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Hello Mami, Recently, I've noticed that you and many of your crew are wearing these: In Starbucks, in the grocery store, in the library, in the mall, in class, in the movies --they're everywhere. As such, I thought I'd take a moment to share a piece of advice: STOP. They're awful. Word. - ...
Hip Hop
Here are the fine folks of Columbus celebrating everything they most treasure: trashiness, abject stupidity, and mouth breathing. Notice that these sorts of things never happen in, say, Ann Arbor. But I suppose we shouldn't expect much more from a population that congratulates itself ...
Hip Hop
Sarah Palin
The universe has an awesome sense of humor. And it comes from South Bend, IN , no less. Whoever this man that punched Jimmy Clausen is, he is my hero. And yet I hate him because my envy burns deeply.
Hip Hop
Proof
Dame Grease
My favorite southerners. A few years ago, Da Backwudz made some noise, and I took notice . I didn't articulate it at the time, but the group stood out because it combined southern hallmarks--heavy bass, tinny melodies, exaggerated regional vocal inflection--with the sampling commonly ...
Hip Hop
The Game
Da Future
The casual brilliance of Kobe Bryant. That's all. Sometimes people forget it, and they need to recognize.
Hip Hop
Trek Life
I think this is law school talking, but my first question upon watching this: how does team management feel about Ron Ron wearing Lakers gear in these videos?
Hip Hop
Ron Browz
Hello friends, particularly those whom I've met in St. Louis. I am writing with important news: my time in Missouri is coming to a close. I have decided to transfer to Monmouth University. I did not arrive at this decision hastily. I mulled it over for a long time during breakfast this ...
Hip Hop
Have you felt as though your life were suffering from a deficit of listening to me talk about basketball? Were you yearning to hear me make jokes about white people? Step out into the sunshine, you huddled masses. On Wednesday I stopped by the Disciples of Clyde podcast for a sprawling hour ...
Hip Hop
I don't know. My friend and collaborator Ty Keenan traded some emails this week with me about how it hurts to root for a horrible NBA team. You see, he rides with the Warriors, so he knows. Our epistolary exchange is up for your consumption on FreeDarko . Enjoy. P.S. The title comes from ...
Hip Hop
2Pac
- BK-One ft. Black Thought, "Philly Boy" Good lord, do I love this. Black Thought has always been able to wield an incredible sense of pathos. It stems from the combination of his voice, his lyrics, his common focus on tangible ideas and topics, the gravitas--real or aspirational--which the ...
Hip Hop
Black Rob
The Roots
Jake One
Raekwon
Ever vigilant in her scan of the internets, my mother sent me an interesting link this morning : twelve observations about the economy from a Gluskin Sheff economist and Reuters columnist James Pethokoukis. There's a lot of interesting material here to consider, but my attention was stolen away ...
Hip Hop
Jake One
Either The New York Times can't tell apart basketball-playing Stephens (racists), or it masked a chronicle of Jackson's eccentricity with a headline about a player, Curry, more likely to grab the average New York reader's attention. I'm going with the former, as they've since changed the ...
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Janet Jackson
I just like the picture of Madonna holding a baby in a yarmulke It's no secret that most rappers approach Jews with either casual contempt or the faint praise of positive stereotype. It's not that Jews are so affirmatively bad; they're not pushing weight or jackin' people up or terrorizing ...
Hip Hop
Too Short
Jadakiss
Sarah Palin
Jim Jones
Jesse Jackson
Raekwon
Maybe you could have punched a baby this morning to make the day complete. For those keeping score at home, here are the numbers: Last year, Michigan was 3-9 overall, 2-6 in the Big Ten. It beat Miami (OH) and Wisconsin at home, Minnesota on the road. It lost to Ohio State, Penn State, ...
