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Hip-Hop

Friday Flackbash:
You Will Encounter Situations Never Thought Of Before

August 13, 2010

Freestyle – Don’t Stop The Rock first posted May 30, 2007

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Today’s Vegetable:
Black Tinted, Jewish Mel Gibson

July 14, 2010

Das Racist’s 2009 novelty hit “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” was the kind of tune that might easily get lodged in a fella’s head, but wouldn’t send that fella sprinting to check out Das Racist’s mixtape. The kind of thing that would send that fella sprinting? Naming the first track “Who’s That? Brooown!” (after [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
I’m Known To Be Prone

July 12, 2010

By late 1988, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back had come out, so Run-D.M.C. wasn’t so much on my mind anymore. Which is a rockin shame, because I missed seeing a whole damn Run-D.M.C. movie PLUS bussin this track out in my mack Tercel. Although, looking at the poster now, I’d [...]

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Friday Flackbash:
In My Younger Days I Used To Sport A Shag

June 25, 2010

The Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By first posted January 30, 2008 … and as long as we’re hangin out in the early 90s … … step off the frankfooter. … and of course, moosebumps.

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Open My Mouth, It’s Like Guggenheim Bilbao [video]

June 23, 2010

OK, so normally I don’t go for: 1.) major labels pretending to be small labels or 2.) comedy rap but I’ve already watched this three times. I don’t know what I like better, “Open my mouth, it’s like Guggenheim Bilbao” or “The Frog’s like, ‘Comment tu connais le Jonny Chambre?’” Jonny Rooms and Dutch Master [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Never Sneezin’, Never Coughin’, I Rock The Mic Often

June 22, 2010

Much like you, I’ve been thinking a lot about Young MC lately. It can be easy to shrug him off after hearing “Bust A Move” a million times, but damn that’s a good one, and I’m suspecting there’s a lot more good stuff hiding out in the catalog. I’ll report back. Fortunately for all of [...]

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Friday Flackbash:
You Keep Going On Cuz You The Diabolical

June 18, 2010

Another season-appropriate jam, from my favorite crew of  old-school-hip-hop-pop-singin-alcoholic Canadians. Len – Man Of The Year from You Can’t Stop The Bum Rush first posted July 13, 2007 bonus yamm: “People (Come Together)” from We Be Who We Be ytaudio(FOljtMUkMjI)

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Today’s Vegetable:
If You Got A Rheumatism And An Achin’ Back, Put You Right In The Middle Of A Freak Attack

June 7, 2010

Today’s Vegetable is a sweet slice of 1981 roller-rink rap, here to remind all of us that it does not get any better than the old school. All it takes is one warm day and this music in your headphones and the world falls into place. I discovered this one through Ego Trip‘s list of [...]

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Friday Flackbash:
We Don’t Like It When The City Pigeons Break Wings

May 14, 2010

I think we woke the baby up. Evil Nine (feat. Aesop Rock) – Crooked from You Can Be Special Too first posted November 21, 2007

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Friday Flackbash:
Blingin’ In The Sunshine? It’s All Gravy. Dip, Dip, Hit A Switch — What’s Crackin’, Baby?

May 7, 2010

Do they still make Summertime Jams? I can’t think of anything except maybe “Crown On The Ground” that might qualify right now, but that’s not even the same sort of jam. I want something that’ll cause smiles from bars to bar mitzvahs. I mentioned this when I first posted this song, but I can’t ever [...]

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