Sheeit, I saw this article about the top 16 80’s cartoon villains and it had me doing imaginary face-offs between characters in my mind. I have a nephew and niece so I often find myself watching the current crop of after school cartoons with them and it has to be said - “action” cartoons nowadays are all shit. It’s not like the 80’s shows didn’t revolve round selling toys too, but man.. at least when they’d have a fight, they had a fight. In these post-Pokemon shows they always fight each other - by playing WITH the toys (think Bey Blades, Card Captors etc). Even the kids think that shit sucks.

Back to this list though, I think they’ve come through with most of the major players. I’m in disagreement with some of the ordering but that’s bound to happen. I would probably put Starscream above everyone, even Megatron. He’s the most ruthless, has zero loyalty, and is a funny cunt to boot. When he threw Megatron into space because Megatron was weighing down the space shuttle, that was a GOAT villian moment. Skeletor to me can’t be the GOAT simply cause he’s just comedy, the look of him, the voice - everything. In fact Masters of the Universe characters in general just make me laugh as soon as I see them(Trap-Jaw, Stinkor) .. cept for Man-At-Arms, he’s mean.

As far as oversights go, they missed my man Doc Terror from Centurions (Centurions was mean as fuck!). Also Saw Boss (what a bad ass name) from Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors. I would probably throw both Bebop and Rocksteady from Ninja Turtles in there too, Bebop is trueschool as and Rocksteady had all the quotables. Props for no mention of Krang too.. fuck him. Take a trip down memory lane 80’s babies.

The Top 16 80’s Cartoon Villains

I was scouring through the XXL site and found this article from a couple days ago about the greatest guest mc’s of all time. I don’t disagree with any of the candidates they have mentioned being amongst the best, but there is a glaring oversight in the lack of a mention for Eminem. The article crowns Busta as the G.O.A.T guest MC, which I think is a fair argument strictly for the fact that he’s been killing guest spots consistently for longer than anyone else. For me when considering favourites I’ve tried to take into account versatility, as far as some dudes have done their best work on solo R&B guest spots. Some dudes straight kill it on tracks with other MC’s. With that criteria in mind, my personal top 3 are as follows:

(1) Jay-Z - All round brilliance, too many mindblowing guest spots to list and they’re across the board. “Crazy In Love” is top 3 R&B guest spots, plus he fucks up other rappers on the regular. Peep lesser known joints like Miss Jade’s “Count it off” and Sigel’s “Think it’s a game” and try and front on the god. Slick needs to do his post bout Hov guest spots to school everyone.

(2) Eminem - The best at guesting on hip hop songs ever IMO, but his lack of R&B game knocks him to #2 status for me. Until T.I - “Touchdown” I don’t think Eminem had EVER had a bad guest verse/not fucked up who ever else he was on the track with. Biggie’s “Dead Wrong”, 50 - “Patiently Waiting”, Jay-Z “Renegade”, Obie Trice’s “Girls”, “Forgot about Dre” the list goes on and on.

(3) Ludacris - Luda invents flows. For my money he’s the best ever on R&B guest spots, just for the way he’ll come up with some pattern or flow that steals the show. His verse on Ciara’s “Oh” was damn near religious for me, even that Usher “Dat girl jangling” verse was insane. He also does the damage on other cunts too see the “I’m So Hood Remix” and Twista’s “Higher” on the lesser known tip.

What say you folk, where your top 3’s at ? Some best verse suggestions would be good too.

I hope now that the vid is out people are coming to the realisation that “Put On” is rap song of the year thus far (along with Game - “Dope Boys”). In a move which seems like the universes response to my post about Prodigy yesterday, the remix featuring Hov has surfaced. In which he co-incidentally mentions :

“I put Prodigy in his place on that Summer Jam screen” Jay-Z

Ha, touche. If I wasn’t an even bigger Jigga fan I’d be probably be mad at him for fucking up my favourite groups career. Back to the remix though, Jay is nice on it and seems to be the only dude who actually talks about how he “puts on for his city”. I never know what Jeezy’s on about talkin bout “dinner plates” and shit, and Kanye came through with verse about self on the emotional tip. ‘Ye still gets the win for best verse though, strictly for sayin he “feels like there’s still bitches that owe him sex”. Don’t we all ‘Ye, don’t we all.

*looks to the right of Jay in the picture

Young Jeezy feat Jay-Z - “Put On” (Remix)

I figure I’ve been plugging this Wiz stuff since the jump, I might as well keep going now that he’s dropped this new single. He’s stuck to the script and this one sounds like some more ‘turn of the millenium’ trance, albeit without the famous sample.  I don’t know what it is about this cunt, but he cracks me up everytime. Talking bout “bad bitches”, sippin patron, and throwin money in the air over production that conjures up images of french dudes with peroxide spiked hair and glowsticks is a juxtaposition of epic proportions. I know this Euro trance sound has been all the rage since Timberlakes last album dropped, but I don’t think anyone else’s production has managed to sound quite as authentically cheese as the stuff Johnny Juliano has done for Wiz. The shit just sounds so… I dunno… non-urban ?

Question for the day, how much more life is there in these arpeggiator beats and Autotune choruses ? I’m givin both another 8 - 12 months.

Wiz Khalifa - “Make it hot”

This trailer for Watchmen is apparently showing at all the screenings of The Dark Knight (which also looks tight - out this week). Some of you would have seen the Watchmen graphic novels floating around various stores. Can’t say I’ve ever read them myself but I recall my flatmate trying to put me onto them and he tends to know what’s what.

I’m still recovering after Federer’s loss to Rafa at Wimbledon, but this track right here gets a dude in good spirits. Propers have to go to Drumma Boy on the boards - he’s killing it at the mo. This is some more triumphant, take over the world shit from the man responsible for my other 08 anthem “Put On”. I’m guessing Tip is also addressing Shawty “Dey Know” Lo if that’s your thing. Being that it’s the lamest beef ever though, it probably isn’t. Whaaaaat uuup.

T.I - What Up

“Your friends were very jealous, even if they tell you they weren’t.. they were envious of the fact I approached you….”

Major props go to Jordache for this one. This is straight up outlandish. The story goes this guy Dmitri met this chick, talked to her for 2 minutes and hit her up for her number. She gave him her card and said to give her a call and these are the messages he left on her voicemail. His arrogance/audacity surpasses Ron Burgundy levels… in fact you couldn’t even write shit this good. The quotables just keep on rollin, too much bradas.

God bless the person that uploaded this to youtube, I’d searched for this numerous times in the past so I could share it with the shotthen massive to no avail. This song/vid is a bonafide classic, when the drinks are getting poured and this song comes on - forget it. 3 classic verses, 3 classic performances. Omilio Sparks deserves an oscar for his overacting, Oschino praises a girl for having straight teeth, and Young Chris reminds females worldwide that time’s the only thing you can spend with him. School yourself.

Update:
Appears Universal are fronting about the embedding as per usual, here’s the link to the vid.

State Property - Mami do you want me

Well this certainly lit up my morning. It’s already everywhere but I had to give it the c/s cause it’s fucken mean. This song goes hard, apparently it’s Travis Barker on the drums and it’s produced by 1500 or nothin (Just Blaze ??). Turn this shit up LOUD.

The Game - Dope Boyz