Courtesy of NZ music award winning artist Slick Van XL, here’s snippets for the whole Jay-Z - American Gangster album. For those wondering, the picture above is of the character Stringer Bell in TV series The Wire. Hov has got the actor(Idris Elba) on the intro to the album, he’s taking this back to the hustler/drug game cinematic experience pretty serious ay?
Street Fighter 4 Trailer
For those who haven’t already seen it, heres the trailer for Street Fighter 4. Obviously not in-game footage but I’m hopin the graphic quality isnt dissimilar. Im leaning towards the folk who are hoping for a 2d fighter, as the EX series is straight rude and Tekken has 3d mechanics on lock so hard I cant imagine anyone else coming close.
I’m gonna do a few more posts about Street Fighter 2 and its significance in the coming weeks, been toying with the idea of a shotthen.com SF2 tournament even(on Hyperfight of course :P) so anyone who’s interested in that sort of carry on, let it be known.
While the rugby world freaks out about Doug Howlett jumping on two cars in London, [sarcasm] league keeps it really real [/sarcasm]. New Zealand league players worldwide have been on a crime spree, hitting the headlines for a range of illegal/offensive acts.
* Former Junior Kiwi John Te Reo was axed from the Broncos for being involved in a fight outside of a club that saw a man’s skull fractured.
* Tevita Latu, the former Kiwi, Warriors and Cronulla player who left the NRL after punching a girl in the face, was suspended from the British Super League for calling another player a nigger.
* After the Kiwis got a hiding from Aussie on Sunday a few players got on it and allegedly sexually violated a young woman in Wellington.
* And then I just read today that Iafeta Palea’aesina has been arrested in the UK for breaking a man’s jaw in a brawl at a train station.
Haha league players ay… shit. I look forward to the day when Kiwi players start making the headlines for helping their teams win.
Sidebar: Which is more embarassing about the Kiwis jersey? That it represents a bunch of crims that can’t win games, or that the major sponsor, written boldly on the front of the jersey, is Chrisco - the guys that make Christmas hampers. Smh.
‘Twas a rather painful weekend. Fresh from our W.C ousting we were served with these results ..
Hence I know I wasnt the only Kiwi taking some consolation in South Africa’s victory over the Argentines. Southern hemisphere pride would seemingly demand that we support S.A over England as a sign of our style of play being superior to 6 nations rugby, and also due to England being the most boring side to watch in history. However as much as I agree with these 2 ‘facts’ I still find it hard to willingly support South Africa due to their racial ass past(…. and present, oh!).
I cant help but get visions of the ‘Power of one’ whenever I think about getting behind this team. Admittedly this is sport not politics, and the team shouldnt be judged on their countrys history but I’m just ig’nant like that. Shit, if this was 81 I might have even been down at Eden Park marchin on them with the rest of the folk.
That being said… fuck England, S.A for the win. Ha.
Admittedly I was like ay? when i first got it, but I basically played this song until I started to like it - mainly due to it being on repeat whilst I was goin for that #1 spot on Facebook Pacman. Still reckon Pha-real shoulda got some girls to do the en-vogue steez though. This vid has just made me like it some more. Perhaps it’ll do the same for you.
Jay-Z - Blue Magic
Nice jam for the summer I reckon. Check it out here.
**Disclaimer: The mp3 includes a few DJ drops**
Hate it or love it?
In more unfortunate news, shotthen favourite Bobby Brown was admitted to hospital last night after suffering a mild heart attack. After having the opportunity to see Bobby Brown live a few months back with Slick… I can’t say I’m all that surprised. He definitely looked as if life had taken it’s toll on him. Slightly out of shape, looking much more aged than I’d anticipated, it was at times hard to watch a visibly tired Bob giving his all in a show with production values not much higher than your average school musical(With attendence not much higher either).
To put it in context his band consisted of an amazing drummer mic’d way too loud, a keyboardist you couldn’t hear, zero back up singers(WTF?), and backing tracks with no BV’s. Combine that with Bobby not being able to hear himself onstage, but being way too loud front of house and you get quite a sad state of affairs. That being said, I still had to marvel at how mean his catalogue is and I left with a feeling of accomplishment at seeing one of my childhood faves perform. Performing literally EVERY song of his I wanted to hear at that. Shotty.
Ahh well, the good news is he’s apparently in ‘great spirits and doing well’. Heres hoping he continues to do so. Get well soon Bob.
Oh yeah..in further unfortunate news, Prodigy has caught 3.5 years for a gun charge. Fuck, just a fortnight ago he was gettin punched by Saigon and his mate now this. Poor cunt.
Cool new Smif n Wessun joint. I always love to hear some new Boot Camp, especially when 9th Wonder hasn’t had a hand in it.
And to reminisce…
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