B.O.B. Single

This is Bombs Over Baghdad's first single for his debut album. If this get's airplay I could see it blowing as the females would eat it up. Bobby is proving to be incredibly diverse as he came in the game with Haters, and is now dropping this, which I like very much.

Nothing On You- Sick

Angels Remix Feat Lupe Fiasco

This more than whets my appetite for the mixtape he's dropping in the coming days. Lupe is on a tear. His ability to reference something seemingly totally unrelated to the song yet have it tie into the subject matter is unmatched. For example who thought Evander Holyfield would make it into a song about angels.

"Used to whisper in my ear, but now she tryna Evander/Vandal mine,
And holy feeling/Holyfield all gone, slowly feelin' all wrong"

Fuego.
Mmm Word Download

Angels Remix Feat. Lupe - Sooo Sick

Ball Don't Lie

This is why Rasheed Wallace is awesome. I realize it's not very audible in the video, however my fellow 324'ers and I were watching last nights Celtics game against the Warriors where a ticky-tack foul was called on 'Sheed and the opposition's free throws were true to the foul. We all LOL'ed when we clearly heard "Ball don't lie!" come out of Rasheed's mouth last night.

Rasheed Wallace - Sick
The Ball Telling The Truth - Soooo Sick

Whatever You Want - G.O.O.D. Music Remix

Star studded posse cuts like this are really proving to be a huge disappointment every time they are released. I didn't like the original of this song at all so I thought the likes of Cudi, Common, and John Legend could inject some fresh flavor into it, but just too many conflicting styles going on here. It doesn't make my ears bleed by any means but the short verses prohibits any single artist to shine and the song to find any rhythm.

Mmm Word Download

Whatever You Want Good Music Remix - Pretty Sick

Happy November 18th

Don't you wish there were songs as good as this for everyday?

November 18th- Sooo Sick

The Carter

Here's The Carter documentary of Lil' Wayne. No reviews will be posted as of yet since I'm watching it as I type.

Fuck Me Right?

I'm still fuming over the Pats loss. What irks me most is that the media is going to fawn all over Peyton and grovel at his balls. He's going to get the biggest fucking BJ of all time, despite that fact that Tom Brady owned this game for 56 minutes, and Peyton did most of his SUPER CLUTCH OMG HE'S SO CEREBRAL LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKING AUDIBLES HE CALLS HOLY SHIT LOOK HOW GOOD HE IS MAKING PIERRE GARCON LOOK work against a prevent defense that has been proven time and again to NEVER EVER EVER WORK.
If the Pats had converted that fourth down we'd all be sitting here jerking off Bill Belichick. As it stands, apparently, he's "no longer a genius" which doesn't make sense, because the Pats actually game planned for that game pretty fucking amazingly and had it won several times. Peyton did not look like his usually getting a blowie from Peter King and Trent Dilfer self, and Tom was slicing the Colts apart.
Bottom line: the Patriots had the Colts beat on the road. The Patriots are looking just as dangerous as 2007, only this time their secondary (when they aren't playing prevent and shitting their pants) is good. These two teams will meet again, and we can only hope that the Pats are pissed off enough to actually put a nail in the coffin, because we all know YOU DON'T GIVE PEYTON MANNING THE BALL BACK WITH ANY AMOUNT OF TIME ON THE CLOCK!!!! HE'S TOO GOOD, HE'S SOOOOOO CEREBRAL!!! HE'S BEEN ON THE COVER OF SI LIKE 20 TIMES, NONE OF WHICH HAVE BEEN ABOUT MODELING!! HE CALLS SOOOOOO MANY PLAYS AT THE LINE!!!!
On the bright side, the Patriots have the Jets at home this weekend, which means the Jets will talk, and the Pats (who were not good yet in Week 2 AND were missing Wes Welker) will eviscerate them. I would hate to be the Jets defense next week, because you're going to be embarrassed.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read books for the next seven days.

PS,
How bad was this spot?

Cudi beats Lupe to the punch

Well Cudi free-styled on Angels already anddddd it's pretty good. So pleasure your ear drums for a couple minutes.



Cudi Angels freestyle - Sick

P.S. While I'm on the topic of Kid Cudi freestyles, please watch this because its unfuckingbelievable. I realize a lot of people may have seen this already, but if you haven't please enlighten yourself.



Cudi Westwood freestyle - Greatest Thing of All Time (The Departed)

Lupe Remixing Angels

I realize this song straight up rehashes the beat for 'Where I'm From', a 12 year old Jay song, and jacks some lyrics from the late great Mr. Christopher Wallace. It's a blatant last ditch effort by Diddy to stay relevant in the music scene, but I don't care it's still good as fuck. The song has been out for a while now and you may be wondering why I'm choosing to post it now. Well the reason for my excitement is that news broke today that Lupe will be remixing the song, assumingly for his upcoming November 25th mixtape. One can only imagine how badly he is going to slay this beat. Diddy himself hyped the remix hard.

Other beats I wish for Lupe to slaughter: Cudi Zone, Kinda Like A Big Deal, Already Home, and My Song 16.

Angels- Sooo Sick
Lupe Mixtape Coming Out Nov. 25th- Sickest Thing Ever

The Red Sox Should Get Adrian Gonzalez

It became obvious this past season that Theo has a pretty big hard on for Padres first-basemen Adrian Gonzalez. His name was thrown around at the deadline, and at that point I was lukewarm to the idea of him becoming a Sock. We already have an all-star first-basemen in Kevin Youkilis, but after doing some further research of my own (aka listening to WEEI this morning) I really want him on the team. Not only did he hit 40 home runs this past year, while playing in the pitcher friendly coliseum that is Petco Park, but a mere ten of them were pulled. This means 30 of his homers were hit either to center or the opposite field. An outrageously impressive statistic. Adrian is indeed a lefty, and we all know what left handed hitters with opposite field power can do in Fenway. It's tough to say but Lowell and Ortiz are washed up. It's time to move Youk to third and bring in Gonzo to play first. Ellsbury to Pedroia to Youk to Adrian sounds mighty fine.

Getting Adrian Gonzalez- Sooo Sick

Back on My Grizzle(y) Straight

I'm just going to post pretending like I haven't posted since July. Moving on...

Most of us are familiar with Dr. Dre's ridiculously awesome/expensive head-wear that music is emitted from, "Beats by Dre." We've had sightings in Best Buy of these $400 headphones, but that was many months ago and no hype was really concocted - until now. Best Buy, Monster, and Dr. Dre are teaming up to create a whole new section in Best Buy that will include expensive things that would be fiscally irresponsible for a middle class, 20 year old, white, college student to purchase, yet I will end up perusing this section of Best Buy with saliva dripping. The new section of Best Buy called "Club Beat" will feature DJ equipment such as turntables and the fore-mentioned headphones.

"As part of Club Beat’s launch Best Buy will put on a series of events promoting their new section. Artist’s including Lady Gaga, will.i.am, and Dr. Dre are all expected to make appearances at these events." Let's hope they make a Biddeford Best Buy appearance!!!

324 productions may need to make an investment.

"Club Beat" - Sick

New Clipse

As much as I've loved rap music over the past four years, I can't help but feel slightly uncomfortable when listening to Clipse. The fact that they talk exclusively about dealing drugs doesn't exactly resonate with me considering I'm, like, from Maine. And this song doesn't do itself any favors either. The horns and beat as a whole don't do much for me and that hook is quite irritating. I can never distinguish between the two Thornton brothers so I'll just say the second verse is best, and let you figure out who the fuck is who. 'Til The Casket Drops' drops (LQTM!) December 8th. Let's hope its as good as Hell Hath, but this isn't a good start.

Mmm Word Download

Door Man - Whatever

Lil Wayne Documentary!

Holy shit. How badly do you want to see this movie? Like, worst case scenario, it's a notch above "Behind the Music," but given the reviews that it's gotten I don't think that will happen. Wayne is one of the most intriguing human beings in rap, and a chance to see even a sliver of his life is like a nugget of rare gold. Also, how sick was the clip of him recording in his hotel room? I liked it.

TCU Close to Crashing the BCS

TCU is up to number four in this week's BCS rankings (top 10 are pictured above), which is pretty fucking awesome unless you're a Boise State fan. (I will now borrow a writing technique from Rick Reilly and Bill Simmons: the embarrassingly overwrought and contrived pop culture analogy...) Saying the BCS is flawed is like saying Lindsay Lohan has a slight substance abuse problem! (I just threw up on my keyboard. HOW DOES GRAMMAR WORK IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING SET OF FUCKING PARENTHESES!?!?!?!??!) Imagine how sick it would be to spend December and early January watching COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF GAMES EVERY WEEKEND. Holy shit. How fucking sick would that be? The point has been argued to death. And then argued some more. Let's move past it.
Florida and/or Alabama will lose before the final BCS tally. If Texas loses and TCU and Boise State run the table, we could actually be looking at a mid-major playing for the title. How sick would that be? We're talking Departed sick. Of course, it won't happen because the BCS has more issues than a Spears family therapy session (barf), so we're probably going to be looking at some controversy. Mmm, scrumptious.

PS, Cincinnati is also unbeaten, and if they run the table and Texas loses then they would presumably jump the mid-majors and play in the title game. I would still consider this a mid-major success, because saying the Big East is a "major" football conference is like saying Paris Hilton is a good actress. Zing! Three in one post!

Pats Take a Dump on Joey Porter

I really went screenshot crazy today, but that's not the point. The Pats are starting to look hella good so I'm gonna keep on dancing. Stupid Joey Porter gave new definition to the term "non-factor," tackling zero New England players the entire game, and spending most of his time on the sideline looking sullen as the Pats neutered and spayed the Wildcat formation.
Tom Brady went surgeon general on the Dolphins; he's really starting to get back to where he was in 2007 in terms of timing and chemistry with Moss and Welker. I think the best example of that was the play in the fourth where they faked the hand-off and Tom threw a quick slant to Randy for a first down. That play is their bread and butter, and it hinges entirely on the timing between Randall and Thomas, and they ran it to perfection. Also Randy showed he's still the most physically talented receiver in the AFC, with that redonkulous one-hander in the first half and his 70+ yard shoestring grab-and-go caesar salad wrap for a touchdown.
Great day for the Pats. Joey Porter isn't cool.

PS, Although I h8 h8 h8 h8 Joey Porter, I really actually kind of like the Dolphins as a team. I mean, how fucking sick is it that they basically run the option half the time? Just run the Wildcat once in Madden 10 and tell me it isn't the most fun you've ever had.
Another really cool player, Pat White, burned the Pats on that one run where Tully over-pursued on the fake pitch to Ronnie Brown and Pat ran like 50 yards. Also Ricky Williams is the man and Ronnie Brown is really cool too, as is Bill Parcells. There's just a lot to like if you're a Dolphins fan. Plus, they're not the Jets. What's not to like?

The Patriots Get All the Roughing the Passer Calls!

Stupid Tom Brady rules! Now the G darned Patriots get every roughing call ever! Also they allegedly cheated two seasons ago!
Oh. Oops. I guess everyone should stop whining.
As Justin Timberlake would say, "What goes to town comes back a clown."

Shakira + Kid Cudi?

As far as collaborations go, many people would describe this one as "unexpected," although to be fair, Shakira is a She Wolf and every time the moon shines Cudi becomes alive, so maybe they aren't so different after all.

Cudi's guest spots are all starting to feel very similar. I mean, I like listening to them, but they all kind of sound the same. This song reminds me a lot of "Everything is Broken," only not as good. Just doesn't make my meat loaf.
Download.

"Did It Again" - Whatever

U2 + Jay-Z: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

This is one of the few U2 songs that I actually like, and it certainly doesn't hurt that Jay-Z decided to come out and spit some flames over it. Jay's presence alone is powerful enough to paralyze an army of infants. Just look at how fucking cool he is when he walks onto the stage. Christ. No one on the corner has swagger like him.

Yankee Fans Celebrate with Class

Interesting little nugget about the Yankee victory parade. The article is short so I will reprint it in full here:

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade on Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn't get their hands on confetti.
Auditor Damian Salo attended the Manhattan parade. He tells The New York Post he found all sorts of personal financial documents in the mountains of shredded paper tossed from skyscrapers as the players rode up Broadway.
They included pay stubs, banking data, law firm memos and even some court files.
The founder of one financial firm, Alan Sarroff, says his company reprimanded one "overzealous" employee for throwing records out the window that should have been shredded.

Nothing says class and "Yankee Pride" like violating the privacy of hundreds of individuals! God damn Yankees sure know how to celebrate with class. Like, those stupid fucking Boston fans have stupid accents and just get drunk all the time! But the high class Yankee fans? They celebrate by committing white collar crime! They're the best!!!!

Yankee Fans - (Still) Worst Thing of All-Time

I Love This

Nothing like NESCAC rap. Also nothing beats a music video recorded exclusively with the built in iSight camera. There's just so much here to love.

"Trinity Girls" - Pretty Sick

The Fruits of the Great Photo

Yesterday Filly posted a photo that made us all smile. Judging by Jay-Z's face in the photo in question, one could only assume that the beat they were currently listening to was life-changing, because he made the same face when he heard the instrumentals for "Lucifer" and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder." Those songs were pretty good. Well here's the fruit of Jay's facial labors.

This song just confused me. I don't like it, except for when Jay says, "Champagne spillin' outta my wee-wee." Christ that is mature.

"Meiple" - Pretty Shitty

Get Pumped for Duke Basketball!

Videos of basketball set to awesome rap music are probably in the top 5 of sickest things ever. Add to that the fact that this song happens to be Mike Posner, and you've got yourself a pretty dope video.
I know nobody else likes Duke ball, but I do, and even if you don't like it you should still watch this video because it's got a verse on it that we haven't heard before, so just close your eyes and listen.

Metacricket Mortal Lock: Nov 7

Since yesterday's locks panned out so well, we're gonna go ahead and hit you all with round 2. If we keep up this pace, we'll lose our AdSense earnings by the end of the weekend. But that's okay, because Filly still knows how to finagle the system and score us mad bank anyway. Without further adieu about nothing, here we are:Denver is GETTING POINTS against Atlanta????? OMFG OMFG OMFG PUT IT ALL ON THIS GAME!!!! Both teams are playing the second leg of a back-to-back tonight, except Atlanta took a massive dump in their pants last night against the Charlotte Sean Mays, while Denver at least looked like they were trying against a Miami team that can win any night that Dwyane Wade shows up alive (also if Jermaine O'Neal goes 8-11 from the field ever again for the rest of his life then I will, like, do something crazy to show how improbable it is that he could do it twice).
So the point is that we should ride 'Melo until the cows come home, especially if his team is inexplicably getting three fucking points against a schizophrenic Hawks team that relies on hot streaks from JAMAL CRAWFORD for their scoring. Watching Atlanta play offense last night was like watching my Duke intramural team play offense, only we actually had a go-to option, whereas the Hawks so clearly are not ready to take the next step because Mike Bibby is the only person who I would actually trust taking a shot on that team, and he hasn't been that kind of option since 2002.
That is my rant. Take the Nug-Nugs. Enjoy your Saturday. I'll be swimming in the homework, come and find me...NEMO.

This Had To Be Shared

This Picture - Sickest Thing Ever

Metacricket Mortal Lock

We are going to try and make this a "regular" "segment" on the "blog," so every time I take a shit I'll post a lock. Other than the magical 3-match tennis parlay that Filly and I are about to get rich off of, pictured here...
...we will also get very rich after we take the Hawks -2.5 against the Bobcats. Atlanta is 4-1, beat Portland on the road on Tuesday night, and has Marvin Williams, who bought shots of Patron for Kael this summer. Charlotte is awful, although they are coming off of a 79-68 barnburner over New Jersey (a team that is really regretting moving Ryan Anderson). Mmm, delicious. Mark it down for Atlanta. We'll all get rich together.

PS, If you can find Metacricket's favorite former Pac-10 walk-on in the Ryan Anderson link then you win a share of our earnings from the Atlanta bet.

"Thank God They All Died!"

Our boy Blake, always staying ahead of the game.

At Least Posada Feels Our Pain

Don't be afraid to like, ya know, celebrate with your team Jorge. He's obviously just too cool considering he's already won five rings. Celebrating is reserved for naive, champion virgins such as A-Rod. Both the Lakers and Yankees won it all this year. Craig.

Yankees 27th - Worst Thing of All Time

A Washed-up Band Could Play at your School!

The fact that they'll probably be playing songs from their new crap salad of an album only makes it better.

NEW FLO RIDA!!!!! YES!!!!!

Drumma Boy is a good producer, and this beat is hella good. Flo Rida is a guilty pleasure. Listening to him every once in a while is like watching Glee. You want to hate it but it's just irresistible. Right? I hope so.
Anyway, I don't mind this song. You know what you're getting from Flo Rida, and it's not like you can say you didn't like "Low" or "Right Round." Come on, you know you didn't hate those songs.
Also he mentions "neeno" in this song, and I still don't know what that is, so if anyone knows then please tell me.
"She on the first quarter givin me poonani/Cuz that's what it is" YES!!!!!! BEST LYRICS EVER!!!!!

Download if you want.

"Keep It Pouring" - Pretty Sick

Stay Classy Maine

Maine voted yesterday to repeal the still-fresh gay marriage amendment. Yes! I love when my home state votes against equal rights for all its citizens. I hope they don't make a law soon that overweight people can't marry (because if they could then they'd just teach their kids to be overweight and then all hell would break loose. We can't have a bunch of fat prennant bitches runnin' around the club).
I am furious. We all know that Metacricket is one of the biggest advocates of same-sex marriage, and we donate a large portion of our proceeds to the cause. Unfortunately, even our largesse didn't stand a chance in the face of those spewing hate and discrimination. I JUST DON'T FUCKING UNDERSTAND HOW YOU COULD POSSIBLY TELL ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GET FUCKING MARRIED JUST LIKE YOU DID (or hope to; or probably won't, because you're a bigoted douche bag. Wait, what am I saying? If you're a bigoted douche bag, you're in the majority! Good luck raising delusional God-loving, hate-spewing kids! 'Merica!)
Now if you'll excuse me, I will go light myself on fire. Flamboyantly.

Yes on 1 - Worst Thing of All-Time

PS, To those who say that same-sex marriage compromises the "sanctity" of the holy union, why don't you come talk to me after you get divorced in 6 months? Alright, you guys are the best I ever had! In God we trust!

Can 'Sheed Fit in with the Celtics?

Wow. So far that 82-0 pace doesn't seem so far-fetched. I am betting the Celtics until they lose. I will win 200 cents.

Glow In The Dark

All three Metacricket contributors attended a Glow in the Dark concert two summers ago. I think all three of us would not hesitate to call it one of the best nights of our lives. Watching this video gives you maybe 1/100th of the experience we had, be jealous.

Glow in the Dark - Greatest Thing of All-Time (The Departed)

Is This Best I Ever Had Remix Good?

I can't decide. It kind of takes a pretty cool song and turns it into some horseshit Akon synth pop, but it's also not unfavorable to hear in my ears. Our four readers need to help me decide.

Clipse - "I'm Good (Remix)" feat. RICK ROWSSSSS

At this point pretty much everything Clipse touches turns into gold. It doesn't hurt that everything they touch happens to be a Neptunes production.
When can we start putting Rick Ross in the discussion of the greatest of all-time?

I'm Good (Remix) - Sooo sick
Rick Ross - Greatest Thing of All-Time (The Departed)

Mike Posner - "Please Don't Go" (Live)

If you watch Mike's web series (who doesn't?) then you've heard the snippet of the studio version of this song at the beginning. Here's him performing it live in LA:

This song is going to be really really really really good, and so is his CD. Benny Blanco co-produced this track with Mike, which doesn't really mean anything to me because by all accounts Benny Blanco is kind of a weirdo with gross facial hair, but if he makes songs like this then I think he deserves our respect. Also he's no Nolan Smith at trash basketball.
Irregardless, I'm really effing pumped for Mike's CD to drop. Too bad we have to wait like hella long.

"Please Don't Go" - Sickest Thing Ever

American Frankster

THIS VIDEO HAS OVER 5,500 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE. HOW AM I NOT FAMOUS YET?
Just throw this on and make love to an overweight woman. You know it makes you want to.

"Green Tomatoes" Music Video

I don't know what it is about this song, but at this point I really don't like it. Like, I'm considering un-checking it in my iTunes library. Where to begin? Jay's flow is mediocre at best. We've heard him redefine the term "on point" as it pertains to rapping; this is not one of those instances. I used to think the beat was hot, but now it feels more like some bullshit Garageband piano loops thrown together (although the drums are dope for sure; I will concede that point). Yes, my girlfriend Alicia kills the hook (i.e., she doesn't sound like nasal auto-tuned Rihanna), but also it's kind of hard not to hear her say "Concrete jungle with green tomatoes" anymore. Just listen for it once and you will never think of this song the same way again (don't believe me? Ask The-Hair, Chester, or D-Cup). Maybe I'm just very sick of the fact that I've seen at least 500 Facebook status updates that say, "[White girl from the northeast] is NEW YORK, CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN'T DO." Of course, this doesn't make sense at all, because I can think of a fuckton of things I can't do in New York (although I'm sure there are green tomatoes there). Some things I can't do in New York, just off the top of the dome: tolerate any of the sports fans for more than 15 seconds; walk down the street after dark with no fear of a crime being committed against me; drive over the George Washington bridge without hitting an infuriating amount of traffic; pull any tail at a night club; find a republican. And that's just shit I though of while I was on the toilet. Imagine if I was deranged.
The point is, I'm sick of this song. I like watching Jay-Z on screen rapping, and obviously I don't mind spending any amount of time looking at moving visuals of Alicia Keys doing anything, but really this video changed nothing in my mind. If I had to imagine a video for this song, this is EXACTLY would I would have pictured in my brain of brains.

Green Tomatoes Video - Whatever

PS, My point: there's no way you can tell me that this video is better than this one. The best, Jerry. The best.

Drake Can Still Walk

Just another step in his ascension to the top of the game. Glad to see he's back on his feet after tearing his ACL Chagrina-style on stage a few months ago. That was embarrassing to watch. This is not.

This Is Our Friend James Playing "Flag" Football

This picture of our good friend Jim Nutter was on the front page of the Portland Press Herald sports page this morning. A newspaper with a circulation of about 60,000 people. James seems to have mistaken his opponent's cheek for the flag in this picture. Honest mistake.

Click here to read the article.

This Picture - Sooo Sick