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Thursday, July 17, 2008
 
CHICKEN
Pink Anderson
Medicine Show Man vol. 2
Prestige : 1962
[Buy It]

EAT THAT CHICKEN
Charlie Mingus
Oh Yeah
Atlantic : 1961
[Buy It]

SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN (PARTS I & II)
Bill Thomas & the Fendells
c. 1965
Available on: Movements 2
Perfect Toy : 2006
[Buy It]

FINGER LICKIN' CHICKEN
The Radars
Yew : c. 1969
[Out of Print]

CHICKEN HEADS
Oscar Brown Jr.
Fresh
Atlantic : 1975
[Buy It]

CHICKEN
Ike & Tina Turner
Available on: Rockin' and Rollin'
HHO : 2006
[Buy It]

CHIPS, CHICKEN, BANANA SPLIT
Jo-Jo & The Fugitives
Cobra : 1968
Available on: Jamaica to Toronto: Soul, Funk, and Reggae 1967-1974
Light in the Attic : 2006
[Buy It]

FRIED CHICKEN
Rufus Thomas
Hi : 1978
Available on: Pulp Fusion : Bustin' Loos
Harmless : 2006
[Buy It]

C-H-I-C-K-E-N SPELLS CHICKEN
McGee Bros
c.1927
Available on: Ghost World OST
Shanachie : 2001
[Buy It]
They eat chicken, don't they?
-Col. Sanders, responding to a question about black folks. (Apocryphal)
Well, folks, the review is in: "On Untitled you get to decide whether you prefer Nas thoroughly exploring half-assed concepts or half-assedly exploring thorough concepts." Ouchie. And, man, that 3.8's gotta sting. But, you know, we don't know: Here at Moistworks' Astoria Bureau, we kinda think of "Fried Chicken" as the new summer hotness-

FRIED CHICKEN (FEAT. BUSTA RHYMES)
Nas
Untitled
Def Jam : 2008
[Buy It]
Mrs. Fried Chicken
You was my addiction
Drippin' with hot cholest-
Like Greeks with his falafel
Italians with their tomato
Pasta
What roti is to a Rasta
Trappin' me-
You and your friend Mac'n'Cheese

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OMG/WTF/LOL/BRB/BBQ/QE2/WMD/WWIII, right? I mean, we're a ways away from "C-H-I-C-K-E-N spells 'Chicken'" now! And, while we're on the subject of eating/racial stereotyping, we might as well address the age-olde belief that black men don't eat pussy....

WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT
The Wailers
Studio One : 1965
Available on: Destiny: Rare Sides from Studio One
Rounder : 1999
[Buy It]

CUNNINGBIRD
Charles Mingus
Debut : 1957
Available on: The Complete Debut Recordings
Debut : 1990
[Buy It]

BEAUTIFUL GIRL
CunninLynguists
A Piece of Strange
LA Underground : 2006
[Buy It]

LICK THE PUSSY
Beatnuts
Street Level
Relativity : 1994
[Buy It]

Ok - so - as it happens, not eating pussy happens to be one of the things that a lot of rappers tend to rap about a lot. And that makes a certain amount of sense: In the more misogynistic & minstrelsy corners of the rap universe - that MTV-friendly, jack-in-the-box cartoonland where punks jump up to get beat down, bitches ain't nothin' but hos and tricks, and "feelings" are something you "catch" - going down on your lady friends might just give the impression that feelings are something you've caught.

AIN'T NO FUN (IF THE HOMEY'S CAN'T GET NONE)
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Doggystyle
Death Row : 1993
[Buy It]

At least, Marvin Gaye seemes to have thought so. "You could feel him struggling for the courage to say it," David Ritz reported, in his courageous MG bio, Divided Soul.
Finally the words came: he was going to give her "head," oral sex. He convinved himself he could "handle" her, though in mentioning the act, as if to "sanctify" it, he quickly suggested marriage and even pregnancy, singing that he was going to "knock up this woman." This is one of the moments in which he actually called out her name - "Oh, Janis!" - exploding with an anguished shriek, a cry of limitless pleasure and pain. Like a little boy afraid of jumping off a diving board, Marvin built up his courage - "soon," he repeated, "soon" - trying to convince himself he was man enough to do the job. He viewed oral copulation as a complete commitment of his affection. For Gaye, the act was the highest expression of his love since, as he told me several times, it was something he didn't enjoy. It's no accident that "giving head" was joined to the notion of conception and pregnancy, further validating his feelings of sacred romance and familial sanctity. In fact, in November of 1975, Janis did give birth to her second child, Frankie Christian "Bubby," born a day after his namesake, Marvin's Brother.
That, folks, is what we call writing! And, while we're on the subject of writing, let's leave off with Ritz channeling Ray Charles, on the twinned subjects of crazy laws and cunnilingus: "Hell, there are dozens of crazy laws," Ritz writes (in Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story). "I understand in some places it's forbidden to suck your wife's pussy. Well, they can't enforce that one, but if they could, wouldn't it be a bitch?"

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