peace yall! the dilated platform is on the way!
... oh yeah, these okayplayer cats are illllll!

the show was tight, and I put a few new heads on to the dilated- caught a tape and gave it away.
You repped on the freestyle too, glad I made it out. peace iri

res-> pro-posse but anti-clique in the 2G

LPP for life (light pockets posse)
on some ol' broke shit.

peace, okayplayers...

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Donny Hathaway - In Performance/Live
Stevie Wonder - Fullfilngness' First Finale
Jill Scott - Selected tracks form the upcoming LP
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
Ghostface - Surpreme Clientele
Lucy Pearl - Lucy Pearl
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free!

"Let's do it ladies. Nesta doesn't need you, you need Nesta!" - Some genius named SkipGotSkills

CELEBRATING MAY IS OFFENSIVE QUOTE MONTH ON OKAYPLAYER.COM:
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congrats on the new section.

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fire the crunk, black, music lover

"If trouble were money, I'd swear I'd be a millionaire" - Mint Condition

"i dizzon't give a muddafizzuckin dizzamn who shows up to this biznitchel because i's gonna be mizzerlyuckin' kizzickin' dey fiznocolatey ass." -bigmothefuckinhak

thou shall have no other ?uest/quest/?oolness/
?oolio/questloves before me. - questlove

"are you looking at my headgear?!" - stan's sister/south park

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

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that's what the fuc I'm talkin 'bout!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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"If the boards crash, they crash. What can I do about? Go outside. Play some games, watch TV, read a book." --Improv!?

The Official Okayplayer Family (Re)Union Homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/apokalypznow/reunion.html

i just got put on to your shit the other day. it was quite hot, especially the song with dmx. is "the opposite of h2o" your first album?


you better bring me some muthafuckin' cognac or i'll kill you -- supherb

i'm from the indian tribe called nava-love-a-hoe -- chino xl

we answer to no one, we 911 - el p

YES YES YES. Beware the Platform is taking over. What's up Rakaa? PEACE.

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

<----- 100% Hater Proof.

"B-Boy for life fuck a suit and a tie" Thes One

"I'm on my own dick like sleeping on my stomach" AG

"The tantalizing wordplay yeah that's the joint
Sometimes I have to cuss just to prove my damn point" Q-Tip

AbdulJaleel here, the one who took the picture of you on ht news. Even though you told me aboutthe tranition ot okayplayer.com a while back, i had to keep my mouth shut. Anyways, good to see you are home with us. I still got those pics for London, did you ever see the Glatonberry jawn?
Look forward to seeing you in NY and UINIBOMBER"S IS THE NEXT SHIT.

support West Coast Hip Hop



"When you close your eyes, and screw your face" Mos Def

MAY= OFFENSIVE QUOTE MONTH
"Damn, I'm sweating like a nigga in a white woman funeral" Lynch Mobb

www.instagram.com/schemeofthings

Peace,
Steve

Your post will get deleted IF you dont read: http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/general1/3292.html

Email:okaysteve@hotmail.com
IM:Gigfog
Icq:#61949041

I haven't heard your stuff yet but I'm looking forward to it..

Damali

The SBU Crew: (Sexy Bitches United)
Damali - CBO (Chief Bitch Officer)
sonyasimone - President Bitch
strezzed - Head of Bitch Treasury
serena_love - Executive Bitch President
gemini - Director of Bitch Arts & Culture
K_A_Wright - Defense Department Bitch

"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

>I haven't heard your stuff yet
>but I'm looking forward to
>it..

Go to the featured artist section (on the main opening page, the home page, for this site) and download "The Platform" if you have real audio.

Spread love,

Spirit
www.theamphibians.com

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

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

I just want to welcome you all to the OKAYFAM!!!!, I have heard your music, and yall are on some ill ish. Keep it up.


"Please give us strength, Lord, to fight our battles. And we can walk on the streets of gold." "D'ANGELO"

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

"LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE" "COMMON"

One Love ColeyCole99

"OKAYPLAYER RULES"

the platform is gonna blow up! u know los angeles already got mad love for yall.

if you have not heard any cuts, get ready to hear some ill ish, go see them live, they are on tour NOW, check the tourdates section now!

see yall in LA soon!!!




-------
Buttercup Gorillatushie
CEO of B.B.B.S

there comes a time in every mans life when he's gotta handle shit up on his own- tre(pharcyde)

10 g's, BANK on it- heather b

ay, its not my labado.

The 21st right? I 'll be getting the Platform Lp and the Lucy Pearl same night. I better schedule some serious discman time.

Darbw

"Escuchela la ciudad respirando"
"So much on my mind I just can't recline
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine. Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine. Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline.Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating call.I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin.Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening.Sigh before we die like the last train leaving."--Black Star "Respiration"



"I would like to suggest that you not use speed, and here's why: it is going to mess up your heart, mess up your liver, your kidneys, rot out your mind. In general this drug will make you just like your mother and father."-- Frank Zappa


"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." -Igor Stravinsky

Man, just like any other head I have been waiting for the Dilated record to drop for some time now. Now to have them on Okayplayer is just like icing on the cake. I'm glad y'all are the first WEST Coast Okay-artists. We have good representation. Welcome to the family.

peace, Apostle Jahbryll



"I hit mics like Ted Kopell" Ghostface Killah






".... The world is controlled by the white male, and the people don't ever see justice, and the women don't ever get respected, and the problems don't ever get solved, and the jobs don't never pay enough, so the rent always be late. Can you relate?" Dead Prez


"Out of sync, out of order like a puzzle/ In the land of the unseen hand that holds trouble" Black Thought

http://twitter.com/jahbryllionaire

DROkayplayer™

can't wait for the album man (only a week away, joy!), the source doesn't know what they are talking about giving you all 3 mics...



God bless

when the source gives something three mics its a dope album. the platform-3, one day it will all make sense-3.5, lootpack-2.5, defari-3. theyre fuckin idiots who sleep on good shit especially west coast artists that arent dre.

LA outkast/OkayOutsidaz representative

New breed I'm the bad seed smokin weed til my motherfuckin eyes bleed---Xzibit Year 2000

thisisme

Wessyde Okayplayer shoutouts: thebiach, missrose, Loopfactor, chrisnotic, sonar360, the_fifth, Mindstorm, daze, Framamind, Apostle, keroline, Nickelz45, mikeONE, Ghax, Tannaz, mojotaters, BooDaah, calgrl04, bfly07, Candy1, Bolo_Kid, Jawn_Coke, missphilippinethang, Mizzy, Quidom, george_popahdopolis, delsbrothergeorge, Young_Isa, Mike Czech, 33andathird, mauazuri, Rakaa

I agree. Especially with The Lootpack. Most slept on album of '99. The beats are fucking ridiculous.


Doug (newguy)
"Ladies in the place if you got big breasts....come over to my place, we can play chess." - Baatin

"How I made it? You salivated over my calibrated, raps that validated my ghetto credibility" - Monch

i cannot wait til the 23rd. the album drops and the album release party...i cant that shit is gonna be ill.


LA outkast/OkayOutsidaz representative

New breed I'm the bad seed smokin weed til my motherfuckin eyes bleed---Xzibit Year 2000

thisisme

Wessyde Okayplayer shoutouts: thebiach, missrose, Loopfactor, chrisnotic, sonar360, the_fifth, Mindstorm, daze, Framamind, Apostle, keroline, Nickelz45, mikeONE, Ghax, Tannaz, mojotaters, BooDaah, calgrl04, bfly07, Candy1, Bolo_Kid, Jawn_Coke, missphilippinethang, Mizzy, Quidom, george_popahdopolis, delsbrothergeorge, Young_Isa, Mike Czech, 33andathird, mauazuri

was the first time I heard Dilated. Can't wait for the album. That's gonna be some tight ish.
Okayartists spanning both coasts....next...THE WORLD!!!

One world, many minds.

Framamind
SPAS accredited

"No offense to a player but yo I don't play/and if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way" -Pos

"I surface with the purpose to let y'all ni***s to know the demo/voice is an instrument that's monumental/you couldn't fuck with this style if you was a nympho" -Com

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R.I.P.
The Godfather
Jam Master Jay
J Dilla
Mpozi
GURU

Wassup peoples (of the dilated, heh),

Wow...imagine my surprise when I come on this morning, and I behold one of my favorite groups on the Left Coast underground as the new featured artist. Purty Purty cool. Been checkin your music since I heard "Work the Angles" on a mix-tape. I'm sure the album will do great, and really put people on to your sound.

Hopefully the other triple optometrists, mental megalopoli (plural, haha...ever wonder what lexus plural was? lexuses? lexi? an exercise in lexcess? anyway...) will log on sometime and share in the fun and msg away. Maybe y'all will get spoofed in a thread, like the other okayartists have, hahaha.

That's really cool tho...okaydilated, keep the good news coming. Argh. I just realized when I said "this morning" earlier, that I just woke up, and it's 5 pm. Geeeez...anyways, peace. =)


-DiaBleu (Graduated like a cylinder, woop woop! Now to pay off those loans...)


"I can't forget your rhymes; I never bothered to remember"

IS THIS HEAVEN????????????
HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN???????????
WAS IS OKAYPLAYER THE DOPEST SPOT IN THE UNIVERSE?????

quotes of the month
" a letter to myfriends, i'm sorry for leaving yall / but I must say peace because Jesus calls"- timothy brindle

Big ups and welcome to the fam!!!!!


...you know it's Mecca lookin' pretty in the video

"Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile"-- Lauryn Hill

"Okayplayer!!! I drew blood!!!"-- Nou Ra

"Madam Potential. I'm deadly with a pencil."

wesssyyyyyyyyyyyyyde!!! Finally the rest of the okayworld will learn what we have known for years!! . Now if only we can teach them about the ways of Blackalicious and VinylOxygen!!!!! . First okayplayer- next the WORLD!!!!! ... (oh yeah, we bad!!!)

One.1. Quidom

Posts guaranteed to boost IQ's!!!
School's in session...

-_____-

or do i call you Rakka? well whatever, i can't wait for The Platform, I hope it blows up and you get paid for being ill cuz you damn well deserve it more than 99% of these wack motherfuckers.

"Cash rules everything around you, MOVE!"-Mos Def

"I buttfuck MC's" Pharoahe Monch

Man, you know we been waiting for this for years now... Congrats to Rak and Ev for persevering and building in this game despite all of the behind the scenes politricks.

"Dilated Peoples in the muthafuckin house!!!!!"

See you at the release party in LA!

~~~~~~~~~~~~
SKRATCH N SNIFF
Remixxxing Your Radio
http://www.snsmix.com

Can't wait for the album to drop, can't wait until I get to go to the live show.

Keep up the good work Rakaa. And you're right, okayplayers are frickin awesome.

peace
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AIM - velodragon

Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns, and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.
--Yossarian

**May is Offensive Quote Month**
A handjob's a man's job, yo job's a blowjob
--MC Paul Barman

It's definitely dope to find out Dilated is down with Okayplayer. Now you gotta get Ev up in here, and it will be complete. Keep doing your thing, you're creating beautiful hip-hop.

-1Mind

"Make you salivate like pets of Pavlov"
-Iriscience, "Third Degree"

on the 31st in Seattle - got my ticket already - all eager & ish...
damn....
I'm a Hip Hop groupie...
*sigh*
Dove
~Sheepish Lordess of Chaos~

Possibly offensive quotes for those that might be offended:
"If you say you're saved then be saved, ain't no sense sittin up in church if you're goin to hell anyway..."
"went from poor black to muslim to 5%, got 360 degrees of knowledge and still can't repent..."
C.A.V.E' (representin the 206...WHAT!)
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VP, S.B.A.R. - est. 5/1/00
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~~THE SBU CREW: (Sexy Bitches United)~~~
Damali - CBO (Chief Bitch Officer)
sonyasimone - President Bitch
Dove- Bitch Counsel Director
strezzed - Head of Bitch Treasury
serena_love - Executive Bitch President
gemini - Director of Bitch Arts & Culture
K_A_Wright - Defense Department Bitch

http://UrbLife.com
http://twitter.com/FlyLikeDove
http://instagram.com/FlyLikeDove
http://Facebook.com/FlyLikeDove
http://flylikedove.contently.com

in the tradition of Okayartists (other than ? ofcourse)

Man i know you can write more than that... and D'angelo (get better) is suspect too! And where the HELL are the Roots on the boards...

Anyway, big up and congratualtions to Dialated for joining us. Now make sure you get into some of the threads take part.

God Bless!


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Sheldon Mar"Quez" Rankin
http://www.Quez.Bored.org
click there ===> http://www.BlackPlanet.com/Referrals/Quez/

"oh lawd Quez is here, okayplayer will never be the same" ---- some wise man

"The truth is, my crew is, the smoothest spitters of saliva juices like The Roots is, more Organic than acoustics" ---- Talib Kweli

"No need to mic test, you can feel it in ya chest... yo BEYAAAAATCH, feel it in her breasts" - Common

What if human feces started flowing out my shower tomorrow morning? --- Okayplayer dugout

oh well

In Boston tonite at Axis... but I have no tix nor connections.

Oh well.

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.

________________________
http://www.twitter.com/jose3030 - Twitter

rakka,
good to see that you'r now okayplayers and when the album drops it will blow up! me and my boys will be at the show on the 20th in rhode island at lupos. i'll check you there.peace and 1ne love,


shorty


"commercial rap gets the gun clap!"-buckshot

"I want Mumia out the cage the time for action is here!"-Black Thought

F***wittage

no doubt, i'll be there too .. even though most lupos listings didnt even have the dilated show on there .. ah well, cant hold us down ..

IM and ICQ name: reefdogg1 (number one that the end)

For that real (audio) hip hop Monday nights 9pm - 11pm EST ...
http://www.brown.edu/Students/WBSR/listen.html

"I got so much drama on my mind, REFUSE to LOSE!"

"I circle like sharks while y'all panic / I cruise the Atlantic /
Y'all think I'm spaced out, human from the Earth planet /
That's right tomorrow I plan to boo your shows in the Apollo /
You follow, in the crowd the audience is hollow" - Kool Keith

damn, I haven't been home in a while! They said they weren't going to have any more a year or two ago because someone got shot outside after a show. I'm glad to hear they are still having them, def. check out the dilated tour, it's worth the ticket price for real.

res-> pro-posse but anti-clique in the 2G

LPP for life (light pockets posse)
on some ol' broke shit.

peace, okayplayers...

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arent you just a darlin


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!"

... you need to call the office. Holla.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/BKyle215
Subscribe now, and be among the 1st to peep the exclusive hip-hop stuff!!! B.Kyle Style!

The show last night in Philly was off the hook and I was very inpressed on how you 3 rocked it!!!

It was cool meeting up with you guys and I can't wait to see you on "The Ave."

pz,
netbomber

"I battle all/Like I don't have it all"-Del

some West Coast representation...I just saw my first Dilated show last month at the Whiskey...'twas fun and rockin...

WHOA !!!! That the wildest I've seen the TLA in... a minute. The footage I shot of the performance is by far the most power packed to-date... yet it still only scratches the surface in attempting to capture ALL of the energy-filled vibes being sent out! The material I shot is HOTT, but people just HAD TO BE THERE TO UNDERSTAND.

There's nothing greater than having GREAT and dynamic subjects on the other end of the lense... even chilling out and shooting on the tour bus lent itself to a wealth of insight about Dilated Peoples. I look forward to this relationship with Okayplayer. I'll see you-all at S.O.B's on Friday in NYC... and again, it feels good to know that you are with the OKAYPLAYER family.

Okayplayer?! Brian Kyle A.

__________________________________

http://www.youtube.com/user/BKyle215
Subscribe now, and be among the 1st to peep the exclusive hip-hop stuff!!! B.Kyle Style!

"scratches provided by Babu, beats made by Evidence" --- Planet A.S.I.A.

that was one of the illest cuts i heard in a minute in hiphop period. And the "Definition of Ill remix" joint was off the hook too... Was that Madlib or Evidence on production?


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Sheldon Mar"Quez" Rankin
http://www.Quez.Bored.org
click there ===> http://www.BlackPlanet.com/Referrals/Quez/

"oh lawd Quez is here, okayplayer will never be the same" ---- some wise man

"The truth is, my crew is, the smoothest spitters of saliva juices like The Roots is, more Organic than acoustics" ---- Talib Kweli

"No need to mic test, you can feel it in ya chest... yo BEYAAAAATCH, feel it in her breasts" - Common

What if human feces started flowing out my shower tomorrow morning? --- Okayplayer dugout

oh well

on the definition of ill remix.

"Cash rules everything around you, MOVE!"-Mos Def

"I buttfuck MC's" Pharoahe Monch

Madlib did both beats???


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Sheldon Mar"Quez" Rankin
http://www.Quez.Bored.org
click there ===> http://www.BlackPlanet.com/Referrals/Quez/

"oh lawd Quez is here, okayplayer will never be the same" ---- some wise man

"The truth is, my crew is, the smoothest spitters of saliva juices like The Roots is, more Organic than acoustics" ---- Talib Kweli

"No need to mic test, you can feel it in ya chest... yo BEYAAAAATCH, feel it in her breasts" - Common

What if human feces started flowing out my shower tomorrow morning? --- Okayplayer dugout

oh well

IM and ICQ name: reefdogg1 (number one that the end)

For that real (audio) hip hop Monday nights 9pm - 11pm EST ...
http://www.brown.edu/Students/WBSR/listen.html

"I got so much drama on my mind, REFUSE to LOSE!"

"I circle like sharks while y'all panic / I cruise the Atlantic /
Y'all think I'm spaced out, human from the Earth planet /
That's right tomorrow I plan to boo your shows in the Apollo /
You follow, in the crowd the audience is hollow" - Kool Keith

I know dat!!!

I'm talkin about the Remix...

it had two diferent beats... Seemed like MadLib took over when the second beat came in... But maybe he did the whole sequence...


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Sheldon Mar"Quez" Rankin
http://www.Quez.Bored.org
click there ===> http://www.BlackPlanet.com/Referrals/Quez/

"oh lawd Quez is here, okayplayer will never be the same" ---- some wise man

"The truth is, my crew is, the smoothest spitters of saliva juices like The Roots is, more Organic than acoustics" ---- Talib Kweli

"No need to mic test, you can feel it in ya chest... yo BEYAAAAATCH, feel it in her breasts" - Common

What if human feces started flowing out my shower tomorrow morning? --- Okayplayer dugout

oh well

yeah it definitely sounds like madlib all the way ...

@$#@!#$!@$%^@#^$#&*$$*&)O*&(^%#^%@%@^%@%!$#@@^@!!@##@^

(those ain't curses above, just wanted to distinguish the signature yall )

IM and ICQ name: reefdogg1 (number one that the end)

okayivyleagueplayer reppin Brown University ...

NSBE region ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE !!!!!

The school year's over (THANK GOD), but peep my radio show next school year (Mondays 8pm EST) at http://www.brown.edu/Students/WBSR/listen.html

"I spit shit and leave you scarred like a face-lift / I spit for the underground, Hot 97 be the Matrix /
One, two, I hit 'em with the basics /
Who gon' stay hittin'? Who be straight spittin'?" - Rah Digga

"Noddin heads too hollow forgotten tomorrow / Swallowing all that shit that¹s shallow / Give the baby anything the baby wants / But that¹s how them bastards, get us up in them caskets" -Chuck D

"Pourin out of every hole that it can, I stand respected / Poeticizing all of the experince I've collected / To all of y'all who ever thought that you wrecked it / Use the scientific method and make sure that you check it" - 427

Been down since "triple-optics" ..."work the angles"...can't wait to see you in Providence 5/20...glad you finally made it to this side of the seaboard

" For me revolution was never an interim 'thing to do' before settling down; it was no fashionable club with newly minted jargon, or new king of social life-made thrilling by risk and confrontation, made glamorous by costume...When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime" -Angela Davis-

"For the DJ's I keep a microphone in my palm/For the people paranoia's a weapon so stay calm..." -Iriscience-

Welcome to okayplayer! I never imagined having Dilated on board here but I shouldn't be surprised because, like the Roots, the Dilated platform actually gives that dynamite live show, which is way too rare nowadays....

Peace

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