Random Rant vol. 18: MJJ, singles, 50!

I have to add my two cents about the greatest entertainer/musician of the 20th century (and most likely the present 21st century) to add to the millions of blogposts, video tributes, song tributes and celebrity speeches...i remember when i was about 5 or 6 years old sleeping in a long gray t-shirt (prolly like size medium) with the words "Beat It" and MJ posed in large print...i know i wore it everynight until i eventually grew out of it...its been 4 days since he passed and I still can't believe Mike died at the age of 50...

Though he did some freaky things (bleach his skin, change is nose 80 times, hangin kids off balconies) he still had this aura about him that was genius and excellence...think about it, when MJ released a single on the radio in the 80's and early 90's (this is when radio had good songs on the air) did you really not like it...No, you always liked the song he released even if it wasn't your favorite...on every album he released since his first solo album, Off the Wall, he released at least 4 singles...that fact alone is insane...

i was looking on amazon.com just to look at the song titles from each album to see what was released as singles...if you look at the Thriller album, he released i think 7 singles from the 9 track album...that is ridiculous!!! (now you can barely get an artist to drop 2 good singles from a 17 track album) that's probably why its the highest selling album of all time...i also discovered that in the 80's when it released 10% of the American public owned the album...there will NEVER i mean never be another artist to sell albums and have an impact on the music industry like that...

i can go on and on about his album sales but i'll save you the trouble of reading stats...i'll end it by sayin, i moonwalked on wood floors with church socks on cuz of Mike and tried to lean forward like the Smooth Criminal cuz of Mike...all of his videos are legendary but Smooth Criminal was that joint (goes and downloads Moonwalker dvd or vhs from the 'net)...he will be missed and i still can't believe he died so soon like i couldn't believe Biggie died in '97...i guess all the greats die early (Bernie Mac, 2Pac, Big L, Big Pun, Jimi Hendrix, Jam Master Jay, Marvin Gaye, Pimp C [i know Pimp C is a stretch but he and Bun B were/are southern rap before it became nationally known])...

damn even Billy Mays died at the age of 50 (the OxiClean and infomercial guy)...what's really goin on

holla,

(4o)ur

Innovations: 32 GB SD card

i remember when SD cards were retailing for 40 plus dollars and they only had like 128 MB to 512 MB of space... btw stores like CVS and Rite-Aid should be fined by the government for still selling SD cards (1GB or 2GB) for 80 DOLLARS...who in the world would buy that when you can go to wal-mart and get it for a fraction of that price or go to eBay and get it for 10 to 15 dollars...

anyway there's a SD card made for HD cameras and the macbook that has a crazy 32 GB of space...it amazes me how much info can be stored on small storage devices (an iPod classic has a minimal storage space of 120 GB, i need to upgrade cuz i still got the 30 GB 'Pod)...

holla,
(4o)ur

Muthaf*&$#!!! - i'm hatin

J. Foxx kissed Halle Berry on the Spike TV 2009 Awards show...it airs June 21st and to be clear i'm no hater but i'm hatin on Foxx for his grope and tongue of the timeless beauty ...fuck you Jamie, damn u!!! (btw i think J. Foxx has got to be the most talented all around artist of my generation. Crazy funny, superb actor and has a genuine, authentic singing voice.)

holla,

(4o)ur

Random Rant vol. 17 - A death creates life

First off let me start this rant off by saying THANK YOU Jay cuz somebody finally had the cojones to say stop all this autotune music making...This song by Jay-Z stated everything i thought was f'd up about the hip hop game right now...from dudes wearing slim fitting, nut sack huggin, form fitting jeans to rappers tryin to sing like T-Pain throughout the entire song to dudes just not actin like dudes no more...

When my brother told me about the song 2 weeks ago on a Saturday, i downloaded and seriously listened to the track 25 times in a week...everything about the track was ill, from the production by NO I.D. to Jay's precise and direct lyrics about what's fucked up about the game right now...hopefully since the God MC said that its the death of autotune it will truly be the death of autotune...Jay has this crazy effect on the hip hop culture where if he says somethin then the game changes....i.e. in '04 when he started to rock button downs instead of throwbacks then the jerseys went out of style...or "when he was drinkin Cristal when all yall bitches thought it was beer and shit" (line from 'Imaginary Players' on the In My Lifetime vol. 1 album circa '97) people then started to drink Cristal...or when he started to use the word 'swag' everybody started using the term and putting into their style (btw that term is so overused i officially stopped sayin it. Somebody should just kill that word, damn!)

The jiggaman is not the only artist speakin out against the "Moist Movement" (word to Tariq Nasheed- check out http://macklessonsradio.com/index/episode-192-the-anti-moist-movement to see what i'm talkin bout) ...my other fav artists the LOX (Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss for those not in the know) have been rappin about autotune and ringtone rappers & feminine dressin dudes for a minute, especially Styles P...for example of artists that support A.A.M.M. (Artists Against Moist Music) listen to L.E.G.A.C.Y.'s track called T.K.O. -http://www.zshare.net/audio/61148745b5c56e24/ ...listen to Sean Price's verse at the end especially...





Just to stress the point, I just don't even understand how dudes can rock "nut hugger" pants(shout out to Duane Martin in the flick Above the Rim)...how the fuck do they even piss in public without pullin their pants all the way to their knees like a 2 year old lad...as my brother says, these dudes wear too many colors and he said that 2 years ago before it got out of hand and super popular...i gotta agree and stress the point with "You niggas' jeans too tight/You colors too bright, your voice too light/I might wear black for a year straight..." - Jay-Z -D.O.A.

R.I.P. autotune for rappers (only Roger Troutman [RIP] and T-Pain should use it)...i don't like Ron Browz usin it (prolly the only way he could get his voice on a track), didn't like Kanye doin the entire album usin it (would have been a ill album if he rapped more cuz the beats are ill), Lil Wayne distorts is voice so much that i can't understand what the fuck he's sayin (like what is he sayin in the T-Pain cut "Can't Believe it", seriously one part of his verse it sounds like a robot's voice being slowed down on a old record player)...


and I don't understand why artists who can sing use autotune like R. Kelly...you are a legendary artist, stop following trends and create dope trends like you used to (can we please get another TP-2.com or Chocolate Factory like album. No more following whats trendy Kells, no more)...thanx and good nite

holla,
(4o)ur

Stuff of hilarity: Diddy's twin

This is scary how Diddy's son lookes exactly like him...i can't believe how similar they look...its like Puff created a mini-me... i wonder if lil diddy can do the puffy dance his Pop's used to do in his 90's music hey day...

btw i haven't posted a rant in a while but its comin cuz i gotta talk about the God MC's newest song and how it relates to the current state of hip hop and how i feel about it...

holla,

(4o)ur

Spreadin the real: Torae on illdoctrine

i haven't posted somethin in a while after that Rihanna rant but here's a vid from illdoctrine's blog...its Torae (underground rapper that's ill) on J Smooth's radio show...he spits some ill bars...check it




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(4o)ur