Tuesday, October 12, 2004
New Hot Ish List | More mp3's | How to conquer the world using the corporate street hop blueprint
Photos courtesy: The New York Times
A new Hot List is finally up in the sidebar at left. Click to hear mp3 samples etc. Let me know what's really good.
The Source Awards was this past weekend. I don't have much to say on it but I agree with DJ Envy from Hot 97 who yesterday asked how do the Ying Yang Twinz beat out Outkast for best hip hop group (unless they won last year)? (Ballerstatus.net)
The new Prince of the South Slim Thug - 3 kings feat. T.I. & Bun B (of UGK and "Big Pimpin'" fame)
Dr. Dre - Fast Money (via hiphophavoc.com)
Tweet & Missy - Turn Out the Lights (via hiphophavoc.com)
T.I. feat. Pharrell - What's Your Name? (via hiphophavoc.com)
50 continues to follow the Marshall Mathers blueprint for world domination via corporate hip hop (and even does him one better by buying into Vitamin Water). (Billboard | allhiphop.com | Related: the MSNBC take on the movie story.)
Speaking of movies, is the rock n roll documentary DIG! as good as the critical buzz alleges?
It's out tomorrow but you can hear Mos Def's album here courtesy VH1.
Even though it's supposedly not good according to the advance fan buzz (scroll down to the comments).
And while surfing over to okayplayer to see for myself, I saw this photo which has generated a little buzz on the "internets" over the past few days. Apparently though this story is a year old and this is the real deal supposedly. (Asia One)
For the fellas: more jpegs from Smooth Girl magazine of Ki-Toy (Johnson) & Esther (Baxter) courtesy of The Justus Leage spotted via Funkdigi.
De La tour news. (Ballerstatus.net)
I quoted Flex a while back as saying the rim game was a wrap. This Times story about the big Auto manufacturers trying to create their own "after-market" overzied rims (but nothing over 20's) pretty much confirms it I would say.
The history of Bay Area slang - I always thought a lot of this slang actually came from ATL. I'm pretty sure "off the hook" came from down there first, not the Bay Area. (East Bay Express via Catchdubs)
Will Steve Jobs sue Dame Dash 'cos the Rocbox is looking very ipod-ish? (MTV News)
And I really don't understand the Broadway musical theater world. Now cheesy 80's teen sci-fi movie The Last Starfigher is a musical, WTF?
