Amanda Crocker
Due: April 4, 2008
Writing Assignment 2
Idea
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#1: Country Music in Atlanta
Discuss country music artists originating from Georgia
Incorporate map locating hometowns of artists
Discuss difference between Georgia country music and other
areas’ country music
Discuss the unique qualities that make country music
different from other genres
Drawbacks:
o Georgia isn’t as popular a country music hub as,
Nashville, for example
o Probably couldn’t write 3000 words about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_fashion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music
Idea #2: Hip-Hop (Music and Lifestyle) in Atlanta
 Discuss hip-hop artists originating from Georgia
o OutKast
 East Point, GA
o T.I.
 Bankhead, GA
o Ludacris
 Atlanta, GA
o TLC
o Usher
o Lil Jon
o Jermaine Dupri (Producer)
o Young Jeezy
o SoSo Def Records
o Dem Franchise Boys
 Incorporate map locating hometowns of artists
o Focus on specific popular areas and differences
 College Park
 Decatur
 Atlanta (Downtown)
 Etc.
 Discuss the differences between Atlanta hip-hop and that of
other areas (Style, etc.)
o Los Angeles
o Chicago
 Soulja Boy (Moved to Atlanta at age 7)
o Philadelphia
o Pittsburgh
o East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
o The Dirty South
 Dallas, TX
 Houston, TX
 Atlanta, GA
 Memphis, TN
 Shreveport,
 New Orleans, LA
 Miami, FL
 Baton Rouge, LA
o East Coast / West Coast Rivalries
 Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur
 Difference between rap and hip-hop
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Hip-Hop is a rap put to a beat / melody / sample
o Rapcore?
 Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, and Limp
Bizkit
 Effects on Atlanta as a city
Welcome to Atlanta lyrics
[Ludacris]
Yeah, Welcome to Atlanta, jack and hammer and vogues'
Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes, adolescent packin a
fo'
A knock on the do', who is it?
I would happen to know, the one with the flow
Who did it?, it was me I suppose
JD in the Rollz and Luda's in the Cutt Supreme
Skatin down old Nat, Gat tooked and lean
I split ya spleen, as matter' fact I split ya team
No blood on the sneaks, gotta keep it so my kicks is clean
I get the cream, cops see me flick my beams
Im allergic to 'doc perscribed anti-histemines
Oink Oink, Pig Pig, do away with the pork
Only silverware I need's a steak knife and a fork
Did you forget your fuckin' manners, Im loose with banners
Ludacris, Johnny Rockets when I shoot the cannon
The Wooley Mammoth Saber-Tooth, bitch bite your tounge
I wont stop until I'm rich as them whites'll come
I pull up in the black Lotus, you're plaque's are bogus
So I stripped them off the wall
Waiting for my cue to corner pocket eight balls
You rackin' 'em up, I'm big paper like pancakes, stackin' 'em up
In fact I'm slappin' 'em up, Cadallacin' the truck
I cant loose with 22"s, Bitch thats whats up
Runnin in the back the fuck, better than in the aquaduct
chil-li-li-li-li-n.. what
[Chorus]
[JD]
Yo, Yo.. Yo..Yo, Yo,
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play
And we ride on them things like every day
Big beats, hit streets, see gangsta's roamin'
And parties dont stop til' eight in the mornin'
[Ludacris]
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play
And we ride on them things like every day
Big beats, hit streets, see gangsta's roamin'
And parties dont stop til' eight in the mornin'
[JD]
Now the party dont start 'til I walk in
And I usually dont leave until the thing ends
But in the mean-time, in between time
You work yo thing, I'll work mine
I been puttin' it down here since 83'
Since the Lakeshore/MD rivalry
More froze than bad ice, with a place to be
If you was ridin', you was ballin' to homie Shadi
Im the MBP, Most Ballenous Player
Make my own rules, bitch call me the mayor
Monday night, Gentleman's Club
Tuesday night, I'm up in the velvet room, gettin fucked up
Wednesday, I'm at strokers on lean
Thursday, jump clean, and I fall up in cream
Friday, shark bar kyack with Frank Ski, right on the floor is
where you can
find me
Saturday, is off the heezy fo' sheezy, you can find me up in
one-tweezy
Sunday, is when I get my sleepin'
Cause on Monday we be at it again, Holla!
[Chorus] x2
LUDACRIS & FIELD MOB (f/ Jamie Foxx) LYRICS
Georgia
Georgia, Georgia
Georgia, Georgia
[Chorus 2x]
We on the grind in...Georgia
All the time, It ain't
Nothin on my mind but...Georgia
We ain't playin witcha
Country Name
Country Slang
Fiens at the liquor store
Lac Cruisin
Crap Shootin
50 on the 10 to 4
Overcast the forecast
Shows clouds fromt plenty dro
And we ready for war in the state of...Georgia
Dirty Words
Dirty Birds
Its mean in the dirty south
If you ever disrespect it then we'll clean out your dirty mouth
Bulldawgs is clockin
These look out boys is hawkin
You gotta be brave in the state of...Georgia
I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones
Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome
If you get in an altercation just hop on your mobile phone
And tell somebody you need help in the middle of...Georgia
We some ATL thrashers
Scope your pumpkin and smasha
We'll come through your hood worse than a tsunami disaster
Don't know who they gonna get or who them robbers gonna hit
Thats why I keep my Georgia Tech in the state of...Georgia
[Chorus 2x]
We on the grind in...Georgia
All the time, It ain't
Nothin on my mind but...Georgia
We ain't playin witcha
I'm from the home of the neck bones, black eyed peas, turnip and
collard greens
We the children on the corn dirtier than Bob Marley's pee pee
GA the peach state where we stay
My small city's called Albany...Georgia
Pecan country like catfish with grits
Candy yams and chitlins
Gram's homemade baked biscuits
The land of classical Caprices and Impala super sports
Ingredients in the peach cobbler called...Georgia
I love the women out in LA
And the shopping stores in New York
The beaches in MIA
But they ain't nothin like that GA red clay
Look on your map, we right above Florida
Next to Bama
Under the Carolinas and Tennesse you'll see...Georgia
Where Gladys Knights and the Midnight Train
The birthplace of Martin Luther King
Where ass so plump and hips are thick
Where Lac trucks sit on 26's
Know where your going or your get lost
Found on these plum trees in the south
These choppas will tomahawk your top down here in...Georgia
[Chorus 2x]
We on the grind in...Georgia
All the time, It ain't
Nothin on my mind but...Georgia
We ain't playin witcha
Now I was born in the belly of the bottom of the map,
Where the wet paint drip jelly on pirelliz an the chrome on the
Chevy when im choppin in the trap
Country as hell, dey sum warriorz, told sum to spray sumthan the
same shape as Florida,
Lookin for me boy, ya find me, outta Dougherty County in a small
city call'd Albany...Georgia
Where dey use to cAll us sum bamas,
An now dey jockin da grammar
Watch ya mouf unless you out foe sum mannar,
Bunch of hustlaz run on every corna like the Waffle house in
Atlanta
Or I be camouflag'd out in Savannah...Georgia
Now u might come foe vAcAchun,
leAve on probAchun
home of dA strip club,
known foe dA thyck gulz
where dA chickz put tipz in dA tip cup,
of thyck chick in A thong wit A big butt
when it gettin on, wont b cheap when it on like peachtree,
mAke A chick tAke it off like freAknik, down here in ...georgiA
when u see dem confederAte flAgz yA know wut it iz,
yA folkz pick cotton here dAtz y we cAll it dA field
i got A chevrolet on 26'zzz,
im frum GA ...GA ...georgiA
[Chorus 2x]
We on the grind in...Georgia
All the time, It ain't
Nothin on my mind but...Georgia
We ain't playin witcha