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Hip Hop Caused Global Warming

'Lac's Down Memory Lane

Damn, not a single other blog today? Fuck it, the one arm bandit will
hold y'all down. How about a little southern love for my favorite group
of all-time.

Player's Ball



Southernplayalistic...



Git Up, Git Out



ATLiens



Rosa Parks



Da Art of Storytellin'



B.O.B



Ms. Jackson



So Fresh So Clean





I'll bring the solo shit soon, gotta be out...enjoy

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Memory Lane: The n*gga you love to hate

I'm on a bit of a hiatus at the moment since I, well, broke my arm in half.
It's tough to type much with only one hand, and staying awake and coherent is even more difficult with all the percocets...but Cube still makes it a good day.

Dead Homiez

No Vaseline

Steady Mobbin'

Today Was A Good Day

Wicked

Check Yo Self (The Message remix)

Jackin For Beats

Friday

Natural Born Killaz

You Know How We Do It

Why We Thugs

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Memory Lane: Wu-Tang Edition

I don't think I need to give any introduction here, classic material.

Protect Ya Neck

C.R.E.A.M.

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin To Fuck Wit

Can It All Be So Simple

Da Mystery of Chessboxin'

Bring The Pain

Brooklyn Zoo

Ice Cream

Liquid Swords

Daytona 500

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Memory Lane: West Coast Edition (Part 1)

Gotta show the west coast some love, so here are just a few videos I had on my Rap City tape that I played the shit out of when I was growing up. Enjoy, plenty more to come



Ice T – O.G. Original Gangster








NWA – Straight Outta Compton








NWA – Alwayz Into Sumthin





Compton’s Most Wanted – Hood Took Me Under





Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By





Pharcyde – Ya Mama





Pharcyde – Runnin’





Tha Alkaholiks – Make Room





King Tee – Dippin





Spice 1 f. MC Eiht – Murdashow





Souls of Mischief – 93 Til Infinity

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Another Trip Down The Lane of Memories

Back by popular demand! Or something, whatever…I know one of
y’all wanted some De La goodness. If you don’t like De La Soul, you’re dead to
me. Without further ado…

Me, Myself, and I


Buddy


Ring Ring Ring (never dug the video version all that much with the horns in there)


Break A Dawn


Stakes Is High


All Good


Oooh


Baby Phat


Shopping Bags

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A Trip Down Memory Lane

After some inspiration from seeing that classic Fight The Power video for the first time years in A.H.L.O.T.'s blog, I thought I'd start hitting y'all with some other old videos from the legends. Don't expect this on any sort of a regular basis cause I'm too damn busy...but I'll move on to some other folks for the next blog. Without further ado, one of my all-time favorites...Big Daddy Kane


Ain't No Half Steppin'



Smooth Operator



Lean On Me



Just rhyming with Biz (Biz Markie on the beatbox, Kane
rhyming





I Get The Job Done live on Arsenio

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What the fuck was Jay-Z thinking?

Hotdamn, two blogs in two days? Alert the authorities! That's 5 blogs now, watch out Meka...I'm coming for that ass (sorry I'm not homophobic enough to do that pause shit). Did y'all know this fool has almost 100 blogs now? Shit, and I thought Too $hort was prolific...he doesn't have shit on our superblogger.

But anyhow, last night was DX's owners birthday and we went out to some swank Hollywood restaurant and ate obscene amounts of food. Shortly after a big ass shot of Patron I started "writing" this blog in my head. That is always how I do shit, reviews, editorials or whatever...I write it in my head. Problem is I never get the ideas when I'm at my computer or even in a situation to type it on my MDA. So the shit I think of rarely ever gets done, because I'm too busy doing other shit when I make it back to my computer. The good thing is that when other people write shit that I wish I'd written, I just say I already thought of that shit and wrote it already...my mental notebook has got Nobel prizes bitch.

But I digress.

I'm sure y'all heard the original version of Jigga's subliminal Cam/Dame diss Dig A Hole, if you didn't get with the fuckin program. Check it HERE. This version of course, is a much doper Just Blaze beat and doesn't have that shitty ass singer squealing on the hook (and an extra Hov verse for good measure).

Sure Jay may just be the greatest emcee of all-time, but that doesn't mean he hasn't made his fair share of horrid songs. I mean shit, that Anything joint with Pharrell and Usher made me wanna use the disc to cut some coke then OD on it to end the misery. But when you've already got a song like that in the can, what makes you say "hey, maybe I should see a 130 pound rodent can make this song for me instead."?

Does Swizz have pictures of Jay putting his dick on Rhianna's big forehead or something? Dude hasn't made a good beat since the Ruff Ryders days unless it was, you know, just sampling Jay's voice. How the fuck did he manage to bump Just out? Who knows, but Jay lost on that one.

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Remember when rappers sold records?

On the drive back to the hotel after Rock The Bells a couple weeks ago in NYC I picked up a copy of XXL's 10 year anniversary issue and started skimming through. In case you haven't read it, they did a little year by year recap; big artists of that year, big albums, etc. Of course, in 2000 it was Eminem who dominated the world. Do you remember what that album sold in the first week? 1.8 million.

One point eight fucking million records in a week!!

That shit isn't even fathomable these days. Shit, even the biggest cats are lucky to sell that many records, period. It ain't like people wasn't downloading back then either, napster was on every computer in the fucking world by that point.

There really isn't any point I'm making here, I guess its just really crazy to me that things have declined this quickly. I honestly don't think we'll ever see another rapper sell 500,000 albums in their first week.

50 Cent? Kanye? I don't think either will, even if they were dropping on the same day. And I'll tell you one thing, I think 50 is really fucking desperate right now. He's a smart dude, he knows the stakes. His ego sure as hell knows the stakes. 6 songs have leaked and no one - with the exception of the dickriders - has liked anything but I Get Money. Candy Shop may have been some bullshit, but it was some catchy bullshit that was a megahit. Amusement Park? That's just some bullshit. He is a cocky motherfucker but I really get the vibe behind the facade that he is worried about 'Ye and he is worried about doing human numbers this time around.

But back to the topic at hand (Snoop (c)), CD's are dead. Hip Hop? Ehh, that's debatable. CD's, yup, dead.

Personally, I say fuck real music. Let's just make 16 songs of tinny jingles, ig'nant choruses, dances, laffy's and taffys.

Oh wait, we're doing that already.

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