Absolute Hilarity!!!: Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day Flowchart

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Lyrical Exercise Pt 1: The Union - Been A Long Time verse 3

Lyrics are an integral part of The Union's music. If you wanted to boil what we do down to some real simple and basic description, we put dope, hardcore, complex, non-gangsta rhymes over the best beats we can get our grubby mitts on. And a couple days ago, December 30th to be exact, I wrote this verse below, really trying to take my shit back to my college days, lots of references and literary devices and especially wordplay, more complex than the stuff I'd been writing lately. I'm really proud of the verse, and I figure I'll break it down for you cats

second round, third verse is the Charm, I stop time/
this verse starts the second round of back-and-forth spittin, hence its the third verse. There were three girls on the TV show Charmed, one has the power to stop time, this verse has the same power
niggas reminisce, my bars outfoxed ya lines/
on the double you be, getting got, we never shot/
cats reflect on my illness while I freeze time with this verse. Double you be phonetically sounds the same as WB, the channel that showed Charmed. Fox is another TV station
never set for downfall, suits tight like Trump/4
we bang the high post, on boards, no need for a bump/
how could you not discuss, every fuckin line we bust/
shot, set and bump are all spades terms for overbidding, suits and trump also relate to spades. Each entry in a message board is also called a post, when a thread starts to die you make an empty post in it to bring it back to the forefront, bumping the post
you cats pre-serve ya sexy, we stay with the bubbles/
that never go pop, the whole game's in trouble/8
in the Proactiv commercials Puffy would say the shit helps him preserve his sexy, zits are like face bubbles, and can be popped. Going pop is something The Union never plans on doing. Also there's a bubble in the middle of the board game Trouble, I used a similar reference before in another song
we steady rise, and effervesce more than hot air/
setz to fizz, I'm so sick, the shit ain't fair/
emcees try to breathe easy, I infest the populice/
with more germs than bumpy lipped-chicks in hospitals/12
like (some) bubbles we rise, and we don't just let out hot air, we efferversce medicine like alkasetzer does, which can clear sinuses, then I flip it and say I'm sick. Bumpy-lips is a reference to cold sores (Herpes)
[gasp] peep the blood-stains, pro-ceed with caution/
con-cede victory when I'm flossin, get lost son/
I'm spittin, you sing wit RL and got no spine/
you RL Stines don't scare kids, peep the next in line/16
the gasp is like "Oh my God did he really just say that?!" Did those Goosebumps books scare anyone as a kid??? If so and you're harboring a dream of being gangsta, give that shit up RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm sure you would have picked up on a good percentage of these hidden meanings on your own, but I'm sure no one would have caught everything. No one is meant to get it all but me, as I figure each listener will catch some stuff and miss others, and each will understand what I say differently. So except for instances like this where I explain everything, each person will have a different idea about my verses, like I'm giving each one a different version.

Christmas in South Jersey

This year has been full of newness and change. I finished school, moved to a new city in a new state, and started a new job. It's actually been a great ride, 08 treated me very kindly. Not that it was perfect by any means, but as far as years go it had enough big things happen to be a very memorable year.

So in the spirit of newness, 08 is also my first year not spending Christmas with my biological family. Christmas is a kind of weird time for me now that I've severed Christianity's iron grip on my brain. I still believe in Christ for the most part, but I know that for most people this holiday has nothing to do with him, and I know that he probably wasn't even born on this day. So there's a lot of jumbled thoughts surrounding this day, but I didn't focus on that stuff at all this season.

Sorry for that tangent. I guess I said all that to say that since Christmas doesn't revolve around religion anymore for me, I am open to spending it differently than I used to. This year I spent Christmas with Da Vinci and Bobbi Digital and Bobbi's family in South Jerz. Highlights:

• Get to Bobbi's sister's house on Christmas Eve and wait for 2 hours in my car for someone to come let me in the house. An encouraging start that is...
• Meet the sister's boyfriend and see that he's not a good look...for the planet hahaha
• Argue with Bobbi about who should get the air matress going
• watch Bobbi's nieces open their presents, one acts ungrateful and gets the hell beat out of her
• get a gift of my own from the boyfriend and sister, which includes some candy, which was later stolen and eaten by someone in the house (either the boyfriend or the sister, how you gonna give me a gift and then eat it! Lol)
• next morning eat breakfast with the whole family at the asscrack of dawn
• experience the futility of watching tv/movies at gramma's house. Just like my family, put on a movie then talk all up and thru it
• eat the most glorious meal anyone not named Janice aka Arien's mom could attempt to make. Besides the seafood, which I'm just not that into. Best part was when I picked up my cornish hen and it shitted out its stuffing. Surprised the fuck outta me!
• took mad pictures, highlights to go up later
• made friends with Bobbi's cousin and a lil baby who now smiles WHENEVER SHE SEES ME. Told yall I'm that dude
• perfected annoying Da Vinci in the same way that he annoys me
• learned that the boyfriend is somewhat connected in a 6 degrees of standom way to Rodney Jerkins, claims he'll get our music to Rodney and get us in a show in Atlantic City, ends up completely bullshit. Good thing we saw that coming or we'd be PISSED
• watched this nigga get banged on TWICE on the phone, o the hilarity of slippin-ass niggas!!!
• got all of our monkey-asses handed to us by Bobbi's cousin in various WiiSports. Lil nigga wouldn't even tell us how to play, and yet kept gloating when he won like he accomplished something. What a biggity-biyatch
• went to a dusty ass 30-and-up-crowd bar, cheap drinks for everybody! Got eyed by every cougar on the prowl that night
• hilarity ensued, video explanation coming shortly
• of course there was some drama but that's all I'm saying about that

Now How About Some Fuckin Pics!

Bobbi showin off the smell-goods we bought her

Fuck was I laughin so hard at?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoodie? Check. B-Boy Stance? Check

Looking brolic as fuck

Do you see the muthafuckin boots [she's the jugganaut bitch]

Abusing my camera

He probably just said something stupid. I'm 80% sure that's what happened.

Bobbi Digitastic hip-hop album coming Summer '09 on Gray-Definition Music Group

Knowledge not scared of no lil-fisted women

This Is Funny To Me At Least

http://blackmanwithblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/fat-albert-in-da-hood-part-2-whos-baby.html

I'll have a Christmas recap up tomorrow. Already wrote it all out, just gotta edit it and add some pictures. In the meantime have some fun with this.