I’m still looking for a “FREE” MP3 player program that I can put on my server in order to get these playlists on and poppin’.
In the meantime and in between time I will let the Dewplayer do what it dew…
Archive for January, 2008
The Addict Awakes…
Thursday, January 10th, 2008KEEP IT MOVIN’…
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
You can’t handle the truth on the regulack at XXL Mag Dot Com.
I was instructed by my boss’ boss to not go in on the Elliott Wilson situation, but since I exist at this site tenuously anyhoo I thought I would say something for the record. And Since rap records’ sales figures are in the shitter prah’lee no one will buy this drop by the time I’m done.
Keep it moving XXL mag dot commenters.
It’s just that simple. What the fuck do you care why Elliot Wilson isn’t here any longer? There’s no conspiracy. Sonn-dula just ain’t here. So what now? Are you gonna stop listening to rap music? Are you going to stop reading publications that talk about rappers? What in your life gets improved when you know where and why Elliott is?
That’s ho shit you are worried about. Don’t worry about Elliott. That nigga is doing better than all of us. Combined. I’ve got a column at XXL mag dot com and my ass is still eating tuna out of the can. Not even albacore sonn. Dark meat tuna. My cable got shut off over the weekend. I watched football at the Circuit City on Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. I’m typing this shit from the public library at Grand Army Plaza. Meanwhile E Dubbz lives in a billion dollar penthouse condominium with Jay-Z and Common as neighbors.
Elliott Wilson is gon’ be aiight. First off, he’s lightskin and figures show that good hair negroes live life on the sweet side of the street. So you know he left Harris Publications with his dignity. Good hair jigs like Elliott and Keith Clinkscales always stay crispy. Not so much speaking of Vibe magazine, but have you seen E Dubb’s wife? How the hell did he bag that? He ain’t even a pretty lightskin nigga either. Sonn has hell’s game I guess so wherever he goes his shit is gon’ be aiight. XXL mag and this online bastard child will be fine too. So while all you ho ass niggas speculate on the whys and the wherefores you need to keep your shit moving as well.
If you work at Mickey Dee’s this is the year you get promoted to fries up from bathroom cleaning duties. If you already work on fries you have reached the ceiling for growth and you should move on up to Boston Market or some shit. Shouts to all of y’all in school now getting a degree in some shit that will keep you in debt until you are 34yrs old. What up to all the XXL dot commenters at their jobs now reading this shit. I’m just like y’all and when I get back home I am gonna take me some drugs and sip me some wine.
Elliott Wilson is gon’ be aiight. The rest of us? Not so much.
Days Of Future Past…
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
BILLY X(-Man) SUNDAY is still working for the Hellfire Club
In one of my favorite X-Men comics we get a glimpse of a dystopian future scene. Mutants and superheroes alike have been shepherded into concentration camps. Society had feared their powers for so long that they were willing to allow the government to regulate them by any means necessary.
Rewind to the present day 2008 and listen to the Congressional arguments that are being levied against Hip-Hop from claims of its supposed pro-violence lyrics, to the closed caption vignettes of misogyny and anti-social behavior. Rap music itself has been pretty difficult to defend due to a lack of imagination and creativity from its artists. Speaking of the difficulty to defend and rap artists, there are several high profile rappers under indictment as we speak.
I looked around and tried to imagine what could save rap music in its 11th hour. Dance crazes are no longer valid or noteworthy. Rock and roll began to die the day the twist was started. By the same token, a rap song that is easy to memorize reduces the art to simple, childlike mnemonic babble. Hip-Hop needs a hero right now and I’m not talking about the classic club from Quizznos (get the wheat bread. Mmmmm, toasty).
The future of Hip-Hop is Super Hero Rap. This sub-genre has been quietly bubbling under the surface of mainstream rap but too many people have been afraid to embrace the movement for fear of releasing their latent nerditry. Now that Nerd Rap has proven itself a feasible sub-genre for Hip-Hop it is high time for the greatest nerd rap acts to claim their mainstream mantle. Those that aren’t already at the top.
Ghostface as Tony Starks, Iron Man – GFK has to be the first or second rapper that comes to your mind when you think of Super Hero Rap. Of all the mainstream rap acts there hasn’t been a more consistently creative artist than GFK. The culmination of Super Hero Rap’s dreams may be realized when GFK crosses the silver screen during the Iron Man movie.
MF Doom as MadVillain – KMD is undoubtedly one of Super Hero rap’s greatest champions. In the event that Super Hero rap is as short lived as crunk KMD is already forging ahead with Godzilla monster rap. Don’t sleep party people, that shit is huge in Japan.
Redman and Method Man – How about super hero rappers that actually get stronger after smoking some kryptonite, or anything else light green? The Sooperman Luva was trying to show us the way almost sixteen years ago. The future is now.
Sean Price and Rock as Power Man and the Falcon – Sean P was really my inspiration for writing this drop. He is an easy transfer over to the Powerman/Luke Cage character. As a former felon who returns to the streets to seek justice and crack skulls Price certainly has the background history and the bodytype. Plus he has a grip of hats with the letter ‘P’ on the crown. Rock as the Falcon is a no brainer.
Eminem as Spider-Man – I said that shit over there at XXL a minute ago.
Jean Grae – It’s been too long since I’ve written a sentence with the name Jean Grae in it. She’s still alive right?
Lupe Fiasco as Ant-Man – Who else has the ability to make their profile smaller after they open their mouth?
Fifty Cent as War Machine – Fifty needs something to revitalize his career here in America and Super Hero rap is just the ticket.
Missy Elliot as the Blob…
I’m not sure who I would place in the role of the Black Panther. Talib Kweli seemed like a possible choice as did Mos Def, but I’m not stuck on either. I also want someone to fill the role of the Vision. Is there a secret Wu Tang clan member? Can we call him the Vza?
Super Hero rap is about to be huge in the ’08.
Afterwards, I can’t call it.
FREEDOM FRIDAYS 5th YEAR ANNIVERSARY…
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
The War Report by MAXINE
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Editor’s note: Peep shorty rock in the flick above. Sonn still got his tie pulled up like he is ready for business. Our Rocky Mountains bureau chief MAXINE dials in with a banging new years drop that takes no prisoners. Even though I personally don’t trust the Africans I have to realize what their failed democracies speak about my system of government.
*So you niggas change your attitude ‘for they asking what happened to you. -Jay-Z ‘Lucifer’*
As much as I fucks with Heidi Collins and the kid Tony Harris over at CNN, this shit right here, AIN’T for the kids. Listen up! Turn off your TV’s, and for GAWD’s sake, delete your motherfucking myspace pages. There’s a war going on, and it’s gonna be us, or them.
No Raila, No Peace! No Raila, No Peace!
Kenya is FUCKED people. I mean it is fucked the fuck up! The violent political unrest in Kenya is unlike any in the history of the country called the most “stable democracy in Africa.” Since December 30, over 600 people have been killed, not taking into account the number of rapes, forced circumcisions, and mass female genital mutilation, all over a crooked political election! If people were this fired up in 2000 (or 2004 for that matter), just imagine what the fuck could have happened? If we gave one motherfuck about the vote and the power behind it, Florida would have never been the same. Bush’s margin of victory was 537 votes. That number decided the outcome of the country for the next 8 years and beyond.
Needless to say, this shit is not flying in Kenya. Right after incumbent President Kibaki was declared the winner, opposition supporters (Raila’s people) took to the streets, burning shops, shacks, and anyone who dared get in the way. The Kenyans got it right. The Electoral Commission, similar to the U.S. Electoral College has fucked the people and the system it defends will continue to rule with corruption and deceit until its subsequent dissolution. In order to win the Presidential race in Kenya, the candidate must receive 25 percent of the vote, or at least five of Kenya’s eight provinces to avoid a run-off. Kibaki only got 3!
In U.S. terms this is like pitting a state like New Mexico which only has 5 electoral votes or some shit, against California which has 55. The proportions don’t match! The difference in what’s happening in Kenya now, what happened in 2000, and what could potentially happen here in November 2008 is that no one is going to do a motherfucking thing. Elections have been rigged for as long as we can remember, and it’s not just the Republicans. The Dems did it for JFK in Chicago; in what ended in the most famous coups of our time.
So many countries have tried to model their political systems after America’s, only to find that it’s all fucked the fuck up from the word Go. I come from the school of Marxist theory; the government represents the interest of the dominant class, and eventually those being oppressed will raise the fuck up against those doing the oppressing. That’s what happened in Kenya. The Proletariats are fired the fuck up and sick of being shitted on everyday by the motherfucking government. Don’t call it a comeback bitches, they’ve been here for years. This is nothing new.
The media will pass this unrest off as economic destruction. Of course!!! Now that it’s not safe for Alex Trebeck, Warren Buffet, and Goldie motherfucking Hawn to go traipsing through Kenya on their “cultural safaris,” you better believe we’re talking about economy!
I, for one am sick of this shit. I’m an emotional voter ok? That means that the facts matter, but how it will affect me and mine matters more. Damn right I voted yes on 100A, the pro-Marijuana initiative! What would you expect? I think I speak for all Proletariats when I say, FUCK the status quo. I’m sick of the same cats running this shit. Can we get that *Detox* album?
Mr. Obama, I’m riding with you. Hardcore, I sent in my $20 months ago! Allow me to say though, that even if healthcare was “affordable,” poor people wouldn’t ‘buy’ health insurance, that money would be spent on SUV’s. The point being is that social sentiment goes a helluva longer way than economic rehabilitation. Why? As long as you’re driving around in the new ’08 Escalade, all fruits are ripe. We overlook the obvious for obvious reasons, to quote Kanye, “you got D’s mufucker, D’s! Rosie Perez.” None of us are passing the test, and it isn’t always because we didn’t study.
As long as the current election system is in place, we will have to raise as much hell as possible to get real results. I’m not saying go and burn down the elementary school next door, but it is time to stand up. It’s time to send the message to those doing the oppressing, in all aspects of the system. I can feel it in the air. I can hear the bitch in your voice. I’m passing the blunt to the left on you cats. I hold your glass straight up when I poor your Stout, asshole. You’re as cold as ice…someday you’ll pay the price. I know.
Pfffft.
Fuck this man.
*throws headphones*.