Best Rapper Alive

Andre 3000 – Alter Ego The Mixtape (Mixtape)

Marc, weren’t we just talking about this idea 2 nights ago? Our apt. is bugged, I knew it.

Dear Head Blade,

I love you.

This post was partly inspired from a post on Young + Fresh + New that referenced Gillete razors, and partly from a new wave of intrigued co-workers about how I stay so fresh… and new.

I’ve shaved my head since 2002 (way before Howie Mandel), but I spent the first 3 1/2 years using a Norelco electric shaver. I never liked using a straight razor on my face simply because I wasn’t that good at it, and I’d cut myself. The few times I tried on my head with a regularly-handled razor, it wasn’t a pretty site, and after cutting myself twice, it was on to the Norelco.

My life changed circa late-2005/early-2006 when I found the Head Blade, named in Time Magazine’s Top Ten Designs of 2000. 2000??? I was so pissed when I found this out. Why didn’t I know about the Head Blade earlier? So, I don’t want this to happen to any fellow members of the Bald Brotherhood. Now, they even have product spin-offs like the Sport (pictured above). My first HB didn’t look like a Hot Wheels car. I also use the HeadSlick creme, which I realized I was totally dependent on when I was forced to use regular shaving creme while out of town last year. I’m not getting paid by Head Blade to write this (but Todd Greene, holler at me if you want me to make weekly posts, I can totally be bought. And I think I’m a way better endorser than Howie)

So, come join me, Howie Mandell, John Sally, countless UFC fighters, that Steve guy from Jerry Springer, and more. I have a hunch that Jordan is a closet Head-blader too… he’s just too expensive to endorse it officially. Although, I can picture an inspirational Head Blade commercial from Jordan like this “Maybe” commercial.

Not A Rapper

**Disclaimer** No connection to the “I’m Not A Rapper” (front) “I’m Just A Hustler That Raps Good” (back) t-shirts….although Jim Jones wore it well. This is Soul Sincurrrr, poetic performance.

Truthfully I’m not a rapper, I’m a poetic performer
so if rhyme or rhythm are off, I forewarn ya
- Kinetik, Solitude

Kinetik – Not A Rapper (from Saving All The Good Beats For Myself)
***UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD**

Reverend Wright

= Deshawn Stevenson of politics

Obama got next

I wrote about Go Tell Mama last month, which has the above poster (my personal favorite) and other cool Obama-inspired art/video.

But this video, courtesy of Stevie Internets at The Grip shows Obama’s no slouch on the court.

April 25, 2008 – Kokomo, IN

Blow the whistle

We don’t believe you, you need more people.

So I’ve got two emails this morning, and the internet’s goin nuts about this Lebron/Deshawn fuckery and Hova’s input. Even the Washington Post has a column about it. This is how the writer ended his story:

DeShawn’s Got Soulja
LeBron’s Got Hova
Game 4 is off da hook
Now this column is ova

Jay Z – Blow the Whistle (download)

Driving Down The Block (remix)

Yeah, you can see me driving down the block in my ’00 Jetta. Clean. Mean.

Kidz in the Hall ft. Pusha T, Bun B and The Cool Kids – Drivin’ Down The Block (Remix) (download)

Chris Walken

“You’re like a moist toilette after a big, delicious plate of ribs.”
-Chris Walken on SNL tonight

Update: Watch this skit about a surprise party. Cracked me up. Wish WordPress would let you embed video from other video sites than just YouTube. Watch it over at Hulu.

Oh and if you missed it last year, watch Chris Walken cook a chicken.

Mickey Factz – You Remind Me

Stumbled on this track from Heaven’s Fallout. Most know this as the “Geico Cavemen” song, but I was scolded by DJ Kinetigiggles for not knowing that the group was Royksopp from Norway.

Mickey Factz – You Remind Me ft. Jessie Boykins (download)

Spaten Optimators

I don’t know these people, but they look pretty happy, right? Pretty good night ahead of them. But what this jovial young man doesn’t realize is… that one Spaten Optimator will bring him right up to speed with his buddies that have been drinking for 3 hours before coming to the bar. And there’s a chance he’ll get into a fight with his girlfriend, or the bartender.

So the Rathskellar Biergarten opened last night, with near perfect weather, sounds from Polka Boy, and Spaten Optimators flowing like water. Really brown, strong, alcoholic water served in 32 oz. cups.

Here’s a victim who got optimated:

Voicemail on Saturday (warning: profanity)

Atmosphere – Guarantees (video)

Thanks to dizzy for putting me on to the new Atmosphere. Well, putting me on to Atmosphere in general. And shout out to Rusty who has provided some great first hand stories of Slug.

Go listen to When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

The Wesley Snipes experiment

What happens when you randomly post a fact about Wesley Snipes on a person’s facebook profile that you haven’t talked to in a while? Well, an experiment has been conducted (sup Merc), and the results range from confusion to appreciation to anger that you assumed that person cares about Mr. Snipes.

Experiment Overview:
I get a random Facebook wall post from a girl I worked with on the school newspaper in high school. Really nice girl, but we haven’t spoke in at least 5-6 years since college. Plus, she’s never on facebook. So, you’ll understand why I was confused to see the following post: “wesly snipes got 3 years in prison.”

Uhhmm…. Mmm. Hmm. I’m stumped at this one, so I go over to her profile, and realize there must have been some myspace-type-spam that blanketed her friends wall.

For the rest of the experiment….

Chicago Zoo

New mixtape from the Cool Kids x DJ Wrek x O-Zone, Cool Ass Ninjas. Mostly stuff you’ve heard or have, but a few new ones you don’t have. Love the velocity of material they’re putting out. I had the same 12 songs on repeat for a firm 8 months, itching for more.

The Cool Kids – Chicago Zoo (UPDATE: download)

Download: Chicago%20Zoo.MP3

Download the mixtape over at Fake Shore Drive.

The Truth is Here

Pittkowski sent me a hilarious video/mockumentary about filming a movie, which made me watch a series of these “Truth in _______” on the MyTube… or YouSpace.

This one made me laugh the most, working in ad sales for over 2 years.

Someone should really do more of these. Basically every industry or sector of work could have “Liar Liar” type of treatment. Enjoy.

Behold A Lady

New blog you should read. Good stuff. Young + Fresh + New

And as a tribute to the well-titled blog, I give you the closing track of 2007′s GetBack.

Little Brother – When Everything Is New (download)

Reunification of Germany

Saw “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” tonight, and it was great. Good writing and humor from the Apatow gang. Make sure to go join in on the debate happening over at 2dopeboyz, which analyzes Mila vs. the blondie. Close call, but I’m partial to brunettes.

There is a theme of a heartbroken Dracula throughout the movie, which made me laugh…. and strangely remind me of one of my favorite scenes from Orange County, starring Colin Hanks. Basically, Shawn Brumder (Hanks) is in a fight with his girlfriend at some Stanford party, and she gets hit on by a guy named Kip (Nat Faxon… the guy from the Bud Light opera commercial, among others). Anyhow, I couldn’t find the clip, so just picture “that guy” at a party trying to impress the girl:

Kip: I’m a Comparative Literature major. I want to be a writer. Fiction, poetry, screenplays, whatever.

I have an idea for a TV show. It’s about vampires…ostensibly. But, underneath, it’s actually about the reunification of Germany…… But it’s funny.

You might have to see it to appreciate it, but it’s one of the lines from movies I quote regularly. I love Kip. And oddly, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about love and relationships…. ostensibly. But, underneath, it’s actually about a heartbroken Dracula…. But it’s funny.

Go see the movie. And if you want to see a funny mockery of The Hills featuring Mila Kunis from the Writer’s Strike time period…..

Every beat, every word, every song

…always there. (And no, it’s not about you.)

Kinetik – Always There (from Saving All The Good Beats For Myself )
**UPDATE: DOWNLOAD HERE***

The Guggen… the Guggenheim

I’m a nerd. I get intrigued by things that “stick” (go read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point). And I get even more geeked about GOOD things that stick (not “yah, trick, yahhh”)

Enter Mickey Factz and the GFC crew. “The Guggen…. the Guggenheim!”

I’ve been walking around for days with that “ad-lib” stuck in my head. So, bravo Mr. Factz… braa-vo. Mickey’s crew goes by the name GFC, which I’m guessing stands for “Guggenheim ________ Crew”, but I can’t figure out what the F stands for, and what the significance of the world-renowned museum actually is to one of these rapper guys. But I do know that I was there as a baby in ’83 (only lived in Manhattan in the infant stages, but there’s something to be said for subliminal intellect, right?), and mom would always talk about the breath-taking exhibits and structural design of the Guggenheim.

I digress. Mickey Factz and the good folks at GFC have a new mixtape available for free download. I suggest you wise up and click HERE

Do You Want More?!!!?! Cool Kids videos? Yes.

More videos from the Cool Kids show at the Vogue 4/20/08. And coming soon, the long awaited Jay Electronica videos from almost a month ago at Nokia Theater (plus a bonus rant/review from yours truly)

Action Figures, Vogue, 4/20/08

More videos after the jump (DJ Top Speed spinning, Mikey & Chuck medley from Bone to NWA into Gold & Pager)

Wu Tang Killer Bees

So, Marc, Pitt and Berg all got phone calls from me out on the roof today, losing a staring contest with two pissed off, squirrel-sized bee’s.

I hate bee’s to begin with (I can step on spiders, can’t outrun bees), but these two in particular were lookin’ at me sideways.

I’m not even exaggerating – it felt like these bees were giving me “the look”. You know, the one Bernie Mac describes in Kings of Comedy… the “lookin at me like you wanna do somethin’” look. Just hovering outside my window, daring me to come towards them, almost insulting my existence.

Come to find out, they were carpenter bees that don’t do much harm, but they “are territorial and will harass other bees and people who venture near their protected areas” (aka hover around, annoy the sh** out of you and stare aggresively). I found a good article about these fargin’ bastages here.

I got mind control over those bee’s though. Sure, when they’re around, I swat and prance around like an 8-year-old, but when I’m safely inside with the window shut….. I be actin’ normal again.