Merry METALmas

Continuing in the immense holladay spirit, here is a variation on a classic as presented to me by the incomparable LEY. Enjoy yourself!

Holiday Spirit Part Tres

In what is becoming an unhealthy fascination with these kids, Odd Future, they have released a new song affectionately titled "F@ck This Christmas". And since I am have an ongoing theme of not being in commercial holiday spirit, I figured I'd post it on here. Check it out over at their blog

Jammie of the Day

Ok so its this group out called Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All or Odd Future for short. Its these bunch of teenagers from California who rap about rapping and killing people. Its basically hip hop horrorcore, I really dont get it, but I kinda dig it at the same time. This track is from the "leader" and main producer of the group Tyler the Creator, who barades people on his twitter and they all love it. Here's "VCR"

Here are some other videos, these kids are nuts!

10 10 10 Shabam. You've. Been. Served.

House Mother Jones from the House of Tarjay reporting to you live from the FH Halls of Fame. I'm here to give you kids your life back take heed! I have for a while now been very intrigued by vogue battles (I hope to not only one day attend them but become an MC at a ball) and there are some legendary divas. To me the most Legendary (or as Jujubee would say Legs and Dairy) would be Leiomy. Leiomy grabbed national attention as a part of Vogue Evolution on season 3 of ABDC, but she has been a part of and tearing up the Ballroom scene for a while now. Someone over on the Tube of Yous put together a compilation of Leiomy greatest vogue moments. Bask in the presence of greatness!

Jammie of the day

This is the latest video from Virginia legends Clipse. I feel that upon driving into the Hampton Roads area you should be given their first album Lord Willin like its a brochure telling you the sights you should see. Also Clipse+Pharrell+Kenna=Yes.

Also one half and older brother of the Clipse Malice aka Gene Thornton has a book coming out soon titled "Wretched, Pitiful,Poor, Blind and Naked" chronicling his awakening from God. He posts motion picture-esque excerpts from the book and man this stuff is moving. I am even moved to purchase and read this book myself and I NEVER read books. Check out an excerpt below.

Malice's Book Excerpt #1 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.

This Post is about "Nothing"

The album that is. Last month one of my favorite groups of all time dropped their 4th LP Nothing and I have to make a confession, for some odd reason I was not excited about it. I know SACRILEGE considering I am such a huge fan. I liked their single "Hot and Fun" and then "Party People" popped and I wasnt really into that song in particular. From then on out I kind of tuned out the project as a whole. I finally decided yesterday (since there was a $5 MP3 download available on amazon) to get the album. I take it home and start to listen to it and oddly enough "Party People" is the first song on the album, I listen for about a minute and I turn. The next song on the album is "Hypnotize You" I was hooked from the first second. And the album didnt let me go until the last song. I was so pleasantly surprised that this album (minus a song or two I'm looking at you "Party People" and "Victory") is really friggin good! In Search Of... set the standard, Fly or Die which in MY opinion is their best album took their writing, innovation and instrumentation to the next level. Seeing Sounds although a good project with some good songs was not a great album as a whole. However; I think that was the point with SS the fact that it was a collage of songs that was being...seen? But with Nothing I feel NERD is going back to FOD with this one. Very well crafted songs, a lot of instrumentation and the quirk that all of us NERD fans know and love. If you are not familiar with the stylings of NERD might I suggest you go back and listen to Fly or Die then pick this new album up, you will not be disappointed. And if you already are down with the movement, you already know what it is. The end.
Here is the video for "Hypnotize You" if you have a heart condition, prepare yourself. Pharrell you own my heart FOREVER!

Holiday Spirit: Part Deux

While working at the Radford U radio station WVRU I randomly made what has become a holiday classic for some. On a random cold saturday I was up in at the station studio just fooling around and I made "Hoodmetal's Anti X-mas Songs" just for the heck of it. It came out so good I impressed myself. After leaving school I lost my copy of it and spoke about it on facebook. Upon me waking up today at the crack of 3:30 in the afternoon. The Master himself my mentor JB left a link to the download of the song. Joy filled my heart. My black heart is filled with Xmas jeer. Rejoice!

Postal Script: You can download it here so you and your family can enjoy for years to come.