Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Gangsta bears | The Streets is Back | Bobbito interviewed | Eminem: instrument of torture? | Petey Pablo's still writing
While I loved Original Pirate Material, I'm not so sure about his new single "Fit But You Know It" but The Streets is back. (XFM.co.uk | Newsweek | New York Times | Village Voice)
Sacrilege and my worst nightmare all rolled into one? Black Eyed Peas To Make Their Own 'Walk This Way' — With The Darkness. (VH1 News)
More Bobbito: interviewed by Benji B on Radio 1 Xtra in the UK talking about his Earthtones compilation album, his Monday night party at Apt. (which I checked out again last night) and his legendary hip hop radio show with Stretch Armstrong.
Eminem: instrument of torture? (allhiphop.com)
F-ck a Vermont Teddy Bear, it'a all about gangsta bears. If you thought Ghettopoly was racist, check out the really embarssing ebonics on the home page of this website ("Gangsta Bear be the perfect gift fo' all yo' homies and scrubs. Wit a 8" tall Gangsta Bear you can tell yo' honey she's the bomb or yo' baby mamma dat' she a nasty lyin' ho...."). I'm >95% sure that that copy was not written by a black person.
More coonery? Have you seen the current Boost Mobile TV spot running on BET with Fabolous and a bunch of old women talking like chickenheads, WTF?
Disco-punk heads, new !!!. To my ears not quite as good as "Me & Giuliani..." based on the mp3 snippet here though. (via XFM.co.uk)
But based on what I heard on his website, the Petey Pablo album Still Writing in my Diary: 2nd Entry is gonna be a banger (assuming you're not the type who's been most excited recently by the Madvillain album or the prospect of the new Roots album dropping soon). Thanks to my man DJ Omar for putting me up on game about checking out the next single "Vibrate." I wonder if they're gonna hire the "Freek-a-Leek" girl again to be in the video? With that album title though, doing some kind of blog-based promo campaign seems like a natural to me.
Attn: NYC bloggers aspiring to become full-on music journalists, peep this.
Also, in BK tomorrow, another John Kerry music fundraiser at Southpaw: Concerts for Kerry. Probably more appealing to most cats who read this site though is the June 1 fundraiser show with Jean Grae, Mr. Len and DJ Blockhead on the bill.
2 Funky: the UK's number one urban music store?
And finally, grafiti fans in NYC, check out the Autograf exhibition of works by NYC Grafiti writers presented by the PowerHouse Gallery. (via Max N.)
