14 posts tagged “hip hop”

I only know that I kind of dig it:

Feed The Animals

I can't concentrate at work right now because I'm listening to the new Girl Talk album and I want to get out of my chair and just dance and holy crap I really didn't want to like this but I can't help it and it just really shows how much cheesy mainstream Hip Hop I know.

Go go go cop it. He's pulling a Radiohead and allowing you to name your price.

After a particularly shitty week, I was greeted with this news while meandering through my daily blog roll:

New Album. April 29. The Roots.

AND... Black Thought RIPS it in their first track. RIPS. IT.

You really can't knock this when you find out the guy plays entirely by ear and makes even T-Pain sound he could get airtime in Bloomingdale's.

Check the goodness!

And the original, in case you're unfamiliar with Rihanna's Umbrella (ey ey ey...).

But, I think my favorite of his so far is his rendition of T-Pain's "Buy U A Drank". No, seriously, if you watch anything on YouTube today let it be this.

Here's the original for reference. This stuff kind of reminds me of the Hidden Beach Unwrapped recordings only way way more interesting and less elevator-friendly. The Mozart of Hip Hop and R&B? I'm inclined to agree.  

Rawr rawr like a dungeon dragon!

From now until Halloween, I'm going to practice Soulja Boy Tellem's moves so that when I go to a Halloween party on the 27th I will be fully ready to Crank That all night while in my dinosaur kigurumi*. I figure it will look way better than me trying to Pop, Lock & Drop It or 2 Step... I mean, obviously dinosaur = Crank That.

Oh? You're not familiar with this phenomenon? Allow me to YouTube illustrate it!

First, the music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQf5poAK4s0

Then, the instructional video showing you exactly how to Crank That: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGLum5SyKQ

And, finally, a college football team doing it on the sidelines before one of their games:

How much do I love that dances have names again? (Hi Robocop, Wop, Running Man, Roger Rabbit!) Too much, I think, too much.

*I'm wearing that to work on Halloween. How freakin' dope will my BART ride be that day? Extremely super fantastic dope.

From PMX's site:

Be a part of Asian Culture history this year and join us at .pure furisuta (.pure freestyle/.pufuri). Pacific Media Expo will host the first hip hop dance exhibition to ever be properly introduced. This event will be one night of performances by different crews from Southern California and one afternoon of workshops.

Between the lolitas that will be swarming the joint because of Angelic Pretty, the b-boys practicing 1990's and the Visual Kei fans that are usually in attendance (no word yet of who they'll be bringing over from Japan to perform this year, though) PMX is going to be a grand clash of subcultures.

One word for all that: NICE!

There's 3 things you can never argue about…Religion, Politics and Hip-Hop. Cause no matter your opinion, somebody will tyrannically oppose and get all fuckin emotional.

Five Things That Killed Hip Hop

Let Casper drive!

Last weekend, in a blatent move to deny the fact that we are in our late-20s, some friends of mine and I attempted to ghost ride the whip.

The exchange went something like this:
Driver: (Upon pulling into their neighborhood) All right, let's ghost ride.
Passenger: ...Serious?
Driver: Yeah.
Passenger: Yeah!
Me and My Friend in the Backseat: (while unbuckling our seat belts) ...Oh shit.

So the Driver puts the car into neutral and Passenger and my other friend manage to get out of the car while it's still rolling at about 15mph. 15mph as in, TOO FAST for ghost riding. The Driver and I, upon opening the doors to try to exit the briskly moving vehicle, realize the speed and only manage to scrape our shoes along the pavement as the car continues to move too fast. Yelps and laughter from our half of the car. Meanwhile, the other two are practically jogging alongside to save face in what essentially boils down to a failed attempt at being hyphy. Damnit.