Ostrava (Czech pronunciation: [ˈostrava] ( listen), German: Ostrau, Polish: Ostrawa) is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence[clarification needed]. Ostrava was candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture 2015. Ostrava is located at the confluence of the Ostravice, Oder, Lučina and Opava rivers. Its history and growth have been largely affected by exploitation and further use of the high quality black coal deposits discovered in the locality, giving the town a look of an industrial city and a nickname of the “steel heart of the republic” (Czech: ocelové srdce republiky) during the communist era of Czechoslovakia. Many of the heavy industry companies are being closed down or transformed, yet the city remains one of the most polluted in the EU.
Ostrava was named after the river Ostrá (meaning sharp) which today is called Ostravice.
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of hip-hop band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his first single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his first album In My Mind in 2006.
As part of The Neptunes, Williams has produced numerous hit singles for various musicians. The two have earned three Grammy Awards amongst ten nominations. He is also the co-founder of the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Clothing. He is a member of the supergroup V.A. Playaz with Fam-Lay, Clipse, Skillz, Missy Elliott, and Timbaland & Magoo.
Pharrell Williams was born on April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the eldest of three sons of Carolyn, a teacher, and Pharaoh Williams, a handyman. He met Chad Hugo in a seventh-grade summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums and Hugo played tenor saxophone. They were also both members of a marching band; Williams played the snare drum while Chad was student conductor. With Hugo, Williams attended Princess Anne High School where they played in the school band; there he got the name Skateboard P.
Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, Ostrava) is a Czech songwriter, lyricist, and poet.
He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studying at the Technical University of Ostrava but eventually left the school. He tried various jobs and eventually ended up working as a freelance lyricist. He gained fame with his first song for Marie Rottrová, Lásko, voníš deštěm (You Smell of Rain, My Love; actually a cover version of the song She's Gone by Black Sabbath). He lives in Ostrava with his wife and two children.
In 1982 he started performing in public, a sound decision in that a number of his songs gained wide popularity. His first album, Darmoděj (The Wastrel), released in 1988, sold out immediately. An aura of myth arose around Nohavica which survived even the crisis period of his treatment for alcoholism. He subsequently released the lovely, slightly pessimistic Mikymauzoleum (Mickey Mausoleum), an album of mainly melancholy songs. In 1994 he recorded a live album, Tři čuníci (Three Piglets), intended for children, with humoristic songs.
Petr Bezruč (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpɛtr̩ ˈbɛzrutʃ]) was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek ([ˈvlaɟɪmiːr ˈvaʃɛk]; September 15, 1867 – February 17, 1958), a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia.
Bezruč was born in Opava and died in Olomouc.
Poetry
Prose
i'm sorry that i'm not what you expected (nothing ever works out)
need i ignore you now
i can't live facing these regrets
i won't live without them
how will things turn out
you threw it all away, is that how you see things
i guess we live through different eyes
we see through different pasts
i won't be what you want me to be
should i try a little less, just to suffer all the more
is this what you want from me
are you ashamed of me
could this hurt anymore
and this may be the most important thing i'll ever say
but if it's all the same
i'll bide my words and wait for better ones to take their place
and this i beg of you
please don't think out loud
and keep your life to yourself
i'm not the one to volunteer to suffocate
nothing never works out...
it never works out
nothing ever works out
it never works out
[Chorus x2: G.O.D.]
We never had none, now that we got some
Everybody want's piece of our lump sum
We strive to reach a million-dollar year income
A few hundred thousand a year already been done
[G.O.D.]
My big gun bright shots that'll blow your top
Like scared when you hear the loud sound
Frowns get broken down niggas ain't wild
Your life on my foul fit to take you out
It ain't safe dunn so I stay with the space gun
Ready to waste one, yours or mines
Loose dimes in my ass, used to pump for mine
Dump for mine, now I mix rap with crime
Walk the fine line the 41st side of my bloodline
My veins swell my bank well, the fuck you thought
You should not rock, take mine we can tap jaws
Youse a snake nigga sneaky wanna be me... my dick hard
You get scarred deep stomp through the concrete
The timbs on my feet been walk these streets
I'm a make ends meat while you sleep
Infamous M-O-B-B deep we all QB
[Ty Knitty]
Look here yo we started from the slums and things
Now we moved on got an ill team
Now we got income niggas wanna get at some
Niggas can't get none, take a step ahead cats be fed up
Take a steps back niggas like that
Yo I pray for the best that we all gon(na) pop off
Just waiting for the right time so we can just take off
Plenty obstacles to avoid, niggas pushing big toys
Everybody want piece of the lump sum
Everybody can't get none due to the fact
We worked for that, yo we worked for our plaques
Spaz out on cats, "Infamous minded"
Disarm you, your gun you can't find it
Time can be rewinded, fuck being one track minded
This the way it go, it's our time we got to blow
[Chorus]
[Gambino]
Yo it's fucked up little niggas just was in school
Now they on the block scheming on your jewels
God what's this world coming to
Still love them niggas, I can't knock their hustle
They going the struggle to survive and stay alive
Dunn I did the same thing
Pumping cracks to the early morning
With a fucking warren, now we touring across the states
It's the realest of the infamous all in your face
With big guns ready to kill something at anytime
It's kind of fucked up my brother got four to nine
When he come home best believe he gon(na) shine
Without pumping dimes once in his life
We got an opportunity to grab and the shit is alright
We got to keep it tight between each other, that's how it supposed to be
But niggas is grimy, stay fucking trying me and eyeing me
Until I get the iron G
[Ty Maxx]
You want trouble kid
I heard enough of y'all thugs talking what you bid
Maintain dunn shit is real where we live
Everywhere we go ain't the same as the bridge
I been through projects and broke times and broke friends
It didn't mix sit back watch the world spin
Too bad you couldn't look to see the world end
You couldn't look, from here all you seen was crooks
Doing jooks, sticking up places running through malls
Pulling out tools for the jewels and stores
Almost lost my mind couldn't stop my riches
I've been thugging for years, catching my mama's tears
Eye to eyes son only prize help me survive
The street struggle and thank God for you
You're my number one jewel and that's why I love you