It’s Summer and that means music that represents Summer and still keep it hood. This mix goes across the board from pop to some rap and some Hip Hop. Feel good music for the Sumer so click here and enjoy the mix
1. Daft Punk – Get Lucky
2. Bruno Mars – Treasure
3. Passion Pit – Little Secrets
4. Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
5. Common – Blue Sky
6. Jay – Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild
7. Maroon 5 – One More Night
8. Q – Tip – Breathe & Stop
9. Nelly – Hot In Here
10. Black Star – Brown Sugar remix
11. Ludacris – Stand Up
12. Justin Timberlake feat. Jay- Z – Suit & Tie
13. Sly, Slick and Wicked – Sho’ Nuff
14. The Emotions – The Best Of My Love
15. Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven
16. Pharrell – Frontin
17. Mobb Deep – Quiet Storm
18. Faith Evans – Love Like This
19. Mary J Blige feat. Jadakiss & CL Smooth – Family Affair remix
20. Foxy Brown – Oh Yeah
21. Tribe Called Quest feat. Leaders Of The New School – Scenario
22. Lauryn Hill – Lost Ones
After next Monday the 17th of June i will be home packing and taking care of things that need to be taken care of. In that time i will just record a few reviews to get back in to things, a few good albums have come out since my last podcast and I still have to get some 93 albums reviewed, the Tribe Called Quest and Snoop album more than anything else. Still trying to get things straight as far time to do all things i need and want to do. So things will be back to normal soon.
When I got the How I got Over album this was the song that stuck out the most to me, could have been the drums or the fact that the first verse made complete sense. Always been a fan of The Roots and will be the first to say Black Thought should be on everyones short list as best MC in the game. The vibe of this song isn’t much of a departure fromm the album it just comes off as the topping on the cake. No guest MC this song and there are only two verses that allow Black Thought truly puts things in perspective. Even now when this song comes on it jumps my energy . Most of the How I Got Over album is a much needed listen and every bar on the album is deep as much as they are full of depth.
[Intro:]
Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it…
But God, I know you have your reasons
(Uh huh)
[Verse 1:]
They said he’s busy hold the line please
Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read
Who does the blind lead?
Show me a sign please
If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?
And why do haters separate us like we siamese?
Technology turning the planet into zombies
Everybody all in everybody’s dirty laundry
Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricane, tsunamis
Terrorist, crime sprees, assaults, and robberies
Cops yellin’ stop, freeze
Shoot him before he try to leave
Air quality so foul, I gotta try to breath
Endangered species
And we runnin’ out of trees
If I could hold the world in the palm of these
Hands, I would probably do away with these anomalies
Everybody checkin’ for the new award nominee
Wars and atrocities
Look at all the poverty
Ignoring the prophecies
More beef than broccoli
Corporate monopoly
Weak world economy
Stock market topplin’
Mad marijuana oxycotton and klonopin
Everybody out of it?
[Hook:]
Well I’ve been thinkin’ about
And I’ve been breakin’ it down
Without an answer
I know I’m thinking out loud
But if you’re lost and around
Why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?
(Uh huh)
[Verse 2:]
Yeah… It’s still me, one of your biggest fans
I get off work
Right back to work again
I probably need to go ahead and have my head exam
Look at how they got me on the Def Jam payment plan
Well, I’m in the world of entertainment and
Trying to keep a singing man sane for the paying fans
If I don’t make it through the night, slight change of plans
Harp strings, angel wings, and praying hands
Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings
For going on tour and ignoring the court summons
All I’m trying to do is live life to the fullest
They sent my daddy to you in a barrage of bullets
Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?
And why is livin’ life such a fight to the finish?
For this high percentage
When the sky’s the limit
A second is a minute, every hour’s infinite
[Outro:]
Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it…
I really held off on writing this post because I honestly didn’t think The Spurs would make it to the Finals this year. They did and with that Tim Duncan has a chance to win his fifth NBA title. The Spurs are 4 – 0 in the Finals and I’m sure with all the dick riding for The Miami Heat that the NBA seems to be forcing the sports world to do that little nugget of a stat will not come up. The Spurs have been the most consistent team in the NBA for over a decade. With the bad years the Lakers have had as well as Dallas and the total break down of guaranteed playoff teams such as Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons and The Pacers, who gave the Heat a series, it feels good to see the Spurs in the Finals again.
So where does the legacy of Tim Duncan fit in within all of this? The Spurs were one of the best Sports teams of the last decade showing up in the Finals three times and starting off the 2000 season as the Champs. If you’ve been bored enough to actually watch a Spurs game you’d know Tim Duncan is still the man. “The big fundamental” as Shaq called him and the title fits more than ever when you watch Duncan break a defensive player down to get his points. The fact the NBA is focused on small ball and that Duncan and The Spurs are boring also keeps his profile down. Still Duncan and The Spurs have been a main stay in the playoffs and no matter who the hot team at the time is The Spurs are always a threat to make the Finals. It is a shame the whole seems to downplay their greatness and Tim Duncan truly is the prime example of being underrated. People don’t place his name in top twenty talks, yes I said twenty because the history of power forwards wouldn’t even allow you to get to Duncan. Duncan is one the best if not the best power forward in the game of the century thus far.
Duncan will of course not be the story unless he has some monster game in some way whether it will be points or rebounds. Only “if” The Spurs beat The Heat will we hear about where Tim Duncan should be ranked as an all time great. Kobe Bryant is measured by his titles and Duncan has one less and as of now three more than LeBron James, both who have come up in the discussion of best player in the game. Even The Spurs don’t beat The Heat the fact that Duncan at this point in his career has helped get his team to The Finals again is still something to speak on, outside of Kobe, Garnett and Pierce Tim Duncan is still able to lead his team to a title. Not a fan of The Heat and I don’t care who wins the title, I do hope that it won’t be a sweep either way. Tim Duncan is a great player and should be bragged on every chance available, pre game , post game, during the game and on every show that speaks on the NBA Finals.
So there is a lot of hate of the Cheerios commercial with the interracial family out there in the wide world of the internet that seems to show just how closed off from the real world people are. I’m not going to go into the numbers on how interracial couples have jumped up, that’s not the point here. My point is how this has made news like the dwarf “issue” Target saw in December. As always small minded people who have nothing else better to do want to spend time complaining about shit they’ve seen on television, so now for this brief moment those people have controlled the topic of discussion. It’s 2013 and whether you like it or not interracial couples are out there. Of course white man and Asian or Hispanic woman doesn’t raise an eyebrow too much. Black man and Hispanic woman doesn’t cause a company to close off their comments section of their video, but a White woman and Black man as a couple is just the worst thing seen in this country from the way people are over reacting. It could be why it hard to see such a thing on television and really not shown at all until now in a commercial. The odd thing is the problem seems to have come when the father was shown, as anyone looking at a show or commercial knows, you know when you see a biracial child. Most of the time it is an African American parent with the child. I don’t even think if the commercial was just the girl and her White mother there would be an issue, the issue was seeing the Black man.
Not sure what the problem is in this day and age when you can watch a Rap or R&B video and see Black guys all over a white chick looking like a fake ass Kim Kardashian, seen it in a Trey Songz video as well as some rap dude who name escapes me for a good reason, his song sucked. Speaking of Kim, E! will be following her pregnancy this season on the show she is a star in. Will there be any uproar about her show making E! consider canceling the show? Not a chance in hell. The difference between the videos and the show and even what few movies that show Black men with White women is they can be passed over by people if they choose not to see that kind of relationship. But now we’re talking about a cereal commercial that will play all day on any cable channel showing cartoons all day everyday as well as during those day time shows. Cheerios is a part of pop culture and to even dare put such a representation of America out there is to say it is ok to date and get married outside of your race, meaning be a White woman with a Black man. To even say Cheerios and or General Mills has done something bold is an overstatement, they showed a child with her parents wanting to ensure all parties ate healthy. It’s the same commercial Cheerios have been doing for over two decades, this time the parents weren’t of the same race and so now there is a problem.
If there is an ad that should be under scrutiny it’s the Geico pig ads. There are two that i know of where the pig is with a female and she is in some sort of relationship with the pig. Where are the cry babies who screamed about a small joke and interracial couples for those commercials? There is one Geico where the pig was in the car with a chick and she wanted to make out or go further and the pig was into his game.
That commercial has been out for awhile and yet I haven’t seen anyone bring that up as issue, so is bestiality ok or is it because we as Americans or humans know it’s a commercial so we overlook the bestiality undertone? Would it have been an issue if the pig was trying to make out with the girl? As far I can tell, going by the uproar people are doing over a Cherrios commercial, it is better to have sex with an animal than to date and marry outside of your race. Again I’m going by what people complain about and no one seems to be all pissed about a pig with humans, white women at that, but an interracial couple with their child is reason to have a boycott on a brand of cereal? No it hasn’t happened yet, the boycott, but I feel it coming if this story gets enough steam. People really need to check their hatred for logic and also check the calender and the people around where they live. There are same sex relationships and interracial relationships, hell there are same sex interracial relationships where the couple have kids… It’s where we are as a people get over it, for companies to relate to consumers it can no longer be just white couples and have them replaced by people of color depending on the cable network or certain shows.
Superman is like Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine and The Hulk, and that means they’re popular on sight. I mean there hasn’t been a Superman movie in years or even a cartoon and still a Superman shirt as well as boxer will be bought as someone reads this post. I know it seems Iron Man is a major hit right now but those who know the comic book world knows Iron Man was a B List hero, Robert Downey Jr. brought popularity to Tony Stark. Even the last Superman movie did better than Batman Begins because it was a movie about Superman.
The thing is Superman is the template of all that is the Super Heroes. He also by the name alone, Super. He is just as fast as if not faster than any speedster in the comic book world, some comics let it be known he can move planets. Superman is a goodie two shoes and there was the problem. Even in the comics his life was boring. The only good comics were the stand alone stories that truly made Superman less “super”. That less super vibe may be the way Man Of Steel will go from the trailers. Speaking of trailers, I like how Warner Bros. have handled marketing the movie so far. There was such a fuss about no commercial during the Super Bowl. The teaser where both of Clark’s fathers spoke was cool and then within the last month the airwaves have been flooded with commercials about the movie. Each commercial seems to be more compelling than the last one.
The good thing is Zack Snyder, who directed 300 and Watchmen as was well the straight trash Sucker Punch, is the director. Snyder has a great visual style for comic book movies, which the trailers are heavily leaning on. Of course with the producers and writers from the Dark Knight Trilogy being involved the idea of a “Superman Begins” movie will be something critics will be focusing on. Even if that will be the case is that a bad thing? I mean a grounded Superman where Kal -El is a complex man sounds good in theory and from the trailers and featurettes it looks like it will work on film. Nothing against Richard Donner because his Superman movie is what all Superman movies and comic book movies in general are compared to but even with that being said it had childish moments. A grounded Superman with issues makes for a more relatable character in today’s world. I know I’m not the only one that thinks Man Of Steel will be the sleeper hit of the summer and set a bar for Comic book movies to come until Guardians Of The Galaxy comes out next summer. Hope to see the film before I leave or when I get to Cincinnati.
This is a tribute to some of the best duos in Hip Hop. This mix goes all over the board, down South over to the West and of course in New York. Click here and enjoy
Tracklisting
01. Pete Rock & CL Smooth – T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
02. Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek – Move Somethin´
03. Black Star – You Already Knew
04. 8 Ball and MJG- Space Age Pimpin’
05. Youngbloodz feat. Big Boi – 85 South
06. Outkast – So Fresh, So Clean
07. Kid ‘N Play – Rollin’ With Kid ‘N Play
08. Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock – Joy & Pain
09. Eric B. & Rakim – Know The Ledge
10. EPMD – So What Cha Sayin’
11. Nice & Smooth – Funky For You
12. Gang Starr – Mass Appeal
13. Showbiz & AG – Soul Clap
14. Method Man and Redman – Da Rockwilder
15. Smif-N-Wessun- Bucktown
16. Mobb Deep- Shook ones part II
17. Artifacts – Art of Facts
18. Heltah Skeltah – Letha Brainz Blo
19. Tha Dogg Pound – It Feels Good To Be A Dogg Pound Gangsta
20. MOP – Ante Up
