Is anybody feeling the Jazzyfatnastees the way I'm feeling them? I mean these sisters can sing. I am amazed that cats are not buying their album left and right, guess their too busy listening to that other stuff. If you don't have the album, go get it--you will not be disappointed. I assure of that. Does anybody else feel the same way?

"I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream" - Fiona Apple

"My name is Jerri Blank. I was a user, loser, and abuser!" - Jerri Blank

"Questioning why you should listen to my words, the way I say them, my flow.
Ignoring the fact that my spoken word will make your mind glow." - jose3030

Thanks for replying.

T-A-S-T-Y

__________________
What's Nesta listening to these days:

Donny Hathaway - In Performance
Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever/Na Poi
Prince - For You
Ghostface - Surpreme Clientele
Bashir Shakur aka Me'shell NdegéOcello - Live at Luna Park, CA
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free!

May is Offensive Quote Month:
"If you don't like how I'm living, well FUCK YOU!" - Ice Cube

Sure 'nuff !!!! I can't get enough of the new cd. I'm dying to see another visual from them, since I know I can't get out to the places where they play. So how about Jazzy's, another single/video ? Please ???????

Silky 1

I love the girls and I'm always going to support good music.
peace,
J

"If I don't like it, I don't like it/that don't mean that I'm hatin-Common

"I'm ahead of my time kid/I stopped for ya'll"-Juice

Celebrating Offensive Quote Month:
"Buckshot, Noreaga, Jigga, cool/Canibus, Wu Tang dem my niggas cool/Def Squad and Def jam but fuck Jah rule/Irv Gotti I can't for raekwon to break you"-Kurupt

"Until Bushwick Bill starts dunkin on Kobe bryant/I'll apply pressure"-Rass Kass

"Yo the last album I apologize for it/Yo i can't call it/Motherf*ckin Wyclef spoiled it!/-Canibus

It is most definitely good music. :-)

I bought the Jazzy CD for $3 a month before it came out. I work for a major newspaper and we often have sales of promo items to raise $$ for the united way. I only bought the CD because I thought the name was cool. I was(am) pleasantly suprised. The Lie is my favorite. They have such a soulful sound. It's hard to find real soul music anymore. I just ain't feeling Aaron Hall clones/and songs with lyrics(eat you up like Reces pieces.) some call it neo soul, I just call it good music.

Les Nubians
Rashan Patterson
D of course
Omar(his cd "this is not a love song" is banging)
looking forward to Lucy pearl
Best of Roy Ayers
Bob Marley Sun is Shinning

My favorite one has got to be Hear Me. Well, Breakthrough. I play Breakthrough about five times in a row.

I believe that they were 100 times better when there were four women in the group and not two. I also belive that while their album is good I can honestly say that I haven't listened to it since the day I bought it, it's too damn depressing. I also do believe that they have bad attitudes like Whitney. They act like they are qintuple platinum and they didn't even go cardboard and granted they didn't exactly get a push by MCA but how do you psh them? What would have been your marketing scheme for The Jazzies? Before they start acting like divas perhaps they should get a few more albums under their belts and sell some units. As of right now their accomplishments are doing background vocals for many groups adding a dynamic sound to the songs that they were on(with the four of them) and two albums one of which will never come out and one that we all probably have. Granted I think that these two women have a tremendous ammount of talent but as we all know talent doesn't always sell and I want them to sell so in my opinion I think that they should take this as a learning experience and get back to the lab and put out an even better ablum their third time around. PEACE

p.s. These are just my opinions and I probably won't be checking to see what you have to say to me about this so enjoy.

Swass/Knownots Crew

"Your rhymes won't impress me if you said'em doing backflips" Tash

"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone
and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."

R.I.P.
Thomas Timothy Lilac 11/03/22 - 01/30/00

>I believe that they were 100
>times better when there were
>four women in the group
>and not two.

wait a minute...there used to be 4?

what happened?

anyway...i like the jazzy cd, it's pretty
d@mn good if u ask me...any cd that i can
listen to from song one to the end(ten in this
case) without skippin' any, is a darn good cd.

i really like number 5...the name escapes me
right now.

go out and get this cd...try best buy because
the other stores i've been to have riddiculous
prices and i don't believe that any cd is
worth 16 dollars plus two more in tax.

but i'm broke...i don't know about ya'll.

:D

You are entitled to your opinion, and I know you said that you won't read any responses, but I am entitled to my opinion and observances too...

I feel a need to note that although you may have come to the conclusion that the Jazzee's have attitude problems, that I don't find this to be the case. Perhaps you caught them on a bad day or something, but I think they are sweethearts. Yeah I am saying this because I know them, yeah I am saying this because they are my friends, but quite frankly, they wouldn't be my friends if the were bidelywiches...

And as for the CD, I dig it. I don't find it depressing at all. I actually find it refreshing.

Peace,

Tank

"The non-artist formally known as the one I was fucking is now known as Bumba Fuck." Me

"When it comes to sex, the braggers are usually the saggers." Phil

"The revolution has tit's!" Nou-Ra

"As do many strong people, she found herself a victim of the tyranny of the weak." Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.

Now this is someone who knows their music. I'm feelin' you Tank......

Whatever, how can you sell when your album label does not promote you much at all. Who cares about what they would have promoting them as---the girls can sing. I mean, there are all of these Destiny Child's and other groups, falling into the game of singing what it selling. The Jazzees are not doing that, and that is what makes them unique. Figured you would not want to check back to see what I had to say, but people who know they are going to get some sort of feedback they do not want to hear, usually don't.

"p.s. These are just my opinions
>and I probably won't be
>checking to see what you
>have to say to me
>about this so enjoy"

And what about YOUR attitude...

I'll bet you checked.

Peace to the Jazzies. Thank you for providing something authentic for the masses... Clearly they need it.

there darling ladies!!
always gracious and kind and always give a smile through the restless and tiredness in there eyes.
I tell you what if you come at them wrong or on some bobo shit they might not like it and take into concideration peeps are constantly approachin them say hi i love ya music ya CD yall hot and step if they wanna hold a lil convo they will.......they are genuinely lovely sisters seriously :D


nebtsoul~~~~

"eff elian,my block is hot" bfnh

"mik underscore h is about to hijack this biatch....don't sleep, I'll roll up in your passenger seat...." the sultry MIK

"Fuck Fuck Fuck You!!" Nou Ra

"It dont take a whole day to recognize sunshine" Common

" E El Isum Shil El Eloh El Rahmun, Alazi Izu El Rahummul!"

Thank you for enlightening this okayplayer that has not checked back to see our response. Maybe others will realize that whomever placed that response truly did not know what they were talking about---opinion or not.....

Dear Nickelz:

I know you said you won't be reading this but on the off chance that you do, I can't help but want to reply. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, as I'm entitled to my opinion of your opinions. So here goes:

Granted, our album is not a dance album, nor did we ever intend or perpetrate that it would be so. We're definitely more about thinking than dancing and if that's depressing to you, so be it. A song like "Sail The Seas" is definitely NOT a happy song, but it is a wistful, haunting, thoughtful song about a child dying before her mother. It's real. It's happening while you're reading this post.

As for the "100 times better when there were four of them" I'll say that Tracey and I never started out with plans to be a duo, that's the twist of fate that life brought. But we weren't about to let what we'd worked so hard for die. I will say that regardless of your opinion Tracey and I are a 100 times better writers and vocalists today, than we were then. That's obvious when you listen to the Tommy Boy album, remember we have copies, you don't.

I sense that you also implied that we couldn't expect much in the way of promotion for a "sub-standard" album like ours. That's pure bullshit right there. Everyone knows there are albums blowing up that are way more "sub-standard" than ours. I don't believe in good or bad music but a lot of people do and a lot of the so called "bad music" is blowing up because of one thing, MONEY.

Of course we're going to do a better album. Isn't that the point of life, to become better as people, as artists, as teachers, as parents, etc? Why you need to be reminded of this I just don't know but I suspect that you aren't old enough to have discovered this philosophy.

As far as the "acting like divas" part, I'm not even going there. Are we happy all the time? No. Are we professionals who gives our all and understand that relationships are a big part of the business? Yes. Could you have approached us on a day when our professionalism cracked due to undue stress? Yes. We're human, it happens, though I can't imagine what you're referring to specifically.

I'm responding to you because this isn't the first time that you've felt the need to make a disparaging comment about Tracey and me. So I'm defending MY OPINIONS and I don't mind if you think I'm a bitch for doing so. I'm sorry you don't like the album but you can't please everyone. Remember, if you don't have anything nice to say . . .

Mercedes
(The Jazzyfatnastees)

Whoa! I mean--- Mercedes, nickelz really needed to hear that one. I am glad that it came from the horse's mouth. Maybe now he/she will think about posting something without thinking about someone's feelings. I cannot even imagine what I would have said to he/she if I was in this predicament, but you handled it well. Truly outstanding the way you cut he/she down without even sounding too raunchy. Stay up girl, and don't worry about these haters, their just mad because ya'll ain't selling out like some other female groups out there.

Well I like the album. And I think the Jazzys' have a strong sense of themselves. Which could cause insecurity in others. Maybe we should look at their work for what it is. Thought Provoking,Harmonized,Dope Ass Music.

Yes, indeed.

wow merce,
i need to bite this shit. that was so sweet and professional that it should be off limits to diabetics. you sure you don't want to hit below the belt once?






THE SOULQUARIANS
chewy (quest).....jan
luke (d)........feb
lando (jaydee)......feb
cp30 (james poyser).....jan
r2d2 (jazzy jeff)......jan
hans (chaos)........jan
anakin (lil mike)......feb

honorary members:
kelo- soulacorn.......jan
common- soulcies......march
erykah- soulcies......feb
zack- soulicorn.......feb
anthony hamilton-soulquarian.jan


MAY= OFFENSIVE QUOTE MONTH

"FUCK ALL Y'ALL!"
"GET OFF MY DICK NIGGA, AND TELL YO BITCH TO COME HERE!"
-ice cube

"what do you get with fruity mentos? you get a phone number and a light skinned ho....lemme tell you bout redbone she give a good blow...."
-baatin, slum village

I know, she went off on him and did not even break a sweat. She is sooooo cool.... :-)

love the cd....jazzies way cool sistas! i found them warm and friendly--but hey everyone is entitled to a bad day...

and while you are entitled--that nickelz dude--to your own opinion--seems to me like you are on some old hatin' shit--the question is WHY?

fav cut--letitgo--just applies right now

"What would have been your marketing scheme for The Jazzies?"

As soon as I finsh my Entertainment marketing project this semester I'll send it to you! LOL :-)
For real, the Jazzys are who I chose to devise a marketing plan for.
MCA sucks.

SONYA
---Hey! Eff YOU! (and you too!):P ---

>I believe that they were 100
>times better when there were
>four women in the group
>and not two.
> I also do believe that they
>have bad attitudes like Whitney.
> They act like they
>are qintuple platinum and they
>didn't even go cardboard and
>granted they didn't exactly
>get a push by MCA
>but how do you psh
>them? What would have
>been your marketing scheme for
>The Jazzies? Before they
>start acting like divas perhaps
>they should get a few
>more albums under their belts
>and sell some units.
>As of right now their
>accomplishments are doing background vocals
>for many groups adding a
>dynamic sound to the songs
>that they were on(with the
>four of them) and two
>albums one of which will
>never come out and one
>that we all probably have.


PUNK! I'LL BACK SLAP YOUR ASS!

Peace


Tracey (from the Jazzees)

Belief initiates and guides action
Or it does nothing....

Embrace diversity.
Unite
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Thank you for schooling this non-existent okayplayer in my book. Nicely put, harsh, and grammatically correct---all wrapped up in one....... :-)

You tell'em girl!!!!!!!!!
PS, missed you at lily on tuesday... but Merce held it down with some help from the OKPs in da front!!!!!
________________________________________________

Peace & Blessings...L-E-X

"Get out of my face, you miserable hasbeen"...Alexis Colby-Carrington(Dynasty)

"Sista Gurl says peace"...D. Ryva Parker

"Player are you Okay,Player are you
Okay, are you OkayPlayer?"....Flowetry

"We have nothing to lose, but our
chains"...Ms. Assata Shakur

>PUNK! I'LL BACK SLAP YOUR ASS!
>
>
>Peace

ah, irony.

hahahaha.

"peace is not the word to play" - extra p

Spread love,

Spirit
www.theamphibians.com

GO SEE "LOVE AND BASKETBALL"!!!! What a great film.

peaceful?!?!?

That was comedy!!!! :D

Peace

Pseudonym-less Wendell

We are, someone just made us a little uneasy, that is all.... :-)

Wow. Nick better watch out. Tracey is NOT havin' it. Well, all I can say is that each person is entitled to their own musical tastes. Personally, I have the CD and LOVE it. My mom and sister were visiting this weekend and that CD was played non-stop cause they thought it was sooooo great.

However, calling people names (Divas) is not necessary, nor is it warranted in this situation. I've never met Mercedes, but I did have the pleasure of meeting Tracey at the D' concert a couple months ago. She was extraordinarily nice to me and my friend and took the time out to talk with the both of us. Definitely a classy lady.

"It's all love like Venus" - Malik Yusef


"Ni**a you must not knowa me/I'm the mack here/I'ma have you ho for me/ Pimp your punk ass/Have you write me poetry..."
Mc Lyte (A Film Called Pimp)

>I
>also do believe that they
>have bad attitudes like Whitney.
> They act like they
>are qintuple platinum and they
>didn't even go cardboard

That was not nice.

Anyways - if you have even met either of them, you would know that that jibber-jabber you are talkin' is crazy. Or maybe you have met them and just caught them on an off day - here's a secret - just because you are an artist w/ an album out doesn't mean you can't have a fucked up day too, ya know?

Mercedes and Tracey have never been anything but nice to me... and even when things weren't quite going as they thought they should.

As for the album - hey, it isn't for everyone. Just like DMX ain't for eveyone, Coltrane ain't for everyone, and Joni Mitchell ain't for everyone. To each their own.

*Kristy*

Go eat a Manwich, bee-ach! -- me

i think that you are taking hiss use of depressing in the wrong light, i think he would have like more, ummmmm, love songs i guess you could say. i think that "I don't know?" i think that was the name of the song
from the hurricane sdtk., would have been the type of song nick's looking for, or something in that vien(sp?). i've talked to both of you ladies for a short minute and you showed nothing but love, I was the one at BL in san francisco singing along with you the whole night :-), but i doubt that nick would put his opinion out there without valid reason, i don't agree with it, but i don't believe he should be shot for it, or slapped for it, or whatever else you ladies can think up, and i'm referring to all the responses not the jazzies in particular, for his opinion, accept it, do what you can to change it if you feel the need to do so, or move on, but don't condemn him for it, peace. oh yeah, i did love the album, and look forward to hearing from you two lovely ladies again.

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member of SPAS, soon to be Vp, lol

member of A.A. - officially formed in the early hours of April 9, 2000

proud member of BBBS since 2G

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

"Rest in peace, move in passion." -Khalil Gibran

APPLY LIBERALLY!!!!! :-)

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Basically, I could care less about the way he said, it was the fact that he did not takes these females' feelings into consideration. The remark about them trying to be DIVAS and getting the big head, and the whole "did not go cardboard" thing was unacceptable. You may be right about his use of depressing, but I believe he got what he deserved here on this thread----simply because he did not think before he began typing...... Still it is all love, I hate no one---I just believe there is a time and a place for something like that, and this was definitely not the place for his remarks. Something should have told him that the Jazzees may visit this thread, and he still did not try to use a more kosher way to express his feelings. :-)

maybe i'm missing something, but just as the post originated out of an opinion, isn't nickelz entitled to his opinion also be it good or bad? i mean the album had to grow in me and i do like it to say the least but that doesn't mean everybody will. we all come to these boards to share and express opinions openly without being condemned for having the courage of our convictions. i personally don't see anything wrong with someone having their opinion, it's up to every individual to take it or leave it.

peace

work like you don't need the money
love like you've never been hurt
dance like you do when nobody's watching

****************************************

"i just wanna be/there's no need to put titles on you and me/those are limitatons/livin and learnin are our only obligations" c-lo

Fuck Nick! He's supposed to be a part of the street team that supports the jazzies and he talks shit like this? please, I don't even want to start on my dickriding prompt . . . i don't want to go there.
Contrary to thinking you're a Root, my dear, you are not. no need to be fucked and then be a bitch and not read the responses. That's oka, I'll check your ass in L.A. where i'm sure you'll be hovering as soon as ?uest gets on the runway.
Tiny

What a use of language. You must know this Nick person...... Oh well, I think he'd rather shy away from this post---because he has some people that dislike him truly. He could have been a little more kosher with his words, but he went all out, and disregarded people's feelings. So, no love for NICK here. There are better ways of doing things, you feel me. :-)

nick, exactly how do you know how they act, if you live in cali and they live here in philly? what, magic?





THE SOULQUARIANS
chewy (quest).....jan
luke (d)........feb
lando (jaydee)......feb
cp30 (james poyser).....jan
r2d2 (jazzy jeff)......jan
hans (chaos)........jan
anakin (lil mike)......feb

honorary members:
kelo- soulacorn.......jan
common- soulcies......march
erykah- soulcies......feb
zack- soulicorn.......feb
anthony hamilton-soulquarian.jan


MAY= OFFENSIVE QUOTE MONTH

"FUCK ALL Y'ALL!"
"GET OFF MY DICK NIGGA, AND TELL YO BITCH TO COME HERE!"
-ice cube

"what do you get with fruity mentos? you get a phone number and a light skinned ho....lemme tell you bout redbone she give a good blow...."
-baatin, slum village

Funny, huh? :-) LOL---I was wondering the same thing.....

but when in did you ever meet the jazzies?


Now get on the floor and suck my toes bee-otch!!!

to my sweetheart Jahbryll...

"holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition"--prince
I miss you.


R.I.P. Anthony Richards
R.I.P. April Michelle Himes
R.I.P. Kayla Rolland
R.I.P. David Pizzaro Jr.
R.I.P. Ishmael Santos

"And I still rise"-Maya Angelou

I slept for a minute and just bought the CD a couple of weeks ago. The sistas are the REAL. Some of the songs sneek up on you, but when they do, you singin em in your sleep. They have beautiful voices which they lend to some funky r&b tracks. This is a very nice break from the majority of "girl groups" that seem to only sing about a man cheatin on em and how they caught them (the new love songs for the 21st century).

I'm feeling what you have to say, and I agree whole-heartedly..... Peace :-)

as an official member of the okaybrainwashed club:

their album is nice.

as a matter of fact, let me take things fall apart out of my discman, and insert the once and future

time reveals your deepest dreams, insecurities, your joy and your pain...aah, beautiful music to soothe my soul

to the jazzies: shake dem haters off.

**********THE SIG**********

i'm a tru pisces tryna flow in the direction of both of these okplayer quotes:

"I m raising a fuckin angelic being who is going to replenish this fuckin earths cuz in 2G all we fuckin do is talk.....im teachin my seed to turn his spirit inside out and spread beams of green light"
-nebbie

"GOd give me the strength to change the things i can, understanding for those i cannot and the muthafuckin heart to stand up for my beliefs and principles, so that when the government that is suppossed to protect me turns against me and my people we will have the means, the might and the muthafuckin gun power to blow away our oppressors
umm amen"
-earthqueen

and last but not least:

"all things considered, i'd rather be me"
-bfnh

That's what I am talkin' about. Give them girls the props they deserve. I am lovin' what I am reading people :-)

not only is the album live, but yall have to see these sistas perform! better than the album--so a definite testament to their growth...i think we can expect the next album to be even better and it is already good.

i like the lyrics for every cut...but words are my thang...

don't let the hater...who apparently has taken his street team status too far (ha ha tiny...you had me hollering;)...get to you.

i'd like to see trace back slap him...maybe yall could put it in a video...everybody needs at least one anti hater song....

By a stroke of the urban fate I was pleasantly suprised when my man (the blackguru) ordered my okayplayer shirt and the Jazzyfatnastees for my birthday (just a couple of weeks ago)...This album is definitely high class, the only disappointing thing that I find is that there are only 10 songs and I know that those two have more to sing than that. The two click so beautifully and fluidly that I have to listen to the album three or four times a day and even when I sleep. I am definitely looking forward to coppin the next album or video or sumthin....luv..one


"I deal with the real so if it's artificial, let it be"-Black Thought

I understand, but better 10 songs that you can listen to the whole way through, than 16 songs, and you only end up liking maybe 8 or 9. I love the album, and I do agree that it is a little short, but they say---"good things come in small packages." Thank God there is only 10 songs.

Beautiful lyrics, strong voices, thought provoking material.... have yall peeped Unconventional Love. It's like these ladies wrote that song specifically for me and my sweetie. Unconventional Love....our sentiments exactly.

Nothing worth having comes easy - i dunno

True, I would have to say that Breakthrough works for me though. It reminds me of how I used to get my boyfriend to open up when we first started dating.

Yo I thought I was the only one felling this way about these girls. These girls are amazing. Geeweez!!!!! I think when I first heard alittle of the cd I went to the titiest website (OKAYPLAYER.COM) YAH!!!!, and bought it two seconds later. I really think that they should go get it and support them also.

One Love

Jazzyfatnastees are the best.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"SMACK YOUR ASS PULL YOUR HAIR" "D'ANGELO"

"LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE" "COMMON"

Yes, I do agree that more people should support these ladies more. I mean---their style is so unpredictable. From The Wound, to The Lie---I could not figure out how to classify them. All I can say is DAG THESE GIRLS CAN SING. Kind of reminds me of Envogue when they first came out...... That Born To Sing Album was the bomb:-)

I love listening to their CD.. these are very talented women who have been blessed with beautiful voices.... :D

like I've said b4 they have a fan for life... peace

>---aka Lady_Finesse---@

If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order" - Toni Cade

"My beautiful, beautiful soulful people life
is change and because of that we evolve. But even
with change there is a way of life. Your way of
life will always be yours so long as you are true to it." - Jaila

I'm with you on that one Finesse.

The Jazzies definitely need to get more love...Like others have said, I am also a fan for life. I started going to Black Lily 6 weeks ago and I have not missed a Jazzie performance yet!!

Hell they're probably sick of me standing right in the front staring in their faces and singing all the words right along with them...I even know their choreography!!! (I love when Mercedes does her "running" pose in How Sad when she sings the lyrics "You run but can't hide...")

Live music never sounded so good...

Damali (I wanna be the 3rd Jazzie) :-)

"you play pool? you like the white cue ball? how dare you! you probably like black eyed peas, dont you? you eat the black part first dont you? DONT YOU?!!? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!" - P! to another white okayplayer

"Yes, I am bisexual, I love my black men. There's this feeling that lesbians
hate men, but that's some white lesbian shit! I'm sorry, but the white lesbians went on that
man-hating, 'we want a world with no men shit.' I've always had this joke: nine out of ten
black lesbians concur that every now and then, they need to get poked." - Me'Shell Ndegeocello

No problem girl. Lucky you, you get to go to every performance at the Black Lily---I am taking it you do not live that far. I am stuck here in Savannah (Slowvannah), and I doubt if they will come this far. I love them, too girl.....:7

are you from there? i usedta live there.... you in school there? e me and let me know...
joijuice@hotmail.com
In celebration of Offensive Quote month...
"You the type a bitch/don't appreciate shiiiiiiiit/never had shiiiiiit/ so ya wont be shiiiiiit/ that pussy there/couldn't satisfy a hair on my body/treat me like a lolli and slob me down!/(slurp,slurp)/DOO-DOO BROWN!!!!!!!!"- who else but Ol' D B?

HeavenLei
:-)( rhymes with hey, say, and OKAY!):-)

Yes....... I will email you and tell you the rest.

(I love when
>Mercedes does her "running" pose
>in How Sad when she
>sings the lyrics "You run
>but can't hide...")

I meant to type "Let It Go"...not "How Sad"

Damali



"you play pool? you like the white cue ball? how dare you! you probably like black eyed peas, dont you? you eat the black part first dont you? DONT YOU?!!? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!" - P! to another white okayplayer

"Yes, I am bisexual, I love my black men. There's this feeling that lesbians
hate men, but that's some white lesbian shit! I'm sorry, but the white lesbians went on that
man-hating, 'we want a world with no men shit.' I've always had this joke: nine out of ten
black lesbians concur that every now and then, they need to get poked." - Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Girl, it's all love. We knew what you meant..... :-)

first of all i have a lot of cds.and friends tend to borrow my cds and videotapes all the times and sometimes i forget that they have them until i go to look for em and then i cant remember who has it!

so this post just reminded me that TINA DENSON has my damn JAZZYFAT cd.I WANT MY SHIT BACK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"and after all my logic and my theories,I add a mothaf*cka so you ig'nant niggaz hear me"-L BOOGIE

"my rhymebook will be the next bible"-RAKIM ALLAH

"A community that shares a COMMON set of human experiences over a peroid of time constitutes a "TRIBE"- Na'im Akbar

OOOOOOKKKKKAAAAAYYYYYY---give 'em back there CD please!!!!! :'(

I saw Mercedes feet for the first time last Sunday, and I must say "Me gusta los deditos" looking delicious baby. I still rock that CD, I don't care what anybody says. TheJazziesGotSkills!! Please support good music.


**Reunion Barbeque/Cook-Out to be held in Tanks living room, we'll just move the dresser and the bed and we're good to go**

"Ahhh, Reunion my balls"- SkipGotSkills


"Plus you rhyme like a nigga with his nipples pierced" -Common-


"You funny duke...cause really you think you can do me, When you roll a 500 that's really a 320/.
Should of let somebody else hook it....numbers look crooked, Like King Kong shook it/".

-That last kid from Slum Village, I mean Jay Dee....sorry bout that SlimProv-

i got the cd a short while ago, and it's 14 of the best dollars i've spent in a while.

Wow, $14.00, huh? Good for you---it is a great album. You know, I am definitely feeling the love on this subject.

The first time I saw the Jazzy's they opened for The Roots and Blackstar-Hella bomb ass show-at SOB's before it went strickly Latin,this was '97 the summer before TFA came out.They had more member's then.There was a guy I don't remember who he was but he was good.Nou sung with them and did her own song and there was Tracey and Mercedes.The band was good but those ladies defiantely stood out.I saw them again last spring at one of the first Black Lily event's at Wetlands.That night everyone thought that The Roots were going to show up bu they were pulled away by other responsibilites.The ladies held it down though,it was open mike so people got up and ripped the mike.Nou's band played-very interesting I think she is seriously Robert Plant's daughter I know he has a thing for Morrocan people and the was Nou rocks is like an old fashioned 60-70's shake it out rock.Jill Scott blew up the mike that night also,it's a shame The Roots didn't use her on " You Got Me" consedering she wrote part of the song,oh well marketing is a bitch right.But for all if you trying to diss these precious ladies FUCK-OFF.
I give respect to anyone who uses real intruments on there album's these days.DIE DRUM MACHINE DIE YOU MOFO!!!!Keep up the good work ladies.I listen to "Unconventional Ways" every day,that song is my relationship to a capital T.


Men are like diapers,there always on your ass and full-of-shit.

"Life is nothing but a good groove,a good mixed tape to put you in the right mood" Mike-D

I'm feeling you. But BREAKTHROUGH does it for me. I don't know--it is just something about that song that makes me want to listen to it 6 times in a row. You feelin' me?

I've heard nothing but good reviews about the Jazzies but have had a terrible time copping their cd at my local record store. Okayplayer may need to hook me up. My advice, just keep on keeping on, though by Mercedes response, I don't think anyone needs to tell her that.

Much Respect

Petersburg Homegirl

Sorry to hear about the records store thing. Do you have a BEST BUY where you are located? They should have plenty of them. Keep trying----you won't be disappointed. :-)

Haters make the world go round,
And they also get lots of replies to their posts.
Ignore haters. For they know now what they do.
Or who they hurt.

But either way, I must add that I met Tracey and Mercedes (I don't know what your marital status is, but we'll get married sometime, in the next lifetime, maybe, but we will...)..

Mad humble, mad nice. And I loved when we had the open mic in Boston, how they cheered on the people that were singing / performing. That show was completely off the hook (especially that song when the guy w/ the glasses got on the keys and that girl was singing the female part and they sung duet... off the HOOK)...



http://members.xoom.com/ogando/bwphoto
"And as a special treat this evening, I have asked America's foremost young poet, to read his latest poem for us....."
"Sex is overrated" -- Pharr, April 30, 2000.

Tracey is married, but I do not know abour Mercedes. Thanks for posting.

I dig the ladies, no doubt.

wish they were the opening act for D's whole tour, because i think that since they're in the okayfam AND they're in the musical revolution's trenches (on the major label side), that they should have rocked with D the whole tour...I love mos def and dead prez, but honestly with the type of crowd D would draw (mostly R&B fans, because a lot of hip-hop heads wouldn't pay 40 bucks for ANY show), well, I think the jazzies would have fit in bettter. and, darnit, they're directly related okayfamily. rats.

remember quest v. scratch? i'm trying to hear some jazzyfatnastees v. jaguar. ;-) (you know, in a friendly way, not in a mean way) that'd be like the R&B version of "meth v. the chef". ha.

Spread love,

Spirit
www.theamphibians.com

GO SEE "LOVE AND BASKETBALL"!!!! What a great film.

I am revealing my crush, that's right, I have a crush on you and I have been holding it in for the longest...can I buy you a drink the next time I see you?

Oh yeah, i got two copies of The Once and Future.


The Win a date with.....NazDak sweepstakes.

Just click on the URL below and be his Super Freak for a weekend.

http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/general2/10123.html

Dag, that's the way to do it. Go for it man.... :-)

You really think she'd date me?


"Cause you garbage and your rhyme's boring,
so keep standing on the corner the trash man'll collect you in the morning./
Thug cats frontin, wacker than Blinky Blink,
on the back of the wack ass wagon babblin about nothing"./ -Canibus-


Be on the look out for "Bring it 2 da square" -Oracle & SkipGotSkills-

It's worth a try, you are still flesh and bones just like her. Unless she has a significant other, you sound like a mannerable person, give it a shot. :-) You will only know if you try. Now, are you of age????????

skip is definitely of age... and cute, and a genteleman...she's lucky indeed to have him as an admirer... and she's a sweetie too!

In celebration of Offensive Quote month...
"You the type a bitch/don't appreciate shiiiiiiiit/never had shiiiiiit/ so ya wont be shiiiiiit/ that pussy there/couldn't satisfy a hair on my body/treat me like a lolli and slob me down!/(slurp,slurp)/DOO-DOO BROWN!!!!!!!!"- who else but Ol' D B?

HeavenLei
:-)( rhymes with hey, say, and OKAY!):-)

OGOD, have you met her too? I am like the only who has not. Good for Skip, I told him he should go for it..... :-)

>You really think she'd date me?
>

Hell no you fag! Why would a refined lady like that wanna date your raggity, "drank too much ripple on the D train," cornbread and carrot eatin ass??
Fool.
NazDak

The GoodReverendDrJ on: Parents and Hiphop.

Me: Yo J, dont forget to let your moms hear the new Common Album...
J: For What???
Me: So she can hear it! She'll like it...She likes the poster I gave her.
J: Man so what?!??! I like some spice girl posters...that dont mean you gon' see me singin "If you wanna be my lover!!"


"I'm so ahead of my time, my parents havent met yet"--Big L (RIP)

JazzyFatnastees "The Once and Future" In stores now.
Pick up Commons "Like Water for Chocolate"--In stores NOW.
D'angelo's "Voodoo" In stores now.
Street Team NYC...Runnin sh*t, for real....

Okay, now that was not nice at all..... How do you know what Mercedes will and will not do? Gosh, some people----Please don't come on here with that mess, who are you supposed to be GOD or something? You don't know what will happen. I'll say it again, you don't know what will happen. But if he does drink and such---I don't think I wouldn't date him either, but I don't know his life trials so, I cannot say.......

>You really think she'd date me?
>

Hell no you fag! Why would a refined lady like that wanna date your raggity, "drank too much ripple on the D train," cornbread and carrot eatin ass??
Fool.
NazDak

The GoodReverendDrJ on: Parents and Hiphop.

Me: Yo J, dont forget to let your moms hear the new Common Album...
J: For What???
Me: So she can hear it! She'll like it...She likes the poster I gave her.
J: Man so what?!??! I like some spice girl posters...that dont mean you gon' see me singin "If you wanna be my lover!!"


"I'm so ahead of my time, my parents havent met yet"--Big L (RIP)

JazzyFatnastees "The Once and Future" In stores now.
Pick up Commons "Like Water for Chocolate"--In stores NOW.
D'angelo's "Voodoo" In stores now.
Street Team NYC...Runnin sh*t, for real....

Ummmm SkipGotSkills--that sounds familiar. Are you on Blackplanet? Oh well, I hate to tell you this, but Mercedes is engaged---yep, I just found out today from reading the Journals. Sorry man, guess you waited too long.... :-)

LOL! Thanks luv. I was starting to think that no one reads the journals anymore.

Peace,

Mercedes

No problem. Now you know I read those journals, and find it interesting that you keep one. They are funny sometimes too. :-) :-( :* :P :o---and all that other mess.....







Email this chick at black_snow99@blackplanet.com

I just tried something new here Merc, I do read the journals. With all the hype not on you ladies as much, I thought I'd fool around with y'all a bit.


"Cause you garbage and your rhyme's boring,
so keep standing on the corner the trash man'll collect you in the morning./
Thug cats frontin, wacker than Blinky Blink,
on the back of the wack ass wagon babblin about nothing"./ -Canibus-


Be on the look out for "Bring it 2 da square" -Oracle & SkipGotSkills-

I thought I'd fool
>around with y'all a bit.
Hey, the words sound a little----well, you know, nastee...... Fool around with ya'll a bit. Let me leave you alone, Skip---don't pay me no attention. Just messing with you, that's all. :-)

Nah, it's alright. Merc and I are very cool, i'm pretty sure she knows i'm not stalking her or some crazy ish like that. It's all good, cause Janet Jackson just called me.....

Janet: Hey baby what you doing?
Skip: Waiting for you to come over here.
Janet: Aight, i'm on my way right now.
Skip: Can you bring me a salami and cheese sandwich on your way here?
Janet: Why you always sending me to the store you lazy ass?
Skip: Come on baby, you know I got you.


"Cause you garbage and your rhyme's boring,
so keep standing on the corner the trash man'll collect you in the morning./
Thug cats frontin, wacker than Blinky Blink,
on the back of the wack ass wagon babblin about nothing"./ -Canibus-


Be on the look out for "Bring it 2 da square" -Oracle & SkipGotSkills-

Dear "Supa":

I was flattered! LOL! I just thought I'd better say something before my fiance e-mailed you like hey . . . ! He's a sweetie but he can be jealous.

Peace,

Merce

first of all, i want ya'll to know that i plug
your album whenever i get the chance. i've bought
it for like 4 people (i ain't spendin' my money
for everybody) and they all love it. the local
stores have lots more copies now than they did
when i first bought it. anyway,
my question/theory is with regards to "hear me"
to me, i interpret it, in a way, as a song that
God would give to us. can you break down to me
what you two had in mind when writing that song?

One of my favorite songs...... Love it, simply love it :-)

funny you would say: a song god would give to us

because the day that song was written I felt as if the creator was using me a vessel. I didn't even have to think about the lyrics they just came out.
Maybe she was trying to tell us something.
Thank you for the support and for actually listening to the lyrics...much peace to you;-)

Tracey (from the Jazzees)

Belief initiates and guides action
Or it does nothing....

Embrace diversity.
Unite
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Ohhhh, so that's what it was? No wonder Breakthrough is one of my favorites..... :-)

So you got it like that, huh? MMMMM---MMM. Just messing with you Skip....... :-) :-( ;-) :* :'(---and all that other mess....

it’s a sad state of affairs when talent like that is underappreciated. Tracy, Mercedes, I feel u!! Much love.

peace,
incog poetic

~~~~~
“I was almost your father, but the line was too long!!! ...2pac in Juice

“........” ...Treach in Juice

“walk besides white women and they hold their purse/ i just asked you for the time b****!!!/ what u got anyway?!! some of the indian turf?!!!” ...Killah preist

“yall ain’t MCs/ u a CM, common mothaf*cka rhymin’ bout lexus & benz”...Wyclef Jean

“we be clubbin’ while the world around us is crumblin’” ...Chuck D (the Rhyme Animal)

“from amistad to amadou, attacked in the streets/ the term cop really stands for cappin’ our peeps” ...Tiye Phoenix

“now we all servin’ time/ even my prose is on probation” ...saul williams

“no trees grow in brooklyn/ seeds need to be planted/ i’m askin’ if yall feel me & the crowd left me stranded” ...talib kweli

saying being hardline is what it takes/ to take life/ hiding behind your iconic shield representing cowardice/ we as a people need to cower less ...Vet

put me in ur corner if u wish/ but i'll just be makin side notes on how/ f*ckin is fundamental/ how to get corporate america to fund tha mentals ...asighn4jane

home is where the heart is/ and homeless man run this land ...incog

~~Offensive Quote Month~~
“The illest since Magic Johnson” ... supherb

I totally agree with you..... :-)

You'd be surprised how many people rock the jazzies... I work in a theatre, doing sound (and occasional lights) and was doing some shit up on the batons, and I always need music when I work... so I slapped the jazzies on there. There were three moments during the album's play that I looked down and saw *three different people* singing along with the cd. Naturally, I got down each time and had a conversation about the jazzies, and okayplayer and all that... the okayplayers: they're out there, you just gotta find 'me. (Surprisingly, most of them don't post)

Anyways, look closely... they're out there. (Oh, and those ladies are damn charming... easy to talk to and all that.)

-thebigfunk

"Genuine beauty is always quite alarming." - 'The Secret History'

"Aloofness is a cardinal sin in an age when a perplexed humanity eagerly turns to its writers and thinkers, and demands of them attention to, if not the cure of, its woes and wounds..." - Nabokov's "The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight"

Beautiful, simply beautiful.... :-)

Mindful.....either you are extremely polite or you are cleverly keeping your post alive...by responding to almost every post.
:-)



"Here's another speech you wish I'd swallow. Another cue for you to hold your ears. Another train of thought too hard to follow." - Fiona Apple

"I'm going to save R&B" - Sisqo

"Questioning why you should listen to my words, the way I say them, my flow.
Ignoring the fact that my spoken word will make your mind glow." - jose3030

________________________________________
Celebrating Prince Month at Okayplayer

“Money don't matter 2night/It sure didn't matter yesterday/Just when U think U've got more than/enough/That's when it all up and flies away” – Prince/Money Don’t Matter 2 Night

“What's the matter with your life/Is the poverty bringing U down/Is the mailman jerking U 'round/Did he put your million dollar check in someone else's box?” – Prince/Pop Life

“ Some people tell me I got great legs/Can't figure out why U make me beg/Does not compute/Don't not compute” – Prince/Something in the Water Does Not Compute

“Here's a church, here's a steeple/Here's a muthafucka that I gotta blow away/Here's my chance 2cure the ills of the people/But not until I make this muthafucka pay/Count the Days” – Prince/Count the Days

“Love - if U're there come save me/From all this cold despair/I can hang when U're around/But I'll surely die if U're not there” – Prince/Theives in the Temple

"it hurts to be pretty." -gemini's grandma (who i think is mine somehow too)

e-mail okplayer's resident hussy at firefire100@hotmail.com

Leave it to FIRE to be number 100... Thanks giiiirrrrllll.... :-)

I think I am trying to do a bit of both. Thank you---you are quite nice yourself for posting your opinion.... :-) Why post something if you are not going to respond to your replies--that is the way I feel... :-)