I thought I had an Oakley corporate connect until he hit me with the wamp-wamp.
I’m not gonna cry with this one tho’ since it’s not like I do Oakley promo hardbody over here at dP. I wish I would have played my hand better when I was at that Oakley event a few seasons back instead of drinking all the liquor and grabbing as much free swag as I could carry.
I need to elevate my sunglass swag from Frogskin to future funk 4000…
In a much simpler time Captain America was the hero that the United States needed. He was created in a laboratory to fight villains who were also made evil thru science. As a narrative for propaganda this was the perfect storm.
The vile German political military industrial complex was threatening our way of life (as we were told) and Captain America was just the man to put everything and everyone back in their place. I feel like the movie was made with the sensibilities of America in the 1940s using modern day CGI tech.
I knew Captain America kicked Nazi ass but I came to know the character as the dude who hung out with the Falcon. When John Byrne did a guest stint on the pencils I got to see the serious side of Captain America.
Cap was hardbody and he was not above killing someone to prove his point. This Baron Blood/Union Jack storyline culminates with Cap beheading Baron Blood and then watching the O.G. Union Jack die of old age. Pretty grim stuff for 10yr olds, but thankfully my old Queens neighborhood was a dumping ground for dead bodies so I wasn’t fazed.
I love the idea that Captain America’s creation was engineered by Tony Stark’s father using weaponized medicine. The same shit that was prA’li used on those poor dudes in Tuskeegee. It’s crazy to imagine how closely the comic book world resembles our own reality. Weapons manufacturers sell their shit to the highest bidder and then send in their secret agents to confiscate the arms after the checks have been cleared.
All I can say is that the Avengers movie is going to blow the hinges off the fanboy domepiece. Is a comic book revival not too far off in the making? I hope not.
The Doppelgangaz crew is on the come up. I wasn’t really fuxing with these kids at first because they seemed to rappity rap and earnest on some 2011 Tribe Called Quest shit. In the meantime the Doppelgangaz kept working on their craft by refining it and expanding their soundscape.
Then all of a sudden I heard the track ‘Doppel Gospel’ and I had to take a second listen. Out of literally nowhere the Doppelgangaz were on my rap radar. Then I watched them open for SlaughterHouse at the Highline Ballroom Shady Records party. They entered the stage wearing black cloaks and Jordans. The Doppelgangaz didn’t give a fux. I FUX with that.
I’m gifting you a few tracks from their recent album project ‘Lone Sharks’. The Doppelgangaz are dropping some real jazzy rap music. Shit is sophisticated beyond their age (21). This production goes off the beaten path for most of the shit that people are playing today. Their production reminds me somewhat of Tommy Mas beats on the Action Bronson ‘Dr.Lechter’ CD.
Left of center is good for rap music, at least as far as my earholes are concerned.
‘Doppel Gospel’
‘Suppository’
‘Suppository’ is another one of the DPGZ subversive rap bangers.
‘Like What Like Me’
‘Like What Like Me’ was the track that made me finally reach out to the Doppelgangaz and demand a copy of this ‘Lone Sharks’ project. Those drums are simple and brilliant. The video for this track is also banana bread genius.
My new favorite track from the CD is ‘At Night’. THIS is that Tribe vibe I was talking about. I need me a Volkswagen Karman Ghia convertible so I can bang this joint on the way out to Jones Beach.
‘At Night’
Get your copy of ‘Lone Sharks’ here…
Aliens are the new (old) boogeymen. When you need that go-to bad guy extraterrestrials serve as a handy stand-in for Black men and arabs. With that premise the producers of ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ have made a thoroughly entertaining earthlings vs. aliens summer feature.
‘Attack The Block‘ has the right amount of gore, machismo and comedy to make it worth your time when it hits theatres at the end of the month. Vicious aliens come to Brixton neighborhood apartment complex and get more than they bargained for from a local band of juvenile delinquents.
The lead character is a 15yr old Black kid. This movie could not have been produced in America because of our relationship to young Black males. In Europe its a lot different. Well maybe not a lot different, but the neighborhood where the movie was set is mixed racially, just not economically.
The juvees are a motley crew of mixed race kids led by a Black dude. Watching a young Black male in a motion picture go from thug to hero and still maintain his thug style was worth my every viewing minute. Cool off for a few this summer and peep this hot flick.
The BEST summer movie of 2011 is X-Men: First Class. I knew the movie was going to be dope, but I didn’t realize how much I was going to love it. As a retcon from the original X-Men canon it doesn’t fux up the OG backstory as much as some other movies have done. As a longtime fan you can fit in to the new storyline comfortably.e so enj
What really helped make the movie so damn good were the stellar acting performances. Magneto and Professor X’s kinship was dope. If Professor X had gone dark he and Magneto could have ruled the planet, but still and all Magneto just might end up on top of the heap. Magneto has a Batman-type of revenge malevolence.
Magneto is the boss of this flick and we even get introduced to Sebastian Shaw from the Hellfire Club along with some Black dude mutant who doesn’t live past the first yo scene. Dude got the Thunderbird treatment (for those of you who FUX with the X-Men canon hardbody). I wasn’t mad at that aspect so that let’s you know how great this movie was.
I was a little weirded out seeing Havoc come into the fray before his older brother Cyclops, and watching Angel be more like the Black Wasp while Moira McTaggert was a federal agent as opposed to a geneticist. But I suppose those are all relatively minor details to overcome when you are watching your favorite comicbook series of all time come to the silver screen.
Even at the $13.50 ticket price I’m down to watch this flick again.
