Cudiiii!

Yeah- I think he's on a roll now- doing the best you possibly can before an album surfaces- touring and jazzing... mooooob! (ontop of featuring in like 3 magazines currently on stands) The tour's looks sick: The Great Hangover headlined by himself and "some guy" called Asher Roth... sick - the lights and the SCREEN IN THE BACK! Well yeah- the album art is now out, donno whodunit but it's very noirrrrce- didn't expect that. I think Im gonna catch myself copping that for Christmas (plus BP3& Thank Me Later [Drake]).

Here's a video from the tour:

PEACE.

Cudi covers Complex

Complex's 5th Annual Style & Design was coveed by the one and only Lonely-Stoner-Mr.-Solo-Dolo. Art work by Augor (Teleport to his website here). The pic's a link to the cove story via the Complex website.

Keri Hilson covers Complex

YUP!

Pretty hot shoot- go peep the cover story and a couple of other pics. Artwork by So-Me of The Cool Cats (The guy that did Kanye's video for The Good Life). Teleport Here.

I'm Good

Been waiting to post this. Video came out like a month ago on myspace music, but "is unavailable in your country due to copyright restrictions..." or something to that effect. I won't say tooo much. Feel good tune, pretty solid, they'r sounding more Southern now- donno bout the album: two good singles out so far (this and "Kinda Like A Big Deal featuring Kanye"), but there's this next one featuring Keri Hilson... pretty weak. Speaking of Keri Hilson... watch this space.

D.O.T

"Na na na na- hey hey hey- goodbyyyyyyyyyye..... good riddance"

-Jay-Z- D.O.A (Death Of Autotune); Yours Truly- D.O.T (Death Of Twitter)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I think she's gone....

Yeah, Twitter and Facebook came under attack from some technical vigilantes, causing both sites to close down and barring users from accessing the shit. Facebook's been a bit of a drag lately, the hype is kinda dead- the friends you could actuall jazz are not usually online when you are (?...) and yh, there isn't much to it anymore- I'm on it, so if it's gone forever I'll mos def miss it (ish...). That's unlikely, though, 'cause the Facebook chaps are armed to the teeth with technical artillery- economies of scale won't let that happen.

TWITTER on the other hand has made a nigger gleeful today- it might also be back in a minute, but still- I've never been an avid fan of that shit- it just strikes me as the Hannah Montana version of Facebook- with just status updates and a couple of other things- but yeah- the fact that everybody was at it kinda awoke the inner communist guerrilla in me and moved me to make one of the most controversial decisions of my adolescent life.... I f*@#ed TWITTER. Forgive my French.

PEACE

Make Her Say

My favorite song last week- Make Her Say (poke her face). Cudi with a new one featuring Kanye and Common and Lady Gaga (the po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-poke her face part), scratched by A-Trak (Fool's Gold bossman), I heard this song back when Poker Face (the Lady Gaga one from which this samples it's chorus) still had steam- it made me like the original. The downlod link doesn't work so just Google the sh* and admire the Fool's Gold cover art above(btw, Fool's Gold records- they've got the most diseased graphics people- check it: FOOL'S GOLD RECORDS) below is the video in HQ- should be slower to load, but better to watch. Yeah. Peace.

Whatever You Want- my song of the week

Nice tune right there- Consequence featuring Kanye West & John Legend. This one's my song this week- absolute dopeness- G.O.O.D music (all pun intended). I think it would sound great in the club, really up beat- can't wait to spot a video, you know I'll have it here quick fast. I like the album art as well. The above pic is (not) a download link. I like the single art.

Good Hair.

What is good hair?

If you're black, you might need a minute to think about this... what is Good Hair? The following is a trailer for Chris Rock (not Tucker)'s new documentary about Good Hair for black women. It's pretty self explanatory- and pretty funny, so I won't jazz too much. What I will say, though, is that Brother Malcolm (X, R.I.P) used to relax his hair before he converted to Islam and became proud of his black ass. Yeah.... Random..... but relevant. Hallelujah. Alright.

PEACE.

Good Hair.

Eminem & The Punisher.

I swear.

Btw- some guy called himself Eminem and released a track dissing Soulja Boy onto the internet.

I digress.

Eminem and The Punisher- for real, I think Marvel released this last month. I was skimming through some free digital comics when I spotted this- crazy shit. It isn't the tightest story or whatever, but I guess the fact that it's Eminem ought to keep you distracted for the 10 or so minutes it takes you to do that dance. Peep it here: http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/EMINEM~slash~PUNISHER.2009.1

I don't know why I didn't see it coming, though- what with his love for comic books and deeply disturbing lyrics (I think I'm getting old)- I don't- no, I DO know why it sneaked up on me. Eminem got loads of press when his album dropped, I lost gas for his pill popping tip so I guess I kinda closed that dance.

PEACE.

PS.- Been reading lots of comics (just finished the first bootlegged volume of Sin City), may be I'll drop something on y'all's heads some time.

The Blueprint 3

I feel lik the joker right now- Lunatic emotions. Back in the loop i am- and I hit the ground running (yes!)

I DO like this D.O.A (Death Of Autotune) movement- pretty dope. What do i like about it? It feels like the 90's again- HipHop's going back to the raw gritty, grimy, sample-heavy days (in which I was but a toothless toddler)- it's so dope, though- and who better to do it than Jay-Z (take a moment- think about that): he's seasoned but still relevant. So even if he's going against the hipster sub-genre (skinny jeans, high tops & nerdy overtones [Kanye, The Cool Kids, Kid Cudi, Lupe etc.], it's cool that he can take a stand.

So with all that said, The Blueprint 3 is on it's way, album cover and tracklists are out, interviews are in full gear and buzz is abuzz- the rest should fall in line and I should hope for a copy this Christmas.

The King

Yeah, I hate to sound cliche, but... wow...
I don't remember how my bowl of Coco Pops went down this morning, cuz it was at the table that I saw on CNN that the king had died... wow. You can almost say I was devastated, cuz Michael Jackson was just Michael Jackson- the S.I unit of musical genius and entertainment prowess- Michael Jackson was a fucking beast.

So please understand my sentiments when I hear people seem vaguely concerned... vaguely. On Sanyu Breakfast this morning, Melanie said his death would have hit harder if he'd died like 15 years ago- imagine that. Yes, if I were the Terminator or some sh*, maybe that would hold water, but come ooooon! Aljazeera didn't say a thing about it until about three hours later (and even then it was only a five minute spot), a reason for which Aljazeera has lost some of my props and so much more...

Yes, this is me bitching, cuz I don't get how people can overlook the giganormous contribution the man has made to pop culture. Michael Jackson is the man that changed the landscape of dance (sh* is still imitated today), has released the highest grossing and best selling album to date and f*cking flipped the way music videos and live performances are done toay! How can you ignore that... Oh My Ducklings!

So yeah, I was sad, but now I'm frustrated, I need to vent- most of all because the media and the people of the world don't remember Michael Jackson, the King Of Pop- they have chosen to dwell on Wacko Jacko, the aging, high pitched, possibly deranged pedophile with social issues and the most obviously nipped nose in history. I won't lie, I liked him better when he was black (I have nothing against white people and confused people)- but a dead man ought to be remembered for his greatest virtues- his being his immense musical genius. I think it is quite hopeless and quite typical of the BIG BAD WORLD to remember his faults and judge him relelntlessly, choosing to forget the immense influence he had on generations spanning close to 30 years.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, that is the price of genius. Being head and shoulders above the rest of the populace, they will often look up at you, alone on your peak and not understand you. The simpletons will often look up to you, respecting and acknowledging the wonders you conjure that affect their lives in a way so unique and so unparalleled, but at the end of the day expect you to act as they do and when you don't- they ridicule you. Rarely will you find another individual with whom you can be at par, one who will understand you and you can understand in turn- yes, the top is a lonely place.

So... um, yeah, this is where I say goodbye to Mr. Jackson- one of the greatest geniuses of our time and um yeah, I know all the above is rather cliche- it seemed like the right thing to do.
PEACE.

I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! Yes, it's been a while, exams and what not- give me a minute, though, might need it to find my rhythm,- I'm also thinking...

Yeah, I'm thinking about a new look for my blog, should be good, but that would probably have to go with a new header thingy, which I can only do with Macromedia Fireworks, which I don't have anymore because my PC recently got formatted, and Fireworks isn't in production anymore- ask most graphics designers about it, they might not have ever heard about it- I know, a whole lot of excuses straight off the bat, huh?

If you,ve been to Kanye's blog, you'll recognise what I was tryin' witthe heading. The few times that he posts sh* himself, everything is written as one big ass heading: some call it artistic uniqueness, some may see it as ignorance, others may see it as an effective way to highlight something important, and others will see it as plain ignorance.Yes.

Be By Myself

Mr. Roth! Yeah. Asleep in the Bread Aisle is gonna be one of those albums everybody looks back on twenty years from now and hails as a classic... wonder how we'll see Crank That then.... like Can't Touch This, perhaps?  

Back to the topic of this post: Asher Roth.

Second video off the album. It's the best I have seen in a while. Can't have been too expensive, but they really did good with the CGI and the colors and the contrasting white and the fact that the entire video revolves aroeund seeing the subjects within the frame of the model's bodyhaving fluids drip off the tips. Very ceative stuff. Mob camera tricks (yes, pun intended)

Forgot to mention Cee-Lo. Complements it perfectly.

Tiny Dancer

Wow... I don't like DJ Ironik much- he's too wack a rapper- but hey, he doesn't introduce himself as a rapper, so I'll bury the hate. He classifies himself as a DJ- and dang, he puts together a mean track! After Stay With Me he teams up with Chipmunk and Elton John for this here banger. Curious. 

The feelings it evokes are curious. If Tony Soprano ever fell for one of the girls from the Bada Bing, I think this would make for a great soundtrack. It's so... wow... Chipmunk added a great amount of lyrical feasibility to this here, I don't think I would have liked it without him on it. He's coming out with a new vid in a bit. Watch. 

Mr. John helps it cross over as well, been a while, actually.  The chorus is actually a sample of some oooooooooooooooold song of his from like the early 70's (i think), reason for that whole laidbackness. Props.

Chocolate Rain

Oh Sh*t. Ths is crazy. Dude named Tay Zonday's got this crazy track called "Chocolate Rain", and this next video feature is him performing it live on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Probably the weirdest performance I've seen in a while, but I think it's still pretty cool.

Now, if you thought that was just his onstage voice, check the interview after the performance: "This is CNN". lol. 

Wow, I'm loling quite abit these days, kinda weird. 

Yeah, I don't know about the chick on the side though... I think she's supposed to complete a nigga's optical diet- those legs- what what...

PEACE.

Bonkers

Return of The Rascal- yes, it is Dizzee Rascal, and yes- it is Bonkers. I guess it's off his new album and niggas are hailing it as the dopeness in the comments section, with such Chanelle-like comments as "MASSSIVVEE CHOOOOOOOOOOONN!",  I swear. lol. 

It isn't grimey, though, that is rather disappointing. Feels like he's coming down to the level of the Soulja Boy Tell 'em's of this world that just want to create a danceable track and forget about substance. 

I don't even know what to say about the video, though I do like the bits where it's slowed down and there's like a house party going down- otherwisely, I think this nigga is going to be had on like a collossal scale for this 'cuz he's like come from this whole ghetto- gangster demographic, where niggas just don't want to lose props, so this video is just- I don't know man, throw me some comments. 

It's a nice track, though, just not as down right grimey as your usual Dizzee Rascal material. 

It's just bonkers.

PEA(E.

Twitter

Sh*T, F*ck Twitter! I swear, if I get on twitter, I'll blame it on peer pressure (I can imagine some bu O.C wobble-heads go: "OMG, Miley Cirus is on twitter!"*Scream like they just saw Tupac*"OMG!, I've sooooo got to twitter that". Sorry, I think I got my WWW grammar wrong: The verb is to tweet .

One guy said, of this video,:

"Yes... follow people on Twitter. Follow celebs on Twitter. You can be the ultimate stalker, stalk you favorite celeb or the girl you have had a crush on since highschool. Be the best stalker you can be and follow your target today!"

Haha, my font's sort of messed up now. But yeah, I also wouldn't join Twitter, cuz I'd forget the password in under 5 MINUTES! Yeah. Just realised I say yeah at the weirdest times.

Yeah.

King of the Bumpkins? WTF?

Y'all probably didn't get that 'cause I hadn't posted it.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Lark on my go-kart, Asher Roth's first single off upcoming debut album Asleep in the bread aisle.

Asher Roth vs. Eminem?

Eminem is one of those people that really should never hold a gun or be president, he's so flippantly, relentlessly reckless. Dude could have anyone (I guess after he was done dissing his mom, there was no holds barred)- check this. He wanted to have Amy Winehouse to do a song with him on the new album, but she said she couldn't (she was like somewhere between two rehabs) so what does the good Mr. Mathers do? I don't even have to say it. 

So yeah, this kid Asher Roth comes out of  American Suburbia and becomes a pretty big deal, what with the simmilarity to Eminem and mad quirk. So if life went according to script, Eminem would be doing the equivalent of Ja Ruling Ash Roth. Nope. 

In June's issue of XXL, which he covers, the real Slim Shady (is it just me or was that a little cheesy?) goes and packs Mr. "I Love College" in an unexpected turn of events. 

Here's the "King of the Bumpkins"' response.

Sorry kids, no beefing here.

Amazing!

"It's amazing, so amazing...", words from the chorus of Kanye's newest single of 808s (probably the last)- brilliant shots of Hawaii and epic shots of the subject- Mr. West himself, I'm telling you, the art level on this is just too sick. I'm not even gonna be wordy on this, though I do know the demographic's gonna love this more than they did "Welcome to Heartbreak"- it isn't as complicated... (simpletons!). 

Did I say I wasn't going to be too wordy?

So yeah, the video's followed by an interview on 106&Park, where this video must have been recorded from. The guy in the back is GLC (Gangster Life Crisis [not GNL{or the body guard}]), Kanye's supposed best friend (since they were 15) and cosign on G.O.O.D Music. I might post his newest video on here in abit. The interview takes a turn (that desreves to be christened the Kanye).

Did I perhaps mention... Jeezy?

Onwards

Today, I revived my caricaturing "career", while I waited for my ICT practical (which I murdered) when I drew this guy called Cham- that is, an exaggerated version of his countenance, the definition of a caricature. So seeing this video, I felt it was only right that I post this. It's a sort of promotion for Nike brought to you by James Jarvis (or vice versa). This guy's style actually reminds me of Kaws and his use of contrast with a style of hatching reminiscent of Victorian illustrators (no, I didn't copy and paste that). Besides the apparent simplicity of this piece, you can see that the use of layers and attention to details only picked up by an eye in the socket of one with a knack for these things.  

In otherwards I dig this. I daresay it inspired me.

PEA(E.

Onwards from akqa on Vimeo.

I'm so special!

So special, so special, so special! 

True that. This has sorta become a mantra wit some of my friends.

I'm so special! Mavado is a badi guuuuuy. 

I can't tell what he's saying alot of the time, though. The chorus works for me.

PEA(E. 

Drizzy!

This is mad crazy, Drake's a Canadian rapper now affiliated wit Weezy's Young Money. I think he sounds like a more mentally organised Weezy. Matter of fact, I think I could like this character better than the former. Matter of fact, I think it's him on that Obama song that takes the beat off Amili. 

My cousin V

Influenched Udalricham,

who influenced me-

now Imma go  influencin err-y-bo-dy...

Man's got a new mixtape out called So Far Gone wit a lot of RnB ish that sounds pretty doe. This next track is a chpped and screwed remix which also sounds terribly doe. The album's coming out.

I'm not buying it. Ate where?

Ratteplan

I don't even know what that means, though I do know it is a streetwear brand made in The Netherlands. Like Vans, it seems to represent a lifestyle- riding bicycles, I presume (BMXs, not Roadmasters, Mehul). I had an opportunity to ride a BMX over the Easter holiday, lowrider made me feel like a Cool Kid (Black Mags was playin in my head as I lived out Power Ranger- like fantasies) The picture is a link to the website and the video is the afore-mentioned Black Mags.

PEA(E.

 

Dude...

You know those surfers that ride freakin' hurricanes and get washed ashore, say "totally righteous, dude,", with the dazed look then pass out? I kinda feel like that... I think (never been on a surf board), cuz I feel so drained right now, like a microwaved orange or something along those lines.

It's crazy.

I'm about to embark on one of the most pivotal exercises of my life, but right now, I'd much rather talk about this girl I've been with the past couple of days. She's been giving me hell. One of those ones that you don't see coming, next thing you know, she's in a lot deeper than is healthy-

Her name is Z-connect and the worst thing about her is she cut my wings when I was about to soar, tried to keep me within bounds when I wanted more (it rhymes). So yeah, the worst thing about this virus (yes, virus) is that she cut my internet connection and put her self up for self promotion (again, it rhymes). First, I could delete it and I'd be good for like 15 minutes, but then it evolved (Michael Crichton sh*t) and started harming me more often ,at more regular intervals, started snippin the line, chewin on more of the internals (I can't help it, I'm sorry). 

So it keeps getting worse and at the end of the day I couldn't locate the virus, but could see its effects. It slowly spread until it finally took a chunk out of my D drive. That was it. I had to format my Dearest and now I'm faced with a "Second Chance" situation. 

"This is the new Salvador" lol.

PEA(E.

We Made You

Hahaha! Just saw this video, it's pretty hilarious if you have a good bone. So yeah, second Eminem single (Crack a bottle sucked), in a while. I'm telling you, I was sorely disappointed But this one might have prospects. It isn't even funny cause of Eminem. Watch, you'll see what I mean. It absolutely got me- hook and line and sinker and hook. PEA(E.

Musings from the Deep

I happened to stumble upon this nice blog called Musings from the Deep. It's put together by a mum of five and that's what it's mostly about. 

I must admit, when I check out blogs like that and eizzy k's My Cipher keep rolling like a rolling stone, it sorta makes my own blog seem stupidly superficial, but then again... um... I don't remember my excuse but it was along the lines of: you get something different from each of the blogs on blogspot and Wordpress, so I guess it's useless to be comparng myself to the others. Anyhowly, it's a really warm one. Shoutouts to Sunflower and them. Check out Musings from the Deep. 

PEACE.

Erykah Badu Freestyling?

Word? Same G.O.O.D Music segment at the Levi's Fader Show via SXSW. She's pretty up on the age but those tights still look like they holding dangerous items. Kanye is on this too I know Eizzy K will be digging this (again, the advantages of smaller establishments), but hold up- WORD? Common's head was also in this, though he didn't get caught spitting in this vid.

IntroducinG... Big Sean

Big Sean, newly signed onto Kanye's G.O.O.D music. This next one is a freestyle also from SXSW. I know I'm late on this and all, but... no, no excuses. At least it's all good ish, yeah? Yeah. This clip is taken from a freestlye Big Sean did before G.O.O.D Music went on stage at SXSW. It's sick. I don't usually listen to freestyles- unless they're Lil Wayne's- cuz they're usually bull. This was really doe (pun intended) lol @ "she rockin' Sean John". you'll get it when you get the whole thing. His new album Finally Famous is due out sometime and to catch up on all his pages (myspace, facebook, twitter, blog), go to his official website here PEA(E.

We major- download

Get this. The video I posted with Kanye, GLC and Really Doe was them doing a song of Kanye's Late Registration Album. Follow the link if you want the song. When you get to the site, sh*t might need to get figured out, but- figure it out!

We Major.

Mr. West also took advantage SXSW to showcase the current G.O.O.D Music family and in the following vid, we see GLC (Gangsta L Crisis), Really Doe and the Louie Vuitton Don perform We Major. The sound quality isn't very good, but if you missed the show as most of the rest of us did, atleast it looks like you were there.

Black Mags (Remix) (ft. Asher Roth) (LiVE!)

So down at SXSW ((South by Southwest), some annual music carnival artsy extravaganza that wrapped it's sh!t up a week or two ago, The Cool Kids performed Black Mags, their break out track featuring... guess who... AsHer Roth! Yeah, dude doesn't always impress, but that time he spazzed.

I think he was high, though (check out the over exuberant head pumping), or he'd just done his hair and was flossating, or the music was that good- NO, the first possibility seems more press friendly. Imagine the Headline:

Are your kids listening to this Crackpot? Be verry afraid!

Sky Might Fall

Kid Cudi's back again with only his second official release- an unofficial soundtrack to an unreleased movie. The song is Sky Might Fall and the movie is Transformers: Return of The Decepticons. My connection is buggin out right now, pretty frustrating is what UG's internet is.

Regarding Lil' Wayne

By the way, my prior post brought to the fore the fact that I haven't said a thing about "Mr.-Make-it-rain-on-'em-hoes"' transition. He's doing a rock album now. That doesn't surprise me, given the fact that he's been sounding a little howley (going hard on the autotune, no doubt). Figured maybe you had not seen "Prom Queen", the first single off the album. The video premiered on Facebook a couple of months ago and only just recently leaked elsewhere. 

No. I couldn't get you the vid, the ones currently on Vimeo and YouTube net are too full of sh*t to be posted on here. What I can get you, though, is the link so you can download it. 

kanYe West : Blog : LIL WAYNE GOES ROCK:THE NEW ISSUE OF ROLLING STONE

kanYe West : Blog : LIL WAYNE GOES ROCK:THE NEW ISSUE OF ROLLING STONE

"Slooow"

XXLmag.com described this as a group, their favourite alternative Hip Hop group, in not so many words. So this had me waiting for someone to roll out the rhymes and spaaaaaazz!

Nope.

Some people out there in the world might like it, though.

I thought it was annoying, though artistically, it was pretty creative going by the concept behind the video and how it got down with the music in such a dark, seventies way.

Must be the transitions between shots... or one of those things... yeah, those ones...

Japanese Cartoon

Japanese cartoon= Lupe Fiasco plus other anonymous people all in a punkish, rockish band with Lupe doing lead vocals in an agreeable British accent. 

All the above are assumptions... obviously, but if you listen hard and close, it does sound like nasal Mr. Fiasco under no moniker.

I've got two songs of theirs that you can download via zshare, here: Army and Heirplanes

If you want to listen without downloading, though, click on the picture- it will teleport you to a website called Blindiforthekids.com, which is one of few very cool sites on my list.

PEA(E.

Btw. I'm not just posting this cuz it's Lupe. I do think these guys are dope. I also did not commision the allignment of this last part, but I'll just have to let it happen.

Food and drink.

Now, Complex.com's blog had this post about food commercials that touched me so murch I had to divulge the same nonsense upon y'all. 

The first one features Padma Lakshmi for Hardee's Monster Western bacon Burger. It is a sight to be beheld. Padma Lakshmi is known for being the winner of some reality contest called Top Chef and one of the hottest chefs in the world. I'm telling you. I dig this ad 'cause, man, chicks want to have their rib cages showing like there's a little yellow birdie flying around, unable to say it's Ls and Ss. It's nice (or terribly sexy) to see a stunner like her gobble down a thick burger like that and lick the sauce off her finger. Good look.

The next one is a (probably fanmade) Guiness ad. It's kinky, but I like it. Guiness is marketed as a men's drink after all, right?

Blame it!

... On the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol! Mr. Jamie Foxx, here on another serious track featuring T-Pain (who got Jamie Foxx to use Auto-tune... we'll have that arguement another time, dear). The video is directed by Hype Williams himself, wit a couple of cameos (Jake Gylenhaal, Forrest Whitaker, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, Samuel L Jackson et al). Great track for the greatest excuse of all time. You could jump off a skyscraper and say the 'trone had you in the zone when in E.R! lol(i never LoL... lol)

PEA(E. HAve a great wekend y'all! Blame it on the Goose...! 

Run DMC!

Man, these are like my favorite old school artistes, I'm telling you: when people talk about proper Hip Hop, they've got to mention Run DMC, the Hollis crew comprising of Run, DMC (the MCs) and Jam Master Jay (R.I.P) (the DJ). 

This is a clip taken from some TV show (i think it's called Graffiti Rock), circa '86. Funny how things change- that was like the 106 & Park of those days. True, it looks mad rehearsed and niggas are dancing abit too over-zealously for it to be natural, but if you stand away from that, it's way cool. I like the host's glasses- FRESH!

So yeah, what's happening is Run DMC (i think about the time they'd just been birthed) do like their first major track live, after which they go head to head with "Seniors": Kool Moe D and Special K from The Treacherous Three. 

This is like Juliana going against Joanita Kawolya of Afrigo band, or Chris Brown vs. Lionel Richie.

PEA(E.

PS. I won't blame you for LOLing right through this.

 

Okay... seriously...

This here is the final poster- the last one! No more.  I promise.

Happy Birthday EiZZY K!

They say one of the best things about having a small establishment is you can pay more attention to your customers. Eizzy K is my only follower (check out my Followers box... sad). So the management and staff of The Malcolm Syatem (aka Me)would like to wish Eizzy K from "My Cipher Keep Rollin Like a Rollin Stone" a happy Birthday! It's mostly gone now, but yeah...

She had a pretty interesting post on their about being 18 and menstruation and some terribly philosophical steez then some loooooooooong wishlist.

Check out her blogpost for today here. 

Happy Birthday Liz!

MiMS is Back!

Mr. "Baddest-one-hit-wonder-of-07", MIMS is back in the building. This here is "Move (if you wanna), tight track, I must say. Though you'll have to agree with me on the simmilarities between another Track from Chicago's The Cool Kids called "I got colors", a cover of IceT's legendary hit. What's my point? Same producer did this, dude named Kosine. Since the latter have been a majorly underground group. it's safe to say that this Fresh sound is about to see the light of Mainstream day. PEA(E. 

PS. I actually recommend that you listen to that Cool Kids track first.

The Traffic Jam

The Marleys are back! This here is Stephen and Damian Jr. Gong Marley droppin this serious track (mostly about bein pulled over I guess). It probably isn't new new, maybe like early last year, but you've got to admit, man- this is proper raw. The beat boxing and scarcity of instruments makes this heavyweight with featherweight feet, you know?

PEA(E.

The Final Poster!

It's here, after a whole lot of bureaucratic nonsense in the big office (where the money for the fashion show is @), the poster is out. Seen the time? It's about 12, ryt now, th@'s how long niggas have kept me up working on it. Sorry bout not posting anything sensible today. Comment on this. PEA(E. Some more info is gonna be added, but I guess my work here is DiD.

My personal statement.

Everybody in my class was supposed to write a personal statement regarding themselves. Here is mine.



My personal statement… okay, this is where I am supposed to write about myself. Okay (deep breath). Should be easy, right? No! It must either be the wealth of material one has regarding oneself and their experiences or just plain old modesty that makes this so difficult. Just express yourself, advice I am getting from that little guy that whispers into my ear continuously.

The complexities of expression often accredited to the brain bubble up from the depths of the soul. That wraps up Art for me. That’s it. Marriage of the soul and mind is the essence of the mechanics that are manifested on the surface to make me, Malcolm Bigyemano.

I know… pretty deep. But what to do? There’s no other way about it- it is what it is, I am what I am. I am an artist. Well… maybe that sounds (or looks) rather arrogant on my part, being a sixteen year old with no professional experience. A chick, though, need not fly to be a bird. It’s something there- engrained in the very genetics of the bird, so that when the time is right and its wings have grown, the bird can spread them and soar.

That is what school is for, I believe (I also believe you are getting the impression that I am a highly opinionated person), to take what each of us has within and tend to it and grow it, so that when the time is right- the potential within each ad every one of us can be reaped.

I am a naturally creative person, the kind of person that prefers to look at things being done and figure out new and more interesting ways to do them. I try to infuse creativity in whatever I do: in my writings, in my drawings, my designs- everything.

My French Teacher, Miss Peninah Nakyeyune, has always said that I go a bit far in my quest to be different with my pieces. While practising for my Continuous writing paper in French, instead of writing about how my family threw me a surprise birthday party, I preferred to talk about how my family had been gobbled up by their own platefuls of mutant beans when they tried to eat them.

Look at it this way. There are over six billion people on this planet- SIX BILLION! How easy is it to be swallowed and submerged by this whole wave of people, each and every one of them (indisputably) striving to come out on top? For that reason, I think creativity is that missing ingredient- the difference between three mundane clones and The Powerpuff Girls… you get my point.


Music has also had its way with me, I must say. Hip Hop is the genre that has surrounded me since my childhood. It’s like looking down at your two fore-limbs and saying, “Gee… I’ve got hands.” Because it is such a part of you that you might have taken its presence for granted. I grew up with the likes of Naughty By Nature, De La Soul, Common, Nas and lately; Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco and The Cool Kids.

What’s the significance of this?
These are people that represent what I am about. Straight from De La Soul’s soulful consciousness to Kanye’s creatively controversial style- they are artistes who are not just terribly skilful, but also unafraid to be true to themselves, even if this means breaking away from the status- quo.

I want to go into Media, generally, as a career path.

At the end of my third term in Year 10, I was given internship at NTV, a Ugandan television station. I learnt from then on how Film and television was able to melt all art forms into one expressive piece of work. One is able to blend video clips, edit them, throw some graphics on that and blend in the right score for an art form (whether informative or simply entertaining) that encompasses all spheres for a multi dimensional effect.

Well, yes, I have to admit, working in the Media seems not only a whole big bunch of fun at work, but I have come to realize the power that the media has. Thirty, forty years ago, if you looked at a child’s role- models and the things that influenced the child, it would be their parents, teachers and friends on top of the list.

Make the same inquiry today. You might get shocked.



The world is spinning a bit faster nowadays. Parents are working so hard for their kids that the truth is, they don’t have much time for those very same kids. That’s a chapter in mine and the auto-biographies of many other children of my generation. The media “helped grow us up.”

Since my childhood, I, like many children around the world, have been surrounded by the Media. It comes in all forms and sizes: Television, Radio, Print Media and lately, the internet. Like many kids, I loved cartoons. I used to watch cartoons from between three to four hours in the afternoons when I got back from school. With time, I saw myself graduate from just watching Barney and Friends, Teletubbies and Tweenies, to being immersed in Dexter’s Lab, Rugrats, The Powerpuff girls and Animaniacs to being blown away by more gritty animation series such as Men in Black, Transformers, Mummies Alive and Samurai X.

Yes, if anybody thinks I am eccentric, I won’t blame them for blaming the cartoons. The characters were made so dynamic, the settings so bold and colourful… How could they have not influenced me?

Whenever a detrimental trend is detected amongst the youth (see substance abuse, violence), the media is blamed for it.

Who would not want to be a part of something so powerful and to have the power to control it? Barack Obama’s election victory and ability to attract droves of young people to the polls was attributed to his ability to harness the media and take advantage of its full capabilities. I believe in my ability to do that. I believe I will be able to stand at the helm of the Media machine and wield its power for my own good and the good of the general public.

That is where I stand. Atop one hill, coming to the end of one phase of my life and watching as the rest of my days become more apparent to me, with the thinning of the fog. The geographical relief of my future sprawls before me. What was thought to be its twilight is only the dawn of the rest of my life.


Let me know wat u think about it. PEA(E.

Old Skool

One of my favourite Dizzee Rascal tracks ever man... I tell you. Coming off his best performing 2007  Maths & English is Old Skool. Totally rad dude... Dizzee breaks down his gangsterness over some proper old school Hip Hop instrumental (that he must have scrapped off some where). Now, apart from totally spazzing, this song has had its own share of controversy due to some lines he spits in one of the verses, going a little something like 

"There was this MC man,

He was an Older in my ends and I thought he was the dan..."

Significance of this, MB?

Well people that know Dizzee Rascal probably know that he started out in The Roll Deep Crew with Wiley, a fellow MC from his area (Bow E3) who is said tto have pulled him out of his circumstance. The Rascal broke away from the crew after a while, though due to a highly publicised beef. 

"My cousin used to say he was a pussy undercover,

I didn't think it was nothing more than jealousy,

But I wish I would've listened every time he told me-

[HOOK]

Why you rollin' with that brudder, you don't need him,

He's a pussy 'ole he's a chief- leave him...."

I don't know- does this remind y'all of Ice Cube and N.W.A? 

Ki lowoze ko. 

Did I mention how skankable this track is? SMAO (Skank MY Ass Off)

PEA(E.

The Lonely Island

Dude... The Lonely Island- that sucks even as the name of a rock group! So yeah, yesterday I said something about The Lonely Island and how terribly fake they are. So yeah, if you haven't heard about The Lonely Island or don't know who they are, neither do I. Right.

So yes, all I am going to say on this is that these niggas are lucky T-Pain is on this track aptly called "i'm on a boat", well... because it is sad and it is called "I'm on a boat".  These guys force life more than Weird Al Yankovich (who makes these bois pale in comparison).

By the way, I think T-Pain is going to become a legend if he keeps his sh!t up for the next couple of years because he is simply, uncannily talented (YES!). He can jump on anything and make it a hit (playable on my blog).... actually, I'm not sure about the hit part (at least he salvaged it). 

PEA(E. Hope you like it. If you don't, at least you'll laugh your ass off... or cry.

@ Yahoo! Video

Hah... randomization.

This is a raaaaaaaaaandom post goin out to all my random peoples, especially thhe blogospherians (the random ones)that have nothing to write about so they write randomize on that and do what I'm doing now- improvising.Yeah.

"I go the hardest,

Flow so retarded, 

I'm disgusted with myself-

I mean uuuurgh where do I start... "

                                                               -Kanye's first bars on GO HARD

So yeah, speaking of blogs man, I been checking out Blogs of Note, which is this thing on the Blogosphere Notice Board where certain outstanding blogs get put up- it's like the employee of the month ting. So yeah, I just recently stopped being so conceited and tried looking around at other blogs...

They suuuuuuuucked like Sudanese baby on nipple, so sad. May be they just aren't my sort of thing, but these guys (from where I'm sitting) are waaaaaaaaack! They're the wackness like....? Yeah- wack like The Lonely Island (all pun intended, see The Wackness). Dude , man, I thought I was geeky- nerdy, these people are too fake- but I'm not going to sell them out- actually, maybe i will. Let's leave that for another time though.

Another thought just struck me- who runs Blogspot? Well... come to think of it, Google probably does. I don't know- they just strike me as the type that are stuck behind this BiG DOOOOOOR  that says MD... or Willy Wonka (see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

The internet is a crazy place and you are always bound to find some crazy people. It's also where you meet me (uncrazypeople)- MBJMANO, the nigga behind the system (star is my topology)

PEA(E. One day, I will find something sensible to say- just keep on believin'.

"I know"

Scorcher, I think he's a new Grime MC, probably cosigned by Wretch 32- seems easy on the bars, but I see him goin somewheres cuz of the following track "I Know". Wit that fashionista, Skywalker, electro ish, it's plain to see why I'm feeling this. Watch out for this nigga. PEA(E.



PS. He looks like Ashraf- moooooooooob!

Chip-diddy-Chip!

Grime... sick. British rapper and alleged "Grime Saviour" Chipmunk is the ish and he proves it with this new release. Chip-diddy-Chip is a single I saw on Youtube a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it was oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold! Turns out, it's just out and burnin ish up. What happens here, basically is Chipmunk goes back to his old school and uniform and ties and all that. He's joined by a couple of other MCs doing cameos (Wretch32, Bashy, Ironik etc) and Westwood as his old Science teacher. It's pretty much a dope joint (no objection). I like Chipmunk, doesn't go over the top of the counter to be Gangster- "he's a swagga don". I'll probably be hooking you up with a couple of my favourite Grime tunes up on here in a couple. PEA(E.

The new Transformers trailer

The Sequel's coming to hit you soon- it's called REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. Sick. I know I said I would post something on the Oscars, but Slumdog Millionaire is all that was going on down there, so I decided to jump on some serious ish. The Transformers sequel is on the horizon and it looks mad crazy. From the preview, I can say it's pretty much the Decepticons coming back with harder punches- no gloves. It looks sick though, especially all the destruction that's going down in that spot ( thank God it isn't real life). So yeah, there goes. PEA(E.

Welcome to Heartbreak

Yeah... just the other day I posted bout Kid Cudi, now I'm posting bout his track with Kanye. Yeah "Welcome to Heartbreak" has been hailed as the best thing off 808's by I don't know how many people (like 4). I must admit that I didn't warm up to the song (initially), but now I think it's pretty dope. The video, I think, encapsulates(?) the album. It like puts the whole essence of 808's in a nutshell- the pixelation gets to me though, I find it to be rather disconcerting behaviour, but hey- that's just me. PEA(E


KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

PS. I'll be posting somethin bout the Oscar's like tomorrow.

IntroducinG... Kid CuDi!

Yes, introducing... rum pa pa pum- Kid Cudi. This dude was also one of XXL's Freshmen 2K9. Yeah... I think 09 is gonna be like is year, like nobody (excluding myself and a couple of well read HipHop fans) knew this cat last year, but now- "Oh SNAP!", he's here like a Martian. Apart from gettin the XXL cover, he cosigned to Kanye's G.O.O.D Music label and released a video for his break out hit Day N Night (well, th remix of it).

Here's a vid done by Complex.com where they follow him around for a bit and watch him play video games- I'll be bloggin bout them in a minute... or three... they're a whole other story.



And here's that vid I told you about, it's topping Charts around the world and it's called Day N Night (Crooker's Remix)



PEA(E.

The second poster for the fashion show.

Yeah, they liked it, but they said i should do another one (i guess so they could have more options), so I worked on this last night. Hope you dig it. Click on pic for larger image. PEA(E.

The second poster for the fashion show.

Get Up!

No, not "Fitty CENT"'s Get Up, no, this is so much better (I have issues with 50 cent and the fact that he calls his ish rap). This is Mary Mary's one. I'm not absolutely sure about its newness, but I know it's dope (the sound and those purple jeans look like 2009, just sayin). Mary Mary are like one of the few Gospel Music entities that doesn't remind you of old women in church" whoopin' an' hollerin' an' havin' a fits an' tawlkin' bout how Sister Betty done got pregnant outside the bed of matrimony". They do tracks that you dont just listen to on Sunday (which is why I posted this today). PEA(E. God Bless.

The Charity Fashion Show.

Aga Khan is holding a Charity Fashion Show some time in March and I am on my way to being contracted to do a couple of things (i hope. One of them is doin a poster for the event, so here is the basic idea as it is thus far. Y'all should endeavour to be there (20th March, from about 2). PEA(E. Tell me what you think of the poster as it is so far.

I Love College!

Well... not exactly, seeing as I've never been- but I dig this tune! Ah... sick! Asher Roth, for those of you that don't know, as I know most of you don't, is one of these new age hipster rappers. Hipster rap is the SH!T. So yeah, he's really underground ish, so the only credentials he has to his name thus far (that i know of) is being part of XXL's Freshmen Class of 2009. He kinda raps like Eminem on some joints, but I blame that on coincidence. So, yeah... PEA(E!


Asher Roth - I love college from lefebvre simon on Vimeo.

The Grammy(ie)s last weeK!

Yo, it just smacked me on the back of my head, when i was thinkin bout what to post for my distinguished guests this afternoon, that I had not posted ish on last Sunday's Grammy(ie)s. Ting is, as you and I know, the brawl that happened between Chris Brown and Rihanna and Rihanna and Chris Brown sort of engulfed the hearts and minds of the citizens of the Internet Republic. So, I happen to remember this one performance that was most frequently announced ahead of the circus. Here it is: Mr. West, the two Mr. Carters and Mr. .I, alongside the pregnant M.I.A in their Grammy Performance of Swagga Like Us.
PEA(E.

Kanye on Big Boy's Neighbourhood

Kanye was hosted, some time ago, on Big Boy's Neigbourhood, a popular radio show (frequented by mostly African American folks) and for half the time, the brotha preached about Homosexuality.
Now, I dig Kanye's ish and I am one of those people that believes in reason and everybody being entitled to an opinion (like the First Amendment... i think). Here, Yeezy says the segregation of gay peoples is simmilar to what used to happen to Black folk way back when...
Yeah, that's right. Now, this is one of those controversial subjects, man. I regard this issue the same way I regard the Evolution Theory. The argument supporting Evolution makes sensible sense, yeah? But this is one of those issues that forces me to go against certain principles. Something somewhere within me tells me God made Adam and Adam got together with Eve and they birthed humanity. Even Evolution, for all it's worth, has been well supported, there is a barrier between what I hear and what i believe that will not come down for Evolution in this cse. NO WAY!
This is the same way I look at Homosexuality. Here, Kanye talks about Homophobia (phobia of Homos) and calls it being ignorant. I don't know, but I guess, as with evolution, I believe this just isn't correct, without reason. Dude, the Big Guy up in the clouds engineered ish so that guys and girls could complement each other. It just doesn't seem right that one nigga should 'enter' another nigga from behind- that's just wrong, man.
So, yeah. Everybody has the right to an opinion and I'm voicing mine. I'm getting this feeling we're going to have another Civil Rights Movement (for gay people), an MLK and a Malcolm X (all for gay people) and later on one of them (the MLK) will get himself a Nobel Prize. Maybe not, now, but in the near future.
He also doesn't comment on Chris Brown and Rihanna.

Chris Brown vs Rihanna... not again

Man, I've only posted this one time, but i don't want people to be coming to get the same info that they did over and over again from some source that we have in common. So this is probably goin to be a closed book for me- okay, I'll mark the page, this is my last post on this for a while. 

What that nigga did was crazy (there were even bite marks, wtf?). This wasn't the kind of thing where he happened to lash out and slap her and say "Ooh, I'm sorry baby, that was a superhuman reflex, I didn't know what I was doing,", WAH! He got on top of her and gave her an extreme makeover, right there. The cops say she was battered so bad, she couldn't open her eyes. Wow (not like awesome wow- just wow)! So now we hear she's going to get cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetic surgery reminds me of two things:

1) It's some dangerous ish! Donda West died, and now we hear Mrs. Usher Raymond is in bad ass shape.

2) Michael Jackson. Nuff said.

I also suspect that Ms. Fenty will, in about a year's time, take a film crew to Africa (you know: jungles, war, poverty, disease, corruption, dictators etc), make a documentary for MTV in which she is crying with other domestically violated black women and saying she would have never guessed. Well neither would I. 

Breezihanna gone wrong!

I'm back! Had to make a re- up... just had to. I feel like those neighbours that have binoculars  and spend their days using them on their neighbours for lugambo, again- just had to. Chris Brown and Rihanna, just as rappers were ready to start comparing themselves and that imaginary subject to " Chris and Rihanna", sh*t got ugly. Yeah... Rihanna got ugly too. You've probably already heard about it: Breezy murked Rihanna like he was Ali in Manila. 

Here is what you probably haven't heard. There's this pimp called: A Pimp named Slickback (the 'A Pimp named part inclusive'). Now, apart from being a lender of... yes-  that- or those, this dude also shares his advice with disgruntled males in even more disgruntled relationships. 

You can see where I am going with this, right?

Breezihanna turned out not to be so easy, what with the nagging and the arguing (all in that dangerously alluring accent). So Mr. Brown turned elsewhere for answers while everybody else was going to see a shrink, he got a few pointers from A Pimp Named Slickback. Below is one of A Pimp Named Slickback's generous endeavours. PEA(E!