I once read an article which explained the "fly", in "fly yellow", but
I wasn't convinced at the time so I don't recall where I read it nor
what it said...

Anybody?

(...Sorry Mike, it predates hip-hop.)

Harold Adrian Russell Philby wrote:
Who said anything about hip-hop?

Oh, excuse me, Ice:

Yo! I met this girl the other night
Hype super-dope body and face, her mini-skirt tight
Talkin' 'bout legs and lips, mindblowin' hips
Had to cross my legs just to look at her tits
Said she came out lookin' for some fun
Looked me in my eyes and told me...I was the one
I said "Why?", she said I was fly
Grabbed me by my hand and I thought I would die
Said she wanted to take me home to make love
Now that's the kind of rap that brothers dream of
I said, "Fast, slow, hard or soft, baby?"
She said, "All the above"


This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a gun or a knife
This girl tried to kill me, took me within a inch of my life


Now, I ain't no sucker on the weak tip
But let me tell you, she was on some motherfuckin' sex trip
Took me to her crib that night, leather and spikes
Broke out the rope and the dope strobe-light
And started buggin', lightin' candles all over the room
Then she did a backflip, landed on my dick
I knew that I would be dead soon


This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a gun or a knife
This girl tried to kill me, took me within a inch of my life
This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a bomb or a gun
This girl tried to kill me, homeboys, watch out for this one


Yo, my pants were on, but so what?
She ripped off my shirt and tied my monkey-ass up
Faster than I could say "No!"
It was like a rodeo, I was with a sex nut
I looked in her face...
She sweated and she grinned with delight
And then she broke out a whip, I said "Shit!"
This girl had crazy plans for the night


This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a bomb or a gun
This girl tried to kill me, homeboys, watch out for this one
This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a gun or a knife
This girl tried to kill me, took me within a inch of my life


Now whips ain't all that she had
All kinda crazy shit was at this bitch's pad
I'm talkin' about latex suits, spike-heeled boots
Oversized vibrators so that she could get loose
I said, "Don't...don't...don't whip me!
I'll do anything you ask!"
And then homegirl stripped, 38" tits
Man you shoulda seen that ass


This girl tried to kill me, she didn't use a gun or a knife
This girl tried to kill me, took me within a inch of my life
This freak tried to kill me, she didn't use a bomb or a gun
This girl tried to kill me, homeboys, watch out for this one


My dick was harder than a bulletproof vest
She started pourin' baby oil on her chest
And then she said, "Gimme gimme gimme"
Jumped on my Jimmy, and rode me like the Wild West
I almost passed out, then the front door cold bust in
It was her fuckin' husband, six-foot ten
I knew my life would soon end


Homeboy tried to kill me, he didn't use a bomb or a gun
Homeboy tried to kill me, yo...yo, nowhere to run
Homeboy tried to kill me, he didn't use a gun or a knife
Homeboy tried to kill me, cos he had caught me fuckin' his wife
Yo...

"The Girl Tried to Kill Me"
Ice-T


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Ape! Apes wearing clothes! It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

<<I once read an article which explained the "fly", in "fly yellow">>

"Ferrari Light Yellow"? Since it's not very light, that seems odd.

I always figured references to *Fly Yellow* referred to a resemblence to the
bug or to the fact that this kind of colour attracts bugs.

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/livest...llow_fly01.htm

C.

TigerRace1 wrote:
Oh, that's nice. Looking at that picture is far worse than having to
endure Ice-T's lyrics.

MC

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Ape! Apes wearing clothes! It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

"MC" <betterman (AT) pj (DOT) net> wrote


I thought (no kidding) that it was a reference to the color
of bug guts. Seriously, I did. Still do, until proven wrong.


If anyone knows the real answer, it'll be T308.



Ice was killer on "Rhyme Pays". Who didn't like "Six in the Morning"?




That said, this thread is reminding me of ZZ Top's "Velcro Fly"...


You think the TR is a bad 80's relic, but that song...



-Matt- "It's bug guts, I tell ya."

matt borland wrote:


"Power". That was the album that did it for me. I bought every one of
his albums after that one.

MC


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Ape! Apes wearing clothes! It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

<<That said, this thread is reminding me of ZZ Top's "Velcro Fly"...>>

You need just enough of that sticky stuff...

C.

"matt borland" wrote...

You rang??

I've heard a variety of thoughts on it, but nobody has proved the origin that I
know of. Most have an opinion (like FLY = Ferrari Light Yellow) but nobody's
got facts. Giallo Fly certainly isn't "light". Solar Yellow is the light
yellow.

The first mention of Glidden/Salchi 20Y191 "Giallo Fly" that I have is in a
late 1960s paint chip book that features the colors that were available on
Ferraris at the time. Most of the chips on the chart are standard Glidden
paints that were renamed/customized by Salchi SpA (the Glidden partner in Italy
that supplied Scaglietti) to add some spice to the list. The color
descriptions were the standard color name in Italian plus the name of a great
race horse unless the color already existed on the previous list (Like Blu Sera
or Rosso Chiaro). The names include Amaranto Bull Lea, Azzurro Hyperion, Blu
Ribot, Grigio Mahmoud, Marrone Colorado, Nero Dark Ronald, Oro Kelso, Oro
Nashrullah, Rosso Sir Ivor, Verde Medio Nijinsky, Verde Pino Blenheim and Verde
Seabird. All great race horses. I spent most of my youth at Santa Anita
Racetrack and I never knew a great horse named Fly. My take is that someone at
Salchi had a sense of humor. Having been around horses, having cleaned up
after horses, having walked horses there is something thats always around a
horse. Flys and lots of them.

T308 to win

On 30 Nov 2004 04:17:15 GMT, tifosi308 (AT) aol (DOT) comunista (Tifosi308 the
Serial Number Geek) wrote:
Grazie.

....Anyone else?