ThunderCracker’s born day was yesterday. He is still a big presence in my mind as are all the people that I miss dearly, Megatron, Kenny, Herb Shalat, my dad. All soldiers. Some are veterans of foreign wars and others are casualties of a silent, subtle domestic war that continues to this minute.
I feel like spending some time reminiscing on where I have come from. Without the people that have come thru my life in one way or another I’m sure I would not have become the person I am today. As long as I breathe their memory lives thru me…
Complex magazine hollered at the kid again to participate in their rap music roundtable review they call ‘The Consensus‘. This time around we were to drop a few words on the new KanYe West single featuring Dwele titled ‘Power’. It’s a good song that I could envision being on the ‘808s & Heartbreak’ album. Musically it fits into that groove while lyrically KanYe is rapping and not using the spartan repetitive prose he employed in 808s. Or the autotune.
Listen…
This what the fux I’m tom ’bout. That Eminem single you sent out was great for retahds and losers to get dressed to, but this shit here is what a Wall Street daytrader showers to in the morning. All ego with no apologies. Like Jordan shooting free throws with his eyes closed.
One day in the near future someone will uncover 808s and wonder how our culture produced that futuristic album but couldn’t follow up that movement. KanYe dialed his shit back to put this together and its still gonna be a crazy single. The live instrument concert version will be off the hook.
4.5/5
Now peep all the reviews from the distinguished panel – The Consensus
Sean P shot me another set of pics on his 2010 ‘Must Cop’ list.
Oh shit. Stan Smith adidas in a buttery smooth suede. The Stan Smith, while not one of my choices, is still unquestionably a Holy Grail tennis shoe. I would even posit that the Stan Smith is greater than the shelltoe because it has remained popular thru the years without a song to lead the sheep in its direction.
These green suede adidas immediately made me reference the Incredible Hulk. Most normal people might have thought money green at first sight, but I’m special like that. Plus when you think of Sean Price it’s not hard to imagine someone getting all gamma ray’d up inside of the recording booth.
In celebration of their 15th anniversary DuckDown Records is kicking off their NYC summer 2010 takeover with a ‘white‘ party tonite at Le Poisson Rouge in lower Manhattan.
Some of your favorite DuckDown Records artists will be in the building wearing all white..
