Archive for July, 2007

cRap Music Moguls Stand Up!!!

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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These drops will be done periodically to introduce all of the labels owners to one another. To give us an idea of who is playing and what their strategies might be. I expect to have the complete roto system integrated into the game for the next quarter so this will mean that we can alter our rosters in mid season whenever we choose. Then this game will get bananas.

In the meantime and in between time check out some of the label owners that are part of the movement…

iFux iFUX Entertainment
iFux Entertainment is ready for prime time although they haven’t joined the scoring board yet. They selected a longshot from the west coast named Mitchy Slick. Too bad for iFux that Mitchy released his album last quarter. This label still holds blue chippers like Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne so he won’t go scoreless for too long.

iFux Is Hip-Hop was borne from his desire to bring his ideas and lifestyle into the blogosphere. Fux is a well known Nah’Right acolyte and he is quickly establishing a lane on the internets with his iCandy drops. Definitely check dude’s shit out.


problematik Flatline Records
We’re like killin’em in the streets

This is the homey P-Matik‘s record label. P shored up his roster with a bunch of the usual blue chip artists – Jigga, Fif, Wayne and ‘Ye. You can’t be mad either with T-Pain, Fab, Foxy and Young Buck backing him up. On paper this is a pretty complete roster. The only question is will all the artists perform up to their potential?

When I asked P why would an artist want to be signed to his label he responded, “I’m the Ariel Sharon of this rap sh*t!”

F.Y.I. on the scale of hardbody tall Israelis…
ARIEL SHARON >>> LYOR COHEN


m.c. Mental Calisthenics Records
DP Dot Commenter LION XL put together this label of artists and he even selected Pharoe Monch, as well as NaS and Ghostface, so I know that as a label owner he values art over commerce. Sure he has Wayne, Neyo and Juelz Santana, but he isn’t in this pool to win this shit if he has to compromise his core values. On second thought, dude has Jim Jones and Foxy.

The chances of Jimmy scoring another hit equal to ‘We Fly High’ are slim to none, but who knows, he may get arrested for looking like a MICHAEL VICK pit bull.


bamboozled Bamboozled Records
Bamboozled Records is also helmed by a fellow blogger, LL (not the rappa), and their roster is comprised of blue chippers Jay-Z, TI and Lil’ Wayne, but it will be up to longshots like Keisha Cole, Casssidy and Papoose to help her win this round.

Ramblings Of An Island Girl discusses everything from entertainment to the design aesthetic of classic post-modern architecture. LL is smart like that.


Awwww ish! The iNternets Celebrities are back at it with a brand new mixtape from the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. This joint is all about the Do’ and the Don’ts when you are at an outdoor concert.

Do: Watch this video.

More i.C. shenanigans here and here.

UNDEFEATED AND UNPLUGGED…

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

tyson

The most exciting boxer from my generation in some of his most insane in the membrane, un-filtered, un-cut goodness.

Link courtesy of Supreme AntBee

POLITRICKS 2008: Take Me Out To The Ballgame (no JOHN ROCKER)

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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I can’t believe that GIULIANI is still relevant at this point in the 2008 presidential campaign. I felt so assured that he would have been self-ethered when documents were leaked that he and MICHAEL VICK trained dogs together. GIULIANI’s pitbulls however are people. From CHRISTYNE LATEGANO to BERNARD KERIK (who incidentally had to be summarily put down), the former Mayor is a snarling dog owner who takes no greater pleasure than watching his attack dogs as they dismember someone. I don’t have to wonder where GIULIANI stands when it comes to MICHAEL VICK either. It’s weird that so many people are concerned about the ethical treatment of animals, but the ethical treatment of other people, especially the poor… Not so much.

GIULIANI never struck me as a man that was into sports for the plays or the players. GIULIANI loves the spectacle. He is that Roman senator that catches wood when people are thrown to the lions. To that extent he will be a sought after prosecutor, but never a president. He’s still going to shoot the shot anyhoo. And why not? He’s got tons of cash and the threat of McCAIN pushing past him is starting to fade. GIULIANI is like a horse breaking away on the turn at the Kentucky Derby. Let’s see if he has the legs to carry himself all the way. I wonder where all these dog lovers come in on horse racing. It was pointed out to me that everything that is bad with sports is contained in horse racing, from animal abuse to rampant steroids use.

Doesn’t GEORGE STEINBRENNER, the owner of the Yankees. also own several stables of racing horses? Why aren’t the Feds swooping down on him for cruelty to animals? That answer is so simple that it doesn’t need to be said, but I will put it up anyhoo.

Peep GEORGE STEINBRENNER’s political contributions

That list tells me that RUDOLPH GIULIANI was in GEORGE STEINBRENNER’s wallet from way back. There was a senator named ALPHONSE D’AMATO who ran New York as if it were his personal fiefdom. RUDOLPH GIULIANI carried weed for ALPHONSE. I don’t say that euphemistically either. In 1986, GIULIANI and D’AMATO dressed up in Hell’s Angels outfits and went up to Washington Heights to buy crack and weed together as a publicity stunt. What I didn’t realize back then was that GIULIANI and D’AMATO were into playing dress up as leathermen. Come to think of it, GIULIANI is into that drag lifestyle something fierce, huh?!?

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Well if GIULIANI insists on dressing in drag and wearing his fancy baubles to the White House then he had better stay in the money. Whoever said that the CLINTON’s were the only politicians that have access to Hollywood connections obviously hasn’t met RUDY. It looks to me like GIULIANI isn’t doing too bad at all with the jetset elite from the left coast.

ADAM SANDLER chipped in…

And even a tipsy KELSEY GRAMMER

Along with golden boy JOHN ELWAY

As well as A-ROD, ALEX RODRIGUEZ

Plus ‘Sopranos’ exec producer BRAD GREY

And even my former favorite first baseman, KEITH HERNANDEZ

RUDOLPH GIULIANI might be short on charisma, but he certainly won’t be looking for a loan with these friends. I am going to leave this drop alone now. I have to put my ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Fraser’ DVD box sets along with my throwback Broncos jersey and ‘Waterboy’ t-shirt in the incinerator.

I Fux With Flash Gordon (no FREDDIE MERCURY)

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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Let’s keep riding out with these movies that I dig. With my folks HBO account back in the days I might have watched ‘Flash Gordon’ about fifty eleven times. Actually, I watched ‘Flash Gordon’, ‘Annie’ and ‘Oliver’ every time they were broadcast. I know the entire score to ‘Oliver’ too. Nullus to that true confession.

‘Flash Gordon’ is a fun flick to watch. This joint might be fifty percent greenscreen with totally campy, bootleg special effects, but it’s obvious that the actors in this film enjoyed themselves. The costuming was designed to be a throwback to the O.G. Flash Gordon televison series and the great MAX VON SYDOW plays a ruthless and comical Ming The Merciless. The chick who played the role of his daughter Princess Aura was smoking hot and she seemed somewhat Persian come to think of it.

flash

The best part of this film though is the score which was done by Queen. Yes! The balls out teh ghey glam rock band who created such classics as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Under Pressure’ and ‘Another One Bites The Dust’. Listen to some of these joints from the movie and tell me that Queen didn’t rock the effin’ house.


Flash Gordon’s Theme


Prince Barin’s Battle Theme


Vultan’s Assault Theme

True Romance Is That Cinematic Crack!

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

true romance

Shout to my nigga from the westsiiiiiiiide, iFUX. Dude reminded me about one of my favorite all time movies. This shit is up there with the movies that I can basically watch several times again yearly. Each time you find a different detail or a newer nuance that just helps your appreciation for the film get that much greater. Just like ‘The Professional’, this movie is a classic love story, but unlike the unrequited love contained in ‘The Professional’ this film goes all the way. There is even a bananas sex scene inside of a phone booth. ‘True Romance’ is fire from beginning to end.

Director QUENTIN TARANTINO pulled out all the stops with this flick and every actor plays their role to a fuckin’ tee. I already talked about GARY OLDHAM’s rasta pimp drug pusher character, which he nails, but you have CHRISTOPHER WALKEN cast as a mob boss, JAMES GANDOLFINI as a contract killer, DENNIS HOPPER, MICHAEL RAPPAPORT and BRAD PITT as his stoner roommate. The action is also wild hardbody as we have shootouts galore and fistfights and references to SONNY CHIBA.

true romance

I don’t normally fucks with CHRISTIAN SLATER, but dude got that off in this movie. He plays a loser that works in a comic book store and goes out alone to watch double feature karate flicks. His boss at the comic store sets him up with a hooker, played by the then hot PATRICIA ARQUETTE. This is only the hookers second job and she falls apart when she realizes that she is attracted to him because he didn’t judge her lifestyle. The two get married at City Hall the following day. It’s when SLATER returns to her pimp to collect her shit that the shit hits the fan. Classic hilarity ensues in the TARANTINO fashion and dead bodies are left in the wake of these dangerously in love newlyweds. I demand that you see this movie for this one single scene…

Mob boss CHRISTOPHER WALKEN finds SLATER’s dad played by DENNIS HOPPER. The two have a heart to heart discussion about SLATER’s whereabouts. HOPPER gives WALKEN an unforgettable history lesson before he is executed. WALKEN gets played out by a dead man talking. I’m not gonna say another word about this flick. You need to watch this joint this weekend.