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the week in blog-links 2/2/07 · by Rafi Kam
John the Baptist said Nas is Coming. Then John the Baptist left the story. This week Nas has lots of disciples energized. Disciple Vik is pumped up and says Hip-Hop needs Hunger. Over at TSS Disciple Drew decides to “sit back and analyze” but he may be missing the point when he wonders where the bigger name mc’s of an era are.
I loved J-Smooth’s drop on DJ Drama but missed the excellent Black Coach video post with all the Sundance madness going on. Check the interpolation of KRS-One’s “Black Cop”. Hilarious post. JSmooth is ahead of the game right now.
Wig brushing is a topic that sparked some great conversation in Sundance. Dallas drops science with: Mommy, what’s a Wig Brusher?
A quality links roundup post over at souled on music. With a lot of things I missed in this one.
A crew called Diggin in the Crates without good vinyl releases… What were they thinking?
LisaNova becomes like the 3rd YouTube phenom to get a TV deal. Hmmm…..
Just some really cool shit: C-Rayz Walz and Sharkey are Monster Maker. Wasn’t that also the name of an awesome video game from the C64 era?
Steinski favorite “The Clapping Song” by Shirley Ellis – with KMD sample source “The Nitty Gritty” on the B-Side!
Most (but not all) of the sample sources from Paul’s Boutique
Tom Breihan has a change of heart about Luscious Jackson
D-Nice deals out photos of 50 and LL
Speaking of 50, “Curtis, how much did that Mobb Deep sell?!” Cam’s still waiting for the answer.
House music is an urban art-form and an excellent but (at best) tangentially related clip of Kanye at Melatone Music
More really cool shit: Non-Phixion’s first album and their video homage to “Grafitti Rock”
Unkut delivers Five essential G Rap collaborations aside from The Symphony
From CBG, the late 80s New York Hardcore scene on an episode of Donahue.
The week started with a story by the New York Times about “blipsters”, the elusive black hipster who despite their racial inclinations for bump-grind music and gospel seem to favor the smug alienation of indie rock. Get over yourself NY Times or anyone buying into it says Noz and this post at pop & politics.
Billy Sunday is glad to see Jay-Z will finally have some truth behind his lines about pushing coke, makes suggestions for other rap endorsement deals.
What is this, a trend? People writing about the white rapper show and me reading their stuff.
In case you missed it some shit went down in Boston this week. Also notable is blogger indignation about crappy mainstream media coverage of this story. A funny coincidence is that just a day or so earlier I had watched this video where the “graffiti research project” get the message out that the ever-present ads in public spaces are “the real graffiti”.
The whole incident had me reminiscing fondly on the April Fools prank last year where two girls created a panic in their small Ohio town by leaving replicas of Super Mario boxes around. Ah for the days when ridiculous terror scares weren’t so commercialized. That’s when it was really real.
Comments for "the week in blog-links 2/2/07"
Cool about the LisaNova thing. I wrote it before on DP’s site but I would be watching big time you you and Dallas had a show on after American Chopper or The Myth Busters. In fact, that’s exactly what would get me tune in to the backend channels (no homo) of my cable system.
— Tony Feb 2, 07:40 PM
I was at the supermarket earlier shopping for my family and I stumbled upon something at the checkout aisle. From the makers of the source, Hip-Hop Weekly. I
flipped through it real
quick to see what it was
all about and it’s basically Star for the
hip-hop culture – just a
glossy publication about
the same shit young black folks have been gossiping about on the way from school for years. I don’t know if anyone has done a piece on it yet, so I’m putting it out there.
— Jay B Feb 2, 09:00 PM
When the hell did D-Nice become a photographer? I saw a photo somewhere the other day with a D-Nice credit and I was like “the human TR808 D-Nice? Naaaaahhhh!” Apparently I was wrong.
— El Keter ben Tzadik Feb 3, 02:11 AM
thanks for links as always…
did you see this article on food:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5090&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ex=1327640400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
also i did an post on the black coaches as well:
http://www.melatonemusic.com/blog/2007/1/30/this-just-in-the-race-to-first-black-too-close-to-call.html
— R Feb 3, 06:18 AM
R,
2 good links. Thanks.
The battle for first black coach is funny.
— rafi Feb 3, 10:10 AM
some people say that Dallas Penn and Billy Sunday are the same person, but the truth is that I watched Janet have sex with both of them.
— Janet Jackson's Titty Ring Feb 3, 11:10 PM
I was with Monster Maker until the chorus of the first joint—typical rap-rock garbage. When I saw Matisyahu get on the stage, I lost all interest in this project.
C Rayz is a good rapper, I just don’t know that he has it in him to make good albums.
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