Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Today's Spotlight Artist: Action Bronson
I recently had the good fortune of stumbling upon one of THE best mixtapes I have heard in a while. The whole while I listened, I was blown away by its sheer creativity. With crazy beats and offbeat lyrics, this tape definitely has my vote for best mixtape of 2012. Who was the artist who dropped this gem, you may ask? None other than this guy
"Nick, that's not a rapper. That's a swagged-out lumberjack. TF are you on?" Well, snarky reader, this man here is Action Bronson; and if you haven't heard of him by now, I'd advise you to do some research on him ASAP. The tape I'm speaking of is entitled Blue Chips, and it dropped a few months back.
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| Get it! DO IT NOW! |
Guys. I would not steer you wrong. Do yourself a favor and add this baby to your collection. It is one of THE most original and well-put-together mixtapes I have heard in years. One of the main reasons this tape has affected me like it has may be because I was beginning to lose hope for hip-hop as an art form. The industry has become so corrupted by hedonism and materialism, there didn't seem to be much realness left. However, between this mixtape and "Life is Good," my love for rap is now stronger than ever. Bronson may not be famous just yet, but dernit if he keeps puttin out stuff like this I foresee it happening very soon.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Random Thought (7/22/12)
"I wonder how many turtles have died as a result of small children trying to re-enact Super Mario Bros..?"
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Forgot about This one
Found this a few years back. Jant by MF Doom and Danger Mouse (DANGER DOOM) called "Old School"
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Good things come in threes...
The purpose of this post is to inform you all that our third mixtape is currently in the works...
First there was The Validation..
Then there was T3...
Now get ready for RAP SUCKS. Album cover coming soon. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have downloaded our tapes and supported us from day one. It really means a lot that something we do for fun has resonated with so many people. You all are the best!! An official release date for RAP SUCKS has yet to be set, but we will most def drop it sometime this upcoming semester. I'll keep you all posted.
First there was The Validation..
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| Available here |
Then there was T3...
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| And you can cop that here |
Friday, July 6, 2012
Mac & Devin go to High School: The Review
(if you would like to see it before I spoil anything, you can watch it on Youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmMm7EaAXs )
I knew this movie was going to disappoint me--my face literally fell--when it opened with a CGI blunt (voiced by Mystikal) screaming at me to roll up or I would not understand/appreciate the film.
In retrospect, maybe I would have enjoyed this movie a lot more had I been under the influence, but I digress. It begins with super-senior and marijuana dealer Mac, (played by Snoop Dogg) making his rounds throughout the campus of N. Hale high school (N. Hale...see what they did there?). First of all, why the filmmakers thought it'd be a good idea to cast damn-near-40-year-old Snoop Dogg as a high-school student in the first place is beyond me; granted, a running joke throughout the film is that he's been enrolled at the school for 15 years, but even so this would mean that he was in 9th grade at 25. Dag Snoop.
But moving on, Mac's character is sadly stereotypical; he's a certified pothead with no foreseeable goals or aspirations, making his living trafficking marijuana to his peers. His clientele includes numerous members of N. Hale's faculty, which consequently has given him the pull to avoid expulsion.
Devin (played by Wiz Khalifa) is your typical nerd. He's nervous, apprehensive, and sexually inexperienced. He's also in the running to be valedictorian of his class. He has a rather attractive, yet controlling girlfriend who is obsessed with both their futures and pretty much tells him what to do. Wiz gives a listless performance throughout pretty much the whole film (even in one particular scene where he motorboats a prostitutes naked breasts), but I'll just assume he was baked the whole film.
The introduction of Teairra Mari as Ms. Huck, a sexy substitute teacher, finally gives Mac the inspiration to want to graduate high school; in typical Snoop fashion, he tries to put some of his doggy mack mizzle pimpin on the sultry sub, but gets shut down when she tells him she doesn't date students. This rejection raises the question in Mac's mind, "hm...maybe there's more to living than sitting in a classroom where I'm the same age as the teacher." Oh yeah Snoop. Don't graduate high school to get a decent job or, say, avoid being a 40-year-old man hanging with teenagers. Graduate high school so you can get ya some good ole substitute teacher draws. I'm taking notes here, big guy. Anyway, as fate would have it, Mac and Devin are made partners on a chemistry project which, if Devin fails, would cost him his position as valedictorian. This is where the real action of the movie begins.
To make a long story short, Mac gets Devin high, Devin decides that he likes it and, for some inexplicable reason, goes out and tattoos his whole body. One could say that Mac brings out in Devin a sort of assertiveness he didn't have prior (if that's what you want to call losing your virginity in a massage parlor and working up the "courage" to call your girlfriend a b*tch). In the end, they pass their chemistry project and both graduate from N. Hale. Mac hooks up with Ms. Huck, and Devin dumps his girlfriend and goes on to attend Yale.
This isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's rife with cliches, stereotypes, and the same stoner jokes I've seen before in much better films (*cough*How High!*cough*). To me, this movie is Snoop and Wiz's attempt to cash in on their popularity; and I can't say that I blame them. If people will pay to see films such as this (and they will), why shouldn't Snoop and Wiz want to cash in on it? In addition to the film's tired premise, a slew of B-List actors make it all the more depressing. Andy Milonakis co-stars as a wheelchair bound nymphomaniac called Knees Down, a character who is as appealing as he sounds.
Mike Epps plays Mr. Armstrong, a professor and one of Mac's customers. With his typical try-too-hard comedic style, Epps manages to deliver more groans than laughs in the movie.
Now I'm not one to sit and complain about a movie without highlighting its enjoyable moments as well. As bad of a film as this is, there are a few good jokes (like one scene in which Mac, annoyed at Devin's constant pestering to meet up, tells him to meet him later at the corner of "WhyDontcha" and "BlowMe"). I will also say, there is plenty of great new music from both Wiz and Snoop in the movie. This soundtrack will very likely be bumping in my car on many road trips to come (Look up the song "6:30." Nuff said). I fox with the soundtrack HEAVY.
Unfortunately, that is just about all that I can say of this film that is positive. The rest of it is either flat-out bad, or could have been done a lot better. "How High," "Half Baked," "Pineapple Express," THESE are classic stoner movies. "Mac & Devin" looks like something you'd get from a guy selling DVDs in a mall food court. True potheads will likely appreciate this film a lot more than I did, but the sloppy script, lazy acting, and the randomly-appearing screaming CGI blunt make "Mac & Devin" a no-go for me.
2/5.
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| "If you haven't figured it out, this is a movie about WEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!" |
In retrospect, maybe I would have enjoyed this movie a lot more had I been under the influence, but I digress. It begins with super-senior and marijuana dealer Mac, (played by Snoop Dogg) making his rounds throughout the campus of N. Hale high school (N. Hale...see what they did there?). First of all, why the filmmakers thought it'd be a good idea to cast damn-near-40-year-old Snoop Dogg as a high-school student in the first place is beyond me; granted, a running joke throughout the film is that he's been enrolled at the school for 15 years, but even so this would mean that he was in 9th grade at 25. Dag Snoop.
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| "Ya only as old as ya fizzle, muh nizzle." |
But moving on, Mac's character is sadly stereotypical; he's a certified pothead with no foreseeable goals or aspirations, making his living trafficking marijuana to his peers. His clientele includes numerous members of N. Hale's faculty, which consequently has given him the pull to avoid expulsion.
Devin (played by Wiz Khalifa) is your typical nerd. He's nervous, apprehensive, and sexually inexperienced. He's also in the running to be valedictorian of his class. He has a rather attractive, yet controlling girlfriend who is obsessed with both their futures and pretty much tells him what to do. Wiz gives a listless performance throughout pretty much the whole film (even in one particular scene where he motorboats a prostitutes naked breasts), but I'll just assume he was baked the whole film.
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| He has no idea this movie exists. |
The introduction of Teairra Mari as Ms. Huck, a sexy substitute teacher, finally gives Mac the inspiration to want to graduate high school; in typical Snoop fashion, he tries to put some of his doggy mack mizzle pimpin on the sultry sub, but gets shut down when she tells him she doesn't date students. This rejection raises the question in Mac's mind, "hm...maybe there's more to living than sitting in a classroom where I'm the same age as the teacher." Oh yeah Snoop. Don't graduate high school to get a decent job or, say, avoid being a 40-year-old man hanging with teenagers. Graduate high school so you can get ya some good ole substitute teacher draws. I'm taking notes here, big guy. Anyway, as fate would have it, Mac and Devin are made partners on a chemistry project which, if Devin fails, would cost him his position as valedictorian. This is where the real action of the movie begins.
To make a long story short, Mac gets Devin high, Devin decides that he likes it and, for some inexplicable reason, goes out and tattoos his whole body. One could say that Mac brings out in Devin a sort of assertiveness he didn't have prior (if that's what you want to call losing your virginity in a massage parlor and working up the "courage" to call your girlfriend a b*tch). In the end, they pass their chemistry project and both graduate from N. Hale. Mac hooks up with Ms. Huck, and Devin dumps his girlfriend and goes on to attend Yale.
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| Where he soon discovers that cocaine is the drug of high society. |
This isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's rife with cliches, stereotypes, and the same stoner jokes I've seen before in much better films (*cough*How High!*cough*). To me, this movie is Snoop and Wiz's attempt to cash in on their popularity; and I can't say that I blame them. If people will pay to see films such as this (and they will), why shouldn't Snoop and Wiz want to cash in on it? In addition to the film's tired premise, a slew of B-List actors make it all the more depressing. Andy Milonakis co-stars as a wheelchair bound nymphomaniac called Knees Down, a character who is as appealing as he sounds.
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| Pimpin aint easy. |
Mike Epps plays Mr. Armstrong, a professor and one of Mac's customers. With his typical try-too-hard comedic style, Epps manages to deliver more groans than laughs in the movie.
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| "GIRL IF DAT ASS DON'T LOOK LIKE TWO FAT MIDGETS IN A KIDDIE POOL!" |
Now I'm not one to sit and complain about a movie without highlighting its enjoyable moments as well. As bad of a film as this is, there are a few good jokes (like one scene in which Mac, annoyed at Devin's constant pestering to meet up, tells him to meet him later at the corner of "WhyDontcha" and "BlowMe"). I will also say, there is plenty of great new music from both Wiz and Snoop in the movie. This soundtrack will very likely be bumping in my car on many road trips to come (Look up the song "6:30." Nuff said). I fox with the soundtrack HEAVY.
Unfortunately, that is just about all that I can say of this film that is positive. The rest of it is either flat-out bad, or could have been done a lot better. "How High," "Half Baked," "Pineapple Express," THESE are classic stoner movies. "Mac & Devin" looks like something you'd get from a guy selling DVDs in a mall food court. True potheads will likely appreciate this film a lot more than I did, but the sloppy script, lazy acting, and the randomly-appearing screaming CGI blunt make "Mac & Devin" a no-go for me.
2/5.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Guess I'm growing up.
(Monday, March 7th. 2:30 pm)
So...it is spring break. And here I am, sitting at my computer in my house in tha HUGE town of Wagram...wikipedia it. Anyway, I feel as though I'm moving closer and closer to my future with each passing day. And frankly, it scares tha ish outta me. Sophomore yr is almost over. I am about to be a JUNIOR! Wat?? I don't feel I have accomplished nearly as much as I should have these past two years..at least not as much as I kno I am capable of. That being said, I am about ta be on it these last two years. Networking, resume building, conventions, conferences, honors, all a that. It's a big world out there. And I am but a man of 5'9. I've gotta start thinkin about how I'm gonna differentiate myself from these other guys out here wanting tha same thing. All I'm gon say is, thank God I've got a few good squads behind me. Let's get it. #TRU #210crew #HLFH
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