This song is the exact thing you need if you’re starting to feel low in the post-Olympic days.  See the video below the jump.

The attempt to send Lil’ Wayne to jail has been amusing to watch.  First, Wayne decided that he needed to prep for a year in jail by shooting nine videos in one weekend.  That way we’ll all see a lot of the tear-tatooed rapper even when he’s serving time.
But that wasn’t enough.  Before he could go in, Wayne also underwent eight root canals in one day.  Pitchfork also says that Wayne had his diamond-encrusted teeth fixed up before he went in.  Those procedures delayed his sentence for a couple of …

Little Brother has released “Curtain Call,” the first single from their forthcoming and final album, LeftBack.  The track features a rad ’80s sample, embellished with synth drum fills and a smooth bass line.  Lyrically, “Curtain Call” has got to be one of their finest efforts.  It’s littered with the kind of witty punch lines and awesome references (”Not even Clarissa could explain it all”(!)) that make the best hip-hop joints worth re-listening to.  And it shows how far Rapper Big Pooh and Phonte have come as emcees; they’re definitely at …

Canadians and American hockey fans often fret about the state of the NHL, particularly the financial health of the league’s Sun Belt franchises.  If you watched any of the Olympic hockey tournament, you probably heard a commentator or interviewee talk at some point about how the Canada-U.S. gold medal game would be ‘good for the game,’ as though the sport was on the brink of irreversible obscurity and needed a 21st-century Summit Series or Miracle on Ice to get Americans to finally pay attention.
This narrative has taken hold in the …

For one week only, over on NPR, you can stream the entire new Gorillaz album called Plastic Beach.
It’s a great opportunity to check it out and see if you love it.  NPR has this to say about it
Plastic Beach unites Albarn and Hewlett with a huge list of guests, creating yet another well-crafted and dance-friendly set of songs. Here, Albarn and company’s songs demonstrate a genre-bending collection of glitchy club beats and hip-hop grooves, augmented by brass, glitzy synthesizers and Asian- and Arabic-tinged orchestral harmonies.

They’ve got a whole bunch of …

My goodness, this is tragic news.
According to BoingBoing, Guru (one half of the legendary Gang Starr) collapsed after an apparent heart attack.  He’s now in a coma in New York.
While it’s always an awful thing to hear, I find it especially tough because Guru (on the right in the picture at the top of this post) was a huge influence on my love for hip hop growing up.  I can’t even count the number of times I listened to the Moment of Truth album on my discman.  The news is …

Not much to say other than this is a pretty decent video.  It’s also the exact type of thing I hope I would do if trapped in a room for that long.  (this guy was apparently quarantined with TB for several weeks).