My day job has been a beast lately. Right now I need GOD to grant me an additional six hours to every day so that I can work, blog and live my lifestyle (read: drink copious amounts of free alcohol).
One of the most important things I need more time for is to remind Chocolate Snowflake that she is the most incredible woman I have ever met. Between my vain chase for fame and attention and all the other things I do in order to keep the roof over my head I sometimes forget to show and tell this woman how truly special she is to me.
I found the above image and it made me laugh out loud. GOD is good all of the time. GOD created the slugs, and the worms, and the bugs to even know that they must make time to spread love.
Take some time from your busy day today to tell someone that you love them.
This is the first annual Black Eye Boom Bap Posse Rap Cage Match here at DP Dot Com. Posse rap cuts are like the soundtracks that are created when rap music superstars form Voltron. These tracks are filled with all kinds of energy that moves at different speeds and attacks at disparate angles. Imagine watching the Avengers on the microphone, or the X-Men.
I love posse rap tracks because of the unity that is displayed. Their is a singular determination by every artist to murder the music with their mind. Lyrics find a new height and importance as everyone attempts to out work the previous poetry presenter. Pardon the excessive alliteration, but I am excited to give you these songs and I hope that you do the right thing by listening to them with your goggles on.
Homeboy pictured above caught a bad one on the ‘Simon Sez’ remix…
‘The Symphony’ – Juice Crew All-Stars (Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane)
I remember how many necks got snapped after G Rap dropped his verse. No one wanted it with that dude. Give Big Daddy Kane his props for even touching the microphone after G Rap.
‘The Headbanger’ – EPMD, K-Solo, Redman and Das EFX
‘Guerilla Monsoon Rap’ – Talib Kweli, Black Thought, Pharoe Monch
‘Flava In Your Ear'(remix) – Biggie Smalls, Craig Mack, Rampage, LL Cool J, and Busta Rhymes Blowticious!
‘Left It To Us’ – Cage, El-P, Tame 1, Yak Ballz and Aesop Rock
‘Color Blind’ – Ice Cube, Kam, MC Threat, Coolio, WC and J-Dee
‘A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturday’ – Q-Tip, DeLa Soul, Vinia Mojica
‘Live At The BBQ’ – NaS, Fatal, Akinyele and Extra P
Read UnKut Dot Com for the Joe Fatal backstory on this legendary track.
‘4, 3, 2, 1’ – Method Man, Redman, Canibus, DMX and LL Cool J
There’s a reason this song is legendary. Canibus set this shit on fire. LL Cool J made sure that no major record label would ever fuck with him again. This track gets a two(2) black eye rating.
‘Simon Sez’ (remix) – Lady Luck, Pharoahe Monch, Redman, Method Man, Shabaam Shadeeq, and Busta Rhymes
This shit is so hardbody I’m giving it three(3) black eyes and three(3) retarded emcees rating. Everyone goes in deep. Busta Rhymes is without question one of the greatest posse rap track emcees of all time.
After the First Saturday event at the Brooklyn Museum of Art I will go into Manhattan for what I hope to be an out of this world after party. Brown Girls Burlesque is the name of the show and it is being promoted as a performance that I don’t want to miss.
These ladies are inspired by some of the greatest super heroines of all time. Catwoman, Storm, Aeon Flux, GRACE JONES and PAM GRIER to name a few.
Traditional burlesque shows capture comedic elements and will weave them through all kinds of social taboos and morays. Don’t just be prepared to laugh. Be prepared to laugh at yourself and all the things you thought were important. Burlesque is totally grown folks humor. So you may not get it if you haven’t actually seen the world.
The theme for this performance is super heroines and the people that love them. I like the idea of women putting on stretchy costumes and kicking ass. I’ll let you know how these broads rocked the spot.
Brown Girls Burlesque
The Zipper Factory
336 West 37th Street (btwn 6th & 7th Aves)
$20 – Showtime 11pm
I will run the risk of setting myself up to called a “stan” by some anonymous internets hump, but there isn’t any other way to describe Ahmir Thompson and Tarik Trotter as anything less than being the essence of all music. ALL MUSIC.
The drum and the voice are civilizations two oldest instruments. The drum was created as a percussive element to mimic the majesty of thunder. The drum tells us to prepare our ears to listen. Ever notice how your ass freezes up when you hear thunder? Like, “Oh shit, a storm is about to popoff.” The voice communicates our messages. Fear, pain and sometimes love are the most popular themes. The drum and voice are universal everlasting. They are both primitive, yet still so beautifully eloquent. I mean the drum and the voice.
Black Thought and ?uestlove are beautiful dudes as well. [ll] to that. My experiences of these artists in live concerts have always been favorable and sometimes they have been close to spiritual. Black Thought and ?uestlove have mastered their respective instruments. Black Thought folds and mends his vocal chords so that his voice not only gives information and intonation, but also homage and respect to the voices that have preceded his. ?uestlove… You should already know.
As much as I love to see the Roots crew live I will admit to not liking any of their studio albums. I don’t dislike them in as much as I don’t love them. While all their albums have grown on me there has yet to be the album they have released which I anticipated more than a concert from them. ‘Game Theory’ was almost that record. ‘Rising Down’ could be that album. The Roots pull out some boom bap and even some go-go music along with a radio friendly soft rock collaboration on ‘Rising Down’. I’ve come to expect the Roots to always remain two steps ahead of popular culture. This CD continues that trend.
With nearly twenty years of recording music together for both Black Thought and ?uestlove I think the Roots has finally figured out the formula for transferring their stage presence into a studio album. ‘Rising Down’ is a seriously fun endeavor for this band. I hope everyone recieves the project as well as I did. And definitely catch the Roots when they are in your town.
‘Rising Down’ featuring Mos Def, Styles P, and Dice Raw
