Hip-Hop Blog Round-up for October 21st, 2006
-A new Ghostface album, More Fish, might be arriving sooner than expected. Eskay of Nah'Right.com. isn't buying it.
-YouTube banned NYOIL's "Y'all Should All Get Lynched" video, but thanks to Unkut.com and Ohword.com, you can still watch the controversial video. The video calls out "fake thug-rappers" in a harsh manner.
-Jay-Z boycotts Cristal only to embrace Armand de Brignac. Clyde Smith of Prophiphop.com raises some interesting questions about this partnership.
-Press Play has only been in stores for four days, but Rodney Dugue tells us why he thinks Diddy's latest will fly off the shelves.-Jay Smooth of hiphopmusic.com hopes Jay-Z will balance Madonna's adoption of an African baby by adopting a white South African baby himself.
-Isiah Carey points out that Houston rapper Z-Ro is back in jail for an undisclosed offense.
-In case you haven't seen it by now, head on over to BBC 1Xtra to watch the making of Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got," starring producer Just Blaze.
Comments
NYOIL’s video speaks to the mature hip hop crowd; the problem is there are kids who want the cheese hop. Just ask any middle school DJ.Fact is the phenomenon goes further than hip hop. Commercialism is taking over all facets of the music industry. The most comprehensive work to date on this subject:
Before The Music Dies, a documentary by Andrew Shapter.
http://beforethemusicdies.com
Word to Chuck D. and the S1W’s
-Jay Smooth of hiphopmusic.com hopes Jay-Z will balance Madonna’s adoption of an African baby by adopting a white South African baby himself.
About damn time these downtrotten white south africans were taken care of by the international community
I just saw the NYOIL video and all I have to say is AMEN! I was feeling the video until the clips of the girls came on the video. I felt it was displayed to much in the video and the cumshot on the girls face was too far, but the message was truth and needed to be told.
^Your comment = way more explicit than the video. j/k.
Yo Henry, do u have a Xbox360. If u do what’s your gamertag.
Nah, I don’t mess with 360. I’m PS2 all the way.
Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from town and disappear into desolate ‘hoods and encounter the civilization of menace. Pittsburgh, a dual city! The glass wonder of PPG Place and/or the G-20 Summit is a faded memory. Here in the ‘hood lives lie abandoned as far as the eye can see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEukcWW5dM0
That is: For the most part, African-American Pittsburgh seems to be invisible, not only to the public relations hucksters who tout Pittsburgh’s successes, but we are equally invisible to the protesters.
Certainly, black Pittsburgh is as proud as anybody in that the black President we worked so hard to elect has selected Pittsburgh as the host of the G-20 Summit. We even enjoy the re-invention of Pittsburgh from a dirty, smoky steel-churning history to the bright, clean, green financial success that the business leaders and politicians boast about so loudly. Nobody is more proud of the Super Bowl winning African-American coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin. But none of that feel-good stuff erases the pain of the stubbornly high unemployment among African American young adults and the staggering dropout rate for young black males from the public school system.