Archive for June, 2007

JAY-Z AND BeYONCE ARE REALLY BEST BUDS (NO ANHEUSER-BUSCH)…

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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I opened up my homey’s website TONY’s KANSAS CITY yesterday only to find out that the Jigga Man is now balls out ghey. There were always the rumors about him and his weedcarrier manservant MEMPHIS BLEEK having a personal intimate relationship, but I ultimately poo-poo’ed that shit away because you how people can get more jelly than a bottle of crushed grapes. But if TONY is writing about rap music in any manner then I need to peep the shit he is saying.

It looks like Jigga and Kansas City Chiefs running back LARRY JOHNSON are sharing an apartment in the midtown Manhattan luxury high rise Trump Tower. They apparently like to share each other’s clothing and JAY has taken to giving LARRY some brotherly advice about his modeling career as well. LARRY even gets to wear JAY’s Roc-A-Fella necklace on occasion. JAY and LARRY also have New York Yankee DEREK JETER as a neighbor. My only problem is that three light skinned brothers with no moustaches always means trouble.

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All that teh ghey talk has to be unfounded internets rumors because I see all kinds of pictures every three or four months of JAY-Z and his friend BeYONCE on vacation somewhere expensive. Plus I see the two of them at basketball games together and other places. If JAY-Z were really teh ghey with LARRY JOHNSON how come he doesn’t take LARRY on vacation with him? I never see JAY and LARRY at Nets’ games either. At least EDDIE MURPHY would occasionally take JOHNNY GILL out to dinner. Yeah, there’s no way that JAY-Z could be teh ghey with a chick like BeYONCE and her freak’um dress.

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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Does Not Care About Hip-Hop Bloggers…

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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The Huffington Post is arguably one of the blogosphere’s most influential websites. In the nearly two years that the site has been active it has become a bellwether for freedom of speech and progressive political thought. The website is gearing up to post a daily feed from volunteer contributors regarding the 2008 United States presidential campaign.

Your favorite blogger, DALLAS PENN, respectfully submitted a letter of intent to join the fray of writers and since I am a registered Republican I volunteered to document the campaign efforts of RUDOLPH GIULIANI. Unfortunately for me the Huffington Post doesn’t deem my writing skills worthy of their bandwidth. So instead I will continue with my own posts describing the people and the politricks that will lead up to Election ’08 right here at DP Dot Com.

Even though my drops about politricks usually appear to fall on deaf ears(no Foxy Brown’s stolen hearing aid) I will be persistent in my quest to remind the Huffington Post, ne, the world wide web, that the voices of Hip-Hop whether they be urban or suburban speak as one clamorous boom bap against poverty and injustice.

Your loss, Huff Post. You bitches!

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DALLAS PENN is the creator and editor-in-chief of the daily Hip-Hop blog dallaspenn dotcom. He is also a featured columnist for XXL Magazine and is known throughout the internets for his short videos on affordable food – ‘Ghetto Big Mac’ and ‘Bodega’. From his parents’ basement, DALLAS PENN tackles not only music and art, but the gorgeous mosaic that is American culture. Sometimes serious and occasionally hilarious, DALLAS PENN is that type of magical Negro that so many Americans wish all Blacks could be. From politics to religion, from sports to love, he examines why we do the things that we do and celebrates that we do anything at all.

Dallas Penn and his merry band of players can always be found online at dallaspenn dot com. Or sometimes on VH1’s The Best Week Ever. But only if you do a Google search.


Brooklyn Bodega Is Saving Hip-Hop…

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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First and foremost, shouts go out to the Brooklyn Bodega crew that pulled off a masterful coup this month by singlehandedly saving Hip-Hop culture. Their events celebrated pioneers of music, graphic art and filmmaking. They extended an open invitation to artists from several generations of Hip-Hop to come together for the love of the movement. They even got ERNIE PANNICCIOLI to come out of his house. ERNIE took this flick of Uncle BAM and me.

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The month was topped off with one of the best outdoor concerts ever executed, mainly because it was absolutely free, and mostly because it took place in the planet of Brooklyn. Thousands of people came through to enjoy music that was old and new from some of the greatest performers that have ever held a microphone. LARGE PROFESSOR, DRES, FAT JOE, CONSEQUENCE, SMIF-N-WESSUN, HELTAH SKELTAH featuring SEAN PRICE, and the THEODORE UNIT featuring CAPPADONNA and BIG GHOST.

Personally, my biggest enjoyment was building with some of you folks that stepped to me to shake my hand. Fellow bloggers like STRAIGHT BANGIN’ and video bloggers like ILL DOCTRINE had come through as well as my peeps from D.C. and Virginia and Connecticut. The iNternets Celebrities put in hell’a work too so stay tuned for some of that video. Internets nerds stand the fuck up!

The Boot Camp Clik represented thoroughly for Brooklyn. SEAN P spit some of that fire from the Jesus Price album and then teamed up with his homey ROCK for some O.G.C. classics.

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CONS to the QUENCE brought his energy to the show and gave us some of his G.O.O.D. music.

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The Wallabee champ was in rare form and the Theodore Unit held him down respectively. WU TANG has the greatest collective catalog in rap music and getting a special appearance from Big GHOST original weedcarrier CAPPADONNA made everything that much better.

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Here are my photos from the show
. This concert was so good that I’m already lining up for next years’ Festival.

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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The inspiration for this latest pair of collectible Dunks comes from a source that is a prerequisite in every Bodega that you will enter. The honey vanilla Dutch Master cigar is the best way to get your pifferachi right. The honey flavor makes your greens taste like sugary spinach. I must have been on some ish too when I went to the NIKE Design Studio at 255 Elizabeth Street. The new program at NIKE I.D. has uncovered yet another designer leather material that I couldn’t say no to. You already know the kid is an addict. Shout out to all the addicts here in America and abroad. May GOD bless us.

So peep game… Not only do I have the Inka leather on the uppers in a smoothed out cognac and cactus colorway, I have cognac on the midsole and the cupsole matches the swoosh. Three words – Kah-Ray-Zee! Shouts to VOODOO RAY at NIKE I.D. It won’t stop because it don’t stop.

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FrankenBerry Is The G.O.A.T. Breakfast Cereal…

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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Ever since Passion of the Weiss and Straight Bangin’ put together their G.O.A.T. Hip-Hop albums list I been straight up list crazy. Okay that’s not true because I have always been list crazy and today’s crazy list is for all the breakfast cereals that are so good, because they are so loaded with sugar that if I ate a salad bowl of one of these joints now I would go into a diabetic coma. Youth might be wasted on the young, but breakfast cereal and Saturday morning cartoons at my great-grandmother’s house are my earliest thoughts of heaven.

I don’t care what any of you say. FrankenBerry is that CRACK! Count Chocula and BooBerry were aight, but FrankenBerry was the fuckin’ truth. Just peep how Frank is on the front of the box beasting out over a bowl. Niggas eyes is at half mast from all that purple. Them joints would stay at just the right crunch in milk too. If I ran one of these fuckin’ industrial companies that made weapons in one division and breakfast cereal in another I would make kiddie cereal for adults. Reduce the sugar by adding real fruit or some shit. I don’t know how they do it and I don’t need to know. I’m the idea man and my ideas flow way better with a big ass bowl of FrankenBerry.

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Most of y’all younger cats is too green to remember King Vitaman but this joint was another one of them Saturday morning treats that my great-grandmother used to lace me with. I used to be jumping all over her crib and climbing the walls like my ass was a gotdamned monkey.

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Fuck what you heard! Lucky Charms was gooder than a muvv up in that muvv. Lucky Charms was that shit to make your milk change colors too because it was sprayed with so much powdered sugar. To this day I could eat like two of them little five dollar boxes in a weekend (Sat-Sun). And why does cereal cost so damn much now?

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That’s exactly what these joints were… Smack. Sugarized puffs of rice and a fuckin’ Puerto Rican coqui frog who dresses like a horse junkie. Shit tasted good though. Word is bond.

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Frosted Wheaties were the shit because regular Wheaties were fucking boring and them shits would sogg out in two seconds. It was like eating wet cardboard. When the T.I.’s put that sugar on the Wheaties them shits became sweetened mushy cardboard. Deee lish.

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When I got a little older I started to feel a kind of way about going to the supermercado and buying kiddie cereal so I butched up my style with the Frosted Mini Wheats. One time I made the mistake of filling my bowl with these joints. I damn near cracked my jawbone trying to eat all these joints. The real plus was that I took a rope of a shit.