While the rest of the Crew was at A3C, I stayed in the N.O. to enjoy the second annual NOLA Underground Hip-Hop Awards. Last year’s show was a huge success, but the sequel took things to a new level. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear future wife,
On our wedding night. Or the day our firstborn is…well…born. Or after you give me my first Double Kangaroo Sloppy Pocky, I will gaze lovingly into your eyes and tell you that day is the greatest day of my life.
It will be a lie.
January 24, 2010 will probably forever be the greatest day of my life. We all know the story. Saints beat the Vikings in an exhilarating game that sent the Who Dat Nation to the Super Bowl. Read the rest of this entry »
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Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke was on HBO over the weekend and it just didn’t click. Since I’d never seen it, I played it when I got off work Saturday and the dates finally registered. Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic natural disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of years ago when “Party Like A Rockstar” came out, my friend and I discussed the song’s lasting power. He’s a DJ so he was explaining to me the reaction he’d seen to the song at different parties:
“Yea, people go crazy for it. But it’s a phase. It’s not a classic like ‘Back Dat Azz Up.’”
His use of the word “classic” was jarring to say the least. As a “Hip-Hop guy,” my idea of classics are Illmatic and Ready To Die. Not a song that features the line “…You a fine mothafucka, Back dat azz up!”
That conversation stuck with me this whole time as I thought about these songs and their status as classics. But if a song plays 10 years after it first came out and it still gets the girls running to the dance floor, then it is a bonafied classic in the party song sense. So if “Back Dat Azz Up” is a classic, then “Get Ready Ready” by DJ Jubilee is a first ballot Hall of Fame epic classic.
I was raised on it, dancing to this song at my 8th grade dance. My sister, who is 13 years older than I am, danced to it back in the day too. And last night, a club in Houston went crazy when this track came on.
I know you may hear and dismiss this as some sort of nonsense rap because we’re accustomed to a lot of garbage dance songs a la “The Ricky Bobby.” But “Get Ready Ready” is a completely different monster. Not to bore you guys, but I once presented an Anthropological study on “Get Ready Ready” and it’s relationship to African culture. Here’s the abridged version:
– Call and response that dates back to West African traditions.
– Coded messages that recall aspects of “playing the dozens” and gatherings in New Orleans’ Congo Square.
– The song traveling throughout the last few years almost solely through word of mouth like as the only people with access to the track for the most part were DJs playing the song at clubs. DJ Jubilee was never on BET or MTV. “Get Ready Ready” has always been a pretty difficult song to get a hold of even in the Napster days. Still, it’s traveled like wildfire or an Anansi story. In fact, many people don’t know the real name of this song as it’s being called “Get It Ready” (which I thought was the title until I started writing this) and “Get It Ready Ready” by many people that know ever word and dance move of the song.
In the annals of dance songs, “Get Ready Ready” is a cultural masterpiece. Don’t get it confused with something like “The Stanky Legg” which holds on to small strands of what the former was founded on but in comparison is at best a half-retarded bastard stepchild. Just listen to the end of Beyonce’s “Get Me Bodied” in which she absolutely jacks pays homage to “Get Ready Ready.” Let’s not forget, Mrs. Carter is from the same Houston that got it ready as if the song came out last week.
Recently, DJ Jubilee was just invited to the New Orleans Essence Festival for the first time ever to perform. It’s amazing that it has taken this long for him to get that spot but it’s nice to know that his classic is being recognized.
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Download — DJ Jubilee – “Get Ready Ready!”
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Now all you hypocrites, witness they injustice…
Whether you innocent or did the crime…
22-year-old Adolph Grimes III was killed early last Thursday in New Orleans in a police shootout was wounded 14 times, with 12 of the bullets hitting him in the back of his body, New Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said. The family’s lawyer Robert Jenkins also said that 48 bullet casings were found at the shooting scene.
Nine police officers were reassigned afterward, but New Orleans police aren’t commenting on the case. The police also declined to release the names of the officers and the shooting report, saying the investigation is ongoing, both internally and with the FBI. – CNN
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