du-du-du-du-Damn. Phallynn, Your Thick Thursday

L.A. Blogger Kevin Cogill Sentenced For Guns N’ Roses Leak [Reuters]

Compiled List Of Musicians Who’ve Filed For Bankruptcy [Noise Addict]

T-Mac Goes from Number 1 to Number 3 [The Hoop Doctors]

Kmart’s Christmas in July: Inspiration or Desperation? [Time]

“Are We There Yet?” Heads To TV [Reuters]

Man’s Impotence Gets Nationally Televised [Warming Glow]

You Know What The Premier League Needs? AIDS [SbS]

Ten Toons of the Dark Knight [Gunaxin]

Play Cloths “Bighead Jack” Tee [CtotheJL]

Trae The Truth Honored By Houston Artists & Politicians [HHDX]

Courtney Love Banned From Using Hole [Daily Swarm]

Chuck D Partners with Music Marketing Website Uplaya [XXL]

Carmelo’s New Sig, The Jordan Melo M6 [Sole Collector]

…and this is what he comes back with. A clip of M.O.P. performing a rousing rendition of “Ante Up” @ Rock The Bells DC. I think Read the rest of this entry »

Scouring the net for listening material, I stumbled across the info that 4Hero’s Marc Mac dropped his own feature presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

All the fuss over President Obama’s first pitch allowed one fashion faux pax to escape most people’s attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Say what you say but even though I’ve lost track of the days, Brown Bag Season has been consistently well worth listening & attention. Read the rest of this entry »

“The Jehovah Witnesses is tryin’ to save a aggin soul, and these pimps on the strip tryin’ to sell a aggin hoes…”

Killer took to his Twitter earlier to uncuff the Read the rest of this entry »

If I could take the Summer and bottle it up, Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” is what you would hear when you opened the cap. Read the rest of this entry »

Honestly, I have no idea what a “Comic Con Free” shirt is… Read the rest of this entry »

“The ups and downs with the hoes (The Business)/Always gettin’ fronted on at shows (The Business)/People gotta stick their nose (In the Business)…” — ATCQ

Seeing this on a couple of other sites, I attempted to read the comments on each while I had some down time at work. First, it must be noted that to be on ABC News is a major accomplishment and the fact he managed to receive that honor speaks volume towards his talent and buzz. Overexposure? To an extent yes, but that’s what the media does so it really should come as no surprise. With that said, however, the majority of the internet has, like clockwork, turned on an artist (again) it praised as “the next one” once mainstream exposure arrived.

For the life of me, I’ve never understood how Read the rest of this entry »

Raise your hand if you saw this one coming.

According to MTV, Atlantic Records has decided to shelve the reissue of Clifford’s Paper Trail. Originally planned Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. Olympics swimmer Ryan Lochte took the medal stand wearing Read the rest of this entry »

As far as mythical albums go, The Seventh Seal > Detox. Read the rest of this entry »

From now on, this shall be the “Philly pic” sort of how we have the Weezy pic. Not to say they’re indispensable or that they should be ignored, because “All Cities” and the previously released “The Last Two” are both nice tracks that leave you longing to hear more work from Chris & Free. But it’s a waste of time to try to find a picture of the former State Prop members with just two or so appearing in the picture.

Or maybe I’m just getting lazy in my old blogging age.

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Download — Freeway Feat. Young Chris – “All The Cities” (Prod. by Phoe Notes)

Seen @ Shake’s

Previously Posted — Young Chris Feat. Freeway – “Last Two”

Cover by Tech Productions

Forever fresh & always on his grind, Trackstar’s back with a new mix celebrating the season of summer. This time around he’s got the Bay’s (and also hardworking) Fabby Davis Jr. playing the host. A cool mix that moves from new to old, old school soul to trunk-rattling slaps & all good choices to help take your mind off the sizzling summer heat. Hit the break for your blessings. Read the rest of this entry »

When he’s not slangin’ freshmakers (or cocaina for that matter,) the biggest boss Rick Ross is back to his day job: making videos for Deeper Than Rap. Before the year’s up, you’ll be able to watch the entire album. And if you’re looking for other Bawse material, look no further Read the rest of this entry »