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i have slight ocd, i make lists.

shock bloggin' on dx? your parents would be proud.

the notorious b.i.g. sucks. russell simmons is the devil. all MY favorite hip hop albums are the best. all YOUR favorite hip hop albums are the worst. the south sucks and so does the west. let me not forget .. new york hip hop is dead. but wait .. ALL hip hop is dead. and while we're at it .. everything i listen to is amazing and this generation doesn't know a damn thing about good music.


y'all let me know when y'all are gonna be done with the shock bloggin' cause to be very honest with you, the shit is tired.


i mean, we all have opinions. we all disagree on who's the greatest emcee of all time. we all have a different top ten albums list. one man's illmatic is another man's atliens which is another man's chronic. and while we don't have to agree, we also don't have to shock blog just to get attention. 


lil wayne is NOT the g.o.a.t. but neither is biggie .. and tupac? nope, not him either. why? because hip hop is an artform. it's no different than films, art and books. what you may consider to be the worst song ever may have struck a chord with someone and touched them to a point where they consider it the greatest song ever. who are we to sit around and discount the impact that an e40, biggie, wayne have had on their fans and on the music? or is it that we forget that not too long ago our parents were telling us to "turn that damn music off!"


it was our music that was vulgar, violent and lacked substance. our music wasn't rebellious in their eyes, just noise. they treated the music we loved in the same way that we treat the music that our younger brothers and sisters love. does chicken noodle soup have any less substance than rumpshaker? is psk's coke talk more positive than the subject matter on hell hath no fury? and have we forgotten about 2 live crew? c dolores thought our music was setting back an entire race. stanley crouch damn near discredits everything related to hip hop. nwa wasn't seen as a revolutionary voice crying out for a voiceless generation. dr dre's the chronic wasn't met by hip hop purists with the classic label we bestow upon it. every generation has had an older generation discredit their artistic expression and we cried foul when it happened to us. and look at us now, doing the same exact thing to the generation coming up under us. as misunderstood as we've claimed our music has been we don't seem to be giving anyone the benefit of the doubt.


i don't like most south hip hop. i don't like most west coast hip hop. come to think of it, i'm not much of a fan of most new york hip hop. that's not to say that i hate all hip hop, but very little hip hop moves me nowadays. but maybe that's the point. maybe we're supposed to move on and discover new things and not sit around and complain about what's wrong with what we used to love. accept that we're not meant to like every damn thing that comes out. and that the south, the west, new york and every other region that wants to join in can make the music into any kind of sound that they enjoy. music is an artform but it is supposed to be FUN. i think a lot of y'all forgot that.


basically, one man's trash is another man's treasure. so please, learn to have an opinion and stop acting like an authority.


oh, and andre 3000 is the greatest of all time ;)

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from a white man's perspective.

so we have a scheduled pest control visit to keep the house "visitor" free. if any of you have lived in a brooklyn brownstone, or any other damn nyc apartment, you know that lil "visitors" can be a nuisance from time to time.

so ernie, the dude who handles the pest control visits, came by today as i was writing and watching espn. story of the day was this new study that came out about nba referees supposed racial bias. ernie starts talking about how stupid the study is, i agree, and somehow it leads to a discussion on race in nyc. ernie, who's married to a puerto rican woman, and me start going back and forth about michael griffith, yusef hawkins, willie turks, tawana brawley, al sharpton, don imus, sean bell and a ton of related things.

now ernie is an italian cat that grew up in marine park in a time where nyc had certain areas that were hot beds of race related troubles (howard beach, bensonhurst). and while it was pretty obvious that ernie had his own ideas of what was right and wrong in the realm of racism he also had a great understanding of what is was like to be a new yorker during the race heavy 80s. while our opinions and views on racism were not all on the same page, ernie is what a lot of us should aim to be. unapologetic and sincere with what he believes in but with an open ear and respect for things that he realizes he will never fully understand.

and even though i highly doubt our conversations will ever go past the monthly pest control visit, ernie's my new homie. it's refreshing to meet someone who won't agree with you for the sake of making a situation comfortable but will respect you and your opinions. agreeing to disagree doesn't sum ernie up. he just gets it, even when he doesn't. like i tell Bella all the time, you don't always have to fully understand something to respect it.

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has myspace jumped the shark?

with all the ..


1. ads
2. phished accounts
3. spam in your inbox
4. AND your comments
5. the ridiculous amount of chain bulletins
6. the 39,689,705 music pages
7. that send you 97,404,873 messages, comments and friend requests a day .. 


has myspace jumped the shark?

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eleventeen random thoughts.001.

won. my mets are off to a great start and i am excited. now if only the knicks could get it together. no playoffs for them and maybe a shot at the #1 pick .. but wait! the pick was traded away!

lord this franchise is a mess. i miss the days of ewing, starks, oakley. sure, they didn't win a title. sure, the bulls handed us our asses over and over again. but at least they were contending. at least there was an excitement in the air. nowadays, i can barely sit thru an entire game.

tube. entourage, which is one of my favorite shows, is back and it is now time to turn sundays nights into a couch potato night. but this new season of entourage also revealed a secret about me. entourage is coupled with the last episodes of the sopranos and Bella is a fan of the sopranos. so we're watching both back to back and i had to admit to her that i'm not well versed in the show at all.

this is how it happened, i missed the first season of the show. this was before on demand so i had no way of going back and catching up. add that to the fact that i used to be very bad at catching a show on a weekly basis, and you have me missing the better part of the first two seasons. after that, i just never had the desire to watch a show that i was so out of the loop on. so when sopranos would come up in conversations i would just get kinda quiet and nod and let the other person do most of the talking.

but now that hbo's sunday night is a part of my schedule i had to come clean. i don't know much about the show, but i'm gonna have to go pick up the dvds because after catching a few episodes on a&e and after watching the season premier i have to admit .. this show is pretty damn good.

tree. can we really go FULLY green? the new york times ran an article back on march 22nd, titled "the year without toilet paper." its about colin beavan and his family and how they've gone green.

to quote his website "For one year, my wife, my 2-year-old daughter, my dog and I, while living in the middle of New York City, are attempting to live without making any net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no carbon emissions, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no plastics, no air conditioning, no TV, no toilets…"

it reads like a great idea, but can we really give up all our luxuries? i dunno .. i can't see myself doing my laundry by hand (too time consuming) or giving up the toilet (i like my toilet, thank you very much). that's just me tho. but i must admit that there are a few things that i can see myself doing. i'm just going to have to research it further.

foe. is don imus in the middle of a "witch hunt"? i can't applaud the comments made by don imus, i'm not justifying them at all but we should ask a few questions before we throw him, or anyone who's made similar comments (isiah washington, mel gibson, michael richards), into the fire. where does freedom of speech fall in all of this? where does freedom of the press come into play? when does an ignorant comment become spreading hate? are major companies going to start pulling away from unfavorable programming across the board?

i think his comments were irresponsible, ignorant and racist but i just hate when things like this happen and the person is "punished" and 2 months later we all move on and forget about it. if we're going to talk the talk on the don imus subject then we should walk the walk all the time. if we don't then we're nothing but finger pointers who want to have someone to blame but don't want to work towards a real solution.

phife. i went to the st. juste, j*davey, marsha ambrosius show at SOBs last night. i really can't remember much about st. juste's set and i left after the j*davey set (which i won't comment on cause i definitely have a bias). but what really stuck out in my head was that SOBs promoted this event as "the neo-soul event of the month" .. word? people still use the term neo-soul? it made me cringe when i first heard the term and it still makes me cringe today. do better.

sex. last night i was told that filthy gomez is actually the cousin of the dirty sanchez. initially i thought "well shit, maybe i should change my name," but then i figured i could continue using the name and front like i knew the meaning all along, come up with some clever play on it all to make my name sound funny, interesting and fresh.

oops, just gave that one away. 

anyway, search on urban dictionary and you'll find quite a few "filthy" definitions.

lucky. the wellington boot. is it culturally acceptable for an urban living american man to rock 'em? men will wear them while hunting and you see them quite often overseas, but very rarely do you see an american man walking down the streets of metro city, usa with a pair of wellingtons.

personally, i dig em. and nothing keeps your feet as dry as these do. but please, miss me with the "fashion" wellingtons that come in ridiculous colors and patterns.

ate. believe it or not, i'd never had an onion ring. but thanks to Bella, i had a couple last night and i'm craving them BAD right now. i'm wondering how much of a difference there is between beer batter onion rings and regular onion rings.

i think i'm gonna have to jump into the kitchen and find out. anybody have any good recipes or know of any good spots in nyc to get some onion rings?

nova. are you a "sneaker head"? i love kicks. i've loved kicks since childhood. i've been into sneaker culture for as long as i can remember. but over the last couple of years it's gotten annoying. plain and simple, i hate "sneaker heads". not the real heads, like bobbito, who approach it with knowledge and a history. and i definitely don't hate the kids who, like my younger cousin frankie, buy a pair of kicks simply because they love them.

i hate the cats that sit in line for hours, sometimes overnight, just to buy a damn pair of sneakers that are over the top and ugly simply because (enter hip designer here) designed them or because "they've gotta be dope" since nike is pricing them at $500. i'm not about being pure to the "art" of collecting sneakers. i'm just about having some fun with what i do and i cannot see the fun in sleeping outside of a store to buy a pair of kicks that i'll wear twice but drop half a grand on. every pair of kicks i own, i own for a reason. because i actually love them, because they're comfortable or for nostalgia. but i won't buy into the hype of buying kicks for the sake of "coolness."

tin. can obama and hillary really win? maybe i'm just being negative. maybe i've just been conditioned to believe that a black man and a woman could never actually compete for the presidency AND win. maybe seeing that this nation is full of bigotry (see: foe) makes me doubt that there are enough forward thinking people in it to vote for the best PERSON for the job and not the best white man for the job. 

eleventeen. RIP Kurt Vonnegut.

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