Archive for September, 2007

dallaspenn.com IS HIP-HOP…

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

I didn’t want to call DP Dot Com a “Hip-Hop” website when we first jumped out the gate. I didn’t think that expressed our mindset to the fullest. I was scared that being labeled as much would mean that we might be overlooked by the tacit supremacy endorsing venues. That was my mistake to try to appeal to those outlets that ultimately don’t RESPECT the message that we project here at Dallas Penn Dot Com.

In all honesty, we were foolish to expect white folks to trade in their supremacy tickets for this Hip-Hop movement. Only Robbie from UnKut would be that crazy kind of white dude, but he is also Australian so you can’t really call it with one of those Aussie cats. My homie from OhWord, RAFI KAM is pretty serious too, but I don’t expect him to totally cash out of his whiteness either. I mean, c’mon. he’s got a family to feed. Trading in your white power for some global love understanding is almost too much to ask for from anyone. So I ain’t even mad at you if the men in black come visit you and make you yell out “Sieg Busche!”

I have been peeping some video content from a group of dudes that call themselves ‘The Real’. Unfortunately, for Hip-Hop, these dudes are anything but. Hip-Hop belongs to everyone that wants to represent it as it truly exists. These dudes have decided to parody the artform, but they aren’t fans of the artform itself. This kind of sucks for me because I have to blast on a group of dudes that feel good about the content they are creating. If someone told me that the iNTERNETS CELEBRITIES weren’t Hip-Hop I would feel a kind of way. These dudes are not Hip-Hop though. I won’t even link to their shit. If you know these cats, the Rosenthal brothers, then you already know them.

Rosenthal brothers; stop bullshitting and hire some writers that speak Hip-Hop. Hire some production assistants that are Hip-Hop. Y’all niggers are doing your thing, but you ain’t Hip-Hop, and you are embarrasssing me, but for the most part, you are embarrassing yourselves. That is not Hip-Hop.

ERNIE PANNICIOLI IS HIP-HOP…

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

I just came from a documentary about my brother ERNIE PANNICIOLI and I am so excited right now I have to blog about it. Fuck watching football or setting up the graph and spreadsheet for the cRap Music Fantasy League. ERNIE has documented Hip-Hop from it’s inception as a graphic arts, dance and musical artform. You can go to ERNIE for some of the earliest images of Hip-Hop and conversely, American culture.

Here’s my request to all the readers of DP Dot Com. ERNIE has a book titled ‘Who Shot ‘Ya?’ that is available through Amazon, eBAY, and wherever you consume printed literature/art. Purchase a copy of this book and I will mail you free shit for my own personal collection as your reward. It’s so real like that.

I hope you just take the time to go to wherever you have to go right now and support this man’s art. Do it. I will hook you up. I promise. True story.

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

falling leaves

FALL CLEARANCE AT NIKETOWN

I already copped the jacket. Now which kicks should I put my weight on?

95 360s

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Neon pack 97 360’s

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DP DOT COM WEEKEND PREVIEW…

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

dp steele

Get outta the house hotdamnit! With only a couple more weekends left of summer it’s time for you to put your ass in overdrive to find the fun in the sun. Here’s what your boy is cooking up…

The iNTERNETS CELEBRITIES will have their seminal film on Bronx poverty ‘Bodega’ screened before a vegetarian hipster crowd in the lower east side. Not to be snide, but the group screening the picture is one of those community based organizations that believes that even New York City should have healthy, affordable food and green areas for ALL of it’s residents. I believe in that too, but mostly I believe in eating for free and these folks are gonna feed the kid. CHEA!

Brooklyn hasn’t lost yet this summer. Saturday, today, is Fort Greene Day and the park will be filled with live music from a gang of artists. Main event is TALIB KWELI and the party is free to the public. Come out to the park and enjoy all the beautiful people. Fort Greene Park is at Fort Greene Place and DeKalb Avenue. Brooklyn USA.

Sunday will have my main nigga on the SLR trigger, ERNIE PANNICIOLI, previewing his documentary, and reflecting on his thirty plus years as a Hip-Hop photographer. Someone remind me to bring a ‘Kill White Tee’ shirt for ERNIE to wear.

I went to several movies over the last two weeks and if you are thinking about hitting up a film you should fuck with one of these…

SUNSHINE
BOURNE ULTIMATUM
3:10 TO YUMA

All those joints were quality dopeness. Leave these joints off your list…

BALLS OF FURY
DADDY DAY CAMP
RUSH HOUR 3

I suppose that is all for now. I’m out the door and I won’t be home again until Monday. By then we will have a new update for the cRap Music Fantasy League and the DP Dot Football Pool. Have fun party people, be safe, and get out of the fuckin’ house already!

RUSSELL CROWE STAYS WINNING…

Friday, September 7th, 2007

310 yuma

RUSSELL CROWE is literally killing shit in his latest movie, the remix of ‘3:10 To Yuma’. I went to a preview for this joint last night and I was just as happy as a clam when I walked out of the screening room. The film has all the drama of the great classic westerns and RUSSELL CROWE along with Batman/Bruce Wayne CHRISTIAN BALE both turn in sublime performances. Without giving away too much I will give you a synopsis of the film.

RUSSELL CROWE’s character is named Ben Wade and he’s the most rootenest-tootenest gun slinging bandit in the west. BALE’s character is Dan Evans and he is just a down on his luck farmer with a wooden leg. The two cross paths by accident when Ben Wade does a stickup of a stagecoach and Dan Evans becomes the unwitting witness to murder. Before it’s said and done there will be tons of cowboys, injuns, banditos, saloon keepers, and sheriffs all shot the fuck up. RUSSELL CROWE also gets to smash some dusty western white poonahnee for good measure.

The film is well written and moves at a steady pace just a few miles north of the speed limit. All kinds of supporting cast members make the mile a minute ride more funner than shooting up a stagecoach. PETER FONDA, TOM SKERRIT and the OWENS brother that didn’t try to merc’k himself are all in this flick, but it’s the all about CROWE and his character’s charisma. CHRISTIAN BALE does an admirable job of holding the mexicali weed.