Flychologist, you know he’s chillin. Easily one of the smoothest rap songs/album ever dropped 20 years ago today. One of the best songs of all time. Pay your respects cause the really don’t make hip hop like this anymore.

Nothing but Black Excellence. Rarely do you see someone remake a song and completely own it. First off I don’t know how old heads was shocked that Luther was gay. I can watch this video and tell, he was just a tad bit too happy.He was having to catch himself,people with nothing to protect don’t catch themselves.That’s neither here nor there though,cause that’s his business. This started out as a tribute performance but ended with people forgetting Dionne Warwick sang it first. Even she was looking at Luther like “I know I let you borrow it but damn! You ain’t have to embarrass me with it” My dog Luther had everything working. Bow tie. Check. Ron Isley too big for your mouth teeth. Check. Slow rock making eye contact with every woman(or guy) in the crowd. Check. Jheri curl shimmering.Check. Straight up floated through this like it was nothing. You don’t see stuff like this nowadays. All these “R&B artist” today are products of studio magic,trying to blur the line between rappers and R&B singers, or doing dance music. Ain’t a singer popping right now that can do something like this. The art of the slow jam is lost and the only people who know how to make one are dead or don’t care. Speaking of slow jams 5:52 for a flash of the sample. Song so great you can take a piece of it and make another great song. Wow. The most amazing thing about this performance is that there’s no sound quality drop off from the recorded versions. That is unheard of, live performances are not supposed to mirror recorded versions of songs…Ever. You have to be VERY gifted vocally to do that. Luther was that dude. It’s a shame he didn’t like women cause he could have walked out of there with any woman in there when he was done. I mean he could’ve just dropped the mic, walked off stage into the crowd,pointed at any chick, and rolled out.

This intro had me believing Meeks album was going to be fire. It wasn’t. Can’t listen to a nigga yell at me about his rolex and phantom for sixty minutes,but this intro though. Wow. Meek snapped on the beat switch.

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Monday Morning Mindstate

Posted: May 6, 2013 in M.M.M.

Just a few thoughts that I don’t know if I want to write about. No particular order.

1. The episode of Martin where him and Gina are withholding sex from each other is very underrated.

2. I always wanted a man-servant like James Brown or Morris Day. Somebody with a cape or mirror on deck.

3. The Fugees not following up the score is one of the biggest travesties ever in hip-hop.

4. Hands down the illest tattoos are the full back tats that the Yakuza members get.

5. Rappers really need to retire those “spent that on my wrist/house on my neck” lines. Them shits been played.

6. They should put out a box set of the whole Yo! MTV Raps series.

7. I want a saxophone for one reason. Just to learn how to play the sax solo from I’m going back to Cali.

8. I want a Keytar just to have one,no real reason.

9. Yo there hasn’t been a Silkk the Shocker sighting in YEARS…YEARS. He literally disappeared after he got rich. I think he realized that he was a terrible rapper who got lucky. Dude don’t even make appearances. Never seen a rapper take the money and run like that.

I wouldn’t even know where to start on James Joseph Brown Jr. That’s why this ain’t drop on his birthday(May 3rd). They ain’t call him the hardest working man in show business for nothing. James toured three-hundred days a year and gave a hundred percent every night. He escorted Apollo Creed to deaths door(If you gotta go,go in style).Plus he’s responsible for multiple rap breakbeats. We ain’t got the time to list everything James did so here is his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown I have yet to see anyone match the cape routine yet.

Kriss Kross – Alright

Posted: May 2, 2013 in Appreciation

I was going to do a write up on this song a while back. Not because of anything Kriss Kross did, but because of the original coke don Super Cat coming through crushing the hook and stunting all through the video. I always thought this was their best song even though I give Warm It Up props for them doing the driving backwards thing before Big and Puff did and not getting any credit for it though. With Chris Kelly(the darkskinded one,don’t feel bad I didn’t know which was which off the top of my head either) going back to essence, we gotta give Kriss Kross their respect. They always came off as gimmicky to me cause I just never believed them dudes were just wearing clothes backwards before they became rappers and both of their names were chris and they were best friends. Just seemed too coincidental.(*batman eye squint*) All that aside Jermaine Dup..um..uh..I mean Kriss Kross dropped some heat during their run. Not much to really say about this video beside its just feel good music with the coke don killing the hook and hitting it with the rudeboy bad man footwork. R.I.P. Chris Kelly though, 34 is way too young to die. We gonna keep you alive through Youtube views though.We won’t forget you.

You can’t talk about rappers who danced and not talk about MC Hammer. Somewhere down the line it became cool to slander Hammer, but I won’t dare.He did what he did and never changed it up and went to they top being a good guy rapper. Back in the day there were debates on if he danced better than Michael Jackson…yeah,that Michael Jackson. Young me wasn’t going against M.J. though. He could have walked up and slapped my moms for no reason and I would’ve tried to make sense of it as I asked for an autograph. Now older,wiser, and way more flyer. I’m looking at this video and Hammer might have actually been on Mike’s level dance-wise. Hammer danced for like three minutes straight and did moves I’ve never seen replicated again. Plus he did them in loafers with no socks on. It don’t get no flyer than that. I’m gonna ignore the obvious Run-Dmc/New York rapper slight though.I see ’em but the dancing overshadows everything.

N.C.B.- Jay-Z

Posted: April 24, 2013 in N.C.B.

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Saying you might buy a kilo of coke for Chief Keef, a mentally handicapped teenager so he can flood the streets of the most dangerous city in America and mentioning knowing the president in the same breath is not really a good look…..for the president. Way to hang your homeboy Barack out there.Oh and fronting like you were the Jerry Jones of the Brooklyn Nets when you didn’t even have enough stake in them to be a factor wasn’t a good look for you Not cool bro,not cool at all.

Oh you thought Jamie Foxx was the first triple threat comedian? Nah it was O.G. Eddie Murphy. If you’ve seen Dave Chappelle’s show then you know that Eddie Murphy and Rick James were tight as hell in the 80’s. Their friendship created not only the true Hollywood stories of Eddies brother Charlie Murphy, but this classic of a fascinating train-wreck. The Party All The Time song and video. First off let me say that Edward Murphy’s message in this song is still relevant today and this song was made in 1985. A lot of broads in love with the club scene and wonder why they can’t find a man to be in love with them. Most dudes just want Netflix nights with a chick they’re digging,but that’s a whole other blog post lets get back to this video. I love how the video starts off with Eddie walking into the studio with the legit “I’ve never been in or seen an actual recording studio” face. This is corroborated by everyone in the studio giving Eddie daps like it’s their first time ever meeting him and Rick having to tell Eddie put the headphones on. In the first verse you can see Eddie looking nervous with the ” Am I doing this right?” look on his face, but you see him actually get comfortable before the second verse and that’s when the video jumps to the next level. It turns into a karaoke session,people grooving,people laughing,and just having a good time. Peep my girl at 2:22 just vibing and laughing,and my dog at 2:28 rubbing up on himself like he’s on Ecstasy. It’s awesome watching Eddie come out of his shell and by the third verse look at everyone with the “I got this shit.” look on his face, but my favorite part of the whole video is Rick James on the soundboards with the clenched fist and look of awe like he’s witnessing greatness happen. Little did we know that he actually was.

N.C.B. – Rick Ross

Posted: April 22, 2013 in N.C.B.

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Drugging girls and taking advantage of them is not hot in the streets or anywhere else for that matter.There’s no reason why this should have to be explained to a 40 year old rap star who has a daughter,sister,and mother. Not cool bro,not cool at all.

P.S. Your “yes men” just cost you millions by not telling you those bars are offensive or maybe they were too stupid,high or whatever to catch them themselves.Either way,get some new friends.