When Jacqui Brown interviewed Xzibit this week he gave his best impression of Evan O’Dorney, it was broadcast last night on Campbell Live and you can now view it here.
You must watch this Evan O’Dorney interview to appreciate where I’m coming from.
R. Kelly is the undisputed king of R&B and responsible for a lot of awesome songs, but listening to his newest release Double Up just cracks me up, I can’t even take him serious anymore. It’s not so much that his music sucks, ’cause he still makes some mean shit (check out Rock Star or Hook It Up), but there’s only so many ways of talking about fucking girls, infidelity and partying, and as a result he’s forced to come up with crazy ass ideas to be creative. Of course the most obvious example is Trapped in the Closet and on Double Up he sorta continues that trend on a few joints like:
The Zoo where he analogises sex with an animal theme “Girl, I got you so wet It’s like a rain forest // Like Jurassic Park, except I’m your sex-a-saurus baby // You and me hopping like two kangaroos” — Haha wtf, and the imaginatively titled Sex Planet where he analogises sex with the solar system.
–UPDATED: Check out Kells performing The Zoo acapella down below–
Real Talk, where the song plays out as an argument with his missus who suspects he’s cheating (you gotta listen to his lyrics to appreciate the funniness) and Best Friend, a collabo track that’s a 3-way conversation about Kells’ girl (played by Keyshia Cole) cheating with his best friend (played by Polow Da Don) who at one point raps to Kells “What up my nigga, you straight? Anything I can get ya?” and Kells sings back “This toilet paper be cuttin’ my ass, I need some rolls of tissue”… huh?
Maybe Kells just has a warped sense of humour, I mean he did piss on a girl once, but I think it might be time to bow out ’cause at this rate he’s gonna fuck up his legacy and most people will just remember him as that crazy guy that made a 12-part song involving a midget. What you think?
UK band Bloc Party’s Auckland show has been moved from the St James to the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre, because of fire damage at the St James, they will play August 8 as originally scheduled. All of my favourite live acts have played at the St James so I’m pretty disappointed that it’s gonna be at the upside-down waka now.
There will be an extra 1000 tickets for sale from June 25, it’s pretty cool to like Bloc Party at the moment so no doubt these will be snapped up fast. I was one of those smart chaps that got my ticket the minute they went on sale so I could get a good spot, now I feel like a dick 
Here’s a bunch of screenshots from Kanye West’s new music video for ‘Stronger’. I really dig this joint and ‘Ye always delivers amazing videos so I’m anticipating this one like the Transformers film. Miss Info gave a breakdown of the ‘Stronger’ screening party on her blog, it’s a good read, well worth checking.
On a side-note it appears as though his Japanese interpreter doesn’t know how to spell ’stronger’, the Japanese katakana effectively reads as ’stonger’, 41 can back me up on that…
BAKAYARO!
^ Yet another reason not to wear Crocs. I know they’ve been around for ages now, but my disgust for them is still as strong as ever. Some people have tried to tell me how comfy they are, but that’s no excuse. Scuffs are comfy too muthafucka, rock those, you can even wear ‘em with white socks and still look all good. Smh at those families that you see around town and they’re all rocking Crocs in different colours. I remember about two years ago now I was in Melbourne and all the shoe stores there were heralding the arrival of Crocs like Tinker Hatfield had designed them or something. I’m not tryna front like I’m some fashionista, but this is probably the biggest fashion faux pas of the new millenium. Scuffs and slaps are like Jordans compared to these shits haha. On a side note, it’s a shame to see Bill Cosby’s endorsing them; his slide down my respect-meter shows no signs of slowing up.
Horrorcore rapper, producer and smut peddler Necro will be hitting our shores in August. I’m not really big on Necro myself but I can appreciate that his live show will be like nothing we’ve ever seen. Even if not for the music you’ll probably leave the gig with some memories that are likely to stay with you for the rest of your life and depending on your morals they’ll either give you an ear to ear grin or make you want to vomit.
Apparently Cyphanetik and Louie Knuxx will be playing support. Stay tuned, Knuxx is gonna see if he can line up an interview for Trueschool… just quietly I’m shitting myself!
The hub of Aotearoa’s Hip Hop community online, HIPHOPNZ, has merged with local Hip Hop magazine Back2Basics.
I had a feeling something was brewing because we haven’t seen a new issue from Back2Basics since March this year, and it is no secret that Prodigal has struggled to regularly update the site recently (not to mention his horrendous spelling). Personally I think the merger is a great move for both parties and the online Hip Hop community, my only concern is that we’re gonna be bombarded with Alize advertising.
I’ve been frequenting HIPHOPNZ since day one and I check in everyday, major props are in order for Prodigal and Aria who have been holding down HIPHOPNZ off their own back since ‘99, their consistent effort has definitely paid off.
Prodigal explained the situation on the HIPHOPNZ forum this morning, click here to check it out.
DJ 4-Tek from Wellington passed away yesterday morning. This cat was pretty dope on the cut, you will be missed bro.
New Zealand weather getting you down? Well watch this movie and it’ll have you outside embracing the Aotearoa raindrops like DJ Khaled in a Fat Joe clip. Michael Moore’s fourth feature length documentary, Sicko, will make anybody living outside the US jump for joy that they dont have to deal with the American health system. The film shows a country where choking babies are kicked out of hospitals, women are told brain tumours are not life threatening, and that a sliced finger tip will set you back more than your average student loan. Moore uses his signature sarcastic humour to pick a part the corrupt big business industry that is medical welfare in the United States, with the political right of past and present feeling most of the damage. The level of ridiculous injustice reaches its climax when he takes 9/11 volunteers (ailing from illness caused by working at the twin towers crash) to the only place on US soil that seems to have free health care… Guantanamo Bay!. Bowling For Columbine is still my favourite, but this is a must see also. Yesssss!
Every now and then you hear songs which regardless of whether you like them or not you know are hits. They usually fall into one of two categories, extremely catchy, or extremely annoying. And regardless of how catchy the song is you know it’ll eventually be thrashed to the point that all that lovely catchiness is gone and all thats left is annoyance. Then after a couple years pass you can pull the song back out for nostalgia purposes and reminisce about how rude you were back in the day.
This gem by Sean Kingston is one such song. The backpacker inside me wants to hate on it for sampling something as obvious as ‘Stand by me’, yet the chorus is just undeniable to my Samoan genes. I get visions of uncle’s singin’ Dr Hook – ‘When you’re in love with a beautiful woman’ and people dancin’ to Four Seasons - ‘Oh what a night’ soon as I hear this shit. Fob favourite status!
Sean Kingston feat Sheek Louch – Beautiful girls remix
p.s song is worth listenin to just to laugh at Sheek Louch’s poor effort on the raps.
Slick Van XL played me this T Pain song in the car and I uttered the words ‘I hate T Pain’. 3.5 minutes later I was track skipping backwards on the iPod for the repeat. This song also gets the WIN for the fact you can sing along to it without ever having heard it before.
The joy of repetition.
T Pain ft Akon – Bartender
