the mixtape show

On the 15th, I got a bunch of messages (thanks Mirateck, Iain and the slew of others) telling me to check youtube's front page. As soon as I got back to my computer, I was greeted with an officially HP-sponsored ad: (Fake) Camron - HP Hands commercial What you must understand, though, is that this was up on the front page of youtube, with an HP banner. HP was officially endorsing this. It's confusing, because the Killa Cam (killa!) is essentially lamenting his (killa!) being forced to shill for ...

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Been busy. I'll spare you the details, but it involved a lot of alcohol and me losing some things necessary to make the show. I'm back on board now, though, kids, so protect ya ...

No, I hadn't heard about this shit until it showed up on my doorstep. I've got friends who are all about that Purple City shit, and I've heard some of their work in the mixtape circuit, so I figured I'd give it a listen. So for those of you who don't know about Purple City, I'd suggest you go read up or something, and then come back. Or if you couldn't care less about their history it's all good. I read on some site forever ago that they were working on some "international concept album" called Paris to Purple City, and I guess this is the first single off of that. Anyway, here we go. Rap is All Around the World: This title concerns me. This is the kind of track title that all those "true b-boy/b-girl" types would go apeshit over. You know the type - the backpackers in the back of the Starbucks that only recently stopped listening to Dashboard Confessional in favor of Common because somebody clued them into the fact that rap is inherently superior to emo. I saw some girl today wearing a "My Heart Belongs to Hip-Hop" shirt, and she was so obviously non-hip-hop that I had to physically restrain myself from punching her fucking face in.