Four years ago, I pitched Egon on pressing obscure Southern rap tapes and CDs to vinyl. Today, with Vinyl Me Please, we're announcing The Story of Memphis Rap, a 9-album, 11-record box set documenting some of the hardest, gnarliest, grimiest rap music ever made.
Jeff Van Gundy: If you get fouled so hard that you fart a little you should get an extra free throw.
Mark Jackson: Growing up in New York City we called that a brown out. Happened to a great point guard by the name of Kenny Anderson.
Mike Breen: —and the Bucks have tied it up
Heard a old man say “don’t let them do to rap what they did to jazz back in the day.”
Any jazz historians that can tell me what happened to jazz back then?
Once again: Rick Rubin is lying here. He remixed an entire Geto Boys album and produced and DJ’d for the Beastie Boys. More importantly, he also knows how to cultivate an air of mystique.
normal nfl fans [boring]: our d-line could use help and our gm has a burnt filet mignon where his brain should be
falcons fans [cool]: hellfire licks at our feet yet we unflinchingly trod the path of righteousness. god is not with us, but it does not matter.
Last spring, we expanded outdoor dining out of necessity. Now, we're expanding it because we love it.
#ChicagoAlfresco
is a new citywide initiative to design and create long-term outdoor spaces across all our neighborhoods.
Video: During Black Lives Matter protest on the 101 Freeway, a CHP cruiser tries to pull through the crowd before accelerating with people on the hood.
ESPN: [footage of me eating a sandwich overlaid with the NFL draft spotlight thing and dramatic music]
Mel Kiper: this kid is a real turd––i'm talking a doo-doo-ass of epic proportions––and i hope he dies
Me [sitting on the couch in just my boxers]: what the fuck
Last tweet about this: His dad, Jack Webster, is in the music industry, may or may not have a political science masters, and definitely helped orchestrate his career.
Rubin is something of a fraud—I mean, he literally defrauded the Beasties—but not really for the reasons people think he is. Rubin wants to be considered a beachside shaman, not the guy who chopped Zeppelin samples.
This decade’s worst rap discourse, in no particular order:
-tight jeans are gay
-Nicki Minaj is Good
-anything related to Eminem
-New York is back, baby!
-jazz and rap combined for the first time!!
-Chance the Rapper is independent
-Drake
-J. Cole went Platinum
-Migos can’t rap
Jordan Peterson [crying]: Everybody was kung fu fighting? That’s chaos; that’s disorder; that’s the breakdown of Western culture
Ben Shapiro [overdosing on adderall]: It’s literally impossible that *everyone* was kung fu fighting. Is kung fu fighting suddenly communicable? Plus-
Every music becomes sterile and safe when it loses the kids. Jazz in particular got crushed by technological and socio-economic forces beyond any one person’s control.
in the 90s all you needed for a huge dance single was a kinda catchy synth loop, a woman with high-pitched voice singing about a bad breakup, and a German guy rapping a completely unrelated verse about peace and war
Paying $50 for chicken tenders to hear Kanye rap some shit like “I got divorced and fed to the tigers—Carole Baskin/New girl got a bleached asshole—thanks for askin”
The great irony of Davis bemoaning the state of jazz in the 1980s is that he remains the genre’s insuperable horizon, the artist with whom all jazz in the past…70?…years exists in conversation with.
25 years ago today, Canibus dropped his debut album 'Can-I-Bus' - one of the most anticipated releases of 1998.
Most fans believed the album, largely produced by Wyclef & Jerry Wonda, was a huge let down. I think it got a bad rap & was better than people gave it credit for.
William Royce “Boz” Scaggs was born on this day in 1944. Scaggs’ yachtiest song, “Lowdown”, includes future Toto members David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate as personnel and won the Grammy for Best R&B Song in 1976.