Walking around last night, I heard the new Rick Ross track on JAMN and I found the conceit in the Boss’ latest bars even more absurd than usual. Bloggable, even.
Sight seeing we might be in the
Codra port or that new white BM
Home from FAMU with a gorgeous face,
Next semester she transfer to Florida state
Cooking like […]
Translation Nation #1: Pobre diabla llora y llora
Don Omar at Fenway Park, 5 July 2008
This week’s installment of Translation Nation is dedicated to el rey (de melodrama), Don Omar. The king put on quite a dynamic performance at Boston’s Latino Family Festival; inadvertently clowning Luny Tunes for their lame no-show from the weekend before. He […]
YouTube addendum to Tricia Rose’s “Never Trust A Big Butt And A Smile” from Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader, 1990.
Women rappers employ many of the aesthetic and culturally specific elements present in male rap lyrics while offering an alternative vision of similar social conditions. Raps written by women which specifically concern male/female relationships almost always […]
Soulja Boy is celebrating the anniversary of his signing a few months early but he’s also posted videos of a new dance called “Crank Dat Billie Jean.”
The dancing is tight, the new moves are nice, and the remix sounds hot (especially playing out of a car stereo.) But, one has to wonder what to make […]
Mariah Carey “Touch My Body” (Extended video):
If it’s a camera up in here
Then it’s gonna leave with me when I do
(I do)
If it’s a camera up in here
Then I best not catch this flick on Youtube
(Youtube)
I am the bullseye target audience for this video. I even LOL’d at the end when Mariah makes a wi-fi […]
New tracks from pop industry vet Snoop Dogg and nkotb Kid Sister find surprising resonance in their shared 80s electro-funk throwback vibe. But it’s the contrast in the videos that demonstrate the fundamental difference between a hungry artist on her come-up and the pop veteran struggling against the weight of his own history.
Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction” […]
The new Rick Ross vid is a brilliant example of the historical literacy hip-hop expects of its listeners. You have to know the Hypnotize video to fully appreciate the homage that is Speedin’.
Especially funny in light of the advertisements for radar detection devices on JAMN 94.5 lately. “We in no way condone wreckless driving … […]
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