Metal Lungies

Drop everything you are doing its time for some Ghettalian.

This is ill. If you’re well-versed in your sample history, you’ll recognize a lot of these breaks. 45 King=one of the most underrated producers ever.

There’s another video of him spinning classic breaks here.

Wow, is all I can really muster out to say, if you know who Coolio is you really do need to watch this. There are just too many things of note, one thing I will ask is what is the career of those girls on the set? “Hip Hop Cooking Video Hos Models”? This appears to be a weekly series, so be certain we’ll have the next masterpiece Chef Coolio makes.  Can you imagine if Cam’ron did something like this? I’d probably quit everything in life and watch that on repeat for the rest of my life.

Credit to EW.

You know we’re big on Isaac Hayes’ work around here, now thanks to sprint you can let Isaac help you do your work on v-day. Just go to this site, type in a message for your girlfriend, parole office, governor, whoever and Isaac Hayes will serenade that message to them.

(Image: Black Fine Art Show)

I was browsing some pictures over at Dutch Labs from a Wu-Tang show last month and could it be that Method Man is supporting the soon-to-be-over writers strike (he was a writer on that quickly forgettable Method & Red show on Fox) ??

Also check the eclectic mix a Wu show attracts:

Petey Pablo:

Diddy & Tracy Morgan (aka the reason 30 Rock rules):

(all Wu pictures from Dutch Labs)

I think most of you would agree, most ‘official’ artist websites are plain terrible one way or another, usually it’s the lack of updating/content that makes them so bad. So, I was browsing the internets randomly the other day and I stumbled across the official site for The Eastsidaz. Which has a last news update of:

Wed, July 25, 2001 – Eastsidaz on Howard Stern and BET! — Snoop Dogg and tha Eastsidaz will be in New York on July 31st, which is the release date for their new album Duces N Trayz…The Old Fashioned Way.  They’ll start off the morning with an appearance on the Howard Stern show and then head over to BET to tape 106 and Park. Tune in and check ’em out!

Because I’m such a busy man I decided to dig up some other outdated sites on the nastolgia tip, here is what I found:

Gangstarr’s Virgin site is up for 1998’s Moment of Truth.

This Raekwon site is still talking about The Lex Diamond Story. This one still has him on Loud records.

Now, I challenge you ML extraordinary commentators: what can you find?

I’ve been doing this Twitter stuff since August of last year and I’ve noticed a bunch of prominent hip hop figures on there as well, some of whom I’ve started following (that means their updates show up in your timeline).

Here a few people whose Twitter pages are worth following:

-One of my favourite rappers, Q-Tip, updates his fans on his daily activity (hasn’t been updated in 2 months)

–Jay Smooth of WBAI’s Underground Railroad and videoblog Ill Doctrine (and hiphopmusic.com)

–Hashim of Hip Hop Blogs

–Khal of Rock The Dub

–Rafi Kam & RHS of Oh Word

-Mixtape DJ Mick Boogie

–JBlow of All Up In Your Earhole

-the infamous Byron Crawford

-ML friends Soul Bounce have a Twitter feed

Tavis Smiley and my man Obama do it too.

Hell, you can follow me too if you want here. Anyone I missed?

Edit: I’m going to try to keep this updated as I discover more hip hop related people on Twitter.

–Robbie from Unkut

I haven’t seen this mentioned on the internets yet, so we felt it was our duty to alert all of those ML readers who were wishing to carry Santana’s kid. According to Clinton Portis via Comcast Sportsnite via Chick Hernandez’s breakdown. Hopefully we can snip (I know, we’re TOO clever) the Seahawks on Saturday, then a Todd Collins jersey might become a legitimate thought.  I’ll update once I have more evidence.

Edit: Looks like it was a circumcision that Clinton is “claiming”  instead of a Vasectomy, I could’ve sworn that I heard different on the news. Sorry for giving you such errant info, potential mothers of a Santana Moss kid.

Tony Yayo:

The release of Curtis was my best moment. The worst was the day that my mom’s crib got shot up. –

This shit had me on the floor, sorry.

There’s some mildly interesting commentary on the year ’07 in there from people like 9th Wonder, Method Man and Cormega.

But the last comment just stood out to me, I guess. Call me an asshole.

Something Awful has an amazing collection of No Limit style album covers made for seemingly unlikely artists like They Might Be Giants, Elton John & the Wiggles. It’s done for their weekly Photoshop feature, Photoshop Phriday.

Absolutely frickin’ brilliant, well worth a look. Pictured above, the Mamas & the Papas.

There are some more of my favourites below.