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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Real Talk Tuesdays: Pharoahe Monch

DateTuesday, March 15, 2011 at 9:02AM

Real Talk Tuesdays will be my weekly effort to explore lyrics and movie quotes.  Some will be showered with accolades while others will be exposed for their logical flaws.

For instance, this week we look at "Simon Says" by Pharoahe Monch (1999).  One of my favorite hip-hop anthems.  This song was responsible for the downfall of the Rawkus label (after using an uncleared sample from the Godzilla score).  In the second verse (around the 2:00 mark on the video below) he starts to boast about New York - the roughnecks, the cars, the night life - but he miscalculates and claims that, in New York, "shit don't start jumpin til after 12 pm".   Hmmm.  I think you mean A.M. - unless you're talking about the lunch counter.  Unfortunately he chooses to rhyme this line with "ignorant minds I free 'em".  Dammit Pharoahe, I love you but lemme proof your shit.

 

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