Monday, August 01, 2005
"College girls in Jamaica listen to Sarah McLachlan?!"
Staceyann Chin: support this woman's art.
More hot new music via hiphopgame.com:
- Square-Off, T-Rex, Bathgate & Shells - "Reservoir Dogs Pt. 2"
- Twista feat. David Banner "Diamonds in My Watchpiece" - a sly bite of T.I.'s "Rubberband Man"?
Ruff Ryders Vol. 4 - in stores now. Does anyone still care or is the magic gone? Vol. 1 was one the best mainstream, hip hop compilations ever IMHO. My sister used to even do her treadmill workouts to "Down Bottom" - that says it all (I think).
How big is Young Jeezy's first week gonna be though? I have the album on wax (triple vinyl!) but haven't made it past disc 1 yet. How is it, Down South Heads?
What's President Carter (no, not that one, this one) been up to recently? Signing the the possible savior of NYC hip hop, Tru Life (mentioned before on this site here) and teen R&B singer Karina Pasian. (BTW: I copped a nice pair of the Gucci colorway S. Dot III's on sale this weekend. I'm happy to have given this gazillionaire hip hopreneuer some of my money too.)
From The In Crowd:
- Staceyann Chin's "Border/Clash: A Litany of Desires" - being unjustly shut down prematurely next Sunday. Go support it before it closes.
- Fly new t-shirts from Ubiquity Records' clothing division: with free mini CD's of good music (Sa-Ra, Breakestra, Platinum Pied Pipers etc.) to boot. (related: more dope t-shirt goodness from Exact Science and Upper Playground)
- The "Against the Grain" Art Exhibit: punk rock meets surf culture. NYC heads missed it this past weekend - it was here for one day on Staurday (WTF?!). West coast cats, heads up it's coming your way.
Secuestro Express - "City of God meets Goodfellas." C'mon, that's a lot of hype to live up to. If I hear legit good stuff about this film elsewhere though, I might have to go peep it because so far this summer, the (few) movies I've seen have pretty much all sucked balls.
"That's black love, baby"
Crown Dozen
Will so-called cultural conservatives be getting their panties in a bunch over the new Showtime series, Weeds?
Finally, Bedazzled laces y'all with 28 Classic Blaxploitation radio ads - incredible and they have more coming they claim. Whoa.
