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cos' the tales of the old got no space here ∆∆
been admist rappers bullets-gun violence for gold to make all my safes spaceless ∆∆∆∆


R.I.P BHOVA
#GUNviolence

Penpul:
You don’t ring the fifth/ or bring the heat/

hey
yup

To not ring the fifth
what's the risk
say the thing on my path to bring the heat on the beat.

imma sit the three
seize the sixth
fix da biz; givin' and maintain' the hope to feed.

define boring as been a torn rowdy with no bounty
that 'll see off the glocks for fine sour milk

your compo, spark the need to count those sig sauer and bill point
sick caniks, bill fold and decay' jigsaws

yup


MusicMod to be on ground, roll' in armored ford
sit in, strap hard, grap count; lessons 'll be on your board
start-ing it off from here ain't bad, clear writing has been on the wall
lessee, dare driving this rough; the end is a case for the cops

I'm spotting your lines, like phalanges
they are restricted like they're damn thick
to cut 'em away like dead branches can sting for pain like in thorned cages

deliberate on the views
to be on the news
relegate on the field to earn I'm sorry for your loss from a few

off 69 highway, cast out 0s
let lines be as straight like all 1s
let bars be the drive for whole hoes;the needing point for crude hot gals

WiszyFraud:
Did you know??




Someone out there feels better because you exist. Remember this always.


✌️

How?

(Instrumental)

All over the world I'm known
But I'm still that kid from the ghetto
Where I'm from the tide is attached
And the people rarely make plans for the morrow

When the whole town is poor in their minds and the slavery we chose we're denied
This foundation, it won't survive
It would splinter
It shattered

Oh what a night
Strippers and white lines
And if fire detects the warmth of lies

Being alone was all I'd always known
From the pain was when I passed out on this floor
And I borrowed when I didn't have my own, from the politics, folks who love to moan

Win upon win and I still can't sleep
Life always brings suffering you see
These dreams of mine
They come alive
Into nothingness
It all falls down

Oh what a night
Strippers and white lines
And if fire detects the warmth of lies

Oh what a night
It blooms and withers and dies
And as a fire detects the warmth of lies
What a night

Peaches and white wine
And if fire detects the warmth of lies

BIZNess123:


Congrats to him

I feel really pained and saddened by APC loss ..though court is yet to rule .

court no fit get a say on this case.

The whole process sabi neat.

It's really about time.

Buddha3:
You need mending!

Everyone is destined to die.
The manner of death is the point.

Buddha3:
OP, shebi you dey ment ni?

Because Marvin Gaye died, you just photocopied his entire wikipedia page here for us to read. Is he the first popular musician to die?

(1) Wikipedia is just one of my sources. Marvin's death and Funeral is an incident before my birth.

(2)He is the first to die by his father's hand on the eve of his 42nd Birthday.(He bought his Father the pistol for self defense)

(3) Another posthumous birthday will be celebrated tomorrow in his remembrance.

okrikaboi:
Where is the painful death, I want to read the painful death! Make I send sexual healing YouTube link to my maye asap.
Post the painful death!

Is filicide a great death to you?

phenzy:
So sad he was sent to an early grave by his father.

He bought the .33 pistol for him.
What was he thinking when they are not on speaking terms since childhood.

LordIsaac:
"Sexual healing" comes to mind.

SmellySperm:
Oh baby,when i get this feeling,I need "Sexual Healing"
His popman was a gangster tho

Ikillbrokehoes:
"Let's gets it on and "Sexual healing" my two favorite songs of mavin gaye.

Spechialone:
'Sexxxual healing'...i love old school

He as a numbers of tracks aside this mennnn!
Seexx is overrated.

Footnotes
Awards And Honors:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1987)
Grammy Award (1982)

A year after his death, then-mayor of D.C., Marion Barry declared April 2 as "Marvin Gaye Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund Day" in the city.
In 1990, after years of petitions and letters, Gaye was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with one of its most prominent letters written by longtime fan Eddie Murphy. Six years later, in 1996, Gaye posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, an old park that Gaye frequented as a teenager, the former Watts Branch Park, was renamed Marvin Gaye Park in his honor.
Three years later, in 2009, the 5200 block of Foote Street NE in Deanwood, Washington, D.C., was renamed Marvin Gaye Way.

On November 20, 2018, the United States Postal Service announced that Marvin Gaye would be featured on a first class postage stamp, as part of the Postal Service's Music Icons series (past honorees include Elvis Presley and John Lennon).
In 2008, Gaye's estate earned $3.5 million (US$4,207,032 in 2020 dollars. As a result, Gaye took 13th place in "Top-Earning Dead Celebrities" in Forbes magazine.


What's Going On (50th Anniversary) has been released on today.
A Birthday Tribute to the Life & Music of Marvin Gaye has also been scheduled to hold on Friday, April 8, 2022, 9:30 PM at
Bunkers Music Bar,
761 N Washington Avenue
Minneaopolis, MN 55401,
United States.

Marvin Gaye, his wife Janis & their children, Nona & Frankie

Marvin with his second wife, Janis Hunter

His Father, Marvin Gay Sr.

Death and Funeral
Gaye is known to be suffering from serious depression and often abused drugs. In the days prior to his death, Gaye's parents had arguments mainly over a misplaced insurance policy letter. The day before his death, the arguments spread to Gaye's bedroom. Angered by his father confronting his mother, Gaye commanded Marvin Sr. to leave her alone; Marvin Sr. complied without much ado and there was no violence that night, but Marvin Sr. continued yelling throughout the house.

At approximately 12:30 p.m. (PST; 20:30 UTC) on April 1, 1984, an impatient Marvin Sr. shouted at his wife about the document.[16] Gaye, dressed in a maroon robe, shouted back downstairs, telling his father if he had something to say, he should do it in person.
According to Alberta, when Marvin Sr. refused his son's request, Gaye warned him not to come to his room.Marvin Sr., however, instead charged upstairs to the bedroom to verbally attack Alberta over the document, causing Gaye to jump out of his bed and once again order his father out of the room. When ordering did not work, Gaye, enraged, reportedly shoved his father out of the room into the hallway then began kicking and punching him. Alberta later told Ritz: "Marvin hit him. I shouted for him to stop, but he paid no attention to me.He gave my husband some hard kicks."

Family Death Clause.

Jeanne later recalled that it was understood in the family that if one of the children ever dared to strike their father that he would "murder him or her", saying her father "made it very clear" and "said so publicly on more than one occasion."


Gaye reportedly followed his father to the bedroom and, according to his mother, continued to kick him brutally.Eventually, Alberta separated Gaye from his father and returned him to his bedroom.
Minutes later, at 12:38 p.m. (PST; 20:38 UTC), Marvin Sr. entered his bedroom, returning with the .38 pistol his son had earlier bought him, pointed it at Gaye and shot him directly in the heart.
He then stepped closer after the first shot and shot him a second time at point-blank range.
He was pronounced dead about an hour later at a hospital.He died on April 1 ,1984 at 44 years.

Funeral
On April 5, 1984, a star-studded funeral was held for Gaye at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, attended by over 10,000 mourners, including his Motown colleagues; his two ex-wives, Anna Gaye and Janis Gaye; and his siblings, mother and three children.
Singer Stevie Wonder sang a melancholy ballad he composed for the occasion.
His brother Frankie claimed his last words were: “I got what I wanted… I couldn't do it myself, so I made him do it." They affirmed the claim that he has attempted suicide at least three times. The first occurred in 1969 when he was holed up at a Detroit apartment. Gaye, despondent from his failing marriage at the time, sought to shoot himself with a handgun. Berry Gordy's father, "Pops", eventually stopped this attempt.

What's Going On Lyrics

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, yeah

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
Oh, what's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)

Right on, baby
Right on, baby
Right on

Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply 'cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Come on talk to me
So you can see
What's going on (What's going on)
Yeah, what's going on (What's going on)
Tell me what's going on (What's going on)
I'll tell you, what's going on (What's going on)

Right on, baby, right on
Right on, baby
Right on, baby, right on

Spotify link
https://open.spotify.com/album/2v6ANhWhZBUKkg6pJJBs3B

2011 Super Deluxe Edition Album Tracklist
{Disc 1 original album}

Disc 1 (bonus tracks)

"What's Going On" (Original Rejected Single Mix)
"Head Title (Distant Lover)" (Demo)
"Symphony" (Demo)
"I Love the Ground You Walk On" (Instrumental)
"What's Going On" (Mono Single Version)
"God is Love" (Mono Single Version)
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (Mono Single Version)
"Sad Tomorrows" (Mono Single Version)
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (Mono Single Version)
"Wholy Holy" (Mono Single Version)
Disc 2 ("The Detroit Instrumental Sessions and More"

"Checking Out (Double Clutch)"
"Chained"
"Country Stud"
"Help the People"
"Running from Love" (Version 1)
"Daybreak"
"Doing My Thing"
"T Stands for Time"
"Jesus is Our Love Song"
"Funky Nation"
"Infinity"
"Mandota" (Instrumental)
"Struttin' the Blues"
"Running from Love" (Version 2 with Strings)
"I'm Going Home (Move)"
"You're the Man" (Parts I & II)
"You're the Man" (Alternate Version 1)
"You're the Man" (Alternate Version 2)
LP (Original Detroit Mix – April 5, 1971)

"What's Going On" (Detroit Mix) – 4:08
"What's Happening Brother" (Detroit Mix) – 2:43
"Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)" (Detroit Mix) – 3:49
"Save the Children" (Detroit Mix) – 4:02
"God Is Love" (Detroit Mix) – 1:47
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (Detroit Mix) – 3:08
"Right On" (Detroit Mix) – 7:32
"Wholy Holy" (Detroit Mix) – 3:08
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (Detroit Mix) – 5:46

Reception.

In 2004, the album's title track was ranked number four on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
A 1999 critics' poll conducted by British newspaper The Guardian named it the "Greatest Album of the 20th Century".
In 1997, What's Going On was named the 17th greatest album of all time in a poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.
In 1997, The Guardian ranked the album number one on its list of the 100 Best Albums Ever.
In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 97, while in 2001 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 4.
In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. What's Going On was ranked number 6 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, one of three Gaye albums to be included, succeeded by 1973's Let's Get It On (number 165) and 1978's Here, My Dear (number 462).

The album is Gaye's highest-ranking entry on the list, as well as several other publications' lists. In a revised 2020 list, this time voted on by musicians instead of music critics, the album moved up to the top spot, replacing The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

For an album as timeless as this one, reissue bonus material can provide worthy footnotes to the main article. Probably thanks to the last decade's vinyl resurgence, this 40th anniversary edition immediately sets itself apart from 2001's 30th anniversary release by presenting its iconic cover in a glorious 12"x12" square. The package's lone LP features the more straightforward, early Detroit mix of the album, while the final, L.A. mix is relegated to a CD. For die-hards, the most alluring part of the package may be the second compact disc, which features 18 mostly instrumental demos recorded in Gaye's post-What's Going On honeymoon period, when his vast artistic ambitions and abilities were being embraced by the greater public. These somewhat experimental demos-- deep, in-the-pocket funk in the vein of Sly Stone, George Clinton, and Jimi Hendrix-- clearly laid the groundwork for much of his subsequent 70s material. Though he doesn't sing on most of these tracks, it's exciting to hear him get loose as keyboardist and band leader.

Just as What's Going On marked the emergence of Marvin Gaye as an all-in-one talent, it also signaled the decline of Motown's reign. It's tempting to simply side with Gaye in his battles with the label that raised him and play into the auteur myth. But it's more complicated than that. Without his tutelage at Motown, first as a session player then as a singer, Gaye wouldn't have been able to conceive a work like this. The help of Motown backing band the Funk Brothers-- credited in the What's Going On liner notes after years of anonymity-- was also essential.

Over Forty years of ubiquity have made the title track commonplace, so it's easy to forget that the song was the "most avant-garde hit Motown ever had," according to Ben Edmonds' thorough album history What's Going On: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound. With this album, Gaye wished to sidestep the sound that made him and others famous during Motown's untouchable 60s run, trading in that trademark big, bright beat for laid-back grooves inspired by Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, and Santana. And not only was the album a coming-out party for Gaye as a producer and songwriter, he found his signature voice-- soft, floating, airy-- on What's Going On, too. "I felt like I'd finally learned to sing," he told biographer David Ritz. "I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud." The record and its creative revelations led to his stunning 70s auteur period, which birthed three more classics: 1973's Let's Get It On, 1976's I Want You, and 1978's Here, My Dear. Yet What's Going On still stands tallest, making this 40th anniversary, 2CD/LP edition more of a welcome reminder than just another eulogy to baby-boomer culture.

Much has been made of What's Going On's political bent, and it's true that the music was partially inspired by Marvin's brother Frankie, who had come back from a three-year tour of Vietnam, along with troublingly violent episodes like the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kent State shootings that saw four students killed by national guardsmen. Songs like peace-espousing title track and "What's Happening Brother", which finds Gaye expressing a war veteran's helplessness upon returning home, show Marvin's dismay toward his country and government. But this album isn't just a protest time capsule. Far from it. Gaye's disappointment isn't just societal, it's personal as well. During this period, the singer had lost his duet partner and dear friend, Tammi Terrell, and his marriage to Gordy's sister Anna was violently breaking down, and he was being tailed by the IRS for unpaid back taxes. His resulting depression is evident throughout; What's Going On isn't a fiery album filled with timely sloganeering. Part of its long-lasting appeal involves an element of true-to-life resignation. "Who's willing to try to save a world/ That's destined to die," he sings on "Save the Children", pinpointing an American melancholia-- a mix of world-saving power and funereal inevitability-- that endures today.

But the album doesn't wallow, either. It hums and glides on the effortless, multi-tracked Marvins that swoop through the stereo spectrum like ghosts. Gaye's signature vocal ad libs started here and have endured through R&B and hip-hop ever since. His marijuana-soaked delivery, along with the album's mutating, percussion-fueled rhythms, majestic strings, and jazzy horns, give the affair levity. Perhaps this smooth front also has isto do with the fact that Gaye was "hardly an activist in the traditional sense," according to Edmonds. While his Vietnam-battered brother was an emotional catalyst, Gaye had neglected to send him one letter during his army stint. And though he was certainly aware of the Detroit race riot that left 43 people dead in 1967, he viewed the sad display on TV from his cushy home on the outskirts of town. Not to say Gaye didn't wholeheartedly believe in the progressive observations found on What's Going On, but his relative distance from his subjects allows him to fly over top of them, providing a healing pulse to the disarray below.

ALBUMS
What's Going On [40th Anniversary Edition]
The classic 1971 LP, a landmark for Gaye and pop music at large, is reissued in a deluxe package including an early mix and demos.
Over the previous seven years, the relationship between the singer and his label was contentious yet fruitful; gritty uptempo songs like "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" and "Hitch Hike" were hits, but they undermined Gaye's dream to be a balladeer in the mold of Nat King Cole.
Gaye had always aspired to be more than just a singer within Motown's assembly-line chug, his boss, brother-in-law, and fellow hard-headed egoist Berry Gordy Jr. wasn't so crazy about the idea. So when Gordy heard that original "What's Going On" mix-- which is included in this box set for the first time-- he rejected the song, reportedly calling it "the worst thing I've ever heard in my life."
Instead of releasing "What's Going On" that fall, Motown put out the Gaye compilation Super Hits, which depicts its clean-shaven star as a cartoon superhero flying through the air and fixing a radio tower as a buxom damsel perilously hangs from his shoulder. But Gaye wanted nothing more than to blow up that gleaming image of himself-- now in his early 30s, he would accept nothing but complete control over his art. And if Motown wasn't going to release his first self-produced song, he wasn't going to make music for Motown. Gaye sat idle for months until his label, desperate to put out something-- anything-- from its biggest solo star, finally eked the single out under Gordy's nose on January 21, 1971. It was an instant success, hitting No. 2 on the pop charts and, perhaps more importantly for Gaye, giving him a win in his constant battle with Gordy, who couldn't deny a smash. Five months later, Marvin Gaye released his full-grown symphony to God, What's Going On, with little resistance.

01
Marvin’s Last Name Didn’t Always End in “E”
Marvin Gaye added the “e” to the end of his name to dispel rumors of his homosexuality and to distinguish himself from his father, Marvin Gay Sr., with whom he did not get along.



02
Marvin Gaye was in the Air Force
When he was 17 years old, Marvin ran away from home to join the U.S. Air Force. Gaye had trouble following orders from his strict sergeant and was honorably discharged in 1956.



03
Marvin Gaye Was Part of a Boy Band
Before launching a legendary solo career, Marvin Gaye joined the vocal group, The New Moonglows, in the 1950’s. They performed with established singers like Chuck Berry.



04
Marvin Gaye Was a Motown Drummer
Before singing his own hit for Motown Records, a young Marvin Gaye spent his early years at Motown as a drummer for The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Marvelettes and more.



05
Tammi Terrell’s Death Almost Ended Marvin’s Career
Marvin Gaye performed most of his legendary duets (“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “You’re All I Need To Get By”) with singer Tammi Terrell. Terrell died from brain cancer in 1970 and Gaye vowed never to sing with another person or on stage ever again.



06
Marvin Gaye Tried to Join the NFL
During his hiatus from music, Marvin Gaye explored some new interests including professional football. At 31, Gaye set out to become a wide receiver for the Detroit Lions.



“You see, I had this fantasy: I was in the Super Bowl, with millions of people watching me on TV all over the world, as I made a spectacular leaping catch and sprinted for the winning touchdown,” he said in his biography.

The Lions’ coach, Joe Schimdt, didn’t want to put the singer in harm’s way and refused to let him try out.



07
Marvin Gaye Was Married into the Motown Family
You may or may not know that Marvin Gaye’s first wife, Anna, is the eldest sister of music icon and Motown founder Berry Gordy, making Marvin an official member of the Motown family. Their divorce inspired his final album, Here, My Dear.



08
Marvin Gaye Attempted Suicide Three Times
Marvin Gaye secretly suffered from depression and substance abuse. In 1969, he attempted to shoot himself with a handgun but was stopped by Berry Gordy. In 1979, he ingested a full ounce of cocaine thinking it would be a “slow but pleasant death, less messy than a gun.” The week of his death, Gaye jumped out of a moving car but only got minor injuries.

Marvin Gaye described his depression during an interview a year before his death. “I was at my lowest ebb. I really didn’t feel like I was loved. Because I didn’t feel love, I felt useless.”



09
Marvin Gaye
The late icon’s legacy is well-known as is his tumultuous life. Gaye’s estate is notoriously protective of his legacy and only two stars have been lucky enough to get their blessing for a biopic. In 2016, Jamie Foxx landed the rights for a limited series, but like Jodeci and Prince, nothing has come of it. And, it was recently announced that Dr. Dre received permission to bring the singer’s story to the big screen and is currently in talks to develop a film.


10
Marvin Gaye Has His Own Holiday
Following his death in 1984, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry declared April 2 (the singer’s birthday) Marvin Gaye Day, celebrating the life and legacy of the the iconic soul singer.

Personal Life
In 1975, Gaye's wife Anna Gordy—Berry Gordy's sister—filed for divorce, and two years later Gaye married Hunter, who had by then given birth to their daughter, Nona (born September 4, 1974) and their son Frankie (born November 16, 1975). Gaye also had an adopted son (Marvin Pentz Gaye III) from his previous marriage. The singer's marriage to Hunter proved short lived and tumultuous, ending in divorce in 1981.