Monday, September 26, 2005

chains that excite the feds...


Some Akron LBJ fam sold out their boy for 3.5k.

And if you know me, you can imagine how I feel about these shoes.

It's love.

Speaking of which, new 3-6 tomorrow. Stay fly.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

High is my reply...


Lil Wayne - Ain't Got


New-ish Wayne which I've had floating around here for a minute.

Enjoy.

The shit posted below here about "Yacht Rock" is up there with the internets best.

Also, I spotted Larry Hughes taking his kids to Chucky Cheese on Sunday.

Almost as cute as Charlie Frye and Braylon Edwards in that McDonalds commerical together.

"Do you want fries with that?"
"No, I already have a large Frye."

Yes, it's like that.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

the wise man has the power.



Yacht Rock episodes 1-3

Passed on to us by our dude Wes out on the Wes Coast, this is one of the best things Ive seen in a while. If you're as big a fan of Loggins/"What A Fool Believs" era Doobie Brothers as I am, you'll eat this up with a second helping of Hall & Oates. As Ben put it, "best thing to hit the internet since those GI Joe psa's". Simply Amazing.
Speaking of simply amazing, what a weekend for Northeast Ohio sports. Ohio State gets a win, Browns get a quality win at Lambeau over Farve, and the Indians keep rollin along like Omar Gooding in "Playmakers" as they pull within 2 1/2 of the White Sox and keep their 1 1/2 game lead over the Yankees in the wildcard.
But how far do you think Ohio State will go? Will the Browns really be that bad this year or was the Green Bay game a glimpse as to what could be a decent season? And can the Indians keep on rolling or will the White Sox (who have dominated us this season) be the roadblock?
If you're in the Cleveland area tonight, come down to the Loft (corner of Euclid Heights and Coventry, right by the Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights) at 11pm and talk it up at Sports Rap. On every night(?) at 11pm on 1300AM WERE and live from the Loft every Tuesday, Sports Rap is...well, a sports radio show. Only this one is geared more towards folks of the Fuck Yo Life crowd with top notch show intros ("Whats really hood my man") to giveaways (the now standard Old English "800" basketball), and last but not least, quality sports talk hosted and led by dudes like T-Wheez, The Believer, Freeze, and the Doug E Doug looking guy with the dreadlocks. If you show up, look by the pool table and youll see the FYL dudes laying deep in the cut.

FYL.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

this is the only good song on the jim jones album...



















Jim Jones f/Max B. - G'd Up

Sorry Capo. You must know how much it hurts me to say that.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

It's Murdaaaaaaaaaaaaa *updated*




50 Cent - "The Ghetto Koran"

I don't know how new this news actually is to you fine folks but I stumbled across some interesting info over at The Smoking Gun about how famed Queens drug lord Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Murder Inc CEO Irv Gotti want/wanted 50 dead. And by interesting info I mean an official affidavit straight outta New York.
Now I'm sure most of you remember that the feds raided the Murder Inc offices not too long ago for a number of reasons, with one of them being Irv's friendship with Supreme. But this goes a little deeper than that. From the famed 50 shooting (now he walks with a limp, but he's aight) to Jam Master J's murder (50 used to be his protege at a time when Supreme supposedly had 50 blacklisted from not just New York, but supposedly the entire United States), to 50's beef with Murder Inc. (Supreme was hanging out at the offices and apparently had a Murder Inc pager) these documents make it appear that Supreme has had a hand in all of it.
Up top there's a link to 50's "The Ghetto Quaran/Koran" where he talks about Supreme and his whole situation at the time in Queens. Apparently this is the song that set off the series of events that led to your boy Curt getting shot 9 times.
After getting shot, 50 was supposedly blacklisted in the recording industry by Supreme to the point that 50 had to go to Canada to record "Guess Who's Back", which had the cleverly titled song "Fuck You" that names the names responsible for his shooting (Supreme being one of them). Pretty hard I think.
With the Murder Inc. raid, Ja Rule's career in limbo, and Gotti and Supreme in legal troubles, it looks like 50's having the last laugh in this one, at least for now. This shit's got all the makings of some good conspiracy theory type shit or at least a Murder Dog cover story.
There is also an article about this at mtv.com.
And plus, how sweet is that record cover?
On a lighter note, I discovered that there is an ABA team in Charlotte called The Krunk. Their logo is a maniacal robotic boombox slam dunking a basketball. This is quite possibly one of the worst and at the same time greatest logos Ive ever seen. Click that link to see what Im talking about.
FYL.

Fade to Black...



Surprised I didn't read this on B C dot com first but this is a quote from Wolf Blitzer on September 1st on CNN's The Situation Room:

BLITZER: "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold."

Wow.

Monday, September 05, 2005

N.O. state of mind


Master P, Silk and UGK - Playaz from the South

So it unfortunatley still looks pretty grim down in New Orleans and with them in mind I figured I would post some classic N.O. rap. P hardly hides his pride when explaining where he's from in this song. I would actually call this the definitive No Limit song. P sounds sneaky and suspicious in his flow, Silk is funny and UGK drop by to hang with their down south bros. The beat is excellent and very appropriate for this era of NL records. I would add that the bassline on this song is one of the craziest basslines in the history of recorded music. I was trying to find this a few weeks back when cocaineblunts did their feature on no limit because this was a key track that was left out. The song originally appeared on the Down South Hustlers compilation which is undoubtedly a milestone in New Orleans rap music. Also need to mention that it appears the impossible will finally be taking place as Cash Money and No Limit will team up for a 10-city Hurricane Katrina benefit tour. No word on if they are collaborating on a combination "uggghh/birdcall" signal at this time.

Friday, September 02, 2005

Brothers For The Struggle


After a few days of wondering whether or not Master P and Silkk are sitting in a rowboat somewhere or if Baby is waiting things out in a Cash Money treehouse, AllHipHop.com has an artice on just how said entertainers are doing and whats being done in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Don't miss the random quotes from Snoop's younger brother for no good reason other than he's Snoop's brother.
While this may be a little out of line due to this being such a terrible disaster, Im wondering what collaborations we might see come out of this... the article does state that P and Baby have recently spoken to each other for the first time due to the crisis...
But seriously, shit's rough down there and thoughts and prayers go out to those people who are currently left in the most dire of straits.
And if you havent donated yet, there's still time.
FYL.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

I just want you to know


AZ feat Ghost and Raekwon - New York


No fronting. I have always been loving AZ on the mic. From Illmatic thru the so so to Azatic, I've been with AZ. Even The Firm. (no disrespect 'mega) I can't wait to hear the new album A.W.O.L and it's even nice to hear this with the Wu legends.

Rodenbach. If you see this don't hesitate. Found it at my local spot for Oat's Soda and they claim that it's the first time it's been available locally in 5 years. The CEO of Duvel was here for the premiere of this. And it has an aftertaste like grape popsicles.

Boink! Magazine So I come to find that my alma mater now has a student run porno mag featuring many of the lovely girls who stroll campus on a daily. Obviously, admissions standards have become even stricter cause this is brilliant. Shouts to D-train cause I know you are loving this man.

On the college note...props to a BU pal who wrote a cheesy college dorm movie and got it done straight to DVD with the National Lampoons stamp on it. National Lampoons Dorm Daze One character is somewhat based on a good friend of mine. And they made him gay. Amazing. Oh yeah, the reason I must mention this is because somehow this movie also stars Ashley from the Fresh Prince, Tapanga, the fat kid from The Sandlot, Randy Spelling (Steve Sanders lil bro on 90210 and Tori's sister) and the Sherminator from American Pie. I dare anyone to dream up a more impressive lineup.

So the new Kanye is good. I know you want to hate this. I do too. But listen to it and shut up like I did.

College football on Saturday. Get ready Michigan, gonna be a long season lil homies...Miami (OH) even Roethlisberger and Jacob Bell together plus Ron Harper and Szczerbiak couldn't save Saturday for you.

Anyone know how the Magnolia fared in the Hurricane? Our thoughts are with you CMB.