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Starring the Mutated Beyonce Knowles...
"Queen of the Damned"
9/15/2003 |
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Black people must fight the temptation of the beast, fight against the way he has chosen for us to act, which is degrading to us as a nation; Beyonce has become the whore of our wet dreams; she was pimped by her father; who allowed the white man to pimp her. She parades naked on the world stage; men masturbate while watching her, will she pose for playboy-or do they allow black hoes to lay out in their magazine. Please don't do it sister B-I love you and think you are the best; but your father needs his ass kicked; for you have gone to far; you are being used; fight the temptation sister...
Fighting Temptation
(Feat. Missy. Free Mc Lyte)
by Beyonce Knowles
[Beyonce Sings]
Fighting Temptation
[Missy Says]
Yo Beyonce, Free, Mc Lyte y'all ready
Let it put it down for da clubs
[all four]
Ladies! (yeah) We got dat beat dat make you jump
To my fellas! (whoo)! I'll got them cars them ladies love
Party People! (yeah) We gonna party all night
And let yo soul, work! (ooo!) And let yo soul keep on workin out
[First verse: Missy]
I'm the type of chick who be fightin' temptation
Make you wait before we have a relation
Playboy holla at me lata'
Don't you know I'm managed by violator (yeah!)
(they shootin') I'm exterminator
I look good so hate me hater
Me and my girls drinkin', where's the waiter
Cheatin' guys I already played ya
Ladies don't saphacate us
If you touch us we gonna altercation
Warn Missy you's impersonator
I got so much ice I even scare Jacob
[all four]
Beyonce, Mc Lyte, and Free
Missy Put it down on da beat
[Missy]
Party people it's good sensation
We gonna show you how to fight temptation
[Chorus: Beyonce]
I'm just fighting temptation (yeah)
Gotta get more control (control, yeah)
Yet it's very tempting when you ask to take me home (home)
You know you want my love (love)
I don't think the time is right (no)
Call when I'm ready, but it won't be tonight
[Second verse: Free]
We in da club Free gully no doubt
See this real deal playa starin' dead in my mouth
He got his crew, but I got mine to
Send a note to my table like (what you gonna do)
Eye game got him spreadin' me out
In my ear dry tears how he left his spouse
And oh, the nice cars and impressive house
He want to run up in I ain't no regular route (hhoooo!)
Me and the girls we ain't stressin' out
We ain't birds we ain't headin' south (nnnoooo)!
Them one nighters that's sad and doubt
That little talk on da creep what you said is out
I gets cheddar, to help me do what ever, no beef with Dennis Hedwards but i fight temptation
I'm not sayin' I don't like temptation
I'm just lookin' for da right temptation, ya kno'
[Chorus: Beyonce]
I'm just fighting temptation (Fighting temptation)
Gotta get more control (control, yeah)
Yet it's very tempting when you ask to take me home (yeah yeah)
You know you want my love (yeah yeah yeah)
I don't think the time is right (ooohh!)
Call when I'm ready, but it won't be tonight
[Third verse: Mc Lyte]
Yeah, party liked I neva partied before
I hit the door all the dudes hit the floor
Sweet, they messin' wit da brown sugar queen
Fightin' Temptation like Layla Ali wit da 1, 2
Let me show you wat da hon' do, when i come through wit da butta dip crew
Now show me dat you got my back, love me from where you at
I got eyes up over my shoulder, if you should decide to get closer (hhooo!)
Well then this dance is straight over, I'm gone and Missy testaroasa
'Be cool' dat wat Free say
B say 'keep it clean but give them lee way'All I know it's a crazy sensation
You fine but I'm fightin' temptation
[Chorus: Beyonce]
I'm just fighting temptation (oohhh)
Gotta get more control (woooooo, ooohh)
Yet it's very tempting when you ask to take me home (woooo)
You know you want my love (my love)
I don't think the time is right (yeah)
Call when I'm ready, but it won't be tonight (yeah yeah yeah)
[Beyonce]
wooooooo
[Missy]
We goin' show you how to fight temptation
[Beyonce & Free at the same time]
Beyonce: My love, yeah Free: I'm jus' lookin for da right temptation
[Beyonce]
wooooo
[Beyonce & Missy at the same time]
Beyonce: yeah, yeah, yeah
Missy: We goin' show you how to fight temptation
[Free]
I'm jus' lookin for da right temptation
[Beyonce]
yeah, yeah, yeahwoooooo
[all four: repeat 3X]
w-w-what you gonna do
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 Beyonce Team With Diddy, Destiny On 'Temptations' Soundtrack
Also features new cuts from Faith Evans, Solange, O'Jays.
by Ryan J. Downey
Beyonce Knowles won't be such an independent woman on the soundtrack to her movie "The Fighting Temptations."
The album will feature Beyonce?collaborating with a number of artists, including P. Diddy and Missy Elliott, as well a new track from Destiny's Child and cuts by Faith Evans, the O'Jays and her sister, Solange.
Beyonce whose first solo record, Dangerously in Love, still sits comfortably in the top 10 on the Billboard albums chart - will also contribute the solo tracks "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Fever" and "He Still Loves Me" to the soundtrack of her first movie since making her Hollywood debut in last year's "Austin Powers in Goldmember.
"Knowles recently completed a video for the soundtrack's first single, "Fighting Temptation," which teams her up with Missy Elliott, Free and old-school rapper MC Lyte (See "Beyonce Throws Ladies' Night Party With Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, Free").
Directed by Antti Jokinen (Wyclef Jean, Brian McKnight), the clip includes scenes from the movie, which stars Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. as a New York ad executive who has to assemble a gospel group in Georgia in order to claim a large inheritance. Beyonce lays a nightclub singer recruited to join the choir (see "Beyonce Transforms Into Bohemian, Motherly Nightclub Singer"). Faith Evans, Montell Jordan, Angie Stone and Melba Moore are also in the cast and contribute to the soundtrack.
P. Diddy was reportedly interested in the Cuba Gooding Jr. role at one time, but eventually he settled for making a soundtrack appearance alongside Beyonce?in a song called "Summertime."
Knowles is joined by Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, who makes her own movie debut in this week's "Freddy Vs. Jason" , for the new Destiny's Child track "I Know," and by Bilal on "Everything I Do."
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See video for full effect:--
 
The white Jamaican pop singer some say reggae singer, and he considers himself "Don Dada" papa to all the black hoes; Sean Paul does a song with Beyonce which proves the Beyonce - Aaliyah connection, the illuminati of Hollywood has found the perfect scapegoat who has way surpassed where Aaliyah was taken, Beyonce is in essence become the true Queen of the Damned, will she fall like Aaliyah or will she be the down fall of Jay Z-
From CBSNews.com
The King Of Rap
Aug. 13, 2003
 (CBS) Rap music isn't just about the mean streets anymore. It's just as much about Wall Street.
The message is more about the bottom line than the racial line, and the audience is overwhelmingly white.
It's no wonder that rap has now surpassed country music as the nation's most popular genre after rock 'n' roll.
At 33, Jay-Z is one of the reigning kings of rap. He owns his own record label, clothing line and movie production company - generating almost half a billion dollars a year in sales.
It's an amazing achievement for a man who grew up in one of New York's toughest housing projects. And, as 60 Minutes II told you last fall, he's living the  21st Century version of the American dream, straight out of the 'hood.
Jay-Z talks to Correspondent Bob Simon in this Emmy-nominated interview.
Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z says he had no idea that he would be a wealthy superstar: "I had no aspirations, no plans, no goals, no back-up goals."
But now, Jay-Z has already sold over 15 million albums, and his personal fortune is above $50 million. When Simon first met Jay-Z at his studio, he was sitting alone, humming to himself. That's how he writes songs.
Jay-Z has produced a new album every eight months for the last six years. But he doesn't write down any of his lyrics before he records a song. It's a feat of memorization that came from necessity.
"I used to get ideas and I used to be running around, I used to be outside. I wasn't nowhere where I could write," he says. "Sometimes I used to run in the store, write 'em on a paper bag, put it in my pocket. But you only can put so many paper bags in your pocket, you know - and so I had to start memorizing."
Many say Jay-Z has the best lyrical flow of any rapper - that is, his ability to match his words to the music.
Can anyone else do it the way he does? "I think every rapper should feel like they're the best," he says. "I haven't heard no one do that."
And no one combines art and commerce quite like Jay-Z. On his 2002 summer tour, it was clear how he promotes all his products: the other artists on his label, his clothing line and his movie production company - all on stage. It was one giant commercial.
First, he previewed his movie "Paid In Full." Then he promoted all the rappers on his label. For the finale, company president Damon Dash demoed their newest product, Armadale Vodka.
It's not just about selling music - it's selling a lifestyle.
According to Dash, Roc-a-Fella Records makes between $50 and $100 million a year. Rocawear clothing made more than $100 million in 2001 and made $300 million in 2002.
Dash, however, wants more: "I want to be a $1 billion company."
Last fall, Jay-Z boarded a corporate jet to Albany, N. Y. Being a corporate chieftain means performing for a completely different audience. And this time, it's the suits at a company called Transworld, which owns and operates nearly 1,000 record stores across the country, including the Strawberries, Coconuts and Camelot chains.
The mean streets have come to Main Street. And the two cultures have a compelling common cause: making money.
Jay-Z wanted to generate excitement about his album, which is called "Blueprint II: The Gift and the Curse." But we wondered how these middle-aged retail execs would respond to strange sounds from the other side.
Life wasn't always so sweet for Jay-Z. He was born Shawn Corey Carter in 1969. He spent his childhood in the Marcy projects of Brooklyn. His father left him when he was 11, and he was raised by his mother, Gloria Carter, who recently came back and gave Simon a tour of the old neighborhood.
Gloria retired from a clerical job in 2002, and she never told her colleagues that she was Jay-Z's mom. She says, however, that she never suspected that her son would be a superstar.
In fact, she only realized how successful he was at a concert two years ago: "Little girls were fainting at Jay-Z and they were screaming and I just stood there and I was, like, 'He's really a star.' And of course some of my friends was there also and they was like, 'Duh.'"
She says she likes most of his music, but she wishes there was less profanity. Hearing this, Jay-Z laughs.
"But that's a reality, that's a reality," she says. "And that's the kind of society that we live in, as far as these people, these kids, are concerned."
At one point, when he was growing up, she said she was really worried about him, because of "the elements" of his neighborhood - crack and crime.
During the 1980s, the Marcy projects were among the most dangerous places in America. Jay-Z often writes songs about his time there, including the day he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. He was only 12 years old.
The lyrics to that song say: "Saw the devil in your eyes, high off more than weed, confused, I just closed my young eyes and squeezed, what a sound, opened my eyes just in time to see you stumbling to the ground."
"I wouldn't feel comfortable talking about that on TV, it's not cool," says Jay-Z. "That's a bit over the line."
However, he admits that the height of the crack epidemic was a rough time: "Especially in that neighborhood. It was a plague in that neighborhood. It was just everywhere, everywhere you look. In the hallways. You could smell it in the hallways."
"Back then, it was like, I would say it was, like, two things," he adds. "It was either you're doin' it or you was movin' it."
At that time, he says he would have been considered a hustler, a drug dealer.
"That's a harsh word, yeah, yeah," says Jay-Z, who admits that his mom didn't know he was dealing crack. "She had a lot of trust in me, she gave me a long leash, and she let me, you know, learn on my own." "The story goes that when you got to the end of the leash, and you were dealing drugs, somebody tried to kill you. Is that right," asks Simon.
"Yeah, I was shot at before," says Jay-Z.
In fact, he was shot at three times, from just six feet away. Miraculously, none of the bullets hit him.
But it was then when Jay-Z traded in the crack game for the rap game. It was nothing new to him. He'd been rapping since he was a kid. In fact, he was the neighborhood champ. But nobody would sign him. So together with Damon Dash and some friends, Jay-Z started selling CDs out of his car. That's when he started Roc-a-Fella records. And the rest is history.
Some have said that the success of Roc-a-Fella comes from its hustler mentality. Dash agrees: "Entrepreneurial, hustler, say it whatever you want to say it - just that hunger to make money, and to make your situation better."
But just as Jay-Z was beginning to be recognized as an entrepreneur, he fell back into his old hustler ways. In 1999, he stabbed record executive Lance Rivera at a nightclub. Police say he thought Rivera was bootlegging his music. He was sentenced to three years of probation.
"I think it was a wake-up call, and the calling card for me that - to let me know, like, it could just all go down the drain; like, it could all be taken away from you," he says, promising it will never happen again.
Since the stabbing, Jay-Z has gone on to make four more successful albums.
Before Simon left, Jay-Z asked his engineer, Guru, to play one last song, to let us know how far he had come - and how he did it "his way."
It was a rap that sampled and reworked Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
"It makes sense," says Jay-Z. "It's not just hippity-boppity-skee-bop."
The latest news is Jay Z is retiring from music with his last album called "THE BLACK ALBUM" The mystery and folly there will be a Jew involved:- Rick Rubin; That ole demon who started death Jam with his favorite "Boy" Russell Simmons for a look at the conspiracy from another angle, Walk This Way [Hip Hop Essay].
A release date has been set for Jay-Z's upcoming LP, "The Black Album". It is set to drop on November 28th, which is the same day Jay hopes to launch a black version of his S. Carter Reebok shoe.
Also reported;
At a recent radio appearance, Jay-Z announced that he will be writing a book ("The Black Book") which will accompany he next LP, "The Black Album", which is said to be his last solo LP.
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Crazy Hood Forum
> GENERAL DISCUSSION
> Jay-Z -- The Black Album
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Meddafore
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(7/9/03 5:03 pm)
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Filthy
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(7/12/03 7:48 am)
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Metallica - The Black Album
am i the only one that noticed that Jay Z ripped "The Black Album" name straight off of Metallica's classic album by the same name, which is known for "changing the face of rock" forever......?
just curious how many hip hop heads be in tune with that rock n roll shit......regardless, Jigga's album is undoubtedly going to be some off the wall shit....
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j
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(7/12/03 12:41 pm)
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He actually stole the concept fro B.I.G. before he died B.I.G. said he planned to make his third LP "the black album" and have no promotion, no artwork, no video, just str8 up hip hop music
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filthy
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(7/13/03 11:45 pm)
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fa sho
true, so then BIG ripped it from Metallica.....
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 If we can remember Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin who promotes death and heavy metal and the MTV breakthrough the Rap group Run DMC and Aerosmith "Walk This Way" - we can see there to be some type conspiracy here and the Jew Rubin is in on it "wake up black folk" for the "Prophet Has Returned," hear his words...
"Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
by Jay-Z - from the album Blueprint.
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Ladies
and gentlemen, put our hands together for the astonishing...
(girls singing)
H to the izz-O...V to the izz-A...
Welcome
ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The flow o' the century...oh it's timeless...HOVE!
Thanks for comin' out tonight
You coulda been anywhere in the world, but you're here with
me
I appreciate that...uuunnnh...
H to
the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
Was herbin' em in the home o' the Terrapins
Got it dirt cheap for them
Plus if they was short wit' cheese I would work wit' them
Boy and we...got rid of that dirt for them
Wasn't born hustlers I was burpin' em
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' sheezy my neezy keep my arms so greasy
Can't leave rap alone the game needs me
Haters want me clapped and chromed - it ain't easy
Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in
But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty, he who does not feel me is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof...vamoose son of a bitch
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In keeping
with my image as a god in the rap industry, I've dubbed
myself "Hova," a clever word play on my name,
Jay-Z, and the Hebrew word for god, Jehovah (By the way,
I will also be adding the sound "izz" to several
words in this song in order to sound like Snoop Dogg)
Don't forget my friend, at one time in my life I dealt narcotics
in the state of Virginia
Well, not necessarily narcotics, but I did sell marijuana
there
I got a good price from my distributor, so I was able to
reduce my overhead,
And when my customers still couldn't afford my prices, I'd
still find a way to complete the transaction
Through compromise and savvy business practices, we both
got what we wanted
I've been doing this so long, I can remember when several
of today's "gangstas" were still in diapers
Forgive me, but I have to mention my name again
There can be little doubt that once you become a rapper,
it's a hard business to turn your back on
But in my case, the industry needs me more than I need it
Sadly, with fame come several problems: 1.) my unworthy
competitors would like to see me fail, but the likelihood
of that happening is not very good 2.) police officers would
like to beat me in the same way they assaulted Rodney King,
and 3.) the local district attorney is accusing me of several
crimes in order to put me behind bars
We all saw that Puff Daddy/P. Diddy trial - if he can get
off, so can I
It's about time for me to mention my name again
Now allow me to get quasi-philosophical: I am physically
unable to visualize the man who cannot appreciate my music
or recognize my status as a demi-god
And therefore he does not reside on my plane of existence
Sorry, I told you it wouldn't be very deep
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CHORUS
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty ya'll gotta feel me
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands UP!
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Chorus:
I can't get over how clever this name is
Like I told you before, I used to deal drugs in Virginia
No matter how many times I say it out loud, this name is
still so cool
I have no doubt this chorus will be popular in the clubs,
so just accept it and dance to it
Is this monotonous repetition of my name getting on your
nerves yet?
The local authorities were unable to produce sufficient
evidence to convict me
Yeah, ok, now my name is even starting to annoy me
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Holla
at me...
I do this for my culture
To let 'em know what a nigga look like...when a nigga in a
roaster
Show 'em how to move in a room full 'o vultures
Industry shady it need to be taken over
Label owners hate me I'm raisin' the status quo up
I'm overchargin' niggaz for what they did to the Cold Crush
Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hold us
We can talk, but money talks so talk mo' bucks
CHORUS
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If
you agree with everything I've said so far, acknowledge me
with a yell or a shout
Although I've made more money than I can spend in one lifetime,
I claim to make music for the purpose of educating others
about the African American culture
I'm informing the public what life is like for rap artists
who have it all, but risk throwing it away by
threatening to kill a fellow clubgoer who might have spilled
champagne on them
For anyone else facing assault charges, follow my lead and
you'll get off scott free
And now that I think about it, it's time for musicians to
have a little more say in this crooked business
Things have gotten so out of hand, the heads of most music
companies have a beef with me because my immense talent has
influenced other rappers to try to improve their fair market
value
The way I look at it, I ask for large record contracts to
make up for the relatively small amounts of money rap pioneers
earned - but don't expect me to pass those profits along
It's time that record execs ponied up the cash they've been
withholding all these years
We can discuss the situation, but the conversation will be
much more fruitful if we're discussing how much more you'll
be paying me for my next album
Chorus
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Yeah...
Hove is back, life stories told through rap
Niggaz actin' like I sold you crack
Like I told you sell drugs...no...
Hove did that so hopefully you won't have to go through that
I was raised in the projects, roaches and rats
Smokers out back, sellin' they mama's sofa
Lookouts on the corner, focused on the ave.
Ladies in the window, focused on the kinfolk
Me under a lamp post, why I got my hand closed?
Cracks in my palm, watchin' the long arm o' the law
So you know I seen it all before
I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight
To try and to fail, the two things I hate
Succeed in this rap game, the two things is great
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
What else can I say about dude, I gets bizzay
CHORUS
(girls
singing)
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A... (4x to fade out)
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After
taking a short break between albums (couldn't wait too long
- no telling when my fame will dry up),
I've returned with another semi-autobiographical collection
of songs
My critics believe these tales of violence and drug-use could
have a negative effect on my fans
As if by recounting the gangsta lifestyle I want my fans to
sell drugs
By passing along the wisdom I've gained through my questionable
life, I'm trying to show you what it's
like to live in the ghetto without actually having to experience
it
I lived in governments subsidized housing with every form
of vermin imaginable
And several of my neighbors would sell anything they could
just to make their next score
But mothers, for their part, were doing everything they could
to keep their families together
While thugs were robbing the local liquor store, their accomplices
would stand outside and watch for police officers
Me, on the other hand, I was on the corner looking for prospective
clients - what did I have in my hand?, you ask
Well, I've told you several times I dealt in illegal controlled
substances, so you do the math
What I'm trying to say is I have a lot of experience in the
seedy world that I portray in my music, so I'm quite qualified
to talk about it
I may have become successful, but it came at a price: too
many of my friends are either dead or in jail
But there's nothing worse than not achieving your goal - in
this case making an obscene amount of money
Failure is not an option, so step over whomever you have to
to achieve my level of fame
I promise this is the last time I'll mention my name (until
the chorus, in which I'll announce it several more times)
It seems I've run out of things to boast about in this song,
so…oh wait, I'm the greatest
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Lyrics Baby Boy
Beyonce Knowles (f/ Sean Paul)
[Sean Paul]
Certified quality
A dat da girl dem need and dem not stop cry without apology
Buck dem da right way - dat my policy
Sean Paul alongside - now hear what da man say - Beyonce
Dutty Ya, Dutty Ya, Dutty Ya
Beyonce sing it now ya
[Chorus]
Baby boy you stay on my mind
Fulfill my fantasies
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams
baby boy not a day goes by
without my fantasies
I think about you all the time
I see you in my dreams...
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