White Rappers have been in the news a great deal of late, thanks to VH1′s White Rapper Show, a program whose main goal seems to be ensuring that melanin-deficient rappers will be laughingstocks for eternity (see Jamie Radford’s reviews of the show here). Granted, white folk have produced many a fine MC, as my 10… Continue reading »
For my money’s worth, I consider Pharoahe Monch one of, if not the most underrated rapper of all-time. Too intellectual and lyrically sound to ever get significant radio airplay, yet too hardcore for casual hip-hop fans who think hip-hop should be all optimism, positivity and jovial, tubby, ?uestlove, Pharoahe has always been tough to classify.… Continue reading »
So you can finally rent Idiocracy this weekend, so do it. I’m definitely buying myself a copy. I’ve hyped this film to no end over the past few months, but check out this recent Slate article praising the film. It’s the most intelligent review I’ve read on Idiocracy film yet. Also See This Week’s LA… Continue reading »
Austin’s Red Hunter, the man behind Peter and the Wolf, has a reputation for being a weird dude. Chalk it up to his penchant for chartering sailboats to gig up and down the East Coast or his predilection for playing unlikely venues like cemeteries, abandoned buses and islands only accessible via canoe. Not to mention… Continue reading »
In “Homage” of David Cross Life is good my friends. Why? Because as I was walking around town, I stumbled across the latest copy of the Learning Annex, the magazine that will help me fulfill my dreams. Just imagine taking Improv Courses from Wayne “One Funny Chapelle Sketch Does Not Mean I’m Funny” Brady, or… Continue reading »
Setting: Betty Goldstein P.h.D’s lavishly appointed office in downtown Atlanta. Young Jeezy sits nervously on a plush couch, twiddling his fingers, alternately staring at the thick wool carpet and into the eyes of his new psychiatrist, Betty Goldstein, a middle-aged woman in a Chanel suit and a Marge Simpson-block of hair. Betty Goldstein: Now, Jeezy,… Continue reading »
In my ongoing quest to shed light on humanity’s flaws, poor decision-making capabilities and love of talentless musicians, I present an occasional column debuting in 2007: The Worst Ideas Ever. The Worst Ideas Ever is about exactly what you think it is: the dumbest most drug-addled things that mankind has ever produced. With that in… Continue reading »
It seems that you couldn’t read a Year-End Music discussion without hearing about the unmitigated brilliance of L’il Wayne. And it wasn’t not just the Pitchfork hipster types. Sure, they started this Waynesanity by giving credence to his absurd claims to be the best rapper alive (uh…last time I checked Ghostface, Pharoahe Monch, GZA, MF… Continue reading »
Jan
05
So with Christmas and Hanukkah came a bounty of gifts for this young blogger. A Woody Allen Box Set. A DVD of The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup. A 2-Month Gift Subscription to Netflix. But perhaps bestest of all was the long awaited Season 1 DVD of Beverly Hills 90210. Scoff all you want my friends,… Continue reading »
There’s a rarely discussed but subliminal understanding between music obsessives, the types that listen to dozens of records each year, the types that spend all their discretionary income on Ticketmaster-inflated concert tickets, the types that waste vast chunks of their time writing blogs for the similarly musically obsessed. And that understanding is that for all… Continue reading »
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