Metal Lungies

I’ll tell you what I want for christmas I want another Firm album. For those of you who don’t know, the Firm was a hip-hop supergroup comprised of Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature. They dropped a CD in 1997 and although it wasn’t the greatest album it still contained some gems, such as the lead single Phone Tap.

The way I see it another Firm album could be one of the greatest things for hip-hop right now. It would give a resurgence to the rocky career of Foxy Brown, it would allow for some great Nas and AZ collabos, and hell we might even get some more of those Classic Beats from Dre and Trackmasters.

Maybe they could even bring back Cormega…….Nature < Cormega

Anyway Check the Vid for Phone Tap. One of the greatest songs of all time.

Earlier, I posted about the Dipset Christmas album coming out. I just heard a song from the album today (Not the Ballin’ remix) and I have to say it is some of the most classic Jim Jones material of all time. At points during the song he refers to Santa and his wish that ole’ Kris Kringle would bump his shit in the sleigh. Even his partners in rhyme keep up the christmas cheer with classic lines like “the Reindeers remind me of the Range”. And who could forget timeless phrases like “wanna kiss it like i got a mistletoe in my pants”.

Do yourself a favor listen to the track. (Courtesy XXL)

And they say hip-hop is dead……..

No need to worry, ML isn’t going all political on you but here is something I’d like to mention. I finally got around to reading Time’s excerpt from Barack Obama’s new book. I’ve been reading about him off and on since around the same time when fellow Chi-Town native, Common name dropped him on the ‘Why?’ remix. Now I don’t stay loyal to either party but Obama seems to bring the newest/freshest approach and he also has got great values. I would consider him one of the most progressive democrats that doesn’t just follow the democrat guidebook, as seen when he isn’t afraid to give credit to the political movements that some evangelicals are currently doing. Most democrats stray far away from even bringing up evangelicals. Oh yeah he’s got that swagger too:

Already disadvantaged by a late start and a lack of funds, Mr. Keyes had, during the course of a mere three months, managed to offend just about everybody. In that sense, he was an ideal opponent; all I had to do was keep my mouth shut and start planning my swearing-in ceremony. And yet, as the campaign progressed, I found him getting under my skin. For he claimed to speak for my religion–and although I might not like what came out of his mouth, I had to admit that some of his views had many adherents within the Christian church.

If you care to get some insight to one of the potential (and ML’s favorite) candidates for 2008 read the whole article excerpt over at TIME Magazine.

P.S. I probably will get the book after I finish reading the Jerry Heller book  (I might review it) which is a very fascinating read so far, FYI.

out. 

Oddly enough, the first thing I want this christmas is a 20 pack of long black t-shirts and enough iron-on transfers to cover them. Why? You ask. Cause every time I see a new Clipse or Pharrell video I notice another slogan that I wished I had put on a shirt.

I’m always saying to myself I wish I had that t-shirt. But on the other hand I don’t want to be a biter and steal one of their slogans. So I thought about it, and I realized that I say classic shit all the time. So what I really need this christmas is a means to put that gulliness hilarity into shirt form.

Shit, If I make enough different shirts maybe some will catch on….. It’ll be like the snowman……. except not about coke. Or, maybe about coke. Who knows?

First stop on this years ML Christmas Shopping Spree: AC Moore.

Cause they got shirts 4 Cheep.

I was browsing through Wikipedia and found out that 50 is engaged to Nicole Scherzinger? I can’t seem to find any article to back this up, although I remember seeing pictures of them together. Anywho I don’t see this engagment even reaching the wedding. But she is reppin (at least half of her) the russian roots and dated the singer from 311 (one of my favorite bands), Nick Hexum, so I can’t hate on her.

Ah yes 3rd Bass. What a classic group from the golden age of hip-hop. But I noticed something when I was looking over my copy of The Cactus Album, they featured Zev Love X, an MC from a group called KMD, on their single Gas Face. KMD would later disband due to the death of group member DJ Subroc. His brother Zev Love X dissappeared from hip-hop and apparently lived “damn-near homeless” in Manhattan until he resurfaced in 1997 at some local poetry jams. You may be more familiar with his current moniker, MF Doom.

Check the vid from 1989! Doom is the guy in the glasses. This was before he wore a mask, and rapped monotone.

Enjoy.

Oh my god! A Dipset Christmas CD! Why is the world such a wonderful place that we can get such guaranteed hilarity? I only hope this wonderful idea permeates pop culture and we start hearing people singing Purple City Carols on the corners of cities and towns everywhere.

This may prove to be the best album of the year. Maybe other rappers will catch on and we’ll get TV shows like Raekwon’s Christmas Special, or A Cash Money Christmas.

Just as long as it doesn’t overshadow the best christmas album…….

I guess some of you have decided to cop the bootleg of this album. For those of you that didn’t, dont. This is a terrible follow-up to the Black Album and, frankly, its a bad Jay-Z album in general. I won’t name specifics (besides the previously named) but this is an album full of weak production and nursery rhymes (with the exception of a few songs). It hurts me to say this because this man is one of my favorite MC’s (at one point he was my favorite). Incidentally the Black Republican joint with Nas is pretty good, guess he saved his good shit for other people’s albums. If your looking to get into Jay-Z do not choose this as your first taste. I should go buy dynasty again…………

Yesterday I copped this shit from Borders (my workplace) and to tell the truth its pretty good. There are definately some classic tracks on this and I think the whole concert is well recorded. The only problem is Ghost’s hypemen often smother the voice of the wally king. Trife was never that loud when I saw him.

Also waiting on that new Ghostface studio album More Fish. Looks like another heat rock. Add that to my wishlist.

Oh yeah official ML Hip-Hop wish-list coming soon!

done.

A photo from the cinematic masterpiece ‘Soul Plane’.

That question is simple..Can you please explain your obsession with the Airline industry/Airports/Airplanes?

We all should have seen the warning signs when he starred in Soul Plane he probably didn’t even care about how good or bad the movie was going to be (I haven’t seen it, but, I don’t think there was one positive review of it) all he wanted was to be near an airport and airplane during the filming. Then earlier this year he was caught in London’s Heathrow Airport running through with his entourage and starting a near riot after they wouldn’t let all 30 of them enter the VIP lounge (they didn’t have first-class tickets). The fun continued in the past few weeks in which he tried to bring a collapsible baton (I would’ve just picked up a broom from a janitor cleaning the bathrooms, serves the same purpose, although not as compact) through the X-Ray machines at John Wayne Airport. A felony warrant was issued, which he complied with (mugshot & post-bail autograph session here). But it turns that just before the incident at John Wayne Airport, over at Bob Hope Airport (another quick sidenote: god help us if there is ever a Nicole Ritchie or Paris Hilton Airport) he was arrested for having a gun and weed in his car.

That’s not all folks, on his new album the ‘Blue Carpet Treatment’ he has a song, drum roll please…., called ‘L.A.X.’ with Ice Cube. 

He should just step up to that John Trovolta airplane game and get himself a nice big Boeing or start Snoop Air (slogan: “Flying through a haze all across the world”).

I wonder if Katt Williams was inspired by Snoop?

Oh yeah, please give me a late pass but..check Snoop (Along with Jim Jones, Nas, T.I., Fat Joe, Lil’ Wayne, Nore, Jadakiss, Styles P, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, Rick Ross, Twista, Kurupt, Daz, WC, E-40, Bun B, Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, Young Dro, Clipse and Ja Rule) on The Game’s One Blood Remix (As always courtesy of the good folks at Spine Magazine).