Monday, August 16, 2004
The Times hoods it out | Miller falls way short | AF1's West Indies are back | The "Dream Team" wakes up to reality
Photo courtesy: The New York Times
You know how it go, Fox and GavThe New York Times hoods it out with coverage of the "long white t-shirt" phenomenon and ghetto fast food mainstay Kennedy Fried which they rate as better than KFC!
In a navy blue Rov, stuntin' in Halo
On the I-95, keepin it live
In the hood, in the 5, front of Kennedy Fried (Whooooo)....
-- Foxy Brown "Stylin'" (mp3 courtesy Sandbox)
Spotted in Fulton Mall this weekend: Nike's Air Force 1 West Indies edition are back in stores. I had to cop a pair although they were the red colorway, not the yellow ones shown in the pictures in the link.
So Shyne is the new 50 in terms of street buzz right now and has a brand new record label called Gangland Records but a Japanese-American scenester/model/heiress is his first signing? Either he has nothing to do with this and Def Jam signed her and engineered this affiliation as a way to attach a little street cred to her or Shyne has no f-cking clue what the hell he's doing. How does he start a record label since he's been in jail for the past 4 years, anyway? BTW, his album is aight though. The remake of "Verbal Intercourse" with Fox Brown is kind of hot and that "Jimmy Choo" single with Ashanti smells like a hit too. (The New York Post | mp3 links courtesy: J&R Music World | Archive readers: these two links may be dead by time you read this)
In Olympic news, USA basketball is humiliated by Puerto Rico. Or, with the increase of international players in the NBA, should fans of the American team resign themselves to the new reality that the era of US dominance in international competition is over? (The Boston Herald | Related: Sports Illustrated has already lined up the excuses.)
F-ck Miller Brewing and Rolling Stone: Joe Walsh and Def Leppard but no black artists in their "50th anniversary of rock 'n' roll" commemorative beer can series? (The New York Times)
Despite the rain, I'm hoping to be in Central Park tonight watching my future wife perform. I'm sure tonight couldn't be more different from Nas's show in the Park yesterday which was (surprisingly to me) supposedly crazy. Obviously this rain is the byproduct of Hurricane Charley so I hope any Florida readers I may have out there survived the storm OK.
