February 2009
39 posts
Watchman — this beat is on some pretty x’d out shit. Trai’D pulls this off on some obviously-not-grown-man sex talk — “I’m too young to be doin what i do!” is the most honest thing in this song. It’s like you take the ‘pimp’ from Pimp C & reincarnate him as a dude who’s barely past 20. but he is also a likable rapper & the whole...
January 2009
53 posts
the-dream tracklist
“Rockin’ That Thang” “Walkin’ On The Moon” ft. Kanye West “My Love” ft. Mariah Carey “Put It Down” “Sweat It Out” “Take U Home 2 my Mama” “Love Vs. Money” “Love Vs. Money: Part 2” “Fancy” “Right Side Of My Brain” “Mr. Yeah” “Kelly’s 12...
requiem
By JOHN UPDIKE Published: January 28, 2009
It came to me the other day
Were I to die, no one would say,
“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of promise — depths unplumbable!”
Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
Will greet my overdue demise;
The wide response will be, I know,
“I thought he died a while ago.”
For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
The shock...
feelin this gif
dont ask what my ass is doing up this late or i will do this to you^^^
Rap Traxxx 2009 pt. 2
Quick round-up of rap traxx I’m feeling right now
Sandman feat. OJ Da Juiceman - Come On OJ Da Juiceman - Batman UGK - Da Game Been Good To Me Playa Shaw - Mr. Miyagi Da Banggaz - Run Up Get Done Up Remi feat. Gucci Mane - Bubble Up J-Smoov - Saused Up feat. Kollosus Rick Ross - Mafia Music 8Ball feat. Tela & MJG - Gangsta Luv Willy Northpole feat. B.O.B. - Hood Dreamer Smoke DZA -...
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Back in the badudio
here. “any day now my new project arrives . nope - not new amerykah pt 2 but new baby !! (shout out to mothers to be ) i can hardly move my hips are sooo stiff …( i look like a duck w/ long legs) meanwhile im still working away on pt 2 . ( mind blowin) later than i anticipated , however , but frsh all the same . these days i live in headphones while poppin...
mistermiyahhhgi mistermiyahhhgi
Gotta give it up to muzikfene for consistently upping some great rap music & keeping with a consistent perspective on new street rap. But best of all he threw up “Mr. Miyagi,” probably the best new rap song I’ve heard this year. The other song of his I know is “Boo Boo” which is cool (clever hook & some harder-than-usual steel drums) but not on the level of...
my ballot for the pazz n jop poll 2008 →
Compared to my ballot from last year i was feeling a lot less rap music but really I just listened to more R&B than usual. My singles list was definitely a lot more all over the place genre-wise as well.
i crack my ass up
David: they're playing 'Big Papa' on loop
David: (moments later) big papa on poop.
WatchWhen yr named after an Outkast song, like to play guitar & have some genuinely creative, kinda out-there instincts, drop an acclaimed mixtape and know how to mix it up, sometimes it can be very easy to veer a little too close to the sun. I’m not gonna link to it cuz it is very WHAT. EVER. But the new B.O.B. single is such an epic Angelous maneuver that it can’t be anything but...
Beats I made when I was 19
Some of these suck —
da organization
Sorry I’ve been busy lately & let my tumblr lapse for, like, 2 days. O well.
The above video is to Da Organization’s “Can’t Stop No Player” from ‘97, off the self-titled album from the same year. I came across it thnx to one of the best rap blogs out, BLVD ST. The album is a sort of missing link for folks like myself who are coming at southern rap from...
WatchOne of my favorite ‘comeback’ albums from rappers who no one pays attention to was 2006’s Black Sheep album ‘8wm/novakane.’ This was the single “Whodat?” which is fire, but make sure to check “Sunshine” also. A really underrated release, the beats are real solid & dres still raps his ass off. Shoulda been as big as the Q-Tip comeback this...
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highnote dot gif
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Let's Make it A Party →
As some of my many fans on this tumblr are no doubt aware, in the last year an inordinate amount of my attention was spent hunting down old disco & house music 12”s. I’m a big fan of this kind of dance music and Chicago is really a great place to live for this sort of thing. But when a trip to the record $tore is out of the question, American Athlete does a good job of discovering...
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rap & r&b music in '09 -- first week report
So what music am I bumping in the ‘09 u ask?? i thought you would.
Capone n NORE + Ron Browz - Rotate Kardinal Offishall feat. Dr. Dre & Clipse - Set It Off Statik Selektah, Termanology & Lil Fame - Thugathon The-Dream - Rockin That Shit 50 Cent - I Get It In Perempay N Dee feat. Shola Ama - DJ Play It Question - That Boy Bad feat. Gucci Mane Ricky Blaze - Feel Free (feat. Ron...
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high note video (not worksafe fyi)
One of the best tracks off the legend’s album is now in NSFW music video form (RIP BET Uncut). White Van Music, the album that dropped this year from “High Note” producer Jake One, was a solid album that I was feeling altho I never really got obsessed w/ it — but this track was strong enough to make me want to give a new listen to the entire thing. Take a played out...
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how robert downey jr. overcame addiction
Robert Downey Jr. has publicly thanked Burger King for helping him overcome his problems with addiction. The fast food chain, he says, also helped to resurrect his career. The fast food epiphany happened in 2003 when the “Iron Man” star was driving a car piled with “tons of f—-ing dope,” Downey Jr. told Britain’s Empire magazine. The actor decided to pull over...
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“You bring it to me, I gotta lose your family
Gangstas don’t die, they get...”
– Jada MWAH
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recipe of the day -- eat this fish
OK folks just made this discovery tonight — take one can of beach cliff fish steaks in louisiana hot sauce (now only 99 cents @ strack & van till grocery stores — undoubtedly around the dollar mark at your local grocers), individually place fish steaks on 1 piece of pepperidge farm oatmeal bread. Pour remaining sauce gently over fish steaks. spread small amount of mayo on 2nd...
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An interesting NY Times piece on Risk Management →
This might take you a while to get through but if you’re interested on the inner-workings of how investment banks calculate levels of risk (and the falliability of such systems) then I recommend it.
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pour a 40 out -- top ten passings of 2008
Here are several names and faces whose contributions to society I greatly enjoyed, who passed on in the past year. These numbers are meaningless, though their contributions were not, even in the face of the infinite void.
1. Rapper MC Breed Rest in Peace
2. Paul Newman Rest in Peace
3. Bernie Mac Rest in Peace
4. George Carlin Rest in Peace
5. Arthur C. Clarke Rest in Peace
6. Pervis...
“The most important thing n life, give out love and let it come n Shaq oneal...”
– Shaq has Twitter
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Funny UK scarf-rocking chubby chaser & rap head... →
runs down the best Royce da 5’9” tracks of the year. I recommend becoming a regular reader of Dom’s Ich Lüge Bullets.
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Boolumaster is one of the biggest DJs in Chicago,...
the most alien looking places on earth →
Excerpt from Tony Horwitz’s entertaining 1992 book Baghdad Without a Map, from his chapter on Yemen:
Qat is the last of Yemen’s bounty. It was here that the biblical Queen of Sheba loaded “a very great retinue, with camels bearing spice and very much gold” for the journey to King Solomon’s court. Ten centuries later, the Romans imagined Yemen a land of such...