Call it promo. I’ll call it PR genius.

Or simply call it love & respect.

When millionaires like Kanye are smashing cameras for album sales and others simply aren’t getting any, Jay Rock is giving back and reeling in the press.

On Tuesday, the Watts rapper, known for his deep voice and affiliations with Weezy and The Game, copped 300 turkeys for his Nickerson Gardens projects and Read the rest of this entry »

I first heard Lil’ Boosie about six or seven years ago. A friend of mine passed me a tape (yes, an actual cassette) of Boosie songs on a school trip. I had heard his name in the school hallways, but his music was only being circulated by hand-to-hand trades that my social status didn’t deem me worthy of receiving. Once I finally heard the tape, I pretended like I had just listened to the greatest MC on the planet so I could look fly in front on the bus. Secretly, I was wondering who this chick was and why she was rapping about bustin’ that pussy wide open. Read the rest of this entry »

I think Mundy won me over on these dudes, along with their affiliation with Diplo and his remix of “Bama Gettin Money.”

The new mixtape is available via the Mad Decent website in a Radiohead-style payment plan. Read the rest of this entry »

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The morning Loosies dropoff with more materials to come my good people. Plus, there’s a bonus in the comments. Click on thru to get your blessing. Read the rest of this entry »

Gotty,

For that “memory section” or whatever you call it, what about that post one of you wrote one or two years ago about Weezy’s rap schemes complexity (drought 3 period or so), etc. Just to remember to everybody how some of us used to ride wee-wee’s dick in the times, maybe for some good reasons.

Random-ass TSS reader.

Word up. Lil Wayne Week. This piece said keyboards ablaze.

Words by Drew RickettsOriginally Posted On 4.2.07

Months ago, when Lil Wayne made the claim that he was the “best rapper alive” and (gasp) better than Hov, Hip-Hop fans deemed his declaration brash andspurious. It is incumbent upon the true hip hop scholars to examine his claim because, despite initial reactions, he might be right. Of course, no argument would be complete without defining the conditions for “best” rap and seeking orientation in this growing debate.

Harris Publications columnist Billy Sunday at XXLmag.com has taken up the supercilious position that Wayne is spitting nonsense raps, somehow not worth considering because they are playful and simply rhythmic. Even I was hesitant to give Weezy F. his much-deserved due as “best” because I saw him falling short by the “classic album” milestone I hold so dear. All that aside, Wayne is the best and probably most effective with the form for several reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

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Word to Ghetto Mafia.

Of course, you know we weren’t gonna slow down too much for a holiday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Back when I was an angry young teen, I hung around the graff heads from school. You know these dudes: paint-stained shoes, unnecessarily, torn up fitteds, reeked like cigarettes/weed/cheap beer…yup, this was my crew. We’d spend most Saturdays driving around the city with our only friend with a driver’s license, shoved up against subwoofers that only worked 1/3 of the time, making fun of emo kids at the local laser tag place and taking flicks of the previous nights work. Read the rest of this entry »

I started thinking, “What’s a good way to kill some time over the holidays & provide you all with entertainment without working our fingers to the bone?”

TSS Revisited

And what better story than GuevaraGhost’s “Harlem Shake” story. This has to be one of the funniest pieces I’ve ever read online. Period. It was originally told in three separate parts. Here’s part one, with the other parts to follow in the coming days.

Words By GuevaraGhost Originally Posted On 9.28.05

I need MAJOR help

My parents went away last week for their 20th wedding anniversary and left me home alone. So I’ve been talking to the german exchange chick in my Bio class for most of the semester and this week was perfect to make my move since i got an empty house. I told her I was gonna show her a “piece of Germany”.

So yesterday, I grabbed the keys to my mom’s Benz wagon, had some stoner dude pick me up a 6 pack of Becks, and I thought we could finish the night off with a sausage tasting.

Long story short, we’re in the car, the Becks is kicking in with her (I didn’t drink and drive) and she says it’s cool to go back to my pad. In the back of my head i start flipping out. Then when I go to make a U-turn I forget that I have it in freaking reverse. I backed up into a telephone pole!!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! nooooooo!! Cockblocked by a pole, pole blocked! I got a MEAN dent it the back and I’m flipping out and it kills the mood. I was in a get in those ribs mood and she was in a take me home mood.

So I take it over to this oily machanic dude I know to get an estimate today. He tells me $950 BUCKS!! I’m like Allah, jesus, whoever, please just kill me. So ‘ go to my boys house and everybody thinks its FUNNY! This girl Casey was there who is like the head of all the dances and all that says she might have an idea to help me out.

She said that our school dance team was sponsoring a Harlem Shake contest on monday and the GRAND PRIZE IS $1000! At first I was like “Yessssssss!” But then I remembered I didn’t know how to Harlem Shake.

I’m determined to get this done. Whatever it takes. But the competition is supposed to be steep. Like 100 kids signed up and they’re busing in actual Harlem residents to judge the contest. I need some soul quick! If i win I can get the car fixed and cleaned up before the parental units get home next Thursday.

Any tips? Anything? Videos? I just spent an hour watching this girls copy of Darren’s Dance Grooves and my head is spinning. I’m practicing in the mirror but it just looks like I’m drowning. My arms are just flapping all over the place and I almost dislocated my shoulder. I’m broke. My parents left me money to eat and stuff but that’s just about to run out. I spent most of it on a couple pairs of Dunks the day they left. Now all I can afford is like a slice of pizza a day.

More to come tomorrow.

TSS Revisited: “Stranded On Death Row…”

Watching the Detroit Lions get their asses handed to them on Thanksgiving is a painful tradition in the Weber household that both glorifies and ruins the meal. It wasn’t always this bad, though… I remember the traditional Green Bay games of two even-matched teams. I remember John Madden handing out drumsticks of a six legged turkey to the winning linebackers. And I remember Barry Sanders: the only living reason I continue to enjoy the Lions on any level.

I recently posted in the comments the oxymoronic relationship a Detroit football fan has with the Lions. Here is a self-loathing near impossible to describe and better understood by a sold-out stadium clad in Honolulu Blue, staring bleak and blank-faced at the gridiron demigod demolition… Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s be realistic about our fates today.

You’re going to go into your beloved relatives house, laugh & be merry, eat, share some time on the couch in front of the TV. Somebody’s gonna tell that story about “that one time when…” Read the rest of this entry »

Featuring Ben Folds Five, Talib Kweli & Spree Wilson, this vid is a nice change of pace in the Rap game where a dose of reality is always welcome. Read the rest of this entry »

And you thought you were befuddled by Com’s glasses the other day…

Loosies

Demevolist Music Group – Cali Love

B.o.B. Feat. T.I. – I’m Dat Nigga

King Magnetic & Ciph Barker – The Pursuit

Royce 5’9, Guilty Simpson & Elzhi – Verbal Intercourse (Detroit Remix)

Keri Hilson – Promise In The Dark (Prod. by JR Rotem)

Nas – Something Foul

Lloyd Banks – Good Company

B.o.B. – Gangster

Loosies

So here we are. One of my favorite nights of the year. Thanksgiving Eve.

Surround yourselves with the ones you love, prepare yourself for the annual decimation of the Lions, toast a glass of your favorite favorite with friends, dance or laugh or both well into the night, stifle any heated debates with “We have a black president” or simply say “Barack Obama,” and, above all, be thankful for all you’ve been given and for all you’ve been spared. Read the rest of this entry »

But instead of us as fans wishing her well, she’s given us this new joint as a gift instead. Read the rest of this entry »

The time has come to make the announcement. Our three winners in the The NBA 2K9 Giveaway have all been contacted, confirmed & they’re ready to accept their prizes. Read the rest of this entry »