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WAR IS HELL (WITH FISHEYE LENSES). How did No Limit rent a...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:37:23 -0500

WAR IS HELL (WITH FISHEYE LENSES). How did No Limit rent a self-propelled howitzer for this video?

Oh yes, this is motherfucking GOOD. Also, I’m putting...

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:06:04 -0400

Oh yes, this is motherfucking GOOD.

Also, I’m putting content unrelated to Southern rap up at conracks.tumblr.com. I might put Southern rap content up there instead of here in the future, IDK, CHOICES.

Oh my God, I love 15-year-old regional dance music Also,...

Sun, 22 May 2011 21:28:01 -0400

Oh my God, I love 15-year-old regional dance music

Also, couldn’t the disputes about whether T.I. was or was not “really” from Bankhead have been resolved with an old utility bill or something? It’s good enough for the NYPL.

Photo

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:26:44 -0400

Photo

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:52:37 -0500

“See, I like the bacon, but they want the ham, BoBo, know what I’m talking about? They...

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:02:51 -0500

“See, I like the bacon, but they want the ham, BoBo, know what I’m talking about? They looking for the ham; they want the ham. I just want the bacon and the bread and the cheese.”

White People Things

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:40:23 -0500

The elevators in my office all have little TVs, content for which is provided by something called the Captivate Network (which gets on my nerves, since, you know, do you have to rub in our collective face the fact that once in the elevator we become a captive audience for between one and 39 floors?). Yesterday, two of the headlines were:

“Western Civilization” (no further explanation)
Some news story about how contemporary white people living in ~70% white neighborhoods have a higher quality of life than white people in the 1970s, who lived in 85+% white neighborhoods, which I guess is presumably newsworthy because we’re supposed to be surprised that quality of life and having nonwhite neighbors isn’t necessarily inversely correlated?

Is any Southern rapper more underrated than Project Pat?

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:06:18 -0500

Is any Southern rapper more underrated than Project Pat?

Pleased by Lil Wayne’s Basquiat reference, disappointed...

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:31:59 -0500

Pleased by Lil Wayne’s Basquiat reference, disappointed that Fiend’s claim that “I spit Black Flag” wasn’t a similarly genre-crossing nod to Henry Rollins

This is the song that inspired OutKast’s “if you...

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:41:13 -0400

This is the song that inspired OutKast’s “if you think it’s all about pimpin’ hoes and slammin’ Cadillac doors, you a cracker” spoken-word interlude, right? ALREADY.

Multiple tracks on B.G. and Soulja Slim’s Uptown Souljas sound like their melodies were...

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:11:23 -0400

Multiple tracks on B.G. and Soulja Slim’s Uptown Souljas sound like their melodies were recorded on an ice cream truck

Theodora & Justinian

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:14:31 -0400

Wherefore to me, and many others of us, these two seemed not to be human beings, but veritable demons, and what the poets call vampires: who laid their heads together to see how they could most easily and quickly destroy the race and deeds of men; and assuming human bodies, became man-demons, and so convulsed the world. And one could find evidence of this in many things, but especially in the superhuman power with which they worked their will

Dialogue at the Beginning of the Video for the Big Tymers' "Get Your Roll On"

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:24:42 -0400

Baby: “What’s up, wodie?”

Manny Fresh: “What’s up, dog?”

Lil Wayne: “What’s happening, man?”

Baby: “Look, you know we got a party tonight, playboy; what you drinkin’?”

Manny Fresh: “I’m drinking Crissy all night long.”

Baby: “I’m ‘bout to do doughnuts in this here; I’m gonna spin the cut in a second, player.”

Manny Fresh: “For sure, I’m gonna follow you.”

Realism, Almost

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:31 -0400

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Decade-and-a-half-old Juvenile / vintage bounce.

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:12:58 -0400

Decade-and-a-half-old Juvenile / vintage bounce.

Yeah, fuck birds

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:47:55 -0400

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_warfare Warfare serves the function of easing intra-group tensions and has aspects of a game, or “overenthusiastic football”. Especially Dugum Dani “battles” have a conspicuous element of play, with one documented instance of a battle interrupted when both sides were distracted by throwing stones at a passing cuckoo dove.

Sweet James Jones

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:38:22 -0400

In stores 10/5. I’ll probably buy a copy because I wouldn’t want to take food out of the mouths of the Butler children.

This is encouraging, but two points worth noting:

This “Gator Man” just sounds like a less mushmouthed Gucci Mane.
This album features the fabled “Dickies song,” made with Jeezy and Bun before C’s death, which is great but also funny because “Since the 90s” is yet another Jeezy diss. I’ve been seeing a lot of “fuck Jeezy, dude’s a studio gangster” in blog comments lately; wonder to what extent the loss of credibility he’s suffered in the last couple years has to do with Pimp C’s quibbling with him over drug prices.

Office Space blog, pt. II

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:27:33 -0400

Identifying emerging-markets securities lawyers, listening to Pretty Tony’s “Got Gold In My Mouth.”

portrait edited following a divorce, maybe?

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:40:44 -0400

portrait edited following a divorce, maybe?

The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial or, in Latin, the Synodus Horrenda) is the name...

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:10:55 -0400

The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial or, in Latin, the Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Catholic Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January of 897.^[1]

Before the proceedings the body of Formosus was exhumed and, according to some sources, seated on a throne while his successor,Pope Stephen (VI) VII^[2], read the charges against him (of which Formosus was found guilty) and conducted the trial. The Cadaver Synod is remembered as one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the medieval papacy.