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Ho Chi Minh City
Coordinates: 10°46′36.8″N 106°42′02.9″E / 10.776889°N 106.700806°E / 10.776889; 106.700806
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh; IPA: [tʰan fə ho̞˧˩ t͡ɕɪj˧ mɪ̈n˧]), formerly named and still also referred to as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn; IPA: [sâj ɣɔ̂ŋ], French: Saïgon), is the largest city in Vietnam. It was once known as Prey Nokor, an important Khmer seaport prior to annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century. Under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochinchina and later of the independent republic of South Vietnam 1955–75. On 2 July 1976, Saigon merged with the surrounding Gia Định Province and was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City after revolutionary leader Hồ Chí Minh (although the name Sài Gòn is still unofficially widely used).
The metropolitan area, which consists of the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area, Thủ Dầu Một, Biên Hòa, Vũng Tàu and surrounding towns, is populated by more than 9 million people, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Vietnam. The city's population is expected to grow to 13.9 million in 2025.
Saigon (1948 film)
Saigon is a 1948 film starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their fourth and final film together. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was one of the last films Veronica Lake made under her contract with the studio. Ladd and Lake made four films together; This Gun for Hire and The Glass Key, both in 1942, The Blue Dahlia in 1946 and Saigon. While the earlier films all proved to be big box office successes, Saigon did not do as well financially. Ladd continued to remain one of Paramount's top male stars, while Lake's career was in decline. By the end of 1948 her contract with Paramount had expired and the studio chose not to renew it.
For Ladd, Saigon was one of a series of globe-trotting adventure tales he made, starting with Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and Calcutta (1947).
Plot
World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs (Alan Ladd) finds out that his friend Captain Mike Perry (Douglas Dick) has only two months to live due to a head injury. Larry and Sergeant Pete Rocco (Wally Cassell) are determined to show Mike a good time before he dies. For a $10,000 fee, Larry takes a flying job working for Alex Maris (Morris Carnovsky) a profiteer. Everything is set until Maris' secretary Susan Cleaver (Veronica Lake) shows up to board the aircraft. Mike falls for Susan and Larry convinces her to play along but she has fallen in love with Larry.
Saigon (Killmaster novel)
Saigon is the sixth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.
Publishing history
The book was first published in December 1964 (Number A122F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman. Copyright was registered in the US.
Tagline
"Little Paris" where love-talk is wire-tapped and each caress can lead to sudden mayhem.
Plot summary
The story is set in August–September 1964. Claire La Farge, widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. One night she receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact. Agent Nick Carter, in Saigon posing as a WHO medical observer, answers the ad on a hunch and learns of Dupre's involvement. Dupre's daughter, Antoinette (Toni), has become a heroin addict under the influence of Lin Tong – a Chinese communist spy interested in finding out the truth about her father.
Podcasts:
Сайгон
ALBUMS
- Нашествие, шаг 11 released: 2002
Saigon
ALBUMS
- G.S.N.T. 3: The Troubled Times of Brian Carenard released: 2014
- The Greatest Story Never Told, Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses released: 2012
- The Greatest Story Never Told released: 2011
- All in a Day's Work released: 2009
- Warning Shots 2 released: 2009
- The Moral of the Story released: 2007
- Belly of the Beast: The Scram Jones Files released: 2007
- The Return of the Yardfather released: 2006
- Gangsta Grillz: Welcome to Saigon released: 2006
- Warning Shots released: 2004
- The Yardfather, Volume 1: The Best of Saigon released: 2002
The Greatest Story Never Told, Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses
Released 2012- Plant the Seed (What U Paid For)
- Rap vs. Real
- Let Me Run
- Not Like Them
- Brownsville Girl
- The Game Changer
- Blown Away
- When Will U Love Me
- The Vowel Song
- Best Thing That I Found
- Relafriendship
- Yeah Yeah
- Forever Dreamin’
- Intervention (Let It Go)
- Our Babies 2 (Crazy World)
- Keep Pushing
- Blown Away, Part 2
- Rap vs. Real (Homegrown)
Warning Shots 2
Released 2009- Nothing Comes Easy
- That's Not What's Up
- Fatherhood (Rayne Dior)
- All Around the World (feat. G Martin Soul)
- For Some Pussy
- Cookies & Milk (feat. Young Boombaya & A.P.)
- Be on Time
- G Optified (Tommy Tee's Theme Sampler)
- Fuck Me, Fuck You (feat. Quan & Ransom)
- Rusty Gunz (feat. Lil Fame)
- Aye Aye Aye Nigga
- Copping Pleas
- Who Can Get Busy (feat. Grand Puba)
- For Some Pussy (remix)
- Gotta Believe It
- Saiiii (outro)
The Moral of the Story
Released 2007- Come on Baby (feat. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz)
- What a Life (feat. Tre Williams)
- The South, the West, the East Coast
- Saigon Meets Just Blaze
- Get Mine and Go
- Wake Up
- In a Mess
- I Know
- Homegirl (feat. Al B. Sure)
- Who Can Get Busy (feat. Grand Puba)
- Anybody Can Get It
- How We Get Down
- Ryders (Da Ville to Da Stuy) (feat. Memphis Bleek)
- Wanna Know (feat. Obie Trice)
- Rap and Bullshit, Part 2
- Reason, Season, Lifetime (feat. Jovan Dais)
- Just Blaze Speaks
Belly of the Beast: The Scram Jones Files
Released 2007- Sucka You Could Die (intro)
- Saigon Theme
- Pussy
- New York Streets
- The Saga Continues
- Fuck Wit Me
- Desperado
- The Color Purple
- Jailhouse Rap
- Repercussions
- In Jail
- All I Know
- Hatrix
- Say No
- True Story
- Shot in Booty (remix)
- Jake
- Can't Help Myself
- Get It
- Nobody Cares (feat. Dead Prez)
- Shoot Ye Body
- Let a Nigga Know
- Ass Whoop (feat. Twista)
- Black Spot
- This Is the End
- Lames
- Real Talk
- Change the Game
- Whispers
- When Animals Attack (feat. Scram Jones, Graph, Curtains, L.G.)
- Mack Bitch
The Return of the Yardfather
Released 2006- Return of tha Yardfather (intro)
- Don't Do That
- Say No
- Dreams
- Rap & Bullshit (R&B)
- Back in Effect (interlude)
- Saigon Sings the Blues
- Return of tha Yardfather (interlude)
- Nobody Cares (feat. Stic Man)
- Desperado
- International (Global Gangstas)
- Change the Game (remix)
- Workin' It Freestyle
- Original Shit Freestyle
- Pain in My Life (feat. Trey Songz)
- Top 5 Alive
- Lay Down (interlude)
- Do Your Thang
- Lames
- The End
- Outro
Gangsta Grillz: Welcome to Saigon
Released 2006- 'Return to NYC' (intro)
- Saigon Theme
- Saigon Speaks
- Do The Damn Thing
- Break U Down
- Saigon Speaks II
- Yep Yep (feat. Tru-Life)
- I Can't Help Myself
- Thug Love
- Hip-Hop (Out in the Dark)
- Contraband, Part 2
- Welcome to Saigon Understanding
- 'Infamous' Freestyle
- Get My Nut
- Stocking Cap
- All I Know
- Blackspot
- Shot In The Booty
- Let A Nigga Know
- Ay Ay Ay
- Color Purple
- Repercussions
- Sai Shouts
- NY Streets
- Shok TV
- Outro
- Come Again
- My Favorite Things
The Yardfather, Volume 1: The Best of Saigon
Released 2002- DJ Kay Slay Intro
- Favorite Things
- Contraband (remix: New 2nd Verse)
- DJ Whoo Kid Freestyle
- Say Yes
- If... (My Mommy)
- Monsterz
- Abandoned Nation (Da Yard) (feat. Atrocity & Rough)
- Billie Rae Thug
- Drama King Freestyle, Part 1
- Drama King Freestyle, Part 2 (Lil' Niggaz)
- Troopin' (Sugar Pie Honey Buns)
- Letter to 0mnipotent
- DJ Kay Slay (interlude)
- DJ Whoo Kid Freestyle
- What Am I Gonna Do
- My Life (feat. Rough)
- Bust Ya Gunz (feat. Tru-Life)
- We da Click (feat. Twin From Infamous Mobb)
- Foot Locker Spot
- Sai-Giddy Freestyle
- Sho'Nuff
- The Corner
- Endangered Species (feat. John Forté)
- Saigon (Homegrown...)
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by: Saigon[Verse 1]
I said listen, I'm a nigga on a mission
Do what I gotta to get my people in position
Help 'em envision a better living condition
Stop putting so much trust in your religion
They couldn't conquer without division
Boy you still black, I don't care if you Catholic or Christian
Police'll still fuck you up, young buck
Bust you in your head, leave your body by the dump truck
Revolution got me pumped up
But it's still a fact black people still think so fucked up
How they got money to go war with whoever wrecked the buildings
And none forever cuz HIV infect the children
That mean the money for a life they can save
They rather use it to send a life to a grave
And that's not righteous ways
That ain't even half, my real-a-real
I could write for days, but I don't know how they might behave
You seen what they did to the 'Pac's, Martin's, and Marvin Gaye
Could you picture the Black Panther party today?
Usin' hip hop to say the same thing Marcus Garvey would say?
Imagine Malcolm X over a beat
Tryin' to rally up the troops and take control of the street
Still in the window holdin' the heat
But now we got soldiers on the corner like police patrollin' the beat
Fuck G.E.D.'s – Niggaz need DP CD's
We don't need PCP; we don't need flat screen TV's and DVD's
We need more knowledge of who we be
[Chorus]
Do we really know where the guns come from?
Do we really know where the drugs come from?
How come it only affects us and not them?
How come Jesus Christ has still not come?
Why am I wrong if I kill a nigga that punch me?
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