OB4CL Footnote Factory: Sources

Neo-blaxploitation film that is the launch platform for "Heaven and Hell." See below.

Back on that OB4CL thing.

Just thinking again. We'll have something up over @ the Blue Light soon.

State of Wordplay in Rap Music, ca. 1992

A propos of OB4CL threads:

"that included words that end with 'iggedy.'"

Key Phrases: Knowledge God 4 -- Politickin'

So, see cousin, yo, I was workin.

Key Phrases: Knowledge God 3 -- Politickin'

Fake nigg*z throw shit in they drinks.

Club nights we snatch linx, politic, Africans and chinks,

While wide world of sports nigg*z injectin'

Morphine. The God seen more CREAM, and upstate

Cousin Reek, almost got hit with fourteen.

Chill, Pa, the God'll be a star when you come home

Light bones and let you rock my 3G stone.

Key Phrases: Knowledge God 2

I miss all my n*ggaz, though, believe me,

And I'll never forget none of them.

Stovetop, Roofside, you know what I'm sayin.'

I had these motherf*ckin,' all these wild-*ss nigg*az, man.

Key Phrases: Knowledge God 1

You know, you know, we had the baddest motherf*ckin'

unit back in the days, kid.

No doubt. no doubt. I know that, son. I know that

you know that, you know what I'm sayin'?

While We're On The Subject...

...of sources:



For those of you who want to leaf through the pages of The Killer while you're thinking through OB4CL, or any other relevant reason, you want to visit this section of the archive.

Key Phrases: Knuckleheadz 4

And yo, mail a guy about a hundred pictures.

Word to momma. This rap wonderama team got drama,

comma, plus smoke realize marijuana.

Chef may resign to boat across the Farasana

Immaculate, plus all my guns so accurate.

They get CREAM and the cuisine in Queens

I told you, money stated with the night beams and two rings

Key Phrases: Knuckleheadz 2

So stroll marvelous, soul controller

of the whole globe. God Damn, I got it sewn.

Key Phrases: Knuckleheadz 1

So let's do this the f*ck up, roll up like tropical, lid.

Don't play me like I got a flowerpot head, kid.

Key Phrases: Striving for Perfection 4

I'm the eyes that's in back of you, kid.

Key Phrases: Striving for Perfection 3

I got shot at, man. My moms windows for shot the fuck up, man.

Yo, God, my baby's in here, God. Se I gotta take time, man,
and raise my family, man.
YouknwhatI'msayin? Sit around, man. My grandkids, man.

But, yo, son, it's like this. man.
We all livin,' man. We here now, man.
YouknowhatI'msayin?

Let's not thing like we gonna be stagnating, man.
Let's keep moving ahead, man. Keep our head up, man.
Take care of our families, man.

Key Phrases: Striving for Perfection 1

I'm tired of doing this shit.

Check the fly shit, son.

I got a new connect son, for real man.
Fuck all this twenty four brick shit, man.

YouknowhatI'msayin.'

Politickin to death

We gotta move, god. We gotta move, god. We gotta migrate.
Get the fur. Get the fuck outta New York, youknowhatI'msayin?
Bounce man, start with fuckin' bigger and better shit.

Footnote Factory: Sources

The OB4CL project on the Blue Light is leading us down a number of paths: Iceberg Slim, Schooly D, Kool G Rap, N.W.A., Ice T., Abe Ferrera: They're all in the OB4CL closet.

While we were rummaging around and we found a buncha orphans, too. We gonna adopt a couple for further consideration, maybe even study, later on. 2 Live have their fans, and their place is forever in the books. We are 'specially interested in their legal entanglements, which were many and can be sorted into piles: obscenity entanglements and private property entanglements. The obscenity problems are interesting mainly because 5 years afterwards it was like they never happened. Therefore, as a studied in failed legal action we want to come back to:

• Mathieu Deflem, "Rock, Rap and Censorship." At least in 1993, the whole episode seemed important to legal scholars and sociologists.

We need to go back into the archive and pull out the legal records on the obscenity write up. Then there's the private property cases, that all come down to the SCOTUS. Turns out that these transgressions of property rights were much more offensive, and that the determination remade the industry, shaking change out of one person's pockets and into another's w/ every spin. Here we have a primary source:

• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (1994).

And then finally, a couple of interviews worth taking in:

• Noz, Pt. 1. (We always have big respect for Noz. His trueness to the archive stands tall in a world too full of repeaters and gossips.)
• Noz, Pt. 2.
• Baller Status

We'll rewind back to this mark again.

The Word

It's just major right here, you know son.

We handling the earth right now. Y'all n*ggas don't even know. You know what I mean? If it wasn't for us trying to enlighten y'all n*ggas w/ all types of flows and flavors, the game wouldn't be the same.

No doubt. You gotta come provocative, n*gga. You know what I mean? Sh*t gotta be spinetinglin, w/ mad styles and crazy dangerous, I mean, bust your sh*t open beats. You know what I mean?

It's like, yo, n*ggas don't even know, son. We gonna play some funky shit. Pay up. Pay up. Pay up.

Here, hit this Henny.

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