Since the Vibe Top 50 list hit the net, the Hip-Hop blogging lane of the super information highway has been all abuzz about who was too high/low, who should/shouldn’t have been and other claims. This has prompted bloggers and commentators alike to go on mini-rants and formulate their own lists.

TSS is no different. And we know there are those of you who look to us for insight regarding such matters.

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This was a good week over here in TSS land. First we made Vibe’s top 50 Hip-Hop blog list. It only confirms what’s already known by our faithful readers: TSS is major, but now more people are catching on. So to commemorate we’ll be revisiting the top 50 things of the past week. And to prove we can’t do it without y’all we’ve included comments as well. Starting with 50, we’ll work our way up to number one.

50. Manny Being Manny…
49. David D.
48. BK Cyph – “Ode To Panamanian Cricket”
47. The Cool Kids & Don Cannon – Gone Fishing Mixtape
46. Baby Paw
45. Diamond Supply Co. Un-Polo & Diamonds Are Forever
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“First rise & give honor to God from whom all blessings flow.”

Nah, let me stop playing before lighting strikes my ass.

I’m going to share three quick things. Read the rest of this entry »

Alternate Cover of Vibe’s March 2009 issue. Thanks To EH.

Vibe is officially under observation as rumors have surfaced that they may not have enough money to print the upcoming issue.

Executives from the Wicks Group (Private Equity Owners) came to the office on Friday and met with CEO Steve Aaron and Publisher Edgar Hernandez. Things around the office are very tense.

The tipster says that more meetings are scheduled for this afternoon. And they say that the only ads Vibe has booked for the March issue are “Army, Carson Soft Sheen & Jamster”—not even a fifth of the usual number of ads.

While this may be a rumor, there is often a sliver of truth in each fruit off the grapevine and since this one deals with ad space it probably does ring a more true. Ad sales are an essential part of the lifeblood that keeps a magazine’s ink pumping. To not have 4/5 of your ads filled would be detrimental and would have any magazine scrambling. They may be able to fill enough ad space for this issue or call in some favors. But if Read the rest of this entry »

In spite of myself, I think I’m anticipating Notorious. By expecting greatness a decent movie, I know there’s potential for failure. But with the trailers & shit I’ve seen, it looks like the movie will be at least respectable to the memory of who Christopher George Latore Wallace was to music. And the movie has made me start to think back to when Big first hit the scene. Read the rest of this entry »