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MUCH PROPS MAN,.
i DONT know anything about an ibrahim M but thats the point. This is good news.. You should hold like little readings here and there at the somali populated cities in the states or where ever. But i hope you go through with this project yoh.. wun
I'LL GET THE BOOK YOU SHOULD CREATE LIKE A LIST OF EMAILS MAN.. FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU.
THIS IS MINE.
AND I SUPPORT this.. much luv
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DAMMIT GAS SUCKS
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LayzieGirl
i'm sorry you find this distastefull.
but i posted this for the general population to read and discuss. this is a discussion board isn't it, are we so narrow minded that we can't look and discuss an issue as such. i mean if you think that this me posting this was to have an intention behind it your hysterical. and by all means take this up against SAEED AHMED and
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. i'm just regurgitating.
plus. you seem like some one with strong issues against traditional islam and somalian culture. but thats you imo/ and you can take those issues up against the whole country of somalia 4 all i care. this is a forum-don't forget that tiny fact it is however 100% opinnion. *chuckles*
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Buckhead couple had chilling encounter with Nichols
By SAEED AHMED
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/31/05
Shelton Warren found it odd that his girlfriend of several years was knocking at their apartment door instead of just letting herself in.
He soon found out why.
Standing in the doorway, holding a gun to his girlfriend's side, was the man whose face had flashed on Warren's television screen moments earlier: Brian Nichols.
"He said, 'Don't try anything,' " Warren's girlfriend calmly said.
But Warren did.
The violent encounter that followed left Warren with a concussion and too shaken to talk about the incident until now.
Fighting back, Warren believes, may have saved him and his girlfriend from becoming two more victims of what police say was a murderous rampage that had claimed three lives before Nichols appeared at their doorway. Before the night was over, a fourth person would die.
Of all the people who were directly exposed to Nichols during the March 11 shooting spree — the attorneys at the Fulton County Courthouse, the carjack victims and the woman credited with his eventual capture — Warren and his girlfriend have been the most reluctant to talk about their brush with him.
Warren, 27, is still feeling the aftereffects of the concussion he received in his fight with the intruder: dizziness, occasional memory loss, disorientation.
Only last week did he return to his job as a customer service representative for a computer company.
His girlfriend, Iman Adan, 23, startles easily and is afraid to leave their apartment alone. She can't bring herself to talk about that night.
Neither would agree to be photographed for this story, saying they don't want to be in the public eye. Warren and his attorney appeared briefly on a CNN morning show March 19, but since then Warren has kept a low profile.
"We just want to be left alone," he said.
Warren agreed to speak to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to counter the Atlanta Police Department's contention that neither he nor Adan positively identified Nichols as their attacker when they were shown a photo of him that night.
"I told them a couple of times this was their man," Warren said. "I told them he's still out there. I guess it was kind of hard for them to believe it."
The police say they thoroughly searched in and around the sprawling apartment complex on Lenox Road in Buckhead and stand by their report that said the couple couldn't confirm that the attacker was Nichols.
Stranger at the door
The encounter occurred shortly after 10 p.m. — more than 12 hours into the manhunt for Nichols, a defendant in a rape trial who authorities said overpowered a sheriff's deputy at the Fulton County Courthouse and went on a shooting spree, killing a judge, a court reporter and another deputy in a matter of minutes.
Warren was in his apartment at the Summit at Lenox, watching TV, transfixed along with the rest of metro Atlanta by developing news of the massive search for the gunman. The reports said police believed Nichols was on the run in a green Honda Accord.
"I was thinking, he's probably right in the [metro] area, he's sticking close to places he knows," Warren said. "But there was no way he was still in that Honda."
Then came the knock at the door.
"It's me," his girlfriend said.
Warren peered through the peephole and saw Adan standing there, next to someone else.
Still unsure of what was going on, Warren opened the door.
"Who are you?" Warren asked the stranger.
"He said, 'Don't try anything,' " Adan replied.
That's when Warren noticed a black handgun pressed against Adan's side.
"I looked back up at him and I realized who he was," he said.
Woman followed
Minutes earlier, Adan had left the fitness center inside the apartment complex. As she walked the three blocks home, she noticed she was being followed by a tall man in a gray jogging suit. It was a Friday night and there were plenty of people outside, so she didn't think much of it.
She punched in the door code to her building and entered. The man stuck his right foot in to catch the door from closing.
By the time Adan reached the stairs, he had caught up to her.
"Do you know who I am?" she recalled him asking. "I'm Brian Nichols, the one everyone's looking for."
Adan tried not to let her fear show. Trying to run seemed foolish.
He asked if she lived with anyone else. Yes, she said, with another roommate. A girlfriend.
Adan believed that if she told Nichols about her boyfriend waiting in the apartment, he would take her someplace else.
They climbed the three flights of stairs in silence.
Adan knocked.
A hallway fight
If Nichols was surprised to see a man answer the door, his eyes didn't show it, Warren said. He looked calm and expressionless.
"He wants to come in," Adan told her boyfriend.
Warren then did something he still can't explain.
As the two stepped through the doorway, Warren pushed his girlfriend into the apartment and shoved the man as hard as he could, sending him staggering from the door. The action propelled Warren into the hall.
"The only thing on my mind was, don't let this person in your house,' " he said. "I had no other thought, no other feeling."
The gunman steadied himself and rushed toward the door.
"Lock the door," Warren cried.
He heard the lock click at the same time he felt the butt of the handgun hit his forehead.
The two men struggled in the narrow hallway — both former athletes, similarly built.
The confrontation lasted no more than a few seconds, Warren recalled.
His attacker struck him on the head again.
Don't let this person point his gun at me. Don't let him shoot me, Warren kept thinking.
He didn't. He glared, then turned and ran.
Warren reached for the door.
"Keep it locked," he cried to a hysterical Adan. His face bloody from the pistol-whipping, Warren chased after the gunman. But he was gone.
Warren borrowed a neighbor's cellphone and called police. I've just been attacked by the guy you're looking for, he said.
It was 10:18 p.m.
The first officers arrived four minutes later, followed soon after by hordes of law enforcement agents from the Atlanta Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, the U.S. marshals.
But when police showed Warren and Adan a picture of Nichols, both "believed it was the suspect but could not confirm it," Atlanta police Officer W.T. Crossen wrote in his report.
Warren disputes that. He said he told police the man was Nichols.
"I told them that me and this person just got into it," Warren said. He said he urged them to pursue the man, saying, "He's got to be still out here. Go through these buildings, search the area."
Another neighbor, Maria Bess, who saw a stranger holding a gun to Adan and also called 911, said she identified the man as Nichols as well.
"I didn't know who Nichols was at the time. I hadn't been watching TV," said Bess, 20. "But when they showed me his picture, I told them that was him."
Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said officers "thoroughly investigated" the area for more than three hours — until 1:42 a.m. Authorities detained two people, including one in a green Honda, and took them to the couple for identification, Quigley said.
"We couldn't find Nichols in the area, and therefore we didn't know, based on what they said, whether there had been a definite sighting," the police spokesman said.
Quigley could not clear up the discrepancy between the witness accounts and Crossen's report. "The investigation is ongoing, but the report stands as it is, at this point," he said.
The next morning, the body of federal customs agent David Wilhelm, 40, was found in a house he was building on Canter Road — just a block away from the apartment where Warren and Adan live. Police believe Nichols shot him to death.
"The next day, with the serious nature of the call very close by, it made it seem more obvious that maybe the two incidents were connected," Quigley said.
Police say Nichols took Wilhelm's truck and drove it to Gwinnett County to the apartment of Ashley Smith, accosting her about 2 a.m. Saturday the same way Adan was approached.
Nichols surprised Smith outside her apartment and, holding her at gunpoint, forced his way in and held her captive until about 9:30 a.m., when he allowed her to leave, authorities say.
Then, just before noon, as heavily armed officers surrounded the Duluth apartment complex in response to Smith's 911 call, Nichols waved a white T-shirt and peacefully surrendered.
'I'm thankful I lived'
Warren has returned to work but is still feeling weak and is nursing a sprained right hand.
Because he doesn't have medical insurance, he is hoping for help from the county or the state's victim assistance program, said his lawyer, Nikki Bonner.
"I'm not stressing over any of that, though," Warren said. "I'm just grateful to be alive, you know. I'm thankful I lived to see another day."
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G.T.F.O.H.
Get the Fluck outa here
R.O.T.F.L.M.B.A.O
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Black *** Off
SMS
Shaking My Head
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bush finnaly tells the truth:
http://www.muchosucko.com/video-thebestgeorgewbushspeechever.html
keep refreshing the page if it doesn't work:
warning: for the faint hearted...
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http://www.covertcall.com/49521
YA'LL WILL never believe you can put any number on her caller id's.. never have to worry about her callin u back.
same for the girlss... lol
You can call someone up and have a totally different number show up in the caller id.
It's called Covert Call. You can call from your cell or home phone and use anyone else's number you want. I tried it out, and it works. You can use it to hide your number from the girl you met at the club.
basically u put a fake number in there caller id any area code even 000-000-0000 lol or if you callin they home phone u can look up microsoft's number and there home caller id show microsoft(cell phones only show your saved adressess)..
halla back
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3 hours, 55 minutes ago
By JEFFREY GOLD, AP Business Writer
NEWARK, N.J. - A potential HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) vaccine developed by Merck & Co. that uses synthetic genes to prepare cells to fight the deadly virus is moving into the second stage of testing.
An approved vaccine would be about a decade away if the trial and a third study are successful, said officials with the international coalition that is collaborating on the work.
"It is the most promising candidate that we've seen so far," said Sarah B. Alexander, associate director of the coalition, known as the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN. She cautioned, however, "something better could come along tomorrow."
Volunteers began enrolling last month for the Phase II study, which will eventually give the potential vaccine's three doses to 1,500 people in North and South America, the Caribbean and Australia, the network and Whitehouse Station-based drug maker announced Monday.
The study is using male and female volunteers aged 18 to 45 of diverse racial groups who are at high risk for contracting HIV. Participants will receive counseling about how to reduce their risk of HIV infection, Alexander said. from the market amid safety concerns, has traded in a 52-week range of $25.60 to $49.33.
About a dozen companies and organizations worldwide are attempting to develop an AIDS vaccine. Of the 10 associated with HVTN, the Merck candidate is the first to reach Phase II testing, Alexander said.
Of the two that reached Phase III, the final stage before certification is sought, one was deemed unsuccessful in 2000, and another, led by the U.S. Department of Defense (news - web sites), is enrolling volunteers, she said.
The Merck candidate — the MRKAd5 HIV-1 gag/pol/nef, or trivalent, vaccine — is designed to persuade the defenders of each cell, called "killer T cells," to attack HIV when the virus enters the cell. Other vaccines generate an antibody response.
The potential vaccine uses the virus of a common cold, modified so it cannot reproduce or cause people to catch a cold, to transport three synthetically produced HIV genes to the cells.
"We give the body enough of the virus so it can recognize it and create an immune response," but not enough to infect a person, Alexander said.
The Phase I study of the possible vaccine, involving about 1,000 people, "generated strong and durable cellular immune responses against HIV," Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore said.
Seattle-based HVTN is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (news - web sites) of the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites), and comprises more than 25 research institutions worldwide.
In trading Monday afternoon, Merck shares fell 28 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $30.08 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites). The stock, which has fallen sharply since Merck withdrew its Vioxx drug
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check this: http://forums1.sonymusic.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=8581093&f=628107211&m=4721036822
to see the videos and such. i can't get the links up in here:
Press on those bold spots and peep some shit
HAARP likely not Primary Ionospheric array in Alaska
At 3.5 Billion Watts HAARP may be second to a secret and hidden FIPA array near Poker Flat
by Guy Cramer
In reviewing information disclosed through the Freedom Of Information Act concerning the initial concepts and bidding on HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project), I came across relevant information that HAARP was not the best choice for the Project, this was to be the FIPA (Frequency-Independent Phased-array Antenna) FIPA patent# 5,274,390
The executive summary of HAARP indicates the best place for the Array was Poker Flat and not Gakona, Clear AFB was the optional choice for the HAARP location and has the power facility on site to supply a heater array of these proportions. Prime power at Clear Air Force Station is obtained from the station's coal-fired power plant, which is capable of producing 22.5 megawatts of power. (Clear AFB is a large DOD area located west of HIPAS [HIgh Power Auroral Stimulation], and is almost an equal distance from HIPAS as HAARP is to HIPAS) HAARP is run by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate while Clear AFS is also under U.S. Air Force Space Command.
HAARP/HIPAS work in conjunction, however two arrays are not enough to steer the signal. The HAARP web site in 2001 discussed successful moon bounce experiments (done since the 1960's by HAM radio operators) see: HAARP array may use Moon as a reflector to reach distant targets on Earth to create Nuclear-Sized Explosions Without Radiation!. In order to target the moon you need a steerable array and three arrays minimum are required.
For those that think the HAARP array network is just a research program, think again: Look at this short demonstration of of what 1000 watts of microwave energy can produce from a grape cut in half (Movie 2). Multiply this effect by 3 million times as HAARP is 3 gigawatts of power (3 billion watts) now you just need a grape large enough for the array to feed from; see video of Large Artificial Electric Flame (LAEF) this sample pales to the (MAEF & EAEF) massive and extreme versions. Note to adversaries of the United States and recent saber rattling; you may not want to provoke this Kodiak Bear with a stick.
HAARP array is second choice to FIPA array, The HAARP site near Gakona was initially chosen to house the Imaging Riometer for HAARP, now Poker Flat is operating the proposed HAARP Imaging Riometer and was the initial choice for the HAARP location, and you require three ELF/VLF arrays to steer the signal for a moon bounce! This information means there is at least one hidden ELF/VLF array in the southern area of Alaska, it is likely in Poker Flat region and is likely the FIPA array.
Here are the key locations in Alaska as they relate with HAARP, in order for targeting HAARP other arrays must be used to steer the signal, this is why HIPAS is in the region, with the present set up if HLMS, Clear AFS and Poker Flat were also positioned with ELF/VLF arrays then HAARP is capable of a 360 degree steerable target area.
Poker Flat
Poker Flat 2
The newly installed Missile Defense System just installed at Fort Greely is not there to protect North America from ballistic missiles but to protect the HAARP network of Arrays in Alaska as the arrays are the first line of defense, provide enough power to the atmosphere and the resulting drag and EM Pulse should fry the electronics of any missile, one exception are new missiles designed by the Russians that may be able to fly under HAARP’s umbrella, Fort Greely is like a phalanx system on a ship, anything that gets to close is taken out by this system.
How do you hide 20+ acre facilities around Alaska? Quite easy with special camouflage techniques:
This first photo shows HAARP
Fully Operational
The second photo shows HAARP with a camouflaged Array
Partial Camouflage
The third image shows a completely concealed array, road and power generation center, to show how easy it is to hide a large facility in a location like Alaska.
Can u see something????
"The above illustrations demonstrate the capability to effectively conceal large land areas containing hardware and buildings. In a similar initiative comprising the the most comprehensive infrastructure concealment program since World War II, the design team of Dr. Resnick, Lt. Col. Timothy R. O'Neill, PhD (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Mr. Guy Cramer have produced remarkable results. Using specially designed "Fractal Based" camouflage patterns in projects related to concealment of critical infrastructure under the auspices of the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, the team continues to achieve desired objectives such as those shown below."
These patterns are under an evaluation license to the U.S. Department of Interior. These patterns are licensed for trials under the DOI-BLM Visual Mitigation Study.
Compressor with current monotone color
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Tumbleweed-6A-100
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RMV 7-21 site with current monotone color
RMV 7-21 site with Simulated Pattern (TumbleWeed 6E)
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RMV 36-22 site with current monotone color
RMV 36-22 site with Simulated Pattern (TumbleWeed 6E)
These patterns above are copyrighted © 2004 by Timothy R. O'Neill, Joseph A. Resnick and Guy L. Cramer, All Rights Reserved. Patterns may only be used only with permission.
Our continuing work on camouflage also involves the Militaries of Jordan, the U.S. and Bahrain (The patterns on photos below are Copyright 2003 Guy L. Cramer, All Rights Reserved)
Soldier
Jet
Jet 2
Pattern on this one photo below Copyright 2004, Michael Bauer, Guy Cramer and Timothy R. O'Neill, All Rights Reserved
Jet 3
Conclusion:
Given my correspondence in 2001 with both the principal investigator for the office of naval research on initial array testing in Alaska and my current partnership with Dr. Joseph Resnick (one patent used with HAARP) and noted HAARP authority with the DOD, I can only come to one conclusion that FIPA exists somewhere in Alaska, likely close to the protection of the Fort Greely site.
References
Dr. Joe Resnick is an accomplished Applied Scientist, Author, Electro-Mechanical Engineer, Lecturer, holding 26 Patents (12 Classified) with extensive lateral skill sets in medicine, electrical and mechanical engineering, earth and space systems architecture/component design, defense security programs, global communication systems architectures engineering and Military/Homeland strategic defense. He is a recognized expert in strategic defense program design, functioning in various public and private consultancies to both the US Government and Department of Defense.He has directed non-classified strategic national and international defense initiatives for next-generation and future (Space and Soldier Systems) technology research & development programs. Dr. Resnick is a recognized international authority who is proficient in the areas of secure theater-wide communications operations, clandestine procedures, encryption methodologies and the design of secure communications networks within a defense environment. He is a noted authority in the areas of COMSEC, INFOSEC, HAARP and SIGSEC.
Guy Cramer is the President/CEO of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp, President of United Dynamics Corp., inventor of the Passive Negative Ion Generator, and the developer of the SuperForce.com algorithm. DreamWorks SKG (Movie / T.V. Studio) purchased two Internet sites in early 2001 that were developed and maintained by Cramer through his High Speed Tumbleweed Productions. Guy has worked with and/or corresponded on projects with, the Edmonton Oilers National Hockey League team, NASA JPL, Columbia Accident Investigation Board, U.S. Military Branches and Canadian Forces programs. In 2003 Guy Cramer, was commissioned by King Abdullah II of Jordan to develop a digital camouflage pattern that surpassed current U.S. issued uniforms. The King has approved this KA2 pattern for Jordanian Armed Forces and Police. Mr. Cramer has since developed over 300 digital camouflage patterns, many based on fractals (feedback loops), and some of these patterns are being used for concealment training in both the British and U.S. Army training. Mr. Cramer is also the grandson and former research assistant of Donald L. Hings, P.Eng, M.B.E., C.M. (Geophysicist) inventor of the Walkie-Talkie "Radio Frequency System" for the Canadian Military 1942, which earned him the prestigious Member of British Empire Award and The Order of Canada.
http://www.superforce.com/email-releases/HAARP-Moon.htm
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/grapeout.mov
http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/Ajax/elec_flame.mpeg
http://www.superforce.com/haarp/Alaska-HAARP.gif
http://www.superforce.com/haarp/Alaska-HAARP-2.gif
http://www.superforce.com/haarp/HAARP-3.jpg
http://www.superforce.com/haarp/HAARP-Hidden.jpg
http://www.superforce.com/haarp/HAARP-Hidden2.jpg
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SAD
truly
wun
r.i.p yasmine
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I THINK I CAN HELP YOU OUT
i hope u got kazaa or ares (ares prefferably)
u can get ares at downloads.com *search* ares
if your talkin bout R&B:
favorites(definately will get ppl rowdy if they know there music)
--rl-good man
--tyrese,ginuwine,rl,case-best man i can be(the brothers soundtrack)
--dru hill- i love you
--eric benet-spend my life with you
--all 4 one-i swear
--Keith sweat- make it last forever**(this or the joe and mariah ft nast version both classics)
--boys II men-i do**(classic ballad)
--boys II men-thank you in advance
--ginuwine-differences**(cherry ontop of the cake)
i'll add some later^
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http://www.thealihome.blogspot.com/
this guy deserves props for alot of things. its still wierd to me.. but somehow i get the feeling of where the somali community might be headed not too long down the road.
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this is outstanding man . beautifully written .
the warmth and reassurance in my heart right now is overwhelming.. thanks for posting that
by the way don't mind i copy this and save it to my hard-drive for future inspiration.
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LOL thats a funny one
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also i just tried
shoot basketball
throw football
play drums
fight
SLEEP
fly
roll over
play dead
watch tv
also try" man your black why you doing this? "(CUZZ HE BLACK)LOL
TAKE SUIT OFF
I'M WIERDED OUT PEOPLE.. LOL i think i will just leave the internet for a while now
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some things i told it to do
do pushups
trash the place
kick
rub your stomach and pat your head
sit down
crunches
hop on one leg
hop on right leg
hop on left leg..lol
kneel down
pray
get on your knees
thumbs up
thumbs down
shake your tail
lol ... it's a funny chicken man
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you will laugh your butt offf
check this website out
http://www.subserviantchicken.com/
tell the man in the chicken suit to do various different things and he will do it!
lol simply the most funniest and creepiest thing i' have ever seen on the internet.
crazy!
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YEAH MAN DANCES WITH WOLVES PURIVIAN COCAINE, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THIS GUY IS SICK I'M GONNA ORDER BOTH HES CD'S THIS IS .. thinking to music...
holla backk
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THE NEWEST CAT ON THE SCENE HE'S THE MOST SLEPT ON THIS GUY moved 15k-20k units on his own independently.. he's hot on the underground level
this is one of his deep songs it's crazy check it
ITS CALLED DANCES WITH THE DEVIL. ITS DEEP
dances with the devils HOT SONG CLICK HERE
HERES THE LYRICS YA'LL
Immortal Technique is the future no doubt.Dance with the devil was the first song I heard from him.He tells story's like the poet nas and rip's it 360*like pac!!
Dance With the Devil Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I once knew a nigga whose real name was William
his primary concern, was making a million
being the illest hustler, that the world ever seen
he used to f**k moviestars and sniff coke in his dreams
a corrupted young mind, at the age of thirteen
nigga never had a father and his mom was a feen
she put the pipe down, but forever yeah she was sober
her sons heart simultaneously grew colder
he started hanging out selling bags in the projects
checking the young chicks, looking for hit and run prospects
he was fascinated by material objects
but he understood money never bought respect
he build a reputation cuz he could hustle and steal
but got locked once it didn't hessitate to squeal
so criminals he chilled with didn't think he was real
you see me and niggaz like this have never been equal
I dont project my insurecurity's at other people
he feeded for props like addicts with pipes and needles
so he felt he had to proof to everyone he was evil
a fever minded young man with infinite potetial
the product of a ghetto ... capatalistic mental
coincidentally dropped out of school to sell weed
dancing with the devil, smoked until his eyes would bleed
but he was sick of selling trees and gave in to his greed
[Hook]
Everyone trying to be trife never face the consequences
you propably only did a month for minor offences
ask a nigga doing life if he had another chance
but then again there's always the wicked at new and advanced
dance forever with the devil on a code cell block
but thats what happens when you rape, murder and sell rock
devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
[Verse 2]
So Billy started robbing niggaz, anything he could do
he'd get his respect back, in the eyes of his crew
starting fights over little shit, up on the block
stepped up to selling mothers and brothers the crack rock
working overtime for making money for the crack spot
hit the jackpot and wanted to move up to cocaine
for filling the scarface fantasy stuck in his brain
tired of the block niggaz treating him the same
he wanted to be major like the cut throats and the thugs
but when he tried to step to 'em, niggaz showed him no love
they told him any motherf**king coward can sell drugs
any ***** nigga with a gun, can bust slugs
any nigga with a red shirt can front like a blood
even Puffy smoked the motherf**ker up in a club
but only a real thug can stab someone till they die
standing in front of them, starring straight into their eyes
Billy realized that these men were well guarded
and they wanted to test him, before business started
suggested raping a ***** to proof he was cold hearted
so now he had a choice between going back to his life
or making money with made men, up in the cife
his dreams about cars and ice, made him agree
a hardcore nigga is all he ever wanted to be
and so he met them friday night at a quarter to three
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
They drove around the projects slow while it was raining
smoking blunts, drinking and joking for entertainment
untill they saw a woman on the street walking alone
three in the morning, coming back from work, on her way home
and so they quietly got out the car and followed her
walking through the projects, the darkness swallowed her
they wrapped her shirt around her head and knocked her onto the floor
this is it kid now you got your chance to be raw
so Billy oaked her up and grapped the chick by the hair
and dragged her into a lobby that had nobody there
she struggled hard but they forced her to go up the stairs
they got to the roof and then held her down on the ground
screaming shut the f**k up and stop moving around
the shirt covered her face, but she screamed the clouts
so Billy stomped on the *****, until he broken her jaw
the dirty *******s knew exactly what they were doing
they kicked her until they cracked her ribs and she stopped moving
blood leaking through the corpse, she cried silently
and then they all proceeded to rape her violently
Billy was meant to go first, but he ????? turn
ripping her up, and choking her until her throat burned
a broken jaw mumbled for god but they weren't concerned
when they were done and she was lying bloody, broken and broos
one of them niggaz pulled out a brand new twenty-two
they told him that she was a witness of what she'd gone through
and if he killed her he was guaranteed a spot in the crew
he thought about it for a minute, she was practicly dead
and so he leaned over and put the gun right to her head
(Sample from 'Survival of the Fittest' by Mobb Deep)
I'm falling and I can't turn back
I'm falling and I can't turn back
[Verse 4]
Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life
he thought about the cold pain with the platinum and ice
and he felt strong standing along with his new brothers
cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover
but what he saw made him start the cringine studder
cuz he was starring into the eyes of his own mother
she looked back at him and cried, cuz he had forsaken her
she cried more painfully, than when they were raping her
his whole world stopped, he couldn't even contiplate
his corruption had succesfully changed his fate
and he remembered how his mom used to come home late
working hard for nothing, cuz now what was he worth
he turned away from the woman that had once given him birth
and crying out to the sky cuz he was lonely and scared
but only the devil responded, cuz god wasn't there
and right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold
and so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul
they say death take you to a better place but I doubt it
after that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it
and listen cuz the story that I'm telling is true
cuz I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom to
and now the devil follows me everywhere that I go
infact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows
and every street cypher listening to little thugs flowe
he could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know
the devil grows inside the hearts of the selvish and wicked
white, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted
you have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted
and you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
so when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
because the dance with the devil might last you forever
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heres the translation to it..
this cats from africa he's the shyt over in europe
french song, watch & listen before, u can do all the
hating after..
click here WARNING ITS GRAPHIC
theres a remix with METHOD MAN & streetlife,
video is completely insane..shows images of everything
thats messed up in the world..
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ive gotten the lyrics translated for yall,each bar
corresponds to an image in the video..make sure u read
while u watch it.. some of the translation might sound
corny tho but trust me, that song was the shit back
then
Hardcore, Hardcore, I live hardcore, u live harcore
Everything u go under is hardcore
CHORUS
As soon as I start this track, the show is fukked up
I hear a reaction of bad boyz in the crowd
wild out & if needed, put your hood on
Facts is necessary or shove a dildo up ya ***
I repete As soon as I start this track, the show is
fukked up
I hear a reaction of bad boyz in the crowd
wild out & if needed, put your hood on,
they better not try to make us believe that today the
world is cool
while,
Hardcore, and critical is the situation in the world
Hardcore, as I said every second bombs blast
Hardcore, the traffics of narcotics abound
Hardcore, as if I blasted a bomb in Disneyland
Hardcore, kids prostituting in Thailand
Hardcore, is the sanction when couldn’t keep ur mouth
shut (snitches)
Hardcore, the terrorist attack from the USA in
Hiroshima
Hardcore, the way blacks kill each other in Rwanda
Hardcore, are the recent events in Algeria
Hardcore, is the way in which they destroy Amazonia
Hardcore, are the living conditions, here in jail
Hardcore, pigs & laws in this country where vice
prevails
Hardcore, which tried to undertake Jacque Mesrine
(france public enemy #1 in the 80s)
Hardcore, the end of the world, we all see gotshe
first signs of them
Hardcore, two faggots kissing in the streets in Paris
Hardcore, sex scenes on TV before midnight
Hardcore, today Yugoslavia is no more
Hardcore, tomorrow you dead for a handful of Euros
Hardcore, were surely the riots of 68
Hardcore, the violent end of the course of Malcom X
Hardcore, the effect of heroin on some
Hardcore, animals are used as guinea-pigs for humans
experiments
Hardcore, the rumours saying AIDS might come from
Africa
Hardcore, the proof that they stripped down/robbed
Africa
Hardcore, is the trading of favours in France
Hardcore, Maurice Papon would have betrayed resistance
(Nazi in WW2)
Hardcore, because abusive are the social charges
Hardcore, the unequal distribution of the world
richnesses
HARD-CORE
Hardcore, like recognizing its wrongs
Hardcore, the young people are passionnate with gore
flicks
Hardcore, will be the television news this evening
Hardcore, and people have find it hard to believe in
the word hope
Hardcore, when a 8 year old young girl disappears
Hardcore, and she’s found raped, sodomized
Hardcore, is the rape which was accused of Mike Tyson
Hardcore, & even worse concerning Mickael Jackson
Hardcore, sex harassing is the hobby of Bill Clinton
Hardcore, it’s dangerous to cheat on OJ Simpson
Hardcore, Marc Dutrou has his fans within the court
(serial rapist that escaped court)
Hardcore, would be the re-establishment of the capital
punishment
But Hardcore, is already today the maximum sentency
Hardcore, the L432 article of the penal code (says
that cops cant body search u etc..)
Hardcore, is the work of a ******* prosecutor
Hardcore, Inspectors Harry, Hooker, Hunter are killers
Hardcore, is the skyrocketing voting scores of the FN
(far-right party)
Hardcore, is the extreme declarations of this *******
Le Pen
Hardcore, the K.L.U K.L.U.X K.L.A.N
Hardcore, is the bad seed of hatred which it sows
Hardcore, are the crimes which one shows the GIA
(algerian terrorists)
Hardcore, is the way in which is … K' 1fri Mafia
Hardcore, the FLNC has fans in Corsica (separatist
group)
Hardcore, Gestapo applied wild methods
Hardcore, 100 year old war, 100 days, always
Hardcore, world war and soon the 3rd round?
Hardcore, black cops are only traitors and I dribble
about it of rage
Hardcore, the time when negros were slaves
Hardcore, was the French revolution 1789
Hardcore, maybe was just coz of a booty thang
Hardcore & vilent are the interventions of the RAID
Hardcore, when we tell you that if you test us you
dead
Hardcore, when your enemy chokes you body to body
Hardcore, like L.A.S. I will be it until death
Hardcore, was the death of Malik Oussekine (killed by
cops)
Hardcore, will be the reconquest of Palestine
Hardcore, like dying for a cause u believe just
Hardcore, when you believe that here you’re just
another martyr
Hardcore, when ur persuaded that the good cannot
triumph
Hardcore, because yesterday youkilled , today you’re
respected
Hardcore, are the curses which strike us here
Hardcore, from the plague to cancer to AIDS
Hardcore, *****iness of women throughout the world
Hardcore, will be the hell which is predestined to us
Hardcore, because we approach judgement day
Hardcore, because the best always die first
HARDCORE ………..
I leave the beat like I came in HARD-CORE
understand why, no concession in my lyrics.. ALIX
originating from the land of Africa……
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"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
" In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
two gangsta flicks ...in everyones classic list+
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"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
" In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
two gangsta flicks ...in everyones classic list+
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i'm gonna go ahead and post some of my favorite lines from this emcee who i personaally think is a plus-more rapper.
to start off...
some people understand it some just can't here's some things that'll have u twisted in your seat and have u placin canibus on the scene signed sealed delivered here goes.
"I'll hit ur chest so hard ur shoulders'll touch"
"i'll take ur crown with ur head still attached to it"
"I'ma take twenty shots of this hard liquor
and swigga, til I'm drunk as the Pississippi River
Even though I know the shit is ****in up my liver"
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"Don't even talk about guns,
The only '9' you got is a five dollar bill and 4 one's"
First rapper to speak over beats dogmatically
Mixed with Elizabethian drama and tragedy
My motto is to dress casually and live lavishly
Look at the Victorian tapestry in back of me
Notice the post renaissance pictures I drew
Hand sketched drawings of the deserts in Nazca Peru
The followable audio propogates the possible truth
For proof I'm the illest so the choice is not unto you
See the standard ideological definition of a rap model
Its Canibus scholarly periodicals
The article is substantially impressive, more then a message
A working thesis from several different perspectives
The Rosetta stone of sentences
For rap music's tentative
Enter apprentices
This is Genabis
The Rosetta stone of sentences
For rap music's tentative
Enter apprentices
This is Genabis
last verse of "genabis" on rip the jacker
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"Niggas hear bout me and discreetly set up a date to meet me to see if they can defeat me / but i aint ready to let no ********** eat me / thas why u find lil pieces of emcees in my feces weekly"
"The fact i'm not treated like a king is absurd to me, from the streets of Dirty Jersey to Germany niggas heard a me"
"cuz i'm the baddest ********** , above average, wit alien deoxyribonucleic acid / a bloodsport wit metaphors of all sorts / so fly i need a passport jus to walk"
"Its mentally unimaginable, mathematically incalculable, inextricably infallible, lets not forget utterly impossible and morally ursermountable to assume that i could lose if i battled you"
"i grab mics and push niggas to the left so fast they hearts end up on the right side of they chest"
"When i come thru niggas stand stiller than statues cuz if i have to i'll battle your whole rap crew / then i'll attack you wit words thas absurd and rip ur ****in skin off jus to get on ur nerves"
"You're number one and i'm negative two / basically nigga that means i'm still betta den you"
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[Canibus]
Yo!
Check it, Yo!
I'm faster than leopards running across the vast desert
in twenty-two yards per second to catch me to daily delicatessen
It takes me thirty minutes to eat'em, forty minutes to digest'em,
and fifty minutes for it to pass through my intestines
So ask yourself a question?(What question?)
Can the Canibus rhyme?
Is a ****in porcupine half swine?
No time to make up your mind, you wanna run or die?
Clip you while you're running by, trip you up from behind
My rhymes, confuse niggas
Like somebody try to gang-bang
Wearin' a blue shirt and red pants, throwin' up signs with there left hand
Standin' out on the corner of wetlands with a confederate flag for a headband
God dam eggplants, niggas getting' me vexed man
Cause I'm surrounded by garbage like Fred Sav
And I can't seem to get away from it
I dreamed that I stabbed leviathan through the stomach, and ate from it
In my past life I slayed hundreds, and in the life before that
I played trumpets, to warn you that I was comin'
There's one billion ways to die, and I already tried
nine-hundred million nine hundred and ninety nine
When I aim and fire my rhymes, like a hundred cannon balls flying
Striking you one at a time, in a parallel line
While the art of emceeing is steady dieing
Canibus and Rakim Allah is still in there prime!
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This a freestyle he did ob the moring show
[Canibus]
Yo, I'm a nuclear warhead
Right now you're provokin my detonation
Never test me without proper authorization
My lack of patience has cause me to get mad
And explode right in front of your face like a airbag
Your rhyme is fake, your brain is child's play to manipulate
I create lyrics too intricate to imitate
Movin at a velocity
That'll break your stop-watch if you're clockin me
My concrete jungle is like Jumanji
But iller than what you seen in the cinema
A five foot eight nigga wit more horsepower than twelve cylinders
My brain consists of twin pentium chips
That's double the clock speeds of a 5-86
And nuttin about my physical matrix is basic
I kick flavor beyond what your tongue is capable of tastin
You'll be so surprised you won't believe your own eyes
It's like explainin color to a man that was born blind
One of a kind, I got divine chromosomes in me
My sperm'll scramble the eggs in a women's ovaries
Cuz I'm as original as it gets
And I can't respect, niggas that copy like double-decks
I get vexed, when crab punks bite my style
Cuz I'm sellin a thousand records per day, per square mile
Breakin the laws of phsyics, wit metaphors and lyrics
Speakin to dead poets by conjuring up they spirits
From Shakespeare to Edgar Allen
Yo, the whole Dead Poets Society couldn't mess around wit the talent
Much less understand it
I make type-rope walkers in the circus
lose they balance when I kick the planet
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Today they call me a charlatan, but tomorrow I will be a god of men--Canibus off of Levitibus
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On FANTASTIC 4
[Canibus]
Who in the hell wanna battle, the ill mathematical?
My mother****in' brain is IBM compatible
Techniques are foreign, far from being borin
My style is hard like cancer without McCorman
I run threw your crew like the flu when I bomb it
My styles like AIDS cause don't nobody want it
Niggas frontin' like they hard
But I'm a Street Fighter like Jean Claude
And I'll split your shit, god
Right down the middle
Play you like a riddle
I got a fetish for titties, I nibble on the nipple
Then trespass on your property like Monopoly
Subdue your crew and beat that *** properly
Welcome to the Desert Storm annual extravaganza
Clue rolls deeper than the cart-rides on Bonanza
I feed off weed, natural energy sources
Lyrics with more power than the horses they put in Porsches
Can't be tested or F'ed wit, I'm too reckless
I chop off heads just to take the necklace
The type of Canibus (/cannabis) that's side-effectless
The type of shit that get the Question-mark Man arrested
Take evasive action
Flip like reciprocal fractions
Turn the heat up on MCs to watch their meat blacken
You try get fly, you get electrified and fried
**** around and get your mouth slapped dry
You could battle me and possibly survive
But you could never see me and walk away without a black eye
Word up hop, CLUEminat call the cops
And if the cops ain't tryin' to see me, then the cops call SWAT
Scar your whole squad with bullet scars
No holds barred
I'll even hassle the National Guard
Ready or not like the Fugees
Crews be steppin' to me
But I wipe em' all out like booty
I'm so unruly, the police don't say nothin' to me
It don't matter whether they on or off duty
I murder you brutally when I spit at you
My actions are unforgivable
Look at what CLUEminati did to you
The maximum lyrical, nigga you minimal
There's a big hole in the desert, I told the men in blue to dig for you
4rm Beast 4rm The East
[Canibus]
Canibus brings the sickest drama,
fierce enough to pierce the thickest armor
I smack *****es who try to suck dick through a condom
Playing with the mic is something I wont do
my only concern when I approach you, is to roast you
I smoke you and whoever you standing close to
and make every man in your crew deny that he knows you
defeating, niggas like Segal Steven,
putting Emcees in, positions to prevent 'em from breathing
I'll make you question any and everything you've ever believed in
by peeping your deepest secrets like psychic readers,
What's the matter with ya'll, I splatter ya'll
against the mutha ****in wall with these raw lyrics I catapult
None of ya'll got the balls big enough to battle,
I go On & On like Erika Badu
a hundred times nicer than the best there is
twice as African as KRS is, who wanna test this
**** yall you dont impress me and no one can test me
An Emcee so ill, I got AIDS scared to catch me
All that shit you poppin will stop, when I put you in a headlock,
and apply pressure until I crush your mutha ****in noggin
I grab mics and push niggas to the left
so fast their hearts end up on the right side of their chests
My hypothesis, is that nobody can see this
lyrical genius, I got it sown like a seamstress
But if you want to battle, I'm down,
If you got nine lives, I'll take eight of them off your hands right now
Step up and get your neck cut from ear to ear
If you survive, then you can cover your scar with a beard
I'm the illest from Queens to the new Jerusalem briddicks
anyone who aint feeling my shidick can suck my didick
You need to quit it, if you aint spitten
more than 50 bars per minute cause you aint in lyrical fitness
kickin' boring raps with metaphors that's wack
all of ya'll mutha *****s need NordicTrack
to get ya weight up, ****in with Canibus you get ate up
get beat down and sprayed up, just for bringing my name up
been rockin longer than niggas twice my age
back in the days before Bob Marley was rockin a fade
before Honest Abe signed the paper that freed slaves
before Neanderthals was drawing on walls in caves
I existed, in the garden of Eden gettin lifted
stickin dick to Eve before she was Adams mistress
Before Christ created Christmas, I been in lyrical fitness
The Canibus is spitten till' he's spitless
50 bars of total sickness, you wont forget this
I'm puttin' every wack Emcee alive on my shit list
verbally vicious, tele-connectically gifted
took you a minute, to exhibit that I'm sick wit it
Now you tell me who you think is damaging shit
going once, going twice
Sold to that nigga name Canibus
Me and Mr.Cheeks, A-Plus, and Funk Doctor
hopping out the Hue helicopter to suey chop ya
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For all you niggaz sayin that my shit is sick, just imagine
the ninety percent of my brain that I ain't even used yet
Take a deep breath, quick, suck in as much air
as my lungs will permit -- then I start to kick that shit
I been gettin busy before the planets started to turn
Before the bees, the birds, and Adam and Eve occured
Prior to all creation, in other words
When the female egg will merge with the man's sperm
I stand firm, my words burn through your exterior
The eat away at your materia, I'm superior
While you only pretend to be, I can double my density
from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly
Six, multiplied by five by four by three by two
then one, go head and calculate the sum
The time has cometh, I was summoned to punish
Mother******s with mouths to run it ? with rubbish
When I come through, niggaz stand stiller than statues
Cause if I have to, I'll battle your whole rap crew
Then I'll attack you with words that's absurd
and rip your ****in skin off just to get on your nerves
canibus funk master flex freestyle
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No regrets, you live and you learn
I'm through giving advice I just give concerns --Canibus off Levitibus
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food for thought , nutrition for the whole brain
keep youre neuro-transistors warm on a cold day
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Lost @ C from the 2000 B.C. joint, in my opinion, one of the most highly sleep on joints.
Yo, yo, yo
Now when you see that big *** 'C', you know I'm comin through
And when you know I'm comin through, you know what I'ma do
I never said that battlin me, would be impossible
I just think it's highly mother****in improbable
You talkin to a nigga that can split molecules
to subatomic particles, strong enough to stop a bull
Body-slam two oxes and drop a mule
Urinatin rocket fuel, freestylin over gospel tunes
Rhymes by the thousands, rhymes for hours
I could kick a rhyme longer than your whole album
The kickboxer, beatin the shit out niggaz proper
I beat 'em till they holla, beat 'em til the cops come
Beatin niggaz til they have seizures, beat 'em til they start screamin
like fax machines when they start receivin
Beat 'em til my own hands start bleedin
Beat 'em til they lungs stop breathin and they heart stop beatin
From 12 A.M. to 12 P.M. in the evenin
With three 15 minute breaks in between 'em
Good Jesus, that's a real West Indian beatin
That's what you get for ****in with this lyrical demon
My bloodstream's been, contaminated for eons
I got cast out of heaven for treason
Got cast out of the Garden of Eden
for lettin the reptilian beast in
Got locked up for a DUI and speedin
A whole legion of half-decent emcees'll get released when
they spit a hundred bars for they freedom
See I'm much too nice to compete wit
Too nice to flow over beats wit, too nice to hold a M-I-C wit
Off some diesel Hercules shit, I cold flip
and start to punch trees til they leafless
Inhale with two real deep breaths, hold my breath
til the whole planet suffocates and then release it...
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Yo check it *beat comes in*
I destroy your whole city block when I'm ready to rock
Blow the speaker box, magnetically shielded or not
Magnetically energy poppin gates of radio waves
Oscilate lyrics and beats copulate to pop your tape
Manipulatin space in large proportions
"Millions of brain organs get lost when I start talkin
About shit like supernatural forces
Gnomes and theories and superstring theories
Most of you motha******s barely
Even understand the English language, much less think clearly"
When I die, will I go to Heaven or Hell
Or will I end up in a place called the Van Allen Belt
I researched my roots, lookin for proof
The best place to hide a lie is between two truths
The aftermath of a nuclear blast
When the average death sentence becomes a dead paragraph
I dig a 5 by 9 rectangle in the grass
Reach your epitab and bury your ***
As the coffin gets lowered into the ground slowly
I'll sing all of your greatest hits, oldies on karaoke
canibus- chaos
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"Buckingham Palace" Can-I-bus
Yo, yo, a little bit of weed and some Henessey
got me ready to set it with kinetic energy
See I need much more energy then my enemies
If I wanna make more Bill's then Bellamy
So I could be on MTV
with women constantly tellin me I resemble Billy Dee
I make fly rhymes to get my name on the scene
Then when I'm on the scene I do shows to get the green
Then I take the green, buy a automobile machine
for that thing on page 43, in Jet Magazine
Canibus is the ultimate executioner's dream
Swingin the guillotine, cause whenever the head is severed
from the human body with a sharp enough weapon
the brain remains conscious for ten seconds
Long enough for me to give you one last message
And when you get to Hell you can tell Lucifer I said it
Don't ever get it confused, ****in with Canibus
the human Rubix Cube like you got somethin to prove
Yo, whoever grabs the mic after me'll get booed
Get everything in the club thrown at you and your crew
From Moet bottles to bar stools, fruits and foods
You got a album out, you get hit with your CD too
Runnin outside, cryin, lyin, denyin
that you ain't The Gay Rapper, but you got ****ed by him
What's the difference? Y'all niggaz still ain't in lyrical fitness
Too busy mixin your bid'ness with your *****es
While I be in the lab composin forbidden scriptures
So wicked I got, Satan ejaculatin on his fingers
Like Dirk Diggler, in the middle of +Boogie Nights+
Sniffin white, livin the hype, he ruined his life
But I'm a MC of a different type, yeah that's right
Make sure your shit is tight, or I'ma snatch yo' mic, nicca!
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this girls voice is beautiful most of ya'll might know her from groove theory she was the lead siren had hits like "tell me if u want me to"
anyways she came out with a new album called
bravebird..
now here's the thing her album was named after a somali model who underwent thru the female genital mutiliation process.. i'm guessin waris derie or something.. the song i like she was on was with glenn lewis on "whats come over me"
damn ggirl can sing..
here's the whole interview..
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New DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single African ancestor who lived some 60,000 years ago. To uncover the paths that lead from him to every living human, the National Geographic Society launched the Genographic Project at its Washington, D.C., headquarters April 13.
The project is a five-year endeavor undertaken as a partnership between IBM and National Geographic. It will combine population genetics and molecular biology to trace the migration of humans from the time we first left Africa, 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, to the places where we live today.
Ten research centers around the world will receive funding from the Waitt Family Foundation to collect and analyze blood samples from indigenous populations (such as aboriginal groups), many in remote areas. The Genographic Project hopes to collect more than a hundred thousand DNA samples to create the largest gene bank in the world. Members of the public are also being invited to participate.
"Our DNA tells a fascinating story of the human journey: how we are all related and how our ancestors got to where we are today," said American geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells, the project leader. "This project will show us some of the routes early humans followed to populate the globe and paint a picture of the genetic tapestry that connects us all."
Wells, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, feels a certain sense of urgency. Wars, environmental disasters, and increasing globalization are causing more people to move, and the world is gradually becoming less culturally and genetically diverse.
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"We need to take a genetic snapshot of who we are as a species before the geographic and cultural context are lost in the melting pot," Wells said. He cites language as a measure of the disappearance of cultures. "There are around 6,000 languages spoken in the world today, and by the end of the century, between half and 90 percent of those are going to be gone."
IBM, as the technology partner of the project, will participate in collecting the data, storing it, and analyzing it.
"We have some indications, from prior studies about the migration of people, how the diversity and similarity that we see in peoples of the world might have happened in the last 50,000 to 10,000 years," said Ajay Royyuru, a senior manager of IBM's Computational Biology Center. "But what is missing is the detail, the ability for everyone on the planet to be able to see, understand, exactly how they got to be where they are."
Tracking Genetic Markers
Each human parent contributes half of a child's DNA, which combines with the other parent's DNA to form a new genetic combination. This so-called recombination gives each of us a unique set of attributes: hair, eye, and skin color; athleticism or lack thereof; susceptibility to certain diseases; and so on.
However, the chunk of DNA known as the y chromosome, which only males possess, is passed from father to son without recombining. The y chromosome, therefore, remains basically unchanged through generations, except for random mutations. Similarly, women pass mitochondrial DNA, which also does not recombine, on to both their sons and daughters.
Random mutations to DNA, which happen naturally and are usually harmless, are called markers. Once a marker has been identified, geneticists can go back in time and trace it to the point at which it first occurred. This way, they are able to determine when and where a new lineage began.
If they can be traced to a particular region, these lineages can be used to track prehistoric migration patterns. However, indigenous identities are being lost as more and more people move from their ancestral villages.
"And when they do [leave], their kids [absorb] the dominant culture in that [new] city and lose touch with the old ways," Wells said. "So what we lose is the context in which their genetic diversity arose. The genes are still going to be there, but without the geographical context, we can't infer anything historical from the genetic data."
Battur Tumer, a descendant of Genghis Khan and one of the participants at the project launch today in Washington, D.C., exemplifies the importance of finding indigenous populations in their ancestral lands.
Wells's team collected y chromosome data in a region of Asia once ruled by the 13th-century Mongolian warrior. Their analysis identified a marker that originated about a thousand years ago and was carried by about 8 percent of the men living in the region. The marker was found in only one population outside of Asia—the Hazaras tribe in Pakistan. The Hazaras have a long oral tradition that says they're Khan's direct descendants.
Tying the marker to a geographic location and looking at the region's history—Genghis Khan's armies often raped the women of vanquished villages, and his descendants later expanded the empire—suggests that today roughly 16 million men carry a genetic mutation that probably originated with Khan's great-great-grandfather.
The spread of that particular mutation was the result of a cultural artifact—military success combined with a culture in which men could have many wives and concubines—but it exemplifies much of the impetus of the Genographic Project.
"The shared marker was identified because a focused effort was made to sample specific populations, going after populations like the Hazara, who have this oral history and want to test it to see if it's true," Wells said.
"In addition, the people in the region had lived there for centuries, and enough samples were collected to do an analysis. The indigenous groups participated because the wanted their stories told."
Public Participation
The Genographic Project is designed to tell everyone's story, though, not just the stories of indigenous cultures. What is unique about this project is the extent to which it relies on public participation.
"Most research happens through the hands of researchers, and the public at large gets to hear about it and learn about it on occasion, but there isn't a way for them to participate. This project is actually inviting individuals all over the world to be sort of associate researchers," Royyuru said. "Success is actually going to be determined by how many and how diverse the people are that participate, which is a fascinating thing."
The DNA data being collected places a person in a "haplogroup"—a lineage or branch on the human family tree that is defined by a set of genetic markers. Haplogroup R, for instance, is identified by a y chromosome mutation known as M173. Roughly 70 percent of English men have this lineage, 95 percent of Spanish men, and 95 percent of Irish men.
"The reason a lot of western Europeans have it is because it defines an expansion in the end of the last ice age as people moved north out of Iberia [ancient Spain]," Wells said. "The cool thing is that the penultimate marker—if you go back one step from M173—is M45, which arose in Central Asia, so it tells you about this journey your ancestors took through the steppes of Central Asia hunting mammoths and so on. Before that they were down in the Middle East."
The Middle Eastern marker, M89, represents a wave of migration out of Africa that occurred around 45,000 years ago. The Haplogroup R lineage ultimately traces all the way back to marker M168.
"Every non-African has M168, which appeared in eastern Africa around 60,000 years ago," Wells said.
"Some geographies have been better studied than others," Royyuru said. "In Europe we have a much better understanding of the genotypic diversity that exists and how that population happens to be so diverse—who came from where at what point in time. That is not the case with a large majority of Asia and Africa. There is certainly some understanding of the possible waves of migration and the routes that people might have traveled to populate North and South America, but even those are not definitive."
Should you want to get an idea of your own origins, National Geographic is selling kits that allow an individual to take a cheek swab, send it to a laboratory in Arizona, and then track the information on the Genographic Project Web site.
The kits will sell for U.S. $99.95 plus shipping and handling. The net proceeds from sales of the kits will fund additional research and the Legacy Project, which will aid indigenous cultures.
Legacy and Controversy
"The three main pillars of the project are field research, public participation and communication, and the Legacy Project," Wells said. "We see this as a collaborative effort with the indigenous populations."
The Legacy Project will provide indigenous groups participating in the Genographic Project with direct help through development projects, education, and public-awareness campaigns aimed at preserving traditional cultures.
The idea of creating the world's largest DNA database and collecting blood samples from indigenous groups could raise objections.
Genographic was specifically designed to dispel many of these concerns. The kits are designed so that there's no way to tie a kit's identification number to a specific individual.
Wells emphasizes the public nature of the project.
"We want this to be a very open project. We want to tell the public what it is we're doing, the goals, the methods, and we want to explain the results," Wells said. "We're not doing anything medically relevant, not patenting anything," he added.
"We see this as information that's part of the [common heritage] of our species. It's going to be released into the public domain, and people can go back and reanalyze it and query it and learn about it. We're hoping to create a virtual museum of human history."
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so that means adam and eve were black?