The White Book on Google Books - https://books.google.com/books?id=mbihruBL3LYC&pg
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Whiteout's list - http://www.last.fm/music/Whiteout/+news/5twx52_decoding_makavelli%27s_%27the_white_book%27_%5Bwork_in_progress%5D
1973
The Great Migration
Queens
Without even looking at Whiteout's chart, i can presume this chapter is about Nas.
The clues that give it away are first that it takes place in Queens.
Second, that he is the son of a musician who was from Mississipi.
Olu Dara Jones, Nas's father in real life, is a musician from Mississipi.
Olu Dara Jones's biography on Wikipedia says he moved to New York in 1963. The book here starts with "it was 1951 when Pops and his family arrived in New York"
What was accurate was the age of Swang. If Swang is Olu Dara Jones, it says that Swang was 10 years old in 1951. Olu Dara Jones's biography says he was born in 1941. So that date is accurate.
I know these are fictional characters, i'm just pointing these out for fanatical OCD persons who are attempting to research the characters as well as to demonstrate that i have my laptop right next to the book as i read.
There is something else I hadn't considered in the readings thus far. There are mentions of specific streets and blocks and locations that i haven't been taking note of, and i only mention this because in decoding the Bone Thugs n Harmony E. 1999 Eternal album cover, the clues were all in the street corners of the map of St. Clair Cleveland.
First section describes how Pops used to get down playing music, but then took a job at Grand Central Station and the music left his soul.
Then the chapter attempts to discover the origins of blues, it's affinity with Satan, and how that evolved into what is now known as Classic Rock, and alludes to how Satanic forces may have had a hand..........
Queens 1971
The chapter starts in just Queens. Now we're in Queens 1971. i guess to show how it was going down in Nas's neck of the woods around the time when Tupac was born. (These are just my thoughts as i'm reading and attempting to grasp the author's intent) Discusses an era of civility and love for one another and how Tje Barbershop was the spot.
How swang played jazz instead of the blues and how the blues weren't the blues anymore.
Swang got to open for Duke Ellington
He then gets to meet the Duke in a pressure move to join Islam.
Goutelas Journal 1966
Queens March 1973
Swang changed his name for Islam (I'm assuming to Sirius) and has a son on the way (Nas) with Ms Fatima.
Sirius gets home late and drunk and Fatima gets angry and starts breaking dishes. Sirius suggests they have an abortion.
They go to the clinic and Fatima refuses and the nurse tears up the papers and tells them to leave. Nas survives.
Nas is born.
Characters
Pops (Nas's grandfather?)
Swang (Olu Dara Jones / Nas's father)
Peanut
Sonny
Swang's mother
Q -local barber that marries Peanut.
The Champ (Muhammed Ali)
Wang Wang
Leila
Ms Fatima
Sirius
F.O.I.
Duke "Elegant" Ellington
Singh
Kelly
Lisa
Peebles
Malik The Prophet - Nas
Nurses
Famous People
Emitt Till - person who got lynched near Greenwood Mississippi.
Led Zepplin
Robert Plant
Jimmy Page
John Paul Jones
John Henry Bonham
Robert Johnson
Satan
Robert Lockwood
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Fats domino
Little Richie
Miles Davis
King Louis Armstrong
Dizzie Gillespie
Byrd
John H Johnson
Bill Withers
Songs "I Put a Spell On You"
"use me"
Words in quotations:
"Starship"
"Golden God"
"Odin The Supreme God"
"Jimmy Magic Fingers Page, Grand Sorcerer of the Magic Guitar"
"grew up almost alone"
"comfortable house"
"doesn't remember having any playmates until he was five"
"adept"
"sustained themselves"
"eating women and throwing theirbones out of windows"
"sex magic and endless orgies"
"publicly banged on tabletops"
"One girl raved dementedly about the guitarist's prowess with a whip"
"But there ws always something else whispered about Led Zepplin, something more sinister"
"during their decade long prime, they were the biggest band in the world"
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