My opinions are always right

The notorious BIG MOVIE is coming, Fox pictures wants to know what you think. This movie could actually maybe beat the odds and turn out good, the chick they have acting as Faith Evans looks exactly the same.

Click here for details: Vote for the notorious movie promotion poster

Travis Barker has been released from hospital, I didn’t realize him and DJ Am were THE ONLY survivors!

Sean Kingston tried to fed-ex 500,000 worth of Jewlery and apparently it all got jacked. Really though who would put that much cash money in a box and expect it to be delivered safely? And secondly how does Sean even have $500,000? Dumbass

New albums to be excited about for the end of 2008? Detox, Thr33 Rings, Kayne, 50 cent,and lastly Blueprint 3.Jockin\’ Jayz~!

He’s also making Swagger like us part 2 featuring Young Jeezy and Andre “3000″.

When Funkmaster Flex spoke about R Kelly I agreed with him fully, but this, this is blatantly false.

Funkmaster Flex claims in this video that the most overated rapper he has ever experienced in his career is Method man. I find it ironic that during the video he speaks about 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and Soulja Boy, this dude has got to be joking calling out Meth like that.

Source: http://thisisscolla.com/cms/content/view/306/3/

“I’ve been dying to speak about a rapper that’s been overrated…

AllHipHop.com: Who’s that?

Flex: Method Man is the most overrated rapper I’ve experienced in my career.”

Fuck ya!

New Pumas, T-Pain, Barker and Am out soon!

Check out these new “Sketch” styled Puma’s you might have seen floating around.

Secondly, I read on an interview that after Thr33 Rings comes out T-Pain wants to make a rock/country album with no vocoder. He’s pretty good creatively but I can’t see him without the vocoder unless he’s going to use some other form of studio magic on his live vocals.

Well we all know about the plane crash a week ago that killed four people and burnt Dj AM and Travis. Dj AM was reported to have burns to the face and has just been released from hospital whilst Travis Barker has another week or two until he is alowed out. I wonder if anyone had to get skin grafts, that shit is painful, also did the fire mess up any of Barkers tattoos? Source: DJ AM RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

Some cool djing shit I picked up:

Source: nahright.com

Currently, I’m listening to The Games album L.A.X, it’s ok but I think Doctor’s Advocate had more bangers although the name dropping was even more obnoxious, especially that track with Busta where he is crying over Dre. That shit sounds semi homosexual. I aint hating though, I don’t mind The Game.

Feelin lazy

Feeling a bit lazy today, I wanna do another lyrical appreciation write up soon but for now just some interesting stuff… all the news at the moment is about 50 cent and Kayne and I really need a break from them.

The Wu Tang shoe

Wanna get your hands on a pair of these seemingly average Wu Tang kicks? Well think again, they are next to impossible to find and apparently there is a store in NY selling them for 7,500 US. That is alot of cash, you could probably buy one of their album plaques for the same price.

Dr Dre: DETOX

Apparently Detox is going to drop around December with a first single release possibly next month, as the album being delayed for like four years I find this kinda hard to believe. I think until I hear an official release date I won’t say a thing. Also do you think Dr Dre can stay relevant in modern hip hop?  Everyone knows the rap game is constantly changing and if pop rappers like Nelly can’t stay on track do you think Dre can still go platinum and be taken seriously after a seven year hiatus since his last Chronic album? I don’t know personally. He’s also using live instrumentation on the album, same as Rza’s production style.

DETOX IS COMIN? LINK

Anyway here is some classic 1992 Dre:

Michael Jordan recently spoke honestly about the comparisons between him and Kobe,  Jordan said that in his prime that there would be absolutely no competition. You know what? I agree 100%, Jordan is the greatest alive no doubt, he is a legend and even as a product the Jordan brand is still going strong. I remember when I saw Space Jam as a kid, it was my favourite movie ever and MJ was my hero.  One of the greatest, if not the greatest sports star of all time.

Watch the video, its from this year and you can see even at the age of 45 he can consistently shoot and even dunk. Cool to see him teaching some kids as well.

Link!!!!!

And that’s it for now.

hmmm..

In case you didn’t know already, Kayne has recently changed his album date to November, I wonder how 50 cent is going to sell records now that he can’t try compete with Kayne and gain publicity for a shitty album again?

He only sells through Beef after all.

Oasis and both those Gallagher brothers are notorious for their douche behavior. Here is their diss song for Jay-Z because they are mad he played at Glastonbury and the crowd loved it.  Source: Allhiphop.com

I hope he comes back and laughs at this.

VH1 Recent did a top 100 greatest rap songs ever list and its no suprise that they have the worst opinions ever:

01 Public Enemy / “Fight The Power”
02 Sugarhill Gang / “Rapper’s Delight”
03 Dr. Dre / “Nuthin But A ‘G’ Thang”
04 Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ “Walk This Way”  <No
05 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / “The Message”
06 N.W.A. / “Straight Outta Compton”
07 Notorious B.I.G. / “Juicy”  <Gimme the loot shoulda been here in my opinion
08 Snoop Doggy Dogg / “Gin and Juice”
09 Salt-N-Pepa / “Push It “  <No no no way
10 Kurtis Blow / “The Breaks”
11 Jay-Z / “Hard Knock Life”
12 L.L. Cool J / “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” < LL is in this list but Outkast isn’t?
13 Wu-Tang Clan / “C.R.E.A.M.”
14 Tupac / “I Get Around “
15 Eminem / “Stan “
16 Missy Elliott / “Get Ur Freak On”  <Definitely not her best song and def not deserving top 30 even.
17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / “Baby Got Back”
18 50 Cent / “In Da Club”  <WHAT THE FUCK
19 Ice T / “Colors”
20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / “Gold Digger” Basicially worst list ever.

Lil Wayne was placed above Slick Rick as well, hasn’t anyone there heard Art of Storytellin or Liquid Swords?

On a lighter note:

Yes, that is Ludacris in high school, I have like a million of these.

What about Pharrell with the fade:

Hahahah!

Shoes and assorted news.

Eye candy from Sneakerfreaker:

News:

Firstly, Big Boi from Outkast has signed as a solo artist to T.I’s Grand Hustle label, looks like T.I is getting alot of business done before going away to jail for a year. Props to him, I wonder if his record is going to sell anywhere near as many units as Lil Weezy’s?

Source: Big Boi joins Grand Hustle

Kayne with some help from his friend Rhymefest is developing his very own puppet styled T.V show with the Creators of “Crank Yankers”, it’s going to be named “Alligator Boots”.

Source: Kayne developing comedy show.

Mariah Carey has a new movie called “Push” coming out, will it flop? Probably. Her role is as a social worker, I find with her Diva attitude this may be a little hard to believe.

Source: Mariah staring in new movie.

Excited for the new Notorious BIG movie? I REALLY AM and it actually looks like it pretty good.

Check out the latest teaser: (Source: Whoohah.com)

DMX. No he is not in jail again, this time he has missed his court date because he has been hospitalized. Dude needs to calm down, lay off the drugs and focus on his new album/staying out of jail in my opinion.

Apparently because of all of the stress on his body they are fearing he could have a stroke.

DMX in hospital

The record label is dead.

Thanks to the internet the record label now doesn’t control all music, you can access basically anything and become a part of the media without some old white rich man in a suit telling you what to buy and were from. This also means we as everyday consumers have much more say in what becomes popular.

According to sohh.com Nelly’s new album will join the many other albums by established artists which are flopping at the moment. Maybe if he attempted to make a good album instead of talking about shoes again he wouldn’t have to suffer the embarrassment of getting bodied by Fergie on his own single?

HINT: Make another Country Grammar and stop selling out

Here are the details if you care.

I predict he will pull a 50 cent and say its because of issues with his record label (his album album sucked it was boring), same as Usher (probably legitimate), same as LL Cool J (no one cares anymore), same as Twista (probably legitmate), same as Janet (no one cares anymore), same as Wu tang (too much fighting between members). Oh I forgot same as Missy Elliot who has had a year of getting her album pushed back (probably legitmate) and finally same as Busta Rhymes who has been dropping hot shit constantly and is one of the few who legitimately has label issues.

Busta has recently left Aftermath and his album is due to be ACTUALLY released in december, here is the official single called “Arab Money”:

Janet has also officially left Def Jam: yawn

In unrelated news here is the new akon track also: I haven\’t bothered to check it out just yet.

I know I sound like a hater through this whole entry but I’m really just being completely honest.

Shoes…

Just quickly though I’d post some Eye Candy for everyone, here are the new K-Swiss shoes about to be released. I dunno if I like them personally,they are very kayne. I’d much much much rather prefer these:

I’M BACK!

Well I was away last weekend so I have some news to catch up on don’t I? However, its not good news…

Firstly last Friday Dj AM and Travis Barker were critically injured on a plane crash and although they are alive and ok they have suffered some burns, travis from the waist down and DJ AM to the face. The plane crew suffered four casualties also.

Look at the condition the plane was in after it drifted off the run way:

Just goes to show it can happen to anyone.

“In what should have been a happy time in Travis Barker’s assisant’s life, turned out to be a devastating tragedy.  Chris Baker was about to become a father once again and wanted to rush home to witness his baby’s birth, but sadly, he will never meet his new child, nor will his child meet him.

Chris was one of the four people killed in the plane crash late Friday night, that also saw rocker Travis Barker and DJ AM severly burned.

Baker told everyone that his pregnant wife was going into labor, and he wanted to be by her side.  Travis, who apparently doesn’t normally fly on private jets, decided to make an exception, so his assistant could make it in time to witness his child’s birth”  (Source- babble.com)

Travis has been doing alot of hiphop collabs at the moment including this video I posted a few weeks ago:

Funk Flex talks on R-Kelly

Dj Funkmaster Flex is causing a bit of a ruckus at the moment, mainly because he is speaking the absolute truth. R- Kelly recently made an appearance on television after his child pornography trial and stated “what do you mean by teenagers?” with a smirk on his face. Funk Flex is talking on the real and isn’t having a bar of it.

I respect him for that.

Also I’m taking a hiatus this weekend so I’ll get back to this on sunday.

WALL OF TEXT!!!!

Lots of reading today… but it’s some good shit so read up

Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest has also dropped his latest single “Getting Down” a lil while ago:

Royce has just dropped The Bar Exam 2 mixtape for FREE with Dj Green Lantern, I’m sure you have all heard the hype but if not, Royce comes hard on possibly every album he has ever made. He’s far far better off without Eminem in my opinion. Download here: Bar Exam 2 download from Street hop magazine

As I said in an earlier post I’m reading The Wu Tang manual at the moment, here’s one of my favorite portions where The Rza talks about the spirituality of music:

“Music is naturally all around us, whether someones blasting it through speakers, singing it, playing it on a violin – or not. It’s always there in the ether. But to me, hip-hop was always different. From the first time I heard it, I felt it was something that had always been inside of me. I remember I was seven years old. And the sounds, the vibe I caught- it felt like it was in me already.

It was the summer of ‘76 and we were in Staten Island. My grandmother lived in 240 and I was visiting her when GZA came over from 55. I remember that year, ‘76 as being the best year of my life. That night GZA took me to a block party – had me out till eleven. I shouldn’t have been out that late and I got a whupping. But that night changed my life. It was DJ Jones.

I don’t know what else to say. That was it. I saw something that night. I felt some part of me expressed in the air, in the people and in the world around me. The way it hit me- it was like the opening of something inside me. Something came from outside and opened up something inside.

I started MCing at eight and half years old, I started DJing at eleven. I started producing at sixteen. That’s already eight years of graffitti, breakdancing, producing. I lived hip-hop. I rode the trains up and down this city all by myself at seven and eight years old. From Brownsville, Brooklyn, we’d ride to Forty-Second street, another slum and just go wilding. Along that path, we’d come across breakdancers, rappers, graffitti artists, fighters, drug users, abusers, squealers, wheelers, dealers, gamblers, dice games, dope fiends, all that.

I went in the South Bronx Soundview Projects with my cousin GZA, listening to people rap. I went all over Staten Island, hanging with the best DJ’s and rappers at block parties and getting my ass whipped by my mother when I came in. I hung with breakdancers, I wrote graffitti, breakdanced, popped, DJed. All facets of hip-hop that existed, I engulfed myself in. I really lived it..