Photos Property Of The Tennessean

Near the end of the NFL season, one of the convos drifted into Black QB’s & the name “Jefferson Street” Joe Gilliam popped up. On today’s front page of the Tennessean, an article about “Jefferson Street” Joe appears on the front page of today’s local as he’s set to be posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall Of Fame. Read the rest of this entry »

The jokes are over. It’s not funny anymore.

*Tags in. Takes Contra™’s place on the soapbox* Read the rest of this entry »

Nalita

Professional Drug Smuggling Tips [Coed]

Men Really Do Get Bikini-Brain, Study Shows [CNN]

Ravi Coltrane: The Son Also Rises [Pop Matters]

Police Investigate Who Leaked Photo Of Battered Rihanna [CNN]

Jay Smooth & John Legend Respond to The New York Post’s Controversial Chimpanzee Cartoon [HHIR]

Russell Simmons’ American Classics for Walmart: Cheap Is Chic [Black Voices]

Mascot Fail [AA]

Playstation & NES Nintendo Controller Soap [CtotheJL]

A Flowchart That Describes 90% of All Porno Movies [Holy Taco]

Why We Should Be Worried About Future Prices Of Concert Tickets [GU]

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Skin color does not always equate soul and Daryl Hall & John Oates are evidence of that. Read the rest of this entry »

St. Louis Archers fitted by Frank151. Creatively done, they threw in everything including the kitchen sink: The A, representing the famed St. Louis Arch, bright yellow underbill complete with arrows & “St. Louis” on the back. Available now @ the Frank webstore.

For the folks in the Lou’, be sure to check out the release of the Archers fitted on Feb 22nd, at The Maryland House, 4659 Maryland Ave. St. Louis, MO. The event runs from 8pm – 1am. Free beer & fine folks. More pics after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

No Dre verse but it’s definitely a Dre beat. Read the rest of this entry »

Found in the inbox, courtesy of DJ Franchise… Read the rest of this entry »

Somebody better call & check on young Davey. I bet my son is dancing around like some Hip-Hop hippie.

Props to Legend

Previously Posted — “Hip-Hop Hooray” – KiD CuDi’s “Day N’ Nite” To Premier On 106 & Park

Conga-infused funk for your Thursday. Easily recognizable seeing as how this joint has been sampled countless times.

Edwin Starr – Easin’ In

“Sittin’ on rims the size of Shaq’s big toe...”

If you don’t know the name Tone Tone, you will.

For the past year or so, little homie has gotten more radio love here than any other Detroit rapper. The original version of “Jockin” has been in heavy rotation for months and this Read the rest of this entry »

2005 saw the rebirth of the Houston Hip-Hop renaissance. Local heroes Mike Jones and Chamillionaire rose to platinum prominence while familiar faces such as U.G.K. and Lil’ Flip rode the wave as well to make that Lone Star impression across the entire game. One rapper in particular, with his trademark custom mouthpieces and penchant for endless similes in his lyrics were among those most successful. Calling himself The Peoples Champ, Paul Wall indeed represented the masses with as he hit the million mark with his sales and collaborated with several big names outside of his regional sector.

Fast forward to 2009 and things have cooled down a bit for the H-Town All-Stars. But as Paul Wall explains “there’s no need for a comeback,” for he’s in one of the most comfortable positions of his life. Read along as the Iceman details his latest endeavors which include his latest LP entitled Fast Life and his continuing success in the jewelry biz. The man uses “grindin’” as a regular part of his vocabulary. Days off are for Ferris Bueller, not Paul Wall.

‘TSS, What It Do?’

TSS: So how’s Paul Wall these days?

Paul Wall: Well you know, just grindin’. Just came off the road and getting back in the studio preparing these mixtapes as my new album’s getting ready to drop on March 24th. It’s called Fast Life.

TSS: Your last album [Get Money, Stay True] dropped in ’07, but what were you up to in 2008?

Paul Wall: Really just grindin’. I had did a tour with my boy Tech N9ne and I did a tour by myself; just on the road, hittin’ the road, getting thangs poppin’. I started a clothing line as well called Expensive Taste and the website is I Got Expensive Taste and we kicked that off last year too.

TSS: Is that in conjunction with Travis Barker and Skinhead Rob?

Paul Wall: Yeah, fa’sho.

TSS: Even with all that, do you feel the urge that you need to make a comeback with Fast Life. Do you think you were too low key last year?

Paul Wall: Oh, naw. I feel like I’ve been on the scene because I’ve been in the face of people doing these tours from city to city so I’ve been puttin’ it down. All last year, nonstop grindin’ so hard in the streets so we ready to come hard with this one.

TSS: So what’s your angle this time around? What do you feel you’re bringing to the people?

Paul Wall: Well the Fast Life, the whole theme of the album is just the life we live of a grinder; a go-getter. When you grind 25/8 — 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, that’s how hard you grind and you ain’t stopping. From 9:01 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., that’s how you grind. And that’s just how it is. That’s what the album’s about: grindin’, gettin’ it and everything that goes along with it. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to the recession and NBC’s money hoarding ways, The Roots got some work to do.

As Jimmy Fallon’s house band for his new late night show, they have to record 200 new songs due to NBC’s cost-costing effort to avoid paying royalties on songs the band might have played on air. What’s funny to me is that they must expect this show to actually stick around long enough for them to need 200 songs. I wonder if they’ll pick up where Rising Down left off (142 w/ the bonus song) or will they do some other kooky numbering scheme. Read the rest of this entry »

The Stanky Legg celebration was one thing, but this is actually huge.

Kid Cudi’s “Day N’ Nite” is premiering on 106 & Park this afternoon and I couldn’t be happier. In my ever-changing, fickle “Top 5 Songs Ever Made That Make Me Feel Happy Inside And Do A Little Dance While Singing Until I’m Hoarse”- this song reigns supreme (as the TSS Chi-town NYE party can attest based on my spaz out when the Techno version played in the club). Read the rest of this entry »

If you paid close attention to the backstage footage of Slaughterhouse, filmed after their Eastern Michigan performance a few weeks ago, your jaw probably cracked the floor like mine did when you heard Crooked I say, “Tech-n9ne killed me on my own shit.”

What!? Say that again? Rewind.

“Tech-n9ne killed me on my own shit.”

Jo-Jo @ the 3:42 mark.

If you’re a fan of rappers with incredible amounts of talent oozing from every follicle of their body, then this news should make you jump up and thank the Heavens. Or Hell, depending on which rapper you’re more geeked for. To have have these two underestimated legends, yes I said it, going toe to toe on the same track is a something that the underground rap scene would have a hard time topping.

Unless they did it twice. Read the rest of this entry »