This morning was a very Gang Starr morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Victoria Renee

Inside The Biggest Apple Store In The World [SVI]

Reggie Bush’s New Girlfriend: Mayra Veronica [The Big Lead]

A 7-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Shut Down For Not Having A Restaurant License [Inc.] Read the rest of this entry »

Innocence

Five Best Music Discovery Services [Lifehacker]

10 Rock Songs Over 10 Minutes Long [Listverse]

Dame Dash, Marc Ecko Host Fundraiser For Kevin Powell’s Bid For Office [AHH]

Best Goal Celebration Ever [With Leather]

The Roots Announce New Features For How I Got Over [OkayPlayer] Read the rest of this entry »

Regardless on what side you took surrounding the events leading up to his declining health and ultimate demise, Hip-Hop shed their collective tears just five days ago when it lost a pillar of its storied foundation in Keith “Guru” Elam, due to cancer. He, along with the legendary DJ Premier, brought a sense of unity and harmony in their basic MC/DJ setup for over a decade strong. Read the rest of this entry »

Not much to say here that wasn’t said previously. After his long, public battle with cancer, Guru aka Keith Elam has passed away. No official statements but Premo’s Twitter pretty much gave all the confirmation fans need. Read the rest of this entry »

“Gotti*, Can we get a Guru post???? I didn’t see a story about my man, one half of one of the most significant duo’s in hip hop. Not a mention yet?” — Pooch

Sheesh. I’ve gotten roughly six emails regarding Guru and seen a few comments like the one above. Honestly, I was rather busy today so I couldn’t get to a post. Plus, I was awaiting confirmation, hoping that last night’s reports that Guru lay comatose after going into cardiac arrest would end up being false reports. They weren’t. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, that scratched chorus gets a (||) in ’09.

Every day is Christmas when Suave is your homie. And since you all are our friends as well, we pass the blessings along to you. Read the rest of this entry »

Diamond Coleman Brings The Thickness On Thursday

TV Everywhere Is Comcast And Time Warner’s Answer To Free Internet Video [Tech Crunch]

Remember When…People Wore FUBU? [Broken Cool]

Top Ten Songs to Fight To [Gunaxin]

Celebs Respond to Perez Getting Punched [Celeb Jihad]

Nike, NBA HOF, and Leroy Smith Sued Over Michael Jordan Products [Hoop Doctors]

Craigslist Pot Ad Leads To Pot Bust [AP]

How The Record Industry Committed Suicide [Hypebot]

Guru’s Policy on GangStarr: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [TRU]

Man Stabbed at GZA Concert [The Boombox]

J.Lo’s Sweetface: Another Celebrity Clothing Line Nites The Dust [Sandra Rose]

Dean Cain Wards Off Puke and Porn With Internet Explorer 8 [Gizmodo]

Phil Jackson Might Go Halfsies In 2009-10 [With Leather]

Homeless Girl Is Going To Harvard [BoH]

The End of Flavored Blunts? [Coed]

We have been here before…literally. If you check Sorce’s post, it was almost a year ago to the day. And every time we make a trip back around to this neck of the woods, discussions ensue.

So instead of espousing our beliefs as to why this album should be an essential part of the Hip-Hop canon & required listening for all, we’ll let you handle the discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

Words By David D.

There used to be a time when reading comic books was seen as a hobby for overweight, socially inept hermits with a large porn collection to make up for lack of a girlfriend or interaction with the fairer sex.

Like ’98, that’s a thing of the past.

Now, comic books have hit the mainstream due to their blockbuster movie adaptations over the past few years. No doubt, we are in a Golden Age for Comic Book Movies…but things haven’t always been this way. Granted, we had some amazing Super-Hero movies back in the day with the Christopher Reeves Superman flicks and the first Batman movie helping bring comics out of the campy “Bam-Holy Corniness” funk of the 60′s.

After the second Batman movie (which wasn’t that great in its own right), things went terribly downhill in a horrible George Clooney-piloted blaze of burning Superpoop. We had the atrocious Punisher movie starring Dolph Lundgren of semi-Rocky fame, the low-budget Captain America debacle, and the Fantastic Four flick that never saw the light of day. Hell, Marvel Comics was even bankrupt for a minute.

But we have one man to thank for the resurgence of the Comic movie genre.

Wesley Snipes and a little project known as Blade. Read the rest of this entry »

I love beats that are hardcore, dirty and raw

I love takin’ niggas burners when they scared to draw

I love plottin’ on my enemies, I love to attack

I love beatin’ niggas down when they rhymes is whack

I love! Read the rest of this entry »

I was going to come in here & tell you to listen to Gang Starr’s Hard To Earn today, but then I was torn and decided to go with Moment Of Truth instead. And here’s four reasons why…

1. “I am invaluable, to my niggaz/as an old rusty ass .32 (Better than nothinnn!)” — Billy Danze on “B.I. Vs. Friendship.”

2. “Your bitch don’t really got no ass, she just poked it out” — Keithy E. on “Work.” Read the rest of this entry »