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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Not that it was never serious...

...but it just got Really SERIOUS.

This is Willie D of the "Geto Boys", with Pooh and Phonte'



He has on one of our shirts...



That's Crazy!

Just know that I feel like these Foreign Kids...


Friday, March 2, 2007

JOIN THE ARMY...GETBACK THAT IS!

I've always been a skeptic about joining the Army. I hate war, but this Army is different, it's the "GetBack Army" from North Carolina's Own, Little Brother!

For your own official Little Brother GetBack Tee, Hoodie or Baby tee; go to www.hiphopsite.com

Go to www.myspace.com/littlebrot
her to view more soldiers in the GetBack Army.

PEACE!

Monday, February 12, 2007

Little Brother and Mick Boogie- And Justus For All, Official Download Sites...

The new LB/Mick Boogie mixtape can be downloaded from the following sites:

www.rappersiknow.com
www.hallofjustus.com
www.mickboogie.com

Tracklisting:
1) Big Pooh: Intro (Poobie's Song)
2) Little Brother and Chaundon: Can't Stop Us (Produced by Young Cee)
3) Little Brother and Oddisee: Delusional (Produced by Oddisee)
4) Interlude: The Purpose Of Mixtapes
5) Little Brother and Skillz: Life of the Party Remix (Produced by Nottz)
6) Little Brother f/ Legacy: Best Kept Secret (Produced by RJD2)
7) Interlude: Wack Freestyles
8) Little Brother f/ Rhymefest and Supastition: Do It To Death (Produced by Focus)
9) Phonte and Von Pea: A Word From Our Sponsors (Produced by Khrysis)
10) Interlude: The Justus League Crew
11) Phonte: Last Day
12) Little Brother: Never Leave (Produced by The Kickdrums)
13) Interlude: Mick Boogie, The A&R
14) Big Pooh f/ Ray Cash: Bring It On
15) Big Pooh, Bishop Lamont and Jozeemo: Without You
16) Interlude: Myspace Etiquette Part 1
17) Little Brother: The Pressure (Produced by Khrysis)
18) Little Brother and Joe Scudda: Fan Mail (Produced by Babu)
19) Interlude: Favorite Duos
20) Little Brother, Mos Def and Talib Kweli: Let It Go (Blackstar Version) (Produced by 9th Wonder)
21) Big Pooh and O-Dash: One Eleven
22) Interlude: Myspace Etiquette Part 2
23) Little Brother f/ Kardinal Offishall: Cross That Line Remix (Produced by 9th Wonder)
24) Little Brother f/ Cormega: Back At It (Khrysis Remix)
25) Little Brother f/ AZ: Rise And Fall (Produced by J. Cardim and Phonte)
26) Little Brother f/ Talib Kweli: Grown Man (Produced by Midi Mafia)
27) Little Brother: Outrolude

Here's a frew temporary lainks to hold y'all over:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0vbqbh
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gqzlv9
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y2dne5
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t09vgi

Enjoy, and feel free to post your comments.

Thanks for listening! Getback coming soon.....
 

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Welcome to Durham by Little Brother Feat. Bid Daddy Kane

If Durham, NC ever had an athem, this is it. "Welcome to Durham" by Little Brother Feat. Big Daddy Kane
 
Artist: Little Brother f/ Big Daddy Kane
Album:  The Chittlin Circuit 1.5
Song:    Welcome to Durham
 
[Big Pooh]
I'd like to welcome all of you...
 
[Big Daddy Kane]
Uh huh, yeah...
 
[Big Pooh]
To the Bull City...
Better known as Durham (uh huh)
Right now we in the heart of it...
 
[Big Daddy Kane]
 Got the Butta Team...
 
[Big Pooh]
The Butta Team...
 
[Big Daddy Kane] 
Uhh, Little Brother...
 
[Big Pooh]
9th Wonder, y'all...
  
[Big Daddy Kane]
...and y'alls truly, BDK style...
 
[Phonte]
 ...Big Daddy Kane in the house
 
[Big Daddy Kane]
Feel me out...
Staring in the face of death, and I'm lookin in the mouth 
Like, goddamn, I found Brooklyn in the South
Comin up inside the hood is due to curse you
But comin up inside the hood is universal 
The shells from the ratchet, they spit the same
As well when they clap it, they hit the same
The Dutch and the Backwoods they split the same 
You ask me why I'm down here, I'm like, "Shit the same"
Folks be mostly movin low key
Tryin to make the dough be grossly OT 
Who surely, be out handlin shit right
And let off more rounds than a championship fight
Them die against me
 And we can take it from NY to NC
It's simply, that anywhere you at you can still be hood
My niggaz in the dirty dirty, what's really good? 
 
[Chorus – Big Daddy Kane] x 2
These streets out here take a lot to run
When you claim gangsta, if you're not, you're done 
On your grind, can't nobody stop you, son
Lick a shot up in the air (blaow)
What block you from?
  
[Big Pooh]
Uhh...
Durham, NC, the place where I reside at
The Eastside is the place where they ride at 
Any vice to get high, well you can buy that
Test them country boys? Wouldn't try that
Cause niggaz (niggaz) is off the chain round here 
Just cause it's the South, don't get the wrong idea
You can get stained like armoires  at Ikea
I declare, niggaz have the wrong idea
From Eagle pride to where colors collide
Fayetteville street  fiends brought the cracks for hire
Older folk down here look hard and work tired
Call my nigga Tramp, what's the haps on that?
 Is that a bus you get around in, and fours get clapped at?
Go down to "Brothers 3" where they shake it like craps
Hustlers reminisce, "Wish the Gardens was back" 
"Medicine City," how funny is that?
 
 
[Interlude – Phonte, Big Pooh, the Butta Team] 
Yellin your name in every hood out there
No you cain't, cause it ain't such a good idea
Little Brother, and we puttin it down tonight 
Big Daddy Kane, comin back for the crown tonight
 
Yellin your name in every hood out there
 No you cain't, cause it ain't such a good idea
Dirty Durham, they ain't playin around tonight
The Butta Team, them boys layin you down tonight 
 
[Phonte]
I only been here for six years but the city is in me
I can feel it when I walk or when I whisper somethin 
And every time I spit, I drive you to your death
-tination, like I got a lisp or somethin
And if your gums get to bumpin 
Them boys hit the button
For room service to come give you the toast
Dirty Durham – we got niggaz with scholarships
 And niggaz with hollow tips
And I know niggaz with both
That'll shoot until the block is drama-free
From niggaz like you actin up like they Oscar nominees 
You mighta been in the club and popped that wallet
Hit the gym for a month, and maybe got rock solid
But in the Bull City they will send dudes to you 
Just to prove to you, you are not that brolic now,
And they ain't askin for God's permission
They askin for God's forgiveness for bein poverty-stricken 
Stressed out and scarred from livin, better guard your business
You ain't Ernie Barnes nigga, stop drawin attention
It's evident that this is as real as it gets 
In the City of Medicine, them Durham niggaz is sick!
 
[Chorus – Big Daddy Kane] x 2

 



Saturday, January 20, 2007

"Speed" by Little Brother

Hello People,

I will be transcibing lyrics from arguably the finest rap group out of the Carolina's rappers Phonte' and Big Pooh with Producer 9th Wonder, "Little Brother".

This song, "Speed", is about the everyday life of struggling artists. Speed is the first song the group ever recorded, and it comes off of their Debut CD, "The Listening" on ABB Records.



Artist: Little Brother
Album: The Listening
Song: Speed
Typed by: Tribe78@hotmail.com

[Intro - Phonte]
This life have a nigga hustling man
Niggas need to slow it down yo
Sit back just chill just relax
Speeding down the roads of life
Yo check it

[Verse 1 - Phonte]
Another day to face, I'm share cropping in the paper chase
Take a deep breath and clear my database
It's afternoon I'm talking shit to my alarm clock
Cause I gotta face this world of capitalistic onslaught
Don't stop when I jump in the whip, tryin to get it off
Beltline got me rushin like Barichnakof
Pushin 80 miles per hour to this, call center
Tryin to pick up a check I only see twenty percent a
Until the weekend, it sound crazy when I'm sayin it
But sleep is nice, got me forgettin what day it is
Until my son two days with out speakin, looking for
Reasons to keep my heir from goin off the deep end
I take this shit personally, I'm makin moves
But this treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me
It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit
And at the days end you still got nothing accomplished
And it's just the way it's goin down, but on the real
I think I need to slow it down and slow it down

[Chorus]
This joint is goin too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
This really movin too fast for me
Just too fast for me and you

[Verse 2 - Big Pooh & Phonte]

[Big Pooh]
I try to slow it down like Brand Nubian
But hypnotic tunes like this always do me in
Got a nigga about to go and burn the road again
From first gear to fifth gear out of control again

[Phonte]
And that's the way we rolling in, needed to chill
And take a rest stop cause my job got me slaving like
I'm Dred Scott, take a break nah nigga you betta not
Cause that's when the respect stops energy drain
I need a blast like Hi-Tek got so I can grab
The mic and make you're heads bop with the microphone check
One two it don't stop, out of town on a quick
Escape hoping to have a chance to slow it up and hit the breaks
And slow it down

[Chorus]
This joint is goin too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
This really movin too fast for me
Just too fast for me and you

[Verse 3 - Big Pooh & Phonte]

[Big Pooh]
I let me life shine in between these papers lines
I write rhymes to incite minds
Spending time on this pipeline, eighty-five
North it's like mine, going eighty five to light minds
Going ninety five to take time
Spending days in the rays of the sunshine
Many days those same rays went undefined
Now forty east is where I go to have my best times
Three lanes going sixty to perfect rhymes
Tre dose and master craft catch punch lines
We turning early morning late night times
Amtrack Monday morning to come back rides
Catch a couch on the weekend, a place I rarely did sleep in
Tay (Phonte) car speaker knobs is tweakin
Cause the way we be rockin it when joints is finished
At the speed we be moving we could never be diminished

[Phonte]
With my energy replenished write a rhyme with puns and
All my similes intended speed out until I finish
Keep it on now
We keep it, and keep it, and keep it on now
And keep it, and keep it, we keep it on now
We run it, we do it, we keep it on now
We do it, we did it, we keep it on now
We don't stop

[Chorus x2]
This joint is goin too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
This really movin too fast for me
Just too fast for me and you
This joint is goin too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
Just too fast for me
This really movin too fast for me
Just too fast for me and you