Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Halloween!
To celebrate, here’s a tribute video for The Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Nightmare on My Street

And here’s Zombie Kanye:

Pitchfork media is reporting that Jay-Z is about to launch a whole new music label called StarRoc.   Weird name, I guess, but there’s a story  behind it.
Hova’s looking to lock down the hottest top40 production team since the Neptunes.  Stargate, a Norwegian duo comprised of or Erik Hermansen and Mikkel S. Eriksen.  It seems like a bit of a contrast in styles, but these electro-pop geniuses are making waves in mainstream hip hop all over North America.
They’re the ones behind the beats for songs like Irreplacable (Beyonce’s recent big hit) …

We’ve all been excited for Q-tip’s new record to drop.  As we previously reported, The Renaissance is about to drop, and I for one cannot wait.
Check out the first single: Move.

Everyone has been saying that the music video is dying.  MTV has, in the past decade, essentially given up on it.  Now we see MTV and Muchmusic and VH1 and all the others focusing way more on other programming.  We get awful ‘dramas’ like The Hills, or people hurting each other (Jackass).  Hell, even The Real World, or My Super Sweet 16 are enough to make you long for the days of cheesy midi keyboards and hilarious fades.
Either way, I think you’ll all appreciate the new MTV Music site:
MTV MUSIC …

In what is basically breaking news, law enforcement officials in the US have “broken” a plot to kill Barack Obama.
The plot itself does lack some credibility, but I’m happy that the security officials took it so seriously.  In essence, this is what transpired:
Two neonazi skinhead douchebags (one of them pictured on the left) met on the internet, decided they needed to kill some people.  These idiots hatched a plan to murder 102 people by attacking a primarily black school.  Then, they would drive at Obama really fast and try shooting …

Islam has actually become a more and more common influence on hip hop.  Some of the most important hip hop artists of our generation openly embrace islam (for example, Mos Def).
However, there is a fundamental difference between artists who embrace their Islam, and Muslim artists who really base their whole stage concept around Islam.  There are numerous groups popping up all over the place, showing that hip hop is making inroads into all different types of cultures.
Several groups are becoming increasingly prominent.  Brother Ali is probably the most well known …

Gizmodo, the ever-present tech blog has presented a pretty amazing concept…in certain ways.  It’s a $56,000 turntable that actually has four arms.  Why you need that, I’m not too sure, because from the looks of it you can still only play one record at a time.

This is a one-trick pony of a website, but one that may actually prove useful to you from time to time.
The Vinyl Record Generator lets you produce an image of a LP (or 45) that features the text you want on the label.  Basically, it’s a quick and dirty method of making album art for whatever your purposes are.
This could be useful if you’re one of the few people in this world still burning CDs and intend to print some labels.  Could make your next mixtape for your girl a …

So Luda, like a lot of hip hop artists, supports Obama.  Unfortunately, his efforts to produce a pro-Obama song haven’t really worked that well.
First of all, Obama rejected the song because it was too contraversial.  That’s a smart move on his part because the right-wing has really capitalized on it.
The lyrics are typically bombastic, but there are some seriously bad judgment errors.  For example, in the track Ludacris called Hillary Clinton a bitch.  Not the best move to keep the party united, so it’s no wonder Obama had to distance …

There has been an increasing amount of talk about how McCain’s supporters (well, mainly on the Palin side) have begun a pretty vicious campaign and there has been an increasing amount of vitriolic racial attacks.  A lot of emphasis on Obama being a secret Muslim,  or calling him an Arab, or a lot of things.
Blogger Interrupted has posted a video detailing some of the ignorant attacks of SOME of the attendees.  With thousands of ralliers, it’s not surprising that you find some people like that.

What was more surprising was that …