'In the place to be. Coming on the mic is Eazy Mothafuckin-E. Dre is on the beat. Yella's on the cut. So listen right close while we rip shit up...'

got this mix a while back. it's been helpful during moving out of the box and moving in to the house AKA STAG CENTRAL. it's a mix that mike b did for the hundreds, pretty much all well obvious west coast stuff, which i find i rarely listen to but fuck me this is good in the sun.

this is a tracklist:

1. Intro feat Bun B, Scotty iLL and Ben Hundreds
2. Eazy E & Ron De Vu - LA Is The Place
3. World Class Wreckin Cru - The Cabbage Patch
4. Eazy-E - Imma Break It Down
5. NWA - 100 Miles and Runnin
6. NWA - Alwayz Into Somethin
7. The D.O.C. - Funky Enough
8. Eazy - E - Eazy Duz it
9. Ice Cube - A Bitch Iz A Bitch
10. Dr Dre ft Royce The 5'9" - Pimpin'
11. Dr. Dre ft Snoop & Parliament - Let Me Ride Remix
12. Warren G - This DJ
13. Warren G ft Nate Dogg – Regulate
14. Snoop Dogg - Buck Em
15. Silk ft Snoop Dogg - Pop Lockin
16. Tha Eastsidaz Feat. Nate Dogg - Eastiside Ridaz
17. DJ Fashen interlude - On The BLVD
18. LA Confidential - Let's All Roll
19. Anotha Level - Whats That Ya Say
20. Murs – LA
21. The Nonce - Mix Tapes
22. Freestyle Felowship – Cornbread
23. The Pharcyde - Oh Shit!
24. The Pharcyde - Ya Mama
25. The Pharcyde - Drop (Beatminerz Remix)
26. The Pharcyde - Runnin (Jay Dee Remix)
27. The Pharcyde - Quinton's On His Way
28. Quinton - I'm Not An MC
29. Peyote Cody interlude
30. Ras Kass - Understandable Smooth
31. Ras Kass - Anything Goes
32. Beastie Boys ft B-Real - So Whatcha Want (Soul Assasins Remix)
33. Cypress Hill - Hand On The Glock
34. Funkdoobiest ft B-Real – Wopbabalubop
35. Funkdoobiest - I'm Shittin On Em
36. House Of Pain - Who's The Man
37. House Of Pain - Put Ya Head Out
38. Whooliganz - Put Your Hands Up
39. House Of Pain - Shamrocks & Shenanigans (DJ Muggs Remix)
40. Everlast - Never Missing A Beat
41. Bobby Hundreds Interlude/Rodney O & Joe Cooley - Humps For The Boulevard
42. Rodney O & Joe Cooley - U Don't Hear Me Tho
43. Rodney O & Joe Cooley - Everlasting Bass
44. Ice-T interlude
45. Ice-T - Home Of The Bodybag
46. Ice-T - OG Original Gangsta
47. Ice-T - 6 n tha Morning
48. Ice-T – Colors
49. Ice-T - High Rollers
50. Ice-T - 99 Problems
51. Above The Law – VSOP
52. Above The Law ft Dr Dre, MC Ren, Eazy E & The D.O.C.- The Last Song
53. Scotty & Ben Outro

Mike B and The Hundreds - Drive-By Bangers Volume 2

'labels won't push it, t-pain won't hook it...'

the opening ceremony sale started yesterday. depressing that i still can't afford anything i'd like from there. the above tshirt that i've wanted for ages, part of the collaboration they did with pegleg nyc, isn't even in the sale. this jacket is though, but still way out of my league price wise for the time being. depressing.

new wale track is encouraging after that lady gaga disaster, straight up mcs-taking-it-in-turns-killing-it-on-the-mic track. don't really think he's justifying his obvious ego at the moment though, and until he keeps that in check i can't see him ever besting the phenomenal track 'the kramer' from last year's seinfeld-inspired 'mixtape about nothing'.

Wale - Hot Shyt (featuring Peedi Crakk, Black Thought, Tuphace & Young Chris)

Wale - The Kramer

'that would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.'

just came across this portrait of dorothy parker. i love dorothy parker. she was undeniably a participant in the heady, vulgar glitz of 1920s new york 'society', yet beneath her often witty, always razor-sharp observations on such a lifestyle, there lay an undeniable vulnerability and poignancy. in the words of the philosopher irwin edman, parker was the only writer of that time and place who could 'combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack'.

this portrait caught my eye because, for someone who epitomised the youthful abandon (and all that that entails) of that era, it consistently shocks me that she outlived it, dying at the distinctly unglamorous age of 73. here, she is in her fifties, looking tired, lonely and about a million miles away from her heydays at the algonquin. 

Aidan John Moffat - A Very Short Song (originally by Dorothy Parker)

'ghetto literature? i damn near died for bolivia...'

george just reminded me about the new clipse album.  actually well excited. kind of apprehensive about it not being exclusively neptunes. rick rubin on board though and the 'road to...' mix are both good signs.

vintage: 

Clipse - Momma I'm Sorry

 

oh hey dudes

The Mae Shi - Lamb and Lion