The “so you’re a rapper” Thanksgiving dinner table conversation always feels super awkward
– via @LuckyovLegend. Luckyiam is kind of great. (via otherhiphop) Via Vacant 51
When will hip-hop hurry up and die?
The “Death of …” piece is a genre of criticism that’s fallen into disrepute (there was a period when you’d be constantly tripping over essays announcing the End of something: art, theory, rock, rave ). People now seem to feel that “no genre ever really dies” (to adapt the Neptunes/NERD motto). Was this in fact one of the problems with the Noughties? No genre went gently into that good night: they all clung on, cluttering up the musical landscape. This not only made it harder for new things to emerge, it’s meant that we’ve all come to forget that, in fact, totally new things have emerged in the past. There was, for instance, a time when hip-hop didn’t exist. The refusal to admit that a genre can die (which doesn’t mean literally disappear – it may even generate good stuff now and then –but refers to stagnation, irrelevance, becoming uncoupled from the zeitgeist) is a denial of the possibility of change, renewal, the unexpected. The very vitality of a form of music implies the possibility of its eventual death.
Mos Def & Tablib Kweli feat. the girls from Dirty Projectors - History (live on Fallon)
Blllaaaaaaaackstaaarrrrr.
Via a jazzy collegiate
oh my god i just found the greatest gif ever tumblr you're welcome
Via Watch Out for Sharp Objects
moepeep:themattsmith:mercurypdx:samarie:clearmylungs:inflightradio:
Girls in the snow are way hotter than girls in the sand. just sayin
Emotions - “Blind Alley” (1971)
Sampled by:
- 112 - “In Love with You”
- 3rd Bass - “Product of the Environment”
- A Tribe Called Quest - “Phony Rappers”
- A Tribe Called Quest - “Scenario”
- Alkaholiks - “Who Dem Niggas”
- AMG - “Jiggable Pie”
- Big Daddy Kane - “Ain’t No Half Steppin’”
- Black AG - “There it Is”
- Brand Nubian - “Alladat”
- Chubb Rock - “Organizer”
- Craig Mack - “Funk Wit Da Style”
- Das EFX - “Jussummen”
- Das EFX - “Klap Ya Handz”
- Ed O.G. - “Go Up and Up”
- Ed O.G. - “I’m Different”
- EPMD - “Brothers from Brentwood LI”
- Gang Starr - “Comin’ for Datazz”
- Ice Cube - “We Had to Tear this Motherfucker Up”
- Innosense - “A Real Good Man”
- King Sun - “Sippin’ Brandy”
- King Tee - “Duck”
- Leaders of the New School - “Sound of the Zeekers”
- LL Cool J - “Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag”
- Lords of the Underground - “Psycho”
- Makeba & Skratch - “Mentally Fitness”
- Mariah Carey - “Dream Lover”
- Massive Attack - “Any Love”
- Melvin Riley - “I’m Going Through a Thang”
- Mormon Ghetto Projectz ft X-Caliber - “Intro-section + Turn the Tables”
- Nikki D - “The Beauty Shop”
- P King - “It�s Fundamental”
- P King - “Sleepaway Camp”
- P-King - “Wicked and Nasty”
- Pharcyde - “4 Better or 4 Worse”
- Redhead Kingpen - “We Don’t Have a Plan B”
- Redman - “Redman Meets Reggie Noble”
- Sweet N Lo - “All in How You Bag It”
- Trilogy - “Good Time”
- Wreckx-N-Effect - “Rump Shaker”
I love this song. I used to listen this on some tape i had when i was a kid, over and over.
I finally have good news to report: the Sri Lankan government announced this past Saturday that the displaced civilians unlawfully trapped in internment camps will be free to come and go…
read this!
(via antikris)
my roomate just shot me the oddest look, because reading this made me laugh unexpectedly and i choked on my laugh…
wtf
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