But his house is all white

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  • Still not getting it. Sorry.

  • when through the sickly fog of materialism and conceitedness you get a whiff of acknowledgement of loftier thoughts, it inspires hope.


    on a related note...
    i was real pleased with jay's old verse "we rebellious back home yelling leave iraq alone to all our boys overseas we wish you safe return...only love wins wars when will they learn..."
    oddly enough, while i waited tables one night at a big function (i was working for a catering company) i duly noted that the djs version omitted that verse. several radio stations did too.

  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts
    Still not getting it. Sorry.

    the fact that Jigga can grab what a whole bunch of ppl are feeling and put it in a simple format with out the meaning being lost is whats great....Think about it...some academic could write a whole essay on Obama getting elected and Jay just said it in one verse....

    Plus I dont see how you dont get the superb word play, how he's using colours and phrases with double meanings to capture peoples attention and describe the moment....

    Can't wait for the official release of this..... Awesome.



  • Still not getting it. Sorry.

    the fact that Jigga can grab what a whole bunch of ppl are feeling and put it in a simple format with out the meaning being lost is whats great....Think about it...some academic could write a whole essay on Obama getting elected and Jay just said it in one verse....

    Plus I dont see how you dont get the superb word play, how he's using colours and phrases with double meanings to capture peoples attention and describe the moment....

    Can't wait for the official release of this..... Awesome.



    I'm not talking about some academic writing an essay. I wouldn't really want to read that either.




    "Life at War" by Denise Levertov

    The disasters numb within us
    caught in the chest, rolling
    in the brain like pebbles. The feeling
    resembles lumps of raw dough

    weighing down a child???s stomach on baking day.
    Or Rilke said it, ???My heart . . .
    Could I say of it, it overflows
    with bitterness . . . but no, as though

    its contents were simply balled into
    formless lumps, thus
    so I carry it about.???
    The same war

    continues.
    We have breathed the grits of it in, all our lives,
    our lungs are pocked with it,
    the mucous membrane of our dreams
    coated with it, the imagination
    filmed over with the gray filth of it:

    the knowledge that humankind,

    delicate Man, whose flesh
    responds to a caress, whose eyes
    are flowers that perceive the stars,

    whose music excels the music of birds,
    whose laughter matches the laughter of dogs,
    whose understanding manifests designs
    fairer than the spider???s most intricate web,

    still turns without surprise, with mere regret
    to the scheduled breaking open of breasts whose milk
    runs out over the entrails of still-alive babies,
    transformation of witnessing eyes to pulp-fragments,
    implosion of skinned penises into carcass-gulleys.

    We are the humans, men who can make;
    whose language imagines mercy,
    lovingkindness; we have believed one another
    mirrored forms of a God we felt as good???

    who do these acts, who convince ourselves
    it is necessary; these acts are done
    to our own flesh; burned human flesh
    is smelling in Viet Nam as I write.

    Yes, this is the knowledge that jostles for space
    in our bodies along with all we
    go on knowing of joy, of love;

    our nerve filaments twitch in its presence
    day and night,
    nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,
    nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness,
    the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    yawn

  • snore

  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
    I stopped reading when they talked about putting rocks in dough.

  • Quality


    ???MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK, my Maybach too
    And I???ll be goddamn if my diamonds ain???t blue
    My money???s dark green and my Porsche is light grey
    I???m headed for D.C. anybody feel me
    My President is Black, in fact he???s half white
    So even in a racist mind he???s half right
    If you have a racist mind, you???ll be aiight
    The President is Black but his house is all white
    Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk
    Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run
    Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly
    So I???ma spread my wings you can meet me in the sky
    I already got my own clothes, already got my own shoes
    I was hot before Barack, imagine what I???m gonna do
    Hello Miss America, hey pretty lady
    Red white & blue flag, wave me for me baby
    Never thought I???d say this shit, baby I???m good
    You can keep your puss, I don???t want no more Bush
    No more war
    No more Iraq
    No more white lies???
    The President is Black!!!???

  • I stopped reading when they talked about putting rocks in dough.

    Poems are dumb -- especially when you can't understand them.

  • cascas 1,484 Posts


    ???MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK, my Maybach too
    And I???ll be goddamn if my diamonds ain???t blue
    My money???s dark green and my Porsche is light grey



    my dog is all blonde, she got it going on
    i clean up her drool with a couple sheets of brawn
    paper towels are white and i am too
    i look up at the sky and i see that it's blue
    my air max's are white with swoosh that's red
    i put yellow butter on a piece of white bread
    my eyes are green, my hamburger's lean
    with a white swiffer i wipe my black tv screen



  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts


    ???MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK, my Maybach too
    And I???ll be goddamn if my diamonds ain???t blue
    My money???s dark green and my Porsche is light grey



    my dog is all blonde, she got it going on
    i clean up her drool with a couple sheets of brawn
    paper towels are white and i am too
    i look up at the sky and i see that it's blue
    my air max's are white with swoosh that's red
    i put yellow butter on a piece of white bread
    my eyes are green, my hamburger's lean
    with a white swiffer i wipe my black tv screen




  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts
    I stopped reading when they talked about putting rocks in dough.

    Poems are dumb -- especially when you can't understand them.

    Not what is dumb is giving something that might have been written generations ago more respect or clout than something contemporpary due to some elitist or tradionalist mindset....

    Some old poems are great, some lines are timeless, but alot of it is irrelevant or unreflective of our times. And the whole 'dont understand them' school of thought is the ultimate show of intellectual arrogance...

    Its like if someone served you a piece of shit on a plate and you refused to eat it, would you accuse them of not 'understanding the complex tastes and flavour of faeces.."?

    .

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I stopped reading when they talked about putting rocks in dough.

    Poems are dumb -- especially when you can't understand them.

    Not what is dumb is giving something that might have been written generations ago more respect or clout than something contemporpary due to some elitist or tradionalist mindset....

    Some old poems are great, some lines are timeless, but alot of it is irrelevant or unreflective of our times. And the whole 'dont understand them' school of thought is the ultimate show of intellectual arrogance...

    Its like if someone served you a piece of shit on a plate and you refused to eat it, would you accuse them of not 'understanding the complex tastes and flavour of faeces.."?

    .

    Some people failing to realize they're the joke in this thread.

  • I'll take "The Hollow Men" over that contrived crap you posted any day. No homo.

  • billbradleybillbradley You want BBQ sauce? Get the fuck out of my house. 2,905 Posts


  • Its like if someone served you a piece of shit on a plate and you refused to eat it, would you accuse them of not 'understanding the complex tastes and flavour of faeces.."?

    .

    So Jay-Z's verse is the shit on a plate? I agree.

  • FWIW, I liked the live version better, where all I could catch was the chorus...

    When the whole thing became about Jay's Maybach and Diamonds, it lost a little something....IMO.

  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    Still not getting it. Sorry.

    the fact that Jigga can grab what a whole bunch of ppl are feeling and put it in a simple format with out the meaning being lost is whats great....Think about it...some academic could write a whole essay on Obama getting elected and Jay just said it in one verse....

    Plus I dont see how you dont get the superb word play, how he's using colours and phrases with double meanings to capture peoples attention and describe the moment....

    Can't wait for the official release of this..... Awesome.



    I'm not talking about some academic writing an essay. I wouldn't really want to read that either.




    "Life at War" by Denise Levertov

    The disasters numb within us
    caught in the chest, rolling
    in the brain like pebbles. The feeling
    resembles lumps of raw dough

    weighing down a child???s stomach on baking day.
    Or Rilke said it, ???My heart . . .
    Could I say of it, it overflows
    with bitterness . . . but no, as though

    its contents were simply balled into
    formless lumps, thus
    so I carry it about.???
    The same war

    continues.
    We have breathed the grits of it in, all our lives,
    our lungs are pocked with it,
    the mucous membrane of our dreams
    coated with it, the imagination
    filmed over with the gray filth of it:

    the knowledge that humankind,

    delicate Man, whose flesh
    responds to a caress, whose eyes
    are flowers that perceive the stars,

    whose music excels the music of birds,
    whose laughter matches the laughter of dogs,
    whose understanding manifests designs
    fairer than the spider???s most intricate web,

    still turns without surprise, with mere regret
    to the scheduled breaking open of breasts whose milk
    runs out over the entrails of still-alive babies,
    transformation of witnessing eyes to pulp-fragments,
    implosion of skinned penises into carcass-gulleys.

    We are the humans, men who can make;
    whose language imagines mercy,
    lovingkindness; we have believed one another
    mirrored forms of a God we felt as good???

    who do these acts, who convince ourselves
    it is necessary; these acts are done
    to our own flesh; burned human flesh
    is smelling in Viet Nam as I write.

    Yes, this is the knowledge that jostles for space
    in our bodies along with all we
    go on knowing of joy, of love;

    our nerve filaments twitch in its presence
    day and night,
    nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,
    nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness,
    the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
    > Jay

  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts


    to the scheduled breaking open of breasts whose milk
    implosion of skinned penises into carcass-gulleys.
    our nerve filaments twitch in its presence
    nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,


    THis would have made a better hook.

  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts

    Its like if someone served you a piece of shit on a plate and you refused to eat it, would you accuse them of not 'understanding the complex tastes and flavour of faeces.."?

    .

    So Jay-Z's verse is the shit on a plate? I agree.

    If thats what you think good on you, just dont go around thinking your better than anyone for having that opinion. Thats all Im saying.

  • You can stop putting words in my mouth anytime now.

  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    FWIW, I liked the live version better, where all I could catch was the chorus...

    When the whole thing became about Jay's Maybach and Diamonds, it lost a little something....IMO.

    Disagree, materialism has always been part of what build the US of A. And, if you look closely in the video, flag and alcoholbottlewavin' too [quickly hushes back to Europe]

  • FWIW, I liked the live version better, where all I could catch was the chorus...

    When the whole thing became about Jay's Maybach and Diamonds, it lost a little something....IMO.

    Disagree, materialism has always been part of what build the US of A. And, if you look closely in the video, flag and alcoholbottlewavin' too [quickly hushes back to Europe]

    Saw the Belevedere bottle in the og, and didn't love that.

    And, while that line about materialism is nice and all, it is not really about what the US feels like right now- note the message of today's keynote speaker, who also happens to be the subject of this song.

  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    FWIW, I liked the live version better, where all I could catch was the chorus...

    When the whole thing became about Jay's Maybach and Diamonds, it lost a little something....IMO.

    Disagree, materialism has always been part of what build the US of A. And, if you look closely in the video, flag and alcoholbottlewavin' too [quickly hushes back to Europe]

    Saw the Belevedere bottle in the og, and didn't love that.

    And, while that line about materialism is nice and all, it is not really about what the US feels like right now- note the message of today's keynote speaker, who also happens to be the subject of this song.


    Noted. Then again, it is Jay Z. Btw, congrats America.



  • Then again, it is Jay Z.

    This is also true.

  • all in all, couldnt any other motherfuckers get some anthemic songs out before inauguration day? did it absolutely have to be young jeezy??!?

    where's chuck and flav?????

  • d128 just sent me this:
    https://rcpt.yousendit.com/644302908/8a24ed1f9006c0388f2c39735f419070

    pass it on if youre feeling it

  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,332 Posts
    That was pretty f*ckin' sick.

  • jeezy is, to me garbage.

    jay z...one of the best to ever do it...but the diamonds, maybach stuff is tired. not now.



  • ???MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK, my Maybach too
    And I???ll be goddamn if my diamonds ain???t blue
    My money???s dark green and my Porsche is light grey



    my dog is all blonde, she got it going on
    i clean up her drool with a couple sheets of brawn
    paper towels are white and i am too
    i look up at the sky and i see that it's blue
    my air max's are white with swoosh that's red
    i put yellow butter on a piece of white bread
    my eyes are green, my hamburger's lean
    with a white swiffer i wipe my black tv screen


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