First the McDonald's R&B singing chicken mcnugget commercial, NOW THIS? Seems like hip-hop culture is starting to become the butt of more and more jokes in recent commercials. WTF?
This commercial is ridiculous!! MC Hammer?? This a recession commercial if I ever seen one. You know MC Hammerand Ed McMahon have to be doing really really bad to be in a Cash4Gold commercial whoring themselves off. Whats next DMX is going to be doing bail bonds commercial (lord knows he's got plenty of experience in that department) or Bobby Brown is going to be doing pay day advance loan commercial?? Where's the self respect in a recession people?? Apparently nowhere to be found.
After seeing this video there is no doubt in my mind that Shaq is the most talented big man of any kind ever! What can't The Big Jabbawockee do?? (I mean other than free throws)
I heard this dude a few months ago and I didn’t pay much attention then but after hearing more and more of his material I’ve come to the conclusion that “dude is nice”. His flows not the traditional in the pocket flow that most of us are used to hearing, it’s more of the Travis (Gym Class Heroes) type flow but his combination of honesty, humor and lyrical content put him in a class of his own.
In a rap game that’s full of cloned ass bling bling, look at me and what I got rappers sounding like a broken record, Asher’s brand of Alternative Rapbrings a completely different flavor to game and honestly to me, it’s refreshing. But rather go on and on analyzing his style and the social implications of his image and music as it relates to the current state of hip-hop, I’ll just save that for the album review and leave you with this; Asher’s has some HOT SHIT. And we’ll be keeping our eyes and ears open for this guy in the coming months and see what happens. But for now he’s3 Bars Of Clarity Approved, signed, sealed and delivered to you. JUST LISTEN.
Asher Roth-Love College
Asher Roth-A Millie Freestyle
Asher Roth,Charles Hamilton & B.O.B-Change Gone Come
This is the new Katt Williams' Stand-Up "It's Pimpin' Pimpin'" and this shit is hilarious from start to finish. I was some what of a Katt Williams fan before but after this special his body of work speaks of itself, dude is here to stay!
Katt Williams was speaking some real shit on this one:
“If you’re a real ass mutha fucka they hate you with every fucking thing they got, they cant stand it, they hate what you look like, what you're wearing, what you're driving, what you talk about, what you think about and you just gone have to understand that’s the way it is. "
With the most significant election of our lifetime only a few days away Usher drops "Hush" to give you something to think about on your way to the polls Nov. 4th.
L-Boogie is the coldest; the game is truly not the same without her being in the fold, seriously. On this site we posted a blog called “Why Hip-Hop Needs Female Rappers” and this song is a perfect example of it. Songs like Lauren Hill’s Doo Wop is what the game is currently missing, even today the song feels more relevant than ever. The game needs female MC’s spitting relevant lyrics that relate to what’s really going on in the times from a perspective only they can deliver.
L Boggies goes hard from the first verse where she to air it on sista’s that get caught up in the game without even realizing to the second verse where she completely breaks down the nigga with his priorities out of place, the "poppin' bottles, living at his moms house, still trying to act hard while ducking child support" nigga. This song as well as the entire album The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill is an example of hip-hop excellence, being a reminder of Hip-Hop's past glory days while at the same being a tutorial to the next generation of MC’s hoping to bring the game back to its prominence. Next Generation of MC’s good luck….but until then we always have L Boogie.
Here’s a few excerpts from the Doo Wop (That Thing):
It's been three weeks since you've been looking for your friend The one you let hit it and never called you again 'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamin's You act like you ain't hear him, then gave him a little trim To begin, how you think you really gon' pretend Like you wasn't down then you called him again Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even foolin’ him If you did it then, then you’d probably fuck again Talking out your neck sayin' you're a Christian A Muslim sleeping with the gin Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem
And the verse she dropped on the men is cold, Im sure we all know 5 to 6 niggas that L Boogie was talking about in this verse:
The second verse is dedicated to the men More concerned with his rims and his Tims than his women Him and his men come in the club like hooligans Don't care who they offend, popping yang like you got yen, Let's not pretend, they wanna pack pistol by they waist men Crystal by the case men, still in they mother's basement The pretty face men, claiming that they did a bid men Need to take care of their three and four kids then They facing a court case when the child's support late Money taking, heart breaking now you wonder why women hate men The sneaky silent men, the punk domestic violence men The quick to shoot the semen stop acting like boys and be men
The circumstances that have led to our current recession are the controlled by many of the same factors that led to The Great Depression in 1920's. The doctrine that our very government has worked very hard to maintain, the doctrine that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But when the top 1% controls too much of the money "critical mass" hits and a recession is right around the corner. When income inequalities in this country become too skewed, it prevents the system from working the way it was designed to and those at the bottom suffer. According Delaware Senator Bernie Sanders "the top 1% own more wealth in this country than the bottom 90%".
FDR's federal chairman who served during The Great Depression likened this sort of financial catastrophe to a poker game:
"As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."
Marriner S. Eccles (FDR's Federal Chairman) 1951
Game Over? We hope not. But it's up to the people to put the necessary pressure on Washington to get turn this thing around before it gets worse.
Many of you may not be old enough to remember that days before the commercialism of Hip-Hop videos. Many of you were born into the Bling-Bling / Ghetto Fabulous era of hip-hop videos and completely missed the golden age of hip-hop videos, when they were raw, real and straight from the streets.
On this week’s edition of Back To The Future, we are spotlighting one of my personal favorites "Aint No Future In Yo Frontin'" by MC Breed. This video was originally released back in 1991 before there were video hoes, before rappers was renting cars out (on the labels dime) for their videos and before mutha fuckas was shooting videos with a whole bunch of niggas and bitches they don't even know.
Back in those days they shot the videos in their own neighborhoods with they real partnas and hoes dancing in the videos that probably just happened to be in the hood at the time of the shoot. But more than anything else niggas were riding around in cars and rockin' jewelry they actually owned.
Back then they weren’t rapping about the hood and then hoppin’ on a jet and heading back to their mansion in rural Connecticut (Curtis). They were rappin' about the block and then when the video was over is back to the block. Nowadays rappers are talking tougher then ever and living up to less and less of it. Simply juxtaposing this video with today's rap videos is eye opening in itself.
In Joe Budden's song "Who", he explained the paradox that is todays Hip-Hop videos well:
Honestly I aint know what to think, A few years ago we had the young kids wearing pink, I don’t blame them for not knowing a damn thang, we trained them to be this way. Training them whatever to sell with no limits, Since the early 90s sold them a false image, so when some shit come that don’t fit the mold, it’s like mole, nigga you wont even go gold. They watch the videos see you on the corner with a whole bunch of people and think that you hood, they turn on the TV and see these video bitches and think that niggas girls really look that good I mean some of them are fooled so easily by whatever we say or we show em on TV
