Wednesday, September 29, 2010
New Kanye - Lost In The World
I don't know about you guys but after several listens I tend to think this song is not "good". The intro to this is near embarrassing. It sounds like a bunch of dudes trying to sing with peanut butter stuck to the roof of their mouths. If I wanted to listening to convoluted voices singing barely audible words I'd listen to Imogen Heap. Sure the drums are kinda cool, but isn't Kanye's next album supposed to be a return to "strictly hard beats and rhymes?" Power was a promising start but this and Runaway lead me to believe we are in store for a mere 808's redux. What makes this even more discouraging is that nearly(Runaway Love Remx?! C'mon Kanye) every song released in the Good Friday series is better than this, and those songs will presumably be left off the album, Lost In The World will not be. Oh well, at least this song has ENORMOUS potential.
Lost In The World - Pretty Shitty
Update - Pretty much every YouTube vid of this song is dead. Fret not here the mmm word download.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sammy Adams Boston Stand Up Sammy Matty Trump SAM ADAMS Boston BOSTON'S BOY Sammy!
Seriously though, Sam Adams's new mixtape, Party Records, is hot crack. I've been bumping it non-stop. Here are a few of my favorite selections:
I shall begin with the very good "No Speak Americano," which samples a song that sampled another song so it's kind of like The Bible with shit begetting other shit or some shit like that. God isn't real, otherwise this wouldn't have happened. Evenways, I love to bump this joint:
Pretty fun to hear in your ears right? Here's another banger that I quite enjoyed, where SAMMY BOSTON STAND UP SAMMY ADAMS MATTY TRUMP BOSTON I'M FROM BOSTON BOSTON SAMMY flips the very awesome and super catchy mega-smash ground-breaking-music-video-having song "I Need a Dollar," and turns it into a certified bang-sesh:
People will hate on SAAAAAAAMY ADAMS BOSTON STAND UP BOSTON I'M FROM BOSTON YEAH BOSTON WHADDAYA SAY BOSTON'S BOY WES WELKER RULES because he's white and you know like sometimes the things that he says in song-poems aren't the most insightful or cool but with gems like "I'm a mile high smokin' nuggets in a Bronco" (Get it? GET IT!?!?!?!?) you can't deny that he does at least have some talent. The bottom line is that I enjoy these songs in the same way that I enjoyed the Boston's Boy EP, and I am not ashamed of liking them because sometimes people just like stuff.
So for anyone who wants to give it a whirl, here's your mmm word download.
Party Records - Sick
I shall begin with the very good "No Speak Americano," which samples a song that sampled another song so it's kind of like The Bible with shit begetting other shit or some shit like that. God isn't real, otherwise this wouldn't have happened. Evenways, I love to bump this joint:
Pretty fun to hear in your ears right? Here's another banger that I quite enjoyed, where SAMMY BOSTON STAND UP SAMMY ADAMS MATTY TRUMP BOSTON I'M FROM BOSTON BOSTON SAMMY flips the very awesome and super catchy mega-smash ground-breaking-music-video-having song "I Need a Dollar," and turns it into a certified bang-sesh:
People will hate on SAAAAAAAMY ADAMS BOSTON STAND UP BOSTON I'M FROM BOSTON YEAH BOSTON WHADDAYA SAY BOSTON'S BOY WES WELKER RULES because he's white and you know like sometimes the things that he says in song-poems aren't the most insightful or cool but with gems like "I'm a mile high smokin' nuggets in a Bronco" (Get it? GET IT!?!?!?!?) you can't deny that he does at least have some talent. The bottom line is that I enjoy these songs in the same way that I enjoyed the Boston's Boy EP, and I am not ashamed of liking them because sometimes people just like stuff.
So for anyone who wants to give it a whirl, here's your mmm word download.
Party Records - Sick
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Jay-Z Breaks Yankee Stadium
(Why the hell did this guy leave?!?! Least he did the damn thing.)
Say what you want about dude, but Jay-Z has motherfucking presence. Like could you imagine anyone else being the first artist to perform in Yankee Stadium? No, this is where he belongs, he was meant to be there standing on stage breathing in the epic-ness of it all. No one else could capitalize and thrive in this moment like he did. You're lying to yourself if you didn't get chills when the Run This Town beat dropped.
This was part of a concert series where Eminem and Jay-Z headlined two concerts each in their respective hometowns, Detroit and NYC. An encore performance is set for tonight, which gives us about five hours. Who's in? I'm driving.
Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium - Sickest Thing Ever
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Lasers Is Fucked
Lupe Fiasco recently did an interview with complex.com and in it he has some very interesting and ultimately disappointing things to say about the future of his was-to-be third album, Lasers. Two weeks ago Lupe personally released a song, Go To Sleep, and stated it was for the album Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album. It was certainly perplexing to see Lupe release a song for his supposed fourth album, when his third album wasn't even in stores yet. This interview sheds a lot of light on that issue, you can read it in it's entirety here, I will try and present the relevant quotes in this post. Basically, it might be time for us Lupe fans to start coming to terms with the fact that Lasers may never see the light of day.
Complex: You mentioned Japanese Cartoon being your Plan B, let’s talk about Plan A. A second ago, you said “If Lasers never comes out.” Will it not come out?
Lupe Fiasco: It could. The situation with me and my record company has gotten to the point where it’s just like…we’re really at our final straws. People could say it’s me, that “Lupe doesn’t want to make popular music” or “The label has got to have records that they can sell and Lupe is not giving them the records they want to sell” and XYZ.
Complex: You keep referring to it as Lasers, but on the Internet now people are saying the record could be called Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album. Is that not a real title?
Lupe Fiasco: When I said that I was going to do an album called The Great American Rap Album, I did it. Lasers is one project on its own. It’s its own project, sitting being done, waiting to be released. Lasers is its own project, it is its own sound, its own mood. Food and Liquor II is completely different. It’s like Lasers, that’s one album that got disrupted in the business process. It’s a great album, but that album may not come out. But here’s Food and Liquor II.
Sigggghhhh, needless to say this entire situation frustrates the hell out of me. It's hard to say who's to blame but I can't help but feel Atlantic is mostly responsible. It shouldn't be this hard for an artist who, with his last album, was certified Gold in a record industry climate not exactly conducive to selling albums, to get a release date. My only theory as to why Atlantic is holding out on Lupe is because he passed on Airplanes and Nothing On You. Bobby Ray's smash hits were actually intended to be Lupe songs. Lupe didn't want them because he wouldn't have owned a major percentage of their publishing and maybe because they were pre-packaged pop songs written for 15 year old white girls. Should he be punished for that decision? Probably not, but in today's music industry where labels are looking for a couple of Billboard blockbusters instead of a cohesive 15 song album with a unifying concept, Lupe and Lasers were shelved because B.O.B. got Haley Williams to sing a hook on a song.
With that said, Lupe probably shouldn't have began hyping this album in March of 0(FUCKING!)9. We now know that he probably jumped the gun on it a little bit and gave fans some false hope, but come on Atlantic throw us a fucking bone here.
The one bright spot in all of this is that Go To Sleep, the one song he has released off Food and Liquor II, is fucking flames, and something you should all listen to.
Only another two years guys!
Lasers Being Potentially Shelved - Worst Thing of All-Time
Go To Sleep - Sooo Sick
Complex: You mentioned Japanese Cartoon being your Plan B, let’s talk about Plan A. A second ago, you said “If Lasers never comes out.” Will it not come out?
Lupe Fiasco: It could. The situation with me and my record company has gotten to the point where it’s just like…we’re really at our final straws. People could say it’s me, that “Lupe doesn’t want to make popular music” or “The label has got to have records that they can sell and Lupe is not giving them the records they want to sell” and XYZ.
Complex: You keep referring to it as Lasers, but on the Internet now people are saying the record could be called Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album. Is that not a real title?
Lupe Fiasco: When I said that I was going to do an album called The Great American Rap Album, I did it. Lasers is one project on its own. It’s its own project, sitting being done, waiting to be released. Lasers is its own project, it is its own sound, its own mood. Food and Liquor II is completely different. It’s like Lasers, that’s one album that got disrupted in the business process. It’s a great album, but that album may not come out. But here’s Food and Liquor II.
Sigggghhhh, needless to say this entire situation frustrates the hell out of me. It's hard to say who's to blame but I can't help but feel Atlantic is mostly responsible. It shouldn't be this hard for an artist who, with his last album, was certified Gold in a record industry climate not exactly conducive to selling albums, to get a release date. My only theory as to why Atlantic is holding out on Lupe is because he passed on Airplanes and Nothing On You. Bobby Ray's smash hits were actually intended to be Lupe songs. Lupe didn't want them because he wouldn't have owned a major percentage of their publishing and maybe because they were pre-packaged pop songs written for 15 year old white girls. Should he be punished for that decision? Probably not, but in today's music industry where labels are looking for a couple of Billboard blockbusters instead of a cohesive 15 song album with a unifying concept, Lupe and Lasers were shelved because B.O.B. got Haley Williams to sing a hook on a song.
With that said, Lupe probably shouldn't have began hyping this album in March of 0(FUCKING!)9. We now know that he probably jumped the gun on it a little bit and gave fans some false hope, but come on Atlantic throw us a fucking bone here.
The one bright spot in all of this is that Go To Sleep, the one song he has released off Food and Liquor II, is fucking flames, and something you should all listen to.
Only another two years guys!
Lasers Being Potentially Shelved - Worst Thing of All-Time
Go To Sleep - Sooo Sick
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
How Does This Not Happen Every Game?!?!
So in the span of two at bats in the riveting Giants vs. D-Backs game tonight two little kids were hit with a bat and a ball.
Two children have been taken to the hospital after being struck by a bat and a ball at Monday's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants.
A 13-year-old boy seated near Arizona's dugout just beyond the start of the protective netting, was hit on the right side of the head in the fourth inning after San Francisco's Buster Posey lost the bat swinging at a pitch.
In the next at-bat, the Giants' Pablo Sandoval sent a foul ball into the upper deck, where it struck a 2-year-old girl on the forehead.
The only thing surprising about this story is that it DOESN'T HAPPEN IN EVERY BASEBALL GAME EVER. Does anyone else think this way? Every time I watch a baseball game and see a ball ripped down the third baseline and into the stands I think well that probably only killed about 4 people, but some dude with a beer in one hand somehow ends up snagging the thing coming at him at ten trillion miles an hour. Sure he may spill some of his beverage on his girlfriend or some shit, but I mean no one's perfect. This story comes only a few days after this happened.
First of all, do you think that guy was screaming like that after every single ball that was hit? I mean it's fucking BP dude pretty much every ball is gonna make it into the stands, if some dinkbox gets hit in the domepiece it ain't on you. Nevertheless, maybe these instances are just the baseball gods catching up on all the years that fans miraculously survived rock hard baseballs hurling towards their brains at light speed, but what the fuck do I know?
P.S. - Were fucking back bitchesssssssssssss, but probably not really. I might not post again for another two years. I just hope this kick starts Louis into posting again so I have more stuff to read online as I search for jobs and daydream about what city I want to move to that particular day.
Two children have been taken to the hospital after being struck by a bat and a ball at Monday's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants.
A 13-year-old boy seated near Arizona's dugout just beyond the start of the protective netting, was hit on the right side of the head in the fourth inning after San Francisco's Buster Posey lost the bat swinging at a pitch.
In the next at-bat, the Giants' Pablo Sandoval sent a foul ball into the upper deck, where it struck a 2-year-old girl on the forehead.
The only thing surprising about this story is that it DOESN'T HAPPEN IN EVERY BASEBALL GAME EVER. Does anyone else think this way? Every time I watch a baseball game and see a ball ripped down the third baseline and into the stands I think well that probably only killed about 4 people, but some dude with a beer in one hand somehow ends up snagging the thing coming at him at ten trillion miles an hour. Sure he may spill some of his beverage on his girlfriend or some shit, but I mean no one's perfect. This story comes only a few days after this happened.
First of all, do you think that guy was screaming like that after every single ball that was hit? I mean it's fucking BP dude pretty much every ball is gonna make it into the stands, if some dinkbox gets hit in the domepiece it ain't on you. Nevertheless, maybe these instances are just the baseball gods catching up on all the years that fans miraculously survived rock hard baseballs hurling towards their brains at light speed, but what the fuck do I know?
P.S. - Were fucking back bitchesssssssssssss, but probably not really. I might not post again for another two years. I just hope this kick starts Louis into posting again so I have more stuff to read online as I search for jobs and daydream about what city I want to move to that particular day.
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