| G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg’s “Regulate” | January 11, 2008 |
1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A “Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. Best Models to Emulate: Gay steel workers, Andrew Carnegie, Iron Man 2. Not Tweaking When You See a Car Full of Girls How […]
| The Top 50 Albums of 2007 (Day 10, Brought To You By Zack, The Erstwhile Legomaniac) | January 2, 2008 |
| Haikus About 2007’s Most Overhyped Albums | December 13, 2007 |
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole Composes Lengthy Indictment Against Neon Bible. Arctic Monkeys-Favourite Worst Nightmare Least favourite nightmare Listening to this on repeat For Infinity. Battles-Mirrored Battles are Jam Band For Smart Kids, Pass the […]
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 | December 12, 2007 |
Even if you are a jewel thief, it is never wise to mess with a man whose name is Sgt. Larvell Jones. 25. Chamillionaire ft. Slick Rick: “Hip Hop Police” Chamillionaire’s a good rapper. His flow kind of reminds me of Krayzie Bone had he grown up chugging syrup through humid Houston summers. And […]
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6) | December 11, 2007 |
The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-“Time” “People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the time they hear it. Nothing I’m gonna do after that is going to match up to that time period, because they can’t get that back. […]
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10) | December 7, 2007 |
Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname “Mad Dog.” 14. Redman-“Blow Treez” Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generation of impressionable youths how to roll a blunt, to sample Bob Marley, the greatest blunt roller of them all? Flipping the halcyon palm-tree sway of “Sun […]
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 2 (#19-15) | December 5, 2007 |
This list has very little to do with Back to the Future II. However, I am writing it from the inside of a Delorean. 19. Pete Rock ft. Styles P & Sheek Louch-“914” Released by Nature Sounds in January as the single from Pete Rock’ s still shelved New York’s Finest record, “914” has […]
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 (#25-20) | December 5, 2007 |
25. Chamillionaire ft. Slick Rick: “Hip Hop Police” Chamillionaire’s a good rapper. His flow kind of reminds me of Krayzie Bone had he grown up chugging syrup through humid Houston summers. And unlike a lot of Southern rappers, Chamillionaire has interesting ideas, even if he doesn’t always know the best way to implement them. […]
| Protected: Neurologist Conclusively Proves Snoop Dogg Has Smoked Himself “Retarded” | December 4, 2007 |
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| The Mad Hatter: The Passion of the Weiss Guide to Hipster Haberdashery | November 27, 2007 |
If home is where you hang your hat then Silverlake is rapidly turning into the world’s largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigueur in hipster courting rituals for male hipsters (homo habilus hipstericus) to trot out increasingly ridiculous pieces of vintage head-ware in an effort to woo the […]
