Alright…. I know it’s snowing out today. But these things happen. It doesn’t mean we stop going to Rap shows… What if George Washington didn’t cross the Delaware River that December night in 1776 because of the snow? What if the Abominable Snowman stopped being abominable because of the snow? What if the white reggae phenomenon ‘Snow’ gave up because his name was snow? Where would we be now? Exactly people.

We got performances from:
Nuclear Family
Junk Science
Cool Calm Pete
The Dugout
The Project
100dbs & Ryan O’neil

This will all be happening under one roof tonight @ Southpaw in Brooklyn.
Southpaw is located @ 125 5th Avenue btw St. Johns & Sterling.
18+
$10

And just because I like you I’m going to give you my boy and super remix artist Scott Thorough‘s new dance remix of Radiohead’s: At the Pearly Gates ft. T-Pain and Gerald Levert. It’ll get you pumped while you’re getting dressed to come out tonight. And if you don’t come I want that shit back. Nah, I’m kidding. No I’m not. See ya there!

“Never ever leave a hot track on my hard drive.” -Starpower , ‘Live on WBAR’ (download it)

“Against my better judgement I decided I should rap over every single sound I heard, every noun and verb…” – Starpower in ‘Clockwork’ (watch the video)

Both of these quotes could explain how my man ‘raped-over’ (and rapped over) UK producer Bullion’s The Beach Boys vs J Dilla , ‘Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee’. Bullion samples both Jay Dee and The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds to make a free instrumental album.
The story goes Mauby Bitters downloaded it off the interweb and put Starpower on to Bullion’s instrumental doings like, “You need to get on this.” Well, he did, it’s dope and you can get it here for free.
Remember back in the day when there’d be rappers that would drop a new verse and the next day you’d find yourself at the lunch table with your boys like, “Yo, he said ____!” Well, Starpower is that rapper. I’m going to have to paraphrase, cause Starpower was unavailable for comment, but he said something like, ” I’m like dude from Baby Boy cause I come in your house, drink your juice and fuck your moms!” He’d be the bad guy that you root for in the movies. The WWF bully. He also got another album called the Problem of the Day, but you gotta go pay for that one, ya Kato Kailin sons of bitches…

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You could catch Starpower along with The Dugout, Nuclear Family, The Project, Cool Calm Pete, 100dbs and Ryan O’neil this Friday @ Southpaw in Brooklyn.

My dog is in this video. Not in the slang sense of the word. I mean my actual dog.

First off, let me start this out by saying if you don’t check my man Cav out after this, you’re a sucker. If you don’t check out his album you don’t belong wearing my stuff. When I see you I’m gonna ask you, “Whatchu think about that Cav record?”, and if you say you ain’t heard it, I’ma rip the shirt off your back, or at least add you to a category of people that you don’t want to be in. But hey, we could avoid all that.

Cavelier is probably the best rapper I know, and the best rapper you don’t know. He’s in my favorite rap group The Dugout. He’s The Chief. A wildman. A poet. A genius, yet tastefully ignorant. And that’s what we need in the rap game, a good balance of intelligence and planned ignorance. I say planned cause my homeboy knows how to act according to the situation, but understands how to make a situation more worth paying attention to by toying with that line and contrasting the two. He uses them like opposite colors on the color wheel. tinci vinci test1 trali vali

He just dropped his album ‘The Breaking’ which I’m going to make available to you in a minute. It is a beautiful masterpiec eto mi ne test2 proxodili e. He put more thought into his intro than most people put into their whole albums.
I felt lucky to know such an amazing dude when I listened to it in my headphones, sprawled out on the F train, taking up a whole section of seats for myself, feeling like I was in the old New York City.

Okay I’m gonna mandate you to a 3 step program that will help you prevent lameness one day at a time:

Step 1- Download Cav’s song INK which you should already have because I put it up let’s summer, but let’s not dwell on the past.

Step 2- Check out this freestyle over some 60′s Indian s eto nam test3 ne zadavali hit. Cav wants you to have this. It’s freestyle number 18 of his weekly freestlyes that he gives away for free. He’s given a lot of free shit out.

Step 3- Do yourself a favor and buy his album. It’s only $5 (plus shipping). What’s five dollars these days? It hardly buys a cup of coffee.

This video is the illest video you never seen. I didn’t even find this till last year. They got skeezoids in it! This video was prolly not very costly to make, definitely nowhere near the flashy million dollar videos you see on Mtv or BET, but here I am 21 years after it’s born date writing about it. It just goes to show you that a little creativity goes a long way. I mean how many people are going to be checking out Fallout Boy or Lil Wayne videos 21 years from now? Exactly.

Ultra came out takin jabs at LL, Kool Mo Dee, and Slick Rick. I know, I know, we all love Slick Rick but, hey, he never came with no:
“Respect me when I whip ya brain, Skip ya Brain,and Dip ya brain in a lotion, while I deck ya skull, I’m like a bird when I’m peckin ya skull.”
-or no-
“Smackin germs, eatin bugs, bitin mouse, roaches wonder why I’m travelin’, on to Bellvue, cause I’m sick. Travelin’ hard at the speed of thought.”

That’s how I feel like comin’ out the gate sometimes at all these other dudes whether it be rap or these other brands. I feel like just shittin’ on these wick-wack cats sometimes, cause there’s too many of em, jackin’ eachother off, pattin’ eachother on the back at the trade shows on some Rainbow Bright shit, or whatever the ‘Newest, Latest’ is and what not. Dick Riders! Then there’s us. Fuck it. We the Ultramagnetic Mc’s of this shit. Scumlife Army from the planet SCUM have been called back to their homeworld to help defend the EARTH in an intergalactic battle against the WACK POSERs….