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Support The Hip-Hop Word Count…

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

staple crops

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.

FUX YO’ SPACESHIP!

Monday, December 20th, 2010

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Before I entered the OKayPlayer holiday party I hit the streets with Combat Jack. He hustled me into the holiday party for Angela Yee and her Breakfast Club radio program. That shit was an official spaceship.

The drinks were being poured nonstop and the vodka was Belvedere. The industry heads that came thru were so relaxed and chilly chill it wasn’t even like an industry party.

The best part of the night was when I met RahDigga. She is hell’a tall and so fine up in person. I told her that I had a dream I listened to a record with her, Roc Marciano and Sean Price on it called ‘Grown Man Rap’. She told me that she and Ruck might have a project one day in the future since her last name is Fisher and P’s is, well, Price. What?!? Fisher-Price FTMFW.

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Combat Jack is a funny dude when he is getting drunk as fux. He made sure he politicked hardbody for the radio. Expect to hear some more biggtime industry insiders on his show early in the new year. Angela Yee even shook my hand with her gorgeous self. I said “Angela, I had to come and say high to you so that I don’t seem like some stalker just staring you up and down”.

Angela replied, “I didn’t even notice you”.

Niiiiice. I’m mad invisible to her.

The OKayPlayer holiday party was dope even if B.B.Kings was relatively empty considering the Roots were performing. I tried to hang out backstage but I got shut down by the OKP site owner. I guess my rep for being a fixture near the craft services table was my undoing.

Instead I hung out in the crowd with folks like 2Fresh and Seed from the website Rule4080.com

John Legend and Patti LaBelle turned that mother out and Black Thought is STILL the most underrated or overlooked rapper in the game. Peep the concert pics from Rule4080.com to see what I was seeing even tho’ I wore my sunglasses at night.

Big shouts to Roni the Ruffian, Hobbs, Chad Miller and Carl Chery a/k/a The ‘Go-In’ Brothers.

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Hip-Hop In The T.Dot…

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

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It figures you would have to leave the United States to have a wholistic Hip-Hop cultural festival. That would be the Manifesto Festival held in Toronto over several days.

I can only imagine how dope this shit woulds be in Paris.

Shouts to Ernie Paniccioli for the link.

Manifesto Festival 2010 Recap (OFFICIAL) from themanifesto.ca on Vimeo.

Questo For President…

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

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I just peeped this link to Questlove’s Celebrity Stories and I was transfixed for hours.

This also reminded me to pass y’all the link to the OKayPlayer Holiday Jam. Fill out the form and camp out in front of B.B.Kings with me on Wednesday nite.

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

XIII

I’m calling the Air Jordan XIII ‘Altitude’ colorway my beautiful dark sneaker fantasy.

I got caught up in the hype and beasted on these kicks.

TheShoGame.com also put together a tight little clip of the release in Atlanta…