So here are some quick 2 cent entries. This time with some of this week's new album releases, specifically in the hip-hop category.Please note that I have not heard any of these albums. I am merely going on their history in the game, what I've heard so far, and flat out how I feel about them. Here we go.
Eminem Relapse. ::sighs:: Alright, I personally tuned Eminem out after the Marshall Mathers LP. I think I've stated before how much I loved the Slim Shady LP, that ish was CLASSIC. It also laid out the formula that Eminem would use again, and again and again when it comes to his albums. There is absolutely no doubt about Em's delivery and lyricism and obviously there will be the die hards that will back him no matter what.Im not one of them but I would totally smash the homie sorry Em. Next.
Busta Rhymes Back on My B.S.. I love Busta, his energy is crazy...his energy is crazy. But really though his energy is crazy. I have not been excited about a Busta album since Extinction Level Event. "Arab Money" is hot but they should have released the album while it was hot. The suits took too long and the hype cooled down and I dont think Bus would fair too good. Sorry Trevor. Next.
Method Man and Redman Blackout II. I love Red and Meth, these are both emcees, I have not heard any material from the album. I'm sure its crazy, will I buy it? Sorry guys, I won't, it's a recession, I got to get my eyebrows waxed, I need an oil change and tire rotation, I got a verizon bill...Next.
On a related sidenote:My brother and I was talking about the new crop of rappers coming up and I compared it to the early and mid-nineties when we had groups like A Tribe called Quest, and De La Soul and hip-hop was being infused by jazz music. These days we have cats like Charles Hamilton and Kid Cudi which is the alternative so the blah blah blah and the so and so's and the music is being infused with rock, but not rock in the traditional "Walk this Way" sense. So I do think that hip-hop is in a good place. Sometimes you have to dig to find things that satisfy your eardrums and therefore your soul.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Proms are over-rated
Prom short for Promenade is a gathering at the end of a high school students senior year (typically) also a night when babies are being born or made in some cases. All growing up I looked forward to "Prom" it was like a gateway into adulthood if you would. I always saw this footage of kids getting together with their friends, taking pictures, driving off in a limo having the time of their lives. Then there is me. In may of 2003 was my Phoebus High School junior/senior prom, which 1 peed me off cause I'm all on this "its my night why are these little kids here" steez. I brought my dress in november of the previous year at the JC Penny in the hampton coliseum mall, I figured if I brought my dress 'early' I would avoid all the big girls having my dress, more on that later. So the day of prom I got out of school early to go pick up my first and only paycheck from a telemarketing job that I have gotten 2 weeks prior after getting fired from my first telemarketing job a few months earlier. So I pick up the check and make my way to get my hair did, I asked for spiral curls, I dont know why. I make my way home and lay out my attire and I tried on these gloves that I had gotten to wear with the dress cause I HATE my arms. Turns out my tree trunks known as arms were to big for the gloves, go figure. So I run out to the chinese beauty supply spot and buy some fishnet stockings. I took these stocking cut off the legs found some elastic in the sewing can and made some gloves, yeah creativity ya'll. So finally it is time for me to get ready. Usually girls get together with friends and get ready. Not me. It was just me and moms, which was cool, but the perpetual media had me gassed! So I get finish getting ready and my mom is taking pictures and what not. So I go in the fridge and get out the corsage that I had to buy for myself cause you know I aint have no date! And the crosage proceeds to fall apart on me...great. So my mom found some fake flowers and splooged it together. In the words Tim Gunn we had to "Make it Work!" So my mom finally sends me on my way, by myself, not in a limo, but my parents silver Kia Rio, yeah classy, I drive myself to the Virginia Air and Space Museum in downtown Hampton. So I get there and realize I did not make any prior plans as to who I was going to meet there. Like no friends or anything cause I came by myself. So the first 10 minutes of my senior prom woo-hoo was spent walking around aimlessly. I finally see some people I know but they quickly scurried away. Then I finally find my constituents whom I had lunch with or as an assistant principle called us "the punk rock posse". I proceeded to tag along with them all night although I felt like I was cramping their style. Oh yeah the dress, turns out 4 other chicks had the same dress I had, all big girls, BUT I accessorized the *bleep* out of my dress, so I was mad but it was aiight. I only danced to one song and left by midnight, did not go to any after prom activities cause well I wasnt invited. Limped back to my car cause I can not walk in heels unless they are platforms or wedges and went to Wendy's then went home, and that was prom. The best night of young person's life. Yay. Although prom did crank out the now infamous "Flotah Inc Mafia" pic (above) with my best friends from Phoebus Troy (L) and Jazz (R), quite possibly the most gangsta pic of all time. All in all what im trying to say is DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE! But maybe im just bitter....yeah I am.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
This has got to be the best theme music I EVA heard!
Who doesnt love the Cosby show!? Even if you are the meanest, coldest, most heartless person on earth (and Im pretty close to that) you have to have a soft spot for the show! I loved it as a kid, I love it now. If I ever have kids and a family I want to be like the Cosby's, have a sweet house, a loving marriage, and kids who are inexplicably different shades of color in the afro-american rainbow. They had reuni-ation (is that a word?) yesterday morn. Bask in the greatness!
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
80's baby, 90's kid
The other day I was singing some song and I asked my brother if he remembered it, his answer was no. Ok my interpretation of the song with a series of clicks and bad beatboxing did not help, but I was referring to this song:
I kind of like how the 90's are making a comeback, its weird that it is nostalgic because it wasnt that long ago, and I tend to think of nostalgia as something that I was too young to be a part of. In due time all of us will be in a part of time that is nostalgilized (is that a word?) and be able to say "oh i remember that, I was (blank) years old." Sidenote: House music is the bees knees.
Songs like Crystal Water's "Gypsy Woman" and the Follow me song (all of which i cant find on youtube and if i did its non-embeddable...lame). But the 90's were pretty awesome, no active wars, the economy was on point, there were raves, cool non habit forming drugs like XTC, you know the good decade...ahh those were the days.
I kind of like how the 90's are making a comeback, its weird that it is nostalgic because it wasnt that long ago, and I tend to think of nostalgia as something that I was too young to be a part of. In due time all of us will be in a part of time that is nostalgilized (is that a word?) and be able to say "oh i remember that, I was (blank) years old." Sidenote: House music is the bees knees.
Songs like Crystal Water's "Gypsy Woman" and the Follow me song (all of which i cant find on youtube and if i did its non-embeddable...lame). But the 90's were pretty awesome, no active wars, the economy was on point, there were raves, cool non habit forming drugs like XTC, you know the good decade...ahh those were the days.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
"You fail life in life if you fail Piano Lessons"
This is the live version of Colin Munroe's "Piano Lesson" with a cameo from Joell Ortiz Yaowa!
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So I was looking on the Depeche Mode website to see what was going on with lead singer Dave's health. He has gastroenteritis, ugh sounds gross its the stomach flu. Also finding out that "Peace" will be the next single from Sounds of the Universe which is awesome cause its my favorite song off the album and prolly the best song on the albums as well. And this ends the post on my gushing over Depeche Mode back to life already in progress.
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