...STILL The Hardest Working Man In Showbusiness!

I was just doing some random searching when I came across a blog referring to this dude by the name of Shaun Boothe who did a "UBR (UNauthorized Biography of Rakim) - frem Nas' Streets Disciple double album in 2004" a very heartfelt albeit matching awkward "Microphone-Fiend-esque" beat to match his narrative..... anyway I'm straying from the point.... This guy Shaun Boothe did a pretty good "UBR" [UBJB] to commemorate the 2 year anniversary of James Brown's passing (12/25/2006)..... and I agree... with all of the contributions this guy made to music overall? I'm sure god wouldn't mind celebrating Christmas and a little nit of the James-Brown-2-step to match. Check out the video.

UPDATE: Mr. Boothe also did a pretty cool Bob Marley Biography rap also [UBBM]

Rock the Bells 2008

This past Sunday, I was happy to roll out to Jones Beach, on Long Island NY to check out the Rock the Bells Tour featuring sume of my all-time favorite Hip-Hop acts ever. I rolled into the venue at around 4PM and was kinda bummed out to realize that I just mussed DeLaSoul's seemingly high-energy performance. Me and my friends that attended rolled into our nosebleed status seets and began to act a fool in the stands.... I mean.. what do you expect? The performances that I managed to catch were dope overall.

Ghostface and Raekwon's set was pretty good... not necessarily for their performance prowess [uh... hmmm] but more on the strength of just hearing the Cuban Links X Iron Man X Supreme Clientele stuff that took me back to high school days....



Nas' performance was cool... he did a lot of joints from his first album [of course... thats a must] and his surprize guest was none other than Mr. Shawn Carter. Suffice to say, the crowd went bonkers as they launched into "Black Republican" from Nas' Hip-Hop Is Dead LP.



But without a doubt, the highlight of the show went to the headliners, the Legendary A Tribe Called Quest who performed for NY for the first time in 10+ years onstage... and they performed as if they never missed a day on the road in all those years... It was great to see them go through the catalog of their classic joints...arguably some of the greatest Hip-Hop music ever made.... memorable night indeed...

Nasty Fox

Above flick is of Nas on The Colbert Report talking about the Evil Overlords of Fox News and their racial smearing tactics/antics. He also performed the song "Sly Fox" from his recently released "Untitled/Reggin" album... You can always count on Nas to represent...

Kinda O'Riell-ed Up

Interesting commentary from Jay Smooth of the looong-running Underground Railroad radio show on WBAI [that name took me back to my high school days of listening to his show @ 2AM on a weeknight when I should be sleeping or studying...]. Everyone [that's not right-wing conservative.. that is..] already knows what a douche-bag Bill O'Rielly is. He recently went on one of his regular tirades against rappers/ hip-hop by criticizing Virginia Tech for booking Nas for a show on their campus. Jay does a good & slightly humorous job of exposing Billy for the contradictory, slimey, co-worker harassing, hate-mongering pr!ck that he is... chuuch!