I was ravaging the internets looking for this last year… I was almost considering ripping it, chopping it up and uploading it to one of these hosting sites… Whatever, this is just some shit that you can bump whenever, even on your worst day, and feel fucking good about how shyteous things are. Dave is loving it
Situations, and jaws get tighter
My man trying to get his weight and height up!!
So yo… BE or Finding Forever? I feel like people have already forgotten FF though…
This shit is heat… the visuals to everyone’s favorite song off of Graduation. But Ye, where the fuck is this version at? If they trashed that version where the female character seems more innocent, for one where she is 100% she-devil… I fully support that decision.
Oh and, Kanye West is coming to Montreal… May 20th. Dumb out…. Also lemme take this chance to shout out Young Legend and everyone at OS. I can’t imagine how hard it is to always be on your grind, and remaining the best at it. Your rip game is recognized and mighty proper. The internet is a better place thanks to OnSmash. Take some time to check out their blog…
If you have any kind of intelligence you’re not sitting in front of the television, watching the shitfest which is the Grammy’s but FUCK I just happened to be passing by the T.V. (lol) and saw Kanye literally bring the roof down. I’ll admit, I’ve seen his performances numerous times, and I get quite fed up of artists flaunting their (lack of) talent only to sell concert seats… but KanYe definitely reached what he was trying to prove with Graduation… Stadium Status. But on some Michael Jackson shit… (at least, I think that was what he was trying to prove).
The Stronger performance was airtight… having Daft Punk (or were they) up there was the frosting on the cake (sidebar: I need more Jordans in my life), and eskay tells me Stronger already one something (WE MAJOR!). Now I’m still realizing how impeccably hard Graduation really was, but fuck my life @ the Hey Mama performance…which was definitely the coup de grace. I pussied out of dropping my “Chi-State of Mind, Lost My Momma, Lost My Mind” post but I do not know how he pulled that off, and probably have been pulling it off all over Europe.
I say that to say this… KanYe and P. dropped this poster last week, and I have everyone asking me when the dates/places are, because I would usually know this shit… and I find myself not wanting to look for it because I know that nobody ever comes to Montreal. Now, if ever the Tour goes well, and Rihanna makes it rain on KanYe or whatever she does to people… and the power’s that be decide to add a leg to the end of the tour… and if, let’s say those powers are reading this, they really need to hold me down. I can bring 1 or 2 thousand of my friends but the rest will already be lined up for tickets and shit. Anyway, fuck the bartering, I’ll probably just hitchhike my way to the Air Canada Center or Madison Square Garden shows, but still… doesn’t hurt to ask. But back to the topic at hand… that Hey Mama tribute was amazing. My moms was damn near in tears when he was hunched over. He took what had happened on stage at Europe, focused that energy, and re-invested in what he thought would be creatively awesome… and it truly was. It was too crazy at one point, ‘Ye looked up at the camera and I was like shit… I’m on T.V. like it’s just you and me.
Aight that’s it from me. Back to the regular programming. Catch me on Nah Right, Sundays to Sundays. But it’s funny because two years ago I was actually watching the Grammy’s beginning to end, and Kanye was like: “Yeah, I can’t wait to get on MySpace and see what everyone thinks”. I was like… what’s myspace? I don’t know if that’s a win or a loss, but it’s just funny how things have changed since.
BONUS: UPDATE: Kanye wins Best Rap Album
Apparently the Grammy people are smarter than MTV… although Fergie’s performance didn’t need to interrupt the standing ovation he was receiving. We’ll see how the rest of the night ends out…
BONUS #2: Great Hovito going in on the Grammy Family beat. (My first real contribution to NR? Maybe, can’t really remember)
What’s good it’s the greatest blogger alive. Lol nah what’s up folk? Let me just man up and say it, I am a lazy bum and a slacker. I’ll be that. But I can’t sleep knowing my peoples aren’t satisfied. I hope you all got my e-mails, but still… that’s not good enough. I was looking over my “notes” from this summer, and I haven’t posted 1% of what I would have wanted to. Maybe because I lost the motivation to do so when I lost my pictures and music… but that shit is replaceable. Anyway, not here to talk about that… I really don’t have anything to talk about. That Man dropped off these links and I thought I’d share seeing as they’re dope and timely since tomorrow is the God’s birthday (no landLORD), I refuse to wake up (as I have been doing all week). Lol, ever since I plugged in my External Hard Drive [||] on like Tuesday I haven’t been to one class… that’s disgusting. Anyway… I’ll have better stories to recount tomorrow, I’ve just been really piffed all week… and I guess after finals and other bullshit I can truly go in as impeccably hard as I’d want to. Good night & good luck…
Kanye West – Good Morning
Jay-Z – Good Morning
Nas – Good Morning
Talib Kweli – Good Mourning
I’m already thinking about breakfast… smh.
He missed out on performing for my other favorite “magazine” (sorry eskay), but I fucking co-sign. All in favor?
Other em effers: Bill Cliton, Daniel Craig, Seth Rogen (fuck yes), Lil Wayne (who dat), Roger Federer, Javier Bardem, A-Rod, Julian Schnabel, Casey Affleck, Mike Bloomberg, Tom Hanks, Shaun White, Josh Brolin (douchebag NYPD officer from American Gangster)
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Try to dig deep in your memory’s archives to 2004 when Mos Def was preparing to drop The New Danger and he had all kinds of promotional buzz after he had a controversial track over Jay’s (actually, Kanye and the Doors’) Takeover beat, a track called The Rape Over. He was taking shots at pretty much any and every wack entity in the music industry, but most notably Lyor Cohen, who we refer to as the tall Israeli. Once he found out Mos was throwing dirt on his name, he had the track pulled from the album.
Now, in 2007… where people are advocating for right of speech via album (sales)… and where Jay-Z claims he stands behind Nas’ Nigger album title, do you think Jay has Ether pulled from his miserable excuse of a Greatest Hits album? Seeing as it was and should be on the track list. Given, those aren’t Nas’ greatest songs, but I guess those are his hits. Why wouldn’t Ether be on there though. Not only is it a great song, musically, lyrically, whatever whatever, but it damn near saved and resurrected his doodoo excuse of a career (which was an opportunity he then wasted on the albums that followed-I dare you to say no). Can’t they just re-re-release Illmatic instead of a GH album? (more…)
This one of the sides of the American Gangster movie, album and Jay-Z that I like. When he talks about his nephews like they were his own children. My brother just told me he’s having a baby, so yeah… I guess I can relate now. Shit like this:
Built the ROC from a pebble, pedaled rock before I met you,
Pedaled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special
I guess the line about had he been a doctor that his nephews woulda done the same is the verse he’s speaking of in the interview. I would have expected a bit more though, considering all the emotions he says it evokes in the movie. But he did recently say something about his nephew following in his footsteps. That whole verse in Lost Ones is heart-breaking though.
Yeezy needed a verse on this album. The video is terrible quality… so was this one though:
You see what I did for hip-hop?
As you may know, Damon Dash is hosting Jim Jones’ new mixtape, “Harlem’s American Gangster”. You can listen to it a week before the official drop date on Blocksavvy. You can also check out the tailor made “Big Brother”, not the official joint, and not the one Kanye played at the screening, but still made up of classic Roc-A-Fella footage (think Through the Wire visuals and what he was talking about on Last Call). There is also footage of the historic conversation between Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes, otherwise known as the American Gangster and Mr. Untouchable. And finally, Dame and Biggs’ International Grizzly, consisting of Dame and Biggs travelling through and doing wild shit in Europe.
Step your block hugging game up.
Previously: Block-A-Fella
Image jacked from Bossip
Damon Dash > your favorite mogul:
“People told me don’t mess with Jay-Z at all, then I did. The same exact people told me ‘Nah Kanye’s not the one,’ including Jay-Z,” Dash explained. “Then when he came out, everybody’s up under him. It’s hard to keep arguing about things you know are right.”
Despite the fact that Kanye stayed with Jay-Z after the Roc-A-Fella fallout, Dash said he’s happy to see Ye win.
“More power to him,” Dash told SOHH. “I think it’s a good thing that someone that was probably kicked around his whole life is now empowered, it’s just what he does with it. The only thing that bothers me about Kanye’s situation is that everyone’s still eating off it except me. I would have poly’d that deal a little different. Everyone that’s still eating off him is everyone that said he couldn’t make it, but other than that I’m happy to see what he does.” Source
I don’t give a fuck about what anyone says. Yes he’s aggie and he has a right to be. People wanna say he’s mad or that he’s broke, but it’s only then when you really know what’s up, with yourself, with people around you… with the direction you want to take your life. Not that you’d have a reason to be mad Dame…
“You know we gotta get that traffic,” Dash said of the BlockSavvy move.
So start clicking: BlockSavvy. Oh and Ye needs to dedicate a track to Dame. It’s only fair… you don’t wanna catch a brick.
