Oh hell yeah

NyOil - What up, my Wigger?

Bruisin in the ATL

92's the new 20, nuh, she's so fly

Bizarro World

So, not only is Jay-Z losing a battle to Jim Jones, but it turns out that Cosmo Kramer is a racist, detestable asshole. I'm losing my fucking mind ya'll.


R.I.P. my enjoyment of Seinfeld

Gooey Gummies

You want em, I got em, drippin' like water...

Snoop Dogg - Candy feat. E-40, Mc Eiht, Goldie Loc, and Dogg Pound

Cassidy - 6 Minutes of Death

Jay Z - I Made It

Paul Wall - Sittin' Sideways

Wu-Tang Clan - Wu Wear

Dizzee Rascal - Get By

Korn - A.D.I.D.A.S.

Schooly D - PSK (What does it mean?)

The Game - Scream on 'em

Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle

Snoop Dogg - Crazy feat. Nate Dogg

Black Republicans

Jay-Z and Nas Make History on this Track from the forthcoming Nas LP HipHop is Dead

You my pride, you my dream, you my darling

"Free Lord Infamous"

DJ Paul is a dog, one you do not trust

You leave your green around him, nuh your green gon get lit up

You leave your drink around him, believe your drink gon get drunk up

You leave your girl around him and she bet she gonna get stuffed

Double dog dare complete

Apparently Three 6 have put out former members, misguided evangelicals, and a lot of the jealous Ten-a-key hip hop community. Have they chapped yours too? Tell us who run it.

Can't outblow Weak 9

3-11 last week, 3 right picks in 14 games. Disgusting, and it probably seems like it drove me underground, but not this man. I won't roll over and pretend it ain't happened.

Returned to town late last night after getting the ball rolling on my wedding plans, rolled over in bed at 3 this afternoon and made this week's picks before checking any scores. All outcomes were decided as quickly as possible (under five minutes) while the wizard ate a bagel and popped in a Bernie Mac DVD, so no explanations this time, and if the skid's broke you'll know what's really up.

Believe, or not. I decided at the time if I don't win 11 of 16 this week, you'll never have to scroll past the worthless ish again, and if I do I'll back it the same way next week, before kickoff. Spreadless picks are included if they're different, don't know why I didn't add those earlier.

Hate to bump the Munk's stellar advance word on Kingdom Come, but home teams tilt and Monday night says whether we put this feature out of its wretched misery:

Miami (even) over Kansas City

Houston (+10.5) over Jacksonville

San Diego (-1) over Cincinnati

Tennessee (+7.5) over Baltimore (Ravens outright)

Atlanta (-7) over Cleveland

Green Bay (+5.5) over Minnesota

Buffalo (+12.5) over Indianapolis (Colts outright)

New England (-10.5) over New York Jets

Washington (+7) over Philadelphia (Eagles outright)

Pittsburgh (-4.5) over New Orleans

Oakland (+9) over Denver (Broncos outright)

Detroit (-6) over San Francisco

Seattle (-3) over St. Louis

Dallas (-7) over Arizona

Chicago (even) over New York Giants

Tampa Bay (+9.5) over Carolina

Guess who's back

Jay-Z won one.

I recently had the good fortune of, by the mysterious magic of the internets, coming across an advance copy of the Jay-Z comeback effort, Kingdom Come. After only a few listens to it, I still don't know if I personally like it more than The Blueprint, and definitely cannot name it best hip-hop album of the year, what with the pending releases of Hell Hath No Fury and The Doctor's Advocate. But I was able to come to this realisation: Jiggaman Wins.

The thing is, Jay doesn't have to put out the best album, or even one considered to be a classic. He has already signed Nas to Def Jam and has effectively made Nas his employee. Sure, they are homies now, but Hova had to get his revenge for what Nas did to him. As a matter of fact, if anything, Kingdom Come is more of a passing of the crown to Nas than a claim to it. Jay doesn't need to be hungry anymore, he is at the head of the table now. Nas however is still working to put out a consistent LP, one that even contends with Illmatic, and now here Jay-Z is giving him his head start; therefore basically making Nas his weed-carrier. All that needs to happen now is for Hip Hop is Dead to rock. And by all accounts so far, it does. That of course will be a win for Jay also. This dude cannot lose.

Au Revoir Le Enfant

Rumsfeld, we could hardly stand ye.

B Movie

Yeah...I don't know about all this, Jerr.

Avon is a War fan

This is a short interview that I had with an unsuspecting Blake Leyh, on his website Ten Thousand Things. Blake Leyh is the music supervisor for the HBO program The Wire, and most people who have seen it agree that it is the show of all shows. This back and forth began a while back when I had left a comment on his blog, and he responded like so.

DM: I have a question for you, Blake. What’s up with the scene at the very end of the episode Hot Shots? Where is the music coming from? Avon’s Cell? And why Cisco Kid?

Blake Leyh: Dronkmunk - I haven’t seen that episode in a long time, but I remember the music being sourced to Avon’s cell, although we cheated a little bit with how loud it was played and how it changed dynamically as we move in the hallway, giving it a slightly unrealistic but dramatic build towards the end. Thom Zimny the editor picked that track and we all liked it for no special reason. Not every single track has to have the weight of theory behind it, sometimes they just play. We used another track from War (Me & Baby Brother) playing in the SUV that picks Avon up when he is released from jail early in Season 3, so I guess Avon is a War fan.

DM: Ok, so have you all decided what kind of music Marlo listens to? I don’t think he has ever played music in his truck. I mean, even Chris likes to "lean wit it"! Is Marlo so inhuman that he has no musical taste?

BL: Marlo? Marlo doesn’t care about trifling things like music. If Chris puts some music on while they drive around, fine. What do you think he would listen to?

BL: One spot of dangerous ground in music supervision is caricaturing people, turning them into stereotypes. Maybe Marlo has a thing for Abba, or Frank Sinatra? He wouldn’t listen to it in public, but at home, after hours? In season 1 I tried to have Daniels listening to Ali Farka Toure in the privacy of the detail office, but it was shot down and replaced with Duke Ellington’s “Fleurette Africaine”, which was, in fact, a better choice.

I would like to thank Blake for providing these answers. They may look like crumbs but to a wire addict like me ("I'm the Bubbles of this shit!") they play more like satisfying morsels. I would also like to thank Blake in advance for letting me steal this from his site too.

Word Cliché Now a Cliché

What are you going to do about it — asshole.

The pulse

They needed the paddles last week around 3 pm EST, when it became clear I'd be killed in the early games (3-5). Did a little better in the late games (3-1) and split the night games to finish 7-7 on the week (43-35-5 overall), not good enough. So I made sure to spend less time on the picks this week, that always seems to help. Home teams tilt:

New York Giants (- 13) over Houston

Cincinnati (+ 3) over Baltimore

Dallas (- 3) over Washington

Green Bay (+ 3) over Buffalo

St. Louis (- 3) over Kansas City

Detroit (+ 5) over Atlanta
I really hate to pick the Lions, but you won't see me flying past your window riding the Falcons any time soon.

Chicago (- 13.5) over Miami
I've been pissed at the Bears since the Monday night game against Arizona a few weeks ago. Better let that go.

Tampa Bay (+ 1) over New Orleans

Tennessee (- 10) over Jacksonville
I didn't know what it felt like to pick the Titans until just now, but they've covered against me 4 of their last 5 games. Jacksonville had its turn, now it's time to give Tennessee a chance to let me down.

Minnesota (- 5.5) over San Francisco
Thanks for the great effort last week, SF, go fuck yourselves. Third prize is you're fired.

San Diego (- 12.5) over Cleveland

Pittsburgh (- 2) over Denver

Indianapolis (+ 3) over New England
Tom Brady keeps Peyton Manning chained up as a Gimp from February to June every year, but Indy peaking early and the Patriots late is part of the natural order.

Seattle (- 8) over Oakland
The Raiders did me good two weeks ago, when I picked their first win on Monday night (against the Cardinals, no big thing). They had me last week, too, and it's time to get off now.

Wizard from wordinfo.info

Kanye Kanye Kanye

I guess he wants his name back in those headlines. It's been a little while, but still I never heard anyone jinxing him or anything.

We're fans, Kanye, and we'll put our own insecurities aside for a minute to oblige. You know you're a heavy hitter, Kanye, you're doing fine, and if anyone wants to open a gossip file they should already know what's at stake. Do your thing, my only thing is the hits speak for themselves, and Gone already did the same job better. Your video was cool, it was hot, but any one of about two hundred available European jokes would have been even more effective here.

Here's the video in question:


For "a million dollars" they might have made the crash look a little less like they were zooming in on an 8-inch toy rocket.

The hijacking might sound petty at first, but more likely it was just a weird stunt. For comparisons' sake, here's the winner:


I like Kanye's a lot better too, but not to the point of some Kathy Griffin antics.

Jak się masz?

My favorite Polish-speaking Kazak has been all over the place lately, and my flexible lifestyle allowed me to catch a matinee and see what he's been working on. There's not much to say about any comedy without spoiling the laughs, and I'm not a critic anyway, but since it's new I'll toss a few opinions out at the five of you, no spoilers.

In short, it's worth seeing. When I heard he was making the movie I wondered how they could get an hour and a half out of the character, and the previews got me up for it. All those different previews mined the funniest parts a little more than I'd hoped, but there's a lot of good left. A couple parts didn't make me laugh my head off as much as shake it disbelieving, and I guess that should be a strike against a comedy but on the other hand that's the whole thing.

Larry Charles, the director, swears it wasn't scripted and I think it shows. That must have made it harder for them, but it was the only way to go. Some parts might leave you wondering exactly how much planning went into the storyline, if not the individual scenes, but they had to get a movie together somehow too.

Don't let this come off lukewarm. Half the fun is imitating Borat afterward, and I'm trying hard to hold off spoiling anything for you.

Going in, I thought about how long it's been since a new classic comedy joined the all-time greats, and how it shouldn't be that hard for something to come out and easily be the best comedy of the millenium. Those hopes were too high: it didn't come out to stomp all comers, but it was a funny, quick view that definitely had its moments.

On the Netflix scale (1-5 stars, no half stars), it's got a solid 4 from me. Baron Cohen gets some great original lines in and I thought about the 5, but I'ma leave it here for now, for all that's worth.

Kanye Pulls an ODB

Kanyeezy Rushes the Stage at the MTV Europe Music Video Awards after losing for Best Video.



Since youtube has deleted the clip, you can see it here. Now that I've seen it, it looks totally staged.

Chocolate Cheescakes

Here's another thing you should do: clean your hard drive. Namely your mp3s. Everyone has atleast a few songs that are shitty/embarrassing. All I'm saying is you don't want to be stuck listening to Bow Wow with your buddy while you have your My Music folder on shuffle and you can't change the track because you two are in the middle of an intense Tekken team battle. Or what have you. Ok, I only copped "Fresh Azimiz" because I heard T.I. ghostwrote it (verdict: yeah, he did).

And while your're cleaning out the crap, you should go to your local music retailer or iTunes and go get the following songs to add to your HD.

Clipse - New World
From the forthcoming Hell Hath No Fury. Pharrell almost ruins this one though.
Game - Wouldn't get far
This is from the upcoming Doctor's Advocate (which seems like it is going to be pretty solid, actually) featuring and produced by Kanye West.
Diddy - Hold up
I know, I know. But this beat is ama-za-zing.
Ghostface - Buck 50
A track from the Tony Stark's classic Supreme Clientele
Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
Three words: Lewd Ambient Music.
50 cent - Outta Control
This is one from the handful of decent tracks that 50 did with Mobb Deep.
Masta Killa - Pass the Bone remix
A cover of the Pre-Wu Gza and Rza Classic.

Oh really

Drug violation nets Mets pitcher Mota 50-game ban

And elsewhere in Queens today, performance artist Dave Steroids was arrested and charged with possession of cannabis.

Photo by Richard C. Lewis/WireImage.com

Obama in '08!

Coolest. President. Evar.