I was about to turn off the TV last night when something caught my eye. It was the last few minutes of egotrip’s White Rapper Show. I decided to check out the show just because egotrip was handling the show. A little background info, Egotrip is a now-defunct magazine/set of books/TV show maker for VH1. I own all their books (Big Book of Racism & The Book of Rap Lists), I’ve seen all their previous VH1 show specials like race-o-rama, and they made some of the best hip-hop television I’ve have ever watched. If you’ve ever read any of their written product (that written product is what’s hot yo!) you can see the seamless transition from the minds that brought you the magazines/books working to transport their genius to the TV medium. Anyway, back to show, its hosted by MC Serch of 3rd Bass, who is a heavily slept on icon in hip hop (I would consider him as a link to the bridge between Beastie’s and Eminem). Serch really shines on the show, by not putting on some sugar-coated survivor TV reality host shit act. You get to see who the true Serch is, the one you’d be staring down in your A&R meeting. I kind of wish they will incorporate some white rappers outside of Serch into the show to the contestant how it is done. I’m not necessarily talking about Eminem, people like Bubba Sparxxx, Lil Wyte, or even ML favorite Hot Karl would suffice. From what I saw at the end, egotrip’s humorous touches are incorporated into the show, their dedication to hip-hop history isn’t either. I didn’t get to see much of the episode, I hope to catch the rerun, but it looks like the people involved are true hip-hop heads. They have to be, by getting people from Grandmaster Flash to Prince Paul to be a part of the show. As for the contestants they don’t seem too bad, defiantly not some rapping American Idol rejects, I look forward to see how they develop. It airs Monday nights, check out the VH1 site for the show. Maybe I should liveblog/episode recap for this series or something.

As for Tyrese thing I mentioned last week, apparently the whole incident was “distorted”, riiiight.

p.s. I did see the Snoop movie, a post should come soon.

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Thanks to Hot Karl, I came across two very good reads.

Thumb up for sleazy.

This article is about Joe Francis the founder of the Girls Gone Wild brand which has been teasing you with college girls on cable as long as most of you can remember. and it shows you that he is a true humanitarian. Take a look:

But the women are changing, Francis tells me, and that makes him sad. In the beginning, when “Girls Gone Wild” cameramen first popped up in clubs, the women who revealed themselves seemed innocent—surprised, even, by their own spontaneity. Now that the brand is so pervasive, the women who participate increasingly appear to be calculating exhibitionists, hoping that an appearance on a video might catapult them to Paris Hilton-like fame.

And Francis is getting a bit old for spring break. He says he’s tiring of the eternal vacation. “It’s really the worst thing, in my mind,” he says, comparing it to a trade show or a convention. “It’s fun for everybody else but me. I just get hounded by kids. It was more fun not being famous on spring break.” What’s more, the press has been omnipresent and, he says, too critical. “I’ve been anally raped over and over by the media.”

It’s an odd sort of thing for him to say. In January 2004, as news reports recounted, he was forced at gunpoint to simulate sodomizing himself with a vibrator as an intruder videotaped him in his Bel-Air mansion. A 28-year-old named Darnell Riley was arrested 14 months later, after police received a tip from Paris Hilton. Riley pleaded guilty to robbery and attempted extortion and was sentenced to 10 years and eight months. He is serving his time in Corcoran State Prison.

Yea… I think this one of the few times in life I wouldn’t feel bad about someone getting sodomized. Cry me a river, you’ve become a multi-millionaire and you want someone to feel sorry that the girls are not as ‘innocent’ as they used to be and you can’t enjoy Spring Break like you used to? Someone please start a fund to help Joe Francis out. This guy would lead a list of what is wrong with people these days, money and sex crazed, because you know that all is life is these days. I didn’t quote the type of shit Francis does on a standard day but it is a MUST read.

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This next thing Karl found is a fucking long read but well worth it. It is being made into a movie and one of the craziest true life stories I’ve heard in a while. I won’t say anything so you read the whole damn thing but, I don’t know which guy was more crazy.

Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings within a single bound, and no need for a pick-up line, Superman saves the world time and time again from nefarious villains bent on global domination and/or the destruction of humanity. But when he’s not averting nuclear disaster, plugging dams with giant boulders, or tying bank robbers up with steel beams, what does our favorite not-a-bird not-a-plane superhero do?

Perhaps in his Fortress of Solitude, after a long day’s work of saving humanity yet again, our Man of Steel takes off his cape, pops a bag of popcorn, puts on his noise-cancelling headphones, and flips on his MP3 player (full of legally purchased music). Rhino Records’ Sound of Superman is a refreshing collection of songs, new and old, that might be his playlist. It accompanies the recent film Superman Returns, and much like Brandon Routh, the young man chosen to succeed Christopher Reeves on the big screen as Clark Kent’s alter ego, this soundtrack does very well in paying tribute to another generation of Superman fans as well as defining its own.

Paramore’s acoustic rendition of “My Hero” by the Foo Fighters holds its own very well, without needing the stadium-filling grandeur of the original. The Films’s cover of Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” is a delight for the headphones, and Nightmare of You’s version of the Flaming Lips’ “Waitin’ for a Superman” is another song you might find yourself singing incessently. Plain White T’s, Maxeen and Motion City Soundtrack all put their songwriting skills to use, helping this soundtrack live up to its name.

And for those of you who are still wondering… no, Three Doors Down is not on this album.

-JP

http://www.soundofsuperman.com/
http://supermanreturns.warnerbros.com/

Recent and Upcoming:

June 13, 2006 - Sound of Superman

Tracklisting:

1. The Academy Is… - Superman
2. Plain White T’s - It’s So Easy
3. The Sun - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
4. Motion City Soundtrack - The Worst Part
5. The Films - Sunshine Superman
6. Maxeen - Save Me
7. Paramore - My Hero
8. American Hi-Fi - The Rescue
9. The Spill Canvas - Saved
10. Jack’s Mannequin - Meet Me at My Window
11. The Receiving End of Sirens - Superman
12. Royal - Brainiac’s Daughter
13. Sara Routh - You’re Never Gone

WARNING WARNING EVA LONGORIA WITHOUT MAKEUP FOLLOWS…

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and yup Ron Artest is still keeping everything on point. see here:

Q: Have you talked to him, done any campaigning to get him back?

A: He called me last week. I told him if he leaves, then I’m going to kill him. Unless he wants to die, he’s got to stay (with the Kings).

umm.. Bonzi I’d Take Ron’s advice.

Source also Deadspin.

I think Borat will be movie of the year.

BONUS: Kayslay speaks on Papoose and more.

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This is my new favorite show!!! I was flippin through channels yesterday and instead of my usual passing of MTV I was blessed to come upon a show called “Blowin’ Up.” Now, I’m not that huge of a Jamie Kennedy fan but watching the dude go through a serious effort to drop an album is one of the most entertaining things I have seen in a long time. What really makes this show for me is the crazy folks that pop-up to furthur his journey to music stardom. Mike Jones, Method Man, and Bob Saget (who actually raps?) are just the few I saw in my brief foray into the series. I mean, where the hell else am I gonna see a Wu-tang member and Full House actor in the same damn show?

I don’t even know when shit is on I need to check my listings………

Listen to his album on his Myspace. Classic shit………

Also my favorite show when I was 7 is being made into a movie. Check the Trailer.

Sadly, the only Movie Poster Hell Rell will ever be on

The day was Tuesday, it was a miracle, the Killa Season DVD was actually released, only one pushback sufficed for this Killa project. No time was wasted to get to watching it, here at ML it was priority numero uno. And oh boy (pun!!) folks if you love Cam’ron and crew’s real life antics of being car-jacked to arguing on Bill O’Rielly then this shit is definitely for you. From the outside you might judge this film as a an amateur foray into straight to dvd movies. If you did that, you would be so wrong because Killa, Hell Rell & Co. bring a much deeper than you could possibly imagine.

*The shooting of the film is epic alone, from scenes in ‘1992′ when Cam was in High School selling weed to janitors and teachers they had brand spanking new Dells with flat panel screens at his high school, and the homies he was working with on his *ahem* operations wear the same exact outfits in some scenes that are 14 years apart but in the same exact rooms!

*For you editing buffs, If you look closely you’ll see plenty of cameras sticking out through out the film. The flashback scenes in the film occur often and the transition is straight up horrible, I can’t even joke about it.

*If you have some fetish about watching true-life crackheads, this movie does it for you, you’ll give it a lot of bonus points if you enjoy crackheads without any acting training what so ever.

*The script alone will sweep you off your feet with lines direct at Cam’rons character ‘Flea’ such as “FUCK A FLEA!!”

*If that is not enough comical genius for you, there is a fucking boatload here. From scenes to where homies are picking up 70 year old ladies to chill with to hollering at ladies that are mourning. Think of this as a hood version of the wedding crashers ending scene.

*If you hate the 5-0, rejoice as here they are portrayed of having some comic as the commissioner and consisting of a huge task force of 2 officers for the whole precinct.

*Killa speaking “African” and Spanish is worth the dvd alone.

*Actors who are clearly Puerto Rican are able to play Italians!

*Which ever weed carrier scored the soundtrack, needs some sort of recognition because while the music doesn’t really match up with whats on screen I enjoyed watching some upbeat soul/funk song play as Cam gets dressed for a funeral or a dramatic tense action theme plays as Cam “enjoys” a shorty. *NH* warning you see Cam’s ass, unless something fishy is going on, I hope it is directed for the female viewers.

*As you see in the clip bellow a few subliminals are nicely worked in, even Funkmaster Flex pops up as car dealer that doesn’t require credit checks to throw jabs at Benzino, *MUST SEE*.

*The Gay drug dealer from ‘The Wire’ pops up for about 10 seconds in the movie…considering it was some violent scene, maybe it was footage of an actual event?

*Drive-by on a bicycle. enough said.

*If you’ve ever wondered how drugs are trafficked into the country from the Dominican, the movie depicts it as graphically as humanly possibly, for some sick reason I wanted to cry tears of joy.

*There is some random ass gore scene in the movie, with like 123294823483 stabbings on one person alone. The props used for internal body parts look like dog toys from the dollar store dripped in blood red.

*Other than one glass of Orange Juice which gets spilled, and 3 2 liter bottles of soda, the only beverage consumed by the characters is sizzurp.

*The movie includes a random ass trip to Atlanta, which accomplishes very little but shows a lot of strippers in their work place environment! (The footage leading up to this ‘trip’ really looks like some personal video of the whole dipset crew on a private jet, when they land they have a red carpet which Juelz err ‘Bandana’ anxiously points out.)

*Flea’s lawyer once says “I Love You” to him in one scene, a NO HOMO warning was nowhere flashing on the screen.

*In the movie, some one actually did casting for this movie, so dudes didn’t just randomly show up to shoot this movie, which was what I thought.

*If you think the laughs are over when the credits roll, that is a lie, shit like having about 60 actors simply labeled as ‘Crackheads’ no numbers to even tell them apart are included.

Oh yeah, that deeper meaning that they bring can’t be described in any words, just go see the damn movie!!! While it may not be flashy with all the Hollywood shit, it is truly from the streets, this shit gets 5/5 Sizzurp Bottles from ML.
Regardless, after viewing this movie to the bitter end, the conclusion answers very few questions (see: none) so there must be a sequel ASAP, after the Cam’ron confronting pedophiles DVD, it is all I really want right now.

oh yeah and this…

(The Album).

aanddd…….Where the fuck is the IMDB page for this movie? Fucking haters are everywhere.

*This scene from the movie shows the beautiful work that was done for the film. I think I’m going to go around randomly screaming GILES! GILES! Mase subliminals and then footage of him crying earn this an A+++ alone.

2 more clips from the movie..

Cam doesn’t like the cutting up process apparently…

but he does like spitting on little girls…

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some other shit real quick

Umm….WTF IS DAME WEARING? Is he going for an urban Einstein look?

Nice & Simple= A Raekwon interview.

Umm..Sticky Fingaz plays russian roulette?

The 1980’s Arizona Wildcats basketball had the illest rhymes, TOM TOLBERT IN THE HOUSE!

props to Deadspin for the find.

on a serious note:
Eminem’s speech at Proof’s funeral:

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Hey, Martin Scorsese didn’t dosen’t have any oscars.

An oscar nominated scene from the epic ‘Killa Season’

No questions asked I will be purchasing on the first day, mostly for humor errr acting. You will cry near the end of the scene.

Review 1 (Scroll down)
Review 2

ODB & RZA at a talent show

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I kinda miss normal Whitney.

out. A GANGBANG of shit coming this week.

Have you ever feel a movie is pointless, boring, insulting, and deserves nothing more than to be pulled from the theater? If so the solution to your problem is to shoot someone who was at the movie with you. Follow Me.
Apparently these three dudes got in a scuffle with this other guy at a Loews movie theater in PA and then shot the sorry bastard. The action taken by the movie theater: Remove the film they were watching. The film was (as you prob guessed from the pic) Get Rich or Die Tryin’. All this tells me is that the bitches at Loews corporate might want to consider a raise to the $6 an hour pay for new employees. I used to work at one of them shits and I swear on the good lord jesus that if some punk came in there bustin shots I would use the customers as human shields. Employees there are so unhappy that they might be holdin a burner too. When I worked there half my co-workers were former crack dealers from Lincoln Park (like a project in MoCo) and they all had a history with the law. After all, you don’t work for $6 an hour for the hope of a 10 cent raise in 6 months.

Moral of the rant, next time you get pissed off in a movie be it Elizabethtown, Pride and Prejudice, or anything. Just shoot one of your fellow viewers and your movie theater will be safe from the menace.

Damn, Its good to be back……….

Ayooooo! So I had a hard time to scrounge up shit for today’s update and almost did a political rant but thought that was soooo 2004 election.

Is he signaling for a plane to land?

The buzz for Kanye Tidah’s 2nd album just shot the hell up, thanks to the leak of the first single “Diamonds”, which can be found here. Now that track is pretty damn sick, but Ill have to agree with a few of my homies that have mentioned he over does the hook with the “ever, ever, ever” line. If the album is on this notch of work I think it will be a quality listen. The 2nd album is entitled “Late Registration” (oh what a clever guy!) drops in the early summer.

If you thought Michael Vick Ron Mexico was the only one with legal problems, fear not. Chris Tucker was locked up a few days ago for speeding, now I know this shit happens for celebs as often as 50 gets shot at but there is a reason I’m sharing this. THE ORANGE SWEATER HE IS ROCKING IS FLYYYY…I think Ima go cop a tangerine colored polo. *no homo*

Do your parents disaprove of urban music? Change them with the Explicit ONLY copy of NWA’s-Straight Outta Compton classic cd. Fuck The Police with 12.1% Explicit Content Ratio should win a grammy/source/soul train/vibe/mtv/vh1/nickelodeon/tv land/NAACP/ect award.

Ive never seen a family be so happy about witnessing a stick up in a hotel.

While talking about West Coast rappers, Ice Cube is gonna make an album, now Ice Cube is a all time great but didn’t he see the Willenium p.o.s. Will Smith put out when he was focused on movies like Ice Cube is.. I don’t want to see fake gangster club kiddie themed songs, so please hold off Mr. Cube. But then I wont be mad if he comes out with a boat load of Dre’s heat.

I came across these 2…they are just plain crazy/pyscho/disturbed….love hurts?

murder mook pic=not found, Cassidy with random white people found!
Not everyone thanks Cassidy is such such such a hustler… esp. freestyler/rapper Murder Mook. He and his posse go hilariously crazy hard at Cassidy in this street made video. Don’t hesitate it is instantly *Metal Lungies approved*.

The greatest depressed clown ever.

hmm this is like netflix…except for sex toys.

2183308004 Who?

http://www.metallungies.com is officially up and running! As promised now there is no reason to not spread the word.

With a Friday not popping off, Hangover and I decided to head out to view Dame Dash’s Dash Films latest venture the 2nd State Property (trailer) movie. The setup.. 2days into release the movie was being shown on definitely the smallest of the Regal Cinemas 13 screens. The audience was mostly minorities and in total there was about 15 people there. If you haven’t seen the original don’t worry, the first thing that happens is a recap of the first state property movie. The movie on the outside looks like a flossed up version of a low budget movie, with the cheesy special effects. But forget all that the movie teaches important vocabulary ie “figdafeelme” “surprise parties”, important calculations on how much you lose when 3 keys get stolen and have to pay lawyers ($900,000).The movie it self is about rival groups fighting for the Philadelphia’s drug market. You get to see Noreaga play one of the hilarious characters dubbed El Pollo Loco, and Loon (FYI: thankfully only ex-bad boy in the movie)plays his father of when Loco was young. Genius. One of the workers for Dame’s drug team are the *drum roll* DIPSET!! Seeing Juelz and Jimmy Jones being led by Cam decked out in a pink mink coat and a pink range rover as they go stick up a spot is worth the price of admission alone. But that’s not all you get to see a lot of your urban industry folks such as Freeway, Oschino, Omillo Sparks, Mariah Carey, Roselyn Sanchez, MOP, Kanye Tidah (Who comes through with a nice little cameo w/ a stabbing on a porch in Chicago), Some rocafella UK rap group affiliate, Young Gunz, some boxers, Nicole Wray, and so on. I won’t bore you with anymore details…Get Down or Lay Down bitches! Oh yeah Metal Lungies *APPROVED*

Continuing my little piece how crackalakin the District of Columbia is:

Apparently on Walking Town DC, a Bike tour through the Anacostia River, is sadly at capacity. Its a damn crying shame I missed out, I’ve always wanted to ride through and enjoy this:

That’s not all, apparently in the DC Metro area, Ipod thefts just like in NYC, are up, which is horrible yada yada but the Washington Post article had a quote that caught my eye…

Across the Washington area, thefts of digital music players are rising, police say, putting Scalenghe and others through the emotional trauma of losing something that has become an increasingly important and personal part of their lives. Victims said they felt the thieves got an illicit glimpse at their musical tastes and even their “souls.”

WTF…If someone gets a peek at my “soul”…lets just say the thief himself will call the cops.

If your watching 24, you probably wondering, What’s Jack’s current # of kills so far?
No worries, there is a weekly kill count complete with pictures right here, my favorite so far is #37, is when some jokester yells “Hey!” at Jack and gets shots immediately after. If your not watching do your self a favor and at least cop season1 DVD for cheap and have about 17 hours of your life be sucked away by something beautiful.

I know you wont believe this, but DMX is in trouble with the law. From impersonating an FBI agent while having some crack on hand and then having the NYPD called on him who abruptly arrested him, well now he just straight up slammed into a cruiser with his suspended silence from the previous charge. No one wyles out like DMX, and for that we
In some early 90’s, smashing rap cds type move, Harvard canceled a Snoop Dogg concert ,due to his “obscene” lyrics. They are trying to play the finance card, but I’m sorry your fucking Harvard…that’s like saying P. Diddy cant afford to new Jacob watch. I’m sure Snoop is divested because he wont be able to vibe with rich ass/smart ass white kids, his obvious target audience through out his whole career. I hope he makes a diss to Harvard.

I bet they didn’t know his dirty secret.

If your a huge *NO HOMO* Mike Vick fan, then you better be supporting dude’s case and coping the new Ron Mexico joints. You cant get a customized Mexico joint from the nfl tho, they wont allow it anymore. The true victim in this thing other than the fans who cant get authentic Mexico jerseys is the real Ron Mexico who has stood up to let the media know his phone has been off the hook since the accusations came out.

OMFG video footage of 2pac!!. I wonder if this was filmed in Cuba. (note: this whole statement is sarcasm).

For my personal procrastinating-ass its crunch time to pick my college for next year, but a very promising option has popped up.

The Dame Dash Music group lineup is sort of thin IMO, but the upcoming ODB album in June looks really promising. Personally, I cant wait to hear the Noreaga cut he did.

When Dame Dash isn’t going to be pushing his next upcoming movie (Which if you peep you get to see Mark Ronson act REALLY WHITE), upcoming albums including the aforementioned, He is gonna run for United States president . I would vote for him, but sadly Lyndon Larouche already has that locked up. But I certainly wouldn’t mind having Rocawear+Pro Keds be the official supplier of US military clothing.

All Hackers aren’t evil as the media wants you to think, some of them actually want to brighten up your day with a nice message on construction road signs. The last quote is gold and exemplifies my views.

A really good interview with Common is up at mvremix, with alot of good insight, such as that the leaked version of BE is most likely not what the retail will look like and a the corners remix with mos def & scarface is on the way!! cant wait!

Allhiphop did a interview with Young Gunz, dudes are still real hungry still and it will be interesting how they do with a real huge push from Hov. Dudes are also expanding the horizons

AllHipHop.com: Besides the music, what’s going on in life right now? Where are your interests?

Neef: The real estate business.

Young Chris: Houses. Everybody needs a place to stay.

Another good interview is up at SOHH with Capone from Capone-N-Noreaga, the shit goes pretty in-depth about what he is up to next and the whole Lil Kim trial we’ve mentioned before and to how she was trying to came out like a retarated-gangsta when she said that she never seen her own people in questioning and including on how and where was subpoenaed…

i99as is calling like, ‘You got subpoenaed.’ They going to ni99as crib. They came to my birthday [party] and hit me with a subpoena trying to thug.

I hope this is the only place in the World that gets hit by terrorists.

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