Foreign Exchange Feat. Muhsinah - “House Of Cards” Video

The Foreign Exchange feat. Muhsinah - "House Of Cards" from The Foreign Exchange on Vimeo.

Weird Atari Commercials

We have come a long way since the days of Atari, but let us take it back to the classics for a minute. have to admit that some of these commercials are real fucking awkward.... LOL

Microsoft's Photoshop Blunder: Racist or Not?

Microsoft doctored a stock image to appeal to its Polish customers by literally whitewashing the color from one of the photo's subjects. While US web visitors were greeted by 3 racially diverse business people, Polish visitors saw one man replaced by a Caucasian doppelganger. And it was so poorly done we wondered if it was a joke. The Polish site now bears the original US image, but the damage has been done. Said CNET's Ina Fried, "Although Microsoft would be within reason to use a different photo on its Polish site--the country is very racially homogeneous--the company is coming under significant criticism."

The braniac that signed off on this obviously didn't think about the racism discussion on this week's launch of Ghettotweets or the anger that ensued after the Japanese "underclass" Google map was released. By quietly trying to conceal a man's race, Microsoft has inadvertently made race an issue.

While the decision to change the image may have simply been due to someone trying to save a few hundred dollars on stock photography, the marketing blunder has extremely negative public implications.

Does racism exist in even the most progressive companies? Absolutely. But was Microsoft's decision to change this particular image racist or just shortsighted? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.





taken from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsofts_photoshop_blunder_racist_or_shortsighte.php

all i could was laugh when i read this shit.....

Drake - Forever f. Eminem, Kanye West & Lil Wayne (prod. Boi-1da)

DOWNLOAD


this shit is straight flames...

Jay-Z "Run This Town" vid feat. Rihanna and Kanye West

Jay-Z |MTV Music

Camron: Cousin Bang (Movie trailer)

Cam is the man... lmaof!!!!!!!!

LlL Wayne -Major (DJ Premier on the beat)

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JAY Electronica Calls out big name rappers for a BATTLE!!!

too bad it will not happen.....

Dead Prez Summertime (video)

nice theme music and remonder of that good 'ol summertime hip hop shit....

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 Official cover and tracklisting

1. What We Talking About (Produced by Kanye West)
2. D.O.A. (Produced by No I.D.)
3. Weigh Me Down Feat. Kid Cudi (Produced by Kanye West)
4. Unforgiven (Produced by Kanye West, Additional Production: MGMT)
5. Run This Town Feat. Rihanna & Kanye West (Produced by Kanye West)
6. Empire State Of Mind Feat. Nas (Produced by Kanye West & No I.D.)
7. When It Comes To This (Produced by Timbaland)
8. Always Feat. Drake (Produced by Kanye West)
9. Scenes From The Past (Produced by No I.D., Co-produced by Kanye West)
10. Everyday A Star Is Born Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)
11. Already Home (Produced by Kanye West)
12. Forever Young Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)
13. Thank You (Produced by No I.D.)

Bonus Tracks:
14. Sound Of The 70s (Produced by Kanye West)
15. We Made History (Produced by Kanye West)

nice line up.. but no Just Blaze??? that's weird....

Baatin of Slum Village Passes

By: Ismael AbduSalaam

AllHipHop.com has confirmed that Baatin of Slum Village has passed away.



While no details are available regarding cause of death, friends of the rapper have already began sending out condolences via Twitter.



“R.I.P. baatin of slum village forever,” wrote singer Dwele on his page.



In a summer filled with celebrity deaths, producer 9th Wonder advised fans to remember artists while they are still living.



“RIP Baatin of Slum Village; let’s celebrate our people while they are here,” 9th reflected. “we are losing folk.”



Baatin was the founding member of the group Slum Village, along with J Dilla and T3.




Together, the trio released two influential albums in Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1) (1997) and Fantastic, Vol. 2 (2000).




In 2002, Dilla left the group to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by lyricist Elzhi. Baatin himself left the group before the release of their 2004 LP Detroit Deli due to undisclosed medical issues.




The group experienced further hardship when musical backbone J Dilla passed away in 2006 following a long battle with Lupus.




Earlier this week, T3 had confirmed with AllHipHop.com that Baatin had rejoined the group.




“The whole thing is I felt like the fans wanted Baatin to come back. And I felt like I really didn’t want to do another album without Baatin. I wanted his energy,” T3 explained. “I found him and he was ready. He seemed like he had his stuff together. So that’s how the whole wheel started spinning for this new Slum Village album because basically, for the last couple of years, we dropped an album but we were going through a lot of depression. Dilla passed and then Proof passed. I really didn’t feel like doing no music. I wasn’t inspired. I was really just going through my thing.”


Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli was also at a loss regarding the recent passing, revealing that partner Hi-Tek was set to DJ for the group tonight.


“I’m at a loss right now,” Kweli stated on Twitter. “Hi-Tek was set to dj for Slum Village tonight. RIP Baatin. More influential than you can imagine. Slum Village forever.”



AllHipHop.com will continue to develop this story as more details emerge.

http://admin.allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2009/08/01/21867932.aspx

you will be missed brother.... Slum forever...

Jay Electronica: Dear Moleskine. (prod. by Just Bla

Jay E. is definitely in a class by himself.. and i respect him so much for that shit. Gotta find the full length for this if there is one...

No I.D. Speaks On Drake

No I.D. Speaks On Drake from zachwolfe.com/live on Vimeo.

had a brief discussion with my dude the other day about the same thing.......

COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY? MEET THE GUY WHO DOES

Night falls, the stars wink, and after an hour, Suelo tramps up the cliff, mimicking a raven's call—his salutation—a guttural, high-pitched caw. He's lanky and tan; yesterday he rebuilt the entrance to his cave, hauling huge rocks to make a staircase. His hands are black with dirt, and his hair, which is going gray, looks like a bird's nest, full of dust and twigs from scrambling in the underbrush on the canyon floor. Grinning, he presents the booty from one of his weekly rituals, scavenging on the streets of Moab: a wool hat and gloves, a winter jacket, and a white nylon belt, still wrapped in plastic, along with Carhartt pants and sandals, which he's wearing. He's also scrounged cans of tuna and turkey Spam and a honeycomb candle. All in all, a nice haul from the waste product of America. "You made it," he says. I hand him a bag of apples and a block of cheese I bought at the supermarket, but the gift suddenly seems meager.

Suelo lights the candle and stokes a fire in the stove, which is an old blackened tin, the kind that Christmas cookies might come in. It's hooked to a chain of soup cans segmented like a caterpillar and fitted to a hole in the rock. Soon smoke billows into the night and the cave is warm. I think of how John the Baptist survived on honey and locusts in the desert. Suelo, who keeps a copy of the Bible for bedtime reading, is satisfied with a few grasshoppers fried in his skillet.


HE WASN'T ALWAYS THIS WAY. SUELO graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in anthropology, he thought about becoming a doctor, he held jobs, he had cash and a bank account. In 1987, after several years as an assistant lab technician in Colorado hospitals, he joined the Peace Corps and was posted to an Ecuadoran village high in the Andes. He was charged with monitoring the health of tribespeople in the area, teaching first aid and nutrition, and handing out medicine where needed; his proudest achievement was delivering three babies. The tribe had been getting richer for a decade, and during the two years he was there he watched as the villagers began to adopt the economics of modernity. They sold the food from their fields—quinoa, potatoes, corn, lentils—for cash, which they used to purchase things they didn't need, as Suelo describes it. They bought soda and white flour and refined sugar and noodles and big bags of MSG to flavor the starchy meals. They bought TVs. The more they spent, says Suelo, the more their health declined. He could measure the deterioration on his charts. "It looked," he says, "like money was impoverishing them."

The experience was transformative, but Suelo needed another decade to fashion his response. He moved to Moab and worked at a women's shelter for five years. He wanted to help people, but getting paid for it seemed dishonest—how real was help that demanded recompense? The answer lay, in part, in the Christianity of his childhood. In Suelo's nascent philosophy, following Jesus meant adopting the hard life prescribed in the Sermon on the Mount. "Giving up possessions, living beyond credit and debt," Suelo explains on his blog, "freely giving and freely taking, forgiving all debts, owing nobody a thing, living and walking without guilt . . . grudge [or] judgment." If grace was the goal, Suelo told himself, then it had to be grace in the classical sense, from the Latin gratia, meaning favor—and also, free.

By 1999, he was living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand—he had saved just enough money for the flight. From there, he made his way to India, where he found himself in good company among the sadhus, the revered ascetics who go penniless for their gods. Numbering as many as 5 million, the sadhus can be found wandering roads and forests across the subcontinent, seeking enlightenment in self-abnegation. "I wanted to be a sadhu," Suelo says. "But what good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A true test of faith would be to return to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping nations on earth and be a sadhu there. To be a vagabond in America, a bum, and make an art of it—the idea enchanted me."


THERE ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE IN SUELO'S cave for two, so I sleep in the open, at the edge of a hundred-foot cliff. No worries about animals, he says. Though mountain lions drink from the stream, and bobcats hunt rabbits under the cottonwoods, the worst he's experienced was a skunk that sprayed him in the face. Mice scurry over his body in the cave, and kissing bugs sometimes suck the blood from under his fingernails while he sleeps. He shrugs off these indignities. "After all, it's their cave too," he says. I hunker down near a nest of scorpions, which crawl up the canyon walls, ignoring me.

read the rest here
http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_9817&pageNum=2

OB4CL2, Tracklist + Production Credits

01. Return To The North Star (Feat. Papu Wu) (Interlude)
(Prod. Bt)
02. House of Flying Daggers (Feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man)
(Prod. J-Dilla)
03. Sonny’s Missing
(Prod. Pete Rock)
04. Pyrex Vision
(Prod. Marley Marl)
05. Cold Outside (Feat. Suga Bang & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Atl)
06. Godfather (Feat. Inspectah Deck)
(Prod. Rza)
07. New Wu (Feat. Method Man & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Rza)
08. Penitentiary (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Bt)
09. Criminology 09 (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Bt & Rza)
10. Fat Lady Sings
(Prod. Rza)
11. Canal Street
12. 10 Bricks (Feat. Cappadonna & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. J-Dilla)
13. G-hide (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Negro)
14. Rockstar (Feat. Inspectah Deck & Gza)
(Prod. Rza)
15. Catalina (Feat. Busta Ryhmes)
(Prod. Dr. Dre)
16. 40 Deuce (Feat. Jadakiss & Styles P)
(Prod. Scram Jones)
17. Walk Wit Me
(Prod. Scram Jones)
18. We Will Rob You (Feat. Slick Rick, Gza & Masta Killah)
(Prod. Allah Justice)
19. Have Mercy (Feat. Beanie Sigel)
20. Surgical Gloves
(Prod. The Alchemist)
21. Nigga Me
(Prod. Dr. Dre)
22. Mean Streets (Feat. Inspectah Deck)
(Prod. Allah Mathematics)
23. Kiss The Ring (Feat. Inspectah Deck & Masta Killah)
(Prod. Scram Jones)
24. Ason Jones
(Prod. J-Dilla)

will not believe it until that shit FINALLY drops........

The Game - Im So Wavy (Jay-Z Diss) (NODJ)

The Game - Im So Wavy (Jay-Z Diss) (NODJ)

hxxp://depositfiles.com/files/kpprjnlrs
hxxp://www.zshare.net/audio/62534610ebd19180/

shit is tight, but i still wanna hear a response from Jay.

KRS-One & Buckshot - Robot

dope vid..

The Game Apologizes to 50 Cent

i respect his intentions... but dude always goes back on what he says so i can only take anything he says only with a grain of salt......

50 Cent - Forever King Mixtape

» "Paranoid"
» "Respect It or Check It"
» "Suicide Watch"
» "Things You Do"
» "Get Money"
» "Funny How Time Flies"
» "If You Leave"
» "Dreaming"
» "Where You Are"
» "London Girl 2″
» "Touch Me"
» "Put Da Work In"

hxxp://www.zshare.net/download/62195635ea9557a1/

and another one.....

Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 Intro Live (Video)

still not to fond of D.O.A. lyric wise but my man gets it in regardless...