ScumLife

The other night I got a bug to hear Mind Playing Tricks on Me. You know the kind of thing where you cannot continue with life until you hear that song play at least once, if not over and over for a good ten minutes? So I went looking for the song and something better happened… I found this Scarface version which I had never heard before.
He really is one of the most soulful rappers out there, and I need to go back and take a listen to everything he’s ever recorded.


Also, I used to really enjoy, before my brain realized just how evil the world is, the St. Ide’s rap commercials. I wanted to collect them all like ________ (sorry, it’s too early for similes). Here’s one that I found with the Geto Boys:
‘My Malt’s Playing Tricks On Me’ (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)

Click here to download Cool Calm Pete’s ‘Heart’… not literally I mean the song is called ‘Heart’.

M.U.S.C.L.E
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere.


Remember the first time you heard Wu, and it seemed like there were like two hundred ninja-rappers who were running wild on the island of Staten? These guys are kind of the toy equivalent of that. They came out in Japan first, and came to the US in 1985 on Mattel. I may have a lot more of these (along with hundreds of other toys) at my parents house in storage, my mom swears she “wouldn’t have thrown them out”.


Here is an old commercial I found on the internets. It’s really crap quality:



I thought this stop animation was fun:



…and, to be honest, I don’t think I ever played this video game or was anywhere where this game was being played. It doesn’t look like I missed much, but I like the title screen:

Ok. So this is (rapper) Charles Hamilton and an ex-girl of his, messing around on the street after dude did an interview with Hood News, and then things go sour quickly! Apparently these two had some kind of history together… which explains something about what you’re about to see…

I saw Charles Hamilton in DC a few months ago opening for Pharoahe Monch and he did his thing. He was very likeable. In this video I like how he reacts to getting socked in the face. He says “Oh. you punched me though… I aint mean to do that.” Which makes no sense. Which is precisely the kind of thing you say when you get punched in the face by a girl and the camera’s rolling and all you can think is “This clip will be on youtube by the time I get home. And there will be 75 comments already. And they will all start with ‘hahahahahaha’.”

And as you think this you also realize that after it is shown at full speed, it will be played in slow-mo a couple of times. Maybe a lot of times. Of course it will Charles, of course it will.

Have a great day!

= baje

My crew is like The Real Ghostbusters of rap.
Lemme know who you think is who…


_T