the scroll of time

I ask him if it is true about the three-seconds stories. "Yeh, a couple of times guys would fake me in the lane and before I'd come down the ref would call three seconds on them."

-Rick Telander, Heaven is a Playground

Holiday Verse Appreciation

And if there's crack in the basement?

CRACKHEADS STAND ADJACENT

Anger displacement, Two step arrangements
You were a still born baby: Mother didn't want you, but you were still born
Boy meets world, of course his pops is gone
What you figga? That chalky outline on the ground is a father figure?
So he steps to the next stencil, that's a hustler
Infested with money and diamond cluster
Lets talk in laymen terms, Rotten apples and big worms
Early birds and poachers, New York is evil at it's core, so those who have more than them
Prepare to be victims, Ate up by vultures, the politicians
In a dog eat dog culture, that'll sick 'em
Lack of mineral, we take it personal
A pigeon can't drop shit if it never flew
Every day is no frills, empty krills
Broken 40 bottles and m.c's with skills
I rest my head on 115
But miracles only happen on 34th, so I guess life is mean
And death is the median
And purgatory is the mode that we settle in
Battered wives, molested children
Roaches on the floor, rats in the ceiling
Cats walk around New York with two fillin's
One is in their mouth the other, does the killin'

-Vast Aire, "Iron Galaxy," off Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein

Done and Done

This is a little bit how I feel at the moment, so I thought I'd share.



3:46 is kinda trippy

You ever been to Nawlz?

Check this site out, but only if you've got some free time on your hands. It's quite the graphic novel, audio-visual, extra-sensory, internet experience. It's the missing link between video games and books, like some web-based sunfish cousin who doesn't really care if he makes nice with the in-laws because he's such a genius, but he can eat at the table with anyone and keep his dignity. Really just incredible.

http://nawlz.com/

Perfect From Now On

y'all fucked up now!

I feel like this validates every word I've ever uttered in defense of hip hop. You can go home now.

Via Our Canadian Correspondent

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The Beard is Back

How did this guy become a famous rapper? Freeway's technical talent is questionable, his subject matter played out. There's no way he battled his way to the top, or was spitting rhymes on the stoop and just happened to get noticed by some passing label exec who said, "I must have this." Freeway was never the protagonist in a hip hop fairy tale. And yet his music has something unnameable, some new hybrid of humor and heart, that is the product of a large, bearded man, half-singing rhymes in gravelly, high-pitched hysterics. And I don't mean hysterical like YouTube videos of drunk people falling down stairs, I mean hysterical like a man possessed, only in Freeway's case the possessor isn't Rage so much as Glee. You can hear it and feel it on every one of his tracks, there's a reason they move you and you just can't describe it other than the tired old list passion/fire/spirit/energy... Maybe we call it "Soul" because we think that modifier has some connection to authenticity and size of heart, but it's only so appropriate. Certainly taking on Jake One as producer, who strictly samples 70's LPs from the pinnacle of soul music, validates the transgenre comparison. But was Soul funny? I mean, is a Soul funny? It's hard for me to think of it that way, but clearly humor is an integral part of Freeway's music. Maybe that's the point of Freeway, to explode my notions of what is an authentic expression of soul, and whether comedy is a part of that. And this points to a definition of "original" music, music that forces you to think in a new way about something, or to think about something new. Somehow, we should be thanking Hip Hop for this, for allowing Freeway's voice to be carried despite its seemingly non-functional and atypical nature in the context of mass-produced club hits.

Freeway and Jake One have a new album coming out January called The Stimulus Package. Fingers crossed. "You Know What I Mean" (linked above), is the first leak.

Watch your back in the hood cuz hate come from all angles

Make sure you tote your banger

Never sell dope to strangers

Be courteous to your neighbors

I am Swayze, later!

Define: Feral American male

"The objective of my work is to observe the impact of pornography on the sexuality of men, and how it shapes their perception of men and women. We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography but we couldn’t find any."


— Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse of the University of Montreal (via syntheticpubes blog)

analyze why we act this way

We should not mistake reality for fiction- we should be able to discern, in what we experience as fiction, the hard kernel of the Real which we are able to sustain only if we fictionalize it... But much more difficult than to denounce/ unmask (what appears as) reality as fiction is to recognize the part of fiction in 'real' reality. We seek to escape not simply the the feeling of unreality, of the artificial virtuality of our lifeworld, but the Real itself which explodes in the guise of uncontrolled hallucinations which start to haunt us once we lose our anchoring in reality.

-Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real