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• Tanita Tikaram, "Valentine Heart"↱, an acoustic recording featured on the bonus second disc included with some editions of the 2012 album Can't Go Back. Part of this is simply that while I've long been stunned by Tikaram's composition and production, it turns out I've been underestimating her actual musical skill. Let me state clearly that I never presumed she was a slouch, or simply coasting through. But listen closely and remember that this is one person playing one guitar; the skill leaves me numb with awe.

I loved that one.

I think that alrockchick's interpretation is spot on.
 
Armed and dangerous
ain't too many can bang with us
straight up weed no angel dust, label us notorious.
Thug ass niggas that love to bust, it's strange to us
you all niggas be scrambling, gambling
up in restaurants with mandolins and violins.
We just sittin' here trying to win, try not to sin
high off weed and lot's of gin
so much smoke need oxygen
steadily countin' them Benjamins.
Nigga you should too, if you knew, what this game'll do to you
been in this shit since '92
look at all the bullshit I been through
so called beef with you know who
fuck a few female stars or two
then a blue light niggas knew like
Mike-shit not to be fuck wit.
Motherfucker better duck quick
'cause me and my dogs love to buck shit,
fuck the luck shit strictly aim
no aspiration to quit the game.
Spit your game, talk your shit, grab your gat, call your clicks,
squeeze your clip and hit the right one
pass that weed I gotta light one
all them niggas I gotta fight one
all them hoes I gotta like one
our situation is a tight one
what you wanna do? fight or run?
Seems to me that you'll take thee,
Bone and Big nigga die slowly
I'm gonna tell you like a nigga told me,
cash rule everything around me.
Shit lyrically, niggas can't see me, fuck it,
buy the coke, cook the coke, cut it,
blow the bitch before you caught yourself loving it -- nigga wit a Benz fucking it.
Doesn't it seem odd to you
Big comes through wit mobs and crews
Goodfellas down to the Mo' Thug dudes
who's the killer? me or you?
 
From 1957: The original Diamonds...... And as they are today.....
"Little Darling" was a big hit toward the end of the 1950s. It had a fairly complicated rhythm that was not rock'n'roll (it didn't even have a backbeat), and it used the "Heart and Soul" chord pattern (C - Am - F - G) instead of the 12-bar blues (C - C - C - C - F - F - C - C- G - F - C - G7) that had become the most common rock'n'roll pattern.
 
"Little Darling" was a big hit toward the end of the 1950s. It had a fairly complicated rhythm that was not rock'n'roll (it didn't even have a backbeat), and it used the "Heart and Soul" chord pattern (C - Am - F - G) instead of the 12-bar blues (C - C - C - C - F - F - C - C- G - F - C - G7) that had become the most common rock'n'roll pattern.


Here's another Diamonds number.....
(Oom Dooby Doom)
 
I been listening to some old skool rap...


9h....ho, ho ho...man,,,WOW....

whoa....whoa...this is...just amazing.
 
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