The Dude Who Wrote The Vocoder Book Has A New Blog
Posted on July 19, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Media, WTF | 1 Comment
His name is Dave Tompkins, and he’s just about the best damn music writer alive. He’s also Paul C’s biographer (if you don’t know – go to school). Check it out – especially if you’re tired of lame old rap blogs like this one.
Read a recent interview with Tompkins HERE
Check the How To Wreck A [...]
Conspiracy Worldwide Radio: If Ya Don’t Know, Now Ya Know
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Audio, Hip Hop, Interviews, Media | Leave a Comment
Sorry if you’ve known about this forever already, but I’ve been feeling this show so much that I would hate to think that anybody else is sleeping on it (as I was for a while). They crank tough didactic joints that get you thinking, and do some badass interviews as well. In fact, these are [...]
This Is How The NY Times Is Reviewing Hip-Hop These Days?
Posted on June 12, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Media | 1 Comment
I’m all for hip-hop infographics – this one in particular – but the above NY Times interpretation of the new Big Boi album is just ridiculous. I’m having a lot of trouble believing that their readers would understand this at all. As for those of us who do get it: like just about every other [...]
How To Fuck Up Chris Faraone’s Day
Posted on June 9, 2010 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Media, Photos | 5 Comments
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The Worst Article Ever Written About Rap Music (and a great example of why you should never believe anything you read on the internet)
Posted on May 27, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Media, WTF | 6 Comments
A Short History of Gangs and Rap Music
By Tauqeer Ul Hassan
It can be said that gangs and rap music are somehow related to each other because rap music is almost considered akin to gangs and prison. In fact the first rap track was released by a gang called the Sugerhill [...]
Guru’s Guru: How a mysterious Svengali dominated the final days of the Boston-born hip-hop and jazz superstar
Posted on May 19, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Arts, Boston, Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Media, Photos | 4 Comments
When the Roxbury-born rapper Guru passed away April 19 in a hospital bed — succumbing to cancer at the age of 48 — the internationally renowned musician had not seen most of his lifelong friends and relatives in seven years. What was particularly painful for those once in Guru’s inner circle [...]
Child Rapes Orange, Neighbors Aroused
Posted on May 4, 2010 by TheDance - Filed Under Media | 4 Comments
Sensational headlines are awesome in 2010!!!!!! Check out this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally the it was the Sword of Sodomy, not the Sword of the Spirit, but it was deemed too accurate.
Also check out this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA!!!!!!11!!1!!!!!
Disc Review: Ripshop | “The Authenticity”
Posted on April 28, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston, Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Media | Leave a Comment
Rip Shop should be one of the first names you mention when recalling Boston’s early-2000s underground rap renaissance. The Dorchester MC stood out from his contemporaries not just because of his trademark stop-and-go flow but because he bridged intellectual aspirations of the over-educated Western Front crowd with the rhetoric of [...]
GURU Tribute Round-Up (Obit Writers Just Out To Get A Rep?)
Posted on April 21, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston, Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Media | 8 Comments
As expected, GURU obits, tributes, and remembrances are turning up at a much faster pace than were, say, reviews of his last few albums. But it’s not just the knee-jerk nonsense that’s annoying here. It’s the fact that shitheads who either never did care or haven’t cared about GURU in years are writing irresponsible pieces [...]
In Case You Missed It Live…AZ and Cormega Re-Unite In Boston
Posted on April 5, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston, Hip Hop, Media, Video | Leave a Comment
Video courtesy of dem Leedz Edutainment cats…
The Boston Phoenix Tallies the 100 Unsexiest Men of the Year
Posted on April 1, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Media, WTF | 3 Comments
And as usual, there are plenty of shit rappers in the mix…
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Here for the whole list…
Anthony Jeselnik Makes Funny Jokes
Posted on March 18, 2010 by TheDance - Filed Under Media, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Keeping in the spirit of blogging about shit that concerns anything but hip hop music, I’d like to direct your attention to the video below, and the progenitor of its greatness, Anthony Jeselnik…
This guy demonstrates perfect amounts of irreverence, impertinence, and sarcasm to display that most exalted of comedic qualities, not giving a fuck. If [...]
Sam Adams in Today’s Boston Globe
Posted on March 16, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Media | 5 Comments
A few thoughts on today’s Globe article about Cambridge rap phenom Sam Adams…
1 – If the Globe had the story before me (which they clearly did, since the interview was conducted two days prior to my hearing about Sam Adams), why did they wait nearly two weeks to print and allow themselves to get scooped [...]
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