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Not For Long: Week 12

Monday, November 17th, 2008

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An interesting thought occurred to me…

I’m about to take over the lead in the BILLY X SUNDAY football pool. The kids that read my shit at XXL are starting to choke up as the season winds down. However, I am far from the lead in the DALLAS PENN football pool. The seasoned veterans are still in the hunt and still very serious about winning these sneakers.

What makes the adults so much more into free sneakers than the kids? I think that might be the ultimate folly of youth. The notion that something free isn’t worth winning. Us old heads realize that free shit is the best shit. I would take anything for free. Even a pile of actual shit. I’m hoping that no one puts this statement to the test because this is schwag bag season here in NYC.

I also wonder if someone from Las Vegas is going to have the refs from the Pittsburgh game tied up and sequestered for the rest of the season. When a cadre of referees comes together and still can’t make the correct call I wonder what they are thinking. I really could have used that point from the Pittsburgh game. There are five weeks left for me to take over the pool. I’m looking for a 13+ point picks week.

Oh and yeah, how ’bout them Cowboys?

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The Passion Of The Matrix…

Friday, November 14th, 2008

ye tudda

‘808’s and Heartbreaks’ will be a success on many levels. When I listen to this song right here I find myself actually appreciating Lil Wayne’s verse. What?!? Yes, the the everlasting Lil’ Wang hater is finally silenced. At least for the moment.

The violins that KanYe employs on this song are perfectly ominous and still triumphant. This is the song that will be the ‘Flashing Lights’ for this album. The transcendant pop music crossover hit that will make this season the coldest winter evar. Everyone has been bitching about KanYe’s inability to sing when what they should be saying is that they hate the fact that KanYe might be the first bathroom shower singer to go multi-platinum.

The computers that ‘Ye Tudda uses to alter his vocal pitch don’t add his passion for musical theater. KanYe brings all of that by himself. This is the 2008 album that will eventually end up on the Great White Way. I see vampires clad in shiny Comme des Garcons goosedowns flying about the staging. This song is a nightmare of haunting synth strings. Part funeral, part party. A get down for the undead.

Maybe I’m going crazy myself. I no longer sleep at night. I go through the day at my job like a zombie. The only thing that can soothe my nerves is the taste of blood from a tender young tender. She was only seventeen. But she was sexy.

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Cotton Comes To Harlem…

Friday, November 14th, 2008

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I had invites to three events in Manhattan last night and all were going down at the same exact time from 7pm-10pm.

1) T.I. LAUNCHES A CLOTHING LINE CALLED AKOO
Music industry starfuckers

2) XXL x FILA @ FILA STORE
Magazine industry starfuckers

3) NIKE ACG @ THE VAULT, HARLEM
Sneakerfiends united

I chose door number three.

Why?

Because NIKE was bringing their ass all the way uptown and at the end of the day I am a sneaker fiend. Yeah, I have a retarded Ralph Lauren collection also along with way too many action figures and comic books, but if I had the choice to be in a room with some of the most beautiful people in this city I would still choose to be around “my people”. For NIKE to spend some money in the ‘hood and not just at the stores on 125th, but the ‘hood is saying something about the realization of Black spending power and conversely, Black style.

This is where I belonged on this night. No pretensions and no industry people with hate in their blood. No obama (open bar) either for the kid although they did cater the party with some righteous soul food. Better yet, sole food. Catfish, scrimps, real mac-n-cheese, candied yams and collards. Somebody needed to yell “church” up in that motherfucker. The message for today party people is to know your lane, stay inside of it, and play it to the fullest. In that way there will never be too much on your plate.

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SOLE FOOD

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HARLEM SHAKERS

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SNEAKR FATHR

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PAPER CHASR

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Stop Sleeping On This Classic Album…

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

the hard way

BILLY X. SUNDAY goes all in on 213’s ‘The Hard Way’.

When you talk about singing rappers as much as I have then I need to acknowledge that singing and harmonizing are part of the foundation of rap music. Rappers have always wanted to be singers its just that none of them have the vocal ability. None except Nate Dogg.

Nate Dogg might not be in the MTV rotation ever, but when you put his catalog of Hip-Hop hits alongside any other sanger’s pop music hits Nate pwns the competition hands down. ‘The Next Episode’ is such a gangster song that I think they have an ASCAP agreement where a chick gets raped everytime the song gets played. What is better than a chick getting raped? Except maybe to the chick? Maybe.

Warren G’s ‘Regulate’ is another joint that Nate Dogg blazes with an untouchable verse. How many fools do you think get clapped at while the shooter sings the Nate Dogg verse? That is hardbody Hip-Hop. I’m not saying that falling in love with a stripper and buying said stripper drinks aren’t popular verses, but at the end of the day we all have to agree that buying shit for bitches is symptomatic of trick behavior. And doing shit for bitches just to get at some snatch is problematic (happy born day fam).

Nate Dogg represents that type of groove where you kick a broad out of your car if she even acts like she ain’t giving up the stanky dugout. Leave her ass right on the side of the highway. That shit is hilarious. Let that bitch call her boyfriend to come pick her up. Ha.

How many of you fucks with that 2.1.3. album? Please get familiar with that shit. Straight up gangster rhymes and smooth ass G-Funk beats. Nate Dogg spits his best Sammy Davis Jr. street crooner shit and Snoop Dogg is actually listenable. I don’t know why so many niggas still sleep on this album. I don’t. I play this shit all the time. You should too.


‘Gotta Find A Way’


‘Joystick’


‘Groupie Luv’

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Q-Tip Is The Renaissance Man…

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

the renaissance

I haven’t taken the Q-Tip album out of the rotation since I copped, er, came up on it. This is the type joint that you play in the morning while you are on the toilet taking that 6am flush puffing on that 1am clip before you shower and brush your teeth to get at that 9am grind.‘The Renaissance’ is just a collection of good motivational music with some okay rhymes. It’s funny that I will never consider Q-Tip to be a top lyricist yet he still drops several quotable verses on all his records. Sonn is a man of the people. Do your thing mayne.

Johnny Is Dead


We Fight For Love


Life Is Better

As a conversation sidebar, if I did get an interview with Q-Tip I would have to know why he didn’t show up for the Dilla tribute at Radio City Hall. His man CHRIS LIGHTY did say he was in NYC in the studio with Will.I.Am. I missed seeing Q-Tip and Busta at that show. I would pay my own money to see those dudes perform the ‘Scenario Remix’ live.

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