I’m about 100 pages into Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography, Scar Tissue, and I gotta say, it’s a very good read. For those who don’t know, Kiedis is the lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. I love their first album, Freaky Styley, as it was produced by George Clinto and was very much a prism for a number of different musical genres.

Anyway, I love non-fiction but rarely read autobiographies and this is most certainly worth the read. Check out their video for “Californication”:

If you don’t know about Blaqstarr, Bmore’s finest rapper/singer/producer/DJ extraordinaire. You need to, in the words of Clinton Sparks, GET FAMILIAR! New joint fresh out the lab in LA working with Mos Def and MIA all week. This shit does what it says…”BANG HARD” (pause).

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This next one is prolly one of the best concerts I ever went to…Roger Troutman aka Zapp in 1997. He was murdered two years later.

Oh man…Prince Musicology Tour…saw him four times, twice in Boston and twice in ATL. This ticket is from when I sat first row. Wow.

And I remember this UCLA game against OSU. This was my first time seeing Brent Barry play and man, was he something in college. I got the back of the ticket autographed by the great John Wooden too.


And Lakers v Bulls from 1997? Jordan had 27 points this game, Pippen had 22. Lakers won 106-90. Kobe played 13 minutes. My how times have changed

I was going through an old box of mine and found a bunch of old tickets I had saved. Man does this bring back memories. Got some corresponding clips after the jump (more…)

The above is a commercial that runs before the movie.

My boy Alex put me onto this song. It’s kinda old but the song is dope. Jury is still out on the video though. The song is not only very catchy but the lyrics are pretty on point; especially the chorus.

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Appears to be the Houston Rockets. So funny though.

Spotted this on Kanye’s blog. As a proud Prius owner for almost a year, I love this commercial.

Now that Madden finally dropped I think it’s worth talking about this song since it’s featured on it. This song is over 2 years old but has made quite the journey from DC to 100 MILES & RUNNING to a Redskins playoffs remix to Madden09. Does it have life beyond this? I think so. Is the country ready for the Huck-a-Bucks sample, HitterQuitter’s production and Wale’s flow on this record? I tink so. Peep the DJ Infamous remix for the Levi’s Unbutton Me campaign.

Check out levi.com/wale for a remix by DJ Infamous (the producer behind Mr. Carter…also avail after the jump). Also check out the other featured artist Estelle and Nikka Costa, along with a BMX rider named Jamie who is pretty effing good at what he does. (more…)