Fire!!

Fire!! was an African-American literary magazine published in New York City in 1926 during the Harlem Renaissance. The publication was started by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. After it published one issue, its quarters burned down, and the magazine ended.

History

Fire!! was conceived to express the African-American experience during the Harlem Renaissance in a modern and realistic fashion, using literature as a vehicle of enlightenment. The magazine's founders wanted to express the changing attitudes of younger African Americans. In Fire!! they explored edgy issues in the Black community, such as homosexuality, bisexuality, interracial relationships, promiscuity, prostitution, and color prejudice.

Langston Hughes wrote that the name was intended to symbolize their goal "to burn up a lot of the old, dead conventional Negro-white ideas of the past ... into a realization of the existence of the younger Negro writers and artists, and provide us with an outlet for publication not available in the limited pages of the small Negro magazines then existing.". The magazine's headquarters burned to the ground shortly after it published its first issue. It ended operations.

Fire (musical)

Fire is a 1985 Dora Award winning musical by Paul Ledoux and David Young. The musical is based loosely on the story of Jerry Lee Lewis and his cousin Jimmy Swaggart and the divergent paths their lives took.

The musical follows the lives of the character "Cale Blackwell", based on real-life story of Jerry Lee Lewis and his brother "Herchel Blackwell" which is based on Lewis' real-life cousin Jimmy Swaggart. Herchel follows in the footsteps of his father, the reverend Blackwell's, as a preacher. Herchel's father is proud of him but does not approve of his son's use of the radio and then television while pioneering televangelism. The Reverend JD Blackwell is almost immediately disappointed with Cale who quickly finds fame as a Boogie-Woogie star and wallows in an accompanying life of rebellion against society and his own upbringing. Both brothers fall in love with their mutual childhood sweetheart "Molly King".

Ultimately neither brother can claim to have led a moral life, and both had succumbed to their own flaws.

Fire (Yes, Yes Y'all)

"Fire (Yes, Yes Y'all)" (simply known as "Fire") is a song by American rapper Joe Budden, featuring Busta Rhymes. Produced by Just Blaze, the song is the second single from Budden's 2003 eponymous debut album.

The song was featured during the party scene in the movie Mean Girls. It was also featured in the pool scene of the pilot episode of Entourage. Joe Budden had made a remix with Paul Cain and Fabolous which appeared on the latter's mixtape, "More Street Dreams, Pt. 2: The Mixtape".

Track listing

Credits

  • Recorded at Record One, Los Angeles, California for N.Q.C. Management.
  • Redman's vocals recorded at Enterprise Studios, Los Angeles, California.
  • Mixed at Right Track Studios, New York City for Loreal, Inc.
  • Just Blaze – producer
  • Envyi – vocals [additional]
  • Busta Rhymes – featured artist
  • Pat Viala – mixing
  • Ryan West – engineer
  • Wassim Zreik – engineer [Redman's verse]
  • Charts

    References

    External links

  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
  • Tiger (guitar)

    Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1989. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar's top, just behind the tailpiece. The body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "Hippie sandwich" by employees of Alembic Inc., where Irwin worked for a brief period in the early 1970s. The combination of several heavy varieties of wood, plus solid brass binding and hardware results in an unusually heavy instrument that tips the scales at 13½ pounds. After Garcia began using a new Irwin guitar (known as "Rosebud") in December 1989, Tiger became his backup guitar. Due to a problem with Rosebud during the Grateful Dead concert on July 9, 1995, Tiger was the last guitar Garcia played publicly.

    Electronics

    Tiger (ABBA song)

    Tiger is an ABBA song featured on their 1976 album Arrival.

    Performance

    In the 1977 concert tours, the song was preceded by "the sound of helicopters booming over the speakers".

    In the ABBA tribute band concert Live Music of Abba by the Arrival From Sweden, Tiger was the show opener.

    Critical reception

    Bright lights, dark shadows: the real story of Abba described the song as "rocky". The Guardian described the song as "gripping".

    References

    Tiger (organisation)

    Tiger (Russian ТИГР, short for Товарищество Инициативных Граждан России, Fellowship of Proactive Citizens of Russia) is a Russian-based opposition pressure group formed in 2008 in order to resist government implementation of higher car import taxes.

    History

    Tiger was set up in the eastern city of Vladivostok in December 2008 in response to Russian government actions raising import taxes for cars. Its activities have since spread to other areas of eastern Russia.

    Activities

    Tiger has been involved in a series of demonstrations that have taken place in December 2008 and January 2009. It also publishes a web-based newspaper Plamya (The Flame). According to The Times, it has called for "the resignation of Mr. Putin, the restoration of free speech and government respect for the constitution". In response, the "authorities responded forcefully, shutting down Tiger's website, arresting two prominent members and sending the feared FSB, the KGB's successor, to interrogate youngsters who had posted messages on the organisation's website."

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Hotter Than Fire

    by: Mandi Leigh

    ‘Hotter Than Fire’
    INTRO RAP:
    Hey, Mandi Leigh
    My bodies poor, need your philanthropy
    I’m your water can you handle me, you’re alien on
    planet she
    That Maybelline is glamour, please
    Turn it down withstanding the heat
    Got my fever hoppin’ like a trampoline
    Fire on your lips make my candles bleed
    Breath so hot right on my skin
    I feel it warm it’s sinking in
    You could be the one I need
    The one I could take home with me, oh
    I take your hand, (I take your hand) lead you to where
    I stand
    I dance, a circle slow, while its touch and go
    and your losing all control
    Glittering lights make the mood so right
    The dark of night is so unknown
    Dancing close caressing slow
    It doesn't mean its time to go home
    You, look at me, I can feel your every beat
    And, ah, the DJ plays a song that moves your feet its
    getting me
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hotter than a fire hotter than a fire yeah
    RAP:
    Your, your eyes are lava
    Your, your thighs are magma
    Your, your skin is gaseous
    I’ll make your volcano erupt
    Now, we can calmly speak
    Turn the dancefloor to Dante's Peak
    Ima pursuit so honestly
    We can do it dirty, no promise rings
    Baby I know what you’re saying
    You knowin' my name
    But I gotta know you before I play your game
    RAP:
    But im not playing games
    Just embracing your frame
    Playing with no lame
    Girl, your hot propane i wanna lay with your flame/
    I take your hand, lead you to where I stand
    I dance, a circle slow, while its touch and go
    And your losing all control
    You look at me, I can feel your every beat
    And, ah, the DJ plays a song that moves your feet its
    getting me
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hot hot hot hotter
    Hotter than a fire hotter than a fire yeah
    MANDI LEIGH (ASCAP)




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