A Little [QUADRON] for a Saturday Night

Happy Saturday,everybody!! I hope that your weekend has been a great one so far. Here is NYC it is COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD. Tonight is not a night that I want to go outside and hang, so I am curled up under the covers listening to some good music.

I discovered this unplugged but awesome remake of Lauryn Hill's classic from Quadron several weeks ago, but in listening to it again I was inspired to share it. I hope that its a welcomed enjoyment for your Saturday night.

A Little [LAURYN HILL] for a Saturday Night

I had to end the year with Lauryn. Wow, do you remember when The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill dropped?!?! Whooo!!! This album was and is STILL a beast!! It reached the Billboard Top 100 in 1999, and I couldn't think of a better song to usher in the new year.

I hope you all will enjoy "Doo Wop (That Thing)" by the super talented Lauryn Hill, and I will be seeing you in 2012 for some more great music!!!

Happy New Year, Everybody!!!

DOPE: "Motives and Thoughts" by Lauryn Hill

This poem is powerful, y'all. When reading the words, I can't help but wonder if this poem became the song, "Mystery of Iniquity".



Rotating bodies, confusion of sound
Negative imagery, holding us down
Social delusion, clearly constructed
Human condition, morals corrupted
Trapped in reaction, lawlessness war
Dissatisfaction from bowels to core
Devil’s technology, strategy for
Human mythologies, urban folklore
Sick of psychology, counterfeit cure
Wicked theology, robbing the poor
Scheme demonology mislead the pure
Strictly strategically studying war
Light shown in darkness, image exposed
Few can see through the new emperor’s clothes
Lustful this hustle turn humans to hoes
When the blind lead the blind
Just more trouble and woes
It’s the mind that they chose
Its designed to stay closed
Standard of jokers, court just a logic
Sick looking cosmics, from schoolyards to college
Primitive man with civilize knowledge
System collapse and he still won’t acknowledge
God is the saviour, studies behavior
Trying to fix the mix mind that he gave ya
Stiff-necked scholars on prescription meds
Wishing their problems were all in their heads
Morale dilemma, pride is the root
Misguided from youth, heart divided from truth
Egyptians and Grecians, spiritually dead
Imperially led, by the gods in their heads
Motives and thoughts
Industrial wealth
Global economy, in it for self
Heart full of madness, covered with kind
Pleasure designed to take over your mind
Furnished in godliness, painted in good
This tainted priesthood got real saints misunderstood
While classes in government, set up the veil
And cultivate minds for more mythical tales
Typical Hollywood follies good girl
While vice and corruption take over the world
Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts
Blind with the wickedness, deep in your heart
Modern day wickedness is all you’ve been taught
Lied to your neighbors, so you get ahead
Modern day trickery is all you’ve been fed
Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts

:::drools::: Lauryn Hill-style for Plus Size Fashionistas

I admit it. I miss me some L-Boogie, and I wish that she was back into our lives, giving us music, and her beautiful spirit. And let's be real... she had a terrific sense of style!!!

For this look I started with a black tunic with something different!!



Jaca in Black ($29.00, Size Appeal)

Plus size club dress or tunic top. What a trendy sex plus size club dress with a laser cut out front detail. This dress is 34" in body length with a wide banded bottom. The fabric is knit rayon spandex jeresy. made in USA

How awesome is it that I managed to find all of the accessories in one shop?!?!? And the prices are pretty dope too!



Sweet Crocheted Beret in Cream ($5.50, Forever 21)

Crocheted patterns line this lightweight beret with a monochromatic design and ribbed fitted trim. Top off all your outfits with a sweet tip.



Thin Hoop Earrings ($3.80, Forever 21)

Plain and simple thin polished metal hoop earrings with a clasp backing. 2.5" dia. Imported.



12 Piece Bangle Set ($5.80, Forever 21)

A set of high metal bangles with a silver finish will take your outfit up a notch. Pile them on and even pair them with other pieces, because there's no such thing as too many bangles. Set of 12.



Embossed Bangle Set ($5.80, Forever 21)

Set of 19 high polished metallic bangles to mix and match or wear all together throughout the night. Embossed or solid designs.
- 0.8" - 0.16" approx width

DOPE: "Mystery of Iniquity" Lauryn Hill

"Mystery Of Iniquity"

[sing songy Chorus intro]
It's the mystery of Inequity...
Said it's the misery of Inequity...
Said it's the history of Inequity...
When it all...
All falls down...
Telling you all...
It all falls down

Children...
Eat your bread
Little children...
Eat your bread
Cuz it all...
All falls down...
Telling you all...
It all falls down

[First and only verse]
Yo!
Ya'll can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies
Perjures the jurors
Witness despised
Crooked lawyers
False Indictments publicized
Its entertainment...the arraignments
The subpoenas
High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas
Enter the Dragon
Black-robe crooked-balance
Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents
Court reporter catch the surface on the paper
File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker
Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
Cross-examined by a master manipulator
The faster intimidator
Receiving the judge's favor
Deceiving sabers doing injury to they neighbors
For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers
See the bailiff
Representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
The prosecution
Political prostitution
The more money you pay.. the further away solution
Legal actors
Babylon's benefactors
Masquerading as the agency for the clients
Hypocritical giants
Morally non-compliant
Orally armed to do bodily harm
Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
And the defense isn't making any sense
Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence
That a defendant is depending on the system
Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em'
Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
Framed by intentions
Inventions whereby they lynch men
Enter the false witness slandering the accused
Planting the seed openly showing he's being used
To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected
Expert witness (the paid authority)
Made a priority to deceive the majority
Of disinterested peers
Dodging duty for years
Hating the process
waiting to be returning to their careers
Do we expect the system made for the elect
To possibly judge correct?
Properly serve and protect?
Materially corrupt
Spiritually amuck
Oblivious to the cause
Prosperously bankrupt
Blind leading the blind
Guilty never defined
Filthy as swine
A generation purin it's own mind
Legal extortion
Blown out of proportion
In vein deceit
The truth is obsolete
Only two positions:
Victimizer or Victim
Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system
Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece
of the "American Corona"
The Revolving Door
Insanity every floor
Skyscraping, paper chasing
What are we working for?
Empty traditions
Reaching social positions
Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?
When the Son of Podition is Commander in Chief
The standard is Thief
Brethren can we candidly speak?
Woe to the men
Trusted in the chariots dem'
Leaning on horses
They run their intellectual sources
Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom
Confusion consumes them
Every word they speak it turns them out really white
Internally they absent of light
trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night
Under the curse
Evil men waxing more worse
Faxing the first
Angelic being cast to the earth
It's time for rebirth
Burnin up the branch and the root
The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit
Turning me ill
Let him who stole, no longer steal
Oh it's real
Surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will you sleep
Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
The idols YOU heap
Causing the destruction you reap
Judgment has come
Find it and return to the One
Abandon the flesh
Self-interest: Broadway to death
Pride and the Greed
Hide and subdividing the seed
The knowledge of Good and Evil is what caused us to lie
Caused us to die
Let your emotions be crucified
Renounce all your thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re-taught
You'll find what you sought...was based on the deception you bought
A perception of naught
Where the majority remains caught

Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die

Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die

[sing songy Chorus Outro]
It's the mystery of Inequity
Say it's the history of Inequity
Say it's the misery of Inequity
When it all...
All falls down
I'm telling you all...
It all falls down