The Return of Jigga Man

I think its over for some of you rappers. Jigga cut is hair so he's serious and that means BP 3 is over. I'm not really looking forward to BP3, but I'm feeling his energy on this track

RIP MJ

I took friday off from blogging. Not because I thought it was appropriate to take a day off to mourn Michael Jackson. Not because I was lazy. It was because I did not want to just blog just to blog about MJ. If I am going to blog about Michael Jackson I wanted it to be relevant to how he affected my life and my youth. WIth that, I wanted to include the top 10 things that I think about when I think about Michael. RIP. The music world, and the world in general, has lost one of the greatest ever.

10.) My bad cassette that I let my brother borrow when I was a kid. I never got it back and it haunted me for a long time. It was my favorite cassette ever.

9.) Catching the premiere of the black and white video and the ending where he smashes up the cars. they never played it with that part again

8.) Playing Thriller at bar mitzvahs and watching little white kids dance and know the dance routines

7.) Playing Jackson 5 at weddings and seeing the faces of the couples dance and sing along to I'll be there

6,) The first time I heard a DJ mix sexyback into Billie Jean. I promptly started incorporating that into my sets

5.) Recognizing Detective Torres from New York Undercover in the Beat It video and wondering how you go from being a back up dancer to actor

4.) Playing Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on Sega Genesis and making sure the shooting star hit me so I turned into the robot. and all the impromptu dance scenes in the game

3.) Trying to figure out who was Diana in the Dirty Diana video. It was like a mystery to me

2.) Smooth Criminal. This will always be my favorite MJ video and song. For the longest I never even knew what he was saying but it didn't matter. I still sung along always. When we did that lean in our step show a few years back, I always thought of that.

1.) Randomly catching Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on MTV or VH1. It was a great movie. And you can tell how into Mike someone is if they have never even seen the movie. You're not a fan if you haven't. I'm Sorry.

Breaking News

I had to take a day off from the Top Ten for a small reason folks, bear with me.....

So unless you been under a rock today, you have heard that Shaq has been traded to the Cavaliers. Now most of us heard that this was possible but did not expect it. I for one did not want to see it happen. Granted there aren't a lot of of big men (pause) in the NBA, to take one of the oldest ones just did not seem to make sense for the Cavs. But, the Cavs showed their biggest weakness (in my opinion) is having no real center or big man to handle the likes of Dwight Howard down low. Now my question is, if the Cavs win the ring next year, is it going to be another "Oh Shaq won the ring" situation. Everyone began to say that LA's 3 year run was all Shaq and nothing to do with Kobe. Then they said that Heat won because of Shaq and nothing to do with D Wade. Now there is NO WAY you can say that it's all Shaq not Lebron, thats impossible. RIght? Now if thats the case, can we go back and argue that it wasn't Shaq that it was actually Kobe and Wade. Kobe has won a ring without Shaq now, but that still hasn't put the haters to rest (no I am not a Kobe stan). What are your thoughts?

Lightas In Da Air!!!

on my reggae tip today. check some of the hottest songs of now and past

I Might Get This For Kicks

T-Pain. First He Was The Biggest Coon. Now The Biggest Sell Out

Many people called T-Pain a coon for some of his songs and autotuning. Then they sang his praises. But now, I have to think we have to consider him for the biggest sell out award. He did a song with Taylor Swift, which would seem like a great thing in terms of his acceptance in music genres. Unfortunately the song is wack. Taylor decides she wants to be a rapper. A singer turned rapper as she says. And for some reason, I feel like T-Pain wrote her 16. Even the lines about being a gangster that bakes caramel delites. At first the video was humorous. But now, I just hate the fact it exists.

Thug Story - Taylor Swift ft. T-Pain from Sam Jas on Vimeo.

The Other Side of Darth Vader

Hodgepodge

Various things for the end of the week

Jumpoff and Tahiry go to counseling

Pushing Buddens from jeff on Vimeo.

New Busta Rhymes video. Go cop the album if you haven't yet



The unapproved MVP commercial

Top Ten Things Not Poppin

Its a bleek day today...so lets talk about the Top Ten Things Not Poppin

10). Rain in Chicago..its June

9.) Baseball...sorry not into it. Especially when its that summer gap and theres no sports on except baseball (and cycling, my hidden favorite sport)

8.) Vitamin Water 10...just tastes like a sugar plum fairy pissed in a bottle.

7.) Twitter bots...I dont need fake porn stars following me. just the real ones

6.) Women in leggings...who shouldn't be

5.) Men in leggings...never should be

4.) Rapper beef. Eventually I get over anyone's beef.

3.) Trade rumors of Shaq to the Cavs...I aint with it

2.) This damn cold I got. Damn swines running around

1.) Rain in NY....I can't be washed out my first summer in NY. Thats no bueno.

Back to Flight School

Another artist I think you guys should check out. This is Esso hailing from Harlem,NY. I heard bout him awhile back on a few blogs, now he's pushing through again with a video for this freestyle to Flight School. Apart from having some hot punchlines and metaphors the video itself looks like it could be on MTV or BET (if they still played videos). Check it out and look out for more from Esso

Esso - Flight School (E009) from Puma, TheProgram, LLC on Vimeo.

War. What Is It Good For? Hopefully Blog Hits

So I was walking today and thinking to myself why you never hear about Perez Hilton going at Nicole Beotchie. I decided I wanted to start a blog war. So I twittered about it.



To which I got a reply....




Now @Leighdav is a great person who I have had the pleasure of meeting. But she just decided to give me a couple jabs! With that said, the gloves are off, as Diddy said, the warning shots are going off and I am declaring war on www.leighdav.com!!!


Unfortunately, I am not sure what blog war consists of because me throwing hate on her site will just get her more hits and leave me with a fan base that is unsure of exactly what the hell I'm doing.

So we're at a stalemate.

MLIA

Back to the Future Was One of My Favorite Movies

Saw these this weekend on highsnobiety, and I just might have to find these. The Nike Hypermax NFW aka The Marty Mcfly. I watched ALL the back to the future movies as a kid, multiple times, and I def remember these. Check the swoosh that glows in the dark.



More pics via highsnobiety

For all the marbles

Took friday off, so I'm making it up today. Tonight Kobe and the Lakers look to close out on their ring against the Magic. Now I wanted to see the Kobe Lebron matchup just like anyone else. With Lebron at home I'm supporting Kobe. I'm not a fan or a stan, I am a SUPPORTER. With that said, I wanted to put everyone up on a new artist I heard about named XV. He did a promo video for the Magic for his song "Now Look". Unfortunately the promo didn't make it to TV, but I found it online. All you Magic fans enjoy it for the video. Everyone else, feel special that you have heard about this kid before he blows up

Top Ten Average

If you havent checked out mylifeisaverage.com you should. It offers quick amusement. Here goes the top ten things I read this morning on there....

10) Today I sent out a group email and included myself in the "Sent to" list. I sent it, and one second later got an alert saying I had a new email. I was excited for a moment, and then remembered it was the one I had sent to myself. MLIA

9) Today, I took a quiz on where I should really live, I got Virginia. I live in Virginia

8) Today I took a test on a scantron sheet. After I finished, I checked to see if the dots that I filled in made a picture or word. They didn't.

7) My Costco card has been expired for five years. I still flash it to the people at the door so I can go in and eat free samples

6) Today this girl I like greeted me by touching my arm as she walked past. I flexed a little in hopes that she would ask if I had been working out. She didn't.

5) Today I went to the bathroom. The toilet was automatic so it was supposed to flush itself but it didn't. I re-enacted getting up from the toilet seat again to get it to flush itself.

4) Today I had to ask my brother a question. He was in the room next to me. Instead of getting up and asking I sent a facebook message

3) Today, I was pulling out of a parking lot and saw a van about to back up into me. Instead of honking my horn, I just yelled NOOO! They saw me.

2) Today, I drove to the McDonalds in the next town because I went to the McDonalds in my town yesterday and I was afraid the people at the drive-thru would recognize and judge me.

1) Today, my family had Chinese food. But since we're Chinese, we just call it food

Dear Summer...I Blame You

Well, the Death of Autotune tracks have started to pop off. Young Trey Songz decides to rip it (eh.) and go at the one and only Kelz. Its an ok diss, I'm just glad someone finally went at Kelz. and he clowns him too. Check it

The Good Ol' Days

A few years back, when I was in highschool, I knew there only 3 music crews I would EVER want to be a part of. Ruff Ryders, Shady Aftermath, and Rocafella. The Double R pretty much dismantled. Shady Aftermath is making a comeback of sorts. Rocafella is now Roc Nation and looks NOTHING like what I remembered. With that said, some videos of the classic R.O.C. surfaced this past week and it brought memories of the Roc of past. Watch the clips and see what used to be the best in hip hop. They were unstoppable every summer. Now summer belongs to....thats TBD. Its da roc you bastards!

Where he at...

Awhile back there was a track with an infectious sample of Dawn Penn's no no no that Scram Jones flipped to spawn what looked to be a promising career of rapper Jae Millz. Then he seemed to be poised for greatness after he battled E.Ness from MTV's Making The Band. Now Millz was on the national scene. But a screwed up record deal left Millz on the shelf. Until the great one, Lil' Wayne saw him on tv and with the flick of his iced up wrist, Millz is now part of Young Money Cash Money. While he'll probably play 2nd lieutenant to Drizzy Drake Rogers, Wayne clearly has some faith in him, putting him on the Every Girl track. Below, lets look at the development of Millz's career and hopefully we'll keep adding more to it.

no no no - Jae Millz

Young Money - Every Girl (ORIGINAL) from Moe Arora on Vimeo.

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The internet, twitter, bloggers, DJs, doctors, politicians, and etc are buzzing because of Jay-Z's new track , Death of Autotune. Now initially I was not going to comment about it. But since there is so much "hype" around it, I am taking my day off to write about it.

Now personally, I don't think the track is that great. I really haven't enjoyed any of the stuff supposedly on Blueprint 3. Its too American Gangster like, and I feel Jay is reaching for his Reasonable Doubt feeling. And naturally we all want another Reasonable Doubt, but Jay's days of being able to relate to that are gone. Now everyone is saying that Jay needs to give it up because he has nothing left to talk about. To those haters I say, have you stopped listening to Wayne talking about syrup? Jeezy about trapping? TI about rubberbands? Drake about women?? Ok, I didn't think so. Jay's age does not take away from his life experience he puts in his music. Nor has the culture from which he came changed THAT much. Marcy is still Marcy. Jay is still the best (notice I say best, not greatest. See my previous post about Renegades to see why I personally don't give him the crown).

Now to comment on the "death of autotune" Yes, we all hated it[autotune] at first, and yes we all grew to accept it and like it. And do not go around now saying Jigga is dissing Pain, Wayne and Kanye. If you listen to his interview with Flex and Cee, he commends them for its use. And he def aint going to hate on Drake for using it seeing as Drake will probably be the only rookie on the Blueprint 3. Jay is just saying its not for everyone. Just like he said his path and lifestyle was not for everyone. Now I don't expect T-Pain to come out and try to Ether Jay. We don't want to see a T-Pain Jay-Z battle. And none of the major artists that use autotune will dream of going at Hov. But realize now that if anyone else besides those 3 Jay has said are good at it, they will be clowned

Also, people are saying Jay is going at hipsters. He went at them like Swagger Like Us. Jadakiss has gone at them. Styles has gone at them. He's just sayin thats not his idea of hip hop. Thats all the song is. Jay saying, look this is not my hip hop, this is how it was and should be. Just like people said hey I don't like gangsta rap its trash. It's no Kurtis Blow or Sugarhill gang. And we see where NWA is in the history books.

This post went longer than I expected, but all these Jay-Z DOA haters and stans are killing me. Take the song for what it is. Jay-Z's reflection on the state of hip hop and what he sees it for. It's not a diss track. It's not about to start a war in hip hop between hipsters, autotuners, and everyone else. As Jay said, "It's only music."

Friday....

Just somethings I found this week that I couldn't fit in (pause) but thought the viewers would enjoy

What you say?

Top Then Thursday this week...and we tackle a tough topic. The Top Ten Things Guys Like To Hear In The Morning...


10) I'm ok, should I take care of you first?

9) Can we do that again?

8) I brought my own toothbrush

7) The game's on, heres the remote.

6) There's no game on, I turned on Madden for you

5) I'm going to Vickies, anything specific I should buy?

4) I'm going to Foot Action, you want anything?

3) I found the tape. I deleted it.

2) How do you like your eggs?

1) I'm leaving.


HA!(in Jadakiss voice)

Renegade 2?

So apparently Jigga man and Marshall teamed up to perform for a party for DJ Here (No I am not looking forward to that game). I got the clip below. My hope is that maybe...just maybe, Jay will man up and do a Renegade 2. In my eyes, until Jay does a part 2 he fears Eminem's lyrical skills. We all know Em ripped Renegade and Jay has done a song with everyone and their mom since then, but never another with Em. Now that Em moved 600k his first week, maybe Jay will reconsider

This looks familiar...

So I been hearing about 2 new girl groups, Elektrik Redd?? and Rich Girl. I had seen and heard Redd before (wasn't impressed lyrically. They better off shooting magazine covers) but I never heard Rich Girl. Until a few days ago I came across their video on Fader.com I'm posting it below, but to me it reminds me of the debut of another 4 female deep group not too long ago. What do yall think?

De de de de damn

I always been a fan of F-A-B-O, ever since his first album Ghetto Fabolous. He's putting out good albums that have been very underrated (except maybe Street Dreams, I wasn't a fan of that). His album is the only other one I'm looking forward to for this summer. Loso's way should be dropping sometime soon. Here we got his new video with The Dream, Throw It In The Bag (also starring Claudia Jordan, my favorite Deal or No Deal girl turned Celebrity Apprentice contestant). I'm also throwing in the video for It's My Time. I like how he took a music video and turned it into a movie preview for his album. Don't know how I feel about the "Throw It In The Bag Dance" though. Shout out to The Runners on the beat for My Time. Florida repping