You don't often think of Coolidge as a particularly quotable president, but he had his moments.

I start to think And then I sink Into the paper Like I was ink When I'm writing I'm trapped in between the lines I escape When I finish the rhyme

Looking down dark corridors and wondering what MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

This song could NEVER be replicated.

youtu.be/lm96dCmq5jg?... Berry Gordy wanted to chuck this 1" reel into the center of Lake Michigan when he heard this. Marvin stood his ground.

🔥🔥 music.apple.com/us/album/ver...

I Miss You Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass open.spotify.com/track/5y0yvF...

"As" -Stevie Wonder 🗣Until the ocean covers every mountain high... until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea....until we dream of life and life becomes a dream.... #BlackMusicMonthChallenge

This one

Best lyrics of all time. open.spotify.com/track/7IsDxj...

someone is going to call me a boomer. open.spotify.com/track/1kSxm4...

this is just an example because there are many. but the formula is what i miss: anything long like there's a destination to get to, and that has a lot of orchestral layering of instruments/vocals, and breakdown and/or bridge. music.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3K...

Daddy’s Little Girl youtu.be/DTNZylLm4Hk?...

I mean, I posted Stakes Is High earlier, but this also works youtu.be/DgQBTgJUk0k?...

I mean damn. youtu.be/FCzElCx_LK8?...

My late 90s zenith was being mistaken for Jon B in front of my 125th street hydro spot.

music.apple.com/us/album/tro... Taxes, Death and Trouble. . .

"Soon I'll Be Loving You Again" Marvin Gaye

this was a poem set to music Donny Hathaway's Little Ghetto Boy #MusicSermon #BlackMusicMonth

“Criminal Minded” was shrouded in mystery, the production credits didn’t list Ced Gee of Ultramagnetic MC’s contributions, there were no music videos released, the font for the group name & album title were switched on the cover and B-Boy Records bootlegged BDP music after Scott La Rock’s death!

…Also there was this guy named Rakim who dropped an album with his DJ Eric B. called “Paid In Full” back in 1987 that led to him being called “The God MC” a full decade before Jay-Z dubbed himself that to pair with his Jay Hova persona.

…I’d also like to point out that the release of “Illmatic”, “Ready To Die” & “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…” each paved a pathway for “Reasonable Doubt”. Shit, folks straight up LIED about “Illmatic”’s impact after the fact. That “first Rap album with a superstar lineup of producers” bullshit? BRUH!

I’d definitely start with KRS building a temple on the foundation of 1987’s “Criminal Minded” on an indie label/porn video company with a partner that was killed during recording their major label debut so he released his next album with a teenaged D-Nice filling in as the DJ to replace Scott LaRock

Fuck yes

youtu.be/DcqR4EwspVE?... Doing two tonight. Kris was BACK back when this dropped. Heads know.

NINETEEN EIGHTY NINE!!!!!

"Lyrically I'm Mario Andretti on the MOMO" youtu.be/P800UWoE9xs?...

13 year old me recorded this off the radio so I could write down and learn the lyrics music.apple.com/us/album/ele...

youtu.be/Op9Ml7pS6uA?... Rang the fuck out on both coasts immediately. Saw PE at the Apollo the summer this dropped. Chuck spit PE bars over this beat, and the whole place went buck.

"I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." -Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler