In a quick follow-up to our last post about Shaq dropping a brutal freestyle, apparently I wasn’t the only one unimpressed with his rap.
Shaq was stripped of his honourary Sheriff’s deputy badge, which I guess is a sad thing?
“Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns centre’s use of a racially derogatory word and [...]
It’s about time for some new auditory goodness. In today’s edition, The Cool Kids recall the age of mulletts and leg warmers, Marlena Shaw’s classic ode to the West Coast gets remixed and Henry Mancini is sampled to ill effect.
The Cool Kids - 88 (The Bake Sale EP, 2008)
Comprised of Midwest emcees Mikey Rocks and [...]
This is a terribly entertaining and awful freestyle by Shaquille O’Neal, that giant pro basketball player. We all know he had beef with Kobe Bryant, but you can hear him mock Kobe for this whole little verse he spits. Nothing says lyrical genius like the chorus “Kobe, tell me how my ass taste.” Someone get [...]
Besides Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.” - whose initial brilliance has since been dimmed by seemingly endless imitations - J-Live’s second verse on “Timeless” may be the finest example of extended metaphor in hip-hop. A critique of the contemporary African American condition, J-Live’s second 16 on “Timeless” (the 10th track on his excellent album The Best Part) is [...]
4080 Records is no stranger to the Zimbabwe controversy. We’ve been reporting on the developments there for quite some time now, and it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that Morgan Tsvingrai has pulled out of the Presidential Race.
Ever since he narrowly won the election a few months ago, there has been [...]
As most of you know, George Carlin passed away a few days ago. He was an extraordinarily talented comedian who had one of the dirtiest mouths I’ve ever seen.
He was irreverent, political, and fearless. Carlin was one of the few comedians out there who seriously didn’t seem to care who he offended, and yet people [...]
The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is a wonderful idea. It’s a music festival meant to promote spiritual and religious understanding amongst faiths. It’s named after a Moroccan holy city and is still held there.
People fly in from all over the world to see performances of different styles. Sufi musicians perform with gospel performers, [...]
In the Stanley Cup Finals of unexpected musical phenomena, Bash’d would sweep any opponent in four games (so would that metaphor, in the Stanley Cup Finals of bizarre, barely workable literary devices). The brainchild of writer/actors Chris Craddock (”T-Bag”) and Nathan Cuckow (”Feminem”), Bash’d is a gay rap opera starring two white Canadians. And no, that acid isn’t [...]
The Messenger is an emcee, radio host, and erstwile reporter. He performed for quite a while with a group called Semisoul, before leaving them earlier this year. He doesn’t run with the most original name on the block, so make sure you follow the links to find out a little more about him.
I believe he’s [...]