Metal Lungies

Adrien Brody was at the Academy of American Poets at the Lincoln Center in New York last month.  The actor must be diligently at work towards achieving a coveted Hood Pass because he decided to recite The Ten Crack Commandments. I tried really hard to listen but his flaring nostrils were a huge distraction. Anyway, it’s not like I need a reminder on what the commandments are, as I have them tat’d on the belly. On a fun personal note: I am currently messing up like 4 of the commandments in my daily life. #losing.

Not trying to write the ‘Rappers React to X’ post, but Twitter had some jokes tonight. The United States killed Osama bin Laden today btw.

Funkmaster Flex went on Hot 97 two weeks ago to counter “rumors” (a police report) that his coworker Mister Cee was caught receiving oral sex from a man in the West Village (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Then, Flex implied that two employees from rival station Power 105.1 are gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and threatened to reveal their identities.

But our favorite part was that Flex had “Nino” work the signature Funkmaster Flex bomb during his rant. If dropping the bomb for Flex sounds like your dream job, Metal Lungies Career Services has your back. Apply now for the Funkmaster Flex Summer Internship! Details below. And remember to check back next week to apply for the position of DJ Kay Slay’s vocal coach.

Valentine a hopeful pop superstar from Ukraine reaches out to mega-producer Timbaland via the youtubes.

The result is.. well, let’s just say I haven’t laughed this hysterically in a while. I really hope Timbaland reaches out to dude, to make meme worthy music.

Note: My mom sent me this video, thanks Mom! (she won’t see this, I make sure ML is blocked on her home network)

G-Side @ The Spin Loft

SXSW Music 2011 was such a craze that I’m still recovering from pure exhaustion, combine that with a mean head cold I caught, and I’ve been slumbering like a hibernating bear. Fear not though, the grand ol recap should be hitting your face in the next few days. In the meantime, check out the instagram photos I snapped, and you may have missed from the ML twitter feed.

Check the pictures after the jump.

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Penguin Prison

Sooo I just survived my first day of SXSW Music… barely. As I write this, all I can think about are my aching feet. Thank God I brought some comfortable sneakers, because my feet are really killing me and I’m just starting.

Anyway, the day started off with me getting into town, getting some amazing goat burger from a food truck called the Giggling Goat. So hip-hop. Oh, and I refuse to try BBQ. Linked up with the homie Jeff Weiss aka Hannibal Moncrief, who I’m sharing quarters with.  Then it was time to get my badge wristband.  Out of nowhere we got a free ride from Chevy to the convention center. As Weiss said, “Thank you Based God.” Just walking around the convention center seemed daunting. One could probably spend all his time there without even hitting the streets.

With the wristband cutting off the circulation to my right hand, it was time to see some music.

Here is who we saw (of what I remember):

Young L, Sean Garrett, Penguin Prison, DJ Premier with NYGz & Nick Javas, Chiddy Bang, DJ Cam, Erk The Jerk, Ellie Goulding, Killer Mike (who brought out Trae), and Clock Opera.

Highlight of the night: Penguin Prison.

Random Notes:

Ran into DJ Michael 5000 Watts at a showcase and talked very briefly. He mentioned that he’s working on a project where he is flipping dubstep. Be on the look out for that!

Food Turcks… good lord are there a lot of food trucks. Is a SXSW 15 possible in like five days? At this rate, I might need to buy a bunch of new jeans when I get home.

That’s it for now, be sure to follow the latest on the twitter feed.

Yeah, you read that title right, ML had to cut the procrastination & curb the lallygagging, and to finally go to the madness that is SXSW. About the title, it does say Hip-Hopish, but we touche the whole spectrum in our picks.

If you read this blawg, chances are you subscribe to some of our music tastes, so here are some of our picks from the official showcases (note: we didn’t pick things that would jam up your whole schedule or overlap, because a big part of SXSW is finding and discovering new music on your own…and having enough time to stuff your face with bbq (but…salad for us, please)).

If the following 2 things occur: I am not passed out somewhere, and I have wifi, I will try to have daily updates on the blog. Regardless, be sure to check the twitter, @metallungies where we will have rants, pictures, and deep thoughts about our time at SXSW. Look for a grand ol’ recap next week…or something.

Wednesday

*9:15pm Chiddy Bang

*10:20pm Freddie Gibbs

*11:15pm Gold Panda

*11:30pm Reks

*12:00am Ellie Goulding

*1:00am DJ Cam

*1:40am Cyhi Da Prynce

Thursday

*3:00pm Blaqstarr

*8:00pm DATAROCK

*8:30pm Dom Kennedy

*9:00pm Big Sean

*9:50pm G-Side

*10:35pm Kokayi

*12:00am MNDR

*1:00am Yelawolf

Friday

*7:30pm Catchdubs

*8:00pm DJ Eleven

*10:00pm The Cataracs & Dev

*10:45pm Collie Buddz

*11:30pm DJ Nu-Mark

*12:00am Chromeo

*12:40am EPMD

Saturday

*8:00pm IAMDONALD

*9:00pm Dominique Young Unique

*10:00pm Bird Peterson

*11:10pm Big KRIT

*12:15am Gangrene

*1:00am The Hood Internet

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We’re back at it! Sorry we missed you guys last week, we had to skip last week to handle some lavish travel. 8PM EST like always (we hope you adjusted your clocks, flava flav.). You can also join by using #mlamazingrace, but this week will also be picking up things with #tar & #amazingrace

Note: We might skip next week, too. Stay tuned (ML is going to SXSW, check for more info on that this week.).

While you had your finest L.L. Bean camping gear setup in a line at the mall waiting to pickup the iPad 2, a bunch of hip hop names joined in the act, minus the camping & lines part, of course. The one exception seemed to be Freeway, who mingled (and videotaped) his experience standing in line with all the non-rapping folk at a Philadelphia mall.

Big Sean

Boi? Boi!!!

Freeway

Freeway took the extra step of documenting the scoopage in video form, watch the magic below:

I’m curious how many apple store employees recognized the long bearded rapper?

Because…. some people recognized “Freeway”:

Just Blaze linked up with Dan the Automator to pick up their iPads in the Bay area.

Oh, and Just personally reassured us, there were no lines in the books. (We predict Just bought 3 different iPads).

Bonus: Staple Design’s Jeff Staple got his, too.

We’re back like cooked crack, as Fat Joe Juelz likes to say, for live blogging action of The Amazing Race 18, Episode 2 at 8PM EST. Clear out your Sunday evening social calendar and join us. Don’t even bother DVRing the Oscars. Don’t forget that you can use the twitters with the tag #mlamazingrace, and your brilliant thoughts will be added to our feed.