Videos and songs old and new I'm enjoying this week...
Kendrick Lamar - Compton State of Mind (umm yes, the same beat/theme as the Jay-Z Empire State of Mind track)
Clipse - Popeyes (I didn't know I would feel a song with Killa Cam so much)
Pac Div - Paper - Classic, underground song
Damien Marley f/ Nas - Road to Zion (why wasn't this song bigger?)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Show Me Your Best Combination!
A huge pet peeve of my wife, but when I do dress up (Monday-Friday, and an occasional weekend night), does it get any better than black pants and brown shoes?! My thoughts exactly.
I'm predicting the extinction of black dress shoes for men in the next 3 years.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Last Friday, an honor roll student at Fenger High School on Chicago's south side was beaten to death. The student, Derrion Albert, 16, was caught between a feud between youth from the Altgeld Gardens housing projects and youth from the surrounding neighborhood. Unfortunately, this will not be the only Chicago school student to be killed by violence this year. What is going on?
A person with their cell phone camera captured the scene:
Monday, September 21, 2009
Memories are Golden
Michael Jackson videos that premiered on Fox, TGIF, America Online when it first came out and every kid talked about how their family was using their 10 hours a month (we were the family that got 10 hours when everyone else was up to 50 hours a month, 14.4 when everyone else was 28.8, with your parents getting pissed because the phone line was always busy because you were on the internet), Real World when they had 'real' people on it and you knew you were too young to be watching it but you watched because your older sister did,In Living Color, Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", the O.J Simpson trial when you would come home from school and watch all the way until your parents came home from work, the transition from cassette tapes to cd's, Virtua Fighter and Sega Dreamcast and Neo Geo and Super Nintendo and Ridge Racer and Final Fantasy VII and Sonic the Hedgehog (not having any of those made it a requirement to know how to make and keep friends), Fruit Gushers, Fruit by the Foot and Eggo waffles and, of course, Golden Grahams, where they were only good during the first minute and became a chore to eat once they crossed the one-minute threshold and became soggy. Those moments shaped our mind and souls, thoughts and interests, wishes and desires. Memories.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Tribute from The Chef
Lost under the music radar this week following the pushed-up release of Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 album was Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II, his follow-up to his first album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.
Almost 14 years to the day Raekwon released his magnum opus, he returned this week with the sequel.
Quick aside:
In those 14 years, he released two other albums:
Immobilarity (overlooked in exactly the same vein as Nas' It Was Written; check The Table, Casablanca, Live from New York and Sneakers to see for yourself) and
The Lex Diamond Story (let's just say it makes Nas' Nastradamus seem like a classic). Needless to say, the new album is getting rave reviews (which it thoroughly deserves). The standout track for me is Ason Jones. You might have known him as:
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Osirus
Big Baby Jesus and
Dirt McGirt (my favorite of all)
Even though he passed away five years ago, this was Raekwon's tribute to his deceased brother from the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard. It doesn't get more hip-hop than this.
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