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_drafts/2025-03-15-Music-Education-Nuthin-But.md

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- Posse cut (compare to Make 'Em Say Uhh!) by tonight Lil' Kim, Flavor in Your Ear
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- Bonita Applebum rap love song
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### It was a good day - Ice Cube (1992)
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- Giving up the nappy dugout, crude
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- NWA
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- Footsteps in the dark
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- Oshay, nicknamed to Ice Cube
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- Compton, bussed to nicer neighborhood as part of desegregation effort, contrast eye opening
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- Boys in the hood 87
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- Straight outta Compton 88, fuck the police
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- Drive by song sound effects
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- Angry all the time
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- Storytelling in music, turning into script writing
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- Regressive racist machismo mysogeny
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- Yo-yo on cube record
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- 1991 change in scan sales tracking showed rap and country dominance
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- No gasoline, homophobic anti antisemitism
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- “You can do Jack swing on my nuts“
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- “You see the anger, but you don’t understand the anger ““
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- Song “it was a good day” was about how uncommon it was to have a good day
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- Blogger deciding that the day was Jan 20th
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- Reality rap, not gangster
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- Made it for black kids, white kids are “eavesdropping“
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### Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre (1992)
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- *The Chronic*
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- Snoop Doggy Dogg

_drafts/2025-03-17-Music-Education-Salt-N-Pepa.md

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- Funky beat and empowering lyrics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Man_(song)#Salt-N-Pepa_and_En_Vogue_version
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### Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa (1994)
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- _AI Generated_
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- Flirty and confident hip-hop track
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- Known for its catchy hook and playful lyrics
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- Helped solidify Salt-N-Pepa's status as hip-hop pioneers
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### Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa (1993)
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- Push it, not about sex. Dancing.
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- B side last minute add, Fresh Gordon producer
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- They don’t like it, don’t get it, ew
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- Cheryl and Sandra
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- Latoya, Spinderella. Replaced by Deadra after first album
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- Herbie, dating one of them, writer and producer
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- First album in 1986
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- Hot cool viscous. First album to hit gold and platinum, 4 million. Has push it.
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- Shake your thang, sampling James Brown
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- Do you really want me
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- Expression
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- Let’s talk about sex
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- Let’s talk about aids
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- None of your business, condoning prostitution but not approving of that
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- What a man, costarring En Vogue, Herbie wrote
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- Shoop, gender swapped catcall, Herbie didn’t write and didn’t like
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- Salt got religion, didn’t want to do more Shoops
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoop

_drafts/2025-05-02-Music-Education-Dont-Speak.md

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### Just a Girl - No Doubt (1996)
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- _AI Generated_
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- Feminist anthem with a ska-punk influence
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- Lyrics critique gender stereotypes
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- Helped establish No Doubt's mainstream success
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### Just a Girl - No Doubt (1995)
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- Reel big fish 96 sell out, beer
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- Ska
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- Mighty might Boston’s Impression that I get, someday I suppose
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- Goldfinger, here in your bedroom
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- Just a girl 95
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- Gwen Stefani
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- Took nearly a decade to become an overnight success
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- Gwen first performed “on my radio”, obsessed with Sound of Music
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- John Spence was front man and took own like 1987, had been dating Gwen
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- Bigger brother Eric is main songwriter
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- Sublime
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- Eric left band between second and third album, gets job animating for Simpsons
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- 11 million people in us buy album
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- Will marry Gavin from Bush
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- Song William Shatner aka
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- Spiderwebs, pop punk
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- Don’t speak, power ballad, video focuses on Gwen at expense of other band members
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- Feeling hella good so just keep on dancing, holla back girl
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### The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1997)
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### Closer - Nine Inch Nails (1994)
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- Downward Spiral 1994
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- Hurt
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- Whip edit
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- Weird Al polka version
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- Pretty hate machine first, head like a hole
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- Young piano prodigy ish
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- Wanted to design synthesizers
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- Industrial
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- Imperfect human contrast. Man vs machine
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- You’re not cool enough to like my band
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- Wish on Broken
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- Quake
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- Music composing: the social network, Soul
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- March of the Pigs video
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- Karaoke mashup of Ghostbusters and Closer
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- 33 and a third book about albums
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- Johnny Cash hurt video
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- Censored video
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- Drums played by computers
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### Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson (1996)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_People_(song)
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### My name is - Eminem (1999)
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- Nas 1994 album
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- AZ life’s a Bitch, doe or die
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- Marshall Mathers
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- First album out before daughter born, aping AZ and Nas
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- 97 Slim Shady EP
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- Fired from job right before Christmas with 1 year old daughter, Evicted, places 2nd in rap Olympics
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- De. Dre discovers from demo tape / slim shady EP
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- Comic timing
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- Guilty conscience
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- Mysogeny and homophobia
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- 97. Bonnie and Clyde: song about fantasizing killing babies, mother. Used actual baby sounds from actual baby.
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- 8 mile movie
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- “Better gave shut that will get a reaction or you will not be accepted when you’re on the mic… saying stuff just to get that reaction. Maybe u took it too far sometimes“
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- Charisma, technical ability, silly and nasty
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- “Role model”
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- “Renegade” and “ether”

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