IS  IT TRUE THAT LAURYN HILL IS COMING BACK?

Good Friday Hip Hop!

I’m about to go in on another Top 5 Friday. This edition will count down the Top 5 Female Lyricists alive.

5. Rah Digga

Hails From: Brooklyn, NY USA
Lyrics: 8/10
Delivery: 9/10
Notable Quotable: “Takin photos wit the black and gray Polo’s
Ruinin niggas lives like they K-Ci or JoJo”
Associations: Busta Rhymes Flipmode Squad

4. Jean Grae

Hails From: Cape Town, South Africa
Lyrics: 9.8/10
Delivery: 10/10
Notable Quotable: “Still trying to get my pen on/ Write scripts and light splifs
Until we high as light bills/ Watching for those that might switch”
Associations: Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, Blacksmith Records

3. Da Brat

Hails From: Chicago, IL USA
Lyrics: 9.5/10
Delivery: 10/10
Notable Quotable: “Thick in the the thighs cant touch that/Stay on my grind
I bust back if I must act and empty a stack
Its B to the R-A-T trust that I’m crazy/ JD pays me, I’m such a fuckin lady”
Associations: Jermaine Dupri, So So Def, Missy Elliot

2. Lauryn Hill

Hails From: South Orange, New Jersey USA
Lyrics: 10/10
Delivery:9.5/10
Notable Quotable: “More powerful than two Cleopatras
Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti
MCs ain’t ready to take it to the Serengeti
My rhymes is heavy like the mind of sister Betty”
Associations: The Fugees, Wyclef, Refugee Camp

1. MC Lyte

Hails From: Brooklyn, NY USA
Lyrics: 10/10
Delivery: 9.8/10
Notable Quotable: “In full effect MC Lyte is back
And better than before as if that was possible
My competition, you’ll find them in the hospital
Visiting time, I think it’s on a Sunday/But notice they only get one day to shine
The rest of the week is mine
And I’ll blind you with the science that the others have yet to find”
Associations: Elektra Records, Salt-N-Pepa

Bonus Footage: I was trying to find a clip of what I thought was Jean Grae for like two years. I heard this girl rapping on interludes for 9th Wonder’s 2007 Dream Merchant II. The only female emcee associated with him, or so I thought at the time, was Jean Grae so I just assumed it was her. In the process of looking for this clip I learned that it was not Jean Grae. It was in fact a female emcee named Rapsody. You learn something new everyday. Please enjoy and pay thorough attention to the second clip…9th Wonder is a beast, but Rapsody’s voice just….well watch it.

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In a recent Black Cab Session, the BCS crew caught up with the very busy young artist from the Jealous Girlfriends, Holly Miranda, who has been working her solo project very hard lately. She has a debut limited edition EP entitled, Sleep On Fire, which was released earlier this summer to which she has followed up with some touring, supporting The Antlers. Now with the release of this week’s Forest Green Oh Forest Green 7″ single, which is bundled with a Yoko Ono cover of, “Nobody Sees Me Like You Do” as the b side, she is on tour with Friendly Fires and The xx. If you are lucky enough to be in Seattle tonight, the triplet of great bands are playing at Neumo’s.

Holly has also announced a full length album, will drop on February 23 of next year

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Common and John Legend are two artists I highly appreciate. On one side Common with his unique voice and very comfortable to hear flow and on the other side John Legend with his undenieable skills as piano player and songwriter.

Now they both teamed up for the song Strange Fruit which contains a Nina Simone sample – very nice !

Lonnie Rashid Lynn on his side is a well known rapper and actor, famous for appearances in movies like Smokin’ Aces, American Gangster, Wanted, Street Kings and Terminator Salvation.

I especially appreciate him for his Finding Forever album, but he is also recognizable for his Soulquarian area music.

John Legend, real name John Stephens,  has played piano for Lauryn Hill’s Everything is Everything; has led his voice for diverse Kanye tracks and has won several Grammys.

Common Feat. John Legend – Strange Fruit

Rich Boy a.k.a. Maurice Richards is most known for his hit Throw Some D’s but I appreciate him for the hole album Rich Boy.

He was discovered by mega producer Polow Da Don and is also signed on his imprint Zone 4. He is about to release his next album in 2010, named Buried Alive.

Richard Butler, also known as Rico Love, is  signed on Usher’s label US Records .He has written lyrics for artists like Flo Rida, Taeira Marie, The Pussycat Dolls, Cassie, Natasha Bedingfield, Ciara, Keri Hilson, Chris Brown, Donell Jones etc.

Rich Boy Feat. Rico Love –  We Like It

sparking some inspiration.

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I’ve been meaning to post this for a minute, but this annoying thing called real life got in the way of blogging right quick.

I got this mix in my inbox last week and I’ve been bumping it steadily ever since.

Remix crew Keys N Krates, comprised of DJ Jr Flo, keyboardist Matisse & drummer Adam Tune, flip some classic hip-hop records for an organic, real-time podcast called Live Re-Mixing 101 presented by Urb Magazine.

Listen as Matisse reinterprets Just Blaze’s instantly-recognizable melody from Jay-Z’s “Public Service Annoucement.” Also, hear Jr Flo scratch the Aretha Franklin sample from Mos Def’s “Miss Fat Booty” and Lauryn Hill’s eloquent vocals from “Fu Ge La” float smoothly over Tune’s live drums. Definitely ain’t no fakin’ the funk on this one!

I highly recommend turning the volume up and letting this half-hour podcast mix rock. Whether you’re in the whip or at the crib with your peoples, I’ll bet my bottom dollar this impresses.

To find out more about Keys N Krates, hit up KeysNCrates.com or their blog. 

Shout to Armando for sending this over, Enjoy!

Download: Keys N Krates - Live Re-Mixing 101 [SoundCloud Link]

Cronología esencial de la conocida como Golden Era del rap, tan añorada en estos two thousand and…

1990

• 2 pac participa como bailarín para Digital Underground.

• Se estrena en la emisora de radio WKCR de New York el “Strecht & Bobbito show”, programa dedicado a la música hip hop donde se hacían sonar demo-tapes (cintas de demostración) y freestyles (improvisaciones) en directo de rappers noveles que por aquel entonces no contaban con sello discográfico como Big L, Notorious B.I.G., Wu Tang Clan, Fugees o Fat Joe, todos ellos artistas reconocidos en la posteridad.

• Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew) y un propietario de una tienda de discos de Florida son arrestados por el polémico álbum de 2 Live Crew, “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” (Tan asquerosos como ellos quieran ser).

1991

• El álbum de N.W.A. “Niggaz 4 Life” vende alrededor de 954.000 copias en su primera semana, un trabajo que marcaría la ruta de muchos álbumes de rap hardcore en la posteridad.

• Cypress Hill lanza su primer disco e inician una campaña para legalizar el cáñamo.

• Notorious B.I.G. aparece en la sección “Unsigned hypes” (una sección de promoción para jóvenes sin sello descográfico) de la revista Source.

• Busta Rhymes aparece en el clásico de A Tribe Called Quest, “Scenario”.

1992

• Dr. Dre lanza “The Chronic”.

• Los Rock Steady DJ’s (DJ Qbert, DJ Apollo y Mix Master Mike) ganan el título mundial de la DMC (Disco Mix Club).

1993

• “The Chronic” alcanza el disco multiplatino.

• Wu Tang Clan lanza su álbum debut “Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)” que se convertiría en disco de platino.

• Cypress Hill presenta su segundo disco, “Black Sunday”.

• Mobb Deep saca su disco début “Juvenile Hell”.

• DJ Qbert y Mix Master Mike (The Dream Team) ganan de nuevo el título mundial de la DMC, esta vez sin DJ Apollo.

• A Tribe Called Quest firma su tercer disco con “Midnight Marauders” con un Quién es Quién de la escena de por aquel entonces plasmado en la portada del LP.

1994

• La primera referencia de Nas, “Illmatic” , es calificada como uno de los mejores álbumes de Hip-Hop de la historia.

• Common presenta “Resurrection” y es aclamado como uno de los mejores liricistas de todos los tiempos.

• Warren G, hermanastro de Dr. Dre, consigue vender 4 millones de copias de su disco début “Regulate: The G Funk Era”.

• Tupac es asaltado y recibe cinco disparos en el vestíbulo de Quad Recording Studios en Manhattan, New York. Después de su recuperación acusaría a Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.G. y Andre Harrell (mitad del dúo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde) del ataque que sufrió.

• Notorious B.I.G. debuta con su LP “Ready to die” que se convertiría en disco multiplatino.

1995

• Queen Latifah gana un Grammy en la categoría “Best rap solo performance” por el tema “Unity”.

• Tupac firma por Death Row Records después de que Suge Knight pagase una fianza por él de 1,4 millones de dólares para sacarlo de la cárcel por una condena por supuestos abusos sexuales, Tupac siempre se declaró inocente.

• Eazy E muere de sida a los 31 años.

• Notorious B.I.G., apodado ya por aquel entonces por algunos como “King of New York”, es nombrado “Lyricist of the year” por la revista Source. Su single “One More Chance” fue directo al top de las listas.

1996

• “The Score”, una mezcla de letras conscientes y comprometidas con pinceladas de reggae, se convierte en el disco mas exitoso de The Fuggees. Debuta en el número uno y gana dos Grammys, aportando un respiro de aire distinto a la escena del Hip Hop.

• Los premios MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) celebrados en Reino Unido otorgan a The Fugees dos trofeos.

• Snoop Dogg y su guardaespaldas McKinley Lee son acusados de asesinar a Philip Woldemariam, un inmigrante etíope de 20 años de edad, tiroteado en agosto de 1993.

• Jay-Z lanza su después alabado debut, “Reasonable Doubt” (Duda razonable).

• Bone Thugs N Harmony en un tiempo récord pone en lo más alto su hit “Tha Crossroads”.

• El 7 de septiembre Tupac es tiroteado en Las Vegas después de asistir a una pelea de Mike Tyson. El día 13 de septiembre fallece a las 4:03 a.m.

1997

• Notorious B.I.G. es asesinado a golpe de bala el 9 de marzo en Los Ángeles a la salida de una fiesta que daba la revista Vibe en el Peterson Automotive Museum después de la gala de los premios Soul Train.

• Missy Elliott (Melissa Arnette Elliott) redefine el panorama con su primer álbum “Supa Dupa Fly”. Posteriormente se convertiría en líder de ventas como artista de rap femenino.

• Roc-A-Fella (disquera de Jay-Z) vende la mitad de sus acciones a Island Def Jam por millón y medio de dólares.

• Juice, MC de Chicago derrota a Eminem en la Scribble Jam, el mayor escaparate de Hip Hop underground en los Estados Unidos por aquel entonces.

• Interescope Records vende sus intereses en Death Row (disquera de Suge Knight, que contaba con Snoop Dog o Tupac entre otros).

1998

• Dr. Dre ficha a Eminem para su sello Aftermath después de escuchar un freestyle de este último en una emisora de radio de Los Ángeles.
• El debut en solitario de Lauryn Hill “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” es nominado diez veces a los premios Grammy y gana cinco de ellos incluidos Álbum del año y Mejor nuevo artista.

• Shyne (Jamal Barrow) firma un contrato discográfico con Bad Boy Entertainment, discográfica de P. Diddy.

1999

• Respaldado por Dr. Dre, Eminem vende 4 millones de copias de su debut, “The Slim Shady LP”.

• The Neptunes (Chad Hugo y Pharrell Williams) controlan las ondas con varios hits para la radio como “Got Your Money” de Ol’ Dirty Bastard o “Oh No” de Noreaga.

• Big L (Lamont Coleman) es asesinado el 15 de febrero cerca de su casa, en Harlem, New York.

• Dr Dre pone en el candelero de nuevo a la costa oeste estadounidense con su LP “2001”.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. (g.k. chesterton)

i know what you’re thinking:  these are words coming from a man who died in 1936.  what does he know? okay, maybe that’s not what you were thinking.  if it was, i love you.  if it wasn’t, let’s pretend it was so i can still love you.

language is fluid.  fiction in 1936 was most likely restricted to stories orated or told on pages; in 2009 fiction means something else entirely.

i was having a conversation with someone yesterday, and she was expressing her frustrations with two apartment mates – nothing peculiar about that.  what did strike me as curious, however, was when she explained the reason she was frustrated with them.

they watch disney channel.  they like it.  they’re naive.

she was essentially hating on them because, in her mind, grown adults should not enjoy things that are meant to be enjoyed by children.  i was so upset.  but in reaching beyond my emotional response to her mistaken beliefs, i realized that she actually had something profound to say.

that is, in 2009, fiction is naive.  it isn’t by accident that reality television dominates the schedules of every major and minor network on the air.  on mtv unplugged, lauryn hill once famously said “fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need.”  we live in an age of skepticism.

i have to give it to lauryn – she’s right.  a lot of people are in such denial of the circumstances that are in front of them that they refuse to accept it as reality.  they ignore real life by embracing fantasy.

but doesn’t this denial include everyone?  films, clubs, campuses, the list goes on (music, ms. hill?).  perhaps we have immersed ourselves so deeply in fantasy that we cannot tell the difference anymore…like fish describing water.

(disclaimer: things are about to get abstract)

and that’s precisely the point.  we don’t know that we’re drowning in fantasy because it has become the very thing that sustains us.  it has become a necessity.  and that certainly did not happen by accident.  in crying out, “give me reality or give me death”, we are left with fantasy after all.  reality television is phony yet people talk about the characters and situations as if they’re real.  and these are the same people that tell adults not to watch disney channel.

Fairy tales, are more than true.  Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated. (chesterton)

Hva har Ole Paus, Dagblad-journalist Terje Mosnes, hiphopgruppa Fugees, Inger Lise Rypdal og Arne Bendiksen til felles? 1996s store slager, «Killing Me Softly», er et hett stikkord her. Jakten på den norske versjonen av sommerens store slager førte meg ut på en reise i norsk popmusikk.

Mandag var jeg vikar på popquizlaget Dads på Horgan’s, og sannelig stakk vi ikke av med seieren med et knepent halvt poeng. Premieren var en runde øl, samt Fugees’ monsterslager “Killing Me Softly” på cd-singel. Det minnet meg på min jakt etter de norske oversettelsene av låta i VG sommeren 1996. En jakt som førte meg fra Kjetil Rolness og Arne Bendiksen til Inger Lise Rypdal og Ole Paus.

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Hiphopgruppa Fugees er blitt allemannseie på diskoteker fra Beitostølen til Kuala Lumpur. Noe har skjedd, og «Killing Me Softly» har skylden. Ung spirrevipp som jeg er, hadde jeg ikke hørt «Killing Me Softly» før Fugees dukket opp med sin versjon. Men jeg forsto det slik at dette var en ny versjon av en gammel «schlager» med Roberta Flack som vokalist. Originalversjonen ble spilt inn av Lori Lieberman i 1971, mens Flack fikk en hit med sin versjon i 1973. Men ryktene begynte å gå om en norsk versjon . .

Spor 1: Cola og pizza…
På sommerens Quart-festival spilte gruppa Penthouse Playboys, som har gjort suksess med ironiske versjoner av norske slagere. En bekjent av meg begynte da å snakke om en låt han hadde hørt i sine unge dager. «Cola, softis og pizza» gikk refrenget, og melodien var pur «killingmesoftly». Hvem som sang, hadde han ingen anelse om, men mente det var en genial versjon. Min jakt var i gang

Spor 2: Ironisk popmusiker
Hvis noen kunne kjenne til denne norske versjonen på Quartfestivalen, måtte det være Kjetil Rolness, vokalist i Penthouse Playboys og tilhenger av gammel og avdanket norsk popmusikk. Vi klarte å spore ham opp (i pissoaret faktisk), men dessverre kjente han ikke til denne norske popperlen. Han ble riktignok svært interessert, så jeg lovet å fortsette jakten . . (2009-kommentar: Ikke lenge etter denne saken dukket Penthouse Playboys opp med sin versjon av “Sangen han sang var min egen”).

Spor 3: Arne Bendiksen
Norsk popmusikk personlig er Arne Bendiksen, han måtte kjenne til innspillingen vi var på jakt etter.

– Cola, softis og pizza? sier Arne Bendiksen noe forundret.

Han kan ikke huske noen slik versjon av sangen, men har selv vært med på å spille inn ikke mindre enn fire versjoner av Roberta Flacks udødelige låt.

– Jorun Høiland spilte inn sangen på svensk allerede i 1973, og Kari Neegaard (nå: Kari Diesen) oversatte teksten til norsk kort etter. Jeg var med på å spille inn «Sangen han sang var min egen» først med Bendik Singers, så med Ellen Nikolaysen og deretter Inger Lise Rypdal.

– Låta er rett og slett kjempebra, mener Arne Bendiksen

Spor 4: Tekstoversetter nr. 1

Ny telefon, til Kari Diesen.

– Cola, softis og pizza? undrer Kari Diesen.

– Det har jeg aldri hørt om. Lauryn Hill i Fugees synger fint, men Roberta Flacks versjon går rett inn. Jeg tok oversettelsen på alvor, jeg prøvde å beholde den spesielle stemningen. Jeg husker at Ellen Nikolaysen sang inn min versjon.

Spor 5: Kurt Bakkemoen
Mine eldre VG-kolleger kjenner til «Killing Me Softly» fra før Fugees dukket opp. Av kollega Kurt Bakkemoen fikk jeg en samleplate: Fine norske låter 1. Her finnes «Sangen han sang var min egen», spilt inn i 1973, sunget av Ellen Nikolaysen og med tekst av Terje Mosnes?!? Mysteriet tetner til

Spor 6: Tekstoversetter nr. 2
– Hva er dette for noe, Mosnes, kulturjournalist i Dagbladet?

– Det var et rent oppdrag, men jeg husker det var en flott vise med en flott tekst, forteller Mosnes.

Selv husker han ikke at han har oversatt teksten før jeg minner ham om det.

– Men hvem skrev du teksten for? Kari Diesen hevder at hun skrev for Ellen Nikolaysen.

– Jeg husker ikke hvem jeg skrev for, men det kan jo kanskje ha vært Inger Lise Rypdal

Spor 7: Inger Lise Rypdal
– Det var en helt topp sang, husker Inger Lise Rypdal.

Hun husker heller ikke hvem som skrev den norske teksten, men mener sangen kom ut på hennes plate Kontakt.

– Før var det mye mer vanlig å skrive norske tekster til utenlandske låter. Det var vanskelig å finne fine nok norske sanger

– Cola, softis og pizza?

– Nei, det sang jeg ikke

Spor 8: NRKs musikkguruer
Grammofonarkivet i NRK hjelper en stakkars journalist å komme nærmere mysteriets løsning

– Cola, softis og pizza?

– Ja, det stemmer. Anne-Karine Strøm sang inn sangen «Siv & Vivi» rundt 1980, hvor hennes daværende mann Ole Paus hadde skrevet teksten. Refrenget gikk «cola, softis og pizza», får vi opplyst fra NRK

BINGO! Paus neste.

Spor 9: Ole Paus
– Hva?! sier han.

Etter hvert går det et lys opp for Paus, men han kan hverken huske teksten eller innspillingen.

– Jeg laget den vel tidlig på 1980-tallet, men jeg har ingen anelse om hvor den kan fås tak i. Jeg har ikke noe spesielt forhold til originalsangen heller, men jeg husker at Roberta Flack sang fryktelig surt. Det er i og for seg en grei sang.

Men hvis noen av våre lesere kjenner til en innspilt versjon av Ole Paus’ «Cola, softis og pizza», så nøl ikke med å ta kontakt.

Oppfølgersak: Mysteriet oppklart
VG leter etter forhistorien til sommerens store slager, «Killing Me Softly». Ole Paus’versjon av årets store slager «Killing Me Softly» har nå kommet til rette, etter god innsats fra VGs lesere.

En frisk telefonstorm førte til at vi kom til bunns i mysteriet om de norske versjonene av 1973s og 1996s store sommerslager, «Killing Me Softly», med henholdsvis Roberta Flack og Fugees bak mikrofonene.

John Dagfinn Bæverfjord fra Nordmøre var en av de mange som ringte VG og fortalte hvilken plate Paus’ versjon fantes på. Platen heter Jeg tror folk er blitt spenna gærne, er fra 1980, og er et samarbeid mellom Ole Paus, Anne-Karine Strøm, Rolv Wesenlund og Harald Heide-Steen jr. Som sang nummer ni finner vi «Siv og Vivi» med refrenget «cola, softis og pizza».

Overraskelsen blir stor når det viser seg at versene går i ren discotakt, mens refrenget er i samme melodi som sangen vi alle etter hvert kjenner. Paus norske oversettelse forteller den grumme historien om discobertene Siv og Vivi, som liker å sjekke opp kjekkaser med fine biler på byens diskoteker. Den henrivende unge damen Siv går hen og blir gravid. Og det hele ender tragisk med at doktor Werner ikke finner et barn i Sivs mage, men bare cola, softis og pizza.

Fra våre oppvakte lesere får vi også opplyst at danske Shu-bi-dua på 1970-tallet gjorde stor suksess med sin «Kylling med softice». Refrenget gikk som følger: «Kylling med softice og pølser / Det er min favorite meny». Så klart med melodien til «Killing Me Softly»

Bonus 1: Nostalgi og heftige rytmer
Melodien vekker nostalgi hos lytteren, mens rytmene oppdaterer melodien for 1990-tallet. Det er hemmeligheten bak Fugees’ suksess.

– Sangen klarer å appellere til flere generasjoner samtidig. For ungdommen er det rytmen som er viktigst, og jeg tror ikke originalversjonen hadde slått an i dag, sier Stan Hawkins.

Han er førsteamanuensis i musikkvitenskap på Universitetet i Oslo, og populærmusikk er hans spesialområde.

«Killing Me Softly» er blitt så suksessfull fordi den klarer å kombinere dagens rytmer og produksjonsteknologi med en gammel melodi som vekker nostalgiske følelser hos lytteren, mener Hawkins

Bonus 2: Tekstene

”Sangen han sang var min egen”
(C. Fox / N. Gimbel /T. Mosnes)

Han var en ukjent sanger
Han bare kom en kveld
Og som så mange ganger
Var jeg for meg selv
Jeg ville gjerne glemme
Men da han sang forsto jeg…

(Refreng)
Sangen han sang var min egen
Teksten var tatt fra mitt liv
Sangen han sang var min egen
Alle detaljer i mitt liv
Ga han til alle
Og mitt liv

Alt som har hendt meg i mitt liv
Det var som om han visste
Som om han kjente meg
Han sang om alt det triste
Som skilte meg fra deg
Jeg hvisket: «La meg være»
«Og la meg gå jeg ber deg»

(Refreng)

En sang om ord som sårer
Om løfter som jeg fikk
Og gjennom mine tårer
Fanget jeg hans blikk
Jeg ville snakke med ham
Men han så bort og smilte

(Refreng)

”Siv og Vivi”
(C. Fox / N. Gimbel / O. Paus)

Jeg er Vivi, jeg er Siv
Diskotek er hele vårt liv
Vi jobber i butikken
En times tid om formiddagen
Uuuuuuu
Når dagen er slutt
Er vi fri igjen
Kvelden er åpen
Hva med den?
Ut på diskotek
Der treffer vi menn
Av det rette slaget
Når vi så treffer en kar
Sjekker vi først hva slags bil han har
Hvis den er OK, er saken klar
Det klør i magen . .

Oh baby . . .

Etter . .

(Refreng)
Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis
Og pizza

I fjor høst på denne tiden
Var det Siv ble kvalm
Og fikk vondt i siden
Doktoren sa at hun var gravid
Han het dr. Werner
Uuuuuuu
Da flyttet Siv og Vivi i hop
Og Siv og Vivi delte bo
Og Siv og Vivi visste begge to
Godt hvem faren er
Så kom fødselen, på med fjøra
Ned på klinikken og opp med døra
Da ble dr. Werner heit om øra
Det va’kke noe barn der

Oh baby . .

Det var bare . . .

Cola og softis og pizza
Cola og softis og pizza
Osv.

So I’m in the middle of a bit of a dryspell right now. And for the first time in a long time, I actually miss having a girlfriend. So like any good American, when i get lonely, instead of goin’ out and meeting some people, I’ve decided to simply fantasize celebrities.

So here I present to you the 5 women I hope to meet someday soon (maybe I already have), that I expect will serve as the milestones of my relationship future, represented my some of my all time favorite female musicians.

The Best Friend: Alicia Keys

Me and Alicia go way back. We’ve known each other pretty much our whole lives and helped each other through tough times. See Alicia’s a down ass chick. She’s one of those girls that you can just chill with and talk to. Really be yourself around. So we’d just chill and go see a shitty movie and make fun  of it, or stop at the bar and watch the game. We’d complain about our respective significant others, or argue about the latest hip hop releases. She was basically one of the dudes, who happened to be cute. She was just that cool.

People at times would ask why we weren’t together, but that was a ridiculous suggestion. She was like my sister. And honestly at times I wondered if she even really liked dudes. She would just find herself in failed relationship after failed relationship. She had a talent for picking losers, and as much as she was one of the guys sometimes you had to wonder, if she wasn’t better off with a chick. But it never actually occurred to me that I may have been the guy she was looking for.

The Ex: Sarah McLachlan

Alicia was the main woman in my life as a ran through a series of meaningless chicks. Then I met Sarah. She was nothing like any woman I’d ever met before. She was elegant, caring, almost mystical, an Angel walking on earth. Her grace was something I’d never come across in a woman before. We were both artists, so we hit it off immediately. We would stay up nights lying together and just talk. Not cracking jokes like Alicia and I, talking about real things: Philosophy, religion, the world and the people in it. I had never met anyone with such a conscientiousness for others, or a comparable depth of spirit. So of course I married her. You don’t meet a woman like that twice in a lifetime.

It didn’t last though. Because what I didn’t realize, is that Sarah was fuckin’ crazy. She was seriously depressed, hung up on a lot issues she has no control over. The bigger problem was though, that she didn’t wanna get better. It was as if that despair seemed to fuel her creativity, and she quite comfortably wallowed in it. I slowly realized that that grace that i had become so smitten with was really quiet sorrow, and it made her impossible to live with.

The Mistress: Beyonce

I couldn’t leave Sarah though. It seemed as if I was the only thing that was holding her up from completely collapsing into her own insecurities. So I did what I thought I’d never do. I stepped out on her. Beyonce was everything that Sarah wasn’t. She was fun, vibrant, full of life, and she approached every aspect of life with a strength that Sarah could only find in her own sadness. Sure she didn’t have the intellectual or emotional depth that Sarah had, but you know… she was a dancer. The sex was ridiculous. We’d lock ourselves in a hotel room for days. Days.

Sarah never found out. But in the end sex wasn’t enough to sustain the affair. I grew bored with her, and she with me. Honestly, I don’t think I was the only guy she was giving the time of their life to on a regular basis anyway. We amicably called it off. I didn’t return to Sarah though, that had run it’s course as well. I asked for a divorce, she didn’t take it well. We don’t speak any longer.

The Wife: Norah Jones

So I was single again, and I decided I needed to put myself out there. And one night in a smoky coffee shop, I met the one. She was as cool and laid back as Alicia, but with the depth and grace of Sarah. She was as fun and sexy as Beyonce, but had a smoldering sensuality that no woman I had met before could match. It was the voice. That voice that sounded like the wind passing through autumn leaves. I had to have her, but she played it cool. She joked with me, and made me chase her. It might have annoyed me if she wasn’t actually funny. Finally I had her. We’ve been together ever since.

Norah and I have three children together, a boy and two little daddy’s girls that look just like her. We’ve grown old and fat together, but of course we still know how to turn each other on. It’s a quiet simple life, but we still find little adventures in it, like getting everyone to school on time. Honeslty, nothing could be better.

The Goddess: Lauryn Hill

Me and Norah have been together for years now and I would never dream of cheating on her. And there are no secrets between us, except for one. There’s another woman. I’ve only met her once, and we’ve only shaken hands but ever since that moment she’s had my heart. Now I love Norah with all my heart, and I would never leave her. What I feel for this other woman is beyond love, it’s reverance.

I met the stunning Lauryn through a mutual friend, at a function where she was asked to say a few words. The intelligence and bravery of her statements were alarming, but her singing was heartbreaking. It was if she spoke for the pain of everyone, myself included. I’ve never seen her since then, but I collect news clippings and bookmark web hits on any information on her. Yeah it’s kind of stalker-ish, but I can’t help it. She’ s amazing. We would never work, love can’t be based upon worship and I get the feeling that she’s a little too conscious of how absolutely brilliant she is.  And what me and Norah have is already perfect, but that doesn’t mean I can just let the thought of Lauryn go. So she’s remained my little secret, the other love of my life.

(That’s right. Even in my fantasies I fantasize about Lauryn Hill. I can’t even begin to comprehend what she could be like in real life, she’s so brilliant.)