I was going to skip right past this latest viral video ploy by 50 to assert that Kanye bats from the other side of the plate. But, as you’ll read below, somebody took the time to type up similar thoughts as mine so I figured it might be a worthy topic for discussion.

Found in the inbox, sent by JDW… Read the rest of this entry »

Killer Mike catches up with 8Ball & MJG over a game of pool. Watch as they discuss the duo’s past (“Who came up with the concept for “Armed Robbery”?”), present & future sounds of Read the rest of this entry »

Get to know Fashawn before his debut album, Boy Meets World with Exile, drops in Spring ’09. Consider this your last fuckin warning!

Previously Posted — Video: Fashawn & Evidence – “Our Way” Live | Fashawn – Higher Learning Mixtape

NJ-based music producer Illmind will be celebrating the release of his second mixtape “Blaps, Rhymes, & Life Vol. II” on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Grand Banks in Jersey City. The event will be Read the rest of this entry »

Obviously anything first seen in the New York Post’s Page Six has to be taken with a grain of salt. But this account on Jermaine Dupri’s ouster from Universal almost sounds plausible. Read the rest of this entry »

The picture best describes what type of “war” Clef is talking bout. This is probably the first credible club song of 2009. Not saying much but hey… Read the rest of this entry »

Two of my favorite Chicagorillas team up over a No ID beat. Taken from Read the rest of this entry »

Peter Rosenberg interviews the woman BIG loved unquestionably: his momma, Voletta Wallace.

Notorious hits theaters this Friday.

My mom had minor surgery this past week, so today I did my duty as a loving son and called to check up. Disregarding the call as business-as-usual, she asked if I’d gotten a chance to read Mitch Albom’s feature from the latest issue of Sports Illustrated. She spoke on the article with a tone that made me feel it was my duty to read it.

“It’s about Detroit,” she said, as if nothing worthwhile had ever been written about the city where she was born and raised. She told me how the piece been reissued to the front page of The Freep as well, knowing I don’t read much more than a computer screen these days. “I’ll save it for you.”

“Detroiters Carry On Amid All The Hardships”

From the title alone I knew it was going to be much more than a sports story or some rehashed, Lions, year-end resentment. Mitch knows better than that. What it ended up being was one of the best pieces of literature I’ve ever read. Read the rest of this entry »

MajorDC is also selling the UndrCrwn President Obama Inauguration tee. Dope stylings indeed.

But with good there’s evil.

Therefore as our nation’s newly elected leader embarks on history, let this other shirt Read the rest of this entry »

Whoa now © B. Rich.

Rising from the depths of early 90′s Black clothing label purgatory, 2 Black Guys (now referred to as TBG) came back in 2006? Read the rest of this entry »

“…I had visions of many things. But happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.” – Jimmy Ruffin, Motown

“I’m absolutely wasted,” said House Shoes, my Michigan friend and California family. “I’m wasted” being his M.O. on nights like this. It was his release party for his King James Version at Fat Beats. No other state was expected from Shoes other than complete annihilation. Shit faced-ness. Three sheets to the wind. Piss pants. All of that.

“You going to make it through the night?” I asked, filling my plastic cup with keg beer.

“So what?” he responded, then fell out laughing at just how House Shoes-ian of a reply “so what” is to a yes-or-no question. He relayed the story through Henney-soaked smiles to all within earshot, and then again outside to Bishop Lamont, who laughed with the force of a man of authority. I was startled to see Bishop at first; not because I didn’t think he’d come to this event but because seeing folks like him in such familial settings still trips me out, almost three years later. Read the rest of this entry »

Simmer down now. Just a taste of The Ecstatic. Read the rest of this entry »

We already established that one of the qualifying requirements to get hired by any law enforcement agency is to be irrationally infatuated with Contra™ and his brand new (read:”used”) Contramobile™. So in accordance with standard training, I was yet again pulled over, this time in Phenix City, Alabama Read the rest of this entry »

This one is strictly for your archives. Old Mike mixtape, released right after his debut album Monster. I’d been on a lowkey hunt for this for well over a year. Then this past Sunday, I scored a mint CD copy still in the wrap and a download link from my boy. Whatever the fuck I was thinking, I should’ve played the Lotto that same day because it was an unbelievably lucky day. Anyways, good material over some choice, jacked beats & covering a range of topics. You can hear the progression of Mike’s style, S.L. Jones still sounds raw like sushi © Neneh Cherry & Big Boi interludes let you know that this was during a grand time for Killer & Atlanta.

Killer Mike & Grind Time – Home Alone Wit Dat Crack Version 1.5 (2003)