January 2010
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how you and your money can help me and my music...
I want to write a long blog giving some elegantly brute statement about the state of the industry and all that, but this blog is that! What I will say is this:
“For those who appreciate the music, support digital commerce and want to see both co-exist harmoniously, this is for you. It costs money for everyone to do art and costs even more for everyone to do it better than they did it a...
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quik update from Nasa on a Diametric Flow/Breez...
(check out my secret panel player partner Nasa of Uncommon Records over at his domicile NASA LABS and get up on his hype. he’s mixing trunk bomb BTW…)
:last we checked at nasalabs:
nasalabs:
Recorded an Adam Warlock verse for a possible collab with Breez Evahflowin for a project from a Producer named Diametric Flow. Keep an ear out for it.
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thanks myspace for your weird, weird viewing...
these were on myspace’s whatever page, brought courtesy of Diagonal View. I don’t know what Diagonal View is, but fuck it since this footy is goony as fuck.
So, this thriving town of 600 (in a place that probably has living gods hanging out in trees, drinking out of gold horns while a strange song is playing) makes their fetti (read: $crilla) from taming snakes. But not just any...
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when we were young.....
we used to rap, now we just trip…..
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get YIGGY with it!!
this shit knocks and it’s my brother in arms, so cop it for free. I made 3 beats on it that a few people like and most people are polite enough to not express their immediate dislike. lots of folks doper than me made beats on it too. the homie looks, sounds and IS an individual and this recorded work is a prime example of that. he was supposed to drop something on Murs’s 3:16 label,...
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"obama is my nigga, fuck all you haters."
which part of him being president of the united states did you not understand? the part where he has no less than 20 people telling him what to do or say, or the part that says that no president in the history of the united states of america has ever made a radical decision on behalf of the people and LIVED? now juxtapose a mulatto negro (he’s from the generation where you were called a...
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I'll most likely get asked to remove this but,...
for all of you G.I. Joe fans out there, how sick does the sketch of the new Cobra Commander look for the new comic dropping soon?!? I poached this from CBR, so go pay homage to those nickels when you get the chance. speaking of widespread theft, here is a picture of a man-nequin with carmen electra. it looks like they are in a scary ass porno, but it is really an ad for some clothes. I heard she...
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7 and 7 monthly wrap-up #1
(click on the photos for a link to the interview. the mike b. photo was poached and I didn’t ask permission, but it’s free ad space for the hundreds™ and they are sick.)
thanks again to Luckyiam/PSC, Nasa, Teki Latex and (Thee)Mike B. for blessing me with these wise words…..
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my favorite videos 002
you gotta love Jay Dilla, I don’t give a fuck about how you normally feel. here’s two from his posthumous collection. the first one above is off the ruff draft record and the second is from donuts, probably the most notorious song on there. I don’t know if the second is legit or sanctioned or whatever, but it’s dope…
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will.i.am and his take on the music industry...
a. he’s honest and CORRECT in his statement.
b. he’s drunk and the car behind him is most likely his.
c. he gives Amoeba Music validation in their efforts to stay open. he shops there, he’s for real with that one…
d. along with Kurupt of the Dogg Pound, he is probably one of the best freestyle emcees to walk the motherfucking earth. quote me on that.
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"nickels want my old s#!t, buy my old album."
I took this from engadget because I thought it was interesting. those dudes are owned by AOL anyway, fuck it. So apple and frog design (the dudes who made the IIc home P.C.) developed this untouchable gizmo in 1983. For me, 1983 was all about learning that it was 1983. I don’t think I even touched a IIc until 1989-90 and by then, they were 5 years old! Jon from the group Jogger and the...
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best dressed chicken on the court.
here is pacific northwest balling sensation/UCLA one and doner Kevin Love (of the Minnesota Timberwolves) telling you about clothes and how they make the man in the NBA. while he is doing it right on some O.G. shit, I’m already an avid subscriber to the Kevin Garnett school of style and decorum. I’m also not the only one who thinks that Lebron James is officially best dressed...
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“reality is always plurable and mutable.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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uh, okay.... one more thing to get locked out of.
If white is right, then not tonight. Dude, I am seriously dumbfounded by the levels of ignorance and stupidity that people reach on a hourly basis. Some fuckhead who goes by the nickname “Moose” decided that the new world is missing a basketball league dedicated to playing hoops “the white way”, which is apparently as square as a mason’s grave.
Basically, he is...
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WHO THE FUCK IS GARY WAR?!?
I don’t know but somebody named after a color and a mermaid better be up on game. this is true progress in a direction seldom walked. many people talk about “next level mechanics” bu few in this day and age give props to all of the RIGHT sources…..
check this video for High Plains Drift and smack the shit out of me when you see me for not doing it first. it couldn’t...
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“The homie Gino just released this last night! His voice and lyrics are always...”
– ShertOne/Cream Team LA (reviewing LA Cita Strobe for his blog.)
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7 and 7 number four: DJ (Thee)Mike B (of Camo...
Here’s a great capstone to the first month of the 7 and 7 sessions, my captain creveren since WAY back DJ Mike B. (however he decides to spell it) was player enough to lace me with an interview and fill in the blanks for the knownots. His new project Camo UFOs is blazing from bassbin to bassbin (here’s a link to their last mix that was on the blog in a earlier post) and that is only...
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it's impossible for this to be my favorite video,...
I loved this song, this shit was my favorite and you barely heard it! it was on a B-Side to some Dre 12” and it was/is RIDICULOUS! big ups to Lauren Martin for putting me up on it being available and what up to B.I.K.I.N.I. for knowing what time it is in crev, crev ways….
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“Who’s making the most money. That’s number one to me. F*ck all that...”
– Bryan “Birdman” Williams
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two words for you: 1. BANKSY 2. MOVIE....
if you are reasonably smart, you would already be plotting to see banksy take over the world on FILM.
if you aren’t, (which is most likely, since people don’t listen and the ones who do are gifted) then find time to click on this link to see if the dude is interesting enough to check out…..
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I'm normally never on my own dick this much but,...
this shit is sick and got me hyped to rap serious again. existereo and I were in paris in 06 and jumped on stage with fellow briefcase rocker debmaster and held a freestyle clinic over this beat. we didn’t have to battle, we just fed off of the beat, the crowd and each other and ripped it. hip-hop is rap and they are both about many things. this is one of them…
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don't hate on haiti.
I wrote something to the effect of this last night and the homie Nasa said that I need to speak on this shit on twitter and I figured that a blog would suffice and enable me to jib more….
The IMF (International Monetary Fund) just approved another loan for Haiti that rocks out somewhere in the 100 million dollar range. What this means for a country that was ALREADY impoverished is nothing...
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“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a...”
– Brian Eno
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why rap is the shit and back in full force, fuck...
that dude had it twisted up. rap is in back in motherfucking vogue right now. if comme des garcons didn’t prove to you that street is the new chic 2 years ago, then you must be smoking PCP with ugly clothes on. I’m 31 and this means that I’m too old for lime green shirts and shoes that mimic cans of soda and skittles. I don’t want to hear songs about gold, pagers and...
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my favorite videos 001a
(I’ll be bringing my favorite video post column from the briefcaserockers.com blog and I’ll retrofit the reviews a bit. on the briefcase blog, I would usually post the most savage and outlandish videos in order to get people to respond. here, I can just concentrate on one video and write a long review or whatever it is…)
I first saw this video in 95 or 96 on MTV in the...
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“heavy stuff. intense stuff. big stuff little stuff....”
– somebody left this on my myspace blog. yesterday. I better get on the road since that is evidently the “new thing”, what am I doing in brussels? who am I? I have NO idea……
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Agent Zero is my hero for the zero one zero
Dear Mr. Arenas.
While I think you are an impulsive savant who acts strictly in the present due to having a bad past and a lottery ticket for a future, you got the raw deal out of this whole thizzle. Yeah, you were a fucking goober for bringing not one, two or three, but FOUR (according to the press, who is my oracle on this one) guns to your “workplace” in the efforts to keep them...
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I have never gotten a boner off of watching an...
this shit just jumped on to my screen to my surprise. lordy. ladies, do what you do and be happy being you. however, keep in mind that dudes like the best versions of ALL TYPES of ladies just like ladies like the best versions of ALL TYPES of dudes. tall, small, whatevs. if you really think that you NEED to work out, then maybe you should save your money and give this a try. if you have a...
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reason number 645 why Crunc Tesla is a wild, wild...
this guy is too talented and it bleeds thru his pores. he has a mysterious company called luv technologies, is a space hustler and makes his money in ways and mathematics I cannot conceptualize. we did a couple of songs together and I’m waiting on the artwork to come back so I can drop this EP of his that I have been sitting on because the shit is fire, indeed. he produced a track for my...
“you look like a dude who was really into this shit 10 years ago.”
– Dimlite upon seeing my show in switzeland 10/30/09
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the funniest thing that I have seen in 1 hour.
uh, watch this. it’s self explanatory once you press play, just like anything else….
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skateboarding is the best, thanks partly to these...
I love skateboarding and it saved my life more times than it endangered it. I have the dude on the left to thank for my rap career, his song in Plan-B’s Questionable made me WANT to rap back in 91! these dudes BTW, are Mike Carroll and Rick Howard and together with Megan Baltimore and Spike Jonze, they started the Girl Skateboard co. in 1993.
They both skated for the best teams of the day...
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"this nigga has some shit on that I've never... →
here is a link (and I’ll probably have a pic ganked by the time you see this) to the homie Teki Latex’s co-lab line with japanese designer/s Phenomenon that we spoke on in 7 and 7 003. here he is, rocking the cardigan that I’m willing to rob 4 paid hipster tourists over. that is, if it’s in the size Teki has on. fools are so far on the bleeding edge of fashion at...
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we now bring you a La Cita Strobe PSA for SUBTITLE...
based on all the madness, ying-yang, mochipet running that group song today and the next violin playing blog that is in my queue (and may not get printed), I said fuck it and decided to jump in the frigid waters of lake bandcamp and join my peers in this new marketing frontier. some of us have teams full of people and sympathizers that rally our every movement and some of us just have bomb ass...
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D&B is BACK in L.A.!!!!!!!
with a motherfucking vengeance that is unparalleled. with the recent goon-sized success of dubstep and all of it’s bastardized off-shoots, the inevitable fact finding revival had to rear it’s inquisitive head in order to appease the randoms and hardcore junglists of yesteryear, alike. it’s a lucky thing that D&B had such a strong scene in L.A. that it was just waiting in...
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bloggy-bloggs: I want what you want....
it took me 15 years to fully get the hang of the blog life and not use it as some pitiful excuse for a marketing tool or some broken window into whatever state of mind I’m in at the time, most likely bad. when freestyle fellowship made the song ‘everything’s everything’, they just basically made a song expressing some common sense phrase like ‘it’s all...
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open letter to Dimlite: change your pricing or...
you gotta understand, I’ve got love for Dimlite’s music and I’m not going to be as sav as I normally am because the dude is as crazy as a holiday weekend and has the music to back it up. HOWEVER, I will say this on behalf of his new digi-single on bandcamp that you can cop right now….
“how the fuck do you expect me to pay $5.80 USD for 2 motherfucking songs?!? you...
Sarah Palin has signed on to become a contributor...
codeinedrums:
The apocalypse is NIGH.
yes it is…..
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go DRUMMER go!
quick news flash, boys noize actually named his album POWER. I thought he was playing with my emotions via twitter. little does mr. ridha know that ‘power’ is L.A. obscure hood slang for SUPER bomb weed. here’s a link to a song off the new record called drummer (via RCRD LBL) and I’m rapping over this shit in a few hours, I don’t give a care what you think.
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7 and 7 number three: Teki Latex (of...
This guy is a beast like a komodo dragon is a beast. 1/4th of the parisian hip-hop pop/dance/everything sensation known as TTC, Tekitek has indeed ran the gamut in regards to the entertainment world and everything that surrounds it. On his journey to be the “the coolest kid”, his group dropped 3 banging full lengths on Big Dada (with the 3rd licensed to V2) while their producers Para...
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“I got the message. Don’t beat me over the head with it. Don’t send...”
– Bob Lefsetz
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2 more equally interesting signs of the...
bet you never thought you would see THIS one coming, huh? guess who is most likely going to join the ghostwriting circuit and start writing for whom? I wish people would stop sleeping on contemporary hip-hop’s place in mainstream culture. between this and quest love tweeting something to the effect of “if there were justice in the world, the industry would recognize...
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Gourmet X Pepsi: countdown to idiocracy 2012
After Alife did their soda pop colorway and Coca-Cola launched a whole fashion line to compete with Red Bull, it was only a matter of time before another big soft drink company got their brand ID’s wet in the world of high end boutique street wear….
The NFN/Gourmet dudes out of NYC/LA (known for their super boutique knock-offs of sneakers refitted around popular nike shapes with...
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JAY-Z: ROC, F.A.A.M, O.T.O., WTF?!?
while I want to go hard on my “findings” regarding Jay-Z and him being from some cutty secret society, thus making everyone go “WHAT?” and nothing happening as a result, I just have to say this:
rich people don’t want to kick it with you. yes, I mean YOU. if I just made my first billion, I probably did some ill shit to do it and by that point, I probably...
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okay, here is something I don't like......
just press play and prepare to vomit on yourself directly after peeing your pants in motherfucking fright. okay, I want one of THESE dudes to rob my house and sell me meth from out the back of a volvo with a car seat.
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“There are no “standards of Right”. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on...”
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-Aleister Crowley (The Old and New Commentaries to Liber AL, II,28.)
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7 and 7 number two: NASA (of The Presence/Uncommon...
The Honorable Paul Loverro A.K.A. Nasa is another dude who wears many, many hats. Coming up as a youth in the truly seminal NYC hip-hop scene of the mid/late 90’s, he was first hand witness and part time architect in some of the east coast’s most important avant-garde rap contributions. From the Institute of Audio Research to Ozone to Def Jux to Uncommon Records and everywhere in...