March 2012
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“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via transformfeminism)
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a grammar: björk →
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Right now, Björk’s in the middle of a month-long New York “residency” built around her last album, Biophilia, a whole multifaceted project that feels a little more imagination-capturing now, in person, than it did when the album was released last fall, and critics tried to make sense of it alone.
RECOMMENDED READING: Here the best music writer in America talks to Bjork and analyzes...
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“In 2002 if you told me that Limp Bizkit and Ashanti would be signed to a label...”
– Some guy on Reddit (via kingjaffejoffer)
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“This is not addressed primarily to white people. It does not put you down in...”
– Nina Simone before performing “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” (via dionthesocialist)
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Cartoon & Cereal - Kendrick Lamar f/ Gunplay →
THC (the most progressive of the TDE’s unfukwitable production collective) traps angels in a super Nintendo gaming console and replace Mario & Luigi with Kendrick and Gunplay and instead of The Kupas they fight WSCP
yes, it’s damn near incredible
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BIG BEAST - Killer Mike f/ Bun B, T.I. & Trouble... →
this is Black Militant war zone shrapnel gangster rap. this is the best rap song you’ll hear all week. Killer & El’s Rebel African People’s Music album drops 5/15 according to richdork; and Jeff Weiss says its awesome, he’s usually on point.
courtesy of Potholes In My Blog
T.I. & Trouble are rappin’ over El-P! the rap world right now is strange and...
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Fuck Rappers - Planet Asia f/ Willie The Kid &... →
It’s been a nice couple of days for rap fans.
First up courtesy of Ego Trip, West Coast vet Planet Asia links up with over-looked youngins Fashawn and Willie The Kid to talk about rappers…
yeah rappin’ about rappers-n-rappin’ got played out a decade ago, but here, in particular Willie, make us old headz feel like it’s ‘99… murderin’ shit with...
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Ava Duvernay becomes the first Black Woman to win... →
Ava Duvernay who directed one of the best music doc’s of recent memory with This Is The Life about the Good Life emcees and scene in South Central, LA, just won best director at Sundance. Last year she directed one of the better independent films with I Will Follow, now her next feature Middle of Nowhere gets top critical love. #Awesome and i wanna be like Ava when i grow up!
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All Answers are first to pop into head with NO Order, sans #2
1: my top 10 favourite bands.
Th Roots, Jimi & The Experience, Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machine, Sabbath, The Stooges, Miles' 2nd major Quintet (Herbie, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Tony), Herbie & The Headhunters, Radiohead, The Mars Volta
2: my top 10 favourite albums: (Post 2000)
1. Voodoo, 2. De-Loused In The Comatorium, 3. Cold Vein, 4. Madvillliany, 5. Fantastic Vol. II, 6. Like Water For Chocolate, 7. Supreme Clientele, 8. The Unseen, 9. Cosmogramma, 10. In Rainbows
3: my top 10 favourite songs (only rap)
Scenario, Bring the Pain, C.R.E.A.M., Guillotine, 2U4U, I Want To Get High, Electric Relaxation, Good Day, Lodi Dodi (Snoop version), D'Evils
4: top 10 most attractive musicians in my opinion (dead or alive).
skip
5: do i listen to mp3s/cds/cassettes/vinyls.
all
6: most overrated bands.
The Beatles, The Beatles and The Beatles, also Metallica and 98% of the shit Pitchfork give best new music to
7: most underrated bands.
The Mars Volta, Radiohead, The Black Keys muhahahaha
8: a guilty pleasure.
FutureSexLoveSounds or Kelis related shit
9: the first band i really liked.
since it says band: the Roots, or to not be rappy-oriented Rage
10: the first album i bought with my own money.
first album, shit, uhmmm Wrath of The Math?; but this is an odd question since dubs where so big in my neighborhood that i was listenin' to lps for 6 years before i started buying actual lps in late 96 / early 97
11: what bands my parents got me into.
Marvin, Al Green, Earth WInd & Fire, Vincente Fernandez, Rosio Dulca
12: bands i have seen live.
i'll answer it this way, the only people i want to see live that i haven't seen are Erykah, The Black Keys, The Volta and Tribe
13: bands i want to see live.
see #12
14: my favourite film soundtrack.
Soul In The Hole or High School High
15: what song am i listening to right now.
Quest's Hot 97 hour long Dilla set
16: last album i bought.
Undun and El Camino
17: a song i dislike from my favourite band.
I'll select from Radiohead "Spinning Plates"
18: a band i used to love but now hate.
Incubus, not that i hate them but i just don't check for 'em no mo'... wait Korn is a better answer
19: least favourite bands.
bands i don't listen to obvisouly
20: an unpopular opinion about music.
check #6, also The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Endtroducing are the most over-rated albums of recent memory, Get Rich or Die Tryin' is terrible, Gucci Mane, Waka Flaka, Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy SUCK!!! like they make very shitty rap music (would say Lil' B but i like 2% of his 500,000 songs and he's good for rap)
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“The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at...”
– James Baldwin on Michael Jackson, 1985
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“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot...”
– Audre Lorde (via dreamhampton1)
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“In real love there is no relationship, because there are not two persons to be...”
– Osho (via flaneur-)
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