Due to driving from Baton Rouge to Atlanta and being without a computer for the ride, I missed posting on the biggest sports and music day of 2010. The Jealous. Speaking on the Super Bowl: asamp was right wrong. I'm not even upset because the Colts aren't my team, I'm just more surprised. Congrats to the Saints and their fans though. Drew Brees played his ass off and the defense held Peyton to a lot less than I expected. Good shit. And not only that, but this year's Super Bowl was the most watched television program....EVER. Yes, EVER. More people watched the Saints beat the Colts than the finale of For the Love of Ray-J. I know, hard to believe. But something that's not hard to believe is that Drew Brees is about to get PAID. Respect.
On the music tip: Jets. Smokee Robinson finally dropped. Oh, and it's dope as hell. Spitta did not disappoint with this one. Early favorites are Lemon Kush over Gucci's Lemonade and Vision over Kanye's Last Call. Shouts to @jus_huong for the DL link.
So yea, I'm still in Baton Rouge but I'll be damned if I don't make it back to Atlanta by kickoff. It's no real surprise but I'm going with Indy on this one. Peyton's been here before and even though he's only won one ship before this year, a win here could claim him the spot as the best quarterback of all-time. Dwight Freeney's probably not as hurt as we all think and I'm not confident in New Orleans' ability to stop the Indianapolis offense. Not to mention, my Bears are nowhere near the Super Bowl so I guess Indy's the best choice. Plus...they have a black head coach. Sorry Reggie, sorry Kim, sorry...Breesus??
Final Score: New Orleans - 28 // Indianapolis - 42 Peyton bout to be Miami chillin, Super Bowl chillin.
Since we're less than 24 hours from the release of Curren$y's latest mixtape, here are some videos to curb you until you can download Smokey Robinson. Ariiiiite.
Yesterday, Kei from GovernedByLoyalty.com put me on to the new joint from Mach Five, Mums FP and Jason Caesar, Vicodin & Violins. It's always good to hear new shit from Mums and this was also a good intro to Mach Five for me. This joint is off of their latest project, Playground : A Compilation Vol. 1, available here. Definitely worth a listen. While you're at it, follow Mums FP and A.ware from Mach Five on Twitter. Check out Vicodin & Violins:
First off, Fanboys is funny as hell. Point blank. If you've ever laughed at one of the other movies I've recommended, or even if you haven't, you still need to check this out. It's set in 1998 about a group of five friends and their quest to see Star Wars Episode 1: The Attack of the Phantom Menace. Does that sound nerdy enough for you?? The thing is, the movie's not set for release for another six months and one of the Fanboys is battling with cancer. So what do they do? Wait six months and go see it as friends?? Hell no. They decide to go through with something they've planned since middle school: break into Skywalker Ranch and steal a rough cut of the movie. Gangsta. The movie stars Sam Huntington [Not Another Teen Movie], Jay Baruchel [Knocked Up/Tropic Thunder] and the snooks of all snooks, Kristen Bell [Forgetting Sarah Marshall]. Just an overall surprisingly hilarious movie with cameos from Seth Rogen [two roles], Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith and Will Forte. Just those names alone make it worth it. But don't take my word for it, check out this scene with one of Seth Rogen's cameos:
Yea, it's true. Seth Rogen has been in every comedy produced since 2004. And I'm not mad.
Now on to Fifty Pills. This movie is about a college student that, upon returning to school from a terrible trip visiting home, finds out that his roommate threw a crazy party while he was away. The party was so crazy that he ended up losing his scholarship and is on the verge of having to quit school. His only hope in raising the money for tuition in time is selling the fifty pills of ecstasy that his asshole of a roommate gave him. It's starring relatively unknown actor Lou Taylor Pucci [Believe it or not, he was in Fanboys] and once again, the snooks, KRISTEN BELL. Another hilarious movie with cameos from Michael Peña [Crash/Lions for Lambs], Donnell Rawlings [Chappelle's Show] and Eddie Kaye Thomas [Finch from American Pie.] Check out this scene with Donnell Rawlings and Eddie Kaye Thomas. Pure comedy:
Don't sleep on Fanboys and Fifty Pills on some of those College Football-less Saturday afternoons. Plus, Kristen Bell is in both of em.
Chapter One: The Worst Way to Defend a Dunk/Lay-Up
Ever had the dream of making it into the Sportscenter Top 10?? Since completing an alley-oop, shooting a game-winner and sinking 12 threes are so difficult to do, I recommend unsuccessfully defending a dunk or lay-up. It's fun AND easy! Just follow these steps:
1. First thing you have to do it get one of your teammates to turn the ball over. 2. Next, make sure that none of your teammates come past half court to play defense. [They might actually stop the other team from scoring!] 3. The next thing you need to do is use timing to ensure a midair confrontation with the offensive player. [See Lebron James1.] 4. Make a failed attempt to block the dunk or lay-up. [See Lebron James2.]
And that's it. If you follow these steps you should be guaranteed a spot on the Sportscenter Top 10. For proof, just look at mine from today:
Been away from the blog for a minute so I figured it's time to get back at it. If you've read this blog before, you might know that I'm a pretty big fan of cover versions of songs and this is one of my favorites. Everybody knows the Luther Vandross song Superstar, but that wasn't even the original version. The original was done by Delanie and Bonnie back in 1969, then done by the Carpenters in 1971 and Luther in 1983 before this version was done in 1994 by the bad Sonic Youth. Pretty different from the original but still dope nonetheless. It was even used in the trailer for the scary as fuck scary movie High Tension and it was used in the movie Juno...for what it's worth. Check it out:
Sonic Youth - Superstar [Cover]
Download: Superstar Pretty unique twist to a classic. And I'm back on this blogging shit.
Yes, Eli Porter is back. Not really but he kinda is. I thought I heard the last from Eli and the Icon Mic Sypher, until, LowEndMarauder posted his MySpace page earlier on Twitter. It almost lead to my untimely death. I got word that he might even be putting out a MIXTAPE. I figured it couldn't get any funnier. And then I came across this:
President Obama gave his first State of the Union last night and he delivered one of the most dynamic SOTU's to date. His focus during the address were educations, jobs, energy and employment. The speech was both well-delivered and well-written but it also had a number of promises throughout. I hope that we as Americans do our part to help get these goals accomplished mainly because I believe he's the best man for the job. If you missed it, you're in luck; It's on YouTube in it's entirety....or you can just watch it here:
Leave it to Republicans...
And the worst part of the night was the Republican response. They really tried to insult us by surrounding new governor Robert McDonnell with a "diverse" group of "Republicans" consisting of an African American woman, an Asian man, a soccer mom and a man in a military uniform. Could you be more obvious??? #comeonson
Cudder is back. That's actually the name of his latest video but it's always good to have some new Cudi. This joint is off of his next album that was recently retitled Cudder: The Revolution of Evolution. You know it's gonna be some more dopeness. Peep the video for cudderisback:
I was up on a random night a couple weeks ago at about 1 or 2 am so of course I was on Twitter [because what else would a normal person do at 2 am??] when I realized that me, @JinxTheJerk, @nikkib788, @TwoEZ and @Bouier were all watching the same thing. "Hey Samp, what were you guys watching??" Well, I'm glad you asked. We were all viewing history in the making as Comedy Central was airing the unedited Secret Stash edition of Aziz Ansari's stand-up Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening. Needless to say, it was funny as hell and deemed as an "instant classic." No, seriously. The audio version of the routine was release on January 19th and is definitely worth the listen. But just in case you don't believe me, below is his bit on Cold Stone Creamery [which we all know is crazy] and also parts of interviews from Letterman and Kimmel in which he discusses R.Kelly and Kanye West, respectively. And ALSO, download on of my favorite bits from his stand-up album. It's about sheets. Bed sheets. Enjoy.
Aziz on Cold Stone Creamery // Intimate Moments...
The Bulls have officially begun to streak...but in a good way this time. We picked up our third straight road win Monday night by defeating the Spurs 98-93 in San Antonio. We've won 11 of our last 16 and are one game away from .500. Despite flu-like symptoms, Derrick Rose had 27, 6 and 3 and Joakim Noah scored the last five points of the game to lead us to victory. Noah playing was even questionable before tipoff but he balled nonetheless. We're headed to Oklahoma City on Wednesday for a shot at 22-22. Bang.
Sure, Conan O'Brien is getting the short end of the stick from NBC with the whole "Tonight Show timeslot conflict," but he might have gotten the last laugh. [Note: I'm taking a late pass for this because it was from his January 21st episode.] Conan discovered that even though he was leaving the Tonight Show, NBC was still required to fully finance his last episodes. Not only that, but he's also getting $30-40 million from the network to walk away from the show. So you get paid MILLIONS to NOT come to work ANNNND they're gonna pay for everything on your last shows???? What would Conan do?? I'll give you a hint: It's "crazy expensive."
Wasting literally millions of NBC's money while they pay you to do it...?? Gangster.
Conan O'Brien, you sir, have gotten the last laugh.
New video directed by @RASTruly from Blomedy.com starring @CezaCez. First saw this posted by @Jinx over at @The Chinese Society. It's a pretty dope video that leaves room for interpretation. I mean, I'm still thinking about it haha. Peep:
[Note: The joint even has a new track from @Marty McFly and Ras during the credits. Dopeness.]
I haven't had many music posts lately so I figured I was due for a double post. A lot of people have been talking about Jay Electronica lately and truthfully, he's had some of the realest hip hop that I've heard in a long time. The strangest part about it is that it seems like people are really paying attention. With that being said, the first video is actually the trailer for the video for his joint Exhibit A (Transformation). This kid Jay Elec really is the truth and this song is just one example. My man Pbbt put me on awhile back and it's been nothing but good music from him since. Definitely worth the listen.
The other video for today was the next single from the Clipse's latest joint Till the Casket Drops called Freedom. Another dope song, another dope video. EGHCK's for everybody.
LSU Junior CB Patrick Peterson made the All-American First Team
I'm still having trouble letting go of college football. Even with this past weekend's NFL Playoff games and all of the college football coaching changes, I still kinda miss it. Only things to do now are talk about the draft and give post-season awards, I guess. With that being said, here are ESPN.com's 2009-2010 College Football All-Americans:
Note: I chose to use ESPN's All-American list because I agreed with it the most even though, truth be told, I would have had LSU's Ciron Black as an OT, Florida's Brandon Spikes as a LB and Bama's Terrence Cody as a DT. Guess I should have made my own list. For other official All-American lists check these links:
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His struggles to end racial inequality and discrimination have gotten the nation and the world where we are today. Even though we have a long way to go for equality, his leadership and determination cannot go unrecognized. Dr. King's legacy was even one of the reasons I chose to go to Morehouse for undergrad. Even though the above quote is my favorite MLK quote, we've all heard and been effected by at least parts of the famous I Have a Dream speech. Here, in its entirety is the 1963 speech:
Raised outside of Chicago.
High School in Baton Rouge.
College in Atlanta.
Music Enthusiast.
Undoubtedly wavy.
Always looking to e x p a n d my horizons.
