January 2011
13 posts
: Himanshu Suri of Das Racist Explains The Mixtape →
gq:
Moderator: “What’s a mixtape?” Suri: “Well, we all liked the same girl, so we made a tape with all our favorite songs on it, and we gave it to her with a note that had Himanshu, Victor, and Ashok and three boxes and ‘who do you like?’ And she put in a fourth box and checked ‘Arcade Fire’.”
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show tonight.
halifaxeten:
this will be.. something.
same exact thing for me!
No Diggety - A New Refutation Of Time And Waste
So my boy Hermit, who is writing his Master’s thesis on the history of Halifax hip-hop (yeah I know; he even looks kinda like me), posted a link to this article from The Onion’s A/V Club, called “Diggedy, diggedy, iggedy dead end: DAS Efx and 15 other rap revolutions that weren’t.” The byline is shared by Nathan Rabin (traditionally and habitually just about the most...
On the names of rappers "these days."
I. Up For Grabs?
What the fuck how do you be called “OJ da Juiceman.” Is this like CB4? Since the old Orenthal James has been found a murderer in civil court, his name is just up for grabs?
I guess 21% of new rappers are just named after some variation of monikers Freeway Ricky Ross used to go by… including his government.
Also 50 Cent is the original real-life MC Gusto....
Hell Is Round The Corner
No Dante, no Sartre, no Fezzik; Hell is not those things.
Hell is the imminent future in which our global culture consists of nothing but every person everywhere reciting lines and bits from The Simpsons to one another, in endless permutations of recombinant sequences.
(A glimpse of this Hell can be acquired by spending five minutes on either The Internet or Family Guy. These glimpses are...
Buddy Peace 'You Don't Have To Do This...'... →
buddypeace:
You Don’t Have To Do This… by Buddy Peace
Here is the entire set of my project entitled ‘You Don’t Have To Do This…’, which I completed on Wednesday 29th December 2010. This is the entire collection, in the right order (or at least, the order I made it in) - it makes…