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Hectic as fuck here, as usual. Since we were on that education tip last week, I figured we'd continue the domination of the hip-hop podcast world this week with some more of the same business. Focus this week: politricks and other "conscious"-type shit. I actually don't really like the label "conscious", since it seems like we're patting MCs on the back for being sentient beings. I don't really know how I feel about that. Does anyone have a better word we can run with? Feel free to leave a comment about that.On with the show. (click "continue" to see the playlist for this week's show!)Saigon, dead prez, and Immortal Technique - Impeach the President. Not that this beat hasn't been done before, in fact somebody did it like last year, but the joint is hot. Too many quotable lines in this one. Really, come on. Saigon, dead prez, Immortal...you know this joint is going to be fucking hot. Please download this, because if you don't the terrorists will win. saigon on myspace, deadprez.com, immortal-technique.com.Oh yeah, by the way, XXLmag.com, I really hope you paid the dude that you jacked the flash player from. Also feel free to credit my site as your inspiration (see above, then check out xxlmag's 'bangers' section). Word.

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Yo, yo, what it is. Welcome to episode #13 of the best hip-hop podcast on the internets. Let's go. Now, if you've been in the whole glam-hop hip-hop event scene for more then ten minutes, then you'll notice that Scion seems to be everywhere. It's always "DJ No-name and MC NeverGonnaGettaDeal, sponsored by Scion OMFG." Which, of course, never bothered me too much. I always thought it was kinda funnystyle how Scion was backing all of these hip-hop events, but hey, if that lowered ticket prices for me, I was down.

Yo yo, what it do. So basically this is something that I've been having in mind for a bit, but I've been too busy running around to actually post it up. So here we go. I'm going to run a very simple, but hopefully pretty interesting and successful contest, inspired in part by Adisa at lyricalswords. KATRINA: THE MIXTAPE SHOW HIP-HOP CONTEST Welcome to the first-ever mixtape show contest. The rules for this contest are simple, as are the prizes.

Okay, so FEMA is basically a giant fuckup. I was on the internets today and I saw this shit. Don't worry, there is some actual hip-hop in here today. Sort of. For those of you too lazy to check the site, here's the basic rundown: As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. So, yeah. We've got a bunch of firefighters that are ready for action, but instead we're holding a fucking tea party and training them on how to hand out fliers. Shit is so fucked nowadays that it's surreal.