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2:06
enemy, the sources that we used for
2:09
this public enemy episode which helped us
2:11
uncover an insane story that we weren't
2:13
able to use. But you're going to
2:15
hear about it here. And of course,
2:17
your voicemails, texts, DMs, and more. And
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as always, a whole lot of rosy
2:21
stuff. Alright, discos, nice. Hybrids,
2:38
mashups, collaborations. On the whole, when
2:40
it comes to artists we love,
2:42
these are usually positive efforts. The
2:45
band and Bob Dylan's basement tapes, Robert
2:47
De Niro and Al Pacino in heat,
2:49
Taylor Swift and Post Malone, I
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guess. But sometimes, the melding of
2:54
two different artists or artistic elements
2:56
is not so great. Metallica. He'd
2:58
come to mind as does the sight of
3:00
Mick Jagger and David Bowie dancing in the
3:02
street. But sometimes, in the case
3:05
of Public Enemy anyway, the collaboration is
3:07
a massive head fake. When
3:09
Public Enemy and Anthrax released their collaborative
3:12
version of the PE song, Bring the
3:14
Noise, if you were me, 17 years
3:17
old, when this happened,
3:19
the world stood still. It
3:22
may seem cheesy now in retrospect, but
3:24
I am telling you back then, hearing
3:26
Chuck D rap over the massive groove
3:28
that a thrash band was providing for
3:30
him. It was as
3:32
if a whole new musical dimension had
3:34
been discovered. I couldn't fucking believe the
3:36
awesomeness that I was hearing. Rap
3:39
and metal together? Are you kidding me?
3:41
How had no one ever thought of this before? Sure
3:43
the Beastie Boys came close with their Slayer samples on
3:46
License to Ill, but that was more of a wink
3:48
and a nod. And he got
3:50
Run DMC with Arrow Smith and Walk This
3:52
Way, but honestly that felt more like a
3:54
novelty song. Chuck D and
3:57
Flavor Flav, earnestly rapping the
3:59
hard-hitting lyrics of their tune bring
4:01
the noise with anthrax killing it underneath,
4:04
rap and metal together for the first time
4:06
in a serious way, sign me
4:08
the fuck up. What kind
4:10
of gilded path of creative genre bending enlightenment were
4:12
the 90s about to thrust upon us? How
4:15
good could the future of music be
4:17
if this public enemy and anthrax, rap
4:19
and metal were the vanguard? I was
4:21
pumped. This was revolutionary shit. My parents
4:23
might have had the 60s in Motown
4:26
and Crosby, Stills and fucking Nash, but
4:28
I had Hank Shockley and Charlie Vanont
4:30
so suck it hippie. If
4:32
the blues came together with country music to
4:34
create rock and roll, what were rap and
4:36
metal going to create for us? I
4:39
didn't know, but I was there for it. And
4:41
then, Rage against the Machine. Okay,
4:45
yeah, this, this is the shit, this
4:47
is what I'm talking about. Rage
4:49
was the natural next step from public enemy
4:52
and anthrax, a revolutionary
4:54
combo of genres and
4:56
revolutionary lyrically, just like P.E. was.
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I could definitely get with this. I saw Rage
5:01
the first time, the second time, the third and
5:03
probably the fourth time that they came to Boston.
5:05
I saw them open for House of Pain that
5:08
first time. House of Pain. Jump
5:10
around Guinness, Fights and Selfie. It's not
5:12
my thing, but it made sense. Okay,
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I'm not going to love every child that spawns
5:17
from the beautiful rap metal marriage from our public
5:19
enemy and anthrax, mommy and daddy, but okay, what's
5:22
next? Who else you got? And
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the next thing we got was the Judgment
5:26
Night soundtrack. Shitty movie on
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paper, an incredible soundtrack
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of rap and metal collaborations.
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The aforementioned House of Pain with helmet, De
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La Soul in Teenage Fanclub,
5:39
Cypress Hill in Sonic Youth.
5:42
But wait a minute, this
5:44
actually wasn't that good. It
5:46
was more run DMC, Aerosmith, Schlock than
5:48
the genre-busting revolution that I was waiting
5:51
for post public enemy and anthrax.
5:54
Surely though, it'll be coming soon. This
5:57
new music, the second coming of
5:59
culture defined tunes that would take the
6:01
world by storm, and that we would name organically
6:03
and irreverently at a later date of our choosing.
6:05
In other words, when the musical Messiah appears, he
6:07
who shall be named will be done so whenever
6:09
the fuck we of the generation known as X
6:11
get around to it. And
6:13
then he appeared. Not
6:17
as a pure, natural, revolutionary progression
6:19
from public enemy to rage against
6:22
the machine, but as
6:24
some red-hatted clown with pussy and
6:26
weed only on the brain. It
6:29
was Fred fucking Durst of
6:32
Limp Biscuit. This. This.
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This doing it all for the
6:37
nookie bullshit was basically all we
6:39
had to show culturally from the
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promise of the public enemy and
6:44
Anthrax collaboration. Rap
6:46
and metal had gone horribly wrong,
6:48
like some fucked up cannibal Frankenstein
6:50
descending upon our village to feast
6:52
upon our souls. How? How?
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How is this the outcome? With
6:57
so much promise and so much
6:59
awesomeness produced basically garbage.
7:03
The answer? I don't know. Public
7:05
enemy and Anthrax's incredible melding of
7:07
rap and metal would bring the
7:10
noise was basically just lightning
7:12
in a bottle. Those two
7:14
groups were basically from the same place. And
7:17
though musically one was Venus and the other
7:19
Mars, rap and metal from New York City
7:21
at that time, it wasn't all that
7:23
different. The sensibilities were very similar
7:25
amongst the kids who were making that
7:28
type of music, but spread out culturally
7:30
from Sir Mix-a-Lot all the way to
7:32
fucking Mudhoney and back again. Things
7:35
got entirely fucked and ended with Fred Durst
7:37
running the music industry for a minute. But
7:39
hey, that wasn't all that bad. At least
7:41
it resulted in some awesome queens of the stone age,
7:43
but I digress. For
7:46
more on public enemy, you can listen
7:48
to this week's Disgrace Hand episode on
7:50
P.E. for a taste of another Bonkers
7:52
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let's talk for a minute about the sources
11:01
we used for this Public Enemy episode. First,
11:03
I have to mention Can't Stop, Won't Stop,
11:05
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff
11:07
Chang and also Check the Technique, Liner
11:10
Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies by Brian Coleman.
11:12
Two books that any hip-hop fan should
11:14
have on their shelf. These are full
11:16
of a ton of history, a ton
11:18
of insight into hip-hop that any time
11:21
we make an episode on a hip-hop
11:23
artist, honestly we're cracking these books like
11:25
we did for this episode. Chuck D himself, this
11:28
is very helpful. Chuck D himself is super
11:31
vocal out there giving lots of interviews, lots of
11:33
talks. So we used his appearances
11:35
on shows like People's Party with Talib Kweli and
11:38
Drink Champs to get inside his head and
11:40
formulate his point of view which drives a
11:43
lot of this episode which was not an
11:45
easy episode to write for a ton of
11:47
different reasons. The
11:50
primary biography of the group that we used
11:52
for this episode is a book called Public
11:54
Enemy Inside the Pterodome by Tim Griersohn. This
11:56
had so much information in it from
11:59
how to... He found his voice by doing
12:01
an imitation of sportscaster Marv Albert to flavor
12:04
phase numerous run-ins with the law Inside
12:06
baseball stuff here too like how you're
12:08
gonna get yours to kick off track
12:10
on PE's debut albums originally titled You're
12:12
gonna get yours as in Bernard Getz
12:16
The vigilante the white vigilante who shot four
12:18
black men on a New York City subway
12:20
train in 1984 Saying
12:24
that they tried to rob him it was later
12:26
of course found not guilty of attempted murder Public
12:29
enemies music was literally ripped from the
12:31
headlines music. It's part of what made it so
12:33
fucking awesome You could feel it back then you
12:35
can feel it now when you listen to And
12:38
we try to illustrate that with the way
12:40
that we arranged the narrative of this episode
12:43
To have public enemy story told
12:45
in a way that weaves these other stories
12:48
About the death of aspiring artist Michael Stewart
12:50
at the hands of the New York Transit
12:52
cops There's the Shakur
12:54
dramatic jailbreak in the case of the
12:57
Central Park five For
12:59
research on all those things who went outside the
13:01
public enemy BIOS to some great articles in
13:03
the New York Times and elsewhere but
13:06
I want to know this is uh Trying
13:09
to make this question as direct as possible. I
13:11
gotta give a little more background here So public
13:13
enemy to me have always been I recognize
13:15
this even at a young age. They've
13:17
always been folk music Okay,
13:19
clearly the rap their hip-hop I get it
13:22
And revolutionary at that, you know,
13:25
they're genre defining at that but
13:27
still lyrically They
13:30
are folk music even more than
13:32
NWA. We talked a little bit
13:34
earlier about how you know, they're their songs were
13:36
ripped from the headlines NWAs
13:40
were more caricature based I
13:42
think is the way to put it public
13:44
enemies was just was so
13:47
much more real Their
13:49
stories were so real so
13:52
representative of what was happening
13:56
Culturally To the members of that group and
13:58
to their families. Kind of that
14:01
music was being made in the
14:03
place it it was being made
14:05
in New York in America So
14:07
public enemy to me were always
14:09
ah is that is much akin
14:11
to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan
14:13
ah as they did with and
14:15
of You Way and Ice Tea
14:17
or even more so in some
14:19
ways. So to me. Folk.
14:21
Music. Okay, and that's the
14:23
question our data we ask a while
14:25
back. I think it was during yeah
14:27
was there for use during hip hop
14:29
sort of cities anniversary thing that was
14:31
going on last year. We ask what
14:33
was the greatest hip hop group of
14:36
all time and I think we landed
14:38
on M W Way? Public Enemy. Probably
14:40
a close second I can't remember honestly.
14:42
And. Instead of asking that question,
14:45
I want to ask you
14:47
who is the greatest spoke
14:49
artists of all time. And
14:51
I don't mean Newport Folk
14:53
Festival Two thousand and twenty
14:55
four? Not that there's anything
14:57
wrong with that. That's not
14:59
what I'm talking about on
15:01
talking about Weeds. Artist: was
15:04
it Shook D: Woody Guthrie,
15:06
Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Sinead
15:08
O'connor Bob Marley. Pick your
15:10
poison. Who best represented the
15:12
people spoke. As in people.
15:14
Which artist was the Wolf Blitzer
15:17
of their day in the music
15:19
business out there on the street
15:21
reflecting back to the people there
15:24
world through the music they were
15:26
created. To. Me, it takes a
15:28
nation of millions. To. Hold Us
15:30
Back by Public Enemy is the most
15:32
compelling representation of that type of folk
15:34
music that I've ever heard. Maybe if
15:36
I was born forty years earlier, I'd
15:39
say the same thing about Woody Guthrie.
15:41
Or twenty years earlier, I'd say the
15:43
same thing about Bob Dylan. But I
15:45
wasn't. I came of age with that
15:47
Public Enemy music. So to me, It.
15:49
Was like fuck, we're not hearing
15:52
this shit anywhere but here on
15:54
record. And. it was revolutionary
15:56
it was on inspiring and i want
15:58
to know from you guys who has
16:01
done that for you which artist has
16:03
best represented the world at large to
16:05
you in a journalistic folk music type
16:08
of way let me know 617-906-6638 text
16:13
voicemail hit me up just
16:16
like the 206 who called in
16:18
with this voicemail here hey Jake
16:20
I know it's been a while Tony from
16:22
the 253 hope
16:25
everything is going well listen I just got done
16:27
listening to the public in the episode man
16:30
I tell you I have it takes a
16:32
nation of millions to hold us back on
16:34
vinyl and I have it on CD but
16:37
you also mentioned a group on
16:40
that episode and that was Millie Vanilli and I
16:42
was just wondering is there any chance you might
16:44
get a Millie Vanilli episode in the future if
16:47
you haven't done so please check out the documentary
16:49
that they did on Paramount Plus it
16:52
is not chef's kiss you have to check
16:54
it out my brother much love
16:56
from 253 and yeah I look forward
17:00
to hearing from it also dug back into
17:02
the archives and heard the Marvin Gaye episode
17:05
who man oh man I'm
17:07
about to listen to uh to
17:09
the to what's going on album
17:11
right now I big man I'll talk to
17:14
you later bye Tony from the 253 awesome message
17:17
thank you first
17:19
of all stoked you like the public enemy episode and
17:21
good to hear from you again Millie Vanilli no
17:24
you know I've this has been requested from way back
17:26
and I've never really never
17:29
really given it any serious consideration for
17:31
an episode until the last couple weeks
17:34
I saw this really funny meme that
17:37
sparks something in me there
17:39
was like ah that'd be a cool angle into telling the
17:41
Millie Vanilli story
17:43
and it's basically Millie Vanilli standing next
17:45
to each other those two dudes looking
17:47
pissed and it says Millie
17:49
Vanilli standing by watching people get famous
17:52
for lip-syncing on TikTok in 2023 and
17:54
I just thought oh that's
17:56
too good that irony is too good I
18:00
didn't know there was a documentary on Paramount. I'm
18:02
stoked to watch this now. Thank you for hitting
18:04
me to that. And also thanks for
18:07
getting back into the archive there with Marvin Gaye.
18:09
All right, 617-906-6638. Call,
18:12
leave me a voicemail, whatever you want. This one comes
18:14
from the 563. Hey,
18:18
Jake. This
18:20
is Judy from the 309 and
18:22
Tarantino film. Top
18:26
five. I was with you. I
18:28
was right there with you side by side
18:31
on your list until
18:34
you moved Jackie Brown down to five.
18:36
I get it. I understand why Res
18:38
War Dogs is undeniable,
18:42
but I related to Jackie
18:44
Brown so much more. So I
18:47
would have to go Hulk Fiction,
18:50
Jackie Brown, Once Upon a Time
18:52
in Hollywood, Res War Dogs,
18:55
and I don't know. We'll just, a wild
18:57
card for him for five. Whatever you want,
18:59
anyone wants, I don't care. All right,
19:01
that's the 563. Judy,
19:03
I love the love for
19:06
Jackie Brown. I'm actually
19:08
stoked to hear you repping
19:10
Jackie Brown because I figured I was gonna be alone
19:12
in doing that. So
19:14
yeah, fuck yeah, appreciate it. 970, let's see
19:16
what the 970 was saying. We
19:19
talked about what the five greatest fight scenes were. Why did we
19:21
get into that? Was that because of Tarantino?
19:24
Fight scenes came from Tarantino. Tarantino came from Kill Bill.
19:26
Kill Bill came from the Kobe Bryant episode we did.
19:29
Okay, this is the 970 calling it. Hey
19:32
Jake, it's Dylan. Five
19:34
greatest fight scenes for me. I'd
19:38
have to say five would be
19:40
Steven Seagal and Marked for
19:42
Death against the two twins.
19:44
And then four would it
19:46
be Von Dom and Kickboxer,
19:49
three Von Dom and Bloodsport
19:52
at the end, And
19:54
two, I'd have to say Rocky, three
19:56
was a good one for me when
19:58
he beats Flubber Lane. A
20:00
number one now I don't have anyone
20:02
is set as yes that's a live
20:05
she's David and Rowdy Roddy Piper probably
20:07
one of the longer spicy but it's
20:09
also one of my favorite up And
20:11
they are a rock and roll and.
20:14
Or a nine seven know you're innocent. The
20:16
fight scenes there are. Take your word for
20:18
the haven't seen a lot of those. rocky
20:20
three of course. Amazing. Seventy.
20:22
One causes physicists or boy
20:24
is. Jake. What Are
20:27
your boy? this? Long.
20:29
Time I made. That. Hectic
20:31
out there. Just. Check
20:33
and then residing. Best.
20:35
Hollywood fight scenes. I
20:38
got three four years. Pretty.
20:40
Brad Pitt hobby. So.
20:43
We'll go with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
20:45
it Mr and Mrs. Smith. Clinical
20:47
practice at North and Fight Club.
20:50
Am going to go for as fit as supply.
20:53
Their. Love to fight. In
20:56
snatch diabetes snatch.
21:00
Let. Me know what you say. You.
21:03
Know he's good he voice man I
21:05
hope things are evening out for ya.
21:07
Do their little less hectic. I
21:10
love You know the concept of would
21:12
have the five greatest Brad Pitt fights
21:14
than some question on to it's own
21:17
as he knocked down here when I
21:19
would add Brad Pitt and Bruce Lee.
21:22
Or. Said say. Koulis. Is Eclipse.
21:25
Diskless from Once upon A Time in Hollywood
21:27
with Bruce Lee. I would add that to
21:29
the list and I'm sure we can find.
21:31
Assists were good. Call good causes we guys
21:33
good work only to call back in a
21:35
way to tell me. Who's. Greatest
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Jean Michel Basquiat career when he still
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in the Earth. worry size and buggy.
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her been Blondie are filming for their
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soon to be smash hit Rapture. Aren't.
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Take. A Listen. Within.
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Months Americans were unknowingly getting their first look
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This. is happening at the same time. The Zhao
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Michelle. Receivers. The working on
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a dozen pieces. For. His first
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solo gallery show. But.
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He wasn't listening to Blondie while he worked.
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the hip hop currently dominating
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his home neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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specifically to the alto saxophone
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of Charlie Parker. Charlie
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Parker take a Bird reminded
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him of child as scribbling
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on scraps of paper while
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lying on the floor his
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father and an armchair. his
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mother smiling. Afford.
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She was six. For
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his father remarried. Jean
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Michel Basquiat left home as
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sixteen for no matter where
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he was sleeping or how
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he was scraping by, the
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always found a way to
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listen to bird. Za Michelle
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wanted to stay away. The
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Charlie Parker played the saxophone.
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Charlie Parker played his way
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setting fire to the rules
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of jazz. Many he won't
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bits of melodies from spiritual
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show tunes and stravinsky and
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was playing and then he
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shifted season, bent them into
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something new. He played hard
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Flu sweet resume Michelle How long
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strokes of bright yellow acrylic across
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campus. Birds hard picked up with
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space and jaw muscles. Guest quick
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yard bird on the center of
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the camps. That
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Charlie Parker bird was wailing
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now zone. Michelle felt the
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energy surge in the speakers
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towards campus. He didn't think
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she's a slut. The ceilings
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wash over swirls. His notes
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filled the studio, then scanned
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this, then the whole city
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all the way home to
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Brooklyn. Waking The Dead in
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Greenwood Cemetery. Za
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Michelle scroll para mora
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to die across campus.
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Charlie Parker. Jean Michel set
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fire to the rules. Gave
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everything to his heart. He
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moved hard and worked hard. It
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was Nineteen Eighty One less than seven
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months since he painted his first canvas.
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Less than seven years. Before
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you the Billboard Hot one hundred of the week
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of February Tenth, Mighty, maybe seventh the week that
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Open. Your heart. Madonna. Last.
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