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CAPTAIN BILLY SUNDAY’s PIRATE RADIO PODCAST

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

iPirate

This is the first annual Black Eye Boom Bap Posse Rap Cage Match here at DP Dot Com. Posse rap cuts are like the soundtracks that are created when rap music superstars form Voltron. These tracks are filled with all kinds of energy that moves at different speeds and attacks at disparate angles. Imagine watching the Avengers on the microphone, or the X-Men.

I love posse rap tracks because of the unity that is displayed. Their is a singular determination by every artist to murder the music with their mind. Lyrics find a new height and importance as everyone attempts to out work the previous poetry presenter. Pardon the excessive alliteration, but I am excited to give you these songs and I hope that you do the right thing by listening to them with your goggles on.

black eye peas

Homeboy pictured above caught a bad one on the ‘Simon Sez’ remix…


‘The Symphony’ – Juice Crew All-Stars (Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane)
I remember how many necks got snapped after G Rap dropped his verse. No one wanted it with that dude. Give Big Daddy Kane his props for even touching the microphone after G Rap.


‘The Headbanger’ – EPMD, K-Solo, Redman and Das EFX


‘Guerilla Monsoon Rap’ – Talib Kweli, Black Thought, Pharoe Monch


‘Flava In Your Ear'(remix) – Biggie Smalls, Craig Mack, Rampage, LL Cool J, and Busta Rhymes
Blowticious!


‘Left It To Us’ – Cage, El-P, Tame 1, Yak Ballz and Aesop Rock


‘Color Blind’ – Ice Cube, Kam, MC Threat, Coolio, WC and J-Dee


‘A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturday’ – Q-Tip, DeLa Soul, Vinia Mojica


‘Live At The BBQ’ – NaS, Fatal, Akinyele and Extra P
Read UnKut Dot Com for the Joe Fatal backstory on this legendary track.


‘4, 3, 2, 1’ – Method Man, Redman, Canibus, DMX and LL Cool J
There’s a reason this song is legendary. Canibus set this shit on fire. LL Cool J made sure that no major record label would ever fuck with him again. This track gets a two(2) black eye rating.

black eye peas


‘Simon Sez’ (remix) – Lady Luck, Pharoahe Monch, Redman, Method Man, Shabaam Shadeeq, and Busta Rhymes
This shit is so hardbody I’m giving it three(3) black eyes and three(3) retarded emcees rating. Everyone goes in deep. Busta Rhymes is without question one of the greatest posse rap track emcees of all time.

mc retahd

NO HOMO RAP APOLOGISTS…

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

gangsterlicious

A few months ago I told you that it was time for rap music to have an openly ghey artist [ll]. Ghey is the new hot shit right now in civilization. Just look at the popularity of Project Runway and Perez Hilton. If theoretically ten percent of the population is teh ghey then it has been hightime for a rapper to come out of the closet. I think that was Lil’ Wang’s attempt with the imagery he uses in these condom promotions. I apologize for not recognizing this from the outset.

Just look at that image

The man that is giving Wang his rod isn’t a police officer as some people unfamiliar with the police have assumed. First of all, the man has no law enforcement identification on. He is wearing no clothing that says police, and if he were an undercover officer he should at least have a badge. The scene has Lil’ Wang splayed on the hood of a car with his pockets emptied and his hand jewelry removed. I don’t know how gheys do their thing exactly but maybe this man is letting Wang fingerbang him afterwards and Wang doesn’t want any doodee on his Jacob jewelry.

Them rings are a bit shiny too. Sonn, might be copping his shit from the back of the XXL mag.

The man is wearing shades and has hair plugs. He is obviously one of those old rich faggots that drives from his home in the suburbs to the ‘hood strip mall where all the “hustlers” congregate. Male street prostitution isn’t put on blast like that since it deals with wealthy fags who want to maintain their class status outside of their dangerous liasions so they purchase the services of the people that are from the most socio-economically disadvantaged communities.

This theme could be part of the series of images that Lil’ Wang is creating for this condom manufacturer. I give Wang credit for being a pioneer to bring his faggotry to the public arena on some shit that says he is a hustler that uses protection. This is a valuable message since Black people now have a lock on contracting AIDS to the same degree that we contract sickle cell anemia and almost as much as our love for menthol cigarettes. It is positive that a gangsterlicious role model like Lil’ Wang is thinking about the welfare of his fans.

All this homo rap shit affords me the opportunity to present the idea of the pause symbol, or [ll], to you to assist you when discussing some issues on the internets. Byron Crawford created a term several years ago that enabled us to write some questionable shit on the web and then summarily remove the cooties of faggotry from our ‘net profile after the utterance of this phrase.

Nullus.

It was widely received and accepted for its clarity and its brevity. Think about it, ‘nullus’ requires only six keystrokes whereas ‘no homo’ required seven. [ll] is the future because it only needs four. By saving keystrokes you are saving energy. Using [ll] leaves me with enough energy to masturbate at least for an additional half minute.

Lauren Phoenix > Rita G

Trust me on that.

[ll] is meant to imitate the universal graphic imprinted on pause buttons on all of our electronic devices. This symbol crosses all kinds of language borders so I feel like it exceeds the accessibility of even nullus, which is latino based. A rare Bol shout to Mexicans I might add. A shout goes out to El Gringo Colombiano who developed the [ll] concept. EGC is also a consultant for the cRap Music Fantasy League which has been suspended while I straighten out my money situation here at the X spot.

Anyhoo, the point of this drop is to give some credit to Lil’ Wang for coming out of the closet [ll]. Now I’m ready to hear a duet with him an Lil’ Kim [ll].

UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE

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Kudos to Lil’ Wang for getting the ghey out of his condom advertisements.

Now maybe you can get off Rock The Dub‘s sack? [ll].

THE GOOD LIFE…

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

good life

I’m doing some investigative journalism on the taste of Ciroc vodka.

And the opportunity to see lil’ Miss Penny Woods’ smile in person.


Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty
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Adventures In Rapping…

Friday, March 7th, 2008

rebbe rapper

O.G. Sabres jersey >hardbody> new Sabres jersey

The dudes that jump off the Hip-Hop Karaoke party are hosting their 2nd annual tribute to B.I.G. on Saturday 03.08.08. This event has progressively gotten better and I fucks with their movement. It’s fun and most of all it’s a fan based expression of Hip-Hop. Imagine listening to cats try to rattle off Das EFX’s ‘They Want EFX’ after a couple of Jack Daniels. The party isn’t about listening to drunk people slur through rap lyrics, but about folks being ever so slightly inebriated that they are uninhibited in their affection for rap music.

Real rap music is for the professionals, but for us weekend SONY Walkman warriors we have the Hip-Hop Karaoke party. Several hundred people chanting out rap lyrics from all of your favorite rap songs of all time.

Plus… Plus… Plus…

Where in Manhattan on a Saturday night are you going to party for FREE?!? No cover to enter. No fee to sign up and rhyme. For the longest time now the hosts have been gassing me up to do a song. I’m thinking I might have to get on stage and put down my rendition of ‘Rebel Without A Pause’. Come hang out and watch me embarrass myself. You never know who is going to fall through the party and bless the fans with one of their songs. Last year O.C. came though and performed his classic ‘Time’s Up’ along with a tribute to the Notorious.


Hip-Hop Karaoke
Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., NYC
Saturday, March 8
Doors/Sign-up @ 10, show at 11
As always, FREE to enter, FREE to sign-up

The Roots Went Hollywood…

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

roots

I hope the OkayPlayers don’t get their hemp boxers all up in a bunch. I still fucks with the Roots on the regulack, and I will definitely be at their next NYC performance.

Friday night I organized a small junket of DP Dot Com heads to go in to see the Roots perform at the Apollo Theatre. I’ve seen them at the Apollo previously for a Black August benefit a few years back(ROSARIO DAWSON nearly kissed me – true story). As a matter of fact, I may have seen the Roots perform live as much as I have seen GEORGE CLINTON and all of his P-Funk incarnations. The number is alot. However, the fellas in my group hadn’t seen them at all, or in a looooong time.

40 40 Dawg
40 went to Temple U. and he remembers when the illaDelphonics were prah’lee called the Acknickulauts since they were the house band for 3xDope. All this to say that Diesel goes way back with the Roots although I don’t think 40 has seen them perform live since he was in college.

VEe VEe from Scritch & Scratch
This was VEe’s virgin Roots show. Check his link above to take a look at the artwork he is creating to herald the proposed Wu Tang vs. Shaolin project this summer.

p P-City a/k/a Master P
P also popped his Roots cherry at this concert. Y’all may not remember this but P produced the first two DP Dot Com videos. This joint where G DUBBZ tells the victims of Hurricane Starrkeysha to shake their ass and show him what they are working with is a classic.

I was hoping that the Roots would do their typical guest-filled marathon. The Roots have trademarked themselves as the most incredible Hip-Hop experience on stage and for the last fifteen years I haven’t seen anyone top their best. Not Public Enemy, nor the Wu. Friday night’s show was all about the Roots though. It wasn’t a BlackStarr reunion or an OkayPlayer jam session. It was just the Roots and that alone is worth the price of my ticket.

But what the fuck is up with an 83 minute set? Am I wrong to expect the Roots to perform for at least two hours? How about at least 90 minutes? I needed one more song to show my friends that these dudes were indeed the truth. In reality Black Thought had already sewn that shit up for them. You need to recognize this man as the greatest emcee alive. Black Thought is a beast of a rapper, but even bigger than that he is an M.C. Microphone Controller.

All of the Roots are master musicians in their own right, but Black Thought exceeds even ?uestLove because he is using the oldest musical instrument known to man. The human voice. Black Thought stretches his trachea, larynx and lips past the tipping point. His lyric spacing moves from single shot punchlines up to semi-automatic semantics. Sunn is straight ill-MATIC in a full metal ski jacket.

Star


Don’t Say Nuthin’


Boom!

If you haven’t yet seen the Roots perform live then you are missing one hell of a band throw down and clearly one of, if not the greatest emcee to hold a microphone.

Even when their set is only 83 minutes.