Six podcasts in and we won’t stop, because we can’t stop.
And here are the previous five(5) joints for your amusements…
DPodcast #1
DPodcast #2
DPodcast #3
DPodcast #4
DPodcast #5
Archive for the ‘Straight Laced’ Category
Half A Dozen Cousin…
Friday, August 21st, 2009We Run This Dystopia…
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
In the future what will the people riot for? Good music? Healthy food?
Nah, it’ll be women.
If China is any indicator of the shit we will be into 100 years from now, and I believe they are because they had their own industrial revolution in 1 A.D., we will be rioting in the streets for access to women. That is the message I take from the new Jay-Z music video for the single ‘We Run This Town’.
As far as futuristic post-urban dystopias are concerned I have to give props to 2Pac’s ‘California Love‘ over the ‘Run This Town’ video and you know that I don’t even fux with 2Pac like that. Firstly, 2Pac had broads in his video while Jay-Z’s only has shirtless boys holding flaming sticks [ll]. Forget the fact that Jay-Z’s lyrics say that “We got a banquette full of broads, they got a table full of fellas”.
No sir, you have a video full of dudes.
A few folks on the TWitter have made a correlation between the ‘Run This Town’ and ‘California Love’ videos, and the mother(literally) of all future apocalyptic scenes – Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will always be the G.O.A.T. Thanks to TINA TURNER aka Auntie EnTity(emphasis on the titty – see what I just did?). Maybe when RIHANNA turns 50yrs old and she is still as beatable (no Chris Brown) as TINA was I might have to reconsider.
From fishsticks to flaming sticks, KanYe West and Jay-Z have this music video shit onSmash(yeah, I did that).
You can’t deny that these are the dudes that you want to be in the future.
Mainly because they are the only ones who have access to the sweet vajj.
Who Walk In Brooklyn…
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Editor’s note: The pic above was sent to us from the intrepid BK journalist Willis Still Sunsweet, from WhoWalkInBrooklyn, who attended the DJ Premier x DJ Scratch performance hosted by CityParks in Red Hook. Willis was with us at the BlackMoon Boot Camp show in Crown Heights as well. The scene in Red Hook looks a lot different from the outset. Folding chairs at a Hip-Hop show? Brooklyn, no actually Red Hook, stand the fuck up! I’ma let Willis Still Sunsweet tell it…
Peep Evil Dee at left getting his photo taken with mad Asian crate diggers… The scene was okay, mix of ‘hood, Asians, white beat kids and curiosity seekers but you know how these things are– not the most compelling musical experience.
Danny Castro brought up some cat from Detroit, Niles Davis (?!) before who did a L-O-N-G “Phantom of the Opera” rap over symphonic bluster. It was ok but hard to get hold of tho’ he did take off his fisherman hat a lot.
Danny Castro had his history mixed up a bit, saying we’d all get shot 10 years ago, which ain’t true at all. 20 years ago Red Hook was a rough place but mostly on ladies of the night who didn’t make enough paper for their pimps…
Best part of night is stopping at Fairway for crab meats…
Fairway fun fact: that used to be a police impound yard in mid-late ’90s. Do you remember when ODB was all in the news here with his alleged shoot-outs, traffic accidents, etc? That was also last visible gasp of mafia killings– an “associate” thrown out bleeding from car by Grand Army Plaza, BODY FOUND IN TRUNK of car at impound yard, etc.
Brooklyn, MAKE SOME NOISE!
FANBOYZ UNITE!
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Stand up if you ever spent your entire allowance on them “books”.
Print featuring Samuel L. Jackson – ‘Comic Books (intro)’
Print featuring Outasight – ‘Official’
1 World x 1 Love x 1 Mic…
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
It is often the artists from the most disenfranchised, impoverished nations that can speak to the true nature of Hip-Hop. To combine all music, art, culture and people into one is the essence of Hip-Hop. With the use of the drum and the voice.
A few weeks ago when J.Period was working on the Bring Your Own Blogger BBQ mixtapes he told me of this project to combine the sound of K’Naan with some of the world’s most respected musical messengers. K’Naan hails from Mogadishu, Somalia. A region that has been embroiled in violent conflict for the past two decades. So many rappers fantasize about their communities as warzones but few have survived in one and even less speak of the peace, justice and love that our world needs right now.
With this idea in mind J.Period and K’Naan began crafting this project. A mashup mixtape with music honoring the great FELA KUTI, BOB DYLAN and BOB MARLEY. The project sounded too monumental from the outset. I’m glad J.Period was able to pull it off.
The full 3-part project is set to be released on September 1st over at J.Period’s website. Here’s a preview of what J.Period is calling ‘The Messengers’ featuring K’Naan in tribute to FELA KUTI, BOB DYLAN and BOB MARLEY.
‘Let’s Start’ (Fela Kuti Tribute)
‘Relationship’s Lay’ (Bob Dylan tribute)
‘Belly Full’ featuring Kardinal Offishall, Steele and Bajah + Dry Eye Crew (Bob Marley tribute)