11/12/2007

One of the most pleasant sounding phrases in the English language...

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Crack cocaine capital of Connecticut. Seriously, say it again, not thinking of blight or nothing. Just focus on those nice crackling sounds....
3/22/2007

and now, a public service announcement.

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(Deleted...Excellence is strictly for the filthy, filthy act of self-promotion.) That being said, this dude is a little too prolific and all...
3/09/2007

No Context#

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#Cornyness avoided: If I ever have a family, our Holiday cards are going to feature our efforts to replicate this classic. I'll play Ic...
3/08/2007

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Now even cats in Williamsburg/ Greenpoint are yuppies. (Found via the always-worthwhile Gothamist )
3/07/2007

"Little Lies" (Fleetwood Mac, Tango In The Night)

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Next in what I think might becoming a new EP, at least in my head, consisting of tracks created almost entirely from Fleetwood Mac samples, ...
3/06/2007

"Ho" (Ludacris, Back for the First Time)

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Rarely do the free papers give you anything you can't get elsewhere, but NY Metro hit ESPN right on the head , deservedly. It's bad ...
3/05/2007

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" (Grandmaster Flash)

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Highly, highly recommended today for beat junkies: Fresh Air on NPR. Seriously. You get Melle Mel talking about "The Message" and...

"Onomatopoeia" (Todd Rundgren, The Hermit Of Mink Hollow)

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Quote of the day, source which I failed to write down: "If there was ever a word that sounds like what it is, it's 'scrotum....
3/02/2007

"Happy Birthday" (Stevie Wonder, Hotter Than July) [Except, you know, act like it's about me and my 26th birthday instead of MLK. I guess.]

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Oh, and for that dude who seemed perturbed at missing the YouSendIt link yesterday for the Mac song (not to be confused with "Return Of...
3/01/2007

"I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Fleetwood Mac, Tusk)

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I've been thinking lately about recording another album...EP, maybe...but the biggest problem is that I've been thinking more about ...
2/26/2007

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Out of my window I saw a four-foot guy (approx.) in thick black framed glasses and a vintage ski coat. And I think I just came up with a gre...
2/21/2007

"Sum Shit I Wrote" (Common [Sense], Resurrection)

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Felt like cleaning out some ol' shit lying around my cellar; this one, a little doodle I wrote in the Fix before it even had a record sh...
2/19/2007

"Holiday Rap" (MC Miker G and DJ Sven)

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In honor of your day off, I present to you possibly the worst rap song ever. I first heard this one at about 4 a.m. on Mexican radio on my w...
2/17/2007

"Pokerface" (Ghostface [Killah], More Fish

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Someone once asked me... MIKE said... Suggested blog topic: Why do white people like Ghostface so much? I'll tell you what, I'm W...
2/16/2007

Miles Davis Shouldn't Rap #4: Easy Mo Bee

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Easy Mo Bee created "Flava In Ya Ear" for Craig Mack, "I Love The Dough" for Biggie (which I've actually come aroun...

"Pimpin' Ain't Easy" (Big Daddy Kane, It's A Big Daddy Thing)

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Oh dear god. As my friend Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (one of the auteurs behind the Lincoln piggy assassination, clip below) put it, right i...
2/15/2007

Miles Davis Shouldn't Rap #3: "The Doo Bop Song"

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"The Doo Bop Song" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, possibly. Which explains why it's attached to the dumbest post on...

"Dollar Bill" (Count Bass D, Begborrowsteal)

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Saw a guy wearing a black Yankees cap, of a sort, waiting for the E train to move from 23rd-Ely. It had a golden hundred dollar bill pattern...
2/14/2007

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother." -Abraham Lincoln

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(My friend Matthew Schneider-Mayerson wrote the below introduction for his video I'm putting up per his request. I have yet to see it, b...

Miles Davis Shouldn't Rap #2: "Human Nature"

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(Presently I don't have the song file necessary to finish this post, second of a series on Miles Davis' Doo Bop , but later today, a...
2/13/2007

"What?" (Devin The Dude, To Tha X-Treme)

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Seriously, I'd heard of it before, but what is this bullshit? (Sorry that's not a free NYT article anymore, but I picked it of a pa...

"Working Class Hero" (John Lennon, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band)

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I'm not sure what this is beyond being a semi-esoteric brief monologue built from a stolen quote that sort of baffled my friend Nick, b...
2/12/2007

Miles Davis Shouldn't Rap #1

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Today is the first day of an attempt to truly understand what a bad record actually is. A daily analysis of Doo Bop , one of the most inexpl...

No Context Necessary #4

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"Si Acabo (La Malanga)" (Bobby Hutcherson, Montara)

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The most well-known quote from Malcolm Lowry's Under The Volcano translates oddly online. "¿LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN, QUE ES SUYO? ¡EV...