Friday, October 17, 2003
Hot whips and hip hop tops rock n roll on the charts
Music:
Hallelujah, itunes is finally available for PC users. Time to cop an ipod, if you don't already have one yet (like me) and make an honest music consumer of yourself again.
Congrats to Ludacris on debuting at #1 with his new album Chicken & Beer over the new greatest hits colelction from Elvis Presley (details here.)
I think the debut album by the much-hyped DFA-produced punk-funksters The Rapture is finally out. Check out some of it here.
It's not only commerical rappers like Nas, Jay Z, 50 Cent and Ja Rule who like to beef. Check out 7L & Esoteric dissing underground and critical darling El-pee of Company Flow and Def Jux fame here.
Electronica-punkers The Prodigy, a group who were hot like seven hundred years ago or something, are finally putting out a new album according to Billboard's website. Does anyone still even care? Same for the Chemical Bros. who were hot around the same time. They just dropped a Greatest Hits album which is normally the first sign of a career in decline (although I did like a new track on the album called "Get Yourself High" but I only heard it once so don't quote me on that).
Here's a review of the "Throwback CD of the Week", Kurupt's Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha:
If you're sick of the conservative slant on TV and the radio and their incessant attacks against the mythical "liberal media bias", please support the new company AnShell Media if you can because they seem to be fighting the good fight for more balanced coverage of news events and politics.
Is HBO's K Street gonna be cancelled or is that just speculation on the part of the writer of this article in the NationalJournal.com?
Whips:
How hot is this, the new 2004 BMW 6 Series or the Porsche Cayenne (the current object of my consumer lust)?
Sports:
Congrats to Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames on becoming the first black captain in the NHL according to the EURweb website.
And finally....
Go Yankees.
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Hallelujah, itunes is finally available for PC users. Time to cop an ipod, if you don't already have one yet (like me) and make an honest music consumer of yourself again.
Congrats to Ludacris on debuting at #1 with his new album Chicken & Beer over the new greatest hits colelction from Elvis Presley (details here.)
I think the debut album by the much-hyped DFA-produced punk-funksters The Rapture is finally out. Check out some of it here.
It's not only commerical rappers like Nas, Jay Z, 50 Cent and Ja Rule who like to beef. Check out 7L & Esoteric dissing underground and critical darling El-pee of Company Flow and Def Jux fame here.
Electronica-punkers The Prodigy, a group who were hot like seven hundred years ago or something, are finally putting out a new album according to Billboard's website. Does anyone still even care? Same for the Chemical Bros. who were hot around the same time. They just dropped a Greatest Hits album which is normally the first sign of a career in decline (although I did like a new track on the album called "Get Yourself High" but I only heard it once so don't quote me on that).
Here's a review of the "Throwback CD of the Week", Kurupt's Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha:
This album sat on my shelf for 3 years before I finally cracked the wrapping to check it out and decide whether to keep it or sell it but guess what? This CD is a slept-on classic. If you like The Chronic, Doggystyle, Straight Outta Compton, Chronic 2001 or Amerikkka's Most Wanted etc. you need to cop this immediately. Kurupt is spitting fire blending backpack-ready, literate ryhme flows with straight gangsta talk just like back in the hey day of the Death Row era when he, Snoop, Daz and The Lady of Rage were coming up killing freestyles on tracks like Dre's "Puffin' Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" and Rage's "Afro Puffs (Extended mix)."TV:
The beats are classic West Coast from club banging and car riding G-Funk to some old epic-sounding NWA-era sh!t. Dre handles some of the production as well as being on "H-'s a Housewife" (which strangely reappears on his 2001 album 3 years later, WTF?). On top of that you get Snoop, Nate Dogg, Daz and KRS-One on the mic, other beats by Organized Noize, Daz and Soopa Fly and the bonus beef cut "Callin Out Names" where Kurupt went at DMX and Ja Rule way before the 50 era jumped off and Ja Rule was gettin' ruled out by everybody. Seriously, do not sleep, you need this album in your life.
If you're sick of the conservative slant on TV and the radio and their incessant attacks against the mythical "liberal media bias", please support the new company AnShell Media if you can because they seem to be fighting the good fight for more balanced coverage of news events and politics.
Is HBO's K Street gonna be cancelled or is that just speculation on the part of the writer of this article in the NationalJournal.com?
Whips:
How hot is this, the new 2004 BMW 6 Series or the Porsche Cayenne (the current object of my consumer lust)?
Sports:
Congrats to Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames on becoming the first black captain in the NHL according to the EURweb website.
And finally....
Go Yankees.
