Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Special Guest Opinion: Dirty South Joe on Why John Brown Was Maliciously Robbed

Fuck yall hateurs. John Brown is the man...
1. Named after one of the most complex and fascinating white people in US history.
2. Has obviously studied the music game well enough to survive as an entity for as long as he pleases.
3. Wrote a song (Car Wars) for the final challenge/performance that was essentially his version of Kanye's "Diamonds From Sierra Leone." Admit it, that shit was deep, thoughtful, and for the format with which he was to present himself, brave.
4. Added "Hallelujah Holla Back" and "Entity, not a rapper" to my everyday vocab before I heard him spit a single rap.
5. He held his own in the battle in Detroit and even got a unanimous vote of confidence from the OG battle rappers in the competition.
6. Mattsoreal & I said so...

Shamrock, however, is a caricature of a caucasian, downsouf rapper. His voice is shrill and high pitched, and his verses and punchlines are outlines of slogans ("Get up get out and DO something") made famous by everybody else. He does the doubletime thang sort of decent, but he's not interesting or talented enough to imagine hearing an entire lp by. Shit, I don't think he could carry a single. I'm not joking when I say that I'd like to hear a John Brown album. With the right production, that shit would be worthwhile. True, he's got a lazy flow and not a lot of energy, but he might actually have something to say.

Obviously, EgoTrip/VH1 made sure they didn't pick the best contestants possible, cause there are quite a few caucasoid heavy spitters runnin around. Regardless, John Brown should have been an easy decision. King of tha burbz was ROBBED!

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Is GMAIL Racist????

OK So I know that Gmail scans emails and puts "appropriate" ads up to correspond with the emails. For example when I email Paul Wall I get a Grills By Paul Wall ad or some shit. When I write to Cham I get CHAMILLIONAIRE RINGTONES.

But today I had a couple emails go back and forth with UGK's agent and this ad was next to it:

"Nigga
Great deals on Nigga
Shop on eBay and Save!
www.eBay.com"

No one dropped an N-BOMB anywhere in that email, but for some reason this really stupid ad came up. ?!?!?!? Seriously, Gmail need to check themselves.

Is that a joke? I actually found it to be quite offensive. Great deals on Nigga? I'm afraid to click the link but fuck it lemme do this...

It went to ebay and gave me this:

Nigga Deep - Brotha Lynch Hung & Sicx (CD 1998)
Feedback: 4 | 100% Location: Rhode Island

Prince New Power Generation Gold Nigga CD NPG OOP M S
Feedback: 8773 | 99.6% Location: Maryland

DAZ DILLINGER / DAT NIGGA DAZ records LOT 5x12"
Feedback: 4348 | 98.4% Location: New York

RUFF RYDERS - JAY-Z - JIGGA MY NIGGA
Feedback: 2671 | 99.3% Location: Michigan

Plus like 59 more cd's to buy.

Does GMAIL secretly search ads for "Nigga" when Bun B and/or UGK is mentioned in an email? Cuz that's all it could be.

While You Were Watching the White Rapper Show

We were getting down down here on that real shit.

It was truly a magnificent evening of magnanimous proportions! Big Daddy Kane live on stage, backed by Connie Price and the Keystones, Devin the Dude surprise opening set with Jugg Mugg and Rob Quest harmonizing and DJ Domo on the wheels, Scion frestyle winner Reach and a gang of REAL ARTISTS in the house.

All of Houston's best rappers were in attendance. I'ma attempt to run it down and will surely forget some people (message me if I do and I'll edit). For real, none of the young bucks who rap over their vocals and glue pretty stones to their teeth were there, none o fthe people who really need an education in what a real show is all about were there, but there were legends in the house.

Bun B., Willie D and his protege from Huntzville, KB da Kidnappa, K-Rino, Scarface, Zin, Damien & Russel from K-Otix, Southern Intellect, No Saprise, E-Rock of the 5th Ward Boyz, like 30% of the Coughee Brothaz, Rob Quest, Jugg Mugg, DJ Styles, Cipher, Rad Rich, Sincere, Street Pharmacy, Street Fame, NoSaprise, Elliot Ness, DJ Chill, DJ Ovadose, Madd Hatta, Thurogood Wordsmith, Mookie Jones, I mean seriously everytime I turned around I was like "Holy shit HE/SHE's here?"

They came out to represent for a legend. To see the man in the flesh and let him know that they haven't forgotten what he and his music meant to them. It reminds me of a post I did almost two years ago when the Geto Boys had their release party for the Foundation and not one of the "prominent" rappers from H-Town came out to support. I hate to sound like an old whiner, but these young bucks need to go back to school. Big Daddy Kane could have taught them a lesson for real. Shit was magic.

Anyway on to the photos (PS I still didn't buy a new flash so they are all fucked up. That being said I personally like them that way, you probably don't sorry. But this is more in tune to how I actually see things anyway.)


B-Boys in the hizzy.


Gettin' dizzy.


B-Nard of Street Pharmacy!


Bun B and KB of Street Military


DJ CIPHER!


E-Rock of the 5th Ward Boyz and Me (FREE LO-LIFE!)


Willie D and one of his proteges from Huntzville, Shit I need to look up his name again.


Odd Squad in fool effect!


Stacey and her cousin.


Reach opened the show. He won some kind of Scion battle and wasn't bad man. He had a nice set.


Kiara of Street Fame and BP of Street Pharmacy.


DJ Ovadose and KB!


Domo, Devin, KB!


The Squad that's Odd...


Jugg Mugg, Rob Quest, DJ Styles


Jugg Mugg, Rob Quest.


Domo and Jugg Mugg before Devin's surprise set!


Connie Price.


When Jugg Mugg went on stage and announced the surprise set the place went apeshit.


Knowmsayin?






DOMO is not a computer DJ.






Devin and Krisna back stage!


Elliot Ness, Krisna and friend.


ITS THE TAKEOVER!


Rad Rich is a pioneer of many things in this city.


Rad Rich and Cipher - y'all may not know that from 1991-1994 I did a radio show with these dudes every Sunday night on KPFT. How you love that? Respect these pioneers.


Then the ultimate show of all shows. I was not ready to fight the crowd so my photos are not the greatest, but believe me when I say it, Big Daddy Kane showed everyone what a real show is supposed to be. I think maybe the soul of James Brown dropped into his body or some shit cuz that man can ROCK!


I'm talkin' bout dude should be given a PHD in rappin' and should spend his days teaching a class on how to do a real show and everyone who ever wants to rap should be required to takeit. Four semesters at least.

Cuz he ain't half steppin'.

And on the subject of the White Rapper Show, it is my opinion that John Brown got robbed, but I am also happy for Shamrock cuz he seemed like the dude who really actually needed the $100,000. I don't thik that Shamrock had shit for lyrics, his voice cracked, he fucked up a lot and only won because people who don't give a fuck about art think that the south is hot right now.

That being said, they had a distiguished crew of judges, I can't front on Dante Ross, Prince Paul, Serch or Clinton Sparks, they been through it, but when Dante Ross said something like "Well lyrics don't really matter anymore." I had to shed a light tear because alas and alak all you are really saying with that statement is all hope is lost for real music, just go become a commodity and sell your shit and fucking forget about it cuz these kids have no depth and nothings gonna ever change.

And if that's the case then John Brown should have won because he is not a rapper, he is an entity, and that my friend is what is gonna sell in the long run in this new world of rap.

That being said, I saw kids just like all those kids on the White Rapper Show back in 1991. I remember one night at the Hip Hop Coffee shop in like 1992 when a white kid said to me "Damn I'm the only ghetto kid here." And I looked around at the crowd and thought to myself "Pretty much everyone here is from the ghetto you fruitcake who do you think you are?" And the fact is, he wasn't thinking, he was dreaming of an image that he felt as though he had to live up to, which is what every contestant on the White Rapper Show did as well. Everyone of them were image over substance.

O.K. Persia seemed real, but it is obvious that she is only rapping to prove some weird point. Not one of those kids had it in them. Like to me, you can say what you want about Eminem, I find the dude unlistenable at this point, but fact is that dude is a rapper. He's an artist. He has to rap, that's what he does. Hip hop is definitely inside that kid no matter how you feel about him. The motherfuckers on that show just wanted to be on TV and I have to admit that I had a great time watching them get symbolically dragged in the river that is the music business. The dirty, polluted, non-life supporting, murky, stank, stagnant river that is the music industry.

Thank you Ego Trip, Serch, Prince Paul and everyone else for entertaining me. And thank you Misfit for sending me a Valentines Day greeting on my MySpace. You're so nice!

HA!

Anyway, from what I hear the Rapid Ric/Witnes/Mike Frost/Roxy event in NYC was tight. J-Zone tells me the White Rapper Show Wrap Up Party was cool but John Brown got booed and Persia rapped over her vocals.

Oh yeah, one more thing, Big Daddy Kane, Devin and Reach did NOT rap over their vocals. Get familiar indeed young rapper knaves. Tides finna turn back. Watch.

(P.S. I listened to Celtic Frost's To Megatherion and Into the Pandemonium whilst resizing these photos and writing this. They don't rap over their vocals either. At least they didn't.)

Monday, February 26, 2007

why are graduate program rankings always based on surveying the faculty?

(I actually wrote this back in May and then for some reason never posted it. A conversation I had last week when I was at Northwestern reminded me of it, and I'm putting it up now, especially as I'm presently too preoccupied with certain other matters to exhibit any original blog-oomph.)

So, consider the question: What would be the single not-that-costly thing that could be done that would do the most to improve the lot of the average sociology graduate student nationwide?

My answer: Conduct a Survey of Sociology Graduate Student Satisfaction every year. This would be a very short online survey with a link sent to all sociology graduate students, and then the results would be posted publicly.* As things are now, sociology faculty have very little knowledge about the extent to which their students are relatively happy or unhappy compared to other departments, which leads to the easy conclusion that whatever malcontented students are in a department are just the regular allotment that is inevitable for any graduate program. To be sure, I've heard people offer first- or second or n-hand characterizations of the relative happiness of graduate students in various programs, but these always seem to me like they very strongly reflect the dispositions of those making the characterizations.

Departments that ranked highly in this survey would be able to tout this fact when competing for graduate students with departments which did less well. And those departments that did not rank highly might reflect upon what they could do to change this.

(That said, one thing a department could do would be to select students who seemed less likely to provide gloomy satisfaction ratings later. Indeed, an interesting question would be whether some areas of sociology attract disproportionately more dispositionally dissatisfied people than others. Then again, if one asked a question about area on the survey, one could adjust for this.)

My second answer would involve there being a resource online that contained information about how well departments placed their students and rates of early/late attrition, median-years-to-completion, or whatever else.** Again, my guess is that if systematic information on these things was out in the open--and especially, on the web--departments would do more to attend to them.

* I like the acronym SSGSS because it is a palindrome. Online posting of results would also need to include response rates, which themselves probably would say something of the engagement of students with a department.

** Graduate students will often talk about attrition rates like they are, themselves, indicative of the quality of student life in a program. Making too much of attrition rates per se just provides an incentive for late attritions versus early attritions, which is exactly the opposite incentive for what is in the prospective students' interest. As far as I can tell, early graduate student attrition isn't an especially negative outcome at all from the student's perspective, and departmental structures that hasten students' concluding they would be happier doing something else are, I think, desirable if the student would in fact be happier doing something else.
Photos credited: HILLARY's BLOGGY

In the gym.
hillary was like : 1, 2, 3!.

and we covered our faces.



Helluuu.







Im going to flunk chemistry BADLY.



which is 100% gurantee plus chopped.



f9 for sure!



lols.



and biology WASNT done very well too.



BAD.







anw,



went hg mall with hi-lar-ly and exiie.



LOLS.



ate then they came my hse.



supposed to tann.



but the sun ran away and out came the heavy rain!



lols.



so we went gym instead.



took pics.



lol


lessons resuming tmr.
haix.
BORING.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

HELLUUU..



went out with____people___ystr.
.:kevinban, you dun have to know.
don't have to try finding out too.
cos it doesnt concern you..:


went to PS at arnd 6.30 Plus Plus.
got the tix for Norbit alr.
but in the end,
changed tickets to watch EPIC MOVIE instead.
show started arnd 7.
WAS SUPER HILARIOUS!
AND RIDICULOUS!
started off with the da vinci code one.
then this oeople had like the golden ticket to the epic movie.
had willy wonka scene.
X-Men
with the promiscuous blue person. HAHA


and in the willly wonka scene.
it was said that human parts were added to make the chocolates more delicious.
so there was one part where they chopped off the guy's balls
to use as nuts.!
haha.
Damn funny lah!
had pirates of carribean scene too.
all the sexy ladies.


In the harry potter scene.
Harry potter was old alr.
hermoine and Ron too.
and harry was a sicko.
who wanted to squeeze the girl's boobs.
haha.


Most of the parts were based on narnia.
but t the show it was GNARNIA.
and the white bitch, which was the queen
had big boobies too.
oh and the goat/ man person was married to the beaver.
and he had lots of woman in the pool.
all in bra and underwear.


and the lion king,
he wanted the 3 people to SLEEP with him.
so that he will help save the brother.


SUPER RIDICULOUS!
DAMN FUNNY!


the show should be NC 16 lah!
ALL THE SICKO PARTS!
AND all the sexy ladies
with Huge BOOBIES,
and nice body.


esp the words used inside.
plus the middle finger.
haha.
and inculding the Balls as nuts!
NC16.
haha.


and i dint noe norbit was NC 16.
but when i tried going in ystr.
they allowed.
haha.


After that,
ate at Ichiban sushi.
ate those meals thing.
but didnt eat sushi.


went to times.
Bought March issue of Teenage.
There's the channel U 7pm show POSTER INSIDE!
with ella, jiro and wu zun!
(GLENYS ARE YOU SEEING THIS?)
and the article and interview too.!
on Ferenheit, fei lun hai
they went to bugis street.


haha.
Im bringing the mag to show
elaine and sheevonne on mon.




today:
woke up arnd 9 plus 10.
ate cookie with coffee pudding
frm crystal jade for breakfast.
i've just finished lunch.
ate abalone.
and the damn sauce into my eyes la.
so stupid!
SUPER PAIN!
and i dun think it happened to me before.
haha.
and now the feeling is like.
left eye, burning with fire.
haha.


anw,
tmr have bio and chem test.
im only going t study for bio.
anw i think chem confirm will fail one la.
so hope that bio test will pull up chem marks.
heh.

let's be clear: your discarded do-si-dos are not doing the underclass any favors

In response to my last post, one commenter wrote:
Many (all?) Girl Scout councils have a cookie share program that allows you to buy boxes from girls, but have the cookies sent to a charity. The troop chooses the food pantry, shelter, or wherever they want to send the cookies. The girls can still go to horse camp.
First, I don't want to seem anti-Girl Scout. I have friends with various kinds of close connections to Girl Scouts, I think they are a great organization, especially since they do not promote homophobia like their othergender counterpart, etc..

However, and no offense to the commenter: It's unclear even if cookies were entirely free that one is doing the world a favor by stocking any food pantry or shelter with additional cookies. Americans below the poverty line, as a group, evince some of the poorest dietary decision-making anywhere on the planet, due to a complex variety of reasons but certainly not helped by boxes of free cookies. Regardless, there is no such thing as a free cookie, and the same money used to buy cookies could be used to: (1) donate the profit from the cookies to the Girl Scouts, (2) donate the wholesale cost of the cookie to the organization that would get the cookies as a donation and (3) give the savings from deducting the donation from one's taxes to whatever organization one prefers.

Can you really not make a charitable donation to the Girl Scouts and just have that count toward whatever cookie quota a given scout has toward sending her troop to horse camp? Does everything have to be translated into the currency of cookies for it to be part of the sales drive?

It says something about my social networks that I have no recollection of ever personally having been directly asked by a Girl Scout to buy cookies. I don't even think I've ever been directly asked by a parent of a Girl Scout either, although I've been in places where people have put up a signup sheet on a bulletin board (sometimes with an explicit note like, "I'll participate in your kid's fundraising drive if you participate in mine.") When I do, however, my response will not be to fork over cash to fight the War On Poverty with Thin Mints.

IT'S OFFICIAL! SXSW Hip Hop '07 as Curated by HoustonSoReal with the real credit going to Craig Stewart and South By Southwest for Keeping it Trill

Whew.

I'm so freakin' excited.

So freakin' excited!

Just over two weeks out and then it's goin' down! This is MY time of year man. The time that gets me the most excited. Fuck January 1st, my year starts with South By Southwest. My fiscal year anyway. SXSW kick starts so much shit for me and this hip hop community, shit the music community in general and man I am so glad to be a part of it. I'm not gonna ramble on, I'm just gonna present you the schedule. The realness. What I been talm 'bout for so long.

Thanks to all who are down, and apologies to all who didn't make it this year. I got as much as I could poppin' on this mug right here and think I/we did a pretty good job. I know I personally want to see everyone on this list. But that ain't gonna happen (Cuz I'ma be in that LEE SCRATCH PERRY SHOW FOOLS!) Anyway chicka check it check it ouuuuuuut....

All of the following events are in Austin, Texas from March 13 - 18. Get ready ready.

SEE THE ENTIRE LIST OF OVER 1,400 ACTS RANGING FROM HIP HOP TO ROCK TO COUNTRY TO PUNK TO JAZZ TO WORLD TO EXPERIMENTAL TO HOUSEY BAILLE BOUNCY CRUNKNESS HERE.

(PS I'll have links for all artists in next day or so. For now I'm just adding links for ones I know off the top of my head).

Tuesday March 13th

George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center – 1165 Angelina – All Ages
Doors at 5 p.m.
5:30 – 6:15 p.m. – Matt Sonzala of HoustonSoReal Interviews Chamillionaire
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. – Chamillionaire Performs (Houston, TX)
7:20 – 7:50 p.m. – Gutta Gang (Austin, TX)
8:10 – 9:00 p.m. – Cyril Neville & Tribe 13 (New Orleans, LA / Austin, TX)

Wednesday March 14th

Visions - 614 East 6th Street – 18+
1:00 – 2:00 a.m. – Devin the Dude (Houston, TX)
12:30 – 1:00 a.m. – Coughee Brothaz/14K/ Rob Quest of the Odd Squad (Houston, TX)
11:45 – 12:25 a.m. – Evidence of Dilated Peoples (Los Angeles, CA)
11:00 – 11:30 p.m. – Kidz In Da Hall (Chicago, IL)
10:30 – 10:55 – K-Rino & The South Park Coalition (Houston, TX)
10:05 – 10:20 – KJ Hines (Austin, TX)
9:45 – 10:00 – Public Offenders (Austin, TX)
9:15 – 9:30 – Lower Life Form (Houston, TX)
8:45 – 9:00 – Southern Intellect (Houston, TX)
8:00 – 8:45 –DJs Domo & Good Grief of the Coughee Brothaz (Houston, TX)
Hosted by Matt Sonzala of HoustonSoReal

Thursday March 15th

Club One15 – 115 San Jacinto St. – 21+
1:15 – 2:00 a.m. – Billy Cook (Houston, TX)
12:30 – 1:00 a.m. – D-Madness (Austin, TX)
11:45 – 12:15 p.m. – Keite Young (Ft. Worth, TX)
11:00 – 11:30 p.m. – Ter’ell Shahid (Austin, TX)
10:00 – 10:45 p.m.- Carmen Rodgers & Geno Young (Dallas, TX)
9:15 – 9:45 p.m. - W. Ellington Felton (Washington, DC)
8:30 – 9:00 p.m. – Nuwamba (Ft. Worth, TX)
Hosted by Mr. Blakes, DJ For Night Frances Jay of Neo Soul Cafe

Zero Degrees – 405 East 7th Street – 18+
12:00 – 12:45 a.m. Chingo Bling featuring Stunta, Lucky Luciano, Coast & Jezufavio
11:25 – 11:45 p.m. - Play-N-Skillz (Irving, TX)
11:05 – 11:25 p.m. – Reyez (Irving, TX)
10:50 – 11:05 p.m. – Lumba (Dallas, TX)
10:15 – 10:45 p.m.- Rob G. (Houston, TX)
9:45 – 10:00 p.m. - J. Kapone (Austin, TX)
9:15 – 9:30 p.m. – D of Carnival Beats (Austin, TX)
8:30 – 9:00 p.m. - Juan Gotti (Houston, TX)
Hosted by Paul Saucido of ME Television

Copa – 217 Congress Ave. – 21+
1:00 – 2:00 a.m. – C-Mon & Kypski (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12:15 – 12:45 a.m. - Cadence Weapon (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
11:30 – 12:00 a.m. - Chris Lee (Oslo, Norway)
11:00 – 11:25 p.m. - El Axel (Oslo, Norway)
10:00 – 10:45 p.m. – Grand Analog (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
9:15 – 9:45 p.m. Monster Maker (Washington, DC)
8:30 – 9:00 p.m. C-Rayz Walz (Bronx, NY)
8:00 p.m. DJ Spinner T and DJ Crop Diggie of the Superstardjs (Austin TX)

Fox & Hound – 401 Guadalupe St. – 18+
1:00 – 2:00 a.m. – UGK (Port Arthur, TX)
12:15 – 1:00 a.m. – UGK Records Featuring
11:30 – 12:00 a.m. – Boss Hogg Outlawz (Houston, TX)
10:45 – 11:15 p.m. – Willie D Introducing Huntzville (Houston, TX)
9:45 – 10:05 p.m. – KB da Kidnappa of Street Military (Houston, TX)
9:15 – 9:35 p.m. – Steve Austin (Dallas, TX)
8:45 – 9:00 p.m. – Saint (Houston, TX)
8:20 – 8:40 p.m. - Short, Bird Street, Mike Moe & DJ Wrecka of Beltway 8 (Houston, TX)
DJs for the Night DJ Grip, DJ Since & Young Spinna

Friday March 16th

Town Lake Stage at Auditorium Shores – All Ages
8:00 p.m. - Public Enemy (New York, NY)
6:45 p.m. - Ozomatli (Los Angeles, CA)
6:00 p.m. – X-Clan

Beauty Bar Patio – 617 E. 7th St. – 21+
1:15 – 2:00 a.m. - The Federation (Oakland, CA)
12:30 – 1:00 a.m. – Balance (Oakland, CA)
12:00 – 12:25 a.m. – The Pack (San Francisco, CA)
11:30 – 11:55 p.m. – Saafir (Oakland, CA)
11:00 – 11:25 p.m. – Rico Pabon (Los Angeles, CA)
10:30 – 10:50 p.m. – Qualo (Chicago, IL)
10:00 – 10:20 p.m. – Roxy Cottontail (New York, NY)
9:30 – 9:50 p.m. – Wale (Washngton, DC)
9:00 – 9:30 p.m. – Doujah Raze (Brooklyn, NY)
8:00 – 9:00 p.m. - DJ For Night – Catchdubs (New York, NY)

Visions - 614 East 6th Street – 18+
12:00 – 2:00 a.m. – MTV & Mountain Dew Presents ????????????
-------------------------------------------------------------------
11:30 – 12:00 a.m. - Rapid Ric’s Whut it Dew Family - - Gerald G., Black Mike, Bavu Blakes, Magno, Chalie Boy, Da Ryno (Austin/Houston, TX)
10:55 – 11:25 p.m. – Houston North Side All Stars - Big Tike, Big Pic, Lil Mario, Magno, Lester Roy, Blindcyde and more!(Houston, TX)
10:25 – 10:50 p.m. – Money Waters (Dallas, TX)
10:00 – 10:20 p.m. – VIP, (Austin, TX)
9:35 – 9:55 p.m. – MC Fatal, (Austin, TX)
9:00 – 9:30 p.m. – DJ Chill Presents Chill Factor Music (Houston, TX)
8:00 – 9:00 p.m. - Host and DJ for night - OG Ron C

Saturday March 17th

Club One15 - – 115 San Jacinto St. – 21+
1:00 – 2:00 a.m. – Dirty Wormz (Austin, TX)
12:00 – 12:40 a.m. – Nayrok (Dallas, TX)
11:00 – 11:40 p.m. – Peekaboo Theory (Houston, TX)
10:15 – 10:45 p.m. – Purple Crush (New York, NY)
9:45 – 10:10 p.m. – Deaf in the Family (New York, NY)
9:00 – 9:30 p.m. – Studemont Project (Houston, TX)
8:00 – 8:40 p.m. – Dujeous (New York, NY)

Zero Degrees – 405 East 7th Street – 18+
TheScrewShop.com 10 Year Anniversary
1:20 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Trae (Houston, TX)
12:50 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Carnival Beats (Austin, TX)
12:35 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. – Basswood Lane (Austin, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. – Grit Boys (Houston, TX)
11:55 p.m. – 12:10 a.m. – Sparkdawg (Killeen, TX)
11:35 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. – Dok Holiday & Set 4 Life (Austin, TX)
11:15 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – South Bound (Austin, TX)
10:55 p.m. – 11:10 p.m. – Ryno (Austin, TX)
10:35 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. – Big Sid (San Angelo, TX)
10:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Circle G’z (Houston, TX)
Hosted by Tosin of thescrewshop.com
10:00 p.m. DJ Bounz – And DJ for the night

Visions - - 614 East 6th Street – 18+
Dallas Night Presented by Ozone Magazine & Urban South
1:15 – 2:00 a.m. - Big Tuck, Tum Tum & DSR (Dallas, TX)
1:00 – 1:10 a.m. - T. Balla (Dallas, TX)
12:45 – 12:55 a.m. - M. Dot (Dallas, TX)
12:20 – 12:40 a.m. - Big Chief (Dallas, TX)
12:00 – 12:15 a.m. - Gator Mayne (Dallas, TX) – 214-635-7840
11:30 – 11:50 p.m. – Kottonmouth (Dallas, TX)
11:00 – 11:20 p.m. - Mr. Pookie & Mr. Lucci (Dallas, TX)
10:40 – 10:55 p.m. – Lil Peace (Dallas, TX)
10:15 – 10:35 p.m. - Big Ben (Dallas, TX)
9:30 – 10:00 p.m. - PPT (Dallas, TX)
8:45 – 9:15 p.m. – Verbal Seed (Dallas, TX)
8:00 – 8:30 p.m. – Thesis (Dallas, TX)
DJ for Night – DJ Drop (Dallas, TX)

I mean, if you like rap music, I mean, if you like real rap music, you can't really front on none of this shit. It is goin' down this year!

I'll be updating y'all on the regular of course over these next coupla weeks. But shit man, inhale all this shit and start making plans. A lot of these shows are gonna be huge. We will sell tickets at the door to all shows. SXSW Registrants with Badges and/or wristbands will get in as well.

THERE IS NO GUEST LIST FOR ANY SXSW SHOW AT ALL SO DO NOT ASK! Either register or be a part of it.

Now do you understand why I don't answer my phone? I'm freaking out over here. ENJOY!

Saturday, February 24, 2007

cast out your mints!

This is not going to turn into a diet blog, but, in addition to those announced in the comments of my original post, I've convinced someone else to sign onto the caloric-restriction cause, with a dialogue that included:
"I've gained [#] pounds and Girl Scout Cookies just arrived. My pants don't fit comfortably anymore."
"Throw out the cookies."
"But... Thin Mint!"
"You know what I say is right. Thin Mints are ephemeral joys, comfortable fitting pants a lasting pleasure."
She later sent me an e-mail titled "Fat Mints" that included:
I am on my way now to give all of the girl scout cookies away. I am embarrassed to admit how many boxes there are, but it will suffice to say that I have more than I can reasonably give to one person.

The spouse and I discussed my weakness for these particular types of cookies this morning on the way to the gym, and I think that perhaps there is a reason beyond my sweet tooth. When I was 9, I sold 750 boxes of them and I got to go to horse camp for free that summer. It was awesome - not just horse camp, but the little girl scout cookie business that my dad and I had going on. Happy memories.

Thus, when I see one of those order forms, I see my dad sitting in his blue mini-truck at the curb waiting for me to come back from knocking on the door and peddling the cookies. I see the living room packed from floor to ceiling with cookies. What I forget about that is that we were selling the cookies to others, not eating all 750 boxes ourselves.
It's interesting to think about how the Girl Scouts profit so much from the unhealthy eating habits of our nation. I wonder if they had started out selling Girl Scout Cigarettes and that had become the organization's dominant revenue source, how long the program would have kept going and what kind of rationalizations would have been used to defend it.

Anyway, now I need to get some people to enter into a writing pact with me as well. The last month of traveling and other distractions has been bad for all kinds of habits.

Monday Night Events! Houston and New York City!

If you haven't RSVP'd to the Big Daddy Kane show on Monday night at Warehouse Live here in Houston DO IT NOW! Go to www.scion.com/livemetro DO IT NOW!





And if yer in New York Monday night go check out DJ's Rapid Ric and Witnes at SWAY for Mike Frost's birthday party! Get you a SLF EMP T-Shirt and get yoself lookin' right!


I'ma be in Houston Monday gettin' paid by my peoples from New York (and Japan).

Kid Dynamite –Call Me Sunshine Superman/Breaking The Ice


Kid Dynamite –Call Me Sunshine Superman/Breaking The Ice –Pye 11632A (1973 Spanish issue

Call Me Sunshine Superman sounds exactly how you would expect it to sound – Ragtime Glam, as in The Lovin’ Spoonful produced by Eddy Seago in ’73! The B side appeared on Glitter From The Litter Bin and Breaking The Ice is a knee-trembler special …

At the dance like a row of ants, all the girls are lining the wall
Flashing eyes as the good time guys take a good look at them all…

Of course the evening would have developed swimmingly if the guys in question were in Tiger

The psychedelic photo is interesting: It seems to be a stock shot chosen by the Spanish art department, but when I first saw the picture, I thought it might be an early Steve Miller Band shot or something. Anyone recognise who the bass player/Band might have been?

Click below for an edit of Call Me Sunshine Superman and Breaking The Ice

wwol, day 2

I will admit that I am not exactly feeling like a swollen reservoir of dietary willpower here, so I am hoping that the public accountability of the blog and concomitant prospect of broadly-known humiliation if I fail will help keep me on the straight and abstinarrow.

impossible! my fatal would never hurt anyone!

From AP:
Authorities say a pit bull named Fatal attacked an Orlando boy after jumping through a car window.

The 11-year-old boy was taken to the hospital yesterday with bites and cuts on his legs. Fatal, the dog, was taken to the pound. Animal control officers will decide what happens next with him.
I recognize that I am on the wrong side of both contemporary thought and, even more assuredly, history with this--where, projecting ahead from trends in the peoplefication of pets, mature pit bulls will be granted the right to vote in the year 2048--but, if I were King Of The World, ordinary citizens would not be allowed to own pit bulls except perhaps through an elaborate screening and licensing procedure that would exclude anyone intending to name their dog "Fatal."

Friday, February 23, 2007

Twisted Black Gets 30 Years in PrisonChingo Bling, Rapid Ric's Whut it Dew Family, KJ Hines in AustinUGK Confirmed for SXSW

Man Twisted Black Got Thirty Years for Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine.

What that gone do? Nothin'.

Yes, UGK hath confirmed for SXSW. They will perform Thursday Night March 15th at Fox & Hound, Austin, Texas, 1 a.m. Opening acts are in the works now but have already been decided just waiting on confirmation. Official announcement tomorrow, but KB da Kidnappa is on the show for sure. MDDL FNGZ? Vicious? Hezeleo? Bobo Luchiano? UGK RECORDS???? Who else? Man we gonna hull y'all out with this one.

Speaking of hulling out, well we won't speak on that at all, cuz I always try to keep things positive, unless I start crying about some shit and that's not really negative, that's just emotion dog, and emotions are real. Emotion's are in full effect. With so many...

Anyway, yerple it went derple. SoReal. Chingo Bling, Lucky Luchiano, Stunta, Jezufavio, Rapid Ric's Whut it Dew Family of Gerald G., Black Mike & Bavu Blakes (Chalie and Magno and Da Ryno were set to go on after Chingo as a surprise but an unfortunate event cut the night short. THANKS MY DUDE!), KJ Hines and Swift of 4Mula Beats all STRAIGHT WRECKED the Parish this past Wednesday (both literally and figuratively) for a special ME Television taping that might be shown someday if the FCC happens to loosen it's profanity laws in the next couple weeks.

Hip Hop Ya Don't Stop. Here's the photos and a bit of a run down. Big ups to all who came out!


Black Meezy in the Heezy is pretty much about to blow. For real. He and Gerald G and well, about 7 other artists/groups in Austin are about to do some shit if you'll open up yo earholes. Why are Austin and Dallas SMOKING Houston on the talent meter these days? It's crazy man. Quit looking for shiny teeth and dig into some real music cuz that's where it's at.


Smackola of Dirty Wormz


DJ Young Spinna was a last minute addition to the bill and he really added a lot of flavor to the night! Dude is 14 years old, out on a school night KILLIN' IT! I see a huge future for him as well. He's extremely talented and keeps it real man. Not just spinning hits and BS. He's supportive and has a genuine knowledge of this music and his city. RESPECT!


Basswood Lane ready for their next cover!

PS My flash is broken, waiting on some checks to get a new one. Hopefully my BDK Photos will be thowed)


My boy the Expert Witness in the building having me all bleary eyed and dripped out. This my people!


KJ Hines is another young buck on the Austin scene. His Capital City video gets a lot of play on ME Television and he's also quite talented. Lookout for a mixtape from him and Young Spinna real soon.




Then things got blurry. This is Shawn David McMillen. We used to drive around Houston smoking a bong with a skull on it, then we'd go to the dolla movies on the west side and smoke the same bong and stand on the seats and walk all on the seats all fucking wasted and being fools with it and man, I could go on for days. Now he's an avant garde noise rocker maniac in these streets. Look for him on Emperor Jones Records and on a special collaborative effort entitled THE YELLA ALBUM. The Yella Album gonna be revolutionary.


OSCAR! Of Luxury Mindz is way better at this picture taking stuff than I.


Dru Fay of ME Television interviews Gerald G.


Rapid Ric, Dru and Gerald G. If you don't have Ric and Gerald's Mr. 512 Mixtape go get it free right now at MIXTAPEMECHANIC.COM




Black Mike and Gerald G. showed fools the future of rap music.




And just let them know.


Bavu Blakes joined them on stage and brought the house down.




As evidenced here.




See Rapid Ric live with Witnes in NYC at SWAY Monday night for Mike Frost's B-Day Party and the NYV Debut of his SLF-EMP T Shirt line!


Gerald G. is the present and the future!






Jezufavio is off the chain. Somehow I want to book him to perform at a $1000 a plate benefit dinner for Rick Perry or some shit. They need and deserve his wit and wisdom.


I couldn't believe Lucky Luchiano showed up. I been jammin' him for ages and never met him!


Stunta, Chingo's hype man, is really coming up with some dope solo material. Be on the lookout!




The man, the myth, the legend, Chingo Bling. Finna drop his debut album May 8th.


Stunta and Chingo, always a dope show.






Great set. Wish it wasn't cut short. We won't get into that here though. Those who know, know. And those who know, know I am extremely angry.

And those who's who, know he is officialy banned from everything. Forever.


These boys be flowin' tho...

And here's some You Tubage of Gerald G., Black Mike and Bavu Blakes. Enjoy...





Peace to Blueberry and Tony C for those!

DOWNLOAD MR. J. PAT REMIX OF LITTLE GIRL GONE HERE AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.