December 2006 Archives

So this is the last Random S#!t of 2006... It’s been an amazing year for me, and hopefully everybody out there had a good one as well. And although I wasn’t really feeling it the first couple of weeks, I’ve actually enjoyed doing this blog - a few of you even had something intelligent to contribute every now and then.

I’m gonna use this chance to close things up for ‘06.

So my pick for the West Coast Video of the Year was a late bloomer; there weren’t a whole lot of videos that really put up any competition, but when this one showed up, it became pretty clear that the race was over.

First of all, big shouts to all you salty-ass haters out there who dropped in yesterday to tell me that the list of my favorite top ten albums of 2006 was “wack,” “sucked,” etc. But, uhh... I’m gonna go ahead and take your opinions with a grain of salt- especially if you had Fat Joe and/or Lloyd Banks’ albums in your top ten.

But here’s another chance for you to do some more hatin’. Commmmme git serrrrrrrved...

I have to say it one last time before the year is through... RIP J DILLA.

Hopefully everyone had a good holiday weekend, and hopefully all of you got whatever it was you wanted and got to spend some quality time with the fam-a-lam. Since we have one short-ass week left in 2006, we got some quick biz-nass to take care of to wrap up this year.

Alright folks, I’m off to go celebrate another bi-racial Christmas in the Bay area.

...you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.

Since the comments section of the blog is down, I’m going to save the rest of the What Ever Happened To The Four Elements feature for a time when things are working correctly and the topics can be disussed, dismissed, dissed, etc.

Instead, here’s this week’s installment of “such and such rapper got arrested for blah blah blah...”

Revok AWR/MSK

Due to some technical difficulties, the blog I posted yesterday didn’t show up until late in the afternoon, and it was a bit hard to get to. I’m reposting it today with some new additions.

I’m going to wrap this all up at the end of the week and at that point you’ll see where I’m going with it (although the title of the blog should be pretty sufficient as far as hints go), but for now, we’re going to take this step by step.

There wasn’t really any kind of news this week as far as West Coast Hip Hop goes. Maybe that’s a sign that artists out here need to start making some power moves...

So yesterday some guy was so hung up on what The Game has to say that he got all excited about an interview that Game did with allhiphop.com, and came on SOHH Left Coast babbling about how I should be writing about that. I just finished reading the interview, and at this point, I’m going to have to ask what all the fuss is about...

(Records on K Street, RIP... and PLEASE tell me everyone knows where this photo is from)

Wasn’t really shit that dropped yesterday as far as new West Coast releases, save for a new one from Andre Nickatina, aka Dre Dog (I’ll burn it). But I did search through the used section at the record store, and I managed to dig up some heaters...

Just to put out the warning, these aren’t all West Coast albums- in fact, only one of them is.

So besides the letter from Boots Riley, there was another letter that showed up in my email on Friday. Tis’ the season...

Can’t believe I’m saying this again already, but it’s Monday. Hopefully everyone had a good weekend and didn’t go fucking up awards shows or anything...

I made the mistake of renting Miami Vice this weekend, and it was a serious fucking waste of two hours of my life; I know this doesn’t relate to hip hop or anything, but I figure if I can put the word out and save a few of you from making the same mistake I did, then why not do so?

Today we’re gonna end the week the same way we came into it: with some classic west coast video business. But today I’m gonna hit you off with two for the price of .. um...none.

We’re gonna start off with one for all my L.A. heads...

As some of you might already know, this past Saturday, members of Bay Area political hip hop outfit The Coup were involved in a fiery bus crash in the early morning. Luckily, both Boots Riley and Pam The Funkstress -- as well as their touring partner Mr.Lif -- made it out relatively unscathed, despite losing equipment, cash, laptops and clothing.

When SOHH posted an article on Tuesday covering the bus crash, someone reponded with a comment saying,”Who is this garbage? Cmon let’s report on some real artists not some crappy a$$ no names,” and it immediately got me to thinking: how the fuck is it that this guy’s never heard of The Coup or Mr. Lif? That led me to thinking about something else -- has underground hip hop completely lost its footing in today’’s market?

I apologize if the blog is a little scatterbrained today, but cold season is officially in full motherfuckin’ effect, and I feel like death. I’m gonna take some meds, get some rest, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back in top form so I can argue with you all intermittently throughout the day.

For all of those who complain about how Tipper Gore and Oprah have tried to hold hip hop back, this weekend proved that we as hip hop fans are doing a pretty good job of doing that by ourselves.

There's not too many people on the planet who love Mondays, so hopefully this will help you through the day a little bit. Gotta love pagers and Cross Colours outfits...

So my friend Danny told me a pretty interesting story while he was visiting Sacramento the other day. Danny works at Freshjive, a clothing company out of L.A., and he told me that Lil’ Eazy E's lawyer sent them a cease and desist order (which is a pretty common occurrence in the clothing biz) regarding a new shirt design with an image of Eazy E and “Freshjive” in the same font as the Ruthless logo. What makes this interesting is that Lil Eazy was wearing said shirt at the BET Hip Hop Awards a couple days prior. Gotta love those Cali lawsuits...