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Trueschool Monday #73

"Fake cats play the back while get this doe
You can bring your best but you can never match this flow
Black the new kid, the one you never heard of (heard of)
Nigga that's on some cool out shit but lyrically commiting murder
Touch tracks up from the back up
Niggas betters top slackin' off and twist this sack up..."

DJ Honda released H2 in Japan and was set to leave on a two week promotional tour. "Blaze It Up", one of Black's features on H2, was set to be the second single released off the album. So Black accompanied Honda to Japan to promote H2 and his single Blaze It Up
.Upon returning from Japan they decided to shoot the video for the single. With Blaze It Up already making noise in Japan, the US version was ready to go. The first single was "On the mic" which featured Cuban Linx, JuJu, AL, Al Tariq, Problemz, and Black. The video was a success getting play daily on rap city. Black, Tariq and Problemz then took off on the H2 tour hitting LA, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle , Canada and New York. Honda then left Sony which led Black, Tariq and Problemz to form the group Missin' Linx. Again the buzz was out, the group was hot, but to no avail. Black found himself in the same spot he was in when he first started, nice as ever but with no deal.

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Trueschool Monday #72

"I bang a stranger in my torture chamber, feed the locas tocha pinga
while I force my finger where my bollas linger
I bring the pain like Method, when I flex and flip the coochie
Puerto Rican to the core, but no Boriquas eat the pussy
'Scuse me for bein blunt, but I've been eatin cunts
since pimps was pushin pink Caddies with the fish tank pumps..."

Christopher Lee Rios (November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto Rican rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts, on the track "Off the Books" in 1997, and on Fat Joe's second album Jealous One's Envy in 1995, on the track "Watch Out", prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. Pun's lyrics are notable for technical efficiency, having minimal pauses to take a breath, and heavy use of internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes. Big Pun died of a heart attack at age 28.

Trueschool Monday #71

"I say brothers are amused by other brothers reps
But they're all playing roles just like Omar Epps
I see so many players I wonder where the coach is
My name's Everlast I'm hard to kill like roaches
The dough that you're making has got you fronting and faking
Your heart's been shook your brain's cooked like bacon..."

House of Pain (Irish: Teach na Péine) is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again. The group's name is a reference to the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, a reference carried further by the naming of their 2011 tour "He Who Breaks the Law." The group is best known for its 1992 hit single "Jump Around", which reached #3 in the United States, #6 in Ireland and #8 in the United Kingdom. The group broke up in 2003 and reformed in 2005.
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Trueschool Monday #70

"One more time,
I gots to hit the streets off, make the streets talk
Let 'em know it ain't a sweet walk
This gone be
The only joint made this year that'll knock 'til 2003
And y'all gone see
That the hottest nigga out there, was, is, and will be me..."

We Right Here is the first single by rapper DMX from his album, "The Great Depression".
The song shows the use of Pro Tools ability to create voice masking and voice doubling, with the fact that DMX does his vocals on the microphone, and then does them over the top of his previous audio track, to create a hazed, mellow sound, much like that of someone rapping with a 40 a Day voice.
The music video was shot in his birth city of Baltimore, Maryland (unlike previous videos shot in New York City), and contains cameo appearances from The LOX.

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Near the lines with homeboy Ri'King in 2007

Some chrome from '09