Dam-Funk & Benji B Deviation l London

Dam-Funk DJ'd a set and interviewed in London for the first time at Benji B's Deviation party on BBC 1xtra.

Re-upped:

Sharebee

The Low-Road Warrior

Image from NYT

+Mudslinging will damage McCain’s brand—but it may be the only way he can win: New York Magazine.

O'Jays l Put Your Hands Together (Video)

Fulsome has not shut down... Simply, I am a father of a three-plus-week son/sun an thus bee-beaver-busy, ya dig?

My wife is a fan of music, not as exaggerated as me, nevertheless, moments ago while cooking red potatoes , pan-fried, hash browns (I'm a former head-chef too, word...) she asked me to play The O'Jays. In between filling the request I performed a deft internet search and found the latter embedded vid. Watching this video reminds me of the 13 months I worked as an consultant for EPA through CSC wherein I found salvage in Soul Train-lines. Whenever the work-week required 50+ hours I played Soul Train d-lines that I had/have saved on my portable external hard drive, to keep my spirits up. Who knew Soul Train-line watching was homoestatic?

More apt to the point, my cousin, Master Melquan who introduced Nas to The Large Professor which is how Nas landed on Live At The Barbeque and thus Illmatic was born, who DJ'd on Sunny Day In Harlem taped every Soul Train-line from the late 80's to early 90's - waiting until the last ten minutes of ST to record on VHS the ST-line. As a teens we watched hours of nonstop ST-lines while laughing for hours - therein this was where I developed my appreciation for the beauty of ST and its line.

...I'm still here ticking with time. "And yeah", (as the expression goes) put your hands together for my familial addition. 'Til next time...

Salmoned-Colored Shirt Misprision

M-W word of the day: misprision /mis-PRIZH-un/
*2: misunderstanding, misinterpretation

Killer Mike on Sean Bell

Per XXL's print magazine of Sept. 2008: The Year of POLITICS & BULLSH#T:

Killer Mike was asked the following question regarding the April 25, 2008 acquitytal of the three NYPD officers involved in the 2006 shooting death of Sean Bell:

What was your logical and emotional reaction when you heard about the acquittals?

I wish them death, and I hope they get cancer, and I hope it's incurable, and I hope their family has to watch them die a slow death. That's my natural reaction, seriously.

Crooked I: Internet (Freestyle)

Per XXL's print magazine of Sept. 2008: The Year of POLITICS & BULLSH#T:
Long Beach, California native created one of the biggest buzzes as he leaked a new song every week for an entire year under the "Hip-Hop Weekly" banner. Crooked I. CI freestyled the following relative how the internet affected him and Hip-Hop in general. Below are my favorite excerpts, of a MC that I had not previously bothered to entertain and rather read his lyrics than listen to, of the aforementioned:

If I blow your memory on ya spine, will you think back?/
To a time when cassette tapes were shrink-wrapped/
Before you miniature midgets started to shrink rap/
Now everybody's an MC, I even heard a shrink rap/

Nas needed one mic, all I need is on site


+XXL: Crooked I: Audio
+Wordpress: Crooked I: Tag

Obituaries: Julius Carry & Isaac Hayes + Bernie Mac

CLD PRSS
JC: Alternate Name: Julius J Carry III: NYT
IH: The Guardian

+Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes Portray 'Soul Men' In One Of Their Final Films: VH1
+Soul Men Director Remembers Mac and Hayes: E Online
+Soul Men: IMDB

The Eco-Rundown On Alaska Guv Sarah Palin

Subject title article: Grist l Playahata

+Former captor denies account of torture, says McCain made it up for votes: MSNBC

+DNC

+AlterNet: Palin Pick Is GOP Hypocrisy at its Best l Palin's Speech Tactic: Substitute Cultural Symbols for Actual Policies

Mos Def: A Millie Freestyle (Live) (Video)

From 2dopeboyz comes this Mos Def Magic Convention A Millie freestyle wherein MySpace comprised the video quality yet the audio is as live as Mos's lyrics - Whew!!!

Lil' Wayne you're garbage, stick to your career of kissing your Baby "father" and signing yourself.

Common: Announcement Ft. Pharrell (Video)

I'm usually critical of Pharrell genuflecting production credit to Chad (Pharrell + Chad= the Neptunes) but here Pharrell's signature production anchors in nostalgia that made the Clipse: Grindin' a Top 10. 

Common lays concrete with on Announcement with his rhymes and keeps his promise dismissing Yezzy (Kanye) due to his hyper-braggadocio whereby he credits himself for the successes of Common’s last two albums even though much of the production style is in the breathe of J Dilla (James Yancey) and done so in Jay Dee’s honor (on Be half of the album was supposed to be produced by 'Dilla however his hospitalization impeaded that and more notably on Finding Forever posthumously) - effer...

Kanye, the world waits on no one - you pastel-wearing monkey.