Amazing low-budget clip for the Lushlife/Styles P track. Proof that our music video directors are failing us.
"But back when the “Underground” was tagged in capital letters, the promise of an alternate subterranean grid seemed infinite. Fat Beats did booming business. Hip-hop culture mags cropped up to survey the soundbombing. Clinton was President. Gas was $1 per gallon. A Bellevue-certified eccentric like Kool Keith could get Doctor Octagon dough from Dreamworks to squander in and around the West Hollywood IHOP.
During that last spring of the 20th Century, Rawkus Records released Soundbombing II— an Underground Now That’s What I Call Music!— that banged incessantly in dorm rooms across America and England. It marked the first and only time Eminem and El-P shared space on wax. Yet it didn’t feel that weird at the time. People still used the phrase “on wax” and Shady had only recently signed to Interscope. To balance his quality time with Dr. Dre, Marshall Mathers also worked with people like Thirstin Howl III and Outsidaz."
During that last spring of the 20th Century, Rawkus Records released Soundbombing II— an Underground Now That’s What I Call Music!— that banged incessantly in dorm rooms across America and England. It marked the first and only time Eminem and El-P shared space on wax. Yet it didn’t feel that weird at the time. People still used the phrase “on wax” and Shady had only recently signed to Interscope. To balance his quality time with Dr. Dre, Marshall Mathers also worked with people like Thirstin Howl III and Outsidaz."
— A pretty much perfect summation of the era of hip-hop that raised me, from Jeff Weiss’ review of the new El-P album on Pitchfork.
1st fight scene in ‘Haywire’, where Gina Carano beats the excrement out of Channing Tatum. #howhaseveryonenotseenHaywire?
El-P on letterman. baller.
Banging new childish gambino joint, “we ain’t them”. @donaldglover keeps killing it.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
Maurice Sendak, rest in peace.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The complete 2006 interview with The Beastie Boys. [Fresh Air Remembers Adam Yauch]
RIP Adam Yauch
Obama working the room at a dive bar in Denver. Posted on yr an adult, via buzzfeed/politics, photo via instagram.
