October 2008
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you don’t want test, my champion sound
New Mos Def, Life in Marvelous Times, off his upcoming album, The Ecstatic, due out in December.
Notorious movie trailer.
I really am looking forward to this. Big is still a hero, and it looks Gravy may actually do a good job on the role. The thing that really makes me feel solid about this is the fact that Cheo Hodari Coker is part of the team putting this out. His bio of Big, Unbelievable, was such an amazing book - deeply insightful to who the man was. Cheo was one of the first and last...
The Foreign Exchange ‘Daykeeper’ video
love this song. Off the album Leave it all behind
I had missed this since it was on the Thursday version of SNL. Check out Will Ferrell returning as W. Yeah, I know, three Ferrell vids in a row…
Photo gallery from Day 1 at CMJ. Pictures from Brooklyn Bodega showcase and the mixtape awards showcase.
See previous: video
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CMJ 2008, and why I’m not sleeping
My apologies to anyone who has been coming here looking for regular updates…I’ve just been crazed with work and now the shows have started. Last night I went to check out the Brooklyn Bodega set at DROM and the Mixtape Awards in Brooklyn. I have a full review that should be on Time Out’s blog soon. For now, check out the video from the...
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showing off the power of location based mobile networking is brightkite.
there have been a number of networks like dodgeball in the past, but the iphone and the new fleet of smart phones make these networks seem more inviting then before - but it would be great to have this worked into something I was already a member of. Maybe a future version of the facebook app will really take on the...
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Kanye visits Big Boi’s neighborhood. Discusses how Love Lockdown became the first single, and a bit about the process with the album. Some interesting notes throughout, including a discussion on the latest leaked track “Coldest Winter” The song is about this loss of his mother and Kanye discusses briefly how moving to L.A. and the want to be beautiful could have been a driving...
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Take a moment to read the Ice-T leaves.
“Who buys albums? I don’t.” “Not me.” “None of my Facebook friends.” “None of my MySpace friends.” “You’re still on MySpace?” “What? No. Not since you just asked me.”
hahaha…myspace. *deletes profile*
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Dy-lan “S.L.U.” freestyle
In the same sort of style as Diddy’s Swagger like Puff but with everyones favorite Making the Band idiot. And below, the classic Chappelle show’s making the band:
Chapelle Making the Band
“You’re too close man!”
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