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R.I.P. James Brown

  No, It didn’t slip my mind in my earlier post but, I thought the man deserved his own post. He died early Sunday morning from pneumonia, which was crazy to me, after seeing news footage of him just back on Friday when he was giving back to the community by presenting Christmas gifts to..

I used to love H.E.R. but I love Shoutcast.

I must start this post by saying that after a long year i may be taking a break from New York hip-hop. By this I don’t mean all NY hip-hop, i just can’t listen to the new shit. I feel that with the releases of major NY artists Nas and..

Missing Albums: Have you seen these? (Young Buck & Talib Kweli Edition)

  In the fall season of album release madness that includes Jay-Z, The Game, Nas, Snoop Dogg, The Clipse (ML’s album of the year), Young Jeezy, Mos Def, Ghostface, The Re-Up, Trick Daddy (??). Two albums that were near the top of my antcipation have mysteriously disappeared off release schedules for 2006. These two albums, Young Buck‘s Buck..

Wildstyle Coffee Table (ML Wishlist Part 3)

If you were looking for the perfect holiday gift for that special Hip-Hopper in your life. Look no furthur. Graffiti World is a book by Nicholas Ganz that shows off street art from hundreds of artists around the world. Graffiti is an important part of hip-hop culture that has roots..

Good Googly Moogly

More and more I have been interested in the work of Tenessee rapper, Project Pat. As many of you know, Pat is signed to Hypnotize Minds and was released from prison in July 2005 after serving time for assault charges. Now why would I choose to profile Project Pat, you..

I want some DAMN Hip-Hop! (ML Wishlist Part #2)

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..

If I died right now……

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..

Metal Lungies Wish List (Part #1)

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..

50 Cent gets a Pussy(cat Doll) for life?

  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..

Old School Goodness

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..