Look, I’ll “crank dat” and/or “superman dat hoe”. I’ll “walk it out”, dust the dirt off my shoulder, and wipe myself down. Hell I’ll even get silly, stupid, and/or jiggy with it when the time calls for it, and have, in times past, supported all those in favor of “pussy poppin’ on a handstand” but I refuse, REFUSE to let myself succumb to/sing along with this hook. I’m a grown ass man dawg. I can’t be simulating the sound of two uglies bumpin in the club. That shit ain’t cute. Not a good look.
New flava in MY ear!
Bobby Valentino feat. Yung Joc.
“Beep Beep”. [ED.'S NOTE: Clever fellas. Clever.]
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Oh Word?
"My goodies, my goodies, my goodies, NOT MY GOODIES!"
This is how we do it.
Yes it is Rye Rye. You don't even know...
Now if you visit this blog often, you know that old school jams are more often than not posted under the "Old School Funk for the True Funk Soldiers" headline. But sometimes old school joints are so good, so well put together, so classic to a brotha, [see Montell Jordan's This is how we do it] that all I can do is marvel at their goodness as they boldly play on and show us how's it done. This jam, presented below, is one such example.
"Shake it to the ground!"
DJ Blaqstarr.
Rye Rye.
"Y'all know what this is!"
Shake it to the Ground.
Now if you visit this blog often, you know that old school jams are more often than not posted under the "Old School Funk for the True Funk Soldiers" headline. But sometimes old school joints are so good, so well put together, so classic to a brotha, [see Montell Jordan's This is how we do it] that all I can do is marvel at their goodness as they boldly play on and show us how's it done. This jam, presented below, is one such example.
"Shake it to the ground!"
DJ Blaqstarr.
Rye Rye.
"Y'all know what this is!"
Shake it to the Ground.
Monday, January 05, 2009
REAL TALK: The Jermaine Dupri "Do You" Edition.
FILE UNDER: A Moment of Clarity/Words/POLITICS AND AMERICA: Now that we've found love, what are we gonna do with it?
"Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THIS IS!"
Dear America,
Please, let a brotha breathe.
Yours Truly,
Jermaine Dupri:
"I hope our next president enjoyed his family vacation in Hawaii. I hope he slept in, caught some waves with his daughters, and partied like a rock star with his wife Michelle. Because as soon as this dude lands in Washington, it's ova!
Obama hasn't even been sworn in yet and he's being pushed and pulled in all the different directions everyone else thinks he's supposed to go. Everywhere I look people are trying to steer Obama one-way or the other. Usually, into whatever lane suits them best. And it isn't just the Republicans who are doing the complaining. If anything, they seem the most happy with Obama's decisions - maybe because they didn't expect much. It's his own party that's pulling the guy every which way, like some whacked out back seat driver. "Turn left! No! Go straight ahead! What are you doing?!? You were supposed to make a right! Go back!" Everybody thinks he owes them and they're hell bent on trying to collect.
Gay, black, brown, young, old, white, female, Democrat, Republican - everybody wants to create some traffic, cut him off and force him into their own lane. The feminists are pissed 'cause he didn't appoint more women to his cabinet. (Even though five of the top positions were given to women.) Some members of the civil rights old guard are back with, "Why aren't there more black people up there?" These are the same dudes who were mad he didn't turn his convention speech into a history lesson on Martin Luther King. If Obama had listened to them, he never would've gotten elected in the first place.
Who's next in line to bitch? Will cat lovers complain that the first family is only talking about adopting a dog and discriminating against felines? Will left-handed jugglers be upset that they're not represented? Why not appoint a few little people to the Cabinet while he's at it?..."
THE HUFFINGTON POST: Jermaine Durpi: Let President-Elect Obama Stay in His Own Lane
"Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THIS IS!"
Dear America,
Please, let a brotha breathe.
Yours Truly,
Jermaine Dupri:
"I hope our next president enjoyed his family vacation in Hawaii. I hope he slept in, caught some waves with his daughters, and partied like a rock star with his wife Michelle. Because as soon as this dude lands in Washington, it's ova!
Obama hasn't even been sworn in yet and he's being pushed and pulled in all the different directions everyone else thinks he's supposed to go. Everywhere I look people are trying to steer Obama one-way or the other. Usually, into whatever lane suits them best. And it isn't just the Republicans who are doing the complaining. If anything, they seem the most happy with Obama's decisions - maybe because they didn't expect much. It's his own party that's pulling the guy every which way, like some whacked out back seat driver. "Turn left! No! Go straight ahead! What are you doing?!? You were supposed to make a right! Go back!" Everybody thinks he owes them and they're hell bent on trying to collect.
Gay, black, brown, young, old, white, female, Democrat, Republican - everybody wants to create some traffic, cut him off and force him into their own lane. The feminists are pissed 'cause he didn't appoint more women to his cabinet. (Even though five of the top positions were given to women.) Some members of the civil rights old guard are back with, "Why aren't there more black people up there?" These are the same dudes who were mad he didn't turn his convention speech into a history lesson on Martin Luther King. If Obama had listened to them, he never would've gotten elected in the first place.
Who's next in line to bitch? Will cat lovers complain that the first family is only talking about adopting a dog and discriminating against felines? Will left-handed jugglers be upset that they're not represented? Why not appoint a few little people to the Cabinet while he's at it?..."
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Mission Accompolished?
FILE UNDER: Words.
"WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43. He is not a memorable villain so much as a sometimes affable second banana whom Josh Brolin and Will Ferrell can nail without breaking a sweat. He’s the reckless Yalie Tom Buchanan, not Gatsby. He is smaller than life..."
NEW YORK TIMES: A President Forgotten but Not Gone
"WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43. He is not a memorable villain so much as a sometimes affable second banana whom Josh Brolin and Will Ferrell can nail without breaking a sweat. He’s the reckless Yalie Tom Buchanan, not Gatsby. He is smaller than life..."
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Smooth Operator.
FILE UNDER: Ba da ba ba ba...
Wandering Star.
New flava in MY ear!
Haunted Graffiti.
Can't Hear My Eyes.
Big ups to the homie Miles for putting this on my radar!
Wandering Star.
New flava in MY ear!
Haunted Graffiti.
Big ups to the homie Miles for putting this on my radar!
Friday, January 02, 2009
Colors.
FILE UNDER: Words/POLITICS: So Fucking Disco!
"As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.
...most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.
...The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision..."
NEW YORK TIMES: Bigger than Bush
"As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.
...most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.
...The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision..."
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Quote of the Day!
FILE UNDER: A Moment of Clarity/Jokes.
"Why you wanna trip on me?"
"Annie Liebowitz takes some racy photos of Miley Cyrus. "Oh, my God, you can almost see part of her bare back," says Amy Winehouse as she runs naked through London after taking another hit of coke off her boyfriend's stomach." - John Ridley, Emmy-Winning Commentator and Writer for Esquire
THE HUFFINGTON POST: The Top Nontroversies of 2008
"Why you wanna trip on me?"
"Annie Liebowitz takes some racy photos of Miley Cyrus. "Oh, my God, you can almost see part of her bare back," says Amy Winehouse as she runs naked through London after taking another hit of coke off her boyfriend's stomach." - John Ridley, Emmy-Winning Commentator and Writer for Esquire
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Coming Attractions.
Oooooh, YOU KNOW Tyler Perry is pissed! Not too pissed though. A child of God can't be running around holding a grudge against Bishop T.D. Jakes. No siree. Not a good look.
Sportscenter.
Just "two wild and crazy guys" with a deep deep love for... SPORTS!
New flava in ya ear!
The Lonely Island.
We Like Sportz.
Earlier...
The Lonely Island.
Just 2 Guyz.
New flava in ya ear!
The Lonely Island.
We Like Sportz.
Earlier...
The Lonely Island.
Just 2 Guyz.
Diggin' On You.
On a good day I’ll play maybe three or four tracks tops off of Beyonce’s I Am… disc. But 9 times out of 10, I just want to relax within the warm confines of track two, Halo, before moving on to Sasha Fierce.
Take right now for example.
New flava in ya ear!
Beyonce.
Halo.
Take right now for example.
New flava in ya ear!
Beyonce.
Halo.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sex Education.
FILE UNDER: A Moment of Clarity.
Oh Word?
JEZEBEL: No Sh-t: New Study Finds 'Virginity Pledges' Ineffective, Promoting Unsafe Sex
Oh Word?
"Don't turn off the LIGHTS!"
FILE UNDER: A Moment of Clarity.
Don't you, forget about me.
As a college student in Brunswick, ME, I was all about the arts. Art History major, A cappella group member, dancing up a storm in every winter and spring dance show, etc. High school? Middle School? In the LAUSD system in South Central and the outskirts of Hollywood? Yeah...Not so much.
LAIST: LAUSD Cuts Start With the Arts
Good times.
Don't you, forget about me.
As a college student in Brunswick, ME, I was all about the arts. Art History major, A cappella group member, dancing up a storm in every winter and spring dance show, etc. High school? Middle School? In the LAUSD system in South Central and the outskirts of Hollywood? Yeah...Not so much.
Good times.
Coming Attractions?
FILE UNDER: Words/Oh Word?
Russian academic Igor Panarin sure thinks so. The Wall Street Journal reports:
For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.
...He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in. California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.
...The professor says he's convinced that people are taking his theory more seriously. People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right. He cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union -- 15 years beforehand. "When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him," says Prof. Panarin."
Hmm. Thoughts?
WALL STREET JOURNAL: As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
Russian academic Igor Panarin sure thinks so. The Wall Street Journal reports:For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.
...He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in. California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.
...The professor says he's convinced that people are taking his theory more seriously. People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right. He cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union -- 15 years beforehand. "When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him," says Prof. Panarin."
Hmm. Thoughts?
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