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Johnny’s Favorite Songs of 2018

09 Sunday Dec 2018

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For me, music in 2018 was about two things…

1. Collaborations : Elton John & Young Thug, A$AP Rocky & Moby, Nicki Minaj & Takashi 6ix9ine, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, Drake & EVERYBODY

2. That hook, yo: “Brand new whip got no keys
Tailor my clothes, no starch please
Soon as I nut, you can gon’ leave
Got M’s in the bank, like “Yes, indeed”

“Pussy got that wet, wet, got that drip, drip
Got that Super Soaker, hit that, she a Fefe
Her name Keke, she eat my dick like it’s free, free
I don’t even know like “Why I did that?”

“I still see your shadows in my room
Can’t take back the love that I gave you
It’s to the point where I love and I hate you
And I cannot change you so I must replace you”

  1. NICE FOR WHAT – DRAKE feat BIG FREEDIA & 5th WARD WEEBIE With 12 hit singles, Scorpion was fire in 2018! Nice for What is the bright shining star of the album. It had strippers twerkin’ all around the world this summer. Shout-out to Nawlins royalty Big Freedia.

2. YES INDEED – DRAKE feat LIL BABY Drake is Drake on this track, a solid spit, but Lil Baby stole the show. His hook and delivery are so on point/different/lyrical, a Star is Born!

3. FREEBIRD II – PARQUET COURTS From hip-hop to what I will describe as classic 70’s Southern Rock in 2018, think Creedence Clearwater Revival or the Doobie Brothers

4. BOO’D UP – ELLA MAI The anthem for sisters everywhere this year, Ella singing excitedly about her significant other who she is head over heels in love with, that bitch #lonely #allmenaredogs

5. LUCID DREAMS – JUICE WRLD Lucid Dreams didn’t initially impress me, instead, it grew on me over time, a slow burn, turned out to be a uniquely different quality song.

6. AFRICA – WEEZER Everything old is new again…wish I was. Toto’s version is one of my favorite all-time songs, a fond memory from childhood, and while Weezer’s cover isn’t the original, it’s still good #1982

7. MY QUEEN IS HARRIET TUBMAN – SONS OF KEMET Takes me back to the beloved Big Easy, shades of Kermit Ruffins or “Skokiaan” by Louis Armstrong.

8. MAKE ME FEEL -JANELLE MONAE A tribute to Prince, and it has that cool vibe, very Erotic City-ish

9. CHUN-LI -NICKI MINAJ Although she hasn’t gone down without a fight, Nicki’s reign as the Queen of Hip-Hop is over. Chun-Li is catchy, crisp, and lyrical, a solid goodbye track for the end of an era.

10. SHALLOW – LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER “I’m off the deep end, watch as I dive in
I’ll never meet the ground
Crash through the surface, where they can’t hurt us
We’re far from the shallow now”

11. POWERGLIDE – RAE SRUMMOND Super catchy follow-up to Black Beatles, on my 2017 Favorites list

12. BAD AT LOVE – HALSEY “Got a boy back home in Michigan
And it tastes like Jack when I’m kissing him
So I told him that I never really liked his friends
Now he’s gone and he’s calling me a bitch again
There’s a guy that lives in a garden state
And he told me that we make it ’til we graduate
So I told him the music would be worth the wait
But he wants me in the kitchen with a dinner plate”

13. MO BAMBA – SHECK WES Shout out to Mo Bamba in Orlando, yo!

14. HIGH – YOUNG THUG feat ELTON JOHN When I think hip-hop, I think Elton John, ya heard?

15, 1950 – KING PRINCESS She sounds a lot like Lorde, and she’s a lesbian, which is cool #gaypride

16. MINE – BAZZI A cute/catchy little song by a tween heart-throb, if that’s your type…not mine #daddyissues

17. A$AP FOREVER – A$AP ROCKY feat Moby “Porcelain” is one of my all-time favorite songs, and I love how it’s sampled here, but truthfully, this song is good but would have been fire if A$AP’s verses were better

18. ANNA WINTOUR – AZEALIA BANKS 212 was such a delightfully fun dance track, and while I think Ms, Banks uses the same beat for Anna Wintour, not quite as magical, but still pretty good…with her crazy-ass, everybody hates you Azealia!

19. FLEA MARKET – TIERRA WHACK With Nicki Minaj on the way out, Cardi B overplayed and under-talented, and Remy Ma seemingly without quality tracks (she is a true rapper/can spit fire), maybe the super-talented Tierra Whack can seize the crown?

20. WOMP WOMP – VALEE feat JEREMIH “Womp, womp, she give me what I wanna
Ball so hard, need a warm up, I bagged her at the Walmart (yeah)
Big timer, stunna, I’m out here on the come up
I beat the pussy, drummer, I roll up, no more drama (yeah)”

21. MIKA DORA – AMEN DUNES Introducing Amen Dunes, a talented singer comparable to John Mayer (but not a douchebag like John)

22. SICKO MODE – TRAVIS SCOTT feat DRAKE “Had me out like a light”

23. NON-STOP -DRAKE

My favorite Dance tracks of 2018

PICK-UP – DJ KOZE feat GLADYS KNIGHT

HAPPIER – MARSHMELLO feat BASTILLE

IS IT COLD IN THE WATER? – SOPHIE

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SYTYCD Darius Hickman & Comfort -Stir Fry/Migos

01 Wednesday Aug 2018

Posted by johnjernigan in Music is the Answer, My Favorite Things, the Flaming Homosexual

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black lives matter, boston, dance, gay, hip hop, LGBT, lifestyle, migos, music, queer, rap, So You Think You Can Dance

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American Honey

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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Young and fresh and so different! Sasha Lane was getting some (small) Oscar buzz, and I live for the fantastic Riley Keough (the Girlfriend Experience and Elvis’s granddaughter)…amazingly still very good with loser Labeouf in some scenes (he def ain’t the star)

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John’s 2016 Favorite Songs List

26 Monday Dec 2016

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  1. White Iverson – Post Malone
  2. This Girl – Kungs vs CO3B
  3. Never be Like You – Flume
  4. Chill Bill remixx – MGK Tezo & Debo
  5. Bad Things – MGK & Camila Cabello
  6. Love on the Brain – Rihanna
  7. Broccoli – DRAM feat Lil Yachty
  8. Don’t Let me Down – Chainsmokers
  9. Jumpman – Drake & Future
  10. When We Were Young – Adele
  11. Panda – Desiigner
  12. No Problem – Chance & Lil Wayne
  13. Antidote – Travis Scott

 

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Don’t Mind – Kent Jones

11 Wednesday May 2016

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She said, “Hola, ¿Como estás, she said, “Konichiwa.”
She said, “Pardon my French,” I said, “Bonjour Madame.”
Then she said, “Sak pase,” and I said, “N’ap boule.”
No matter where I go you know I love them all

 

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Paper Planes – M.I.A.

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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My favorite song of 2007

Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to, I’m clocking that game
Everyone’s a winner, we’re making our fame
Bona fide hustler making my name

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Les Twins

19 Friday Sep 2014

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Alvin Ailey, art, fort lauderdale, gay, gay blog, hip hop, Les Twins, lifestyle, Miami, modern dance, So You Think You Can Dance, World of Dance

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Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See – Busta Rhymes

12 Friday Sep 2014

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Hit you with no delayin so what you sayin yo? (uh)
Silly with my nine milli, what the deally yo? (what?)
When I be on the mic yes I do my duty yo
Wild up in the club like we wild in the stud-io (uh)
You don’t wanna VIOLATE nigga really and truly yo (uh)
My main thug nigga named Julio he moody yo (what?)
Type of nigga that’ll slap you with the tool-io (blaow!)
Bitch nigga scared to death, act fruity yo (uh)
Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)
The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)
Top miss, just hit the bangin bitches in videos (huh?)
Whylin with my freak like we up in the freak shows (damn)
Hit you with the shit make you feel it all in your toes (yeah)
Hot shit got all you niggaz in wet clothes (take it off)
Stylin my metaphors when I formulate my flows (uh)
If you don’t know you fuckin with lyrical player pros, like that

Do you really wanna party with me?
Let me see just what you got for me
Put all your hands where my eyes can see
Straight buckwhilin in the place to be
If you really wanna party with me
Let me see just what you got for me
Put all your hands where my eyes can see
Straight buckwhilin in the place to be

If you really wanna party with me.. In God We Trust (what?)
Yo it’s a must that you heard of us yo we murderous (uh!)
A lot of niggaz is wonderin and they furious (what?)
How me and my niggaz do it, it’s so mysterious (that’s true)
Furious, all of my niggaz is serious (huh!)
Shook niggaz be walkin around fearin us (what?)
Front nigga, like you don’t wanna be hearin us (no!)
Gotta listen to hot radio yo be playin us (ahh)
Thirty time a day shit’ll make you delirious (what?)
Damaging everything all up in your areas
Yo it’s funny how all the chickens be always servin us
All up in between they ass where they wanna carry us (what!)
Hitcha good then I hit em off with the alias (what?)
Various, chickens they wanna marry us (hah)
Yo it’s Flipmode my nigga you know we bout to bust! (uh!)
Seven figure money the label preparin us
Bite the dust, instead of you, makin a fuss (what?)
Niggaz know better cause there ain’t no comparin us (nope)
Mad at us, niggaz is never, we fabulous (yup!)
Hit my people off with the flow that be marvelous (hah!)
Ho-shit, my whole click victorious (yup!)
Takin no prisoners niggaz is straight up warriors (what?)
While you feelin that I know you be feelin so glorious (uh)
Then I blitz and reminisce on my nigga Notorious

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the Beastie Boys

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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This white boy had every song on Licensed to Ill memorized. At the end of their concert in Birmingham, a huge inflatable penis came up through the stage. My friend Trey’s mother (who was already pissed because of all the cursing) rushed us up outta there (cursing).

Brass Monkey and Paul Revere, that was my jams, yo

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Lil Wayne Police Interview

08 Tuesday Jul 2014

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“I remember she was crazy stupid thick”

“I don’t recall”

Sir, you cannot say No to the question until it’s been asked

Didn’t you serve 10 months in Riker’s Island in 2010? “I don’t recall”

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My Posse’s on Broadway, Goin’ Back to Cali

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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80's hip hop, Alabama, Alpine, atlanta, Birmingham, buy John's book, Childersburg, dating, Dead or Alive, Erasure, gay, Goin' Back to CaliLL Cool J, Harpersville, hip hop, LGBT, Munford, Mustang GT, My Posse's on Broadway, Pell City, queer, rap, relationships, Rockford Fosgate, Sir Mix a Lot, Sycamore, Sylacauga, Talladega, Talladega County, the 80's, throwback thursday, throwbackthursday, Vincent, Winterboro

My first 2 cars were a Mustang GT and a Chevy Blazer…and there was a time that I had that bass, ya heard? I had them Alpine 12’s and them Rockford Fosgate 15’s, booming all over Talladega County…bumpin’ Sir Mix a Lot in Childersburg, Sylacauga, Alpine, Winterboro, Harpersville, Talladega, Munford, Pell City, Vincent and Sycamore. When I started having “adventures” in Birmingham and Atlanta, 80’s hip hop was replaced by Dead or Alive and Erasure.

“I’m callin’ up the posse, it’s time to get rippin’
The freaks need a sunroof, to keep you sucka’s trippin’
Everybody’s lookin’, if your jealous turn around-
The AMG kick keeps us closer to the ground
we’re gettin’ good grip from the 50 series tires
the Alpine’s bumpin’, but I need the volume higher”

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Straight Outta Compton, Boyz in the Hood

24 Monday Mar 2014

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90's rap, AIDS, bloods, Boyz in the Hood, buy John's book on Amazon, crip walk, crips, Dr. Dre, Eazy E, gay, hip hop, HIV, Ice Cube, LGBT, N.W.A., Serena Williams, snoop Doog, Straight Outta Compton, Too Short

Straight Outta Compton, Boyz in the Hood

Found: N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton t-shirt, 50 cents at the Sheriff Youth Ranch thrift store in New Port Richey.

Eazy E, N.W.A., Ice Cube, Too Short…that was my jam, until Eazy got the HIV and his T-cells peaced out. Let me put it to ya like this “Rollin’ 20’s Westside Crips”

Then I let the Alpine play
I was pumpin’ new shit by NWA
It was “Gangster Gangster” at the top of the list
Then I played my own shit it went somethin’ like this

Cruisin’ down the street in my 6-fo’
Jockin’ the bitches, slappin’ the ho’s
I went to the park to get the scoop
Knuckle-heads out there cold shootin’ some hoop

Cuz the boyz in the hood are alwayz hard
Come talkin’ that trash and we’ll pull your card
Knowin’ nothin’ in life but to be legit
Don’t quote me boy, I ain’t said shit

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It’s So Cold in the D

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

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ATL, atlanta, Beyonce, Biggie, black culture, Brooklyn, Detroit, funny, gay, hip hop, humor, Jay-Z, LGBT, Michigan, music, music reviews, New York, R&B, racism, rap, the blacker the berry, the Bronx, the D, the struggle, thug life, Tupac, ya'll ain't bout dis life

tbaby represent, Tupac alive

ya’ll ain’t bout dis life

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Notorious B.I.G. vs Crying Baby

08 Saturday Feb 2014

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90's rap, babies, buy John's book on Amazon, cute, funny, gay, hip hop, humor, LGBT, Notorious B.I.G, point of view, pop culture, Tupac

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