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Her mean mother stepped up, said to me hi
Looked Sally in the face and decked her in the eye
Punched her in the belly and stepped on her feet
Slammed the child on the hard concrete...

Note and news from around the Hip-Hop realm...

*Passion of the Weiss has a day in the life of Jim Jones. Baaaalllliiin! (NOTE: this phrase is dangerously close to already being played out; when the overweight checker at KMart yells it to another, then it's time to go away)

*Rappers just keep going and going these days, even Kurtis Blow mentioned his new CD on his Sirius show the other day. Should rappers be banned from picking up the mic at a certain age? 33Jones looks at the Top 10 Albums from Post-30 Rappers

*Some joints can be completely butched by freaking wack choruses. Ohword has a list of a few of the illest sang in recent memory.

*New MF Doom! Not a new CD, but rather a new figurine. Sure to be the hot gift this year.

*The Rap Up has a comprehensive timeline of all the Jim Jones versus Jay-Z beef. No verdict in my book: Jay-Z wins this one going away. The "Brooklyn High" jam is classic.

*Nice: Nas f/ Jay-Z and Sean Price remix, "Black Republicans" (nahright)
*Hot: New Clipse CD, Hell Hath No Fury, finally dropped (allhiphop)
*Soon: The second Ghostface Killah album in 2006, More Fish (hiphopdx)

*Old School video: Earle The Poet, "High Noon" If you spent any part of 1990 watching Yo! or Rap City, you'd occaisionally catch this clip. After it dropped, we never heard a peep from this MC again.