Blogger is back! Let me post something before it drops out again.
Check out your boy El Q The GR8's Yahoo LaunchCast radio stream. I haven't checked it myself in a minute, but I recently re-discovered it. Everything from hip-hop to classic rock is in here, so only the open minded need listen. Feel free to rate songs and artists and such...but just now that I am watching you! (Please believe it!) I suggest you play this at high decibels, preferably in a residential (or work) area!
http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/station.asp?u=1246534789
The following artists and songs were just played on your LAUNCHcast station.
The Diplomats -Dipset Anthem (Radio) - Featuring Cam'ron & Juelz Santana
Gang Starr-Make 'Em Pay
Chris Rock- I Loved The Show
Tupac Shakur -Thug 4 Life
Burning Spear - Slavery Days
The Doors - Wishful Sinful
David Banner -Crank It Up
Porno For Pyros - Bad Shit
Dr. Octagon - Bear Witness (Extended Version)
Aaliyah - Come Over (LP Version)
I posted this on BlogCritics while waiting for the Blogger.com crew to stop playing Grand Theft Auto long enough to notice they were becoming the subject of millions on internet jokes. (For the record, I don't think Blogger sucks..even with the bugs)
As blogs continue to evolve, some focus their energy on highlighting MP3s. In their April 2005 issue, Blender magazine has a bit in their "Digital Music Guide" section called "Audioblogs". They ran down some of the blogs out right now who brave the waters and give up unauthorized MP3s. I have listed some of them again here, as well as a few that didn't get mentioned. I will try to make this a regular post here at BC if people seem to dig it.
Don't walk------->>>>>run to Tofu Hut and download Memphis Minne's "Dirty Mother For You" and Ruth Brown's "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean". (Shout out to my baby momma's momma.)
No Frontin' Just Music has Slim Thug, Mike Jones, and Paul Wall - "Still Tippin' (Diplo Remix)", Biggie Smalls-"Real Niggaz" unreleased version and Nas’ "Doorags among others.
Holla at a scholar!
Coolfer has Robbers On High Street's "Spanish Teeth" and some other decent MP3 links.
So Many Shrimp got so many mp3's they got iodine poisoned. SXSW stuff, Project Pat, complete mixtapes, "One Thing" video, and Ruff Sqwad's "Anna" just to name a few.
Soul Sides has some OG material. Check out Kashmere Stage Band's version of "Scorpio" (snippet)
Props to Ghetto Postage for the Lethal B "FWD Riddim" ft Kardinal link up!
Check out Rap Nerd for tons of mp3s. Beastie Boys -"The Sound of Science", Organized Konfusion's "Stress", a rappers who jacked the Beatles section, Nas & Pitbull
"Imagaine", De La Soul's -Simply Having, Pumpkinhead, Block McLeod, Mr. Metaphor: Con Artists , Ill Bill, Jise One, Goretex, Q-Unique on "14 Years of Rap" and a Mos Def section. This guy deserves a medal!
That should keep you busy at work while your boss is away.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
MP3 Blog Watch
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Win Lil Jon & THE ESB AOL MUSIC LIVE Tickets!
You feeling lucky punk? If you’re in New York and feeling lucky, go to the following link NOW!!! You might win tickets to the AOL MUSIC LIVE event featuring Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz at Webster Hall on April 12th! Pitbull and the Yin Yang Twinz is the special guest as well. No tickets are being sold at all for this event, it is strictly invite, so act fast! (I got mine, right Browen-hint-hint)
http://www.liljononline.com/aolmusiclive/
The show will air live on AOLmusic.com as well, so if you lose, you can watch it online. Make sure you check Lil Jon & The ESB new track “Get Crunk” and e-card!
www.liljononline.com
Get Crunk” e-card
http://www.liljononline.com/getcrunk/ecard/
“Get Crunk” (NEW radio edit) -
WM hi
http://www.liljononline.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00972
“Get Crunk” (NEW radio edit) -
WM lo -
http://www.liljononline.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00971
“Get Crunk” (NEW radio edit) -
QT hi -
http://www.liljononline.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00973
“Get Crunk” (NEW radio edit)
QT lo
http://www.liljononline.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00974
~Ying Yang Twinz are blowing up the charts as well, with “Wait (The Whisper Song)”. According to TVT, “Wait” is at 40,000 spins TD and a weekly audience of 67 million.
The new album “U.S.A. (United States of Atlanta) is set to hit the streets this summer. “My Brother and Me” is in store now. Check the goodies below for more Ying Yang than you can handle!
www.yingyangmusic.com
“Wait” - video (Director’s Cut)
WM hi
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00978
“Wait” - video (Director’s Cut)
WM lo
http://www.yingyangmusic/promotions/link.jsp?link=00977
“Wait” - video (Director’s Cut)
QT hi
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00975
“Wait” -video (Director’s Cut)
QT lo
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00977
“Wait” ecard available now:
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/wait/ecard/
“Wait” Audio (explicit) Windows High
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00941
“Wait” Audio (explicit)
Quicktime High
http://www yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00939
"Halftime (Stand Up & Get Crunk) feat. Homebwoi" Audio -
Windows High
http://www.yingyangmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00781
~Pitbull is making noise too! His album M.I.A.M.I. is gold and he has a new single guaranteed to help push it to platinum status soon. Check out the video to “Toma” and watch the e-card for an interview with Lil Jon, Pitbull and hip-hop director Jesse Terrero.
www.pitbullmusic.com
“Toma” e-card
feat interviews with Lil Jon, director Jesse Terrero and Pitbull + “Toma” video and more!
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/toma/ecard/
“Toma” Video (Explicit)
Windows Hi
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00961
“Toma” Video (Explicit)
Windows Lo
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00962
“Toma” Video (Explicit)
Quicktime Hi
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00964
“Toma” Video (Explicit)
Quicktime Lo
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00963
“Toma” Audio Download
http://www.pitbullmusic.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00937
E-card http://www.pitbullmusic.com/culo/ecard/
PITBULL PLAYER http://www.pitbullmusic.com/miami/player/choose.jsp
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, as TVT has product from Jacki-O, Teedra Moses, Ambulance LTD, Sevendust and more are listed below are more links from TVT. Enjoy
Jacki-O
Poe Little Rich Girl (Explicit and Clean versions) – in stores now
www.jacki-o-music.com
E-card, feat “Break You Off”
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/breakyouoff/ecard/
“Break You Off”-Audio download
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00936
“Break You Off” Audio streams also available upon request
Jacki-O "Fine" Video (Explicit)
Windows:
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00779
"Fine" Video (Explicit) -
Quicktime
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00780
"Fine" Audio (Explicit)
Windows
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00703
Dirty E-card (Explicit Version of Video)
http://www.jacki-o-music.com/fine/ecard/dirty/
Clean E-card (Clean Version of Video)
http://www.jacki-o-music.net/fine/ecard/clean/
Teedra Moses -- Complex Simplicity – in stores now
www.teedramoses.com
TEEDRA MOSES PLAYER
http://www.teedramoses.com/complexsimplicity/player/choose.jsp
The Blue Van – The Art of Rolling - in stores 4/5/05
www.thebluevan.com
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
“The young Danish masters of the rave-up with the tools to superheat abeat...
The Blue Van has the tunes. Retro fun – with forward purpose. Get inthe Van.”
ROLLING STONE
“The debut from these up-tempo rockers will make you want to want tosteal your glaucoma-riddled grandmother's therapy bong before terrorizinglocal mall security.”
FHM
“Great Danes! Jaunty rockers The Blue Van prove that Denmark is the newSweden.”
TIME OUT NEW YORK
“Revelation of Love” Ecard
http://www.thebluevan.com/revelationoflove/ecard/
“Revelation of Love” Video
Windows Lo
http://www.thebluevan.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00933
“Revelation of Love” Video – Quicktime Lo - http://www.thebluevan.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00930
“Revelation of Love” Video –
Windows Hi - http://www.thebluevan.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00931
“Revelation of Love” Video –
Quicktime Hi -
http://www.thebluevan.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=00928
“Revelation of Love” -
Audio download
http://www.thebluevan.com/promotions/link.jsp?link=0093
(I should have posted this in Hip Hop Hollywood)
Be Cool OST
feat Christina Milian with tracks by Alicia Keyes and the Black Eyes Peas, in stores NOW! http://www.tvtsoundtrax.com/
Be Cool Movie Trailer
Quicktime Lo
Four Eleven-Disco D bootlegs himself!!
photo by Tatiana Arocha- www.servicio-ejecutivo.com
~Canhead’s new friend Disco D has something for you! In an attempt to give the people what they want, and pursue the American dream at the same time, Disco D has authorized the release of his upcoming album “Return To Olive Street-Best Of The Old Ish Vol. 1”. The ill part about it is he is doing this on his own website, sans record label interference! Talk about taking matters in your own hands! I guess D figured that everyone will get their hustle on off of his work anyway, so he might as well get some paper too! I don’t blame him one bit. (“Royalties come once in a blue moon, my son gonna be 2 soon!”)
Many are both sides of the MP3 war and some like Chuck D, fight the power by releasing their music themselves. Disco D’s motives aren’t as politically motivated. When asked about his reasons, D kept it real and said “I’m broke! These major labels take so damn long to pay. I’ll never move out of the basement at this rate. Something has to be done NOW! This is a last step before I turn to more drastic measures.”
I hear you duke! I tried that production route and house records don’t sell as much as they used to! But I don’t have to tell you that, being the Ghetto Tech man and all. Anyway, go show some love and support and order that new album off his website. Log on to the Disco Depot section and order your copy. Disco D will put his John Hancock in the CD along with a personalized message, all for $9.99.
Excerpt from press release
Named after the street in Ypsilanti, MI where Disco D built his chops via near-legendary house party sets, Return to Olive St. - Best of the Old Ish Vol. 1 is the quintessential primer to what D's musical mind was working on before he shifted his production focus to a more mainstream look. The 16-song set includes the Detroit mix show classics "Where They At" (1998) and "You Need Another Drink" (1999); raw mix tape records "Work That" (2001) and "I'm A Ho 2K1" (2001); and vinyl-only instrumental cuts like "Incomprehensible Representation of Self "(1999), "Subterranean Mode" (1999) and "Back2 Basics "(2001). Also included are D's first forays into combining Ghettotech with rappers - teaming with Detroit's Paradime on “Detroit Zoo” (2000); Helluva and Lola Damone on “Keys To The Whip”(2003); and Helluva again on “Peon” (2003). Dug out of the vault are the previously unheard Bass On Pluto (2002), Electro-Orchid (2002), and Hahn Solo (2002).
That’s what’s up. Go check Disco D’s site and tell him Canhead sent ya!
Order "Return to Olive St. - Best of the Old Ish Vol. 1" here!
http://discod.com/2005/store/
Vast Aire & Mighty Mi Present: The Best Damn Rap Show
For the past few years EPMD's classic declaration "rap is outta control" has been echoing throughout the caverns of my cerebellum like a looped mantra. The continued commercial excess of the genre has undeniably diluted the true grit that sparked a bomb in the Bronx back in the late '70s.
Like Rock n' Roll before it, Rap has felt the crush of mainstream acceptance, artists emerging like weeds, choking the charts with gold digging pipe dreams. And while this might seem like a problem that is relegated to the chart topping designs of excess, it's been infiltrating the knapsack security of the underground, as well. The ongoing glut of self-produced "independent" MCs is about as smothering as the continued dominance of pop and circumstance.
Yet every once in a blue moon along comes an MC and/or a producer who bring it all back to Square One, digging through the crates to craft thumping, turgid beats that snap your neck like a twig and adorning them with verve and spit spackled lyrical insanity. Vast Aire, best known for his stint in Cannibal Ox, is one such MC. That he saw fit to team up with the High And Mighty's DJ Mighty Mi for what they are rightfully billing as The Best Damn Rap Show is a godsend to lovers of the genre the world over.
Calling out MCs by saying "I'm Fonzie, you're Erkle" and accusing them of "more faking the face than Joan Rivers," Vast delivers a mixture of vitriolically clever battle taunts ("Fighter Pilots") and insightful introspection ("The Workover") with a vocal dexterity that is both passionately aggressive and wittily deft. But every great MC needs to be backed by an equally clever DJ/producer. To this end, DJ Mighty Mi has laid down a plethora of grooves, beats, loops, and breaks that packs an extra wallop of aural sickness that Mighty Mi.
The album commences with a wonderfully swervy serving of tripped out, extremely warped Blues intonations on the title track. Featuring treated guitar, gurgling undergrooves, and falsetto tenor vocal crooning, it's the perfect combination of psychedelic enhanced hip-hop to lure the unsuspecting into the melee that will soon follow.
"What Goes Up" sets the mood for the bulk of the album as Mighty Mi lays down a drum heavy beat and Vast talks about fools who will "scatter like roaches when the lightbulb's lit" and reminds us that he's "legendary in the belly of rap." From there the track gets injected with tumbling electro gurgle that rumbles underneath Vast's vitriol. "Taboo" hits you with treated strings and piano pulses that provide the perfect sense of angst ridden musicality to complement Vast's rants. By the time the duo stride into "The Workover" we've been treated to the strongest opening of any rap album of recent memory. This is the linchpin track on the album, the one that lets Vast exhibit his storytelling abilities, which are just as tight as his battle bravado. The haunting vocal loop and vibraphone tickle make it one of the sweeter beats on the album, as well.
Vast and Mi get party oriented on "Buck 50 Express," handclaps and swelling guitar bits augmenting the flow. Lest one thinks that the entire album is all about raps, Mi delivers some bugged out ministrumentals in the form of "Friendly Fire," "Black Sunday," "Aire Maestro," and "Off The Board," which manage to mix up looped blurbs and blurts from Vast with found sound and intricate beat attitude that runs the gamut from '70s blaxploitation to late night lounge jazz.
While Vast Aire's turn in Cannibal Ox gave us one of the greatest mind trips of recent rap memory, here he and Mighty Mi have gone straight for the jugular, delivering rock solid beats, Vibram soled rhyme attitude, and an overwhelming sense of what real rap music is supposed to sound like. True, solid, and damn near mind-blowing.
by Spence D
Additional links:
Underground Hip Hop order page w/ samples
Boomkat
Hip-Hop Site: Album w/ free EC 2005 Sampler CD!
Hip Hop Hollywood
In a Theater near you!
Beauty Shop
Hitch
Are We There Yet? (this is the only new movie I’ve watched so far)
("I'm just a little anxious to get up
there and whoop Tom Hanks...
I mean ET's ass, that's all." )
Top 3 Movies starring Rappers playing in non hip-hop roles
Tie-Independence Day-Ali Two of the best examples why Will Smith should never get behind a microphone and rap. It’s ok! We like you in movies a lot more than on vinyl. Independence Day set it off for emcees looking for the killer crossover. Consider Smith the Jordan of the Hip-Hop Hollywood game. We don’t want to see him retire from his real game, acting, and we hate it when he decides to go play baseball, or make another record. Unless it’s for the kids or something…..he does those good too…
Barbershop 1&2. If Will is the Jordan of the Hip-Hop Hollywood game, Ice Cube is like Scotty Pippen with an attitude. To be honest, I like all of Cube’s movies, (Dangerous Ground and Ghost From Mars too) but Barbershop shows Cube perfecting his jump shot. All net.
Bringing Down The House-Alright, some of you will hate on this pick. I did at first. I really did not want to see Latifah in a movie next to Steve Martin. After I saw it, I thought Bringing Down the House was not only funny, but showed Latifah making that serious move into acting. I think it was a first for her, showing a comical side in movies. If so, it's odd as Kadijah Jones is no stranger to situation comedy. It’s not a bad look for her either, as she shown improvement in Beautyshop. And for the record, I haven’t watched “Chicago” or "Beautyshop" yet so I can’t include them in this list. I heard about the Razzie award thing too, but did you know that Latifah was originally set to play lead in “Monster’s Ball” opposite Robert Deniero? Did you know that Beauty Shop cleared $16,647,604 in one week?
("What you mean can Monie Love be in the sequel!?!)
Honorable Mention
~Heavy D-“The Cider House Rules” (small role for the Overweight Lover but he played it cool with Ms. Badu. It was a tie between this and his role opposite Bonz Malone in “Life”, but I think this one has an edge on it. Heavy D needs to make more movies!
~L.L Cool J –“Wildcats” LL Cool J got limited on screen time while Goldie Hawn took up about 90 minutes of film. Not done with football, J.T. Smith makes a movie with Al Pacino and gets into beef with Jamie Foxx at the same time with “Any Given Sunday”
~Snoop Dogg in “Starky & Hutch”-
~Tupac Shakur in “Gang Related”
~Ice Cube an Ice T in“Trespass”
Bad Looks-Movie that editing couldn’t fix
“Torque”
“The Cook-Out"
“Wild Wild West”
Interesting related story
Ja Rule says Sam Jackson is right about non acting rapper...he should know, he speaks from experience! (3 bad looks! The Cookout, Turn It Up & Half Past Dead)
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/23312004.htm
Hip-hop at the movies: rappers produce reel profits on the silver screen - The hip-hop economy: part 2 of a series - Industry Overview by Sakina P. Spruell
Ice Cube's verse from Public Enemy's
"Burn Hollywood Burn"
Ice Cube is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy is smooth word to muther
Let's check out a flick that exploits the color
Roamin' thru Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb gettin' played like a sucker
Don't fight the power ... the mother f**ker
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Where Are They Now Wednesdays-Fu-Schnickens!
“Where are my chicken wings man!! …..Yo….Where are my chicken wings!?!”
Fu-Schnickens
Yeah kid! If you don’t know who these cats are, you are not a real hip-hop head and you are not the truth! If you can only name 1 hot Fu-Schnicken song, you get your ghetto pass revoked, shredded and deaded! (La Schmoove, Ring The Alarm, Generals, Movie Scene)
Not to be put in my new “Where Are They Now Wednesday” category, Chip Fu is working on some new material, is listed as an artist on Garden Seeker Production Inc. and was recently heard on Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s “Shaheedullah & Stereotypes” CD on “Lord Can I Have This Mercy” with a new slowed down style. Check out his interview at Critical Beatdown and check the links below for some more Fu!
“Rockin’ beats…beats….beats!”
Allmusic
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ac6wtr2qkl1x
Link to “Don’t Take It Personal” CD
http://home.comcast.net/~blueeyedman/urbanZ/C_H/fuschnickens.html
Ring The Alarm video
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/launch/synd/wmcom/video/167519/*http://launch.yahoo.com/video/?167519&bw=56&vo=wmcm
"La Schmoove" lyrics
La Schmoove, yo we don't got nuttin to prove (4X)
[Poc Fu]
Yo, when I was small they used to tease me
because my hair was peasy, hard and greasy
But now I'm livin well like George and Wheezy
So easy (WHAT?) does it (YO!)
Is it, because I'm, rockin -- beats, beats, beats
Fu-Manchu'n cause I'm doin what just had to be done
Now we in there like swimwear, girls callin me hon
Give me hugs, little peck, mucho tongue, lots of sex
Nuff respects to my bros that live on five-six street RIGHT
I'm smashin monster mashin boom bashin in a fashion
which is wild now I smile when I whip-lash MC's with my style
Call me Cuckoo, I'm makin buku, bucks
I'm geared and fully prepared to tear all MC's that are, smuks
For bros who sleep and cavity creep and listen when I talk
as I soothe in the groove, cause I'm smooth like Mr. Rourke
Doobely-zoo Mr. Wu, no need to be rude, but F.U.
cause I ain't got nuttin to prove
La Schmoove, yo we don't got nuttin to prove (4X)
[Chip Fu]
'Leave it to Beaver'-arriva, derci
Heavens to mercy ba FU sayanora
adios muchachos dorme vous unbuckle my Fu-Schnick shoe
Mr., Chip Fu, about to wreck shop
With the Judo (CHOP!) a Judo (CHOP!) a Judo chop CHOP!
Yo, zilch kaput me nada none son
I don't think so, so take a look at
a Superfly big Jimmy the Honeynut Cheerio Bee
ba schnicker bah snchnucker
I ams what I ams that's all what I ams
My lyrics are never done
I'm the big John Elmer Glue the Elmer the Fudd
Al Bundy the Bud Light stud
Come like tongues lashes, with the quickness
Moc and Poc is, my witness
Ask the Kung about my tongue and the styles that I brung instead
I'm the Ali Babi cutty rankin shuba-dib-da-dabble
Jaw Boy Wonder Bread dread, BUM BA READ
These lyrics ah-come out of mi head, BUM BA READ
Mr. Chip Fu's gon stay' di-di, da-di-di, dra-dread
You said I couldn't rap, but I really wrecked shop
and I don't stop drop, I get props
I pick up the mic drop a style and pattern and fashion
and all MC's jaws drops down
My accent, you're mockin, my clothes, you're clockin
Rippin MC's to smithereens to their
ribbidy-diddiby-Pippi Long-STOCKINGS
So don't step to Chip, I'm on the La Schmoove tip
You'll say 'Drats I really failed again plus he sank my Babble-ship'
So oooh, shit G, wa-wa or biscuit?
Rip it and be specific doin it terrific when I kicks it
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Pepe LePew, Pepe LePew
La Schmoove, yo I ain't got NUTTIN to prove!
La Schmoove, yo we don't got nuttin to prove (4X)
[Phife Dawg]
Now here I go, once again, with the ill flow
Other MC's that rap, their style is so-so
Phife Dawg was never the type that ever lacked skills
I just stay true to my roots and then I get ill
Twenty years of age, but yet I still see KNOWLEDGE
And this year, was so-called, my Senior year in COLLEGE
But I chose to pursue, in a field called music
And with some hype beats and breaks you know I won't refuse it
Get on the board lay down the track and I'll do ten laps
Pass the pen, pass the pad, and I'll kick nuff RAPS
Just come inside your jam and witness who is boss
and it won't be Tony Danza nor Diana Ross
As small as I am, I still can pack jams
Do a freestyle, and step, but yet I still slam
Not tryin to say that no one can get with me
Not only is it the lyrics I write, it's my delivery
Name one rapper that you know who has this high-strung voice
My name's Malik and I'm unique, in other words top choice
Nothin commercial bout this, it's mainly hardcore
Now that you got what you want, do you want more?
(UHH!) Because I got more in store!
La Schmoove, yo we don't got nuttin to prove (4X)
[Moc Fu]
MC, the Shining One, a.k.a. The Golden Child
I have a grin at times, but then throw up a fake smile
Vaseline Intensive Care, don't fear mon frere
'Cept I say, everybody that rappin, G pull his hair
Back in the groove, it's no way you can handle this
Shit so fly, that you can call it scandalous
Cause I mani-fest in, words that I'm preachin
Unleashin, you now seek the sounds that I'm teachin
I hear NOT see NOT, knots to makes butts ROCK
I rides rhythm to the beginnin, then won't stop
The Chinese Son of Sam, the Skipper's Peter Pan
The rootinest tootinest cowboy in the East
Releasin, a new type of lyrical lingo
Single, +The Alarm+, the girls cooties I will tingle
No expiration date, so you know I won't EXPIRE
No skippin a weekly check, so I don't have to RETIRE
Write, the ca-pital, M.O.
Chip Fu with the Kung-Fu givin shouts on my show
Ir-regular styles is here too
Tripped, boo-boo, you first made a mistake
Not Alexander but considered to be Great
Great, but, like the Grape Ape
Fake, the moves, and your ankles I will break
Break, or broken, the M.O., has spoken
Movements on the slick, takin the train you need a token
I guess not, cause you pause for the cause
You either bitin your nails, or start pickin straws
Holy Mick I'm livin large just like trunk jewels
Nuff respects to many minds, Ah-OWWWWWWWWWWWEE!
La Schmoove, yo we don't got nuttin to prove (8X)
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
GET OUT!!!!!!
Personal post:
I got this one from Silent Bob. Shout out to Killer Priest, Uncle Bob, Shrek and the rest of the meatball crew.
Taken from Shadowland Haunted Places webpage:
Albany County - Selkirk - GE Plastics -
The site of GE in Selkirk used to be the Becker farm. It is over 300 acres. The original farm house is still intact and was occupied on and off with offices until March of 2004. There had been many stories from employees on what they had seen or heard.
The story goes that Mr. Becker caught his wife having sex with one of the slaves. He took the slave and pushed him down a very narrow out of the way set of slave stairs and he died, he then took a knife and killed his wife by cutting her head off or attempting to anyway. He was so grief stricken about his wife having an affair and the fact that he killed her, he went to the basement and hung himself. When in the basement sometimes the lights will all blow out or other things will turn on and off. And when on the second floor where he supposedly killed his wife there is a strange smell, kind of like perfume. And when going up or down the slave stairs you get a strange sense of being watched or followed.
There are also motion detectors and intrusion alarms. some guards say there that sometimes they will go off, when the building is completely empty. And they will go off in a strange order, sometimes near the basement and then almost immediately near the stairs. Sometimes it appears as if someone is walking through. They will check the system to see who accessed the Becker House and see that no one has.
I use to work here, and this story was all over the plant. As a guard, I can tell you that place was creepy as hell! I remeber getting chills in that building several times and the thing about the motion decetors is true too.
Somebody better call GhostBusters!
Monday, April 04, 2005
MPG Monday
Videos
“King Of The Dancehall” – Beenie Man
“Straighten It Out” video Pete Rock & CL Smooth
"Pass The Courvoisier" video - Busta Rhymes Feat. P-Diddy
“Breakafdawn” video- De La Soul
"Bia Bia” video- Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz w/ Too Short, Ludacris , China Whyte and Big Kap
Suit claims Billboard's bias was off the charts
Read this story in New York Daily News. Sounds like a slam dunk to me. Emails will get you every time!
Who?
Almost forgot about these two.
1.)When I was in Miami at Club Sobe, I went and asked the DJ that was on before Kid Capri, if he had any of that new Mike Jones.
Dude says "Who?"
(I can't make this stuff up people, I'm not that creative)
"Mike Jones!"
"Who?"
"Yo, your killing me right now kid."
"Sorry, this girl was asking me for something just a minute ago, and I didn't have that either. "
"Oh yeah? Who was it?"
"Somebody named Tall Wall."
I started laughing my azz off. I tried to tell him who it was, and that I was asking for the same song but I don't think he heard me. He ended up playing Mobb Deep's "Cobra". Whatever.
I was reading Jay Smooth's site and it reminded me of my similar incident, again true story.
2.)Somewhere in Georgia, heading to Nashville early Monday morning, we pull up to some gas station in the middle of nowhere. As I leave the store, some white guy walks up to me, looks me in the face and says "Well I'll be gaddamn! It's muthafucking Chris Rock! What's up man!" I was too surprised to say anything back, and he walks away like he really just met Chris Rock in the middle of Georgia. Whatever.
It Aint Chris Rock Trick, It's Q.Rock 6!
Saturday, April 02, 2005
What a long, strange trip it’s been!
Where do I begin?
This trip is by far one of the worst I have ever been on. (And there have been quite a few runner ups for that prized spot!) Every step revealed yet another massive obstacle to be overcome, another hurdle in my path to journalistic success and a sun soaked Miami Beach vacation. By the time I returned home, my life had been thrown in complete disarray and I am still struggling to put out the fires. I may never vacation again. Yeah, it was that bad. Uncle Q has a story that rivals Homer's Odyssey! OK, maybe it’s not that bad, but its pretty f’in close. Are you ready? This is going to be a long one.
03/25/05------0245 hours-----Albany NY
As I do a final check of everything I need as I get ready to go, I have a sinking feeling that this trip is not a good idea. The objective is to get to Miami to interview some of the movers and shakers at this years WMC and M3 conferences and hopefully sell them to some magazines. I have a few people that I hoped to catch up with, but being that the conference ends tomorrow, and the Ultra Festival will be going on for a couple of hours already by the time I make it there, I was really starting to regret booking the trip. But I was already in too deep, with people expecting me in Tennessee and Miami. So I threw everything in my two overnight bags, and hit the door.
While driving down to LaGuardia Airport, I really consider pulling over and going back home, calling everyone in the morning and apologizing for standing them up. The fact that I am having cold feet so late in the trip insures that I will not get a penny back from my AOL Last Minute Deal package. And as I start to do a quick mental rundown of my finances, I really want to pull he plug on the trip. The thought of the Miami sun was way too powerful to ignore, especially as it is starting to snow yet again in Albany. So I continue on my journey while watching my car’s temperature gauge start to inch up slowly.
It’s been a few years since I moved out of the NYC area, I failed to take into consideration that rush hour starts around 5am. Soon as I got to the GW Bridge, I hit traffic and knew I was in trouble. As I felt my blood pressure start to match my slowly overheating car temperature, I finally pulled in LaGuardia, absent mindedly parked in he short term parking lot (more on this later), and ran into the terminal. The aforementioned Delta agent informed me that I would indeed miss my flight, but punched in some number and got me on the next flight out..at 9:35. No problem, if a 3 hour wait is the worse I’ll have to deal with, I can handle that. So I get my boarding pass, take off my stinky shoes at the security check-in, and wait for my flight.
03/25/05---1430 hours—Cincinnati, OH
For some strange reasons, something told me to look again at my itinerary. I didn’t really look it over after I booked the package. I just saw that I had a great deal, round trip flight to Nashville, car rental, and hotel in Nashville. I couldn’t remember the hotel’s name, so I checked the package again and found….NO HOTEL! With 20 minutes until my Nashville flight began boarding, I called AOL to see what the problem was. Of course they were no help at all, telling me I did NOT book a hotel, even though the package does include one. They told me it was my fault for not picking a hotel, which I could not understand as they also said the hotel came with the package plan automatically. After listening to the AOL customer service rep talk in circles for about 15 minutes, they put me on hold. I hung up and caught my flight. It was a pain, but not a total loss, as I had planned to drive to Miami anyway. It was just another sign that I should have listened to my gut and stayed in Albany.
03/25/05---1830 hours-----Nashville, TN
Finally in Nashville, I step to the Hertz car rental, drop a $50 for the deposit on the 2005 Ford Mustang (yesssirr!), pick up my sister Ebony and her man Lyondell, and hit the road. This is the beginning of the fun part of the trip, riding clean through Tennessee-Georgia and Florida, taking pictures, laughing, watching “Along Came Polly” (let it rain!), “Starsky and Hutch” (Do it..do it, just do it!) and just enjoying our last minute road trip. We were all excited and couldn’t wait to get to Miami.
03/26/05------1000 hours----South Beach, Miami
A little later than we expected, we pull up on Collins Avenue. Everyone wanted to get to the hotel, but I just had to check the strip real quick. Plus I figured we wouldn’t be able to check in until at least noon so we cruised South Beach a bit. When I called the hotel to get directions, I got the next surprise of the trip. The hotel is a half hour drive away. Not too bad, but not the greatest news to people who have been driving all night. After getting lost a few times, we find our hotel and are told we cannot check in yet. UGHHH!! So we eat lunch and about 1 hour later we get our room and everyone passes out.
03/26/05------1800 hours ----South Beach, Miami
After everyone took a nap, showered and got dressed, we hit South Beach. At this point I had all but given up on he idea of catching up with anybody, as I knew the Ultra Festival was almost over! I figured, the heck with it, let me relax and have fun down her with my sister. We did have fun too, driving up and down Washington and Collins Avenue. I was supposedly on a few list at some parties, but I wanted to entertain my sister and Lyondell, as they had never been to Miami.
So we tried to get into the DJ Clue party at State, but they were beating fools in the head! $50.00 a pop. So we went to Sobe to hear Kid Capri. From the size of the crowd, I think everyone else who wanted to hear hip-hop did the same that night. It was tight! (I would have pictures to post, but my sister has that camera…look for the pics soon!) Anyway, we posted up in that spot until I feel asleep on one of the sofas in the back. Some girl plopped down next to me, asked me if I was ok, and couch danced with me to some old 2 Live Crew. After a few songs, I got up, found Ebony and Lyondell and we left.
03/27/05-------1500 hours -----Miami Fl
After we checked out of the hotel, we hit South Beach one more time, to get some more loot, eat lunch and get ready for the big trip back. I really did not want to leave. One of the reasons that I love South Beach is that it seems like its Fantasy Island or something. Nothing looks real to me, and the sight of the beautiful people driving beautiful cars in a beautiful setting is very surreal. It’s like stepping out of a dark noir film into the blinding color of the Land of Oz. I did not want to return to the grey reality of my life so quickly. But return we did, and grey it was!
To be continued------------
Friday, April 01, 2005
Memph Bleek Is....dropping 534 in May!
Memphis Bleek ran up on the hip hop scene in 1996 with a little help from his friend Jay-Z on "Coming Of Age" on Jay's "Reasonable Doubt" CD. He introduced himself as a emcee to be dealt with on “Memphis Bleek Is..” and it wasn’t long after that we all knew exactly who he was.
Since his debut, Bleek has held it down on Roc-A Fella, releasing 3 Gold records and appearing on such hip-hop classics as “Hey Papi”, “Do My..” “What You Think Of That”,“Round Here” and “Is That Your Chick” to name a few. Bleek is set to release his latest CD "534" this spring, and agreed to answer a few e-mail questions about the upcoming CD, The Roc, Game, give us a financial tip or two, and say his peace. Check it out! Straight from Marcy, its the Memph Man at Canhead! (what you think of that?)
Canhead:
How’s the family doing? I know you have been speaking on more personal things like on the M.A.D.E. album. Is everybody good, your son, your brother?
Memphis Bleek:
Everyone is in good health. My son is bad as ever. My brother is doing real well. His rehab has been a slow long process but it’s good.
Canhead:
There is a lot of attention on Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam now with all the moves. It seems now that you truly are the veteran of Roc-A-Fella. What does this all mean for you? How do you feel about the new moves?
Memphis Bleek:
I feel good! I feel like it couldn’t have come at a better time now because I understand what I gotta do and now I’m just going to go do it.
Canhead:
Obviously the whole situation with Beans and State Property is getting hectic. Some thought you may have been getting overlooked because of all the Philly cats on Roc-A-Fella. Now it seems that side of the crew is a little shaky. How do you feel about all that?
Memphis Bleek:
I feel like we all bigger than that man. Everyone [is] getting money, its nothing that a conversation shouldn’t end. They should wait until Beans come home because then they can really see where his mind is at.. When you're locked up you can think a little bit off the wall.
Canhead:
The new 9th Wonder track “Alright” is fire, as is! What else can we expect from the new album?
Memphis Bleek:
If that’s fire, then you can expect lava on the album!
Canhead:
Why do you think “M.A.D.E.” was a “sleeper” as you say in “Alright”? Did you see the writing on the wall back then with Roc-A-Fella?
Memphis Bleek:
Definitely. I saw the split coming. I seen the separation and how people [were] trying to exclude me out of Roc-A-Fella. I knew at the time I had the short end of the stick.
Canhead:
Are there any mixtapes we should be looking out for with you on it?
Memphis Bleek:
Mixtape scene, [I’m] on Clue’s mixtape, K-Slay, Envy, and Absolut.
Canhead:
What’s up with Get Low? Can we expect to hear any new heat from Geda K? How’s H Money Bags?
Memphis Bleek:
H Money Bags doing good. He’s locked up, serving 7 year sentence. As far as Get Low, I’m on them every day about putting records out. They make records everyday and just hold them but soon as I get them to release them, the music will be on the street
Canhead:
You still got mad beats on the side? You once mentioned how Jay used to scream on you about being in the studio to much. Any chance of Canhead getting an exclusive mp3 to post?
Memphis Bleek:
Yeah – send me your email address.
(I will keep you guys posted as soon as I get the mp3s)
Canhead:
I don’t really want to but I gotta ask. What’s the deal with you and Game? Is everything cool between the two of you or is it still what it is?
Memphis Bleek:
We cool. Everything is cool. Ain’t no beef just 534.
Canhead:
You once said that you invested most of your money when you first got your deal. Do you have any financial or investment tips for the people out there?
Memphis Bleek:
Buy yourself a house, fix it up and watch how fast the rate goes up.
Canhead:
Your scene with Dame in Paper Soldiers is funny as hell. Can we expect any scene stealing from you in the new State Property movie?
Memphis Bleek:
Not in the new one – I died in the first one. If there was a way they could bring me back to life like Elektra....
Ed. Note: Damn..I forgot that...You could play the twin brother no one knew about, coming back avenging your brother’s death…just a thought.
Canhead:
What CDs you’re listening to right now?
Memphis Bleek:
John Legend, 50 Cent (Massacre), TI, Lil Wayne
Canhead:
When’s the last time you been to Tennessee? Just had to ask, I’m from Clarksville originally. It’s ok if you don’t know where that is.
Memphis Bleek:
I been to Tennessee on the Jay Z and Friends Tour in Nashville, putting it down!
Canhead:
Who/what is your favorite emcee(s)/favorite albums?
Memphis Bleek:
Big Daddy Kane – “Long Live The Kane”
Canhead:
It’s been a while since “Backstage”. Any new road stories you’d like to tell us about?
Memphis Bleek:
I don’t have no new stories. Just people getting on each other, getting locked up for speeding, came back candy. [That’s the] weirdest thing I heard on the road.
Canhead:
When is the album coming out? Any shows?
Memphis Bleek:
May 17th. 534 [is the] album, [I’m] on promo tour now, hitting different markets, Mid-west, West Coast, [I’m] going all over.
Canhead:
Any final words on any thing you want to promote?
Memphis Bleek:
Thanks for supporting Roc-A-Fella since ‘96.
Last words – we be getting busy!
There you have it! Make sure you cop that CD when it hits stores near you. I will let you know of any updates, events, and other goodies. Here are a few links that I found out there on Memphis Bleek as well.
Roc-A Fella Memphis Bleek Page
Memphis Bleek: Do or Die
Memphis Bleek tells SOHH.com, "Everybody in the world knows what side I'm on."
Launch Memphis Bleek search results
Singing Fish video links
Thursday, March 31, 2005
It’s been a long time
I shouldn’t have left you. For real, I shouldn’t have left. I will go into it in detail later, but let me just say it was not fun. At total bust of a trip, except for about 18 hours of fun in Miami, getting there and getting back home was hell. I’m trying to decide the name for the next post….it’s a tie between “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” or “Canhead’s Vacation...NOT!" In an attempt to turn a negative into a positive, I’ll journal the carnage for you all, reality tv style. At least it will be an intersting story.
Until then, here’s what floating around in the Canhead inbox:
To every hip-hop artist in America who make records about killing each other (who is that on the joint Flex was playing Monday night? Papoose?), these kids just flipped it on you. IFilm has this clip of a foreign hip-hop group’s video that has been banned in Norway. They call for the assassination of George Bush, and basically setting it off on America right now for foreign policy crimes and imperialism. The group, Gatas Parlament, released this video originally in 2004, but it is still making the internet email rounds and getting attention. If you haven’t seen this one, you should check it out.
~Rolling Stone has new live footage of T.I. performing, photos from SXSW 2005, U2’s tour launch and more at their website.
~Check out Waxy.org for the ill DJ DangerMouse “Grey” video. That’s what up! Ringo on the turntables and John floor rocking!
~Must have missed this one when I was redlining that 2005 Mustang on 24W heading to Cashville. Remember the part in Fahrenheit 9/11 where Michael Moore says that the US government secretly flew several Saudis out of America on 9/11. Remember how everyone said it was BS? Seems he was right. (Check O-Dub for link!)
Stay tuned.. Memphis Bleek interview is up next.
Monday, March 21, 2005
DVDs in the headrest
“MILES DAVIS - The Cool Jazz Sound”A while back I mentioned this, as I was expecting to receive a review copy thanks to Clint Weiler at Music Video Distributors. I was not expecting what I got. “Stars Of Jazz” is a DVD series featuring some of the greatest jazz legends of all time, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, B.B. King and many more greats. The first feature is “The Sound of Miles Davis” .
The DVD features an 1959 episode of “The Robert Herridge Theater”. “The Sound of Miles Davis” is a 28 minute film, originally shot in 16mm black an white, so it has that authentic feel when watching it. Small effects like the light reflection off Miles’ horn that turns black also add a nice touch to the film. “The Sound of Miles Davis” features performances by the Miles Davis Quintet (Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, John Coltrane, Davis and Wynton Kelly)as well as with the Gil Evans Orchestra.
This is a real cool DVD. The video clip of “Kind Of Blue” classic cut “So What” alone is worth the price of admission here. But with it’s glimpses at so many jazz heavyweights, working in a warm studio setting, performing "Blues for Pablo," "The Duke," and "New Rhumba", it is a must have for jazz fans in particular and music fans in general. I highly recommend this one.
~We go from one extreme to another~
Studioworks Entertainment presents: Yucko The Clown in “The Damn Show”
Oh boy. The sick part about reviewing this sh!t is that I asked for it. I mean I literally requested it. In case you don’t know this clown, it’s ok. He’s a loser. He is one of those guys you’ll hear on Howard Stern making an ass out of himself for free.(Kind of like me with this blog). This DVD is bad on so many levels I don’t know where to begin sh!tting on it first.
First of all, it’s low budget, like public access gone bad, super ghetto low budget. Too make sure that no one will respect it at all, they throw in as many racist and otherwise offensive jokes they can think of. I wont even bother trying to list them as the bottom line is this DVD is not funny.
They try to get that extreme humor thing going but it doesn’t work. Clint Black does a good job trying to be a edgy comic, but somehow this DVD just falls on it’s face. Maybe it was the dumb Snapple bottle skits and the Play-doh Sesame Street knock off, or maybe it was the painfully long Gooks of Hazard skit (A dildo headed cop chasing Asians playing Bo and Luke Duke, sounds funnier than it looks). No it was the use of homeless in skits that made fun of them and their mental problems and/or addictions. No, it was the Inebriated Koala cartoons. No, it was the Blind Date with a drug addicted prostitute. No no no... it was The Racist Mr. Ed skit that did it for me. You get my point yet?
I thought it might be a funny DVD, I think Yucko made me laugh once on Howard Stern. That was the last time that ass clown made me laugh, I’ll tell you that much. “The Damn Show” should be called the “Damned Show” because Yucko and the boys are on the VIP guest list in Hell for this one.
Oh yeah, this guy actually sent me a letter saying how lucky I was to get a copy of his DVD for free. The funny part is when he says that if I want an interview, not to call him, call Brian “My Balls Smell" Gross at ***-***-****. Don’t worry, I won’t call ya Yucko. Sorry Brian. Oh yeah, your DVD is in the mail coming back to you.
Example of racial humor used well.
Archie Bunker yelling at Edith when the Jeffersons barge in at midnight.."Edith will you do something, we're having a Harlem pajama party out here". That was funny. Yucko is just stupid.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
TRILLVILLE’S “SOME CUT” SHOOTS UP THE CHARTS
BLAZIN’-HOT TRIO OUT OF LIL JON’S BME RECORDINGS CAMP SCORE A
MULTI-CHART BREAKTHROUGH WITH “SOME CUT” (FEATURING CUTTY)
NEW CD TRILLVILLE: RELOADED DUE IN THE SPRING
For Immediate Release
March 17, 2005
On the strength of breakthrough momentum resulting from a well
received, wildly popular video (a Top Ten Countdown entry on BET’s 106th &
Park, FULL rotation on MTV2, HEAVY rotation on BET’s Rap City, active play
on MTV, etc.) and enthusiastic radio spins (on everything from Urban
Mainstream and Top 40 Mainstream, to R&B Mainstream stations across the
country), steadily rising BME Recordings/Warner Bros. act TRILLVILLE
have snagged a multi-chart breakthrough with their latest smash hit, “Some
Cut” (featuring Cutty). TRILLVILLE – comprised of rappers Don P.,
Dirty Mouth and Lil L.A. – enjoys radio success with “Some Cut” as the
single has sprinted up The R&R Urban Mainstream Chart (#2), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop
Billboard Airplay Monitor chart (#2) and Rap Billboard Airplay Monitor
(#4 with a bullet).
Easily delivering on the promise of their debut hit, “Neva Eva” (culled
from their gold-certified The King Of Crunk & BME Recordings Present
Trillville & Lil Scrappy, the popular trio continue to make significant
career inroads – all while holding down a promotional tour schedule
that has included everything from interviews/performances on popular music
shows like MTV’s Direct Effect and BET’s Rap City, and culminating in
high-profile upcoming appearances on Soul Train, MTV’s Spring Break ’05
and BET’s Spring Break specials. “Some Cut” even resulted in a #3
slot on the Moviso MasterTone chart (compiled from the sales of
MasterTones on AT&T, Cingular, T-Mobile, Ringster Plus, Samsung FunClub and
Virgin Mobile).
Steadily snowballing into an outright rap phenomenon, TRILLVILLE’s
career has certainly come quite a way from the three Atlanta-reared grade
school friends with music career ambitions and the ambitious trio who
convinced Lil Jon to attend one of their sold-out local gigs, to their
current status as the “Gods of Crunk.” Not only does the apparent
widespread chart/radio success of “Some Cut” justify such a title, but it
paves the way and heightens the anticipation surrounding the spring
release of their new, full-length CD, Trillville: Reloaded. In the
meantime, it’ll be nearly impossible to avoid TRILLVILLE – not that any
crunk-lovin’ music fan would want to.
For more information, press kits and interviews, please contact:
Tremedia, Tresa Sanders at 845-623-2325 or via email at
tremedia@optonline.net; or Warner Brothers Records, Luke Burland at
615-214-1490 or via email at luke.burland@wbr.com.
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TREMEDIA
845-623-2325 - - www.tre-media.net
Canhead Inbox:John Legend on Oxygen-Vote Now!
John Legend Custom Concert on Oxygen!
John will be performing on Oxygen's Custom Concert Series! That means
YOU can chose his set list for the show. From now until Monday, March
21 @ midnight, you can go to here to vote on John Legend's set list- choose a duet song for him to sing with India.Arie, submit an outrageous question for John to answer during the show, and vote for the "T-Mobile Tune of the Night."
The concert will be filmed in New York City on Tuesday, March 22 and will air exclusively on Oxygen on Sunday, March 27 at 7pm/6C. It's the first concert series you can truly call your own!
Canhead Inbox: "The New Guy"
Kevin Martin named new FCC chief
Free Press challenges new chairman to defend the public interest better than his predecessor
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Kevin Martin will be named this week as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, replacing Michael Powell. Robert W. McChesney, founder and president of the nonpartisan media reform group Free Press, made the following statement:
"Kevin Martin has not distinguished himself as a defender of the public interest during his tenure at the FCC. Too often, he has done the bidding of industry lobbyists and made decisions behind closed doors without public input. His new position presents a great opportunity to change course and instead listen to average citizens about the crucial policy decisions that will shape the future of the media and the Internet.
"While Martin won't face further Senate scrutiny in a confirmation hearing, much has changed since he was first appointed to the FCC in 2001. The FCC's infamous June 2003 ruling on media ownership - when Martin voted in favor of further concentration - awakened the public to the disastrous decisions being made in their name but without their consent. They will be watching the new chairman very closely.
"In the coming months and years, the FCC will not only revisit the ownership rules, but will make major decisions affecting broadband Internet access, community radio, and allocation of the public airwaves after the digital television transition. Martin faces a choice of whether to continue business as usual or follow the lead of FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, who have convened numerous hearings nationwide to learn what Americans want out of their media system. If Martin and the majority at the FCC choose again to ignore the public, they will face an enormous backlash that will make 2003 look like a tiny ripple."
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Robert McChesney is the founder and president of Free Press, (www.freepress.net) a national, non-partisan organization that seeks to increase informed public participation in media policy and to promote a more competitive, public interest-oriented media system.
Contact: Ben Scott
Craig Aaron
Additional links on the story
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=2830
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/index.php?blogthis=1&p=301
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Lil Kim convicted of perjury
Rap diva Lil' Kim was convicted Thursday of lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a shootout outside a radio station.
Lil' Kim and her assistant were both convicted of perjury and conspiracy but acquitted of obstruction of justice. They each face up to 20 years in prison; sentencing was set for June 24.
The 29-year-old former sidekick and mistress of the late Notorious B.I.G., known for her revealing outfits and raunchy raps, testified that she did not notice two close friends at the scene of the 2001 shootout — her manager, Damion Butler, and Suif "Gutta" Jackson. Both men have since pleaded guilty to gun charges.
The jury saw radio station security photos showing Butler opening a door for Lil' Kim. And witnesses Antoine "Banger" Spain and James "Lil' Cease" Lloyd, who once teamed with Lil' Kim in the group Junior M.A.F.I.A, testified that Butler and Jackson were at the station with her.
Both defendants shook their heads as the verdicts were delivered. Lil' Kim's supporters broke out in sobs. After the verdict, when asked whether she had any comment, Lil' Kim shook her head.
The shootout occurred outside WQHT, a.k.a. Hot 97, when Lil' Kim's entourage crossed paths with a rival rap group, Capone-N-Noreaga. One man was injured as more than two dozen rounds were fired on the sidewalk.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Cathy Seibel told jurors that the 4-foot-11 rapper, referred to throughout the trial by her real name, Kimberly Jones, had repeatedly lied to them, just as she did to the grand jury.
"The testimony was preposterous. It was insulting. It was insulting to your intelligence. It was insulting to the judicial process," Seibel told jurors.
Seibel belittled the defense that the sunglasses-wearing Lil' Kim didn't notice two people she knew at the scene of the shootout.
"You would have to believe they were magic sunglasses that only block out your friends who were shooting people," Seibel said.
Defense lawyer Mel Sachs argued that Lil' Kim had no reason to protect Butler and Jackson because she had already eliminated them from her life.
Lil' Kim testified that after the shooting she had a falling out with Butler, Banger and Cease because they were freeloading at her New Jersey town house. She said she decided to cut off Butler completely after he caused a ruckus outside a video shoot with Phil Collins (news).
"I was just fed up," she said. "They were taking advantage of me."
The rapper also testified at length about her modest background and mercurial career, which began with an impromptu audition for B.I.G. on the street in their Brooklyn neighborhood.
Lil' Kim won a Grammy Award for her part in the hit remake of "Lady Marmalade" in 2001.
The shooting took place outside the same station where the posses of 50 Cent and The Game traded bullets last week. No arrests have been made in that shooting, which left one of Game's henchmen wounded in the leg
LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
A Little Help From My Friends
I don't mention my new friends enough. If you haven't checked BlogCritics.org out yet, you're missing out. Blogcritics is a "sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, and technology - updated continuously."
UPDATE: BlogCritics button has been added!
Hashim at Hip Hop-Blogs.com put me up on it, and ever since I hooked up with them, my blogging life has been nothing short of incredible! BlogCritics is the gas that keeps the Canhead engine running, giving me content for days, and at the same time, helping me promote my site and writing to levels I never imagined. It's a good place folks, check them out. (ps I would have BlogCritics banners all over this blog, but Blogger is funny about stuff like that...Hosting change is scheduled, stay tuned!)
Voted 2nd place in Forbes Media Blog watch list
http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/17/cx_ah_0317mediablogs.html
G4's Sarah Lane list BlogCritics as one of her favorites (funny, she's one of our favorite Screen Savers too!)
http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/43425/Welcome_to_the_Blog_Report.html
