This Christmas

J.MOORE'S Super Soulful Christmas.

Even my Jewish friends like this mix of classic soul Christmas songs. This compilation is I-Pod ready or you can burn it to CD. If you are tired of rocking around the Christmas tree, you need this in your life.

Heavy D 1967-2011

Dwight Errington Myers a.k.a Heavy D passed away earlier today at age 44. I remember being sad when I heard about Pac, Biggie, and Jam Master J dying, but there is something about hearing about Heavy D passing away that is like a punch to the stomach. Maybe it was all of the positive things he said on twitter, or maybe it was that I have never heard one bad thing about him from anybody in the industry. For all the shit I feel like BET gets wrong, it made me so happy that he got the people off of their feet like it was the early 90's again during their last Hip-Hop awards show. Below is a re post of a blog I wrote last September, I tried to give him his roses while he could smell them.

VH-1 does a Hip-Hop Honors show which gets worse and worse each year. I remember telling someone a couple of years ago, if they ever get around to honoring Master P they should just shut the show down, and what did they do this year? They honored Master P!

One person who should have got his due way before Master P was Heavy D. In a 10 year span (87 to 97) he released 6 albums 3 gold, and 3 platinum. He collaborated with Michael and Janet Jackson. He had a hand in putting on Pete Rock & CL Smooth & The Notorious BIG. As a performer he danced at a time when other rappers were too hardcore to dance and have a good time and he did it without ever being corny. Considering he was a big man, his breath control on the mic was incredible. He never had to rap over a backing track like so many of today's rappers who barely move when they are on stage. Heavy D also made the transition from artist to label head more than a decade before Jay-Z, taking over Uptown Records after Andre Harell left in 1996. During this time he put out hit records by Soul For Real & Monifa.

The thing is everything I mentioned just pertained to music, Heavy also did his thing on the big screen, small screen and on the stage as an actor. Unlike Master P, Heavy D never did never did anything desperate to remain relevant, his music is still good today, and most importantly he never did anything to embarrass his people. The ill thing is they will probably wind up honoring the guy who invented spinning rims or Lil' Bow Wow before anyone give Heavy D his due.

This Is Not Shôtarô Kaneda!

When I heard that Hollywood would be making a live action movie of the classic manga & anime Akira, I thought "wow, how are they going to fuck this up?" Well, I got my answer. In typical Hollywood fashion they are casting a film based on a story surrounding a group of Japanese teenagers with a bunch of white people in their late 20's and 30's. The fact that Justin Timberlake was even being considered for the role is weird and disheartening. He was probably going to cost too much money, so the role is apparently going to the guy who played Sam Flynn in Tron Legacy. I was going to use his picture but I don't really care to look up his name again and a picture of Justin Timberlake is probably much better for web traffic. Anyway, they should just make the movie and call it something else because calling it Akira with no Asian lead actors is insulting to the fans of the source material and to people's intelligence.

Now This Is Funny

Hey both of you who read this blog, I have been busy doing actual work at my place of employment so I have not had the proper amount of time to space out and write about things no one really cares about. Well, that busy time is over and I am back on my bullshit.

Epic Photo Of The Week

I don't care what song Freddie Mercury was singing in this picture but it probably seemed like the most incredible shit ever to anyone who was at this concert. I need this on a t-shirt.

Deal With It!

This will always be funny to me. White Santa Claus is not for that bullshit!

10 Random Songs Wednesday

Doowhop by Blu feat. Planet Asia & Killa Ben The rest of the Jesus LP is pretty hit and miss but this track is one of the best Hip-Hop songs of 2011. It was produced by the Alchemist.

Steppin' To The A.M. by 3rd Bass I used to have the Cactus Album on tape and this song stayed in heavy rotation, well at least it did in my room when I was 12. These guys were nothing like the Beastie Boys which were at the time the only other white act in Hip-Hop.

Lose Your Way by Nicolay feat. Carlita Durand This song is what being happily single on a Friday night at the start of summer sounds like. Carlita Durand has such a pretty voice.

Popcorn Love by New Edition Some songs just make you happy when you hear them. For me this is one of those songs.

Dare by Stan Bush This is the other Stan Bush song on the Transformers The Movie Soundtrack. It is so fantastically cheesy that if you are driving when it comes on you might start speeding.

Glaciers Of Ice by Raekwon, Ghostface Killa & Masta Killa I heard this song on St. Louis' underground Hip-Hop show on KDHX and went to Chestefield Mall the next day and bought the cassette single. Nobody was touching the RZA at this time. Masta Killa's verse was and is still my favorite on the song.

Get Up by Amel Larriex When I worked in commercial radio, I loved it when songs like this made it into rotation. The second single she put out from the Infinite Possibilities album was a remix to "Sweet Misery" which also made rotation. Neither of these songs were big hits but at least the station where I was working gave them a shot.

Best I Ever Had by Drake There was a time when Drake was somebody people rooted for. That was a long time ago. This is still a great song and the video which featured all of those light skinned girls with big titties was pretty fantastic.

Other Side Of The Game by Erykah Badu This is one of those songs that will never get old because the groove is undeniable. That said, it is a song about a woman who is in love with a fool who would rather sell dope to support his growing family because it is easier than getting up everyday and going to a legit job.

Your Hands by Marsha Ambrosius If I was still making slow jam tapes like I did back in the day, this song along with so many others off of Late Nights & Early Mornings would be on there. I hope we don't have to wait to long before we get another album from her.

Meet Rep. John Fleming (R-La)

"By the time I feed my family, I maybe have $400,000 left over" This is his explanation on why as a “small business owner” he can’t afford a tax increase. He was not making a joke, he was dead serious. Even Latrell Sprewell thinks this guy is out of touch.

Who Greenlights This Foolishness?

Between Gucci Mane and Master P, I hope this movie will have English subtitles so the average person will be able to understand what is going on. The constant flow of movies like this is why I can't bring myself to be angry at Tyler Perry movies.

How Is This Still Cool?

I just want you to look at the picture above for a moment. Pretty messed up, right? I thought the same thing while knocking back a Fat Tire at a restaurant while watching baseball highlights a couple of weeks ago when this image came up on the screen.

For those of you who do not follow professional baseball this is the logo for the Cleveland Indians. This is not an old logo from the 30's and 40's but the one that adorns almost all of their official paraphernalia today in 2011. It's bad enough that the majority of the people who would be offended by this have been killed off but to continually mock them with this logo is just cruel and insensitive. I know someone reading this may think I am being too sensitive and that this is not a big deal, but what if there was a logo like this representing your nationality of ethnic group? Replacing the feather with a sombrero and putting a joint in between those over sized teeth would surely upset some of my Hispanic friends, I am pretty sure throwing a Yamaka on this logo with some side locks would be a tad unsettling to my Jewish brothers & sisters, and I would be on the phone with the quickness to Al Sharpton if a Major League Baseball team changed it's logo to Lil' Wayne's face.

If Mississippi State a.k.a. Ole' Miss can change their logo from a confederate soldier to a rebel black bear and stop singing "the south will rise again" when the football team scores a touchdown, I think The Cleveland Indians organization should sack up and seriously consider changing this.

Watch The Throne

I was going to write a review of Jay-Z & Kanye West's Watch The Throne album that everybody is talking about/hating on, until I realized that there is no point. I stumbled on this picture in my collection of cool images I have stolen off of the Internet over the years and I think watch the throne in a perfect caption for this photo.

Elzhi

It's one thing to remake a classic Hip-Hop song but to remake what many fans consider to be one of the best Hip-Hop albums of all time is a task I didn't think anyone could or for that matter should try to pull off. That said, you probably can't tell someone who worked with the great J. Dilla about what can't be done. Former Slum Village member Elzhi's Elmatic is a fantastic tribute to Nas' Illmatic but it also stands on it's own as a great album.

When I saw that he was going on a small US tour with a live band that would be kicking off in Indianapolis, August 19th at The Jazz Kitchen, I got a ticket immediately. If you have not heard this album yet it can be downloaded for free at Elzhi's Official Site, and there is a limited edition double LP version pressed up on vinyl that is available at Fatbeats.

Common & Nas

Common is in my top 5 and I really needed him to put something like this out to make me forget about his last album.

Dickmotized!!!

I watched this at least 5 times in a row just to hear her say dickmotized.

This Is How You Promote An Album!

If you didn't know, Stevie Wonder had the streets on lock in the 4th quarter of 76' and for most of 1977. If you have never heard this album, get your life in order and seek it out.

Men Lie, Women Lie..

.., numbers don't! Something many of you would probably never guess about me is that is that I am a fiscal conservative. That reason alone is why I have never voted for a Republican presidential candidate. Happy Birthday President Obama.

Big Meech

Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory will be in federal prison until 2038 and will be 70 years old when he gets out. If you know a kid who sings along to Rick Ross' "BMF", remind them of this and then go tell them to read a book.

Only Wilt Could Pull This Off

This is a really gay outfit Wilt Chamberlin has on. Now, I don't mean gay like you hear it being used on a basketball court or through your headphones when you are playing COD: Black Ops over Xbox Live but gay like if I saw a dude dressed like this in downtown Indianapolis, It would be a pretty good bet that they are looking for a meaningful romantic relationship with another man. With all that said, if you are reading this there is a good chance Wilt had sex with your aunt and like a true player never called her again.

What An Effen' Deal!

An Atari game that was also a 8-Track tape of Foghat Live!?!? Tape Barn's promotions department was not fooling around. As cool as this is, the father in this ad is entirely to excited about his purchase.

Kreayshawn

Someone asked me recently what I thought about Kreayshawn and her White Girl Mob movement. Well, I feel like the overall vibe is pretty lame but like most people her age there is a pretty good chance she was raised on lame Hip-Hop. Now, I am not going to lie I am mildly entertained by this song, especially the line "bitch you ain't no Barbie, I seen you work at Arby's." That part actually makes me laugh out loud. I could go on and on, but the below quote pretty much sums up how I feel about this so called movement.

"Everybody wants to be a nigga, but nobody wants to be a nigga" -Paul Mooney

So I Creep

Much love goes out to all of my international readers from The United Kingdom, Turkey, France, India, Germany and all points in between. By looking at my blog stats, most of you were researching fake ass polo shirts and it lead you here. Since my worldwide profile is on the rise I decided to post a creepy picture of myself and two pretty girls.

Corn Bread

Ain't nothing wrong with that! -Chris Rock

For Parents With Goofy Ass Children

I don't care how together you think you are now, you were extremely goofy when you were 9 years old to.

I Dig This Picture For So Many Reasons

Oscar has a look on his face like Michael just told him about some of the wild shit that used to go down in Gary, Indiana.

10 Random Songs Wednesday

NE Heartbreak by New Edition The album version of this song is cool, but the version that everyone remembers is the one that they used in the video that was only put out on vinyl. When you go back and listen to this song, you can hear that Bell Biv DeVoe basically took the vibe from this remix, ran with it and made their first album Poison. LL Cool J ghost wrote Michael Bivins' rap verse. I know this because I have the this hard to find 12 inch in my personal collection.

Get The Fuck Out My House by The 2 Live Crew This is actually a really funny record off of As Nasty As They Wanna Be where Luke tells a woman she isn't shit for 5 solid minutes over a Hip-House beat. As much as this song makes me laugh I am glad Hip-House is just a footnote in music history. I listened to the whole album recently and it is amazing that this is what people were trying to ban as obscene in 1990. Some of the songs on this record are almost PG-13 compared to some of the music that is out now.

Gravity by Da Bush Babies This is one of those east coast groups that I feel got lost in the shuffle during the jiggy era. Gravity is a great album which featured a very un famous at the time Mos Def on a couple of songs.

Big Timer by Fiend I hated No Limit when it was popular. I am proud to say Master P did not get one dime out of me when he was dumping all of those garbage albums in record stores in the late 90's. That said, I would hear a song No Limit song every once and a while that did not make me want to punch the first person I saw with gold teeth. This was one of them.

Beat The Clock by Ghostface Killa No one else could do this song, or most Ghostface Killa songs for that matter. The Pretty Tony Album was so dope.

Bring It On by N'Dea Davenport I'm the only person I know who bought her solo album. If the name seems familiar she is also the lead singer for The Brand New Heavies. There is also a DJ Premier remix of this track.

It's Trick by Run D.M.C. As much as I like Run D.M.C., I HATE this record. It is one of those corny songs that white people who don't know anything about Hip-Hop get excited about whenever they hear it. I know that sounded racist, but I go out a lot and have seen this first hand too many times to count.

December 4th by Jay-Z The Black Album still sounds as fresh today as when it came out. I know a lot of people who like to argue about it being a classic or not. In my opinion it is. This song which features Jay-Z's mom is liked by even the biggest of Nas apologists.

Royalty by Gang Starr feat. K.C. & JoJo On paper this looked like a terrible collaboration. K.C. & JoJo were fresh off of pop star success with "All My Life" and we had not heard from Gang Starr in about 4 years, but it worked. I listened to this album front to back about a month ago and it is a problem that no one ever brings up Moment Of Truth when classic albums are discussed.

Let It Go by Little Brother feat. Mos Def This was off of the Seperate But Equal Mixtape that they did with DJ Drama. Luckily there was a a Drama free edition of this mixtape that you could listen to like a regular album without all of the yelling and gunshot. As much as I love the work Phonte is doing with Foreign Exchange, I would love another album with all 3 members of Little Brother working together again.