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Shanah Tova to Knobbz and my fellow heebs! Happy Jewish New Year.

I have been sleeping on Best Week Ever this year (and a lot of TV in general), watching this the other night made me realize what a fool I am for not keeping up. I missed out on a lot of awesome pop culture stuff from kids eating 30 magnets to gropings on reality shows. Thankfully, the BWE crew did the legwork for me and wrapped up the whole year in a nice, like always-funny package. If you need the best recap of all things pop culture, have amnesia, or just have time to kill before the champagne is ready, watch this.

Also be sure to check out KNOWxONE’s year end wrapup featuring some serious Up & Comers.. and yours truly musing on the year that was.

Have a safe & happy New Year.

Parts 2-6 of Best Year Ever after the jump.

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No, its not fake. The Ying Yang Twins are doing a Christmas album. I got this via e-mail and I thought it was a joke until I heard this. The only track I heard was “Sleigh Ride”, and it might be the biggest piece of shit I have ever had to suffer through. Its all about Christmas!!!

Think about it. A Ying Yang album with a positive message, little to no cussing, and nobody talks about their penis!!! What the hell is the point?!

I remember when Jim Jones did one of these in 06. But that shit was a classic. No comparison.

The best part of my day came when I read the statement that the promoter sent with the news about the Christmas album:

The Ying Yang Twins are getting into the holiday spirit with a new Christmas themed EP, The Ying and the Yang of the Holidays, out now through Deep Records. The EP finds the twins striking a Bing Crosby-esque pose and caroling listeners with medleys of traditional Christmas songs with a Ying Yang Twins twist. On “Sleigh Ride” D-Rock and Kaine drink eggnog and smoke blunts while making a Christmas wish for peace in the hood and giving President elect Barack Obama a shout out. “This Christmas” is a soulful take on a holiday classic, and “Deck Da Club” and “Carol of Da Bellz” are quintessential Ying Yang Twins.

“Sleigh Ride” and “Ballin’ on XMas” from the Jim Jones album are after the jump.

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I know AM put up something a bit ago.. but I HAD to use this picture (note: YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST ON THE INTERNETS!). Enjoy some videos on how Prisoners spend their Christmas + Others, after the jump. Back Wednesdayish…

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A little something from Stones Throw to warm your hearth in this cold season. Badd Santa is a dope compilation of really bizarre and great Christmas (and a little Kwanzaa) music, from reggae to Miami bass.

Here’s a sweet little promo ST made for the album.

You can check it out here. There’s a nice mix of the Badd Santa songs available through the Stones Throw Podcast too, mixed by label head Peanut Butter Wolf.

For all my fellow Heebs celebrating the last night of Channukah tonight: Fatlace Magazine hipped me to Shady Records head Paul Rosenberg’s annual Hannukah Radio show on Shade 45 on Sirius Satellite Radio, with special guests DJ AM, actor Jonah Hill (Superbad kicks ass) & Marky Ramone of the Ramones! Takes a while to load but it’s worth it.

There’s a second set of shows available at Rosenberg’s blog, Paul Rosenberg.For those celebrating Kwanzaa, I think you already know.

Bonus mix for the season: A DJ Yoda exclusive mini-mix from Fatlace Magazine (who are killing shit right now). Act like you know.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you readers out there on the internets, and what better way to celebrate then to see RZA sing a Xmas classic?

enjoy.

(click the video, to watch it because the embedding doesn’t work)

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……..

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…….