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NOT ON MY WATCH

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As if barking instructions to her is not enough She gets beat up until her pulses show palpitations and get womb complications Left with broken limbs and hips dislocated Blue eyes, red eyes, camouflaged eyes all in the name of "I"s.. "I do this..I did that..I bring this home" And she thinks to herself that it’s nothing an "ice" can't fix But when she looks in the mirror and forces a smile with her chipped lips She realizes that she can't take another fist Enough of that "enough is enough" cliché A woman is more than average, she is the Holy Grail But many times we fail to realise that.. She is a Yi Dynasty porcelain piece that has no price tag Regardless of gender, no one deserves a broken back or always living with hurt A woman is a harbour, a man is a boat When the boat sinks, she tries by all means to keep it afloat A shelter where your burdens you can offload In return for this she still gets...

R.I.P Prodigy of Mobb Deep

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Prodigy of Mobb Deep (PieoneerBlog) 'Got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous/ you heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers/' - Shook Ones Part II The first time I ever did a rap in front of a crowd was in grade 8, Nxakato JSS, Sowa Town (2005 Form 1A) and the verse I did was from 'Get Away' by Prodigy (Mobb Deep). I remember my former class mates laughing at the way I said the word 'scrambling'  because I imitated P he pronounced it 'scramb-eling.' Capital P was one of my childhood heroes and inspiration! Being one of the most sampled voices in Hip Hop 'You hooked on Mobb phonics, Infamous bonics - Taken from Quiet Storm' he is definitely legend status. It is without a doubt that in '95 he delivered one of the finest verses of all time on "Shook Ones Part II" which would become a renowned classic of the golden era. Born in 1974, November 2nd, Albert Johnson would later in his teenage years form the legendary...