• CHECK THIS OUT

  • Stumble It!

    Add to Technorati Favorites
    Send me your track
    Art Blog Directory
  • RSS NFC FEED



  • The Hype Machine
  • Tags

  • Hip Hop

    I WILL FOREVER REMAIN FAITHFUL BY DAVID RAMSEY: How Lil Wayne helped me survive my first year teaching in New Orleans. (stolen from Oxford American)

    Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

    1.
    Complex magazine: What do you listen to these days?
    Lil Wayne: Me! All day, all me.
    2. Like a white person, with blue veins
    In my first few weeks teaching in New Orleans’ Recovery School District, these were the questions I heard the most from my students:
    1) “I gotta use it.” (This one might sound like a statement, [...]

    Unknown Pleasures: X-Clan

    Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

    Millitant? Yes. Afrocentric? Well, lets just say that Brooklyn’s X-Clan made Chuck D look like Ned Flanders. “Yes, it gets blacker.”

    So you’re asking yourself, wow did a super-whitegirl from Kentucky get locked into a very heavy X-Clan thing? Only one explanation: Yo MTV Raps! No I didn’t have the map of Africa shaved into my [...]