Jammies

Here are a few songs that I am into at the moment. Would you mind if I shared with you? Oh you DO mind? You have something else to do? HOW RUDE! Anyway here we go. Up first is Dr Dre's latest protege Kendrick Lamar. He's been bubbling for the past couple of years and his debut Aftermath album is supposed to be coming out later this year. This is his first official single "Swimming Pools (Drank)". Kendrick has an amazing way with words and storytelling. Almost every song I have heard from him has substance to it. It is in no way preachy, more like a case study. He is something that is well needed it today's (mainstream) hip hop. Up next Zebra(f-ing)Katz ft Njena Reddd Foxxx "Ima Read". This song is EVERYTHING!!! "Ima chop that b!tch, Ima slice that b!tch, Ima ice that b!tch" YASSS! The library is CLOSED Lastly, this song is my guilty pleasure song. If you have not heard of Kreayshawn well let me try to give you a short summary. Random white girl from Oakland who directs videos and "raps". She came to youtube fame last year for her song "Gucci Gucci" and from that one song she signed a rumored 1 million dollar record contract. Since then she has had a series of fails (starting 'beef' with Rick Ross, harshly criticized stage performances) and embarrassments (several dismal freestyle sessions) But girl still has an album to make and a contract to fulfill right? So I guess this is her ofiicial official first single "Go Hard". When I first saw this video I cringed. I mean lets face it, this chick can't rap for sh!t. Then something started happening, I started nodding my head. This song is friggin catchy I can't lie. Plus its an eye catching video, and she's a cute girl, that'll get you everywhere. So sit back, drop your inhibitions and actually enjoy this.

Guilty Pleasure

:sigh: Waka Flocka Flame. Earlier this year there was talks of him "quitting rap and working at Walmart or something." Some people may have applauded. I myself was a little hesitant to join in the jubilee cause let's face it, is there a Waka song you DONT like? Sure he can't rap worth a damn, but we need Flocka. If we didn't have Flocka we wouldnt have jams to get ignant to and we wouldnt have jammies like this. This is Waka's current single ft Drake and produced by VA's own Lex Luger. Round of applause make that ass clap. Pure poetry

Damn You Coldplay!

Here's the thing about Coldplay. I don't want to like Coldplay. I would like to deem them as elevated muzak. Some people would deem it "uncool" to like them. But I may or may not have 5 or 6 Coldplay songs on my iPod. I mean these guys are undeniable. They are one of the most consistent acts in music today. And just when you try to write them off they come out with a song that takes you to a magical place. A song that makes you want to go to a beach at sunset in white linen clothing let the wind blow through your hair fling your arms out Scott Stapp style and sing then afterwards eat something organic and smoke a hookah. Or maybe that's just me. Damn you Coldplay, you win again.

Best Jammie Ever?

Ok so I tried to hate on this song. But it's friggin catchy. I want to get really Schlitzed malt liqured and sing the chorus to this song really loud:sigh:

Insert Sad Face Here

Word is David Cross is engaged to that Amber Tamborine chick. This makes me sad cause I've had this very weird crush/fascination with David Cross for years, I really don't get it. But you know good luck to them and all that.

Slept on Cinema

If you know me, you know I am not a fan of animated movies, although I still want to see Toy Story 3, AND Princess and the Frog was pretty BAWSE but besides the point I really just dont do animated movies. I don't care how cool it looks, or how cute the story is, unless I have nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, I will not watch an animated movie. Well sunday morning I had nowhere else to go and nothing to do so I watched Up. First off it starts as a TOTAL DOWNER. Killing off the wife right off the top of the movie!? How Disney of you! Anyways to make a long story short the movie Up is one of the most touching movies I have watched ever. I was really into this movie, it was great. And the only reason I titled this "Slept on Cinema" was because I was the one who slept on this movie. Even if your not a fan of animated films this movie was freaking amazing, you should watch it. The end.

...Yeezy Taught Me...

**pixelated cover art FTW!**
Over the past two weeks I have intensely and repeatedly listened to Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and here is my take on it.
I have always had a love/hate with Kanye (as have a lot of people). I always respected his music and his vision but his attitude was always so off putting to me. My feelings changed for him however around the time 808s and Heartbreak came out. This had a lot to do with a change in his demeanor due to the tragic passing of his mother and him becoming more of a humble human being. Also the fact that I LOVED 808s because it was more than just rappity-rap. To clarify I am a hip hop head and always will be but I do love me some melodies. Anyways now getting to MBDTF. I do not get excited by music much these days but I was heavily anticipating this album. I have not been this excited about a record since Kid Cudi's Man On the Moon... album last year. And although more than half of the album have been floating around the internets for the better half of this year thanks to G.O.O.D. fridays and some good ol album leakage, this album did not disappoint. This album is the culmination of all Kanye's albums. It has the sped up sample straight hip hop vibe of College Dropout, the orchestration of Late Registration, the meticulous and grandiose production of Graduation, and the emotion of 808. All that packed into 13 songs with out sounding forced or getting boring. MBDTF (also known as my really obnoxiously long album title but i can get away with it cause this album is effing amazing) has the rare no skippage where you can start from "Dark Fantasy" and not stop until the last drum beat in "Who Will Survive In America". You can listen to individual album cuts but the record as a whole just melts from one track to another, the sequencing in my opinion is excellent. My favorite track has to be "Hell of A Life" and "Lost in the World" is seriously one of the best songs of all time. ALL TIME! It's emotional, its urgent but its also a bit jubilant. Conflicting emotions for the last song on the album which kind of feels like a cliffhanger or a deceptive cadence but it really is masterfully crafted song (although I have a bone to pick with the additional drums added to the final mix :-/) I guess what I'm trying to say is this album is quite the masterpiece and Kanye worked his tail off to make sure it was so. And for someone to truly put their all into something because they truly care for the music, how could you not love that!?

Runaway with me Baybah

After much anticipation Kanye West's short film Runaway debuted last night. I have to say I rather enjoyed it, although on television it annoyed me because of the commercials made it so disjointed. So upon 2nd viewing I appreciated it more. I thought Selita Ebanks who played the Phoenix was stunning. The cinematography was awesmazing. The musical placement was spot on and I think I have a crush on Kanye, he was like adorable in this. The only bone I had to pick was for the "Runaway" clip it was ballerina overkill. I get what he was trying to do. There were so many visuals up to this point and this song is supposed to be the climax of the film and I just wish there was more to look at. Then again he probably meant for it to come out that way. All in all this was very impressive not only visually but it made me excited for the album. Well played Kanye.

This is my confession

So I open this post with the requisite "sorry i havent posted ive been busy, I have two jobs, yadda yadda yadda" but its the truth, moving on. So on my travels to work the iPod is on shuffleage and it definitely gives you some time to hear songs you forgot was on there. The other day on the ride home from williamsburg this song came on.

Yes. Insane Clown Posse's "Another Love Song". Which leads me to my confession. For about a good year and a half while in high school, I was a...*wait for it* a Juggalette, yep I was. I was fully into ICP, bumped the Jekyll Brothers CD and thoroughly enjoyed their foray into cinema Big Money Hustlas. I dont really know what happened to make me fall out of the Juggalo phase. Wait I know what happened...I grew up. Anyways I do look back at that phase and chuckle. It also reminds me of one of my HS BFF's Justene whom last I saw her (about 3-4 years ago now wow!)she was not only still into ICP but the whole Psychopathic Records movement. Wherever you are girlie, hope you and the seed are doing well.

Obsession of the week

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So I have heard of Vashtie for a while now. At first I knew her as Pharrell's girl a while ago and I automatically hated her. But she's more than just a pretty face and fantastic hair, she's an artist, a video director, party thrower person lady, and most recently a designer. Ive been reading her blog the past few days and her life is so awesome, im so jealous. She lives in New York City and she knows all these cool trend setting people and she does all these cool things. I sometimes wonder if my parents didnt move us out of NY would I be living a sweet life like that, I say Yes. Damn you Mom! j/k. But she's totally awesome and I hate her. The end. Check out her blog

Social Netquirks

The first time I ever heard of myspace was a co-worker/friend of mine the lovely Caso. I walked into work one night before a show (campus radio station) and she was all like "I have a husband on myspace". Im all like "oh wow you're married?" Obviously I didnt get it. She subsequently took me to myspace and set up my account for me. That was early 2004. The first time I heard of facebook was from my dear friend Beth aka Baby Cougar Beth (lolers)she was talking about some hot guy she was crushin on at the time and saying he was on facebook. I subsequently went and set up an account there as well this was 2005. I can't tell you about the first time I heard of Twitter, I just heard about it and reluctantly set up an account, not thinking much about it. Soon becoming obsessed with it and hating the fact that I do. The purposes of these networks are made with good intentions in the beginning but then it gets blown up, and annoying, but you still need to be a part of it. Because your an even bigger dork if you are not on any of these websites, then if you are, get it? By the end of this year early next year there will be some other dumb a$$ networking site that will be all the rage. And guess what, i'll be on there too :sigh:

The Lawd Heard Mah Prayers.

I woke up this morning and I the first thought I had was "I wonder when Ron Browz' video for 'Jumping out the window' is coming out?" Well what do you know, the Lord works in mysterious ways as on my daily trip to youtube a star twinkled in the sky and I saw this:

To this dude's credit he's been in the biz for a minute. He started off by doing some stuff with the late Big L and he also produced Nas' "Ether" his diss track to Jay-Z. And you already know I would smash.

Tell Me Why....

I just downloaded "Jumping out the Window"? ::sighs::

Umm No.

::sighs:: I cry for hip-hop sometimes, well not cry, cause I'm not a crier. Ok so the other day I cried while watching Reign Over Me that movie was deep son. Alright, alright, I also teared up on the ending of The Game Plan, dont judge. Anyways this Ron Browz cat came out of nowhere last year on the Pop Arbor Mist song and Arab Money and now he has own song called "Jumping out the Window" something I wanted to do when I heard this song on the radio yesterday (check the twitter) anyways here he is V-Neck and all showing the intricate dance moves that goes along with this groundbreaking song, a video I saw on miss info a while ago and decided to torture you with it on this blawg. But honestly at the end of the day...I would smash Ron Browz, he's do-able sorry <_>.

Im not even going to lie

I loooove this song. DAMN YOU T-PAIN, YOU DID IT TO ME AGAIN!!!

Eat shit die: Electric bugaloo

So remember how a while ago all the blog were posting a clip of some concert where Kanye but a fan on blast and told him to "Eat shit die" autotune style? Well I found this clip that makes the whole thing make a little more sense. Sure im late, but im not absent. ESD!

Down but not out Jammie

This was my sooong back in the day. If you don't know I am closet Dipset(RIP) fan and this was when Cam came back skinny with hey Ma and all that. So this Down and Out with Camron and Kanye.

Recant

So previously a number of posts ago I wrote about Kanye West being a douchebag, well I didnt write Kanye being a douchebag but I wrote about someone else writing about about why Kanye is a douchebag thus me linking the story thus agreeing with this person. Well I Tylia recant my assumed agreenessness of someone calling Kanye a douchbag. Here's the thing, I've always admired Kanye's vision and talent I have enjoyed his first 3 albums I think he's a great musician. I was never a fan of Kanye the person because at times he just seemed unlikeable like he seemed to wound up. After reading this article that I spotted over at his blog I have a new respect for him now. Especially after I got 808's and Heartbreaks which I LOVE, such a great album. Not a great rap album, not a great hip-hop album, not a great pop album, just a great album. Period. So that's that I'm sorry Kanye I'm the douchebag, hardbody. So I leave you with a live video performance of my favorite song off the new album "Paranoid"

Guilty pleasure Jammie

So I don't know if you have heard this song, and if you have I dont know how you feel about it, I feel like I should hate it but its darn catchy. This dude Kevin Rudolph is actually signed to Cash Money...yeah so yeah check it out.

And this will begin a tradition.

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You know your whole life around this time of the year on the radio you hear 300 inversions of the same xmas/holiday songs. For me every year my grandmother breaks out her Mariah Carey christmas album she loves that shat, I think she prolly has Tony Benet to. A number of years ago Death Row records released a christmas album with the memorable Nate Dogg laced track "Santa Clause is coming straight to the Ghetto" and another great heatwarming xmas tune is the song with Salt and Peppa, Keith Murray ONYX(!) and others where stickyfingers proclaims about his improverished upbringing "If I wasnt a boy, I'd have nothing to play with" or something like that. Now we have another hood holiday classic that we will nestle in our hearts for generations of welfare babies to come. This is Jim Jones a man that I hate to love with just tidbit of what's to come of his contribution to the "most wonderful time of the year"