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T.W.I.B. 3/16/07 · by Rafi Kam
This Week In Blog-links
Best Week Ever wants you to name that style for Clay Aiken. Uh… “Anticon rapper”?
Travis takes a deeper look at the artists from the Nas remixes. The 80s remix part one and part two.
Cold Crush Brothers vs Fantastic Romantic 5
Real rap heads are excited for the upcoming Redman and Devin albums. The rest of the world – not so much.
noz is dead serious in his devotion to Devin
Redman – Gimme One (produced by Pete Rock)
A topic that is near and dear to me: The Wanderers vs The Warriors. In related news, this guy is trying to track down real Baldies and Ducky Boys for a documentary on old Bronx gangs. Awesome.
Byron pans the shit out of Jeff Chang’s new book.
Angry Citizen covers a live P.E. show. Check links from that post to others who did the same.
Crooklyn’s Classics Beatnuts Production Mix
Cold Rock Da Spot’s 2nd 1992 mix kicks off with the Beatnuts produced “Walk like a Duck”
See what’s up with our old friend Bless 1
Regrets, he’s had a few rio tells us about ten times he’s been way wrong with an opinion about hip-hop. He could also regret that post title because it doesn’t sell this excellent piece at all. See Copyblogger for counsel on good headlines.
Why are old rap records not listened to?
Billy Sunday runs down hip-hop’s heavy artillery
El-P interviewed by the blogs Can I Bring My Gat? and Roy Christopher. Reviewed in Pitchfork.
Hip-hop is Rock & Roll. Rock & Roll is Hip-hop.
Joey remembers Biggie an era goneby. Classic rap, we’ll be missing you.
Stones Throw will reissue an expanded version of the Madlib-Dilla collaboration Champion Sound
Your inspiration for the day: Good is not almost as good as great
A great blog on urban decay (link via sneakmove).
XXL blogs finishes its first year. Tara reflects. Bol reflects.
XXL site gets redesigned. Redesign gets reflected on and reflected on again.
Is the “down low” phenomenon a media invention?
My favorite line in Brandon’s Rap Music and Experimental Music post was “I sort of wish one of those anthologies like the Dave Eggers-edited ‘The Best American Non-Required Reading’ anthologies existed for the best web-based rap writing.” I’ve sort of wished that many times myself. Lets compile one Brandon. It’ll be of no use to anyone but who cares.
New BCC video for non-new song
Two opposing takes on the Roots from Jalylah and Joey.
Heavy.com and other skeevy viral marketers are a bunch of phonies.
Pete’s Jazz. I love that album too.
Sadly, I’ve only seen Watermelon Man but I’m still interested in this documentary about Melvin Van Peebles.
Synchronicity! Download the soundtrack to Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
Happy St Pattie’s Day from 33 third jones and Slushy Gutter. Given the snow falling outside right now and the parade of drunks that will be hitting NYC some people will be getting to know the “slushy gutter” very well this weekend.
Comments for "T.W.I.B. 3/16/07"
Though we both get our names from NY street addresses, 33Jones is not the same as 33third. As always, I appreciate the link love though.
Slainte.
— fresh Mar 16, 07:42 PM
Regarding the documentary on Melvin Van Peebles, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), you’ll soon be in luck: the DVD comes out June 5. And if you get IFC, check their site as the film will be rebroadcast periodically over the next year. (It premiered Feb 15.) In the meantime, you can get a sneak peak at the film’s website. Hit us with your feedback; we’d love to hear!
-Joe Angio
Dir., How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
mvpmovie.com
myspace.com/howtoeatyourwatermelon
— joe angio Mar 16, 08:22 PM
Good lookin’ out to all the heads at Oh Word. I’m gonna kill it next week, too…Check for me. One.
— Dart Adams Mar 16, 08:23 PM
fresh,
my bad. it’s fixed now. between both 33 and fresh you make it easy for people to get mixed up.
joe,
excellent. thanks for posting. i’ll get back to you with feedback after i have time to check out the site (and since i have ifc, hopefully the movie too).
dart,
of course, i’ll be checking as usual.
— rafi Mar 16, 08:52 PM
That’s a fair point, though I was around before either of them. I’m an internet o.g.!
— fresh Mar 16, 09:12 PM
Snow may be slamming the East Coast for the StP celebrations, meanwhile it is 70 degrees for our StPs celebration in CO. Perfect beer dranking weather, Slushy Gutter…indeed. Thanks for the linky, Erin Go Bragh.
— CommishCH Mar 16, 11:02 PM
In regards to stretch armstrong’s blog I wrote this:
I’m not sending you my tapes man. When I sat up for 4 hours in the middle of the night taping those shows, I earned those tapes. Sometimes I was coming into high school Friday mornings on no sleep, tired as hell if I wasn’t blunted. Look, what you’re doing is a good thing- putting these shows up for all to grab, but I can’t part with my tapes. I don’t know if you’re on some sendback shit with the tapes, hell if I still had a tape to tape system, I’d send a dub because the quality of my tapes are that good. Shit, I just can’t be sending you those tapes Stretch. It’s mementos of my adolescence and I remember each of those nights vividly when I see those tapes. Some of those nights I don’t want to remember, but fuck it them shits are on tape. Ok peace. Do your thing. You aren’t getting my tapes though.
lol that clay aiken photo looks like this dude who lived in the next building over at my old apartment complex.
— Jay B Mar 18, 12:03 AM