Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Game Over for Lil Flip and LA Reid, DFA strikes again and the story behind the Black Iraqi's
Black Iraqi Sabeeh Youssef with his five-year old daughter Dua'a Sabeeh Youssef. (courtesy Washington Post)
Not that either of them are the first music video to use the backwards storyline gimmick, but is the new Beyonce video ripping off Coldplay's "The Scientist"?
It's a wrap for LA Reid at Arista. (HITS Daily Double)
This article (From Rap News Direct via Aeki Tuesday) says Rawkus will be done by end of this month, but my peoples say the doors already closed for good last Friday.
The details behind Tony Yayo's return home. Plus my new favorite rapper The Game is rumored to be joining the G-Unit? Shady/Aftermath are really trying to put this rap game in a permanent chokehold. (HipHopGame.com)
Related: look for 50 and G-Unit on Saturday Night Live this weekend.
Recent audio heat:
Lil Flip "Game Over": a brand new southern crunk banger flipping some old school Pacman sound effects.
Jadakiss "Kiss of Death": a gully club anthem in the making, this year's "Made You Look" (or, at least, "2 Guns Up")?
Erick Sermon "Relentless" (via HipHopGame.com)
Junior Senior "Shake Your Coconuts (DFA Remix)": once again I'm swinging on DFA's (coco-)nuts but these guys keep delivering. Bit of a Happy Mondays vibe on this one to my ears. (via: TurntableLab.com)
Flex just dropped a new Redman joint in which he disses his own label (Def Jam) as having lost their soul.
Always good to see other blogs covering politics and hip hop in one go even if this one is a little heavy on the Slim Shady coverage: Gavin's Blog.
Art house/indie film lovers: own films on DVD before they open in theaters with Film Movement, the first DVD Club for truly first-run films.
Comical Ali: TV Pundit? How did this guy escape arrest? (Guardian UK)
I don't know these cats from Adam, but I like their design style: Swash Creative.
Salim Muwakkil assesses the impact of Al Sharpton's presidential candidacy. (In These Times)
Wanna bet this one gets cleared up before they even come close to finding the White House source of the CIA covert spy-leak?: Treasury Seeks Probe Into Papers Taken by O'Neill (Reuters UK)
I didn't even know we were over there: The Black Iraqi's (Washington Post via American Black. Y'all need to really peep this site, it's a must-read.)
Find out which presidential candidate you should vote for based on your social and political beliefs by taking the Political Compass Test. (via 1115.org)
And finally, this story is developing so fast there may have already been an update from this, but still worth noting: Powell withdraws al-Qa'ida claim as hunt for Saddam's WMD flags (Independent)
