THE GOD SON.

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Lucille Ball - "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

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KANYE'S CHAMPION VIDEO:



HA HA

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G-UNIT, WITH SOMETHING SIMILAR, BUT NOT AS ILL:



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MASTER P IS NO LONGER A MASTER. JUST PERCY MILLER, I MEAN P. MILLER:

“I’m changing my name because Master P is who I used to be. I call it my childhood and P. Miller marks my manhood. I wouldn’t change my past because it’s groomed me to be the man I am today. People grow mentally and spiritually through life experiences, but when you come from hip-hop it’s almost impossible to move past the stereotypes associated with it. I’ve branched out into so many different arenas that range from being the first African-American to have a clothing line at Wal-Mart, to writing books, and speaking on Capitol Hill, but all that gets overshadowed because I come from the hip-hop industry. There’re a lot of people out there, who are afraid to grow up and change, but I’m not and P. Miller is the evolution of me, Percy Miller the entrepreneur, the business man.”

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CROOKED I SAYS 'WHAT'S HIP HOP': http://www.zshare.net/audio/16989508ad647406/

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CLOWNS NEED LOVE TOO:

The Game : MySpace Music Exclusive Interview Part 1 of 2


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T.I. VS. T.I.P. VS. ROSENBERG:



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YO: BIG UP KARDINAL, PEACE TO LUPE, AND WHAT UP WALE, BUT.... HMMMMM: http://www.zshare.net/audio/1694050578af589c/

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MY HOMIE VAST DOES THE DAMN THANG! TAKE NO SHIT, HOMIE :)

Vast Aire: Deuces Wild
[One Records; 2008]
Rating: 8.0

There are good and bad things about having El-P make you one of the best underground hip-hop albums of the decade. The bad: People will compare everything you ever make again to it. The good: Everyone will give you their best beats from here forward.

So it goes on Deuces Wild, the second solo CD from Cannibal Ox alum Vast Aire. El-P is nowhere in sight, but the album takes its apocalyptic sonic cues from Cannibal Ox's 2001 classic The Cold Vein, which he produced. Many of the tracks come courtesy of Brooklyn newcomer Melodious Monk, and they are full of shimmering, goose bump-inducing samples and crashing bass. Though the show is predictably stolen by Pete Rock on "Mecca And The Ox"-- a reunion track with Cannibal Ox's Vordul Mega, which sounds like it samples not a water bong, but one of those plastic birdie whistles-- the beats here are universally good. Perhaps too good, because really, how are you going to have a song called "Lunch Room Rap (It's Nothing)" with a synth track that sounds like it was crafted during a cyborg attack in 2094?

But despite the musical fireworks, Vast himself is the main reason Deuces Wild is a return to form after the misstep that was his solo debut, Look Mom...No Hands. On that effort he was crowded by better-known MCs and suffered from weak punchlines and a seeming lack of self-confidence. There was no reason this should have happened; Vast is a giant man who spits from his chest, and when he's in control of his singular flow-- as he is throughout Deuces Wild-- he sounds dynamic, authoritative, funny, and sinister all at once. It's a sign of his success here that whenever any of the (mostly B-list) guest MCs come on, you're immediately pining for Vast's return.

"Take Two" sounds something like the Flaming Lips' "Fight Test", and is full of sharp taunts like, "I know piranha rap niggas that'll eat you thin," and "You thought rap was dead/ Nah, you was on Prozac/ It's all your head." In "Shu (The God Of Aire)" he raps: "I was here before man was scorned/ I was here before man was torn/ If I could finish the rhyme/ I would run around space and wrap up time." No, I don't know what that means, but it sounds cooler than anything RZA has been talking about recently.

The album is highlighted by "The Crush", a raunchy school-days reminisce about "Karen, or was it Anetta, or was it Vanessa, Stacey, or Trecee?" The sexual metaphors are frequent and satisfying, although some are more obvious ("She got the sweet potato/ I got the corn on the cob") than others. But even when he's telling jokes Vast sounds earnest, and thus the album never loses its cohesion or its edge. There's not really a bad track on Deuces Wild, although the comic book and action star references wear a bit thin (Terminator, C-3PO, Indiana Jones), and there's really no need to turn himself into a superhero called "Vast Man." But what's most impressive about the work is that it succeeds without succumbing to the trends of hipster rap, emo rap, or radio rap. Its only precedent is The Cold Vein, and it continues nobly in the progressive indie-rap mold created by El-P.

* MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/vastaireofcanox

- Ben Westhoff, August 6, 2008

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/142648-vast-aire-deuces-wild

THEN THIS HAPPENED:

Friday, August 08, 2008


PITCHFORK 8.0????

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/142648-vast-aire-deuces-wild

wow...they never give good reviews....at one time i was not sure if they liked anything!!!!
i know one thing DUECES WILD is so good, they could not front on this record.

after bringing up 90 other records i made...he still had to bring up THIS IS A GREAT RECORD!

AND HE HAD TO GIVE ME A 8.0!

i make the music i love, im not thinking about some low life writter that sucks off my old producer!
people act like i have no control over my music???

what i love is everyday i get people telling how much i changed there lives with all my music not just cold vein!

this is my solo art, so why keep bringing up an lp that was made by 3 people 8 years ago???? why do that? [dickheads]

judge each project for what it brings!

if you want to disrespect my lp "look mom..." then your only disrespecting everybody i worked with on that lp...

your dising MF DOOM, MADLIB, CANNIBAL OX, BOOT CAMP CLICK, BRAND NUBIAN ETC...

take each project as it comes.

in others words...

dont match full metal jacket with eyes wide shut and then get mad at kubrick??????

...get over it! if im so bad..... dont listen to me!
my real fans know whats up!

lol lol

go GET DUECES WILD NOW!!!

ITS THE BEST HIP HOP LP OUT NOW!!!

GO REP THE MOVMENT!!!

MY LP IS PERFECT!!!!!

BECAUSE IM THE GOD, AND I DO ALL THINGS RIGHT AND ON POINT....90*


PEACE

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=21629803&blogID=422280351

THEN THIS HAPPENED:

A rapper baits me, and I respond
POSTED August 11, 12:44 PM

Genealogy is not his specialty
It's not often I hear from the musicians I write about, but it does happen. The Long Winters' John Roderick told me I was right on the money with this piece, while Aesop Rock told me this was whack. (In truth, he was probably right.)

Sometimes when I write reviews for highly-read sites like Pitchfork, I expect the artist to comment on his blog. I checked Mike Doughty's site for days after this rather mean review went up, but he never said anything about it publicly as far as I know.

Still, I wasn't expecting rapper Vast Aire to blog about this review of his latest solo album, which I gave an 8.0. That's the best rating I've ever given anyone on Pfork, and damn near "Best New Music" status. But he doesn't exactly sound psyched on this entry from his MySpace blog. In fact, it's hard to figure out exactly what he's saying.

PITCHFORK 8.0????

Yeah, hell yeah! Right?

wow...they never give good reviews....at one time i was not sure if they liked anything!!!! i know one thing DUECES WILD is so good, they could not front on this record.

Not sure why you're shuffling between all caps and all-lowercase, but at least you're consistently using at least three punctuation marks after each sentence.

after bringing up 90 other records i made...he still had to bring up THIS IS A GREAT RECORD!

Technically you've only got one Cannibal Ox album and one other full-length, but you're right that I did have to bring up that it's a great record. That's my job, after all, to review things.

AND HE HAD TO GIVE ME A 8.0!

Well, no, technically, I could have given you a 7.9 or 4.8 or the square root of e or something.

i make the music i love, im not thinking about some low life writter that sucks off my old producer! people act like i have no control over my music???

I don't know any low life writters who have given El-P fellatio, but I certainly applaud your artistic decision not to think about those people while you're making music.

what i love is everyday i get people telling how much i changed there lives with all my music not just cold vein!

Understandable.

this is my solo art, so why keep bringing up an lp that was made by 3 people 8 years ago???? why do that? [dickheads] judge each project for what it brings!

You're starting to lose me here.

if you want to disrespect my lp "look mom..." then your only disrespecting everybody i worked with on that lp...your dising MF DOOM, MADLIB, CANNIBAL OX, BOOT CAMP CLICK, BRAND NUBIAN ETC...

I guess, maybe, in an off-handed, indirect way I may have dised those artists, but mostly I was dising you. Or rather, a former version of you who does not exist anymore according to some philosophical schools of thought.

take each project as it comes. in others words...dont match blade runner with eyes wide shut and then get mad at kubrick??????

Why would I get mad at Stanley Kubrick for Blade Runner when it was directed by Ridley Scott?

...get over it! if im so bad..... dont listen to me! my real fans know whats up!

Do you mean bad as in bad, or bad as in good in the Michael Jackson sense? If you're trying to tell me I shouldn't listen to "Man in the Mirror" anymore, forget it!!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/x-502-Music-Examiner~y2008m8d11-A-rapper-baits-me-and-I-respond

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JOCKIN JAY-Z PUPPET VIDEO. MAKES THE SONG BETTER:



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RUMORS!

Over the weekend, several media outlets, including MTV, were reporting that the eight-year-old daughter of rapper Lil Wayne was killed in a traffic accident.

Earlier today statements were issued by both Lil Wayne and his label Universal Motown dispelling the rumor.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who are genuinely concerned about Reginae and her safety. Please allow me to dispel any rumors or speculations and report that my daughter is alive, healthy and surrounded by family who care and love her dearly," Lil Wayne said in a statement.

Eight year-old Reginae Carter is the daughter of Lil Wayne and his former high school sweetheart Antonia Johnson.

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MINORITIES ABOUT TO TAKE CONTROL FROM THE WHITE MAN, LOL!

(CNN) -- By 2050, minorities will be the majority in America, and the number of residents older than 65 will more than double, according to projections released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau looks at 2000 results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality rates and migration.

The Census Bureau looks at 2000 results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality rates and migration.

Minorities, classified as those of any race other than non-Hispanic, single-race whites, currently constitute about a third of the U.S. population, according to Census figures. But by 2042, they are projected to become the majority, making up more than half the population. By 2050, 54 percent of the population will be minorities.

Minority children are projected to reach that milestone even sooner. By 2023, the bureau said, more than half of all children will be minorities.

"Part of it is a higher fertility rate for some of the minority groups, Hispanics in particular," said Dave Waddington, chief of the Census Bureau's population projection branch, which issued the report. "Those groups also tend to be more of the childbearing age. Non-Hispanic white people tend to be a little bit older."

The projections are based on Census 2000 results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality rates and net international migration, the bureau said.

The group predicted to post the most dramatic gain is the Hispanic population. It is projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8 million, from 2008 through 2050, the bureau said. Its share of the total U.S. population is expected to double from 15 to 30 percent. "Thus, one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic," the Census Bureau said in a news release.

The African-American population is projected to increase from 41.1 million to 65.7 million by 2050, going from 14 percent of the U.S. population to 15 percent. The Asian-American population is expected to increase from 15.5 million to 40.6 million, or from 5.1 percent to 9.2 percent of the population.

Among the remaining races, the bureau said, American Indians and Alaska natives are projected to increase from 3.9 million to 8.6 million, going from 1.6 percent to 2 percent of the U.S. population. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are expected to more than double, increasing from 1.1 to 2.6 million.

In addition, the number of U.S. residents identifying themselves as being of two or more races is projected to more than triple, increasing to 16.2 million from its current 5.2 million, the Census Bureau said.

Meanwhile, the non-Hispanic white population is not expected to post dramatic gains in the same period. By 2050, whites are expected to number 203.3 million, slightly increased from the 2008 number of 199.8 million. Whites will comprise 46 percent of the U.S. population by 2050, down from the current level of 66 percent, the bureau said, as the group is projected to lose population in the 2030s and 2040s.

By 2030, all baby boomers will be age 65 and older -- comprising nearly 20 percent of U.S. residents, or one in five Americans, the bureau said. By 2050, the 65-and-older age group will increase to 88.5 million, more than doubling its current number of 38.7 million. Meanwhile, the number of those age 85 and older is expected to more than triple, from 5.4 million in 2008 to 19 million by 2050.

Non-Hispanic whites make up most of the baby boomers, Waddington said. "They're in a higher mortality rate ... nonminority groups tend to be older and dying off faster" instead of reproducing at the rate projected for minorities.

Obviously, the projections will have "very strong policy implications," he said -- medical care for an increasingly elderly population, for instance, educational needs for increasing numbers of minority children and economic effects for the labor force.

"Who's going to do the jobs that are characteristically held right now by certain types of people?" Waddington said. "All those things are subject to change."

The United States is projected to reach the 400 million population milestone in 2039, according to bureau projections. By 2050, the population is expected to be 439 million. Of those, 235.7 million are expected to be minorities.

As U.S. cities and towns have increasingly become more diverse, Census officials knew the day of a majority minority would come, Waddington said. And "the aging one is sort of simple," he added. "That's demography 101."

Other highlights from the report released Thursday:

• By 2050, 62 percent of the nation's children will be minorities, up from 44 percent today. Of those, 39 percent are projected to be Hispanic, up from 22 percent in 2008, and 38 percent are projected to be white, down from 56 percent in 2008

• The percentage of the U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 64 -- the "working age" population -- is projected to decrease to 57 percent in 2050 from 63 percent in 2008.

• The working-age population will become more than 50 percent minority in 2039, and by 2050 will constitute 55 percent of the population.

• By 2050, the working-age population will be more than 30 percent Hispanic, up from 15 percent in 2008; 15 percent African-American, up from 13 percent in 2008; and 9.6 percent Asian, up from 5.3 percent in 2008.
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Waddington said the timelines are not written in stone. "It's a projection. And things like the baby boom generation couldn't be predicted." Major changes in policy affecting families and children, or a major policy affecting immigration, could have an impact on the expectations, he said.

The nation's undocumented workers -- estimated at 12 million or more -- are included in the projections, Waddington said. Census data includes all U.S. residents, regardless of their legal status, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/13/census.minorities/index.html?eref=rss_latest

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PEACE TO T.I.



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HELTAH SKELTAH FUCKING RUUUUULE:



GET THAT NEW ALBUM WHEN IT DROPS, IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. AWWWWESOME!

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BISHOP LAMONT AND LORD FINESSE AND XZIBIT!



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B.O.B. NORMALLY WOULDN'T GET SHINE ON HERE, BUT HE'S HOLDING A GUITAR:



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THE GAME WANTS TO DIE, CAREER FIRST, THEN SUICIDE. JAY-Z, PLEASE MURK THIS CLOWN:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1703251314b4fc7b/

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PEACE MAINO. 'HI HATER' REMIX SHOOT:



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EPMD'S NEW ALBUM: "WE MEAN BUSINESS" IS COMING SOON! YAY:



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I LOVE TO LOVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOVABLE.
I CAN'T LOVE PEOPLE WHO CONSCIOUSLY ALLOW THEIR HATE TO STAY ON THEIR FACE AND CONTROL THEIR FATE.
SOON ENOUGH.
LOVE, MINDBENDER