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Guys, I messed up.

A few weeks back, my long-standing request for a Smoking Session with West Coast pioneer Warren G was finally granted. As an artist I literally grew up listening to and who helped enlighten my musical taste-buds at an early age, the rare opportunity to speak to an idol was something I’d been bugging Gotty™ for since day one. So, it was quite stellar to hear that after years of waiting in the wings, our connects came through in the clutch, hooking up a phone interview to help promo his appearance in the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors tribute to his former label Def Jam, along with an upcoming seventh record from the Long Beach vet, The G-Files.

I got the call a few weeks later and, as expected, Warren was cooler than a cucumber and the interview came & went without a hitch. Until, of course…I got home to my Google Voice account and saw I’d pressed 4 an extra time on my piece-of-shit flip-phone to un-record the entire conversation/interview.

Heart. Break. Read the rest of this entry »

I figure it’s time to tell you some things about myself. To reveal some of what makes me click & part of the music that keeps me going. You might presuppose that, as a blogger, I walk around in a haze with earmuff headphones, unlaced Timbs & reading back issues of Scratch magazine. That I stay on messageboards, debating the Gza’s varying rhyme schemes used on Liquid Swords.

Noncipher. 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 »

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It always cracks me up when Fresh refers to Boosie as a “mongoose” lol. Thankfully, rap is still more about music than looks.

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