I wish I had the time to fully explain the weirdness that was the Power 106 Cali Christmas concert. But I don’t. I’m working on a piece on the Ghostface and Wu albums for the LA Weekly and my brain is absolutely fried. However, I did write a 400-word piece for the Times that ran on Saturday. It probably isn’t enough room to truly vent about the abomination that is commercial hip-hop radio, but hey word limits are word limits. Half the review is about Lupe Fiasco, not because I think Lupe is spectacular, in fact I pretty much agree with everything Zilla wrote about him. But really, compared to the rest of those clowns, he was Rakim. The review also contains the revelation that T-Pain is really Levar Burton from “Star Trek” trying to do an impression of Roger Troutman. True story.
Power 106 Cali XMas Review in the LA Times
Download from The Cool
MP3: Lupe Fiasco-”The Coolest”
6 comments
ekko says:
December 10, 2007 at 3:17 am (UTC -7)
Dude-
Is this you?
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/aboutme/guys/jeffweiss.html
adam (not Beaugh) says:
December 10, 2007 at 7:57 am (UTC -7)
I was hoping to see songs #5-9 on the countdown.
Jza says:
December 10, 2007 at 10:09 am (UTC -7)
you should post a link to the LA weekly pieces on wu and ghostface.
Passion of the Weiss says:
December 10, 2007 at 10:27 am (UTC -7)
Nah, Ekko, there’s like 8.321 Jeff Weiss’. I am merely but one. Funny if I were though.
Adam-They’ll be up tomorrow. Just didn’t have time over the weekend.
christine says:
December 10, 2007 at 7:53 pm (UTC -7)
since i have no comment for the most recent post, i figured i’d be ornery here instead. i’m not so sure about your levar burton connection. i think t-pain peaked in the late 80s and has just revamped his look (and added a vocoder) for the new era of hip-slop.
also: “smoking hot delicious piece of salt water trout??”
Passion of the Weiss says:
December 11, 2007 at 12:40 am (UTC -7)
Christine: Hmm, that’s an interesting theory, one I will have to take this under consideration.
As for the salt water trout, I cannot elaborate on the theories and strange mysticism of Disco Vietnam, I can only help bring them to the world’s attention.