Raekwon – ‘Heat Rocks’
I don’t think any of you have any idea how hard I stanned out when I first peeped the title for this track off the Raekwon mixtape.
My G is really too futuristic for you mortals.
Archive for the ‘Straight Laced’ Category
Raekwon The Chef – ‘Heat Rocks’
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009This Shit Is Really FRESH!
Monday, February 16th, 2009
JOELL ORTIZ guest features on this banger from MySpace’s greatest ever musician COLIN MUNROE (production by Black Milk)
Click on the link here to give COLIN MUNROE the Freshmen props over at mtvU.
Keep his video in the rotation for another day.
Unless you are a big fan of the Gay Blades. [ll]
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
DP Lonely <3's Club
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Image heisted from here and repurposed for this site.
Love Hurts is the soundtrack for the lonely hearts club.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Chocolate Snowflake took me to the movies the other night to see a flick I have been raving about called ‘Coraline’. It is based on a story written by NAIL GAIMAN [ll]. It focuses on a plucky little girl who finds herself in a serious fix and she has to use her wits and her courage to get herself out of trouble.
The movie is filmed in stop-motion claymation animation similar to the Rudolf Christmas stories and countless other features using the technique. The film is fun, adventurous and scary all at the same time and sometimes in the same scenes. If you are taking a child with you I would suggest the 8yrs old up to 12 y.o. demographic. They are old enough to handle some of the frightful scenes and young adult themes that are being conveyed.
The real reason that I brought C.S. was so that she could help me figure out how to win these exclusive Nike Dunks that are being offered at the Coraline website. Nike has limited the giveaway to only 1000 pairs so for all I know they may have already dispensed them out to lucky people. They had me the second I saw the box they were being issued in.
Hand-stitching. Decorative lace-stays. What appears to be some serious materials on the uppers. These joints are the sickest Dunks to drop in a long while. Word on the street is that they are already being offered for more than $500 a pair from some of the re-sellers on the web.
The moral of ‘Coraline’ is to be careful what you ask for because it might not be worth having it once you got it. I do want these Dunks though.
Just not enough to replace my eyes with buttons.
Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner…
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
BILLY X. SUNDAY stays giving the people what they want.
Survey says that the people who frequent XXL mag dot com are mostly into shit other than music. The Chris Brown beatdown of his former beatbox Rihanna is now the most discussed story while the ongoing internets shenanigans of the raptors Fisty Scent and Rick Raws is more popular than the music they are releasing as the soundtrack. Rap music now has to play the background to weblogs about… Rap music.
Don’t act like you didn’t see this coming. This is what you asked for. You were gullible enough to imagine that someone had amassed wealth from illicit narcotics trafficking prior to recording songs in which he claimed to be a wealthy narcotics trafficker. Enough of you bought into that fantasy to let the survey takers know that you would also consume ringtones over orchestral productions. This simultaneously followed the idea that simple call and response lyrics were more palatable than rhymes containing too many polysyllabic words.
As the music component of Hip-Hop was dumbed down for packaging the audience followed suit. Why do you think the WWE has such a tremendous following in the south, midwest and Philidelphia? This is where the dumbest populations in America reside and where they crave the entertainment of actors dressed up in underwear grabbing each other’s crotches. Wrestling was always the pastime for teh ghey mongoloids. Professional wrestling is definitely entertaining but the viewers with any sense have left reality at the door. We know the actors all have lunch together from the same craft services buffet table.
Rick Ross had his actor facade removed last year with the disclosure that he was formerly a correction officer prior to his career change to a recording artist. Fifty Cent was on a downward trajectory since releasing his monumental album Get Rich or Die Trying back in 2003. These two artists needed this Vince McMahon type excitement to justify the amounts of money that their respective labels have invested in them. What the labels should be doing is arranging for a cage match between the two since the survey says that is what the fans want to consume. Are music labels ready to convert themselves into fight, er, concert promoters?
All that is left now is the spectacle since we are no longer interested in the lyrics or the music. At the end of the day the so-called fans gathered around for the negativity and the controversy. And you know whose legacy those marketing strategies belong to…
Tupac.