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Nitty-gritty, Nitty Gritty, etc. may refer to:
- Nitty Gritty (1957–1991), Jamaican reggae singer
- Nitty Gritty (song), a 1963 song recorded by Shirley Ellis
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, an American country music band
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Nitty Gritty
Glen Augustus Holness (1957–24 June 1991), otherwise known by his stage name Nitty Gritty, was a popular Reggae singer. Born in the August Town section of Kingston, Jamaica, he was the second of eleven children born to religious parents.
Biography
Holness formed The Soulites in the early 1970s and recorded his first solo single in the early 1980s for producer Sugar Minott. He worked on the Zodiac sound system and recorded further singles, working with George Phang before moving on to King Jammy in 1985, with whom he had his breakthrough success with "Hog inna Minty", a Jamaican folk song. Nitty Gritty was the first to record the song and was an instant success. He enjoyed further successful singles produced by Jammy, and his debut album, Turbo Charged was released in 1986, as was the split album with King Kong, Musical Confrontation. He moved to live in London before relocating to New York City, where he continued to record but less frequently. Further albums followed with General Penitentiary (1987), Nitty Gritty (1988), and Jah in the Family (1989).
The Nitty Gritty (song)
"The Nitty Gritty" is a 1963 song written by Lincoln Chase and recorded by Shirley Ellis. Released by Congress Records, it reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1964.
Motown released a version of "The Nitty Gritty" by Gladys Knight & The Pips in mid-1969 on its Soul label. It went to #19 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #2 on its Soul chart.
The "Nitty Gritty" guitar instrumental by Doug Sahm was a theme in the film Idiocracy.
A different song, "Nitty Gritty", was a single by Scottish rock band Primal Scream, released in October 2006. It was the third single lifted from the band's album Riot City Blues.
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Taishan
Taishan also called Toishan (Chinese: 台山; pinyin: Táishān; Jyutping: toi4 saan1; Taishanese: Hoisan [hɔ̀isān]) is a coastal county-level city in southern Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. At the 2010 census, its population was 941,095 inhabitants even though only 394,855 were considered as urban.
Taishan calls itself the "No. 1 Home of Overseas Chinese". An estimated half a million Chinese Americans are of Taishanese descent.
Geography
Taishan is located in the Pearl River Delta, in the southwest of Jiangmen, to which it administratively belongs, and 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong. It contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island.
Taishan is one of the Five Counties in Guangdong, previously called Sze Yup which excluded Heshan, and is now part of the Greater Taishan Region.
History
On 12 February 1499 during the Ming dynasty, Taishan was founded as Xinning County (Chinese: 新宁县) from land in the southwest of Xinhui County. Xinning was romanized as "Sunning" during the late Qing dynasty, as well as "Sinning", "Hsinning", "Hsînnîng" and "Llin-nen".
Taishan (disambiguation)
Taishan (台山市) is a county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
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Nitty Gritty
ALBUMS
- Tribute To Nitty Gritty, Trials and Crosses released: 1993
- Run Down the World released:
Died: 1991-06-24
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by Jayo Felony
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by Primal Scream
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by Gladys Knight & The Pips
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by Hollies
Nitty Gritty
by: Jayo FelonyOh, yeah, y'all know what's up with this right here
No playa, haters allowed so everybody's not invited
So y'all got to keep y'all distance
Mind your own you'll live long
Yeah, check me out
These judge mental cowards got they eyes closed
They didn't see me creeping up from behind they want to be me
But I ain't trippin', sippin' on something 90 proof
From the floor to the roof I spit this game to youth
By any means, dreams of being a lot more than poor
If you ain't helping your family, then what you living for?
You'd rather talk about the next man, like a busta
Fool, don't make me reach out and touch ya
Then never sleep again, just comprehend, don't playa hate
And real ballers keep their pagers on vibrate
Never try to floss and show off your stacking
On the low, that's if you wanna stay away from the popos
Known to attract heat like DeNiro, scandalous federalizes
Got their eyes on the whole state of Cali
You wanna be a playa in this game but you gonna watch me win it
Trying to escape reality in four minutes
Four minutes of funk, get off your rump
Move your bottom off the tree stump
Ladies looking pretty, from city to city
And now I'm getting down to the nitty gritty
From the bottom to the top, top to the bottom
Come on Bullet Loc and get funky while we got 'em
Gas or cash, ain't no free ride
Felony got love coming from both sides
About to blow it up and that's on me
Ready to bring it on, man, y'all gon' see
I tell my homie to give me a refill
'Cause I don't give a damn, they got me standing on Porkchop hill
With the most of my mind gone
just because a youngsta wanna get his grind on, fool kill that
I'm trying to feed my household, what should I do?
To survive, I got to work for you?
Increase the minimum wage
But you will never make me happy
Huh, but a real nigga keep it nappy
Yeah, so I connect with E-A-Ski for bomb song
When they hear the record they wanna sing along
My business straight now the industries about to be dealed
Soon as I hit the world up with four minutes
Four minutes of funk, get off your rump
Move your bottom off the tree stump
Ladies looking pretty, from city to city
And now I'm getting down to the nitty gritty
From the bottom to the top, top to the bottom
Come on Bullet Loc and get funky while we got 'em
And if you ever say you can see me, it don't compute
It's like walking through hell with a gasoline kachi suit
I'm unfadeble with this and about to show ya, time's up
I'm about to overthrow ya, it was nice to know ya
I'm comin' with it to move 'em all, never be no coward
Keep hitting your enemy until they fall y'all
And to my females that's never faking and paper chasing
Time is just too valuable to be wasting
On the independent stroke or with a conquer
I'm down with ya, let's put our heads together and now we get richer
We got to get it while it's good to get
Let's put it down, hit 'em up by surprise and then we leave town
Don't you like the sound of that? Him skinny and me fat
Count it up and split it 50/50 back at the flat
To the end we represent-we in it to win it
Trying to escape reality in four minutes
Four minutes of funk, get off your rump
Move your bottom off the tree stump
Ladies looking pretty, from city to city
And now I'm getting down to the nitty gritty
From the bottom to the top, top to the bottom