A Mixtape.
Starring Don Trip.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Hey Shooter.
A "New flava in ya ear!" production starring Rocket Juice & the Moon (Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen) + Erykah Badu.
STEREOGUM: Rocket Juice And The Moon – “Hey Shooter” (Feat. Erykah Badu)
STEREOGUM: Rocket Juice And The Moon – “Hey Shooter” (Feat. Erykah Badu)
Tha Block is Hot.
"Mullah Rick has spoken.
He wants religion returned to “the public square,” is opposed to contraception, premarital sex and abortion under any circumstances, wants children educated in what amounts to little red schoolhouses and called President Obama a “snob” for extolling college or some other kind of post-high school education. This is not a political platform. It’s a fatwa.
The GOP is half the political equation, and so its inability to offer candidates of sound views and judgments is everyone’s problem. We have to vote for someone after all. But when I mull Santorum’s views on contraception, the role of women, the proper place for religion and what he thinks about education, I think he’s either running for president of the wrong country or marooned in the wrong century. The man is lost."
THE WASHINGTON POST: Enough of Rick Santorum’s sermons
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Words.
"I think [the topic] that should be more on the tongues is – how do we
proclaim to be a nation of forgiving, and we go by all of these rules
and everything, but we can't actually do it? It actually makes you look
weaker than your adversary – if you don't have the power to forgive, but
you lie and say that you did. If [Rihanna] can forgive, that's where
she is mentally. As a friend, it's like, 'Okay, cool. Let's roll.'" - Terius Nash
H.A.M.
Words.
"They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he’s a Nazi, but on most others he’s merely a socialist. His especially creative opponents see him as having a “Kenyan anti-colonial worldview,” while the less adventurous say that he’s an elitist who spent too much time in Cambridge, Hyde Park and other excessively academic precincts.
Please forgive this outburst. It’s simply astonishing that a man in his fourth year as our president continues to be the object of the most extraordinary paranoid fantasies. A significant part of his opposition still cannot accept that Obama is a rather moderate politician quite conventional in his tastes and his interests. And now that the economy is improving, short-circuiting easy criticisms, Obama’s adversaries are reheating all the old tropes and cliches and slanders.
...We are blessed with the freedom to say whatever we want about our president. But those who cast Obama as something other than one of us don’t understand him and don’t understand what it means to be American."
THE WASHINGTON POST: President Obama as an alien
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
DOOM VS. JADAKISS.
A "New flava in ya ear!" production starring Madlib, DOOM & Jadakiss.
PITCHFORK: Madlib "Doom vs. Jadakiss"
PITCHFORK: Madlib "Doom vs. Jadakiss"
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Family Ties.
A Moment of Clarity.
Words.
"In the intensifying debate over same-sex marriage, what I sometimes find hardest to understand is why so many opponents don’t see gay people’s longing to be wedded as the fundamentally conservative, lavishly complimentary desire it is. It says marriage is worth aspiring to and fighting for. Flatters it. Gives it reinvigorated cachet, extra currency, a sorely needed infusion of fresh energy.
...It’s funny (but, then again, not): in the past, homosexuals were denounced as sexual libertines who brazenly flouted society’s norms. Now many of us are pleading to be yoked to those norms, only to be told by many Americans, including many political leaders, that that’s not O.K. either. The only possible takeaway is that we’re meant to be outliers forevermore, unworthy of the experiences and affirmations accorded others.
...family values, two words that have often been invoked in the argument against same-sex marriage. It’s time to turn the phrase around. What gay and lesbian couples are asking is to be recognized as families. And they’re just idealistic enough to hope that everyone realizes how much value there is in that"
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Value Our Families
"In the intensifying debate over same-sex marriage, what I sometimes find hardest to understand is why so many opponents don’t see gay people’s longing to be wedded as the fundamentally conservative, lavishly complimentary desire it is. It says marriage is worth aspiring to and fighting for. Flatters it. Gives it reinvigorated cachet, extra currency, a sorely needed infusion of fresh energy.
...It’s funny (but, then again, not): in the past, homosexuals were denounced as sexual libertines who brazenly flouted society’s norms. Now many of us are pleading to be yoked to those norms, only to be told by many Americans, including many political leaders, that that’s not O.K. either. The only possible takeaway is that we’re meant to be outliers forevermore, unworthy of the experiences and affirmations accorded others.
...family values, two words that have often been invoked in the argument against same-sex marriage. It’s time to turn the phrase around. What gay and lesbian couples are asking is to be recognized as families. And they’re just idealistic enough to hope that everyone realizes how much value there is in that"
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Value Our Families
Monday, February 20, 2012
Real Talk.
Starring A$AP Rocky.
Words.
""Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends...I really don't give a fuck and I don't think anyone should care about what another man's preference is...As long as you're a great person and, y'know, you don't bother me and make me uncomfortable, then let's be friends, dude."
PITCHFORK: Echo Chamber: A$AP Rocky
""Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends...I really don't give a fuck and I don't think anyone should care about what another man's preference is...As long as you're a great person and, y'know, you don't bother me and make me uncomfortable, then let's be friends, dude."
PITCHFORK: Echo Chamber: A$AP Rocky
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
Words.
"I get such a chuckle when these things come out. Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed, we have jihadist camps being set up in Latin America, which Rick has been warning about, and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex. I think it says something about our culture. We maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. And this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s such inexpensive. Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Uses for Bayer Aspirin
"I get such a chuckle when these things come out. Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed, we have jihadist camps being set up in Latin America, which Rick has been warning about, and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex. I think it says something about our culture. We maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. And this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s such inexpensive. Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Uses for Bayer Aspirin
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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