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t.w.i.b. 2/20/07 · by Rafi Kam
Last week was pretty intense between both of my kids having their birthday, me having some job interviews and a deluge of mp3 grabbers bringing down our site.
In all the madness, I didn’t even get to do my usual Friday links of the week round-up.
So here it is today. The Week (and a half) In Blog Links:
Jus Rhyme
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes airs on PBS tonight. Jeff Chang calls it a “must-see”.
From Brandon at No Trivia come these brilliant Wii likenesses of various rappers and then the cast of the white rapper show.
It turns out that classic old ska is the proverbial “new ska”. Download The Harder They Come soundtrack and Cherryl gives love to the Specials.
Doc Searls asks: wtf is social media anyway?
Grand Good has been on fire recently. They provided the link to an awesome forum thread for all kinds of truly old school goodies.
Carmen at Racialicious indulges in Tyra-hating with aplomb!
Just after Presidents Day, Alternakids pick their #1 for 2006 – Cut Chemist. After that check out the Oh Word Cut Chemist interview if you missed it.
Graham reviews the upcoming El-P album.
Tony Touch remasters his 50 MCs mixtape series
Swift Chancellor encourages thinking of artists and labels like entrepreneurs and VC’s.
The best bad rap commercial ever?
Jalylah shits on 1) Ludacris’ grammy for pandering and artifice, 2) the Village Voice’s “racial exceptionalism” and 3) Mos Def’s lack of direction.
Rizoh soundbites featuring Redman, Joell Ortiz, Immortal Technique, Nas & Prodigy. What’s up with calling the upcoming P album “mildly anticipated” ? Rap nerds are fiending. And another dope new Prodigy video by the way. Plus check this interview with Prodigy and Alchemist.
Mixes of the week (and a half): Couch Session drops a little something for the ladies, Smoking Section with some audio from before your favorite rappers were famous, Jaz revisits 1992, Crooklyn Classics mixes up some recent music
A Different Kitchen, 33Jones, noz, Biochemical Slang and Rock the Dub got lovey dubby for Valentine’s Day,
NYOIL continues to be my favorite new rapper with his video “You’re A Queen”. More on this one later in the week.
The world is getting ready for that Devin the Dude album. AllHipHop interviews the Dude. Soul Sides offers this audio featuring Lil Wayne and Bun B
As a fan of both generations of Degrassi, I’m excited to hear about this lost Degrassi movie. Shut up.
Like Degrassi, Billy Sunday “goes there”
Pitchfork reviews the Ultimate Breaks & Beats collection which is now available to buy on some mp3 cd’s.
Palms Out Sound talks to Malice
The Sound of Young America talks to Peedi (audio) and learns that Freeway was dressed like a ninja the first time the two Philly rappers met.
Exclaim talks to the RZA (link via Grand Good)
Headlines that sound like we made them up: P.O.S. tours with k-os and Kanye West’s mom writes a book titled “Raising Kanye”
You probably already heard this but if you haven’t – Kanye, KRS, Nas and Rakim all got on the same track. What could inspire this kind of event? Nike of course. Check both the original produced by Premier and the Rick Rubin remix (sans Rakim) at Imageyenation.
Billy Sunday tells us why Southern rap music sucks. Enigmatik replies without naming names. Do people not understand how this blogging thing works? If you have a small new blog and you’re replying to an XXL post, say so…. You’re not “giving publicity”, you’re hopefully getting your own post read.
Uhhhhhhh, Beyonce Sports Illustrated photo shoot.
Passion of the Weiss delivers a dose of Rocafella fan fiction when ya boy Jay-Z meets Fall Out Boy.
J-Zone at his MySpace blog on the totally unexplored topic: is hip-hop dead?
A Dreddy Kruger interview by way of Grand Good. I love the photo of him reading “The Long Tail”.
Dallas Penn shines light on one of Sean Bell’s buddies being a douchebag.
Clyde offers much to digest about the Cam vs 50 spectacle in Beef Marketing.
Comments for "t.w.i.b. 2/20/07"
i actually think rick rubin produced the original kanye/krs/nas/rakim fiesta, and primo did the rmx…
— khal Feb 21, 12:58 AM
Oh hell yes. A degrassi movie is exactly what I need in my life.
— green hornet Feb 21, 01:15 AM
Seriously, you all NEED to see this movie. If/when the link goes dead, tell me. “School’s Out” belongs to the world.
— KS Feb 21, 02:27 AM
Thanks!
— Enigmatik Feb 21, 10:02 AM
i didn’t boo boo on anyone.
— jb Feb 21, 01:42 PM
I thought the PBS shit was good but pretty manipulative, anyone catch it?
— Abe Beame Feb 21, 05:34 PM
That forum link just made my fucking year. Amazing
— Travis Feb 21, 05:58 PM
khal,
ok. whoops.
KS,
I’m going to grab it today and watch it as soon as I have some free time.
jb,
no, you didn’t boo boo on them. you aimed and released!
Abe,
After hyping it here I missed it. I’ll try and catch a repeat.
Travis,
Hell Yeah. It’s incredible.
— Rafi Feb 21, 06:22 PM
Abe,
I don’t see it on the schedule anytime in the next few days.
How was it manipulative?
— rafi Feb 21, 10:43 PM
Thanks for the link. Nice to know somebody’s checking us out.
— doctashock Feb 22, 01:23 AM
It was basically the balance espousing Little Brother groupies framing the argument in the terms of rap as the reason for fucked up societal gender perceptions. They think going to spring break is a good place to see the true nature of the male female relationships and they think all white people are from Ohio and Illinois and are manipulating rap behind the scenes to ensure black music stays ignorant, and their only counter points are Busta Rhymes contributing some priceless mad transparent homophobia and Jadakiss blazed making an ass of himself. Same old campus bs spun as sex, but other than that it was good.
— Abe Beame Feb 22, 02:40 AM
I saw Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes last summer during the Rooftop Film Series in Brooklyn. It was fantastic! I want to get it on DVD.
— Daniela Capistrano Feb 22, 12:41 PM