_id": 95252, "mesg_num": 557, "author": 206, "id": 538, "subject": "RE: give thanks okay...."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T12:43:00+00:00", "text": "peace", "mesg_id": 95253, "mesg_num": 566, "author": 162, "id": 539, "subject": "how can you NOT love this woman?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-22T02:26:00+00:00", "text": "Guess I am kinda late with this, but what did\nyou think of that panel last april in London? The Adornment London\nsession regarding image, self-discovery and liberation, I didnt\nhave a chance to build with you afterwards.", "mesg_id": 95254, "mesg_num": 605, "author": 227, "id": 540, "subject": "RE: give thanks okay...."}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:20:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 510, "mesg_id": 95255, "text": "it means alot when an artist invests time to\ntheir fans.\n\nthank you and i wish more artists would take the time to connect in\na \"grassroots/message board\" manner.", "author": 228, "id": 541, "subject": "this post converted me from an e.badu fan to an e.badu groupie", "children": [{"signature": "http://make-upmusicmoneyme.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-20T01:56:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95256, "mesg_num": 522, "author": 105, "id": 542, "subject": "WELCOME TO THE CLUB:)"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:13:00+00:00", "text": "\"Oh, I see, ya niggas is on that\nbullshit\"\n\ni want to personally apologize to you. the black expo used to be\nsuch a fun, entertaining, and educating festival, but has now been\ncompletely turned into a corporate event, and now the people who\nattend the concerts may not even like the artist, they are just\nattending because they were given free tickets.\n\ndon't get me wrong, I enjoy every experience that we have shared\ntogether when you are on stage. ive seen my favorite artist (mc\napples) all around the country: two times in houston (waiting in\nthe cold by the tour bus and at the skybar where you hugged me like\ni was your little cousin that just got out the pen) ,once in philly\nwhen you met me and my pops, once in the chi (couldn't get\nbackstage that time), and new years in atlantic city\n(classic!)....\n\ni was so embarassed to be affiliated with my city after they rushed\nyou off the stage...the crowd didn't want to stand up during the\nshow (and you know badu don't like niggas sittin down at the\nshow!).....how did you feel about the show?...... see you at the\nnext one. luv ya kid\n\n\n\n\nP.s. that booty been there, i been tryin to tell these cats bout\nthe baddest woman on the land since 97..........so imma be one of\nthe first to tell the world\n\n\nI TOLD YA SO", "mesg_id": 95257, "mesg_num": 524, "author": 229, "id": 543, "subject": "Your Concert this year at the Indiana Black Expo"}]}, {"signature": "<----They WILL carry the cross", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:25:00+00:00", "text": "kick like 3 lines about me. lol, as corny as\nit sounds...\n\ncan u say something about how my name is Colin and I am from\nIndiana... or sumtin.. that would just make my year honestly.\n\nthanks for being beautiful!", "mesg_id": 95263, "mesg_num": 528, "author": 231, "id": 544, "subject": "can u do me a favor?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T02:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 532, "mesg_id": 95264, "text": ".", "author": 149, "id": 545, "subject": "does anyone call you erica wright?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-23T20:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 612, "mesg_id": 95265, "text": "plenty of people\nthats my name", "author": 1, "id": 546, "subject": "RE: does anyone call you erica wright?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T05:36:00+00:00", "text": "Why does ur mother called you like that &\nnot straight \"Erykah Badu\" ? ............. ", "mesg_id": 95266, "mesg_num": 633, "author": 10, "id": 547, "subject": "?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:37:00+00:00", "text": "fini.", "mesg_id": 95267, "mesg_num": 537, "author": 97, "id": 548, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "\"\"look at how many posts you have, do you work\nhere or something?\"\"\n\u00a9Erykah Badu", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:41:00+00:00", "text": "just playing\n\nalways a fan tho thanks for the good music\n\npeace", "mesg_id": 95268, "mesg_num": 538, "author": 130, "id": 549, "subject": "Thanks for turning me out at the tenderage of 9"}, {"signature": "**************************************\n\n\u2022 www.scottstewartphotos.com \u2022", "date_time": "2007-11-20T03:41:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95269, "mesg_num": 539, "author": 232, "id": 550, "subject": "You need to work with Fishbone..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T04:44:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 540, "mesg_id": 95270, "text": "Fuck you hoe!", "author": 233, "id": 551, "subject": "Hey ERYKAH", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-23T20:41:00+00:00", "text": "hoe = garden tool", "mesg_id": 95271, "mesg_num": 613, "author": 1, "id": 552, "subject": "RE: Hey ERYKAH"}]}, {"signature": "The offspring :-D\n\nPSN & XBL: LOQuent", "date_time": "2007-11-20T04:46:00+00:00", "text": "with worldwide underground i \"got\" it, it's a\nrelease... breath, i get it. i know, the original post, \"your a\nperformance artist\" BUT at some point and time your going to have\nto write actual songs. Will we see this on this album?\n\nthen again maybe that's what you've been doing all along...\n\n\n\n", "mesg_id": 95272, "mesg_num": 541, "author": 234, "id": 553, "subject": "as of late your songs seem like jam sessions"}, {"signature": "- Dub\n\nI give rappers the biz for being m-izza-a-archaic.", "date_time": "2007-11-20T04:47:00+00:00", "text": "While I havent been fortunate enough to see\nyou live in person, every clip I see of you performing live only\nmakes me love the songs more.\n\nAnd it isn't completely unfounded, artists like Poco and Neil Young\nhave done it, not to mention that sections of Purple Rain were done\nlive.\n\nAlso, if \"Tyrone\" is any indication (and I think it is) people who\nsee it and hear it for the first time live will still respond\nwell.", "mesg_id": 95273, "mesg_num": 542, "author": 235, "id": 554, "subject": "have you ever considered putting out a live album of all new material?"}, {"signature": "dats right and ima be up in here for a\nminute\nand i aint goin nowhere\nand im using dat phone\nand ima have my lil snacks and all dat wit me\nand i dare a nigga go in my locka cause yo IM NOT PLAYIN WIT YALL\nNIGGAS MAN(c)", "date_time": "2007-11-20T04:57:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 543, "mesg_id": 95274, "text": "and some other shit", "author": 236, "id": 555, "subject": "IS THAT YOURE REAL HAIR ON THE NEWS PAGE OR A WIG?!?", "children": [{"signature": "dats right and ima be up in here for a\nminute\nand i aint goin nowhere\nand im using dat phone\nand ima have my lil snacks and all dat wit me\nand i dare a nigga go in my locka cause yo IM NOT PLAYIN WIT YALL\nNIGGAS MAN(c)", "date_time": "2007-11-20T06:27:00+00:00", "text": "hate when i do that shit yo\n\n\ni guess it really don't matter though since it seem's like the\nquestion and answer time is already up .", "mesg_id": 95275, "mesg_num": 549, "author": 236, "id": 556, "subject": "REAL or a wig"}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T05:01:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95276, "mesg_num": 544, "author": 237, "id": 557, "subject": "any production from PLAY n SKILLZ on the album?"}, {"signature": "http://www.myspace.com/arsunmuzak\n\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/dominationrecordings", "date_time": "2007-11-20T06:09:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 548, "mesg_id": 95277, "text": "Greetings Badu\n\nhave you found it hard to incorporate your \"analog warmth\" into\nthis digital age?\n\ni mean so much of the music that is made today seems to lack the\n\"swing\" of natural rhythms...it's almost too perfect (if there\ncould ever be such a thing)", "author": 238, "id": 558, "subject": "Sonically speaking...", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-23T20:45:00+00:00", "text": "i dont know where to listen to the mix\nlol\nin the car?\non the computer?\nin the studio?\n\nsounds different each place.\n\ni yii yii", "mesg_id": 95278, "mesg_num": 614, "author": 1, "id": 559, "subject": "RE: Sonically speaking..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-24T00:36:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 616, "mesg_id": 95279, "text": ">i mean so much of the music that is made\ntoday seems to lack\n>the \"swing\" of natural rhythms...it's almost too perfect\n(if\n>there could ever be such a thing)\n\nNOT THAT THIS IS ANOTHER COMMENT AGAINST YOUR MUSIC\nERYKAH...(before you chase me with another 'fuck you' - I said what\nI had to say and we straight...)\n\n\n\n<<< tREB\nSimpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "author": 57, "id": 560, "subject": "i TOTALLY agree with this:", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T00:00:00+00:00", "text": "no more energy for you .\n6 minutes now OFFICIALLY over.", "mesg_id": 95280, "mesg_num": 624, "author": 1, "id": 561, "subject": "RE: i TOTALLY agree with this:"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T06:58:00+00:00", "text": "I have some emotional baggage......what do you\nsay??\n\np.S. i'm not afraid of baduism I'll wear fluffy pants and knit\nsweaters in public *cheese\n\n\ni'm an idiot.... peace and light", "mesg_id": 95281, "mesg_num": 552, "author": 239, "id": 562, "subject": "can we be like the Brady Bunch???"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T07:41:00+00:00", "text": "gotta rep the D-town to the fullest Big\nE\n\nLOL\n\nmuch love\n\nPEACE to the Earth", "mesg_id": 95282, "mesg_num": 554, "author": 240, "id": 563, "subject": "I bet you wont do the \"MY DOUGIE\" at your next show...LOL"}, {"signature": "__________\n\nLamentations 3:26\nIt is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the\nsalvation of the LORD.", "date_time": "2007-11-20T07:47:00+00:00", "text": "www.infowars.com", "mesg_id": 95283, "mesg_num": 555, "author": 241, "id": 564, "subject": "Do you ever listen to The Alex Jones Show?"}, {"signature": "http://www.twitter.com/LipstikActivist\nTweet Me.\nhttp://thelipstikactivist.tumblr.com/\nTumbl Me. (rawr)", "date_time": "2007-11-20T07:56:00+00:00", "text": "Did you ever realize you are my definition of\nDOPE?\nE you are why I write, and thank-you.\n\nI love you!", "mesg_id": 95284, "mesg_num": 556, "author": 143, "id": 565, "subject": "E"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T08:46:00+00:00", "text": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqdux3rMKuo", "mesg_id": 95285, "mesg_num": 558, "author": 242, "id": 566, "subject": "This post reminded me of this"}, {"signature": "\"Life is change, growth is optional.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-20T08:55:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 559, "mesg_id": 95286, "text": "E kaaro Ms. Badu my sister,\n\nI just wanted to first express to you how much I love your art/gift\nand I appreciate so much that you decided to share it with the\nworld. You are truly an inspiration and a free spirit and I admire\nyou for that, your light is blinding. Well, now for my question(s?,\non Baduizm the song Certinley you sing, is that song pertainig to\nthe maafa( slave trade)? I ask b/c you mentioned something about it\nin the live Baduizm \" when coming over to amerika we had to change\nalot of things, but we didn't give nobody permission\"( did you try\nto hide the meaning by saying \"I don't need no nigga rollin' over\nlooking after me...\"? if not what is the meaning?).", "author": 243, "id": 567, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "\"Life is change, growth is optional.\"", "date_time": "2007-11-20T09:06:00+00:00", "text": "Oh, and I also wanted to ask you about the\nsong \"I want you\". That beat at the end with the guitar solo was\nCa-razy (very Jimi)!!! Sista please tell me you are going to use\nthat piece on a whole song b/c that little snippete wasn't enough!\nIt felt like you wanted to keep it going at the end ( \" Just b/c I\ntell you I love you, don't mean that I do\"), you know you did mama,\ngon' head and make a whole song outta that...throw it in on the end\nof the new CD I won't be mad.", "mesg_id": 95287, "mesg_num": 560, "author": 243, "id": 568, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "________________\n\n\"Do you know what a nerd is? A nerd is a human being without enough\nAfrica in him or her.\" \u00a9 Brian Eno, \"A Year With Swollen\nAppendices\"", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:53:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95288, "mesg_num": 575, "author": 9, "id": 569, "subject": "Jesus Christ, are you for real????"}]}, {"signature": "http://i37.tinypic.com/9uwx38.jpg", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:26:00+00:00", "text": "Seriously, I want a short hook from you. I've\nnever been one to \"go through the proper channels\". I'm Frank\nLucas, I'm goin to Thailand for dope. Erykah, you got that dope. I\nwant some. The song is called Southern Gentleman.\n\n\n*doin 4 much*", "mesg_id": 95289, "mesg_num": 570, "author": 244, "id": 570, "subject": "Are your eyes still green girl?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:29:00+00:00", "text": "Better still, are you currently or will you be\nworking with Bilal?\n\n\n\n<<< tREB\nSimpson\n\nThe Past: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=101371\n\nThe Present: www.treblefree.com / www.omniversal.net\n/ www.myspace.com/treblemusick\nThe NEAR Future: album coming 2008", "mesg_id": 95290, "mesg_num": 571, "author": 57, "id": 571, "subject": "Are we EVER going to get to hear \"Props To The Lonely People\"?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:52:00+00:00", "text": "DO YOU HAVE ANY SHOWS COMNIN UP N THE SOUTH?\nCAN U CUM 2 THE ATL?\nhp4life", "mesg_id": 95291, "mesg_num": 573, "author": 245, "id": 572, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "------------------------\n-mommy, renzo was rappin on your record player-", "date_time": "2007-11-20T13:52:00+00:00", "text": "would you? i cant even imagine what that\noutcome would be...\n\n\n", "mesg_id": 95292, "mesg_num": 574, "author": 246, "id": 573, "subject": "would you ever consider working with tweet?"}, {"signature": "http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/1-TED/slide_599_12612_large.jpg\n\n\"Let me 'splain it to ya\"", "date_time": "2007-11-20T15:01:00+00:00", "text": "Hmmm...not that I really care about it that\nmuch. Jus Curious.", "mesg_id": 95293, "mesg_num": 576, "author": 247, "id": 574, "subject": "Why have you avoided all the Common related questions?"}, {"signature": "\uffed\uffed\uffed\uffed", "date_time": "2007-11-20T16:09:00+00:00", "text": "i remember this girl from here, sylvana, did a\ninterview/feature with you for a channel called TMF. this is way\nback like 97 or 98.\nshe mentioned she ran into you at a house party or something where\nu were MCing.\n\ndo you still do anything from a MC perspective? as in do you\napproach music that way or just a complete different way. or do you\never plan on doing something as a MC?", "mesg_id": 95294, "mesg_num": 578, "author": 62, "id": 575, "subject": "one more"}, {"signature": "~\"You are your own best thing\" (c) Paul D in\nBELOVED", "date_time": "2007-11-20T17:30:00+00:00", "text": "It's absolutely, positively one of my favorite\nsongs ever....from the lyrics to the melody to the fantastic use of\nflute....it's just an awesome song!\n\nI've always wanted to know what song could've inspired you to\ncreate this particular song? And also I've heard of the whole\nwomen=moon and men=sun thing but never really understood it...can\nyou drop me some knowledge?\n\nI absolutely love you girl!\n\nThanks for this post \n\nP.S. I've noticed for a while that you use the flute often in your\nsongs (it's my fav instrument)...you even have a flutist who tours\nwith you..right? Anywho, that is fantastic and different, flutes\nare definitely underused in soul music today...what inspired you to\nuse it in your music?\n", "mesg_id": 95295, "mesg_num": 581, "author": 248, "id": 576, "subject": "SwEet Badu, what was the inspiration behind ORANGE MOON?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-20T18:46:00+00:00", "text": "have an eKISS???\n\n***Putting chapstick on my soup coolers***\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou don't impress me!!\n\nThe better side of me : http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i243/va_khalil19/Nita.jpg", "mesg_id": 95296, "mesg_num": 582, "author": 170, "id": 577, "subject": "Can I..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T01:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 583, "mesg_id": 95297, "text": "Why did you take such an aggressive stance\ntoward the term 'neo soul'? I wasn't in love with the term, because\nit had issues with it being marketing term, but I realize that it\nseemed like it still tried to steer peeps towards progressive music\nyou wouldn't hear otherwise and is still better than anything on\nradio right now (in my opinion). Do you mind being looked at as a\nneo soul artist?", "author": 249, "id": 578, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T01:50:00+00:00", "text": "earlier in this post i said this:\n\n\nby the way\nthe term neo soul was created by Kedar Massenburg the former\nmanager of D'angelo and former prez of kedar/ motown .\nthis man signed me in 1995 after hearing baduism in its entireity\nminus the roots .\n(i brought the roots on board after being given a budget.)\nanyway this title NS was originally given to d and i to set us\napart from music in REGULAR radio rotation since we were a little\nto the left of that time's sonic sound (1995).\n\nkeep in mind my music and d's music sound nothing alike .\nInstead what we had in common was an exexcutive who had an ear for\ninteresting underground talent.\n\nneither d nor i had ever heard this term NS before, nor did we\naccept it as who or what we were.\nTHE NAME TOOK A LIFE OF ITS OWN.\n\nim a theatrical soul singer with a mc background i sing soul music\ninfluenced by everthing.\nd has a church backgroud with a heavy soul influence . i think hes\na diamond who would just rather be coal.\n\nits 1:23 am\n\nhope this answers\n", "mesg_id": 95298, "mesg_num": 625, "author": 1, "id": 579, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}]}, {"signature": "---------------------------------------\n\n\nI make music\nNo Chains - Just Hip Hop\n------------------------------\nwww.nategoodness.com", "date_time": "2007-11-21T02:23:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95299, "mesg_num": 584, "author": 250, "id": 580, "subject": "what is your creative process"}, {"signature": ".....................................\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\"Paint a picture of the Ghetto like JJ\"- Common", "date_time": "2007-11-21T02:36:00+00:00", "text": "Yes, I know this is a lame request....but who\ncares...\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/theyounggarvey\n\nthanks", "mesg_id": 95300, "mesg_num": 585, "author": 146, "id": 581, "subject": "Can you leave a comment on my myspace"}, {"signature": "are your hands dirty from wishful digging?", "date_time": "2007-11-21T05:56:00+00:00", "text": "to stencil you ", "mesg_id": 95301, "mesg_num": 588, "author": 251, "id": 582, "subject": "i want"}, {"signature": "Q:Are you a fool, fool?\nA: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!\n--My dad cracking a joke.\nLove you, Pa.", "date_time": "2007-11-21T15:03:00+00:00", "text": "but i just wanted to let you know that you are\nappreciated. i respect your groove, and what you've been giving us\nall these years. i pray you and yours are blessed, and look forward\nto the new album.\n\nand let me say, i consistantly enjoy how you irreverently mix\nstyles/genres that the music industry imagines as disparate. the\nknock on \"danger\" taken together with the transitions on, say,\n\"green eyes\" makes for a catalogue that both rewards listeners with\nsomething complex and challenges how we think about categories.\nkeep doing your thing, lil mama.", "mesg_id": 95302, "mesg_num": 589, "author": 252, "id": 583, "subject": "Okay, I'm probably real late here..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T15:45:00+00:00", "text": "Hi Madam', do U want to marry me ?\u00a7?\n", "mesg_id": 95303, "mesg_num": 590, "author": 192, "id": 584, "subject": "..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T15:56:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 0, "mesg_id": 95304, "text": "I forgot..thanks to U, by advance !", "author": 192, "id": 585, "subject": "91. \"weddin',always..", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T17:23:00+00:00", "text": "I don't love U at all ! It's just because i\nhave nothing to do saturday...", "mesg_id": 95305, "mesg_num": 593, "author": 192, "id": 586, "subject": "P.S."}]}, {"signature": "------------------------------\nI Will Not Lose! S.Carter\n\nDon't compare me to you nigga you ain't this! Malice\n\nSit your five dollar ass down before I make change!\n\nfuk ticket master $14 in fees is ass rape", "date_time": "2007-11-21T16:47:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 592, "mesg_id": 95306, "text": "", "author": 253, "id": 587, "subject": "Come down to New Orleans and do Jazz Fest 2008", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T01:55:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 626, "mesg_id": 95307, "text": "in new orleans RIGHT now\n\ngsu lost \n", "author": 1, "id": 588, "subject": "RE: Come down to New Orleans and do Jazz Fest 2008", "children": [{"signature": "<DOWNLOAD my new single \"KICK GAME\"\nfeaturing Porshe Smith and Tree3Eye of Verbal Seed||| http://www.zshare.net/audio/5927279a448a32/ check out\nthe myspace page |||\nhttp://www.myspace.com/blacksonent", "date_time": "2007-11-25T20:44:00+00:00", "text": "SUUUUUUU!!!!! LOL. I still love you liek a\nplay cousin though.\n\n\n\n\n", "mesg_id": 95308, "mesg_num": 642, "author": 254, "id": 589, "subject": "RE: Come down to New Orleans and do Jazz Fest 2008"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T17:31:00+00:00", "text": "as much as i would love to be JUST a recording\nartist, i am not.-theres a difference\ni am a performance artist first - theres a difference.\n\n\nTakes me back to what I disliked about the whole soulquarian\nmovment in the first place. The self-consciousness of being an\n\"artist\"", "mesg_id": 95309, "mesg_num": 594, "author": 255, "id": 590, "subject": "This shit here leaves a bad taste in my mouth"}, {"signature": "\n*******************************************************\ni will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope\n- Cory Booker\n\nforgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past", "date_time": "2007-11-21T17:43:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95310, "mesg_num": 595, "author": 102, "id": 591, "subject": "PSA: HER LAST REPLY WAS POST 502...archive this bitch and k.i.m."}, {"signature": "\"Dreams are for those who\nsleep\" - Bread", "date_time": "2007-11-21T17:59:00+00:00", "text": "See what happens when you work 14hrs a day!!?\nYOu miss out on ish!!\n\nAnyway, Im gonna put my questions out there and maybe its something\nfor us to all think about...\n\nOk, so she's releasing 3 different albums in 08. All of us will\nbuy'em and Im sure they will all do well. But! What if one is does\nmuch better than the others?\n\nWill that influence what she does next time around? Probably not,\nshe makes what she feels. So much for that question..answered\nmyself LOL\n\nErykah...did you ever get your tapes you lost in Tokyo airport? I\nreally looked for those on some Hero ish!! \n\nWhen you doin Bali again? INdra is my ace...missed you by a couple\nof days last time! You should distribute Dimi's new record on your\nlabel in the U.S.\n\n1", "mesg_id": 95311, "mesg_num": 596, "author": 256, "id": 592, "subject": "Damn!! I had some good questions..."}, {"signature": "__\nFLIER THAN YOU.", "date_time": "2007-11-21T18:38:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 597, "mesg_id": 95312, "text": "clear the air. WHAT *are* you talking\nabout?\n\nand, i thought u were great in 'the cider house rules'? i imagine\nthat was a tough role to play altho u got to work with the fabulous\ndelroy lindo.\n\nany other movies coming up?", "author": 257, "id": 593, "subject": "' i was born underwater w/ 3 dollars and 6 dimes.'", "children": [{"signature": "\n*******************************************************\ni will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope\n- Cory Booker\n\nforgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past", "date_time": "2007-11-22T16:28:00+00:00", "text": ".", "mesg_id": 95313, "mesg_num": 607, "author": 102, "id": 594, "subject": "3,60...360 degrees..her cipher is complete since the womb"}]}, {"signature": "\n____________________________________________________________\nhttp://proc.bandcamp.com\nhttp://twitter.com/grandproc\nhttp://thewalkingdeadpodcast.com", "date_time": "2007-11-21T18:40:00+00:00", "text": "sextuple.\n\nedit: why does it say 600 on the replies and this is just 598?\nwhere is the missing dollar?", "mesg_id": 95314, "mesg_num": 598, "author": 258, "id": 595, "subject": "sextuple platinum?! wait!"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T19:57:00+00:00", "text": "First of all:\n\nThank you for taking the time to post on this forum.\n\nSecond of all:\n\nI have been influenced and inspired by your music both as a\nperformer and a thinker. I have struggled to negotiate being a\nmusical artist in an academic setting. Increasingly, I have\ngrappled with constructions of genre and categories as ways of\ntrying to explain or represent music, often obscuring the human\nrealities behind the art. Simultaneously, I struggle constantly\nwith the dilemmas of trying to produce music that can have a\npositive social impact. My personal interest has driven me to\npursue these questions in an academic forum. As an artist that I\nrespect and admire, one that does not fit easily into conventional\nboxes of genre, and whose song messages are both thought-provoking\nand socially important, I find you to be a compelling example\nthrough which to explore these subjects. This semester I have\nundertaken this exploration in the context of a project questioning\n\u201cNeo-soul\u201d as a genre. I give a lot of weight to\nartist\u2019s own representations of themselves, and though it is\noften necessary, I find it difficult at best to discuss musical\nartists without being able to hear many things in their own words.\nI have attached my proposal (which I threw together last minute)\nand I would really appreciate any comments or ideas that you can\noffer on these themes.\n\nPaper Proposal:\n\nKedar Massenburg, the president of Motown Records from 1997 to\n2004, coined the term \u201cNeo-soul\u201d to describe novel\ntrends emerging from the influences of hip-hop and jazz. The term\nhas come to represent a large body of work by a diverse group of\nartists (Erykah Badu, D\u2019Angelo, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jill\nScott, and others). The movement is characterized by hybridity and\ninnovative negotiations of genre conventions. Within this movement,\nthere is a great deal of collective projects and collaboration.\nBeneath the broad stroke of coherence uniting artists labeled as\nbeing a part of the \u201cNeo-soul\u201d movement, there is a\ngreat deal of diversity. There are radically different approaches\nto tradition, instrumentation, production, and live performance.\nMany artists active in this movement are using their music as a\nform of social critique and radical intervention in discourses on\nrace, sexuality, and gender. Collaborating artists often\nindividually promote strongly contrasting value systems. By\nexamining different approaches to musical experimentation,\ndivergent discourses on race, gender, and sexuality, debates over\nauthenticity and representation, and collaboration I am questioning\nthe coherence of \u201cNeo-soul\u201d as a movement and the\nlimits of this categorization.\n\nTo explore these questions I will rely on primary sources like\nmusical pieces, lyrics, liner notes, interviews, and music videos.\nIn addition I will look at secondary sources that take a\nmusicological and sociological perspective on this movement, such\nas Jeff Chang\u2019s \u201cCan\u2019t Stop Won\u2019t Stop: A\nHistory of the Hip-Hop Generation\u201d and Lori Burn\u2019s\n\u201cDisruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular\nMusic\u201d. I will be using Okayplayer.com as a source that\nrepresents an innovative blend of artist\u2019s personal accounts\nand commentary, news, fan and public perspectives, critical reviews\nand discussions. This forum represents an active online community\nthat connects fans and artists, and it will be an interesting place\nto study.\n\n", "mesg_id": 95315, "mesg_num": 600, "author": 259, "id": 596, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-21T22:41:00+00:00", "text": "if she do...do you pass on kids clothes? Cause\nI'm thinking Seven prolly wears about a 10-12 and my boys' in a\n8-10 and I def. don't mind hand-me-downs.", "mesg_id": 95316, "mesg_num": 603, "author": 187, "id": 597, "subject": "I know she aint readin no mo but"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-22T01:33:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 604, "mesg_id": 95317, "text": "this is a fun(ny) question, so don't be\noffended.\n\nI have a friend from Dallas, and he pronounces certain words\ndifferently.\n\nMainly, words with \"er\" or \"urr\" sounding vowels he pronounces as\n\"air\".\n\nWorry sounds like wary. Murray sounds like Mary.\n\nNow I think it's cool, I'm just curious if that's a Texas or Dallas\nthing, cuz I haven't heard it elsewhere in the south.\n\nand btw, I dig the new music and i think you've handled all of\nthese questions very gracefully. thanks a mil.", "author": 76, "id": 598, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-26T01:47:00+00:00", "text": "dallas and d.c. only", "mesg_id": 95318, "mesg_num": 645, "author": 1, "id": 599, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}]}, {"signature": "www.myspace.com/clinteestwood", "date_time": "2007-11-22T17:46:00+00:00", "text": "Hope I'm not too late but thought I'd try. For\nthe record, I love all your albums & pretty much think each one\nis better than the last although I like Mama's Gun a little better\nthan WU. \"Bump It,\" \"I Want You,\" & \"Back in the Day\" are 3 of\nmy all-time favorite songs though. I was wondering if you were\ndoin' anything else with Sa-Ra for your new albums? I need that\nfunk! Also, check out my music & let me know what u think, if u\nget the chance (myspace link below). I know that's a shot in the\ndark but it would mean the world to me. Peace Queen.", "mesg_id": 95319, "mesg_num": 608, "author": 34, "id": 600, "subject": "Late pass!"}, {"signature": "______________________________________\nwww.ultimatekelis.com // www.erykah-badu.com\n\n\"He's gonna kill me for saying this but where else but America can\na black man with no talent make millions?\" - Kelis on Diddy, THE\nFACE Magazine", "date_time": "2007-11-22T19:58:00+00:00", "text": "Couldn't go both times you were here, first\ntime I had an exam next morning, and lived on the other side of the\ncountry, second time, i was mad ill. Still can't believe Kister had\nall that fun xD, but she deserves it.\n\n\nCan't wait tor the new stuff\n\nPeace\n\nbtw, say hello to Jay", "mesg_id": 95320, "mesg_num": 609, "author": 260, "id": 601, "subject": "I need you to come back and do a show in Poland again..."}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-22T23:54:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 610, "mesg_id": 95321, "text": "It's been yearz and I could use the soulful\nremediez.\n\n\nMe and my sisterv", "author": 261, "id": 602, "subject": "***HUGZ*** When U coming back to Charlotte", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-23T16:36:00+00:00", "text": "I'm mad I missed your show in Va,\n\nHope you come back soon.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbum 1 - Inner-Dimensional Quantum Lunar Module Act 1 -\nBelow\n\nhttp://www.zshare.net/download/50993250937f0a/\n\n_______________________________________________________\nwww.myspace.com/UndefinedPrint\n\n\"If dreams, seem, to only be made up of whats seen, in indecent\nscenes, on Tv Screens, then I'd rather sit back, and accept being\nan insomniac... -Me A.K.A. Fine Print", "mesg_id": 95322, "mesg_num": 611, "author": 262, "id": 603, "subject": "Va"}]}, {"signature": "----\n----\n----\n----\n----\n\nGET ON MY LEVEL!", "date_time": "2007-11-24T01:24:00+00:00", "text": "http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=64492\n\nListen to the song \"Angelcakes\".", "mesg_id": 95323, "mesg_num": 617, "author": 263, "id": 604, "subject": "I sampled Erykah Badu."}, {"signature": "_____________________________\n<----------- That's love.", "date_time": "2007-11-24T06:29:00+00:00", "text": "I can't believe I missed this shit.\n\nYou are in what I call my trinity of fav artists...rounded out by\nLauryn Hill and Maxwell.\n\nThey left me.\n\nTell me you won't.", "mesg_id": 95324, "mesg_num": 620, "author": 264, "id": 605, "subject": "Dammit, you betta come back in here..."}, {"signature": "------------------------------------\nme sell dope? officer i'm a rap sanga", "date_time": "2007-11-24T08:49:00+00:00", "text": "", "mesg_id": 95325, "mesg_num": 621, "author": 265, "id": 606, "subject": "Tx...stand the fuck up...what up ms badu?"}, {"signature": "--------------------------------------\n\nRest in peace, James Y.\nRest in peace, James B.", "date_time": "2007-11-24T10:44:00+00:00", "text": "Thank you.", "mesg_id": 95326, "mesg_num": 622, "author": 266, "id": 607, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "~Hate Is The New Love~", "date_time": "2007-11-24T17:36:00+00:00", "text": "Erykah--\n#1. thanks for engaging us with the dialogue. i really dont know\nany other artist that would just come on and take on any question,\ncomment, etc. i can appreciate that--for real!\n#2. will you be rapping on any of the albums? i hope so cause we\nall kno u can flow and i dont think many people would expect for\nyou to atleast have 1 rap song on the album...so u gotsta do it =)\nI feel like rap needs ya!\n#3. I Love Yaaaa...and I am one of the \"others\"--we may be\ninvisible right now, but we're here!", "mesg_id": 95327, "mesg_num": 623, "author": 267, "id": 608, "subject": "RE: eryKAHBAdu gets THE LESSON"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T02:20:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 627, "mesg_id": 95328, "text": "\nYou're a daughter of the beach !\u00a7! I was waitin' for u at\nchurch.The preacher man & all my family too.Now don't come sing\nur sh... in my ears anymore,i'm gonna look after Madonna now. She\nhad blond hair\n(don't know for the rest...),she don't come late to her shows and\nshe do her lessons ! han.\nAnyway i don't like niggas at all !\u00a7! Becoz'..becoz' they are\nall blacks.\nSayonara buy buy, kisssssssssssss U too much,thanks for the add\n!\u00a7!", "author": 192, "id": 609, "subject": "now listen nigga !\u00a7!", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T02:49:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 628, "mesg_id": 95329, "text": "...that's what i said,u're a daughter of the\nbeach!\nThen i funck U indeed !!! Yes Madam'", "author": 192, "id": 610, "subject": "U don't answer now,immediately,instantaneously...?\u00a7?", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T03:06:00+00:00", "text": "...' don't find Madonna! ..gonna masturbat' as\nusual !\u00a7!", "mesg_id": 95330, "mesg_num": 629, "author": 192, "id": 611, "subject": "RE: U don't answer now,immediately,instantaneously...?\u00a7?"}]}]}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-25T19:15:00+00:00", "text": "If anyone has any thoughts about my previous\npost in this forum (#600) I would greatly appreciate it.", "mesg_id": 95332, "mesg_num": 635, "author": 259, "id": 612, "subject": "So I take it MsBadu is done posting?"}, {"signature": "support your local band-sleep with a\nmusician", "date_time": "2007-11-26T10:33:00+00:00", "text": "maybe about holistic health, quantum phisics,\nreiki, growing a garden of herbs (nice, I'd like this one!). or\nmaybe an autobiography?\n\nHoney is very sweet, I love it. come to italy soon please! I miss\nyou \n\nbaci\nElisa", "mesg_id": 95333, "mesg_num": 648, "author": 268, "id": 613, "subject": "Do you ever think to write a book?"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-26T16:42:00+00:00", "text": "If I won the lottery lol or came up on sum\nmoney I would pay u 2 do a concert in Chattanooga, TN because we\nneed to experience a great performance by Ms Badu herself. But\nuntil I win the lottery or cum up on sum money I will just have to\nsee u n concert when u cum back 2 the atl.", "mesg_id": 95334, "mesg_num": 650, "author": 245, "id": 614, "subject": "RE: IF I WON THE LOTTERY"}, {"signature": "<----holler at a player when you see him in\nthe streets (c)Stuart Scott\n\nwww.brucegeetz1.bandcamp.com\nhttp://brucegeetz.blogspot.com/", "date_time": "2007-11-26T18:37:00+00:00", "text": "did 9th throw you a beat cd or did he tailor\nthe beat for you?\n\nalso did yall knock out any other joints together?\n\ncause that song is my ish right now", "mesg_id": 95335, "mesg_num": 653, "author": 90, "id": 615, "subject": "How did yall (you and ninf) go about making \"Honey\"?"}, {"signature": "www.cristianrios.com\nhttp://mistagamenwatch.podomatic.com/ (updated\n11/29/09)", "date_time": "2007-11-27T01:59:00+00:00", "text": "really dont have much to add to it.\n\none of my things to do is to go to one of your live shows, ive had\ntwo opportunities...both at bad financial times but alas they were\nthere.\n\nat the last i drove to the place just to be discouraged by how many\npeople were there and figured its sold out better drive back\nhome.\n\nthen i decided to take a walk and ended up walking all the way to\nthe venue, up to the ticket booth where i found out i was 3 people\ntoo late :/\n\nbut i did take nice pics so ill share those.\n\nhttp://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h30/mista_k5/detroit/august%2008th%202007/\n\nbtw you still owe me a picture with this on your wall\n\nhttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h30/mista_k5/For%20Fun/badu.jpg\n\nlol\n\n- love", "mesg_id": 95336, "mesg_num": 654, "author": 269, "id": 616, "subject": "great post"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-11-29T17:13:00+00:00", "text": "Do you remember Tasty's Chicken?\n\nDunbar Hall?\n\nThe Renaissance?\n", "mesg_id": 95337, "mesg_num": 656, "author": 270, "id": 617, "subject": "A few GSU questions???"}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-12-02T17:12:00+00:00", "text": "9th and Erykah did they thing. Peace.", "mesg_id": 95339, "mesg_num": 658, "author": 23, "id": 618, "subject": "Incidentally, ain't nothing wrong with the \"Honey\" track"}, {"signature": "_______________________\n\"Arm Leg Leg Arm Hate.\" c/o desus\n_______________________\nDivine Ruler\nhttp://www.facebook.com/divineruler\n__gigs__", "date_time": "2007-12-14T16:06:00+00:00", "text": "thank you.", "mesg_id": 95340, "mesg_num": 659, "author": 23, "id": 619, "subject": "Please don't sissify Jay Electronica more than the God is"}, {"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-12-23T05:53:00+00:00", "mesg_num": 661, "mesg_id": 95342, "text": "\n...........................................bouhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh\n!!! ahahahahahahahah shoo be doo be do la bee do wap do rap pee doo\nbee doo wap. That's all i want to tell U,beecause of the cause. Yes\nMaa'dam !\u00a7!", "author": 192, "id": 620, "subject": "no no no", "children": [{"signature": "", "date_time": "2007-12-23T05:54:00+00:00", "text": "Voil\u00e0 !", "mesg_id": 95343, "mesg_num": 662, "author": 192, "id": 621, "subject": "RE: no no no 2"}]}]} |
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| } | |
| .x.axis line { | |
| stroke: #fff; | |
| stroke-width: 2px; | |
| } | |
| .x.axis path { | |
| display: none; | |
| } | |
| #buttons { | |
| position: fixed; | |
| top: 10; | |
| left: 10; | |
| } | |
| button { | |
| font: 16px sans-serif; | |
| background-color: #222; | |
| background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,.25), rgba(255,255,255,.11)); | |
| background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, rgba(255,255,255,.25)),color-stop(1, rgba(255,255,255,.11))); | |
| background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.25), rgba(255,255,255,.11)); | |
| color: #fff; | |
| text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; | |
| text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px #222; | |
| padding: 6px 10px 6px 10px; | |
| border: 0; | |
| border-radius: 0; | |
| border-bottom: 1px solid #222; | |
| margin: 0; | |
| -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px #999; | |
| -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px #999; | |
| } | |
| button.first { | |
| border-top-left-radius: 5px; | |
| border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; | |
| } | |
| button.last { | |
| border-top-right-radius: 5px; | |
| border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; | |
| } | |
| button.active { | |
| background-color: rgb(65,102,133); | |
| } | |
| button:hover { | |
| background-color: steelblue; | |
| } | |
| .popup { | |
| display: none; | |
| background: white; | |
| position: absolute; | |
| overflow: auto; | |
| width: 200px; | |
| height: 100px; | |
| z-index: 999; | |
| } | |
| .popupText { | |
| font: 10px sans-serif; | |
| } |
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| var w = 6000, | |
| h = 4000; | |
| var tree = d3.layout.tree() | |
| .size([h - 1000, w]); | |
| var diagonal = d3.svg.diagonal() | |
| .projection(function(d) { return [d.y, d.x]; }); | |
| function Popup (text) { | |
| this.div = d3.select("body").append("div").attr("class", "popup"); | |
| this.inner = this.div.append("span").attr("class", "popupText"); | |
| this.showing = false; | |
| this.display = function(d) { | |
| this.inner.text(text); | |
| this.div.style("display", "block"); | |
| this.div.style("left", Math.floor(d.y + 210) + "px"); | |
| this.div.style("top", Math.floor(d.x + 110) + "px"); | |
| this.showing = true; | |
| }; | |
| this.hide = function() { | |
| this.div.style("display", "none"); | |
| this.showing = false; | |
| }; | |
| }; | |
| var vis = d3.select("#chart").append("svg") | |
| .attr("width", w) | |
| .attr("height", h) | |
| .append("g") | |
| .attr("transform", "translate(200, 100)"); | |
| var earliestDate = new Date("2007-11-18T08:42:00+00:00"); | |
| // var latestDate = new Date("2007-12-13T05:53:00+00:00"); | |
| var latestDate = new Date("2007-11-27T05:53:00+00:00"); | |
| var timeScale = d3.time.scale() | |
| .domain([earliestDate, latestDate]) | |
| .range([0,w]); | |
| var displayText = function (d) { | |
| if (!("popup" in d)) { | |
| myText = d.text + "\n" + d.signature; | |
| d.popup = new Popup(myText); | |
| } | |
| if (d.popup.showing) { | |
| d.popup.hide(); | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| d.popup.display(d); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| var duration = 2000; | |
| var nodes, treeScale, treeAxis, timeAxis; | |
| d3.json("okp.json", function(json) { | |
| nodes = tree.nodes(json); | |
| treeScale = d3.scale.linear() | |
| .range([0, w]) | |
| .domain([0,11]); | |
| treeAxis = d3.svg.axis() | |
| .scale(treeScale) | |
| .tickSize(h) | |
| .orient("top"); | |
| var link = vis.selectAll("path.link") | |
| .data(tree.links(nodes)) | |
| .enter().append("path") | |
| .attr("class", "link") | |
| .attr("d", diagonal); | |
| vis.append("svg:g") | |
| .attr("class", "x axis") | |
| .attr("transform", "translate(0," + (h - 50) + ")") | |
| .call(treeAxis); | |
| var node = vis.selectAll("g.node") | |
| .data(nodes) | |
| .enter().append("g") | |
| .attr("class", "node") | |
| .attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + d.y + "," + d.x + ")"; }) | |
| .on("click", displayText); | |
| node.append("circle") | |
| .attr("r", 4.5) | |
| .style("fill", function(d) { if (d.author == 1) {return "#0e0";} else {return "#fff"; }}) | |
| node.append("text") | |
| .attr("dx", function(d) { return d.children ? -8 : 8; }) | |
| .attr("dy", 3) | |
| .attr("text-anchor", function(d) { return d.children ? "end" : "start"; }) | |
| .text(function(d) { return d.name; }); | |
| vis.append("text") | |
| .attr("class", "axislabel") | |
| .attr("x", -200) | |
| .attr("y", -50) | |
| .text("Reply depth:"); | |
| vis.selectAll(".tick") | |
| .attr("display", "none"); | |
| }); | |
| function update(timeline) { | |
| if (timeline) { | |
| d3.select(".depth") | |
| .attr("class", "depth first"); | |
| d3.select(".time") | |
| .attr("class", "time last active"); | |
| timeAxis = d3.svg.axis() | |
| .scale(timeScale) | |
| .tickSize(h) | |
| .orient("top"); | |
| for (i in nodes) { | |
| nodes[i].y = timeScale(new Date(nodes[i].date_time)); | |
| nodes[i].x *= 1.5 | |
| if (i-1 in nodes) { | |
| if (Math.abs(nodes[i-1].x - nodes[i].x) < 10) { | |
| nodes[i-1].x -= 10 | |
| nodes[i].x += 10 | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| var link = vis.selectAll("path.link") | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .attr("d", diagonal); | |
| d3.select(".x.axis") | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .call(timeAxis); | |
| d3.select(".axislabel") | |
| .text("Date:"); | |
| vis.selectAll(".tick") | |
| .attr("display", "block"); | |
| var node = vis.selectAll("g.node") | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + d.y + "," + d.x + ")"; }); | |
| } | |
| else { //reset | |
| d3.select(".depth") | |
| .attr("class", "depth first active"); | |
| d3.select(".time") | |
| .attr("class", "time last"); | |
| d3.json("okp.json", function(json) { | |
| nodes = tree.nodes(json); | |
| var node = vis.selectAll("g.node") | |
| .data(nodes) | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + d.y + "," + d.x + ")"; }); | |
| d3.selectAll(".popup") | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .style("left", function (d) { return Math.floor(d.y + 210) + "px" }) | |
| .style("top", function (d) { return Math.floor(d.y + 110) + "px" }); | |
| var link = vis.selectAll("path.link") | |
| .data(tree.links(nodes)) | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .attr("d", diagonal); | |
| }); | |
| d3.select(".x.axis") | |
| .transition() | |
| .duration(duration) | |
| .call(treeAxis); | |
| d3.select(".axislabel") | |
| .text("Reply depth:"); | |
| vis.selectAll(".tick") | |
| .attr("display", "none"); | |
| } | |
| } |
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