The cast is back to give us another season of the drama.
Will Dallas defend their title all the way to a repeat? Will Miami break thru to the promised land and give King James some credibility? Let’s not forget about Darth Kobe either.
Sure the owners put the players further under their thumb, but this is America and that is how we roll. Billionaires over millionaires.
Now on to important business…
Renaming the New Jersey Nets the Brooklyn ROYALES (roy-ALS)
I hit the streets for the first ever midnight run on Black Friday. In my lifetime alone we’ve gone from 10am to 8am to 6am to 4am ‘Door Buster Specials’ and now that capitalism is on its last legs they’ve decided to send in the hounds starting at 12am.
Black Friday also coincides with the time of the year when Nike really wants to turn those pants pockets into rabbit ears. If Jordan was a fourth quarter assassin then the Nike brand is the 4th quarter blitzreig. The first salvo were the Black Cements and the Tim Duncan Foamposites. The final bomb before Christmas will be the Air Jordan ‘Concords‘.
Just wait until you see that video…
You can crack that special bottle of Riunite Lambrusco you been saving now that Dallas Penn and adidas are re-united…
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Were you caught up in all the hype of the release of the Nike Air Mag shoes nicknamed the ‘Marty McFly’ after the lead character in the Back 2 The Future movie franchise? The pricetag might have been somewhat prohibitive however if you work at McDonald’s, or worse, write for a living. But if Hip-Hop has taught us anything it has enabled us to spot trends in advance of their blooming so that we can get in on the pop culture action from the ground floor.
Who better than The Source magazine then to spotlight some of the trends which will take over the culture in the next few years. Invest in these trends now and by 2015 you can flip these off to your friends for a sizable profit.
2012 – Apocalypto Rap – The Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012 which also coincides with the birth of Jay-Z and BeYonce’s first child. Will this baby be the savior of the Earth or the messenger of death? Neither, but the child’s birth will spawn the subgenre of rap music dedicated to decoding the book of Revelations. If you think Jay-Z’s book ‘Decoded’ was a bestseller get a load of this joint called the ‘Bible’. No, I mean read the Bible.
2013 – Scarface 30 year anniversary – What in the world is more Hip-Hop than the movie Scarface? And what is more romanticized than selling drugs to people you live with because going to school or working to build your community is just too fucking hard? On the 30th anniversary of this seminal film in Hip-Hop culture we will see a rebirth of recreational crack cocaine use. You can either smoke it or sell it (trust us, sell it) but you had better buy yourself a whole lot of it now before the price skyrockets. Beam me up Scotty.
2014 – Illmatic 20 year anniversary – Something that is also very Hip-Hop is nostalgia and reminiscing on the good ol’ days. You know, the days you used to catch lightning bugs in jelly jars and ride your Big Wheel on the sidewalk, before you would have to sell crack to your neighbors. On the 20th anniversary of what most rap bloggers have determined is Hip-Hop’s greatest album we see a flood of CD’s titled in homage to NaS’ classic… Trillmatic from Bun B, MeekMillmatic, Pillmatic, and IllBillmatic. I even predict Sean Price will release Brownsvillematic which is actually his Mic Tyson album that was due to drop in 2010.
2015 – The reconstruction of the World Trade Center site is finally completed and Biggie’s line from ‘Juicy’ is permanently deleted from the song, lest the new WTC site get blowed the fuck up again.
2016 – End of the world – Kiss your sweet ass goodbye because its all going to end this year around the time of the WNBA playoffs.