Aināt we lucky we had her
Good Timessssss
Wow, this brings back memories of my childhood. She also sang the theme for the Jeffersons. RIP
Well weāre movinā on up, to the east sideā¦ ā«
Hell no.
I had a real thing for her when I was a kid, damn.
AND Nurse Kellye?!?!
Fuck this week.
Nurse Kellye was in so many episodes in the background; I always got happy when they finally let her have some lines. Iāll never forget this scene when she tells off Hawkeye:
Novelist Charles Portis, 86, in hospice.
True Grit is a great (and very funny) American novel about an 85yo, one-armed, Presbyterian spinster who falls in love twice when sheās 14. Neither of the Hollywoo movies managed to get the novel on the screen, mainly because the narrator is an old woman not a young girl. Of the two, the 1969 movie is much better because the humor is closer to the novel; the Coen Bros movie is a rare, bad mis-step.
The novelās short and if you havenāt read it, I highly recommend.
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her fatherās blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.
She sure did! You know your shows.
Was he gang affiliated or active?
I just listened to his song
itās garbage. Am I just old now?
Nope. Rap hasnāt been really great since the 90s. And itās been especially bad since the rise of mumble-rap in the mid 2010s. Maybe that makes me old too, I dunno. cue āOk boomerā reply
Regardless, it is sad a lot of these kids are dying. It seems like a lot arenāt making it past their early 20s due to gang violence and drug issues.
I think the music industry can hold some responsibility of the decline of quality rap.
But it sounds like people like this musicā¦even 2000s had some good stuff, especially in the underground. But the thing is, you had to dig and be in the know for underground rappers. Now with youtube, soundcoud, etcā¦thereās just so many people trying to be rappers where the underground is gone.
Mixtapes too. The record industry definitely destroyed that.
There will always be people who like stuff. I shudder at some of the music I liked as a kid. I was really into rap-rock in the late 90s and early 00s, for example. Yāknow, like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach, that kinda crap.
It sounds like we are oldā¦
I canāt remember the last time I listened to a mixtape.
Do people still battle? Before youtube, that was how you made your name coming up. I donāt think rappers do that anymoreā¦because they would suck.
There are still underground rappers who battle. Have you watched the movie āBodiedā? Even better than ā8 Mile.ā Recommend it.
Same here. I always under the impression that with streaming it was killed. Then I watched āHip Hop Evolutionā on Netflix. Their recent installment made it clear how much the music industry had a hand in itās demise.
But the crap thatās being turned out now isnāt so much as it sounds bad (it does IMO) but what sort of impact itās having on Black youth, IMO. Itās either supporting a death mentality many have because if exposure to violence and death at a young age or glamorizing it.
This man.