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Saw this over on the Mad Decent Blog. This video is almost too ridiculous to understand. My take on it is that this guy is a guest on a talk show and his skill is dancing and kicking burgers off a vintage ski pole. What I don’t understand is why the host starts rapping. Maybe he does it every episode, I dunno.
UPDATE: My friend Sanaz who is Swedish offered this explanation.
hahahahahahahah OMG too fuuunnnnyyyyyyy!!! It’s a norwegian TV-show with norweigan celebs from 1990-something hahahahahahah OMGGGGG. It’s starts with the guy saying how Norway is always said to take after US and the Americans and how it creates a culture clash hahahahhaha……and he wanted to illustrate that clash with a “burger-game”. RETARRRRRDED funny.
Given the fact that the New Kids On The Block are making a comeback this summer, I thought some might find this article about mastermind behind their initial rise to fame, Maurice Starr.
Published in issue #19 Jun 22, 1990
Starr Maker
Meet the man who brought you New Kids on the Block — Maurice Starr talks about commercial success, finding the next hot thing, and managing his artists careers
By Ron Givens
Four pencil-thin, quasi-pubescent girls shuffle onto the stage of the Strand Theatre in matching outfits: black T-shirts with a pink logo that looks like smeared bubble gum, black Spandex biking shorts, black sneakers. They’ve come to this nearly empty theater in the blue-collar Dorchester section of Boston in late May to audition for a talent show, which explains why they look identical, all the way up to their shoulder-length perms. Three of the girls, wearing metal-frame glasses, line up in a row and the fourth stands in front. A prerecorded music track begins to play, causing a series of metallic beeps like cheap sci-fi sound effects to echo around the Strand. The quartet begins to clap rhythmically and make small side-to-side movements. The girl in front starts to rap. Her recital is wooden. Her words are indecipherable. (more…)
Check out the Neptunes Beat Drop over at MetalLungies.com. I, along with a few other people including Skillz, picked our top 5 favorite Neptunes songs and talk about them. Here’s my abridged list:
1. T.I. “What’s Yo Name” off I’m Serious
2. Jadakiss “Knock Yourself Out” off Kiss The Game Goodbye
3. Ludacris “Southern Hospitality” off Back For the First Time
4. Beenie Man “Girls Dem Sugar” f. Mya off Art & Life
5. Clipse “Grindin” off Lord Willin
Runner Ups:
Nelly “Hot In Herre” solely because of the Chuck Brown sample
Noreaga “Superthug” because that’s when I became aware of The Neptunes
Fabolous “Holla Back Youngn” strictly because of the two-way alert in the song
Mystikal “Danger” and “Shake Ya Ass” because nobody else could get away with those songs
Click the picture and then in the last sentence, they reference the history of the Maino “Hi Haters” sample we ran on here a couple of weeks ago
It’s American Brandstand: Marketers Underwrite Performers
By ROBERT LEVINE
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The hip-hop and R&B producer Jermaine Dupri has discovered best-selling acts like Kris Kross and Da Brat, has produced hits for Mariah Carey and Jay-Z, and now runs the urban music division of the Island Def Jam Music Group. He’s also looking for fresh talent for a new label financed by a company new to the music industry.
The new player? Procter & Gamble.
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Head on over to Real Mango Juice for pics
“Can’t believe he pulled this off” -Tom Breihan
Shout outs to StartOfTheLine for this
And while we are talking about Pixar’s new animated feature WALL*E, can we address the fact that they are biting off Short Circuit pretty bad here.
Not only with the poster, but even the robot looks alike. An homage or plagiarism?
