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I'm not saying everyone has to go to the street corner and start battlin' everyone that walks by. Lord knows hip-hop can still exist in the mainstream. Biggie was the best example of this. The 'cloud I'm shaking my fist at' is the one that's raining down on the hip-hop parade in the form of corporate suits puttin' an act together based on gimmick... for money. Flo-Rida is one of these 'clouds'. Ariel and I have this convo all the time. He HATES Flo-Rida! Which to me is weird cause, Ariel being a DJ, I would think bullshit like Flo-Rida is his bread and butter. Even he has a hard time believing this guy's 'realness'. And I'm not just attacking Flo-Rida... there's dozens of acts just like him. Do I think acts like Wu-Tang are the answer either? No. Obviously, Wu-Tang is the other extreme. They're TOO underground. I wouldn't expect any of their songs to make the air waves outside of NY. Even conscious rap has made their mark on the radio with Nas, Mos Def and Common but I think Kanye fucked it up for the rest of them. The guy walks the tight rope of conscious and bullshit. Falling off the wrong end most of the time. Nas is the only dude that can do it flawlessly.

This looks so awesome!

Man, is the Marlins bullpen SHIT! Jesus Christ! Linsicum was pitching amazing and Hanley and Uggla still took him deep! Then we're one out from the win and bullshit! Couldn't hold on in extras. Fuck!

50's not the problem. Not by a long shot. Yeah, he's a douche, but so was 2Pac before he... ahem, got shot (plus, I like 50). It's people like Soljah Boy, Gucci Mane and Wayne's Young Money crew (just to name a few off the top of my head) that're infecting hip-hop. Love ya, Jax... Where's Nick?

Jon has it on his computer, Nick. Ask him nicely and he might let you take a peek. As for the last two zombie flicks I've seen... DEADGIRL - Fuckin' crazy! Basically, two high school kids find dead body tied up in abandoned building and find out she's not so dead. Umm... white kids in a small town in middle America... what do you think happens next? Fucking CRAZY MOVIE! It's harsh. Great movie. Lindsay would like it. She's sick like that. DEAD SNOW - Good, but not great. Ok, well not good, per say, but alright. Ummm... whatever, it's Nazi zombies so it's fine. Starts out like Evil Dead and ends like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. Sort of. It was good enough to stay in my collection.

When rappers say that 'hip-hop is dead', what exactly are they saying? Shit, anyone can see that the shit has taken a turn for the worst. But why aren't they doing anything about it? This current era of the 'autotune' is just a step further away from a revival for hip-hop. But this isn't the beginning of the end. Hip-hop has been slowly bleedin' out for a while now. Before autotune was this 'R&B/dance/pop Chris Brown' shit. Before that was the 'let's everyone make dirty south tracks regardless where you're from'. Before that was the 'crunk era' (which lead to the previous sentence). Before that was the 'candy paint drippin, check out my grills, Texas' bullshit. Before that was the FIRST 'crunk era'! Before that was the 'I'm Kanye. I'm conscious, but I still rap about Louis Vuitton'. See where I'm going with this? What ever happened to the days when hip-hop said something... or at least was aggressive? Dudes were hungry in those days. Now, anyone with a gimmick can be a Rapstar! I'm so sickened by the state of rap right now that I don't know what to do. I try to listen to the few acts that are at least attempting to 'keep it real', but I can't help that wherever I go, whoever I run into is humming or singing some bullshit that is currently on the radio. But how can I blame them!? In an hour you can hear the same song 4 times if you flip the stations! And it's usually a young person. What the fuck do they know? 2Pac and Biggie were already long dead before they were born. Oh! When I hear an adult singing/talking about some bullshit currently polluting the airwaves I feel like smackin' them. Don't even get me started on ringtones. Anyways, what's the solution? When are we gonna see a savior rise and usher in a NEW era? A new era that's a little bit more like the old. Or are we about to bury hip-hop?

I'd hit it... but then again it's me.

The guy just looks sad. Like the life has been let outta him. Fuck NBC and fuck Jay Leno...

We're a strong division. Scared of Philly, though. I wanna see the Marlins make more moves like other teams have and still are. Signing Johnson was a give in. Do more, Marlins!

Man, I'm lovin' this NL east! Four teams separated by a game and a half! Everyone playing well (although, the Marlins not as well as I'd like). Phillies signin' Howard. Mets with that crazy win streak (hope their team plane goes down, though). Nats playing well. I'm excited!

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"My man speak Patwa, and I can speak Rapstah." Holy Shit! These two makin' an album? Together?! Fuck!

I highly suggest playing this game to the Avenged Sevenfold albums! It's like that group was made for killing giant ants.

Ha!

Thanks.

Here it is thanks to my little brothers and my mom...

Dammit. I guess you need to be his friend to see it. Ummmm... don't know.

Here's a link my cousin-in-law's video. BOOTLEG!

Many months later and Mike finally kicks some unlucky bastard's ass...again. Halloween night and Mike is in Costa Rica for pro fight number 3. Luckily, we had the live feed via fitenite.tv. Not as exciting as the rest, but he still gets the job done. Two rounds in and Mike is 3 and 0. Congrats, bro!

Please happen! Please happen! Please happen!

At first, my OCD made me get upset at the fact that Spycer put multi-issues, but then it was my OCD that thought it was ok cause now it matches the post count. Damn OCD.

I don't know if that's a compliment or not, but whatever... I have an idea to write the funniest episode of Sunny. Someday... someday...