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You can draw a straight line from Cab Calloway to James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince to hip-hop dance, slang and freestyling. He did some form of all that in the 1930s and 40s. #FBA
Cab Calloway no era solo un cantante; fue el arquitecto definitivo del espectáculo en la era del jazz.
Al frente de la orquesta residente del Cotton Club de Harlem, que en distintos momentos contó con figuras como Dizzy Gillespie, Chu Berry y Ben Webster, dominaba el escenario con una versatilidad inigualable.
Su mayor talento residía en la fluidez con la que transitaba entre director de banda, vocalista y animador, sin que el ritmo del espectáculo perdiera ni un segundo de intensidad.
Su innovador uso del "Hi-de-Ho" como ejercicio de call-and-response transformaba al público en una sección más de la banda, integrando la energía de la sala directamente en el arreglo musical.
Más allá del sonido, Calloway entendió el poder de la imagen: su esmoquin blanco, su batuta exagerada y sus movimientos coreografiados fueron tan icónicos que sirvieron de base para la técnica de rotoscopia en los dibujos animados de Betty Boop.
Esta misma capacidad de definir una época lo llevó a publicar The Hepster’s Dictionary en 1938, documentando la jerga del jazz de Harlem, y a mantener una carrera que décadas después lo llevaría a brillar en The Blues Brothers.
Went to my 2nd gig tonite at a brewery. And a patron tried to fight the guy over the DJ program damb lol.
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Da Baby has a dope manager. I hope he takes care of her. She didn’t make any excuses, she offered to redo, was positive and shared a perspective that has made them adjust. Customer waffle preference, hard or soft and how they intend to serve every customer what they want. I actually want to go because I like her energy.
She’s a keeper.
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Now they want to sue Tariq and FBA for delineating. 🤣
I cannot wait to hear the arguments. “We come to America and they will not share.”
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From Wack Room to Platinum - The Making of Hail Mary.
30 years ago today, November 5, 1996 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory dropped under the name Makaveli.
Two months after 2Pac was taken. The first posthumous album. The final statement he finished himself. And at the center of it sits “Hail Mary” one of the most prophetic records in rap history born in the room they called WACK.
Death Row had the big rooms for Daz, Johnny J, & Dre before the latter 2 left the label. Then there was the smaller room where the unproven yet hungry producers converged.
E.D.I. Mean has told the story for years: Pac never walked in asking “Where’s Daz? Where’s Dre? What am I gonna do?” His whole mentality was he could make something with anybody. So he pulled from that room.
Daz also said the entire Makaveli album was created from producers posted up in the Wack Room.
Hurt-M-Badd (Tyrone Wrice) made the beat in 15–20 minutes. He locked the door, smoked, and touched a few sounds.
When engineer Lance Pierre who was first to hear the beat put the headphones on, he said: “Damn, Hurt… this sounds like a hip-hop funeral.” He told him Pac needed to hear it. Pac heard it, barely said a word, and took it.
Young Noble later said the beat felt too slow. Church-like. He didn’t even want to rap on it at first. Pac looked at Noble and told him he needed his voice on the record along with a hook.
Noble already had a verse written in a notebook. 2Pac wrote from the heart like he was talking, not writing. The whole song came together in under an hour.
The original hook Noble wrote was used towards the end of Hail Mary.
One of the greatest rap songs of all time came out of the room everybody called WACK.
The same room they said was for the ones who would never make it. 2Pac proved the opposite in real time.
The song featured - 2Pac, Kadafi, Noble & Prince Ital Joe, who have all since passed away. EDI Mean & Kastro are the only surviving members to be featured on Hail Mary.
30 years later and Hail Mary still feels like 2Pac’s official prayer anthem to the streets.
When the “elites” see the ppl generally being stupid & not peeping game, they’ll nudge & quicken the country/world timeline into stupidity even faster…because the ppl consented in a sense by being stupid in the 1st place.
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Knowledge acquired and applied is power.
Seek knowledge!
Acquire knowledge!
Apply knowledge!
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So he was racist until Naomi started getting money?
Naomi Osaka's Grandfather Refused to Speak to Her Mother for Years. In 2018, He Wept Watching Naomi on Television
Somewhere in Hokkaido, a 73-year-old man watched his granddaughter on television, and wept.
His name is Tetsuo Osaka. And for years, he had not spoken to his own daughter.
Her name is Tamaki. She grew up in Nemuro, a fishing town at the eastern tip of Hokkaido. Her mother's ancestors fished in the Kuril Islands until the Soviet Union took them over at the end of the Second World War, and the family moved to Nemuro. For high school, Tamaki went to Sapporo. There, in 1990, she met a Haitian-American college student named Leonard François.
They kept the relationship secret for years. When Tamaki's father began pushing the idea of an arranged marriage, she told him about Leonard. He did not approve. He accused her of bringing shame on the family, because Leonard was not Japanese or simply he was Black.
The couple moved far away from Hokkaido, to the city of Osaka. That is where Naomi was born, in October 1997. Her surname, in the end, came from her mother's side.
For a long stretch, Tamaki had little to no contact with her family. Accounts differ on how long. One says about five years. Another says about a decade. A third says twelve years.
Then, slowly, the silence ended.
Naomi's Japanese grandfather had been against the family's plan for her tennis, and the decision to homeschool her. But he came around. Eventually, he became one of her biggest supporters.
When she won the US Open in 2018, he was 73, and he cried. In January 2019, at 74, he smiled at a press conference in Nemuro, the town his daughter had left. In 2021, he told a Japanese newspaper that he would like Naomi to open a tennis school for children in Nemuro. He likened her to an alpinist, always going after higher mountains.
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Never own a disease.
Reduce the amount of time that you talk about being ill.
Refuse to allow illness a place in your consciousness.
