The Man With the Iron Fists Soundtrack
Have I mentioned that this movie comes out on my birthday?
I’m only a few songs into the soundtrack, so posting is not yet a co-sign.
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I am not surprised to know that Jesse Thorn actually fucking gets “It Was a Good Day.”
On the anniversary of his death, let’s remember how the man lived. I saw this episode live at the time.
(via Ego Trip)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahaaaaaaa!
John Scalzi's Post-Election Notes For the GOP (Not That They’ve Asked For Them)
1. Recognize your brand is damaged.
Yep. Scalzi basically wrote a really good, well-thought out version of some stuff that had been running around all disorganized in my head all day. Good stuff.
Apropos of nothing, I’m listening to Gunplay’s 601 & Snort today. It’s still great.
Slavery is within our memory. In 1996, Jay-Z released Reasonable Doubt. Daisy Anderson, widow of escaped slave and USCT veteran Robert Anderson died two years later. In 2003 Jay-Z released The Black Album, the same year Gertrude Janeway, the last Union war widow died. A year later, Alberta Martin, the last Confederate widow passed. Not even a decade later the country elected a black president, and Jay-Z is performing his lovely gutter music at his rallies.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates gets the right perspective, as always. This doesn’t, of course, make Jay’s substitution not corny dad shit, but I like that we’re at a point where even Jay-Z can do corny, embarassing dad jokes.
Reflection Eternal f/ Mos Def & Mr. Man - “Fortified Live” (Rawkus, 1997)
It’s a shame these guys forgot how to have fun so quickly. They need more wishing well water imported from Pluto. And possibly fewer gerbils.
This vinyl only release almost certainly sold more copies than it presently has views on Youtube.
Like Like Like, a thousand times Like. This record is a time warp.
Casual - Meanwhile… (Cas Flow, 1997)
Casual has made his previously cassette-only and long out of print sophomore album Meanwhile available for stream and purchase on Bandcamp. It’s one of the more underrated efforts from the Hieroglyphics camp, featuring Cas at his loosest, talking a gang of shit and doing it really well. Like at one point he says I really didn’t want no trouble today but I’m drunk listening to NWA and those are words that a lot of people like younger me and my past self can and could relate to. It’s not remastered or anything special, in fact it just sounds like a tape rip, but the hiss will make you stronger because hiss has calcium. (via Thizzler)
Oh 90s, you and your cassette-only tracks/albums. I actually feel like I might’ve owned this once. Buying anyway.
Remember that time Busta Rhymes fought Michael Myers? Oh, you don’t? Well, don’t worry we didn’t. We got you covered.
Trick Or Treat, Motherfucka.
Oh man, I remember that performance. I even taped the whole award show on VHS because I was a young teenager, sure it would matter someday.
The performance of “Ladies’ Night” that these outfits were for was the part I rewatched and rewatched. Because I liked the song. Mostly.
(Source: wayblackwhen)
Ladies First! Right On, March 1997
Remember when ladies dominated the rap game? Yeah, I do.
Side note: I would like to win those Space Jam CD’s and that 702 phone card
“Little Kim.”
BACK IN THE DAY |10/25/93| Eazy-E released the EP, It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, on Ruthless/Epic Records.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Eazy, but damn if this wasn’t always the mostconfusingly named album. You’d see it in the bin at the record store and try to figure out which part was the title. (Or I would, anyway.)
Sir Mix-A-Lot - “Posse On Broadway” (Nastymix, 1988)
“Boy, I got a def posse, you got a buncha dudes.”
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