YN’s Breakaday: Cough Up A Lung

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Yvonne Fair “Let Your Hair Down” (1975) [audio:http://www.xxlmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/letyourhairdown.mp3]

  • diddybop

    WOOOOOOT

  • diddybop

    Yaaa Dolla Dolla billz was #1 to speak on this track . NO HOMO 1st posts. Ya’ll ni99a’z is b1tches, yellin 1st all the time. who the fuck cares. I beat up Jim Jones last summer at his barbershop — go ask somebody. G’z up hoez dizzown.

    Peep me rollin the street puffin blunts middle finger up , whut!

  • bobackin88

    unknown artist

  • DJ N-Credible

    THIS SOME SOULFUL SHIT I LOVE THAT OLD SCHOOL SHIT…MAD SOUL…I COULD IMAGINE MYSELF GROWING UP BCK IN THE DAY WITH A FRO SITTING IN A RECLINER LISTENING TO RECORDS BLOWING REEFER…BLACK POWER

  • IM FORM DC HO

    u have to be really blazed to like this crap …. my grizz is better than yours , whatchu know bou the sour diezel boooooyyyyy???????

  • SuperFire

    Damn this is cool.. My uncles grew me up on shizz that sounded like this.. I’m feeling it man..

  • INTERSCOPE JACKSON

    this shit sounds hot as fuck,

    smoke a pound to this muthafuckers

    this is soul muzik

  • Montreal Boy

    nice old school shit thats whuts upp

  • Mister Malik

    So that’s where Jay-z’s “Where I’m From” sample came from. Damn, I should have known. I must be slipping.

  • négro d’aulnay riot city

    o shittttt 4 the first time can hear jay ‘s where i’m from sample !
    soul music ain’t never gon’ die!

  • http://www.myspace.com/pc1978 pc1

    I’m from Marcy son, just thought I’d remind y’all….

  • Mr. 303

    This is THAT SHIT!!!!!!! MAN! I need to get this track to bang everyday!!!!

  • http://xxlmag North Memphis Vet

    All HAIL YELLOW NIG > Dats why hes da editor of XXL > Schoolin young cats & lil homies > Elliott Wilson you da man> yea shit bangs

  • DeathrowInmate

    damn niggaz i aint eva heard this shit b4, now i seriously dont know how many of yall iz real niggaz, cuz a real nigga doesnt know this kinda shit, good beat, horrible singer. only killa cam can do this beat some justice. fuk these marcy project mufukkaz, pussy niggaz.

  • BIG D from harlem

    WTF IS THIS SHIT STRAIGHT UP GAY YO IT SOUNDS LIKE GAYHO GOT KIKED IN THE NUTS AND IS RAPPIN AGAIN YA I LIKE G-UNIT BUT I HATE YAYO AND THIS SONG WTF?

  • http://www.myspace.com/rene_daniel WI$EGUY

    YOU ALL SOME LAMES!!! XXL CUT ME A CHECK BECAUSE YOUR TEAM DONT KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS,”I WANNA REP THE RIGHT WAY FOR YOUR TEAM”. YOU GUYS GOT MY EMAIL EMAIL ME.YOU ALL WRITING AND DOING BUSINESS FOR THIS MAGAZINE LIKE HOW THE KNICKS ORGANIZATION IS GETTING DOWN RIGHT NOW!!! AND THATS NOT GOOD,I WILL HAVE THIS MAG DOING GOOD LIKE THEM YANKKES!

  • http://chopdezol.com ovawit

    yo…elliot be puttin us on with that breakaday shit….smart move

  • MannyWallace

    Fat Joe used this too…

  • http://myspace.com/kingpaul06 King Paul

    im from where the beef is inevitable, summertime unforgettable

  • Incilin

    “You can’t put your vest away, and say you’ll wear tommorow, cuz the day after, we be like dam, I was just with him yesterday/”

    “We call the cops the A-Team, cuz they hop out of vans and spray things, life expectence so low we writing wills at 18/”

  • DJ Lucky Luke

    That hurt my ears. You should say you’re sorry…

  • Belize

    i Like this-now i know why Jay-z is really a 60′s baby

  • Pro-Rican

    Incilin Says:

    August 18th, 2006 at 10:06 am
    “You can’t put your vest away, and say you’ll wear tommorow, cuz the day after, we be like dam, I was just with him yesterday/”

    “We call the cops the A-Team, cuz they hop out of vans and spray things, life expectence so low we writing wills at 18/”

    Sums up why Jay is that dude

  • Randomname

    the sample from :56 it’s weird how that little piece of feed back pretty much makes jay’s whole track

  • DIAMONDS

    I’VE BEBN LOOKING FOR THIS SHIT STUDIED THE HELL OUTTA THE TEMPTATION’S VERSION DIDNT HERE SHIT

  • flava dav

    BIZ MARKIE USED THIS SAMPLE FIRST ON HIS 2ND CD