December 2008
20 posts
glenn greenwald continues to amaze me, in a good way:
One can travel from the farthest right fringe of the GOP to the heart of the Democratic Party leadership and hear exactly the same thing: Israel is always right. Israel must not be criticized. Israel never bears any blame. Any action taken by Israel is justified.
read his whole salon piece.
Gaza
BBC: “Doctors say the operating rooms are full and the morgues are full and they have no place to put the dead bodies. They are asking for every doctor who is not working today to come and help.”
The Guardian: “Something to be ranked with Deir Yassin. With the Sabra and Shatila massacres.”
unfortunately, it’s only a matter of time until obama recites the israeli...
Top Baker's Dozen Hip-Hop Songs of 2008…
(in no particular order)
outkast feat. raekwon - “royal flush”
remember these guys? outkast? yeah, they still got it. reunited with skew-it-on-the bbq compadre chef rae, this track just oozes creativity. the highlight, without a doubt, is andre’s long verse where he actually raps (!), spinning a tale of fork-in-the-road life choices while impressing with his creativity and...
Recession 08' Ground Zero...
DETROIT (AP) — One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don’t want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there’s heat, health care and three meals a day.
“For the first time, I’m seeing guys make a conscious decision they’ll be better off in prison than in the community, homeless...
Arab Money Remix 3!
Busta Rhymes feat. Ron Browz, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones & Jadakiss - Arab Money (RMX Part 3)
ha, i love it.
busta kicks off this most recent monstrosity by stating ‘a monster has been created…’
so true.
this is the nyc remix, and the formula from remix 2 holds true with ron browz ethering himself with the gibberish hook and busta maintaining the a3rab pronunciation...
tough times?
ah the recession, it’s brutal these days.
even for entitled rich idiots like alexandra penney, a former eic for self magazine, who lost her entire life savings in the madoff ponzi scheme.
in her sob story of a poorly and arrogantly written daily beast column, she details the rough sacrifices she will now have to make…
I began to think about my options: I’d have to sell the...
“Because despite all the hype, and all the claims of Best Rapper Alive, Tha Carter III is still massively, massively flawed. Somehow critics have their mind erased every time a clever line pops up (there are a bunch), forgetting that the bulk of the album is made up of verses like this: “I told my girl when you fuck me, better fuck me good/’cause if another girl could she...
More Arab Money Nonsense...
Busta Rhymes ft. Ron Browz, Spliff Star, Rick Ross, N.O.R.E., Red Cafe & Reek Da Villian - Arab Money (RMX Pt. 2)
it’s simply never ending!
back to the auto-tuned fauxarabic hook, but now with even more orientalist fetishization!
a3rab pronunciation on the hook, but still a smattering of ‘ay-rabs’ throughout the verses. best/worst line has to be n.o.r.e.’s...
Top Baker's Dozen Albums Of 2008…
(in no particular order)
elzhi - the preface
took lyricism and hip-hop songwriting to a whole new level. from the concepts to the battle 16’s to the slum villagesque for-the-ladies #’s, elzhi remains disturbingly underrated and is one of the most talented emcees in the game. ‘talking in my sleep’ is elzhi’s borgesian™ masterpiece.
foals - antidotes
fast multi-guitared...
better made: 2008 detroit hip-hop mix
not many things have gone well in the city of detroit in 2008. the automakers that both provide for and rob the city are laying off workers with assembly-line efficiency and panhandling for billions in our nation’s capital, while our disgraced former mayor is texting floozies from a jail cell. despite all of this, or perhaps because of it, the d has put out some very impressive hip-hop...
Watchbusta rhymes - arab money (video)
i just have to say that rik cordero is overrated.
also, i wonder if there will be a remix video for the new remixed track. there will be, according to miss info.
here is my original dissection/rant on arab money from way back in september, which prompted this post on the source magazine’s website and some mindless comments.
and there are some other...
Jay-Z - Brooklyn (We Go Hard) (feat. Santogold)...