breaking news?

1. the olympics are over? hmmm i missed it. i heard a mexican won america a medal but that he wasn't a legal citizen. that about sums up the olympics for me ... i did see some diving and that's always hot ... how they do that shit. i love gymnastics but i missed that too.


2. michelle obama made a speech? lol missed that too! i have retired from the remainder of this presidential race. i mean ... i'm still loving how america is all lost in translation now that there is a black candidate but other than that ... i'ma vote for barack and ... i don't expect much else to change in amerikkka. oh, unless WE the PEOPLE become better human beings. the dnc convention is a dog and pony show. watch them wag the dog. either way michelle obama is the shit if for no other reason than her fits is super fashion forward ... and i heard she gave a bomb ass speech yesterday. google it yaself.

3. e-40 is the new savior of hip hop?! this is the worst news yet ... LOL ... i'm in my new car listening to the radio and shit and this song comes on ... the intro is all about how this song was going to give hip hop substance again and people think hip hop is dead and nobody aint rappin about nothing anymore ... except ... e-40. really? google that yourself too. the song really isn't worth listening to again.

4. andre benjamin has no new album coming out. but i wish he did and that it was all rap.

5. someone (a very good BROTHER LOL) put me on to this site: http://hiphoprepublican.com ... you already know where i'm going with this? WHO GIVES A FUCK IF YOU LISTEN TO HIP HOP AND YOU REPUBLICAN?? do you think that is like being a DOWN-ASS republican? or is it a synonym for COOL republican? does it cancel out the fact that you're a shit-for-brains republican? LOL i am jus playing ... but mcCain aint ... he will throw your hip hopper ass under the bus too. good luck with that and let me know how it works out!

5. it rained for three days straight in atlanta.

6. the sun came out! (then it rained again while the sun was out)


7. and i just realized michelle obama has the same kind of dimple on the side of her chin like me!

lost in translation: ludacris is politically here

ooooo i love it! more overt examples of hip hop's engagemnet in politics ...

i am sure some of you have heard about obama and ludacris ... ludacris made a song, "politics: obama is here," and obama denounced it blah blah ...

of course obama denounced it! hip hop is still villified ... he can't be associated with us clown ass negroes ... and i'm glad he knows it ... he knows how to play the game.

moving on: the song is hilarious and great! i just love hearing on my speakers "hillary hated so that bitch is irrelevant." YES! IRRELEVANT :) here's a clip of the song:



in the world of hip hop we all understand that ludacris did not in fact call hillary a bitch but referred to her using the pronoun, "bitch." now, the outside world and most presidential campaign managers will translate this song much differently (as they already have) ....

why do i love to hear this shit on my speakers? because it's art and opinion. it is not fact. i like to hear my experience expressed out loud and in public. i like to hear my world reflected in my speakers. it's also known as --- FREEDOM OF SPEECH. nothing more, nothing less.

you can read more and/or listen to an npr broadcast on this topic.

i can't wait for the fuckin REMIX bitches ..... ;0

hip hop cadillasick #4081

i'ma be highlighting some hip hop classicks ery now and again ... because. i want to.

first and last time: a classic sticks with you through time. classics are timeless even if they capture a specific moment of time and truth.

A) this first one is a joint i'd love to hear at a party ... but no one ever plays it.

B) this song captures the spirit of hip hop in the mid to late nineties --- q-tip and mobb deep on the same song rapping bout materialism and alchohol ... and by materialism i mean that gear we used to rock ... what was i doing in size 38 guess? jeans???!

C) the track is dope - i don't think you can hear the fly horns so good or the bassline on computer speakers but we gon do our best ...

D) favorite line: "and guess? was hot/so guess what"

E) bonus* question: on what song does q-tip reference #4080?

(to listen you will have to turn off the page music -- to your right and scroll down to turn off the music player ...)

love triangle tangle

1) first, i want to bring your attention to the fact that obama mentioned weezy B. in a speech and here is what he said:

"You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil' Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school," Obama, D-Ill., told a cheering crowd, brought to a standing ovation at a town hall meeting in Powder Springs, Georgia.

&The presumptive Democratic nominee was speaking about high school drop out rates and the need for people to be committed to working hard in school so they can get a job after school.

Obama said he knows some young men think they can't find a job unless they are a really good basketball player.

"Which most of you brothas are not," Obama, who played basketball in high school, a sport he continues to play to this day, said jokingly. "I know you think you are, but you're not. You are over-rated in your own mind. You will not play in the NBA."

2) second, i want you all to read how TIME is analyzing the connections between obama, weezy, hip hop, and blackness in a swampland blog titled, "the politics of lil wayne". i want to reserve my opinion about this blog ... and then i don't.

3) my opinion: the TIME blog is condescending and ever more illuminating about the culture clash between white and black america ... or money vs. poverty ... or youth vs. oldheads ... whichever way you want to group folks ...

it's a clash and there is something lost in translation.

i think hip hop has always been political; TIME mag might consider it "crude" but that's a value judgement. cuz i think highwaters are kinda crude. and i bet most of the TIME staff got their pants jacked up under their chests.

hip hop is political but it just don't fit in a little box. hip hop has always engaged contemporary politics and current events. hip hop doesn't belong to a political party. that is a limited idea of political. hip hop comments on the human condition which to me is ... political. hip hop advocates for individual, civil, and human rights on the regular ... and that ... is ... POLITICAL.

4) i love hip hop ... and i am woman. i am so tired of people trying to make hip hop ANTI-WOMAN.
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& hip hop loves ME back.

it probly don't love you cuz you act like a BITCH, BITCH.

yeah i said that ... and if you know hip hop you know how i mean it.

and if you don't know what the fuck just happened don't ASSUME, don't take it personal ... listen to more hip hop.

geraldine is dirt

i read in a blog that geraldine ferraro was on TV talking more smack ... that ... woman ... had the nerve to talk shit about hip hop ... she insinuated that all hip hop is sexist .... she complained about barack obama referencing jay z's "dirt on ya shoulders" song ... she cited that as an example of how SEXIST this democratic primary has been ...

hip hop still has a bad name (duh) ... even after all the money it has yielded for sprite (and others of course) ... even after geraldine's own kids (does she have kids??) run out to buy the latest lupe fiasco or kanye west album ... even after all that, people - the elderly especially - associate hip hop with darkness, crime, depravity, mysogyny, low slung jeans, baggy clothes, guns, materialism, and noise ... i just wanted it on record ...

i cannot muster up any fuckin love for THAT WOMAN right now and i'm trying not to cuss her name, shit it's hard ... she just so racist, paranoid, ignorant, fake feminist ... she needs to shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down ...

i should just brush my shoulders off ...

(but i'd rather smack her in the mouth!)