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Oh great. They're trying to screw us. What IS it with these people. - Rah-PM 2012

I wonder what my chances will be in court without a lawyer. - Rah-PM 2012

What is this error they're claiming? - Anika

Sorry to hear. Why are they saying you can't terminate the lease? - Stephen Mack

Basically, they had us sign the lease like 3 times. The final lease was supposed to be a 2yr with reduced rent in the second year and standard option to exit. So, of course, they are trying to enforce a mix of 2 of the leases (I have all three) so that it looks like we signed a 2 year with no option to exit at all. Primary issue is that there is a check in the wrong box on the final lease, even though the area that is NOT checked has all exit stipulations filled in. - Rah-PM 2012

That sounds like an awful mess. - Stephen Mack

That sucks. - Friar Will (:^)

fight it.. there is normally a landlord/tenent board in most cities. All I have heard is that you lose your last month rent in case things go south.. - Peter Dawson

Exactly. That's what we thought. We have never been late on rent and have basically been model tenants. I'm not going to pay them over $4,000 just to move. They know what's going on and are trying to play dumb. I'm really not feeling them. - Rah-PM 2012

If they're going to try and stick me for thousands, I might as well take it all the way. - Rah-PM 2012

Just sent them a multi-paragraph letter detailing exactly why I'd rather take it to court than let them screw my family. - Rah-PM 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - professor daddyo

LOL! The property manager got my email and called to let me know she will forward the message and to remind me that emails from that address that do not contain her name did not come from her personally and she will do whatever she can to help us out. - Rah-PM 2012

Well thats a good start at least. the BLDG Manager, jsut follows what head office dicates.. so be nice to the her and get her some flowers.. :)- - Peter Dawson

Not that I can think of off hand, but I will definitely go that route depending on how the respond to this email. I'm hoping the email itself will have the desired effect, but I'm willing to take it all the way. I don't understand how they think they will succeed in court anyway. - Rah-PM 2012

I'm not sure about where you live, but here in California there is a law where if you break a lease, and the complex finds a new renter for your apartment, they cannot legally charge you for the remainder of the lease from the date that the new renter moves in. They cannot receive double-rent for the same place, essentially. If that is the case in your state, you wouldn't be on the hook for more than the days that the apartment remains vacant (and they rarely stay vacant for long). - Hookuh Tinypants

I still can't believe the NUTS they have to pull this crap. Even with 3 boys threatening to destroy the damn place, we have been model tenants and always paid on time. For what? For the landlord to try and rob us? .........Excuse me while I go count to 10 in the corner. - Rah-PM 2012

Hah! True. I'm not a big TweetDeck fan, but I can't imagine this is gonna be unicorns and glitter for those who are :) - Rah-PM 2012

I've been using it really since it's inception. I'm wondering if this is Twitter's first attempt at being a "multi-network?" - professor daddyo

Cold Case - Shevonne

Third Watch - Valz 4 Botts

Manimal. Cop Rock. - Anika

Columbo. - professor daddyo

Without a Trace & Quantum Leap would probably top my list. - Curdy G

Life on Mars (US version) - JCunwired

I would probably add the US version of The Eleventh Hour to that list, too (though, it'd be awesome if the UK version had been more than 4 episodes, too). - Curdy G

Small Wonder - Jenny...

Brimstone - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

+1 Brimstone. Also, Reaper - Alex Scrivener

Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Drive, Life on Mars (US version), College Bowl - Spidra Webster

Il pranzo è servito. - Smeerch

West Wing - t. The Lethargic Honeybee

ditto @ Spidra except college bowl. plus BSG, arrested development, twin peaks & life. - Lnorigb

The Monkees. - vicster

Soap. - Vicarbott

No one said Firefly yet???? - Stephen Mack

Oh wait, Spidra did. - Stephen Mack

+++ Jim - vicster

to me it's a low-art form (not "low" in a "negative," sense but in a "bottom-up" sense) that grew out of the NYC pan-african melting pot. at its best, it's poetry and amazing storytelling. at its worse, it's ... soulja boy. - tiffany

It means you don't stop. - Slippy

If you've been paying attention you know I love rhythm & blues, soul music, roots music. With that in mind, feel free to recommend unto me "the good stuff" from Hip Hop. - MoTO Bott from Android

"People talk about Hip Hop like it's some giant living in the hillside coming down to visit the townspeople...." - Victor Ganata

that's a tough one b-dub. can you overlook some of the subject matter and profanity? i think biggie's "warning" is a masterful piece of storytelling in verse. full of tension, complex rhymes, metaphor, and clever phrasing. it's a dialogue between two characters, "pop" and biggie. "pop" is telling biggie that he heard some dudes threatening to rob and kill him for his drug money. and... more... - tiffany

tiffany - as I've said before, my mother used to complajin that "funky" was the dirtiest word she could think of and my generation raised it to iconography in the 70's (Ma was kind of sheltered) . I always countered by asking what she thought Uncle John wanted from Long Tall Sally...prolly something funky. So "bad words" don't bother me as long as the context rings or sings true. - MoTO Bott from Android

It's a culture and a genre. Rhyme and rhythm. Pants on the ground to hands in the air. As far as "the good stuff" that is definitely a hard question. My hip hop world kinda centers around Bone Thugs~n~Harmony. Their integration of rap and r&b changed the game. Most artists these days think they can sing, harmonize, and speed rap. This is definitely not a comprehensive answer :) - Rah-PM 2012

Victor - under normal conditions, I'm rather slow. It's the end of the week bruh. Please expand. - MoTO Bott from Android

Sorry, it wasn't really a coherent thought. But whenever I hear the question "What does Hip Hop mean?" I end up thinking of some of Mos Def's lyrics: http://friendfeed.com/aswang... - Victor Ganata

Well that's why I asked the subjective question. What does it mean to *you*. Frankly somewhere after Eric B and Rakim's first album, it lost relevance for me. And to put it more bluntly, when a young white aficianado rolled up on me with a "my nigga" I tapped out. I'm not far enough removed for that. But people I respect (many here) love the form. So I'm going to school. - MoTO Bott from Android

That's definitely one of the aspects of the spread of hip hop culture that doesn't really work for me, MOTO. Fine if you want to listen to the music and sag your pants, but there are still some aspects that you are barred from. - Rah-PM 2012

I can't say I have more than a superficial understanding of hip-hop. I wasn't significantly exposed to it until I went to college, hanging around people who were into it deeply, with regards to the creative aspects of it. Because of the juxtaposition of my exposure with my coming to grips with identity politics, in my mind I first perceived it as an academic construct, on par with... more... - Victor Ganata

I see what you did there, Victor. Nice - MoTO Bott from Android

I think it really does depend on the person. For me, I like the wordplay, the beats, the emotions evoked. I don't listen to the type of hip-hop most people listen to, I think. I'm not into the thug stuff. It doesn't appeal to me, probably because I grew up around people like that and they bored me. Stuff that is just words that kinda rhyme, but don't make sense laid over a poppy beat,... more... - Anika

Rah - what you are alluding to dovetails with the use of "nigger" in comedy. Pryor was not the first black comedian to do it, but he was a major crossover artist. Practically every one who followed was a pale imitation. Just talking dirty. But the cat was out at that point. Don't know how you back somebody up that's been singing the lyric all day in his room. - MoTO Bott from Android

To me, the culture and music that took off in the 80's. The sound that coincided with break dancing when that started. I mostly think of NY groups like Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force or Public Enemy. I wouldn't have a clue what to say if someone asked what is hip hop today. - Rodfather

I'm old school. '86-'94/'95 or so is where I'm most comfortable. I don't know much about recent stuff. - Derrick

What Derrick said, essentially, plus a handful of non-mainstream hip-hop groups from more recent times. Even some 90s gangsta rap can be charming, even with the overuse of the n-word (which I dislike). It got ugly and hollow sometime after that, and a lot of what I've heard recently is just trash. Same can be said of several other genres (country, pop, r&b), and I don't think that it's just that I got old. I enjoy recent electronic music mostly now. I can't elaborate on what it *means* to me just now... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

I am Hip-Hop. - professor daddyo

To me, hip-hop is a sub-genre of rap. It's generally based on jazz and employs positive messages in its lyrics. However, like many other music-related phrases, it's been misused (IMHO) and no longer has any real meaning other than as a synonym for rap. - Curdy G

In more concrete terms, it's the beats and the rhymes: spinning and scratching, breaking and battling, MCing and creating lyrical flow. While all I ever did was watch and listen, for people I knew who were really into it, hip-hop was something they did, something they created. I've ended up thinking of it more as an artistic movement, not just as a genre of music. - Victor Ganata

Yeah, don't forget the graffiti and breaking. (But yeah, for music I basically think of it as a synonym for rap.) - Andrew C (✓)

Daddyo!! "Sally...that girl!" - Derrick

And actually I think if you want to get all academic about it, hip hop is the culture which is made of rap music, breakdancing and graffiti. How it got transcribed to describe the music would take someone far better versed in the lifestyle than I. Although in '88 I was all up in it. - Derrick

What's the "fifth element"? =) Some people say it's basketball, I think I've seen someone saying it's sneakers ... - Andrew C (✓)

Hip hop to me? It's dancing on cardboard. It's fresh. It's youth. It's sneaking listens to songs adults would look down on on headphones or in secret with friends. It's revolution. It's believing you can change the world without changing yourself. It's commercial. It's providing voice to furious indignation and frustration. It's Ice Cube in the aftermath of Rodney King and the LA Riots.... more... - Jason Toney

Great question and beautiful answers. - SAM

and i have to say that so much of what rappers do and say is about playing a character. as jay-z put it, "scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper to me" and "we're all weirdos / deniros in practice / so don't believe everything your earlobe captures." (i swear i don't like jay-z all that much, but damn if i don't quote him a lot). as for the difference between hip-hop and... more... - tiffany

I have an on-again/off-again relationship with hip hop. These days, it's mostly off. my favorite rap "phases": The Beginning (Sugarhill Gang, Kool Moe Dee, Run DMC, Stetsasonic, Whodini) // "Conscious" Movement (De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Spearhead) // Hip Hop/Jazz (Guru, Greg Osby) // Hip Hop/Electronic (Flying Lotus, Roni Size) // Flowacists (Nas, The Roots, Bahamadia,... more... - jbrotherlove