Archive for July, 2009
LOVE TKO…GAME OVER
J-Zone takes a look at relationships in 2009. Can he find a sensible answer?
I know these were their actual facial expressions after the judge dropped the hammer.
The late great Miles Davis was once asked what he thought love was. His response was something along the lines of…"Love is the first person you have feelings for. [...]
SQUEEGEEMEN NEVER LEFT NYC, THEY JUST SELL CDs NOW
This dude is probably selling his new mixtape in the hood somewhere.
Squeegeemen (Wikipedia link).
If you’ve never seen them, it’s because you moved to NYC after Rudy Giuliani turned Brooklyn into Nebraska East. If you’ve always lived in the city, they never affected you because chances were you didn’t own a car. But for those of [...]
DON’T HOLLA!: Hip Hop “Hollaticking” Must stop.
Even my grandmother knows the slogan. "DON’T HOLLA"
I may piss some people off here, but so goes life sometimes. How many times have you heard this?…
“Yo man, I’mma holla at you son, we definitely gonna get up! Yo gimme your math, I’mma get at you, we gotta connect, we gotta build, we gotta politic, for [...]
J-ZONE’s TOP 8 MOST PERPLEXING HIP-HOP SKITS
Circa 1989, the hip-hop skit was born. Circa 2009, the number of skit-less hip-hop albums released are about equal to the number of people in Williamsburg Brooklyn that are actually from there. For better or for worse, skits have taken over albums and I was very guilty of this feat my damn self. Many would [...]
Read More..>>YOU KNOW YOUR ASS IS GETTIN OLD IF… (EARLY 30’s EDITION)
30 is the new 20. That’s what they keep telling me. But with the aches, pains, changed views and realizations that are going down, I’ve realized maybe 30 is the new 30 (or in my case, 32). Nuthin wrong with that, but to all my fellow early 30 somethings, keep this in mind…YOU CAN’T PARTICIPATE [...]
Read More..>>MORE UNPOPULAR RAP OPINIONS: THE BEEF EDITION
Being that this summer hasn’t been Do The Right Thing hot, I started growin the fro back. Don‘t laugh, but I was thinking of throwin some activator up in it and trying the only hairstyle I‘ve never worn, the jheri curl. Light skinned brothers never wore curls back in the day, but I’m lookin to [...]
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