The dashiki is a colorful men's garment widely worn in West Africa that covers the top half of the body. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored suits. Traditional female attire is called a caftan, or kaftan. A common form is a loose-fitting pullover garment, with an ornate V-shaped collar, and tailored and embroidered neck and sleeve lines.
Dashiki is a Yoruba word that means shirt. The cap worn with a dashiki is call a kufi. Sokoto is the Yoruba word for trousers, and is worn with a dashiki. They are not named after the city of Sokoto, in Nigeria.
The dashiki found a market in America during the Black cultural and political struggles in the 1960s. A prototype was developed in 1967 by Jason Benning, Milton Clarke, Howard Davis, and William Smith. These young professionals formed a company called New Breed to produce dashikis. It was located in a 2-room clothing store at 147th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in the Harlem section of Manhattan. Articles on New Breed appeared in Ebony Magazine and the New York Times (4/20/69).
Plot
"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of black U.S. movies, for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. Crazy stuff happens. For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Keywords: 40-oz, african-american, alcohol, arcade-game, baptist-church, bare-chested-male, beating, beeper, black-american, black-comedy
Finally, the movie that proves that Justice isn't always Poetic, Jungle Fever isn't always pretty, and Higher Learning can be a waste of time.
Grandma: Ashtray! You little bitch ass motherfucker! Come over here and give your grandma a hug!
Ashtray's Mother: Tray, I don't want you hangin' out in the streets. I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only kind of work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women, or workin' security for Eddie Murphy.
Dashiki: Now kids, what do we say to a man that Mommy just met?::Kids: Are you my daddy?
[during job interview]::Recruiter: Well, I see your hobbies include "drinkin', smokin' weed, and all kinds of ill shit."
Ashtray's cellmate: If you hit a man, in time his wounds will heal. If you steal from a man, you can replace what you've stolen. But always cross in the green, never in between. Because the honorable Elijah Muhammed Ali floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. And always remember my brother, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick knack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone, two thousand, zero, zero, party, oops! Out of time, my bacon smellin' fine.
Loc Dog: How much for this candy bar?::Korean Woman: Das five dala!::Loc Dog: Five dollars? Damn! I better get some sucky-sucky with that!
Loc Dog: Everyone in the hood been up in her! She got more kids than Mrs. Wayans!
Ashtray: So, will I see you again?::Ashtray's Mother: Sorry, baby: you know there ain't no positive black females in these movies.
[while filling out job application]::Loc Dog: Name: Loc Dog, baby. Height: Six-deuce! Age: 19. Father's name: mmm... I dunno. Sex: hell yeah, nigga! Salary desired: 3 million dollars! Cash!
Preach: I'm just tryin' to do to white girls what the white man's been doin' to us for 400 years.::Crazy Legs: Yeah, what's that?::Preach: Fuck 'em.
Plot
Police officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. His honesty is put to a strong test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the police department's highest ranking officers.
Keywords: automobile-chase, character-name-in-title, city, corruption, detective, drug-ring, drugs, false-accusation, mafia, police
Most cops play it by the book. Newman wrote his own!
Day Oh Day Oh Day Oh Day Oh
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Dance all night until the morning come (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Mannish water, fish tea, rum punch (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Come Mr. Sound-man string up on the corner (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Play some selection nice up 'bout on yah (Day light come and me no want to go home)
With six foot, seven foot, eight foot box (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot box (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
(Day light come and me no want to go home)
(Day light come and me no want to go home)
Watch them a bubble, watch them a go, ah-ha (BOO)
This yah reggae music how you jamming so
Girls them so sexy put on a show
Morning it a come and me no want to go home
Shaggy say
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
A beautiful bunch deh pan me corner (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Suzette, Michelle, Beverly and Lorna (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Make sure you have a girl or else
a man going mouth you (Day light come and me no want to go home)
You can't get a girl you better move from 'bout yah (Day light come and me no want to go home)
So I man say Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Sweet sweet Jamaica in the morning sun
Niceness it sweet me fun can't dun Coconut water with the good white rum
Love to see the river how the water the run
Shaggy say Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day, me say Day, me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day Oh yes (Day light come and me no want to go home)
Day me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day, me say Day Oh (Day light come and me no want to go home)
The scratching of paper and pen
reminds me of a song I wrote two years back.
I remember each and every line
like a photo glued to the lids of my eyes.
The shiver of my wheezing chest
reminds me of the way I felt two years back.
And as we lose all track of time I feel her breathe
like ice on the tip of my spine.
The shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep.
The shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep.
I wait for the bed to get warm
as my eyes adjust to the darkest light form.
And as I start to drift away
you're the shake that pulls me back to this state.
The shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep.
The shake before I sleep,
the shake before I sleep,
When the week is done, and the evening sun is sinking back into the hills,
Well the neon lights start flickerin' on and the roadhouse starts to fill.
You can bet your ass by ten o'clock it'll be all that you can take
To squeeze inside with the girls and guys who come out to do the shake. Shake it 'til you can't shake it out no more!
Do it 'til your feet come off the floor.
Put a little shake in your rattle and roll.
Shake it 'til you can't shake it out no more!
The air is thick with the sweat and smoke comin' off everybody's skin,
And the rhythm grows in people's bones like it's coming from within.
Don't come out here lookin' just to chill or to sit down and take a break.
The only thing to try 'round here tonight is get up - and do the shake!
We're all the same when we come out here, don't matter who your daddy is.
What side of the street that you grew up on don't count for anything.
Come down alone, or with a friend in tow, just get down here for God's sake.