Archive for November, 2009

Not For Long: Week 11

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Chea party people. This is the back end of the 2009 Not For Long season ad the DP dot com football pool is hotly contested like never before. Y’all fools must really want this XboX DJ Hero bundle? Someone is gonna get it too. Amadeo is still busting his ass to keep the lock on the top spot. I see a lot of people folding up their tents at the halfway mark. You can’t win shit if you don’t believe. Some of y’all just don’t believe.

Before I post up the leaderboard list I had to ask the pigskin contingent a few questions…

1. How do the Redskins have a top 5 defense and they sux teh asscheeks? Is their offense that bad?

2. Jets are most balanced team in the league – 1528yds passing and 1530yds rushing

3. The Giants are as overrated as 2Pac was. Having the most stans does not make your squad better.

4. Tom Brady > Peyton Manning

5. Oh and yeah, fux the Redskins!

Flacco’s Mighty Unibrow 84
King Blair Styling On U 82
THE UNSEEN 81
Don Majkowski’s wigbrusher 77
Chief Okoye 77
titansfan78 77
Slaug_ter House 75
Suck a Dick Butkus 75
BigNat’s Bronx Brawlers 74
cocotaso 74
theotherstevesmith 74
Home Cookin’ 74
Dumb Penalties 73
BXPittFan 73
PurplePeopleEatersPause 73
KoolMick_Lovin 73
Jesse 73
Fearless Vampire Killers 72
nuh nuh nuh… gone 72
Brooklyn Gyrl 72
Vick Flair 72
JayWho??? 72
DA’s Wonder Twins 71
BananaClipse 70
Big Rils 68
furiou$tylez IS BACK BITCH! 67
blackneckid 63
DirtyJerz 63
AC 60
CtrlAltMalik 60
Ruffway Bruisers 60
Rent a Dread 50

Kings Lose Crowns…

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Fisty Cent

50 Cent Claims King of New York, Says Jay-Z’s “Beyoncé’s Husband”

I haven’t enjoyed Fifty’s music as much as I enjoy his spectacle. No one has the same drive for controversy that Fifty has where you see them actively seeking out confrontation like he does. Fifty is also engaging and charismatic too. I would like to see what his day entails on a regular basis. He has all of these mini-empires to attend to while making records. I imagine Fifty Cent to be a more hands-on mogul than Jay-Z is. Fifty seems like the guy that wants to personally hand the checks off to his subordinates so he can look them directly in their eyes and gauge their loyalty. Don’t forget how Fifty creamed on Young Buck when he learned that Buck was being disrespectful towards Fifty on some downlow squirrelspeak shit.

A few weeks ago Jay-Z threw a salvo over Fifty’s bow when he said that “No one is scared of Fifty Cent.”. That was clearly a shot at Fifty’s remarks re: KanYe’s VMA interruption. This rap shit has become a queer, melodramatic soap opera where the raptors have a generic Pavlovian response whenever someone mentions their name.

Fifty’s claim that he is the king of New York doesn’t even take into consideration the real king, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, shut down Fifty this summer for his planned and overhyped ’40 projects homecoming’. Didn’t Fifty grow up in a house with his grandmother? Fifty was never a dude to let the truth ruin the hype. Bullet fragments become nine shots and grandma’s house becomes a New York City public housing development. What happens tho’ when all of this hype exceeds the artistic output? Andy Warhol turns into Marc Kostabi.

Instead of vying for the kingdom Fifty needs to regain his street authority with another position, say Chancellor, Commissioner or Comptroller. In the rap game, kings lose crowns.

Iverson Is NOT The Answer…

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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For my Knicks

Truthfully he isn’t the answer to any team right now because he still considers himself a primetime player. If Iverson could sublimate his ego he would be a good fit on any number of contending clubs. Cleveland or Boston would benefit having his talents. More importantly tho’ is that Iverson would also have to alter himself as a player and shooter.

Do you remember VINNIE ‘The Microwave‘ JOHNSON? He earned the nickname because he was able to score a bunch of points really fast. He could heat up quickly. Can Iverson become a microwave because right now he is coal furnace filled with bricks. Vinnie Johnson also played stifling defense which Iverson absolutely does not.

All I know is that the Knicks and Iverson both deserve better at this point.

Das Racist x Gordon Voidwell Will Rock You…

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

dr x gv

November 25th @ Public Assembly, Bklyn

RAKIM 2009: More Goat, Less G.O.A.T.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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Rakim is the father to the styles of NaS, Jay, Black Thought, Ice Cube, Raekwon, Prodigy, B.I.G. and Big Pun. And subsequently any other latter and lesser emcee that considers themselves to be lyrically impressive. But the truth is that Rakim’s work over the last ten years doesn’t have the impact to the culture of Hip-Hop that his first ten years tattoed on rap music. Sadly, it’s actually not admissible.

Did Rakim fall off? No. The peloton caught up to him. The wake of the lane that Rakim created allowed rappers with more charisma(B.I.G., Big Pun) and greater stamina(NaS, Jay-Z) to draft this sentient artist back to the Earth. Their metaphors and similes increased our sensations and aided Hip-Hop in transforming the globe, but it was Rakim who gave them the spark of ghetto gangster poetry.

I’m not going to tell you to open up the new Rakim album ‘The 7th Seal’ because you might feel let down that there aren’t any new classics on the disk. Can we fault Rakim for setting the bar as high as he did? Nope. The legacy of music we have from him still rates the consideration for his GOAT status. Is it selfish and unfair to want artists to remain in that box that we first encountered them?


‘Holy Are You’ *(best of the new)

‘I Ain’t No Joke’

‘Follow The Leader’

‘Juice (Know The Ledge)’

‘Microphone Fiend’ *(possibly the greatest rap song of all time)