October 25, 2008 | Tags: none

Uh…here’s some classic Google image search material that could be relevant to this post. Enjoy.

^Jack-o-lanterns are hip hop. And I have no idea who that person is.

^’Ye Tudda pumpkin.

^The video chick pumpkins.

^The kick addict pumpkin.

^The campaign pumpkin.

^Viva la revolucion pumpkin.

^Wu-Tang pumpkin ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!

^Yeeeeeeeeah

None of these pictures taken by me…Right click -> view image to see original source.

Warning: I’m going to put my love for grimey music, cars, and curse words to the side for a minute and actually show a side of me that makes me come off as a woman that may be able to run a successful household – or at the very least, keep her future seeds well-fed. Did you know that I love to cook? I haven’t been doing much of it lately though, thanks to a very busy schedule, so I’ve been turning to food from restaurants (or the freebies they like to put out at the office every now and then) to sustain my life. And one thing I’m noticing is the abundance of pumpkin flavored food items. Ladies and gentlemen, the seasons are changing. And in my opinion, Fall has the best “themed” food. The pumpkin is the GOAT of the Fall flavors, and this year I’ve seen the ingredient pop up in some interesting things. Here’s a list of the things I saw in the past couple days, that you should keep an eye out for if you’re a pumpkin lover like myself. The main point of this list being that there is a LOT of pumpkin on the food market right now. I’m just waiting to see where it pops up next. Yogurt? Hot chocolate mix? Whipped cream? I actually made a pasta dish that had pumpkin in it once…anyway:

-Pumpkin soy milk

-Pumpkin egg nog

-Pumpkin donut holes and donuts

-Pumpkin cheesecake

-Pumpkin ice cream (and pumpkin cheesecake ice cream, word to Ben and Jerry’s…yum.)

-Pumpkin milkshakes

-Pumpkin pie coffee creamer

-Pumpkin cheesecake Jell-o pudding

-Pumpkin muffins

-Pumpkinhead

-Spiced pumpkin beer bread

-Pumpkin ale

-Pumpkin bread

-Pumpkin cookies

-Pumpkin sandwich cookies (Oreo style joints)

-Pumpkin truffles (I cosign these to the FULLEST. Expensive? Yes. My favorites are from Godiva, but a five piece box is SO worth it – I get them EVERY year).

-Pumpkin lattes

-The obvious pie (even McDonalds does pumpkin pies during this season)

-Pumpkin pancakes

-Kadu (word to the Afghans out there…thank you for giving me this year round.)

-Picarones (word to the Peruvians and La Granja de Oro that fries these amazing things up on the weekends…)

-Pumpkin ravioli

-Pumpkin layer cakes (I made one once with a pumpkin cream cheese frosting on it, drizzled with caramel. It was off the chains. Try it sometime.)

-Pumkin

-Pumpkin cake rolls/logs/whatever they call those things

-Pumpkin whoopee pies

-My homemade pumpkin bread pudding (you have no idea.)

Like I said, what’s next?!!?!? So much pumpkin, so little time. I seriously like pumpkin so much that if Lil Wayne ran a promotion where you got something pumpkin flavored with the purchase of his latest album…I’d probably buy his album. Yeah, you heard me. This is hands down the most pointless shit I’ve ever written on this site. And I don’t even care. I just want to know that there’s someone out there that loves this seasonal food as much as I do. Now if you’ll excuse me, SNL is calling me to the TV. In a comedic sense, this election is gold. Happy boring October weekend, DX!

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

Diggin in the Inbox

October 19, 2008 | Tags: wale, r.e.u.b., judah, Wordsmith, Lyriciss, Pro'Verb

You know, I get a LOT of shit sent to my inbox. A lot of it honestly doesn’t appeal to me, so I give it a listen and then forget about it permanently. A lot of it is really good, but then I just don’t have a convenient time to sit down and post it. Each approach is flawed. For one thing, just because I don’t like something, doesn’t mean everyone else won’t like it either. Secondly, not having time is a really craptastic excuse for not posting something good. Shame on me.

So, with all that said, I may just start randomly putting up posts every now and then that consist of the five (or so) most recent things in my inbox. It won’t be systematic, so don’t go trying to blow my shit up every Monday at 2:18pm or something crazy like that. I may not even ever do this again. But it’s Sunday, I’m bored, and I’m willing to take a bit of a risk. My only condition this time around is that I’ll be choosing the five most recent messages that feature DMV artists. Let’s get into this…

First up in the Inbox Fresh Five is Virginia’s R.E.U.B. He goes in over both the “Swagger Like Us” and “Dead Presidents” instrumentals. Keep an eye on this guy – he definitely has a lot to say. And what other NOVA heads around here remember when Springfield Mall was the place to be during the evenings? My, how things change…what up, Mark?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/500718905ff49b59/

Number two isn’t something to listen to, but more of a news item: a Wale track, featuring production by Judah, is going to be on Saints Row 2, for all of you hip hop gaming heads out there. It’s called “Ridin’ In That Black Joint”. Stay on the look out.

Third in the ‘box is a DMV collab track between Lyriciss and Pro’Verb. Yeah, that Pro’Verb. Don’t act like you’ve forgotten. It’s called “The Rapture”, and Lyriciss sent along this little story with the track…

“Howard Homecoming, some of the greatest in the industry come out, and of course, the DMV's most promising up-and-coming MCs also make their way to the festivities. After chilling with a few notable names (Wale, Marky, 9th Wonder, Young Guru, HipHopGame.com's Jabari, Mo Betta, & more), I run into the homie Pro'Verb. Some of you remember him from dissing Jay-Z in that whole LeBron-Stevenson thing, but yeah...hip-hop is more than that, people. So we go straight from HU to the studio and spend the night recording. The product? "The Rapture". It's actually 11 AM and we're still in the studio from last night, so yeah...that says where the mindstate is. Attached picture JUST taken, and you can pretty much tell lol. But...we're not rappers. That's our story and we're sticking to it lol.”

http://www.zshare.net/download/50048238865ec345/

He also sent a YouTube link to a video documenting his Howard Homecoming experience…

Peep cameos by Tabi Bonney, 9th Wonder, Wale…yes, Wale is holding a trophy with a golden Nike boot on it. Word.

Number four also features Lyriciss. Yep, again. His people are on their e-mail game or something, I guess. Topics: Howard Homecoming and…Arizona beverages? I think the changing of the seasons makes people in the DMV a little crazy, don’t you think? They must be crazy to be hating on that 99 cent Mucho Mango. Linkage courtesy of D.Omen.

Last but not sequentially least, we have a track from someone who you should be familiar with if you pay attention to the DX audio section: Wordsmith. The track is called “Nobody Cares”, features Skyzoo, and was produced by Strada. Wordsmith is reppin hard for Maryland. This track is off the upcoming “The Revolution Begins with a Takeover” Vol. 2 mixtape, brought to you by HipHopDX and DJ Denox.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/50072691ce1c3845/

Like I said, I may stick with this idea, and I may not. Only time will tell. Until then, enjoy the freshest inbox material of the moment.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

It's Not Just a Phase

October 18, 2008 | Tags: none

Damn, I love hip hop. Aside from the people who I share a bloodline with, there may be nothing else that I’ve loved in my life as long as I have loved hip hop. I can’t imagine ever not having the love for it that I do. Yet I can remember being a little kid and feeling like people such as my mother kept telling themselves that my interests were probably just a phase that I would grow out of. I mean that crazy sounding stuff that they called “rap” surely couldn’t remain popular for so long…could it? I’m sure that my mother thought that a day may come when I’d stop taking pictures of graffiti when we went on vacation and instead start to focus more on monuments, statues, grandiose views of nature, and all that touristy shit. That day never came, and I think she now knows that it never will. And I don’t think she minds at all, either. Love you, Mom!

I’ve spent two whole decades doing this thing called life, and yet my appreciation for hip hop only continues to grow. Fuck growing out of it; it just continues to embed itself deeper into my persona every time the sun rises and a new day begins. The jaw drop that watching a b-boy do a 1990 induces still hasn’t faded despite how many times I’ve seen it done. I can still watch “Style Wars” from start to finish and not get the least bit bored. I will always get a slight high from opening a new album and reading the liner notes. The older I get, the more value I see in turntables and vinyl and the art of sampling. Listening to hours of music to find that perfect sample that would make the illest beat ever doesn’t bother me. Seeing people use hip hop as a medium to spread knowledge and unify continues to warm my soul.

I’ll always love H.E.R. Hip hop has the power to cheer me up, to entertain me, to inform me, to bring me closer to people who also love it and build from that love to produce progress. Hip hop, even despite the economics and politics of it these days and the frustration that all of it brings me, has yet to let me down. Hip hop is my ride or die bitch. I don’t have a dog, but hip hop is this [wo]man’s best friend.

What’s the point of this blog? Well, sometimes when you love something so much, you just want to yell it out to the world for everybody to hear. I saw hip hop do beautiful things in this past week of my life, and it reminded me how much it really means to me. It’s just that simple. I can only hope that it still has the same effect on all of you that are reading this.

The Graffiti Hall of Fame during a gorgeous day in Harlem. You just gotta love it.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

Doggone it!

October 03, 2008 | Tags: none

I had a day off, so you know I had to come through here with a blog post. It has been too long. What up Yaya? This one is for you.

This election is off the chains, and in conjunction with the T.K.O. state of the economy, I just can’t seem to think about much else lately. Believe me, I wish I could, because it’s rather depressing to think about, but yet it doesn’t leave my mind.

At least the grim reality of everything going on in the world got a little dose of humor last night while Sarah Palin was making a complete ass out of herself in the “debate”. Why the quotes, you ask? Well it’s not much of a debate when the candidates are speaking on different subjects half of the time. It’s one thing to stealthily avoid a question and flip it so that the person asking the question doesn’t even know what hit them, but the woman that sees Russia was on some “I don’t give a fuck, I’m going to say what I want” tip. I wasn’t even paying serious attention to the TV while it was on, and yet it was still obvious that she was dodging questions. That’s ridiculous.

Oh, did you miss it last night? It’s been posted in its entirety on YouTube.

Peep the 11 minute mark. The moderator asks Palin to respond to the comments Biden made about healthcare, and she just straight up goes, “I’d like to respond about the tax increases. We can speak in agreement here that darn right we need tax relief…” Not only does that render the moderator damn near unnecessary to the debate, since her guidance is just being disregarded, but she said “darn right” in a nationally televised debate! I wonder what would happen if she went up to Mahmoud Ahamdinejad and said “darn right you shouldn’t be able to have nuclear weapons!”? Later on she even said “doggone it”, which as utterly humorous as it was, just isn’t very Vice President-like. Quirky vocab aside, it was absurd how many times she pulled that subject-changing stunt. Come on, woman! Answer the questions presented to you! It’s not that hard…although for you? I suppose it is. A pitbull attacks its problems without hesitation, so apparently there’s more than lipstick that separates pitbulls from hockey moms.

Even worse is that Palin was being so ridiculous that I can barely remember anything Biden said, save for essentially saying that McCain is a round two of Bush. Or perhaps it’s not that Biden wasn’t interesting or saying anything important; maybe I was just too busy playing Palin bingo. In a way, you have to love Palin – she can make you feel nauseated and have you giggling at the same time. She provided the inspiration for one of the best skits I’ve seen on SNL in a long while. Her porn-industry lookalikes will probably have a decent 4th quarter.

I’ll give Palin this much: she probably would make a pretty good small town Mayor. Even governor of a sparsely populated state. Vice President of a country going through financial turmoil and wartime? Not so much. Maybe one day, when she finally stops taking a page from Bush’s book and learns how to properly pronounce “nuclear”.

I’m still curious as to how McKinney and Clemente would do in one of these debates, even if just to satisfy my dream of one day being able to hear a politican oppose America’s love for funding Israel during primetime TV on one of the major channels. Very curious. I have a feeling I may never get to find out, though. Quite a shame.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

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