mos west.

fast and fresh update.

found at blocksavvy.com, mos def and kanye west throwdown with some freestyle.





looks like mr. west is stumbling over his rhymes. i would too if i had to freestyle in front of mos def. maybe it's his dapper style--but he is certainly fly.

is this foreshadowing a single between the two? for the sake of muzak, i sure hope so.

tshits & vodka

although i did not watch the grammy's, i did hear buzz over the attire that nas and his posse were exhibiting. ya know, to promote his new album, NIGGER:

no shame, all game. i'm not sure if it's the shirts that are catching my attention or if it's them gold stetch pants that my girl kelis is wearing. only kelis can pull off gold pants as second skin.

well nas, you may think hip hop is dead... but we all know that niggers are well and alive. whoops, can i say that?




{news from sohh.com}

as for liquor and the hip hop life, move over patron and say hello to smirnoff. according to miss info (who is always one step ahead of me, but my idol nonetheless), smirnoff and friends have commissioned artists such as common, q-tip, cool and dre, and others to recreate songs to promote the vodka's mixed drinks. songs such as common's "the light" (my beloved wedding song) and tribe's "midnight" will be remade under said artists and will be released to the public at the end of this month. so it has finally come time to say: smirnoff is hip hop.

as for other useless (but highly entertaining) news, it is said that eminem will be releasing a new album in the near future. although i could care less about eminem's lame attempt to please audiences, what i'm more concerned about is the fact that he wrote a song about a fling between him and my girl mariah carey. SAY WHAT? is this new news to you? because it sure was new news to me. apparently (this is just a rumor, which obviously means it's fact) mariah is blazed over the issue and wants to sue mr. mathers for slander--but if i were her, i would sue for rape because there is no other excuse for sexin' around with eminem.

speaking of mariah, she has a new single (touch my body), which i'm sure no one but me (and a select few) would appreciate. and no, mariah isn't a guilty pleasure... my love for her is 100% genuine.

touch my body? please & thank you.

we love jay dee.

unfortunately time slipped through my little blogging fingers last night, which prevented me to make an appropriate post to commemorate the one and only j dilla ( feb.7, 1974 - feb. 10, 2006).

another one of detroit's finest and flyest.

painting done by marka27

we all show love for the deceased in different ways, but this is how they do in denmark (i must say, a much more smoother fashion than in the states):

la la land & cell phones.

let's face it, los angeles has a pretty sleazy image-- it's the kingdom of soul stealing talent.



first things that come to my mind when i think of LA: fake tits, fake hair, fake lips... basically all fake all the time. ya know, much like my girl, barbie--->



newsflash: taken from LA Times, this city is more real than you think. The city's new charter school will have a four year requirement of hip hop related courses. that is straight up cut. the article touches on chances that there will be students who do not fully appreciate/enjoy hip hop-- let's get serious, there is not one damn heartbeat out there that doesn't enjoy some aspect of hip hop. and if there are, then they must live a life soaked in misery.
click to read the whole article.

personally, i think schools should start incorporating hip hop at a younger age. get them young'ns while their fresh and easily influenced:




moving on....
let's congratulate timbaland for becoming verizon wireless' first ever "mobile producer in residence." it's actually happening; timbaland and verizon are TAKING OVER THE WORLD. for further information on this breaking conquest, you can read on it at mobiltor.com.

singles of the weekend:


"prey on sluts"---enough said. done and done.


we are all waiting patiently until april when the album drops, but that doesn't mean we can't taste the blow before we sell.

gaming & tributes

video games have always held a nerdy reputation (although i have always thought that they were fly as hell). sure, games like "rockstar" and "guitar hero" have put an edgy spin on game systems, but now we can finally feel the groove that every gamer wants to attain; it is now safe to say that video games are hip hop.

according to kotaku.com, NBA Ballers: Chosen One will have an original score produced by just blaze (just in case you haven't been educated, you can hear beats from him on albums such as: jay z - the black album, blueprint I & II, kingdom come, etc.; kanye west - late registration; ghostface - fishscale; talib kweli - the beautiful struggle, eardrum; big pun - yeeeah baby; and basically on any hip hop/r&b record that is hot-- yeah, he's a pretty big deal).

along with just blaze, public enemy's chuck d will be utilizing his vocals as an announcer and other scripted voices in the game. you can read more on the situation here. how sweet it is to be a nerd.


let's take a turn down memory lane. since it is about 4 a.m. (eastern time), that means it is now februrary 7, which then means it is the anniversary of big pun's death. not only was big pun real as hell by sporting a full figure, he was also the first latino rapper to go platinum. now that's what i call fresh to death, or should i say frescísimo?

he does luh dat chicken

this is why people rarely hate on snoop:





i'm not sure why the song posted below (coffee girl) is worthy for spotlight, but i think it might have something to do with the hook: GRIND ME THAT COFFEE, GIRL. i don't even like coffee (but i do love me some grinding).

rants&shit.

apparently diddy (or whatever he calls himself these days. who does he think he is, prince?) is going to have a new vh1 series (see ya mtv?). the point of the series is to discover a personal assistant for him.

i can respect a man (especially a rapper) with cash money, but honestly, who would want to be an assistant to fuckin' puff-daddy-sean-john-combs-diddy? i don't need some talent-crashing dick-lip telling me i'm too fat and lazy everyday. that's what my mom is for (except i love my mom). where does diddy get off telling people what to do? he hasn't done anything great since he signed b.i.g. (which was over 15 years ago)

i've only come to one conclusion: diddy, you are NOT hip hop.

how can you call somebody hip hop when they picked this guy (the eminem look-a-like douchebag to the right) to be the next big solo artist? (i will bite my lip if it happens)

how can you call somebody hip hop when they got DENIED by j-lo?

how can you call somebody hip hop who files lawsuits over their facial acne? so not fresh.

[not to regress, but speaking of prince....]
to the untrained eye, this might not be hip hop, but it is pretty awesome... therefore it is hip hop.

a tribute album to prince is in the works, and by the looks of the track listing and featured artists, shit is gonna be real:

1. D'Angelo: "She's Always in My Hair"

2. Stina Nordenstam: "Purple Rain"

3. Blue States: "Alphabet Street"

4. Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: "Condition of the Heart"

5. Osunlade: "Crazy You"

6. Hefner: "Controversy"

7. The Dynamics: "Girls & Boys"

8. Broadway Project [feat. Jeb Loy Nichols]: "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker"

9. 7 Hurtz with Peaches: "Sexy Dancer"

10. Soulwax: "Starfish & Coffee"

11. Rob Mello: "Critical"

12. LB: "The Future"

13. Kode9 & the Spaceape: "Sine of the Dub"

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i'm not sure why i'm still crazin on black milk, but that man is nasty. maybe i'm diggin on the fact that he's a decent midwest producing rapper that is not from chicago, but from detroit. it might be because he can produce beats in less than 15 minutes from scratch: