Rocky Rivera kills it with the perfect mix of classic 50s tunes with hip-hop. I’m also pretty sure Thos has a crush on Rocky.
Contains the lyrics:
You're gonna see the reason why, when they're spitting in your eye 'cause they're spitting in your eye
According to my Facebook stream the “paleo diet” is the latest trend of shortcuts people are taking towards healthy eating. The concept is you eat like people did during the Paleolithic Era. This is all fine and dandy but I have issues with it. The first being that I have to constantly hear about it. The second is that while you are eating like our evolutionary ancestors you aren’t gathering your food in the same way. Were you to say, spend a whole day hunting a deer and then killing it an preparing it with stone tools you’d be much more authentic.
Additionally I watched this video produced by the BBC and featuring a scientist from my alma mata that explores how our diet may have helped us evolve to have larger brains. (The video is an hour but totally worth it)
Before Flavor Flav was a staple of reality tv, he was the hype man for Public Enemy. With Chuck D dropping a ton of knowledge in his lyrics, “Fight the Power” will always be my anti-authority song.
Warning contains the lyrics:
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me
and
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
The First Time Always Disappoints
I remember my first skateboard, a Nash Executioner. I think I got it for my 9th birthday and I spent the entire summer trying to ollie and grind on my front steps. It was a newbie deck, with a nose guard, tail guard, rail guards and I think even truck guards. This skateboard, purchased most likely at Target, wasn’t giving me any street cred with my friends who had been skating for years. I eventually bought a hand me down Lance Mountain deck. Like most things better equipment didn’t make up for a lack of skill but that didn’t mean I didn’t stop trying. I skated in college with Thos, who’s skills kill mine.
Comin' Down the Mountain
Skating with Thos I have a few distinct memories. The guy in a wheelchair in Madison who looked like Easy-E and would go at the launch ramp like he had nothing left to lose. Thos doing Rock’n’Rolls to nollies on Library Mall. Me busting my ass trying to skate switch. Seeing live for the first time someone grinding down a hand rail. Explaining to young kids skating that they needed to watch “The Search for Animal Chin” to know their roots. Lastly getting the best compliment of my skating career, “He looks like he knows what he’s doing he just can’t land shit.”
Most importantly skateboarding introduced me to question the status quo, that signs
Negating oneself.
are only there to prevent you from your potential, to push not only your own boundaries but to push the boundaries others have set for you.
Having said all that I challenge you to watch this video and not respect the grace and elegance of skateboarding.
This week’s song comes from the combo of RJD2 and Blueprint better known as Soul Position. “Keep it Hot for Daddy” describes what you look for in the woman you’d want to make wifey.
Warning contains the lyrics:
You know what I want. I want a good woman
I want a good lover. I want some good lovin'
Even on the humble, she still make me want her
Keep it hot for daddy, even if it ain't summer
As a bonus also check out “Hand Me Downs”
Well, two of the biggest “independent” rappers this week are so big they are both in the Sunday ads for Best Buy and Target. Haha. There’s also the ultimate hit or miss Kool Keith. I just don’t know. This goes for the new Oh No as well, he was given free reign of Dolemite samples but not sure if that’s for better or worse…It’ll also be good to hear how the japanese/brazilian producer Curumin has evolved since his last release.
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