| Paris, Tokyo. Not a Fiasco | December 14, 2007 |
Too early to tell, but I’m thinking The Cool might almost live up to the high praise Dart Adams and The Rap Up have thrown at it. It’s not album of the year good, but it’s good. Maybe great. As for “Paris, Tokyo?” It’d certainly be in my top 10 if I were going to […]
| May God Strike Me If He Don’t Like Me | November 28, 2007 |
It’s a full-time job just trying to keep up with all the rap records that leaked over the past week. I mean, The Wu, Scarface, Beanie Sigel, Styles P and now Ghost. Fuck. It’s a lot to handle. It’s enough to make a blogger want to call his local herbal dispensary to re-up for the […]
| My Morning Jacket-Blue Moon | November 26, 2007 |
My Morning Jacket’s cover of “Blue Moon” sounds pretty wonderful on this crisp Fall evening. Perhaps you agree. Download: MP3: My Morning Jacket-“Blue Moon”
| Raiders of the Lost Art | November 26, 2007 |
Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Complexity no longer moved units, and with sales sliding, Scarface xeroxes and ringtone rappers became the safe bets. You can’t blame the suits either. They’re just trying to save their jobs and besides, […]
| I Imagine A Jamaican Thanksgiving Would Probably Involve Pumpkin Pot Pie | November 23, 2007 |
It’s impossible for Thanksgiving weekend to feel like Thanksgiving when it’s 70 degrees out and sunny and you randomly found yourself last night in a vaguely “trendy” Los Angeles bar watching a fedora-clad couple make out like they were trying to empirically decipher what the other had for Thanksgiving. (Seriously, do these people find each […]
| Apparently, We’re Voting For Obama, Oprah and Eric B. | November 14, 2007 |
Forget the fact that “The Barrell Bros.” sounds like the title of an 8-bit NES game or maybe a Providence-based gross-out comedy made by the Farrelly’s, because the latest single leaked from The Big Dough Rehab is great. Why they released the underwhelming “Celebrate” first is beyond me. “The Barrell Bros” is just a snarling […]
| Wu-Tang Returns Mix-Tape | November 12, 2007 |
So apparently a new Wu-Tang mixtape leaked last week while I was gone. I’m sure most of you already have it, but for the few that don’t, I’ve uploaded it so you don’t have to go through the trouble of registering with Loud.Com. Most of the tracks have already been released in some form, be […]
| A Return to Normalcy | November 11, 2007 |
At the moment, I’m captioning a photo essay on R Kelly for Metromix. No really. I’m also listening to Double Up in its entirety for the first time ever (though I have previously re-played the videos for “Real Talk” and the “I’m a Flirt Remix” roughly 423 times). But for some reason, right now, I’ve […]
| New York New York | November 1, 2007 |
By the time you’re reading this I’ll be en route to New York City. I’ll be there until next Thursday, so no blogging all next week. Sorry. But I’ve never been save for a six hour stretch I once spent at the Met and/or waiting for a Yankee game to get rained out. And I […]
| Every Single Holiday, A Burns in the Box | October 2, 2007 |
Today is my 26th birthday. Accordingly, I plan on staying as far away from the computer as possible and enjoying a full 24 hours of sloth and indolence. Regularly scheduled programming will resume tomorrow. Also, if you’re a blogger and still haven’t updated your blogroll to the new http:/passionweiss.com site, can you please take a […]
