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Wordsworth Interview w/ Culture IV

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 04:32 AM PST

www.CultureVI.com

Ill Chemistry Live

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 04:32 AM PST

Ill Chemistry is Desdamona & Carnage.

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Scarface - High Notes (video)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 03:03 AM PST

This vid is porn. You lose if you try to watch it at work or around your kids or in your moms basement when she comes downstairs to do your laundry.

Biggie Smalls & Son Duet

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 04:33 AM PST

This. Does. Not. Work.

audio stolen from eskay & them

Chuck D Doesn't Like Rick Ross

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 02:59 AM PST

via his myspace blog:

I have never really had a songwriters block, but that doesn't cover the fact that writing a so called blog that is called a 'terrordome' is block-proof. Having completed PEs 62nd Tour that I simply call PETOUR62 has really brought home some significance of what we do. Upon playing 4 dates in the Netherlands , a few of us were catching the hour long ride northeast to Utrecht and was barraged by the 25 year old or so driver of Dutch-Suraminese decent blasting a Rick Ross mix CD. In the past I would be more democratic , but in this coming toward the 30th year next year in rap recordings I had to speak what was on my mind in the car. While I couldn't really call Mr Ross's music 'garbage'... I just knew it was a long way from Diana Ross. The beats were expected, but I couldn't really separate it from the level of a sixth grader, in beat and rhyming style. The topics though were toxic. That too was expected, and over the top. Something that DEF JAM and Universal stands proudly behind. For this I fell into the gap. Generational yes. But also fundamental, quality, and standard gap as well. Rick Ross clearly looks older than my father, so is it just a generational gap thing or is RR the virtual ice cream truck man to trick daddy the kids?

While I wouldn't waste my T-Dome time making it a Rick Ross bashfest .....I had questions. I had to look at the game real close and ask who Rick Ross was talking to? Was it JR High and High school black kids? Was it white folks across america hearing about the hustlin? Was it the hustlers themselves , music for the pimps, the pushers, the element on the edge of criminality? This Rick Ross is not the same Freeway Ricky Ross who was responsible for setting the drug-game in the west , with some big federal help from some government friends. That Rick Ross is paying a price that many think is a 'game'. This one raps about it for a price. Everybody talks about the truth, but I never heard any truth about this Rick Ross , and when folks learned he used to be a corrections officer some thought it was funny, others thought it was blasphemy. Bottom line I was disturbed because half way around the world this young driver really couldn't explain why he liked it. I told him next time he made a CD for a long drive to make a more diverse one at least. The gap swallowed me on that one.