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I'm Just Saying: Second

Daft punk probably wrote every house song you never knew you liked...

I'm just saying.

I'm Just Saying: First

Welcome to the "I'm Just Sayin'" series. Nothing too major...I'm just saying. 

The topic is usually music, and usually hip hop at that. But it could vary. I'm just saying.

Here we go:

Cool & Dre make everything sound triumphant...

I'm just sayin.

Paul Wall: "I Got the Internet Goin' Nuts!"

This video is the dopest thing I've seen all week. And given the amount of tubes there are out there on the Internets, that's saying a lot ;-p



The only thing I would add at the section at the end when you're listing everything we have to rethink is "work" or "labor" or something along those lines. I think commerce doesn't quite encapsulate the changing nature of what we think of as labor/work/employment/work-life balance/work habits etc.

I noticed this b/c I watched this video @ work =)

Wow, you're so "Articulate"

Dope ass article from the NYT on why Black people get mad when they're described as "articulate." My favorite quote from the article:

"The word perfectly conveys, to quote George Bush, the soft bigotry of low expectations. It literally comes down to that. When people say it, what they are really saying is that someone is articulate ... for a black person."

Check it out HERE

why

Why is it that when people say some racist shit, afterwords when it gets public and they have to defend themselves, they always feel the need to point out how many Black people, or Indian people, or Asian people they actually know and are friends with. "I'm not racist, my best friend is Black!" "I'm not racist, my third-cousin married a coon!" "I'm not racist, I stand next to chinks every day on the bus!"

As if knowing someone non-white immediately negates the fact that they let some offensive shit come out of their mouths in public.

Disclaimer: it's not only white people that do this. This Asian chick I know pulled it on me too, talking about the racist commercial she sent to me was sent to her by her Black "best friend." Probably wasn't her best friend. And people of color are racist too, so the fact that someone Black sent her some racist shit doesn't mean it's okay to pass it on.

I thought that maybe this was a reaction held by all people, regardless of color. Maybe everyone is inclined to just think of the first person in their vicinity who can help absolve them of their offense, to use their MySpace and LinkedIn friends as a thin shield against the cruel PR bombs. But, no. That brotha off of Grey's Anatomy who called his co-worker a fag didn't turn around the next day talking about his sister is a homo, or that he had a gay college roommate, or that he marched in the Gay Rights parade last month. Instead, he checked into Rehab. Yup, smart move homie. Pretend to be a crackhead...and all your PR problems associated with being a racist/sexist/homophobic biggot are gone...

Take note.

Isaiah Washington, smartest TV Star ever
Big Brother Jo denying she's a biggot

I'll spare you another Kramer link. We all know what that fool tried to say...

Update 4/07: Imus pulled the shit too!!

"He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a cattle farm for children with cancer and blood disorders in Ribera, New Mexico. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he added."
Imus shalking tit

It's Been a Long Time

I have a new continent to visit...the sub continent to be precise =) I'm going to India in Dec/Jan ya'll! Holla =) More details to come...

ANTM Recap

From televisionwithoutpity.com:
"Final episode madness! Jade, Joanie, and Danielle each get a different script for the penultimate Cover Girl commercial challenge, and have varying success memorizing their mascara-loving lines. Joanie nails it pretty quickly, Danielle continues to have problems with her southern accent, and Jade is a straight fool, per usual. The girls also shoot Cover Girl print ads, all of which look pretty gorgeous. Joanie breezes through to the final two, while Danielle's accent and Jade's attitude land them on the brink of elimination. In the end, Jade is finally sent home, and that howling wind you heard outside of your window was millions of people simultaneously breathing a sigh of relief. Or, breathily laughing at the outfit that Tyra wore at Panel. Seriously, you guys. Jade continues to be Jade right to the end, as she snaps her way back to what, for the love of God, I hope can only be classified as obscurity. Joanie and Danielle -- who might be my favorite pair of finalists ever -- go head to head in the final challenge, which involves walking on a pretty amazing, if relentlessly long, runway. When they go before Panel again, Danielle looks perfectly gorgeous and Joanie looks like she bought a replica of Cher's "Half-Breed" costume on Ebay, which was my first clue that Danielle really might have it in the bag. She does, she wins, and she is so sweet about it that I actually got a tiny tear in my eye. Joanie takes her runner-up status with total grace and class, Danielle promises to get a voice coach, and with that, another season comes to an end, bitches. "

Hilarious. Jade is a fool, almost wish she had one just for the hell of it =)

East Coast or West Coast rap?

From the Tivo Ambassador: (My sentiments exactly)

East Coast or West Coast rap?
West Coast. In fact, I have requested that "Regulate" by Warren G featuring Nate Dogg be played at my funeral. By a harpist.