Wednesday, July 27, 2011

straight outta comp 101

Because that’s one of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks. They love puns and rhymes and slang and extended metaphors; they accuse enemies of plagiarism and brag endlessly about their own hard-core habits of revision.
From Sam Anderson's review of The Anthology of Rap.

While something of rap's force must get lost in transcription - no oral art form is properly served when divorced of its rhythm, inflection and flow - I'd love to read this book and judge for myself.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

r. kelly - radio message


kind of silly, but chicago looks so bright and fresh and lovely in this video, i couldn't resist

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

guitar hero

First, open Google Guitar in another window.

Then type in the tune to Star Wars' the Imperial March:
333 1 53 1 53 777 8 53 1 53

If you thought that was fun, maybe check out these other ones.

Monday, June 6, 2011


NoCanDo - time won't tell (el-p remix)
i want what she's wearing