December 2011
The video for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" could've...
PAUL FLATTERY: Steve Barron was initially hired to do both “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.” I think his “Beat It” was going to be set on a slave boat.
RONALD “BUZZ” BRINDLE: For the “Beat It” clip, Michael originally wanted to do it on a white slave ship with him as the slave master. I heard that from a director in Roberta Cruger’s...
jsmooth995:
Five years ago tonight James Brown died, and on that night right around this time, I felt moved to bring something creative into being, to (in whatever clumsy little way I would) put that energy of creation out into the world in his honor. So I downloaded some random video clip from Youtube and opened up Sony Vegas, to experiment with editing video for the first time. After 5 or ten...
“4.94: Average number of times “Paris” played, per night.
18: Minutes, on...”
– ‘Ni**as in Paris’: The Definitive Breakdown (via doree)
Doree made me use my brain, and it felt weird.
So, I guess we're just gonna let the 'Texts from...
Neat.
“No matter what the initial intent, the Summer Of Kreay slogged on through the...”
– Maura making her case for Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci” as the 11th Most Infuriating Song Of 2011 (via villagevoice)
2011.
It’s incredibly self-serving for me to even put this on here (sorry, Cho), but at least I’m aware of that fact. I just don’t want to forget so many of the things that happened this year.
Rolling Stone’s Top 10 comedians to watch this year, Village Voice profile piece…and then I started writing for them. Vibe byline. MTV, MTV2. Hot97. Hypemen hiatus, Hypemen...
Cocaine Blunts: Best Rap, 2011 →
tumblinerb:
I made a list of 50 rap songs from 2011 at my other site, which still exists.
My Pazz & Jop ballot overlaps with almost one-fifth of this.
“Once while interviewing Lil Wayne I asked him if it ever bothered him that...”
– Another gem from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s piece on The Roots and why their new album is their most important one (via capitalnewyork)
Jesus.
Alex Blaggazine: The 2011 Kardashian Family... →
Perfect.
ICE admits year-long seizure of music blog was a... →
soupsoup:
As bad as SOPA looks, there’s already very little preventing websites to be seized without due process.
FREE SPLASH/DAJAZ1
Mr. Cee’s 50 Cent ten-year mixtape mix. So...
Karmin is watered-down pop fizz, a safe way for... →
An anonymous Village Voice commenter joins the fray in the boards.
“I feel like Barack sometimes – I’m out here trying to make the world a better...”
– I love Young Jeezy like a lot (via jawnita)
Not included: when Jeezy offered to buy me an AK-47 for Christmas. Also, the moment that Katy Perry walked by.
“Remember Dajaz1.com? It was one of the sites seized over the Thanksgiving...”
– “Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details.” (via marathonpacks)
Unbelievable yesterday, unbelievable today.
“I want to take enough time to make sure it’s the reinvention of pop music....”
– Ke$ha, on the release date of her second album. (via barthel)
Perfect.
Young Jeezy just offered to buy me an AK-47. Happy holidays.
It was brought to my attention that Karmin is being referred to as ‘swag pop’, which makes me think that:
No one knows how to use the word ‘swag’;
Everyone needs to stop using the word ‘swag’.
KE$HA GETS $LEAZIER - LIL' WAYNE, WIZ KHALIFA,...
maura:
how can today get better?!
Related: I’m having the worst music morning in a while. (Karmin dropped their first music video; about 18 white rappers have flooded my senses; etc etc etc etc.)
Slow Jamz →
LADIES…
"WAFFLE FACE, WITH A NECK LIKE A PANCAKE"
The Lil’ B-style song I made up that I’ve been chanting for the past hour around my apartment. My brother pretty much hates me now.
