Perpetuating Ignorance

This goes out to all you smart dumb cats out there.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States (measuring 1545 Square miles.)
Not a single part of RI lies further than 30 minutes from salt water.
Yet, it has the longest name by far.
The official name for RI is:
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Somehow, a little over one Million peeps occupy this state.
The state bird? Well, it's the red chicken of course.
Only the best for the best! I only wish I was joking.
They also have a state mineral, shell, fish, motto, drink, tree, and flower. but that's two minutes of my life I will never get back.

[Jean] Grae & Black[smith]

When you're signed with Blacksmith records you have an automatic credibility as an artist. Jean Grae, although signed with Blacksmith, does not need this.

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(Corey Smyth launched Blacksmith Management in 1991. Familiar names past and present under this management include, De La Soul, Talib Kweli & Mos Def, and Res. Now a Music label partnered with Warner Bros. Records) [End]


Jean is currently recording with 9th Wonder on the forthcoming album entitled "Jeanius"
Throughout her career she has also recorded with numerous major hip-hop artists, Atmosphere, The Roots, Talib Kweli, The Herbaliser, Da Beatminerz, Phonte, Mr. Len, Masta Ace, and Immortal Technique, recognize.
Jean is droppin' "Jeanius" on the 27th, go scoop it.

Noteable Lyrics:

"Please, Jean's superior. Ya'll yellow, same color of your bladder's interior"


"I raise Havoc, like givin' Mobb Deep a booster chair"



P.S.
Possible Disappearance
Jean Grae has been missing from public events since a vacation in the Alps in January 2008. Authorities have conducted several intensive searches but the singer has not been found. No body has been discovered and foul play is not suspected. Many fan sites claim her disappearance to be a hoax devised to drive up record sales. The validity of these rumors is unknown.

Quote Of The Day

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

-Aristotle

Catch Up.

Manu against the Lakers.

Really though, it's the Spurs Vs Lakers. But we all know it's Manu Ginobili Vs. the Lakers. I got 5 on it.


More to follow after the game.

Turrable

I work in the mall. Sorry.
Directly in front of the store where I work it opens up and you can see the lower level, including the escalators. Well, today the escalator going in the up direction was being worked on, and after much maintenance, they left it turned off, but removed the barricade. So it was then stairs, right?

I was amused to see that four out of five people who approached them were perplexed.
Of those four, three of them were so preoccupied with their phone, purse, or insulin that they didnt realize they were 'stairs' until they were litteraly about to step onto them. Once again, they were then dumbfounded.
They would take a few steps back as if they half expected the 'stairs' to apologize, or start moving again. Also, they would look around checking their bearings. Maybe they took a wrong turn?

I only wish I was joking.

oh, and the country of Liechtenstein is only 62 square miles.

Trillmatic

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The Real dudes feat. Bun B.

[Sidebar: If you don't know Bun B, punch yourself in the cerebral cortex.]

Idle Warship: Fall Back [Video]

My thoughts exactly.

(Idle Warship= Talib Kweli + Res)

Download track here: Idle Warship feat. Chester French- Fall Back

Shout out to Nah Right

Dig It.

From Their Album, 'Made in the Dark'


Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor



or better yet. Shake a Fist!

Quote Of The Day

"Power is not a means; it is an end....
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself....
The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything.... No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends....
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science.... There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always - do not forget this, Winston - always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless....
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

-George Orwell

Quote Of The Day

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

-H. L. Mencken

Introducing: Quote Of The Day

Droppin' gems for the masses. You're welcome.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

-Desmond Tutu

Introducing: The World According To The White Girl

This post shall serve as an introductory post for all posts with a post label (at the posterior of the post) reading: "White Girl Perspective".

From time to time, VexedIntellects and I experience a phenomenon whereby we feel it of necessity to resolve quandaries with the help of a W.A.S. (White Anglo Saxon) female. Often the perspectives, positions and purviews of said female differ a not insignificant amount from our own, thereby affording us solutions to enigmas otherwise outside of our realm of mastery. When said phenomenon occurs we then attempt to acquiesce these intellectual gems from her via a post on our posting site, or web logging site, if you will. There are no portents regarding the postulations contained within a post bearing the postscript "White Girl Perspective", except that you'll probably realize after a single sentence that neither myself nor Vexed possess that writing style. Let the posting commence posthaste!*

*Words consisting of, or containing the term "post" were used approximately 63 times in this post. Make that 64.

MIA Concert Review [Detroit 5.08.08]: Bamboo Banga

NOTE: A thousand apologies for the delay.

With a catalog of potential club bangers, one would expect an especially amped show from MIA, and the London native didn't disappoint.

Opening up with a dope tracklist including joints such as Mike's P.Y.T. and his remixes of Kanye and Shawty Lo hits, DJ Million $ Mano def. set the night off with the right vibe. Considering the crowd was at least half hipster half hip-hop heads, (with some random 12 year olds sprinkled throughout) his electro based blends were on point.


After a set lasting about an hour, MIA arrived on stage and seized control from the jump. Opening strongly with album cuts from "Bamboo Banga" to "World Town", MIA rode an early wave of energy from the crowd for the duration. Rarely did show ever stutter from track to track (Except when Detroit couldn't clap on beat. See clip.), with MIA often setting the track progression herself.

Dispensing plastic horns throughout the crowd, as well as jumping off script on various songs, MIA kept the feel of the show "live", not always a given considering the current breed of barking MC's and lip syncing divas. Not to mention, at various points throughout the night she brought innumerable masses of random people on stage to break it down. (Again, how many MC's bring anybody but their posse on stage?)

After parading through damn near every song in her catalog, MIA left the crowd chanting for an encore. Approximately 5 minutes later she arrived back on stage to deliver her biggest hit "Paper Planes" (Which most of the crowd didn't even realize she hadn't played).

VERDICT:

If you can go through your entire show without playing your biggest hit and nobody notices because your show has THAT hype? Impressive. Put simply, if MIA were actually Napoleon and her live show an unending quest for world domination (and can we REALLY prove that this isn't the case?*), we'd all be speaking French right now.**

*I mean, have YOU ever seen Napoleon and MIA in the same place, at the same time? I rest my case.

**Correlates roughly to a 9.2/10

Anthem For The Slopes

A summer anthem if ever there was one. N.E.R.D. feat. CRS and Pusha T? Need I say more?

I can't even call best verse right now, gimme three more listens.

N.E.R.D. feat. CRS (Kanye, Lupe, & Pharrell) and Pusha T- Everybody Nose (Remix)

International Swag

The streets is talkin'. Apparently Dave Chappell is lookin' to stage a Block Party Redux...in Dubai. Damn. This according to the homie ?uestlove, talkin' to /film. [Sidebar: Is there anyone more in the epicenter of everything still dope in Hip-Hop than ?uest...?]

Just when they said there were no new ideas under the sun.

MIA Crowd Surfing [Detroit] [Video]

That exclusive ish from them dudes at M-Theory. The incomparable MIA gettin' her human surf on.

Crowd surf in Detroit? Without a HAZMAT suit? I'm just sayin' cousin, thats how you get syphilis. That's just a fact.

More exclusive video, plus concert review comin' tomorrow.

"The Man"

Homeboy below obviously made it big in either a music related field, or a world domination/suppression field. He now controls all Music, and Media, or should I say, "Marketable Products" (as well as the world)




He Obviously likes fruity loops, coincidence? I think not. For More Middle Class rap antics check out Jon


On another note, Tom Waits held a press conference regarding his upcoming Glitter and Doom Tour. Check out the Highlights

Streets On Fire

See, most people read about Hezbollah's enforcement of a labor strike in Beirut and just see "War In The Middle East". Now on the other hand, I can't help but think that this is why America is in decline: When as a country, we feel our government's economic policy is shittin' on us, we re-elect the asshole (pun intended) responsible for said shit. Over there? They "block roads with burning tires and garbage cans, and set cars on fire".

The only way a democratic republic works is if people stop bein' complacent and start makin' moves. You think if the burger flippers at McDonald's traded in their spatulas for Molotov Cocktails, Ronald and Hamburglar wouldn't break them (and the rest of the staff) off with some more dineros?

You really want the government to listen? Hit their (corporate) campaign donors. Might get their attention.

Here's the first song off my playlist for scenarios such as this: "A No. 2 With A Side Of Apocalypse"

I'm Just Sayin'

This is why our people don't never have nothin'. (Triple negatives are hot in the streets right now.) This is a real cup made out of glass, that's made to look like a plastic cup. Feels like somethin' that'll receive an LV logo and sell out tomorrow.

While most of the time I walk the line between populist and elitist, I definitely fall on the side of "Mothafuckers don't need to be buyin' $200 cups and dodgin' the repo man at the same time." (Cuz you know in the mind of the masses Semi-ironic Overpriced Product > Car Note.)

Yet because this was found over at 'Ye's blog, the bourgie-ometer is gonna register some major spikes in the next couple days.

The Sun God

Common gets mad love on this site. And if you don't know, now you know.

Article below speaks on his new album Invincible Summer droppin' in mid July. "Electro tinged" and helmed by the Neptunes? Shit is a wrap son. Sounds like a return to more avant garde times, circa Electric Circus, and that's straight by me. One of the most misunderstood and under appreciated LP's of the past decade. People will hear that album in another 5 years and it'll be the jump off for a whole new genre of music. But I digress. Go out and support G.O.O.D. music.

Article here.

Classic Com

Grandparents Just Don't Understand

Comedic stylings of the pale and Hip-Hop centric. Damn, that could describe every post on this site.

Newest video from the dudes over at The Real. Go check the archives. "Failed Ideas" are classics.

Hood Rat Shit

When keepin' it real goes wrong.

Props to the homie Cipha Sounds.

Honorary Argentinian Of The Week (27.4)

In order to be heralded the inaugural Argentinian Of The Week, your game's gotta be tight. Like tighter than Charles Barkley in a kesho-mawashi. And Mr. Miguel Adrover definitely fits the bill.

Miguel Adrover, or mickey, as I like to call him, first got into the fashion game in '95 when he opened Horn in Manhattan's East Village. He flew the coop in '05 to lay low in Majorca. Currently He's teamed up with Hess Natur designing for the enviro-friendly company. Mickey says: "I am glad to work for this company not only because of the philosophy and sustainability behind it, but because I can work with a clear conscience." Let us all work with a clear conscience, whether hustling or workin that 9-5.

Facial Hair: 10/10
Revolution: 4/10 (he loses points for being late in the game.)
Points in the Clutch: 6/10 (Bandwagon/beginning of the fourth pd.)
Miscellaneous: 15/Infinity (for the *Monkey hiding in his beard)

Overall: 35/40


*No Monkeys were harmed in the writing of this post.

Attn: Moses Cc: Err'body

Whilst walking through the local Grocer with one of my good friends, I looked to my right and saw a towel with what I'm assuming was hebrew characters on it, it sparked my curiousity, so I investigated further. It was a "passover towel set." Very interesting. Upon Further Examination of the surrounding area, I found these:



at a glance, kinda alarming, yet funny. I don't know whether to laugh or be ashamed for laughing. let us delve into the 10 Plagues Masks, pictured on the left.

You will see below a picture which I altered slightly for identification purposes.
You will also see a red arrow pointing to the word 'LICE' keep in mind that all masks in the bag represent one of the ten (10) plagues, and all masks also have the particular plague they represent printed on the front of the mask as shown on the 'lice' mask.
Circled in Green: "Blood," it is litteraly three giant drops of blood, with eyeholes.
Circled in Navy Blue: "Hail," flaming pieces of ice.
Circled in Sky Blue: "First Born," it is a face of a dead baby. a dead. baby.
Circled in Red: "Boils," skin toned, with boils on it. 'nuff said.
Circled in Yellow: on the left it says it's recommended for kids older than 2, and on the right, it says "fun and educational"
Not Circled, Yet Obvious: "Darkness" (right above the word 'masks' between 'boils' and 'fun and educational') it is a photograph of Charlie Murphey's face.



I can see it now... Some small jewish boy running around with his friends: "this passover I'm gonna be 'Boils' not that stupid frog one." and then another boy: "I call Blood!" "i get the dead baby one!" "i got lice guys... i mean, like seriously. i got lice, im not sure what to do about it, my mom's gonna kill me for sharing yarmulkes"

(shout out to Peter Rosenburg, and any jewish peeps reading this. L'Chaim!)

Overdose On Life

That newness from Mickey Factz feat. Drake and Travis [of Gym Class Heroes].

Mickey Factz feat. Drake & Travis-Overdose On Life

"The girls love me like Seth Cohen". Shout out to the O.C. heads out there.

Link liberally lifted from Eskay 'n 'em

Au Contraire Mu Frère

tonight as my family and i were eating dinner, which consisted of salmon, asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce (which my mother slaved over to prepare with perfection,) my younger brother decided he would ask if there was any tartar sauce. to which my mother replies "oh... um, let me check"

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i was once dining with a friend who's roommate was the master chef at a fancy hotel/restaurant in downtown Detroit. as we began our meal, he told me, a good chef should never have to put condiments on the table, his food should have enough flavor solely. to ask for a condiment is an insult bested only by refusing the food and sending it back.
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(keeping in mind he works in a restaurant) i looks up and i says, "are you serious?" what followed was him being perplexed by why i was upset, i explained he was insulting her cooking. so then i says (once again keeping in mind that he works in food service, and i never really have) "well if you had ever worked in food service, you would know that" trying to imply that he should know better than i since he works in a restaurant and i never have. he decided to come back with: "well ive worked in a restaurant for over a year, and you never have, so i know infinitely more than you about it."

um, you should probably cover up. your ignorance is showing.

i mean, all of that stuff aside, who puts tartar sauce on salmon?