Huge for the city. Check out the video presentation that helped win the bid, with some help from Dennis Hopper, HERE
Archive for May, 2008
2012 Super Bowl: Indianapolis
Published 05/21/2008 Goodness , Sports 5 CommentsTags: colts, dennis hopper, downtown, Indianapolis, lucas oil stadium, super bowl
Rusty talks Jack
Published 05/21/2008 ADK , Music , Video 1 CommentTags: hip hop, Indianapolis, jack gilfoy, jazz, Mudkids, rusty redenbacher
ANOTHER one from Jay Smooth
Published 05/20/2008 Goodness , Music , Video 1 CommentTags: ill doctrine, jay smooth, knockout, suge knight, youtube
I had to share this one too. This guy is goooood. The John Stewart of hip hop. illdoctrine!
Everyone should invest venture capital in illdoctrine (on top of his Dave Chappelle venture capital)
Renaissance Man
Published 05/20/2008 ADK , Music 1 CommentTags: erykah badu, jay electronica, just blaze, mixtape monday, nas, nokia theater
(artwork by FWMJ)
Did anyone see Diddy’s love-gram about Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour?
Jay Electronica gives me that feeling Puff-man spoke of. His verses transcend 16 bars. He’s been endorsed by Just Blaze, Erykah, hip hop legend Mazzi, and now add Escobar to the list….
“Jay Electronica is the future,” he added. “He’s what rappers are trying to be or what they are aspiring to be. He’s the whole package. He has visual ideas for videos, and he could show you what he’s been working on. He has a whole different take on his production. The guy’s an incredible writer. I like his music. He was like, ‘Let’s go. Let’s get in the studio.’ He gave me a lot of his time.” ..
-Nas on Mixtape Monday
Download: What the F*ck Is A Jay Electronica
(And yes, my video & review from the 3/28 show at Nokia Theater w/ Jay Electronica & Mos Def is still coming)
Hip Hop is giving me a rash
Published 05/19/2008 1022 , Goodness , Music , Video 6 CommentsTags: connectedness, hip hop is giving me a rash, ill doctrine, jay smooth, nelly
From last year, but no less relevant. Rational thinking is so nice sometimes. Thank you Jay Smooth.
6 Hour Power
Published 05/19/2008 Comedy , Misc. 6 CommentsTags: 5 hour energy, 50 cent, 6 hour power, ja rule, truck stop
So, I’m in the checkout line at a gas station/truck stop near Ohio recently, and I look up to see the entire 7 shelves in front of me stacked with energy drinks. Smart… I don’t want truckers on the road falling asleep. But, the display cracked me up…
On top, was 5 Hour Energy, which I’ve had before.. and I’m not convinced on the “no crash later” promise.
Then, right below it, was the product of some opportunists that saw an easy way to sell the same product, but just market it solely based on topping 5 Hour Energy by one hour… Still in a tiny bottle.
Doesn’t that kind of remind you of what 50 did to Ja? Same product, but marketed to shut the other one down. 5 Hour Energy is a Wanksta.
Kayo – Live From Belgium
Published 05/19/2008 Music 1 CommentTags: Indianapolis, kayo, live from belgium
This track has been bubbling around for the past few months, but I’m just now getting around to posting it. Indianapolis MC Kayo steadily provides that swagger music, and producer LZ gave him a silly beat/concept. Got me saying “We are live from Belgium!”
Don’t have a download link yet, but listen at his myspace page HERE
Cool Kids – Bake Sale EP
Published 05/19/2008 Music Leave a CommentTags: bake sale ep, cool kids, download, jingling, sharebee, zshare
Bake Sale EP in stores Tues, May 20.
New leaked song from FSD.
“Plus me and Mikey ‘Do The Right Thing’ in these Spike Lee Nike’s
Suckas they wanna fight me
Cause their girlfriends want a guy just like me
You know what? Bite me. Hey, they all like me
No sense in throwin punches, let’s do lunch man
You like me too, ain’t no future in your frontin’”
Jimi Hendrix On Fire
Published 05/18/2008 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: art, fire, jimi hendrix, phil in the circle, time-lapse, youtube
After watching the Blu video below, Russell put me up on this time-lapse art project. “Dope” would be a word one might use to describe this.
(And thanks to Russ for his words in his recent blog post I Believe.. ADK Remix. Good things, my brother, good things. Connectedness. Pamoja.)
MUTO by Blu – Watch this
Published 05/18/2008 art Leave a CommentTags: blu, blublu.org, muto, wall animation, youtube
I saw this on The Grip last week, then on Kanye’s blog, and I finally watched it. Wow. One of the craziest things I’ve ever seen, both conceptually, and the actual production of the whole project. Unbelievable.
RSS this, bookmark it, and make it a destination. PAMOJA
In Kiswahili, pamoja means together.
Together, we can accomplish anything. Alone, you, or I, can accomplish very little. True in just about every domain of life, but particularly salient, necessary really, for work in global health and development.
…Yes I Did
Published 05/17/2008 Goodness , Music 1 CommentTags: g shock anniversary, hottest mc's in the game, kanye, mtv
MTV’s “Hottest MC’s in the Game” selected Kanye as #1 this year, with Jigga man as runner-up.
Here’s a new verse performed by Kanye over the “Everything I Am” instrumental at the G-Shock 25th Anniversary party. ‘Ye informed the crowd this was written at 8am the day before. How’s that for instant retention? Kanye’s formula of charismatic, sarcastic rhymes, coupled with raw observations from a regular dude (who happens to be in the limelight) is why he continues to win. That, and oh yeah, “he do spazz out at his shows”. Remember when people said Kanye couldn’t rap? Yeah, I know… people also used to think the sun rotated around the Earth.
Video – HERE
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“Open up your Bibles, let’s hear from the Reverend
I’m two number 1′s so, together I’m 11
she a 10, i’m number 1, together we 11 …. Continue reading ‘…Yes I Did’
The Cleveland Show
Published 05/16/2008 TV shows Leave a CommentTags: family guy, kanye, the cleveland show
spotted at KanYe’s blog
Blues In Your Left Thigh
Published 05/16/2008 Film , Video 2 CommentsTags: a blues for nina, blues in your left thigh, brother to the night, darius lovehall, larenz tate, love jones, nia long
Tryin to become the funk in your right.
I’m not sure why I thought about this today, but I did. This scene defines cool. Darius Lovehall, played by Larenz Tate (Crash, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society) delivers one of the most effortlessly smooth poems to Nina (“thought I needed a Nia Long”) in Love Jones, backed by the sax and stand-up bass. You should probably see this movie if you haven’t before.
Say baby, can I be your slave
I’ve got to admit it girl, you’re the shit girl
And i’m diggin’ you like a grave …. Continue reading ‘Blues In Your Left Thigh’
Mic Terror – Plan C
Published 05/16/2008 Comedy , Misc. 3 CommentsTags: chicago, mazzi, mic terror, plan c, rugrats, soul purpose, zshare
Mic Terror, Chicago MC, responds to Mazzi’s passive aggressive dis record, but not a dis record, “Lesson A”. (if you need a late pass, go HERE)
Mic T is no joke, and goes off on this one. He’s also featured in the URB Next 100. Mazzi was 101, I think.
Video coming later today on FSD
Download: Mic Terror – “Plan C”
WHPK 88.5 fm Chicago
Published 05/15/2008 Goodness , Music 2 CommentsTags: 88.5, chicago, hip hop, online, streaming, whpk
WHPK a non-profit community radio station of the University of Chicago, broadcasting to Hyde Park and the South Side of Chicago for over 50 years
WHPK was the first to bring hip-hop to the South Side’s airwaves nearly two decades ago, when other radio stations were still playing Huey Lewis and the News. Quite a few have caught on by now, but our Rap shows continue to be the best out there. DJs JP Chill, Extreme, V Funk, Kev Duce, Thaione, Pugslee Atomz and Kevin Maxey play the cutting edge of the hip-hop underground while keeping a firm grip on the old-school—all unedited and uncensored. And on Friday nights you’ll get to hear live mixes by legendary DJs from around Chicago.
Thanks to AB at Fake Shore Drive for telling me about streaming this station online. I tuned in for Pugslee Atomz show last night (Wed), which was chock full of Cool Kids, Dilla, Mikkey Halstead, FSD shoutouts, **Update** Mick Luter, and a bunch of stuff I’ve never heard before… You won’t be disappointed.
Stream live at http://www.whpk.org/stream
Mudkids – Take This Job
Published 05/15/2008 Music , Video Leave a CommentTags: Mudkids, Indianapolis, rusty redenbacher, youtube, saint recon, felix, take this job
This is for everybody that has ever had a boss…that’s pretty much all of y’all. I think we have all felt like the sentiments expressed in this song at some point in our careers, whatever that career is.
-Rusty
Big League Chew
Published 05/15/2008 Goodness , Misc. 2 CommentsTags: big league chew, lebron james, the office
This was partly inspired from the Highlights post. I guess I just assumed all great things from growing up disappeared, like the good cartoons. I remember ALWAYS having a fresh pack of grape Big League Chew as a kid.
DID YOU KNOW? (according to the Big League Chew wikipedia)
- In the Season 3 finale of The Office, Dwight Shrute (Rainn Wilson) is seen chewing and spitting Big League Chew as if it were chewing tobacco.
- Lebron James was reportedly a devoted user of the gum before signing an endorsement deal with Bubbaliscious
- According to the 2005 packaging, over 450 million pouches of the gum have been sold since 1980
Dizzy – One Too Many
Published 05/15/2008 ADK , Music 3 CommentsTags: ADK, dizzy, hip hop, Indianapolis, zshare
If you come here often, you may have heard this first verse on a voicemail, raw uncut. Well, the real version has arrived, courtesy of Dizzy himself. C Ray on the beat. Off of The Becoming.
Download: Dizzy – One Too Many
No Regard For Human Life
Published 05/14/2008 Sports , Video 3 CommentsTags: cavs, celtics, dunk, game 4, human life, kevin garnett, lebron james, no regard for human life, playoffs
Lebron brings the thunder on KG in Game 4 of the Playoffs.
I’m pretty sure that’s Marv Albert Kevin Harlan (thanks, Paul) with the classic commentary: “Lebron! With no regard for human life…”
