Time ain't nothin' but a thing

this and C&C Music Factory's everybody dance now were the first tapes I got, tape singles mind you, it was a while later till I actually got full albums. Turtle Tape's, I loved the sign and thought it was the coolest place on earth....why in the hell do I remember that?



Before the internet if your parents didn't know the answer, then there was no way to know something. Case in point, my mom had no idea who Leaders Of The New School were so it didn't matter how many times I tried to get more info on them, I couldn't, at the end of the day my mom was my only source of information, and the slight trickle I would get from MTV, but that mostly just frustrated me because I would see something hecka tight but have no way to follow up on it at all, it would appear out of nowhere with no context and disappear just the same. It's funny that Busta Rhymes was in Leaders Of The New School, I had no idea until many years later, I couldn't youtube the above mentioned video, and by the time Gimme Some More was out, Leaders of The New School might as well have never existed....they surely weren't getting played in between Usher and En Vogue.

ha! I can't wait until twenty years from now when I can REALLY start laying on the "when I was your age-isms", something like, "when I was your age, we had to wear clothes and spend our whole day in stuffy rooms with artificial light, sitting in funny chairs staring screens that lied to us all day, and the lies on the screen tried to take advantage of you and make you buy other screens and clothes and get you to sit in other stuffy rooms with funny chairs and artificial light...." yeah something like that would be a pretty cool thing to be able to say.


hey but as long as we're not saying shit like this anymore I'd be good

Grass Egg-Fried Widow

Grass Widow - Fried Egg from Kill Rock Stars on Vimeo.

Shangaan Electro....Agaan

CANNOT get enough of this shit. I don't have words to extrapolate...sorry.



as long as marginalized people like the Shangaan of Limpopo have a vehicle to share their souls with the rest of the planet, the internet will get a pass in my book.
If you can buy this album I would highly suggest it, these guys are from South Africa...which you know has a whole can of problems-poverty being right there on the top of the list

Get Naked You Beezy

Dr. Laura, what can be said that you haven't already said yourself? appreciate the n00dz though!

Reader Beware

Everyone is familiar with A Clockwork Orange, but Anthony Burgess wrote other books too damnit!
"...the future, when the phony war is permanent, homosexuality is encouraged and cannibalism is the ultimate solution for a desperately overcrowded world" and they call it fiction!

FW:FTW

hmm...what a nice surpise from Mistah FAB....some superduper REAL talk. thx

Justice For Julian!

On Jun 30th Brea police officers killed Julian Collender outside of his families home. I only met him briefly at a couple of Outsleazed Fests but he seemed like a real good guy. I know a bunch of people who have really been affected by this, and from what I know of the facts this case should definitely be kept under close scrutiny as it smells awfully piggish at the moment. Below are some links that have some information on this tragedy.
OC Register
Did Julian Deserve To Die?
OC Weekly
LA Weekly
I'll try and let anyone know of any news with the case

SpottieOttieDopaliscious

Spottie - Heritage EP Exclusive Download by ChoiceCuts
I've always dreamt of this song being played by a badass marching band...on the field Nick Cannon Drumline style....this is kinda close

GLK

Gas Lamp Killer has an extreme knack for crafting perfect mixes. I myself enjoy it faaar more when he is throwing Turkish psychedelia in the blender with Nirvana and UGK....but in the last couple of years it seems he has shifted his energies towards wobblier endeavors. That being said, it's still waaay more left-field and curve-ballish than most dj's. It's going to be a great day when he sits down and does a proper major release, but until then there are many mixes and ep's floating about that will give you a proper look-see at what he's got going on
Gas Lamp Killin' It

Ye Olde Programme

Bun Beast

Bun B's legitimacy is pretty much universally acknowledged, I feel he is the most consistent rapper in the game, his career is pretty much spotless and he just keeps getting better. On August 3rd Bun B will drop the third installment in his Trill series, Trill O.G.(trilogy, get it?), right now the whole album is streaming on his myspace, and to hold you over here is his supreme mixtape from earlier this year where he pretty much decimates the beat off of every hit from the last year.

Ha! Sheesh!