![]() ![]() ![]() If you broke, you ain't like me (no, no, no) Imma stay gettin' money (yeah, yeah, yeah)Īnd I ain't gotta sell my soul (no, no, no) Keep it one-thou' 'bout the life that I chose These bitches is choosin', I'm all in they head I choose to get money, I'm stuck to this bread Now you cleaner than a bar of Dove soap? (yup) Y'all still be poppin' y'all collars? (yup) ![]() King - which had been the B-side of the title-track single, and a raucous party-style "The Gang's All Here," ala early cuts by Gary "U.S." Bonds.Ever helped a brother out when he was down on his luck? (yup) (A couple of Ali's croons were released in a 1999 reissue, including a respectably sweet cover of "Stand By Me" - credit Ali for the guts to go one-on-one not only with Liston, but with Ben E. The track begins with laughs over a triumphal horn fanfare, though there's not much of a musical component beyond that. Hard though it may be to believe, the Greatest's braggadocio was modest: He predicted taking out the 84-inch-reach champion Liston in eight rounds Ali actually won in six, despite being a 7-1 underdog. It's labeled a comedy album, and was nominated for a Grammy as such, but "Round 5: Will The Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down" has also been credited as the first rap-battle track on record. When you Google that, look under his birth name, Cassius Clay, as he was rapping trash talk even before announcing conversion to Islam, and the name change even before he'd won his first heavyweight crown. He put out a spoken-word album, titled "I Am the Greatest," of course, back in 1963. You could even credit the GOAT of GOATs - It's probably time to retire the acronym for "Greatest of All Time," watered down with overuse as heavily as "superstar" - Muhammad Ali, for his speed-rhyming. Hard to swallow, but early rap/hip-hop stars have been throwing out those insistent AARP mailers for decades now.Īnd like all music, all art, it's derived from all that came before, pulling from roots in blues, jazz, R&B, funk and more, not to mention spoken-word performances dating back at least to Gil-Scott Heron. I'm not even exaggerating when I say these guys, the godfathers, are all OLDER THAN ME. Deaf rappers Sean Forbes and Warren "WAWA" Snipe, who provided ASL interpretations, are 40 and 50.ĭig into your Google and seek Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang or Afrika Bambaataa. Blige, 46-year-old 50 Cent, 49-year-old Eminem, and the two youngsters in Anderson Paak and Kendrick Lamar, 36 and 34 respectively. I'm just not a fan of pro football, molasses-thick nostalgia, nor Vegas-style 15-minute medleys, especially one where the combined acts could easily put together a 15-day-long show.īut yeah, a lot of my fellow oldies rumbled and grumbled about Sunday's halftime performance, growling about These Kids Today and Their Dang Hippity-Hoppity, based on a show featuring 50-year-old Snoop Dogg, 56-year-old Dr. Here's where about half the folks reading look up at my column mug, and go, Yep, another dude's anti-rap rap. Possibly Great Horned, Eastern Screech, or Burrowing, though probably not Flammulated (flame-shaped markings), Ferruginous (rust-colored) or Snowy (unless you count Marshall Mathers). ![]() Of all the Superb Owl halftime shows I've never seen, I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that was one of them. ![]()
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