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2021-0716
1900s | 2000s | American | anthem | Harlem | Hip Hop | New York | NYC | party | Rapper

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say ​“turn the party out”

Biz Markie

Mic drop, Biz Markie passed today.

Like clockwork, that grimy Sony Walkman player1 in my mind pressed play on ​“Nobody Beats the Biz“ from Goin’ Off (1988). In the late‐80s, that song was a hammer of a party anthem at house parties all over tha ​‘ville.2 There’s something special about Biz; his persona was pretty consistent from start to finish—all about having fun with your friends, acting the fool, and listening to music. Nothing wrong with that. Thank you for the good times! Rest easy, Mr. Hall.

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  1. a pre‐iPod/iPhone portable electronic that played music on these things called cassette tapes ↩

  2. Fayetteville, NC ↩

2022-1022
1900s · 2000s · American · Hip Hop · Musician · R&B · Soul

Do doh da dada tay

Erykah Badu
Nobody compares to Erykah Badu—she is and always has been, O‑riginal, timeless, and superduperfresh. ***
2022-1020
1800s · American · Author · biography · writing

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain
Found it here. ***
2022-1016
1900s · 2000s · Actor · American · funny · Midland Texas · sick burn bruh

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Woody Harrelson
So many odd and interesting things with Bill Maher sitting down with Woody Harrelson, smoking and drinking with the tape rolling. I really don’t know too much about either one of these dudes—least of …
2022-1004
1900s · 2000s · American · Butcher Hollow KY · love · lyrics · Singer

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

Loretta Lynn
When I was a boy, our family would visit my Grandma in South Boston, Virginia—usually for a week in the summer or a long Thanksgiving weekend. She was tall and loud with a head full of greying, fiery red …
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