Archive for June, 2008

Now at crumpet we find Puma a far more miss than hit brand of shoes. When the good people at Sneaker Freaker get involved however the results, well they speak for themselves.

After Noel Gallagher came out saying it was inappropriate for Jay-Z to headline Glastonbury Festival – “a festival built on a tradition of guitar music”, Jay hits back by kicking off his set with a cover of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’

xpizzle’s bitch slap

Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I will beat that ass.
 
Two words can sum up who needs to be slapped down to size this time; Theodore Unit. Why is it that rappers will always put there clearly talentless ‘homies’ on their tracks, leading to useless A & R’s signing them to their own deals and their music, that term is used loosely, pollutes the ears of us the poor listening public. Another word to some it up; Bravehearts. I don’t care that once when Nas was 12 you gave him an extra quarter so he could buy some chewing gum to go with his Schnapple, that doesn’t make you a rapper, shit that doesn’t make you anything except maybe a loan shark. There needs to be some form of code or twelve point plan established so we never have another Wu-Tang syndrome, where a crew already reaching double figures, has each crew member’s own crew getting a deal, then the crews of those crew members getting a deal, I point again to the first line; Theodore FUCKING Unit. If you want to be honourable and look after your boys buy them a weekly ounce of weed, a case of beer and throw them your groupie rejects like Michelle with the limp, just keep them off my radio.
 
Rapper’s crews, you’ve just been pimp slapped.

these nyc hipsters are fresher than fresh.

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Q: What were you trying to achieve with None Shall Pass?

A: I was trying to challenge myself. I knew I wanted to make songs that were less about me and more about tell stories. I didn’t really feel that I needed to write any of that obligatory, competitive rap. I felt like I had done that. I don’t feel like I’m in a competition with anybody because I don’t really care what other people are doing all that much.

Once you knock out the aspect of competition or complication in rap music you’re left with a pool of other ideas that nobody has ever touched. I tried to sort of pick ideas and write songs that I hadn’t heard anyone write about, you know topics and subject matter all the way down to the way you’re presenting the topic and style, you know making a world, even with the artwork, everything that’s tied into the album.

I don’t want the album to be yelling at you when you put it on, I want you to be able to get lost in it and find that there’s a little story and you can follow it.