Ice Cube – then and now. “Today I didn’t even have to use my A.K. / I got to say it was a good day.”
Tag: hiphop
Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
Foreign Policy magazine discusses hip-hop and realpolitik. (via noah brier)
DCPD Bangerz, Vol. 1
I get a kick out of nerdcore rapper ytcracker‘s album DCPD Bangerz:
my friend mikey pasted me a link in skype to this police departmentÄôs site –
EVERY page on this website was filled with the most banging beats i had ever heard. whoever picked these beats for this website seriously needs to be an a&r for a major record label.
i decided to make a concept album using some of the hot beats on these pages and creating a backstory for the song based on what information was on the page. the songs are all named after the .html you can find the beat and story on.
I live in DeKalb, so it was a nice surprise to come across this. I think index_home.html [mp3] is my favorite, but executive_command.html is a very close second. [via decatur metro]
Tonight I was thinking I’d love to hear hip hop that samples bluegrass music. I looked around and came across Gangstagrass. So far, so good. (Also reminds me of The Gourds’ cover of Snoop’s “Gin and Juice”.)
Is it harder to write a sonnet than a great hip-hop verse?
The literal rules for writing sonnets, tankas, haikus etc. aren’t particularly hard to follow. It’s following the rules and actually saying something that’s hard. You can write a sonnet that makes no sense, and has no real power in the words. Likewise, you could write a rhyme that’s technically on beat and say nothing at all.
Nice sample at the end. Puff is much, much worse than Biggie.
I grow to love Ill Doctrine more with every post, like his take on the Clinton/Obama handshake controversy.
Mark Larson 