Hey, another Halloween post! Landon A. and I share an certain love for the music that exemplifies everything October 31st represents: horror, redrum, and of course the sonic creations that brings the paranoia to life.  After some intense brainstormin’, we narrowed it down to 10 songs that we feel best represent the biggest unofficial holiday of them all. Trust, they’re all scary in one form or another… Read the rest of this entry »

A culmination of things led to this post.

All of the mumblings & commentary regarding Warren G.’s arrest (FYI: The charges were dropped this morning). A convo I had with Trackstar yesterday about homies who used to aspire to rap but ended up leaving the game for life with a family & a 9 to 5′s. And then, this D-Nice blog entry that I read about a convo he had with Big Daddy Kane. Unknown to most, D has kept his hands in many aspects of Hip-Hop that have little to do with music – photography, web design, etc. I’ve followed D because his photography is purely amazing as well as the subjects he chooses to shoot.

One of the things Kane said to me that still keeps me motivated was when he compared what he was doing to what I was doing. He said, “Man, you have your web development company and you no longer rely on hip-hop to eat. I rap because it’s how I pay my bills. I can’t get a job in McDonalds and have a kid telling me, Kane, let me get a burger and some fries, and no half steppin’ with that either”.

We can laugh @ Kane for that one because that would be some hilarious shit. We can even poke fun @ Warren G and question his financial, business & personal actions even. Read the rest of this entry »