Rap and Emily Wells

A friend sent me a message addressing the fact he liked that I referred to rap as poetry. He had to go to sleep but I letter abused him about my weird tastes in music. In case you care I will share the letter and the links as I discuss my love of black men, my strange tastes in music and my female icon. (besides anias nin)

thank you my dear. your comment made my night. I hate to bring up the race issue but it is a big deal in my rural southern town. I have so many people call me nigger fucker i wear it like a badge. I don't know if you read my blog about my time with black men. It was an early blog. It shocked a lot of people. One man was rude enough to ask me if it was the truth. then he made the comment who knew you were a BBC slut. I reamed him and let him know if my black friends heard him call me that they would make him shit and piss blood for a long time.

Those boys respected me. they did call me niggah and I was simply one of the boys. I recommend you read that blog. You may also enjoy the long blog to chris and bob about my family background. I discuss integrating the school system and the fact that here little black boys carry weight in d**gs and race the cops wearing loafers while they have on the best nikes money can by. I think the best part about that blog was when I described my fuck buddy pooh bear's dismissal that I could run. I dared him to race me barefeet down the street. If you want to know how this white girl races you'll just have to read the story.

If you read that blog you will understand how my parents were a sixties love match because my dad spent his first two years of high school living in st. croix. his high school year book is one of my prize possessions. he was the only white boy in the book. then he moved back home and he was more black than white. He always was.

my musical tastes are funny. If you read about my c***dhood one issue i didn't share was having one of the first cd's that also played records, tapes and the radio. country music was banned in my house. me and my dad bonded over his records from the sixties. we didn't bond over many things. We had three cds. A rolling stones album i didn't care about, sargeant pepper's lonely hearts club band by the beatles. and one more. my brother was a spoiled brat and cds were nearly thirty bucks. he was so young. nonetheless, my mom let him by nirvana's nevermind album with the naked baby on the front.

I latched on to nirvana with such a passion. My brother never listened to it. When it was finally time to move the stereo into my room then I started to play. I love female musicians. Happiness to me is 'the mammas and the pappas.' Mamma Cass singing makes me euphoric. I love another old sixties performer that my dad adored named melanie

linda marris: i will post this because i see your still up. this is when I letter **** people. you may have not been letter ****d yet but I do it all the time. My parents and my grandparents raised me and i was not allowed my own music until nearly 14. Other than nirvana I have no memory of watching music from the nineties. no madonna. no milli vanilli. no mc hammer. no boys to men. no rap or even chuck berry or stevie wonder. I missed all of eighties and nightes music.


I had to discover black music and I loved it. But i am very particular. For instance I love bone thugs in harmony, I love KRS-1, I love little Kim, I love missy elliot, I don't know 2pac, I did come to love snoop dog. I think if i had to pick a favorite rap song it would have to be 'gin and juice' or 'gansta's paradise' but I need to improve my knowledge of the men who wrote real rap. I don't do this bling, money, bitches. I prefer d**gs, cops, crime. poverty, barber shops. church and chicken.

linda marris: my favorite musician right now i think you might really like. Her name is emily wells. I always play this song first because I think it is so damn sexy. It's funny because her clothes are so ugly but she looks so hot. She is a one-woman band. I will link you to more of her rap style songs but first I wanted to show you what she looks like live and how she makes ALL THE MUSIC there is never anyone but her on that stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOcxhsl-S8

the copy was lagging a bit but i hope it plays perfect for you. and i hope im not already telling you about a woman you know and don't like. I don't know. I like her style like she shows up and to be sexy all she needs his her damn voice. that is soul. this is the music I listen too instead of R Kelley

this is the rap part you will see mirrors what i like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKppvcIk40M&list=PL28CFED60C58AB073&index=2

you'll love this if you haven't heard it already. at least if you know of emily wells i can tell you which one of her songs are my favorite. she really is a huge personal hero of mine. I want to tell her i adore her music more than some people love jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nAofzqso0&list=PL28CFED60C58AB073&index=10

and finally i do have a song. it is just mine. I have to tell lots of people because if i do have a memorial service or a wedding or the death of my mother this is all I am going to play. It gives me total happiness. This is who I really am. This is the song that I dream. It is just irony. its too beautiful for words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atomCgdJi84&index=16&list=PL28CFED60C58AB073

linda marris: the copy was lagging a bit but i hope it plays perfect for you. and i hope im not already telling you about a woman you know and don't like. I don't know. I like her style like she shows up and to be sexy all she needs his her damn voice. that is soul. this is the music I listen too instead of R Kelley

linda marris: not like i wrote it. it is a weird piece by emily wells that strangely has no words. but I play the same playlist on youtube and that song hits and I'm just so happy with my life. I'm no longer friends with the man who told me to research her. You would have loved the letter I wrote him telling me he gave me something as beautiful as a mansion. he gave me more than diamonds and pearls. He gave me a symphony, rap, violin, harmony, a female icon, a piano. seriously i recommend you try her playlist and watch her life. she has the voice of an angel and the words of a rapper.

i will finish letter r****g you now. Not many people know about my song. BEFORE I WROTE THIS BLOG. I think you'll get it. But what are your musical tastes. and do you think it's to late for this 32 year old white girl to finally learn about 2pac and biggie
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10 years ago
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
i could discuss the issue of race for days. I live in a southern hick town where it is still not okay for black people to be around white people. there is hatred on both sides. i fit in beautifully with black men. Black women tend to hate me and threaten me. one of my earliest blogs describes when i spent all my time with just black men. it was beautiful. however, i have lost track of how many men have called me a 'nigger fucker' in fact i wrote a beautiful blog about what my life would've been like if my aunt didn't commit suicide. I wrote that she would live with me and my mom. She would take my mom out to meet men. My mom would meet a nice black man that didn't call her fat and she would be happy. In my family all hell broke loose because of that blog. My cousin told my dead aunt's son that if his mother was alive i said she would be fucking a nigger. Over and over I told them to re-read it and see that I stated my mom would marry a black man. She adores black people. It didn't matter. They threatened to kill me if i didn't stop writing about our family and I had my cousin rant and rave that his mother would never fuck a nigger and I was told speaking about her again would get me killed. I had to block them to keep writing. They still say I'm a nigger fucking whore that disrespected a dead woman by saying she would ever fuck a nigger. That's my town.
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
now i know why that song made you feel like you got kicked in the stomach. I rarely smoke weed but I needed a bowl after that
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
to bignasty9 : they deserve the title. it is art
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
I love the topic. It is so easy to rhyme when you use ebonics. It makes the tone of people's language melodic. When you hear a group of black people speak there are harmonies that are missing from a gathering of white people. I love pot. My female best friend from college introduced me to lil kim. I adored her. We loved missy more. I'm a dork that loves en vogue. I'll post my favorite song and you can't tell me it is not the best damn intro I've heard. And these lyrics stayed timeless. This has always been my song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmDKwR0eaIM
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
to hitman66 : I need to listen to it more. I just need to meet cool people around where I live. Some music should only be played in good company and I need guidance from a dope dude who knows what to play for me.
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
to wolfrider2121 : I understand your tastes. I like a lot of the oldies. from patsy cline to hank williams. Old country plays an important part of my life. However, now I mostly listen to a handful of female musicians like emily
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bignasty9 10 years ago
there is a reason they are called artists :smile:
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hitman66
That's dope you listen to true school hip hop, respect! It's never to late to pick up on good music. Music is for the soul!
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wolfrider2121
wolfrider2121 10 years ago
Lynn I prefer the music from the 50s to mid 80s I like the harmonies found in that era more tan what passes for commercial music today
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
it really is. I think it would be an interesting study to see how the evoloution of ebonics related to songs all the way back to slave times. Thank you for commenting on my blog. I do lean more towards rhyme than poetry with no beat. I can't write beautiful prose. My skill is rhyme. But I'll always have a thing for female musicians.
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linmarris
linmarris Publisher 10 years ago
i really liked your song. It's nice to hear a good beat with lyrics that serve a purpose. I love chill music. But damn I can't stand what passes for music on the radio
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