Dark Cheadle puts me in the holiday spirit whenever I check his TWitter timeline. That Basquiat and Yo gabba TWit is the realest shit I ever read on TWitter.
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Deep Thoughts by Sean Price…
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010Support The Hip-Hop Word Count…
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Several years ago I had a discussion with my homey Tahir about how you could definitively determine that rap music was in decline as an American art. We talked for hours about the use of language as a socializing culture tool and the complexity of the spoken word in music. I took those discussions and framed them into weblog drops. Tahir took those discussions and developed the Hip-Hop Word Count. Think of the HHWC as a sort of rap music Wikipedia containing all kinds of cross-referenced information on rap songs from 1979 to the present.
Tahir needs our support to help him complete this project. If I can be big enough to allow him to take full credit for this project I figure you can be big enough to pitch in a $5 spot to move this endeavor forward. My dad always told me that if I ever had a good idea to make sure that I had a second one and then a third one. The Hip-Hop Word Count is a good idea. Let’s see this thing thru.
A Letter From The Management…
Monday, December 20th, 2010
The stretch run for 2010 has begun. How was the year for you?
I can honestly say that 2010 was one of DP’s best years of all time.
The Internets Celebrities had that New York Times article. That was big.
The interview with the former governor was a classic too. What Does It Smell Like? Power. No one man should have all that power.
DP was hired by iHipHop.com, then later in the year TheBVX.com put him on to up drops to their page.
And then there was The Combat Jack Show bringing the change that we all need to urban radio.
DallasPenn.com is just happy to get to the finish line of another year knowing that what it truly represents is the starting point for another spin around the sun.
Thank you for your continued support of DallasPenn.com and the prA’li movement.
Onward and upward.
Excelsior.
#FREEONSMASH
Monday, December 20th, 2010
In a relatively small window the model for the recording industry has totally shifted. This wasn’t anything gradual either. It was like tectonic plates shifting underfoot. It was like the earthquake that rattled Haiti. People are devastated. Everything they thought they understood about creating x producing x selling music has been altered and people can’t get back up.
How have music companies dealt with the ground under them being shaken? Not well. The response has been wholly reactionary and hardly progressive. And while the music industry clings to a dead dinosaur our friends at OnSmash.com rest in bureaucratic limbo. OnSmash.com is the NEW industry and this fux with the heads of the old one.
Will the artists that have directly benefited from the online machine come to the side of OnSmash.com and help defend their right to exist? PrA’li not. Hip-Hop/Rap music doesn’t have the voices that would tip the industry towards evolution. People are happy to just be collecting a check without going to jail to create a buzz for themselves. Rappers are the new slaves and OnSamsh.com and NahRight are the respective Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner of this shit.
Let my people go Department of Homeland Security. Let my people go…
All Day I Dream About Sneakers…
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
My Atlanta family The Shoe Game is celebrating their fourth year online as the premier sneaker culture website. This year their anniversary party is going to be extra off the hook. They’re giving away mad pairs of kicks and other swag.
The Shoe Game is normally reserved and chill city but even G-Roc is going ham. FML that I can’t make it to Atlanta for this event.