Snoop Dogg, who is currently promoting his shitty single with The-Dream (LOOK AT THIS VIDEO NOW, FOR IT WILL FORCE YOU TO MAKE LITTLE CUTS ON YOUR LEG AND EAT YOUR HAIR!) sits down to talk about how he hated on Soulja Boy and other such twats that somehow make music that, even compared to the declining quality of Snoop’s shit, still manages to sound like a dying sloth on a pyre. No Snoop, you weren’t hating on Soulja Boy, it was just your natural, gut, human instinct to listen to his music and bash your head into the wall. But in this day and age, we do not expect Hip-Hop to have the internal checks and balances it had so many years ago. Snoop, God bless him, is just realizing this and said “Fuck it, I’m already a legend.”
This is a video of Talib Kweli talking about how Kanye West would horrify the Talib Kweli audience back when they would tour together. Ye would also try to turn rap shows into Moulin Rogue, which Kweli frowned upon. That Kanye West is such a rapscallion! But according to Kweli, we should nurture and be grateful for these antics. I, for one, am totally appreciative since I get to blog about it. Aside from that, well, let’s just say God Bless Talib Kweli.
Over a month late on this, but my recent subscription to The Rub has yielded the quintessential Jay-Z mixtape, featuring a pre-bubble wrapped Hova. “…I wanted to go back and pull out a bunch of his music that made you bob your head, marvel at his flow, puff out your chest, or even raise the little hairs on the back of your neck. The feelings you got from songs like “Where I’m From,” “D’Evils,” “1-900-Hustler” and “You Don’t Know.” Not included: #1 singles you’ve heard a million times, lazy one-take flows, lyrics about inventing the button-down shirt, songs dissing rappers who would later be signed to Jay-Z’s label, and songs produced by Eminem.” — “D.O.J.: Best of Jay-Z Mix” The Rub
With The NovaJava Blend, my goal is to complete a ton of unfinished blends on my hard drive and deliver them to you on a (fairly) weekly basis. They will cover a range of sounds and approaches-R&B/Soul, House, Hip-Hop, Pop, commercial, underground, new, old, fresh and forgotten. There will be occasions when a blend is anchored by something brand new, but the goal of the project isn’t indiscriminately dropping new shit for GP. Enjoy, and feel free to send suggestions and tracks to novaslim@gmail.com.
Ever since Myspace became Facebook’s bottom bitch it’s been walking around in a perpetual shrug like it doesn’t know why it sucks. But you and I know, don’t we? It’s ugly, mainly. Not since the days of Blackplanet and Tripod have personal web spaces been so eye-rapey. They just let people do anything, which is sort of the Internet’s gift and curse. But Facebook and Twitter, thankfully, have imposed “fuckery limits” which is why they are so popular. This is a fact. So now, desperate ugly Myspace is on some AOL shit, reinventing itself as a “destination for entertainment”, which makes sense since News Corp’s digital chief is Jonathan Miller–a former Exec at AOL that has experience with failing enterprises.
But what Miller fails to realize is reinventing Myspace won’t make any difference if I’m not visiting and logging into my account. Think about it: Are those remaining three friends you know that haven’t made the switch to Facebook worth logging in for? Absolutely not. They are weird.
News Corp. digital chief: MySpace ‘kind of stopped’ — CNet