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A belated T.W.I.B. 3/10/07 · by Rafi Kam
Video above is of killa jewel. me likey.
The Dude is coming, the Dude is coming
If this awesome Gene Simmons interview isn’t the best thing to ever run at AllHipHop I’ll eat my hat. Actually I’ll eat my baby daughter’s hat. Smaller, easier to digest.
Though I must say this transcript of AllHipHop’s founder holding his own against a Fox news douchebag also earns them points.
Floodwatch sets its autopsy sights on the Juice soundtrack for an excellent post.
Call it zeitgeist that Crooklyns Classics uploads many hip-hop soundtracks this week.
T.A.N. reports on a hip-hop panel he attended at the 92nd St Y (where hip-hop lives).
GB has the scoop on the sandbox redesign.
Nation of Thizzlam puts me up on the very NSFW amateur comedy stylings of – well, whoever this is. Unforgivable! You can tell these dudes are actually high brow film-school students from the angry David Lean plug in the second clip. I repeat – these next two clips are in no way safe for work.
Oliver Wang revisits an infamous (pun fully intended) rap interlude.
Speaking of the Infamous, check its 4.5 mic review from the Source care of Press Rewind.
Wynton Marsalis says hip-hop is poo.
Brandon on irony, earnestness, barack obama, t-shirts.
Some afternoon in 1990, I’m with two other Jewish kids walking up one of those tree-shaded, row-house blocks in Canarsie. We’re gleefully rapping all the words to the crossover hit “the Humpty Dance”. Seventeen years later Passion of the Weiss does a nice tribute post to Digital Underground’s Sex Packets.
Until The Train Stops interviews Pete Rock.
Aside from the Ultimate Force album, the other re-release posted about this week that will please old school rarity seekers is the “holy grail” that is Live Convention 77-79.
MTV will apparently be handing the keys to the “content over to the audience”.
The Cold Vein catches up with Feed Me Good Tunes.
Lily Allen replies to Miss Sovereign via MySpace. Mm, British chick beef.
WYDU delivers spring break mixes.
Heed the words of Clyde Smith young bloggers:
For content creators curious about the business implications of Web 2.0, whether in relationship to hip hop or not, it’s obvious that what you choose and how you choose it becomes an important function. However, if that choice making, no matter how inspired, comes in a package or context that one sees regularly duplicated across the web, folks may never get to find out what a great 2.0 editor you turned out to be.
That also goes for new hip hop bloggers cranking out news summary blogs. There’s just a real limit to how far you can go with replicating what’s already been done. It’s much more important that you develop your own voice and perspective. Once you have that, you’ll have a better chance of breaking through the increasing levels of noise that will be keeping your voice from being heard.
A few rap obscurities from soul sides including Camp Lo over the “Feelin It” beat before Jay got his hands on it.
Great (and terrible) hip-hop brand names.
C+D reports that Timbaland wants to save Britney Spears. No word on whether or not he plans on chaining her to the radiator.
One of Vibe’s founders talks about how the magazine was built on “rap’s dirty little secret”.
Biggie mix-tape tribute by Mick Boogie
Reggie rewrites “The Day the Music Died”
Comments for "A belated T.W.I.B. 3/10/07"
Damn. That Killa Jewl video is hot. I was waiting for shorty to start scratching with them tittays
— Jay B Mar 12, 02:08 AM
You know I think the Unforgivable video is brilliant and I think it ties into that “Throw Some D’s” song. That song is what I imagine the dude from the video would be like if he took his whip to the chop shop and got the damn top dropped. Its like an angry ass song about pimping your ride.
— dronkmunk Mar 12, 02:55 AM
thanks for the vibe link, 1999 was a monumental year in rap because Vibe helped me come to realize that hiphop wasn’t a fad and was here to stay. Thanks Vibe! The most on point magazine ever!
— SergDun Mar 13, 03:05 AM
The Internet Celebrity himself, Rafi Kam, links to my one of my blog posts?!
This is an honour. Thanks, my friend.
— Renato Pagnani Mar 14, 06:36 PM