Monthly Archives: April 2008

Keeping It Moving.

If I haven’t been posting too often lately, it’s because I’ve been really busy with exams. That picture at the top of the post shows what my posture is like now from too much studying. So I’m going to take a break from posting for a few days and I’ll..

Curtis Mayfield Disses Soulja Boy.

I was listening to some Curtis Mayfield over a lonely dinner (that’s right ladies, I’m a big, sad teddy bear) and I heard a line that I had to go back and listen to again. On the title song of his 1973 album Back to the World, Curtis (not that..

The arrogant voice of musical truth.

Oliver Wang runs a stellar site called soul sides and he recently had an interview with Jeff Mao, one of the co-founders of the late Ego Trip Magazine.  Its a great read; Mao gives some insight into one of the most interesting and important magazines in Hip-Hop (we’ll just forget about..


Beat Drop: Large Professor.

Many of us can (and will) bicker over what might be gained and/or lost by Nas’s upcoming controversially-titled album (so much for December, ay, Def Jam?), but few can argue with the statement he made on “Where Are They Now?”, possibly the stand-out track from his ’06 publicity stunt album..

A day to (not) remember.

Four twenty is here again, breath easy my friends.  On this holiest of holy days, we pay respect to the fine gentleman who spread the gospel of the buddha day in and day out.   Nas-Lifes a bitch and then ya die/thats why we get high/cause you never know when..

Soulja Boy to attend a Wizards playoff game.

Today the Wizards may have been barely beaten by the Cavaliers but there is a bigger story brewing, the feud of DeShawn Stevenson vs. Lebron James. It’s already starting to bubble with the pre-halftime confrontation between the 2 teams. First Stevenson said this in March: DeShawn was obviously holding back..

2Pac and Biggie Rock Coney Island.

Last week, I went to Coney Island which will soon be redesigned and cease to exist as we know it. We ate at Nathan’s and rode the Cyclone. On our way to the Ferris Wheel, my friend exclaimed, “Look it’s 2Pac and Biggie!” I turned expecting to see a fat..

Cleaning out mp3s from my e-mail box.

Got all of these via email. It’s about 1/20th of  what I have yet to check out. Mp3: Nakim-I Get It In Produced by the Runners, Nakim is a new artist from Mickey Factz’s GFC New York. Mp3: Three 6 Mafia-Lolli Lolli Ok track, the hook is painful though with..