The Cool Is Coming

I'm currently sitting here watching the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and writing a lab report that probably should have been done atleast a couple days ago. But oh well, what can you expect? I'm still unsure how I feel about these VH1 hip hop awards, since when does VH1 and hip hop go together? Since Flava Flav got his own show? Since Salt N' Peppa got there own show? Or way back in the day when VH1 had MC Serch discover the next great white rapper? What happened to Shamrock anyway? Or even moreso John Brown. Hallelujah Hollaback. Anyways I guess none of that is important. I mean where else would I get to watch Ice T and Pharrel cover Snoop Dogg songs and then watch Snoop get on stage and rap with rap phenom (Lil'?) Bow Wow. But Lupe Fiasco is due to perform and hopefully he will put on something impressive. I stumbled across this video a while ago and never figured to post it but I will, Lupe Fiasco's new cd "The Cool" is due to be released fairly soon, not sure on an exact date though. Anyways, if it manages to be anywhere near as good as Food & Liquor I'm sure it will be an amazing album. Lupe still manages to be one of the few current rappers that I think of that can be seen as talented and important to hip hop. Well here's a video for his song "Dumb It Down" off The Cool where Lupe raps about how his lyrics can sometimes be seen as too complex or intelligent I suppose and that a lot of his wordplay and metaphors go unnoticed. Song sounds pretty good, video's alright.



Here's another video I've been watching a lot lately, its actually a great combination of two things I love. Rediculous rap songs and wild, impressive drumming. I know it's not too new of a video either but here you can see Travis Barker of +44 drumming to Souja Boy's Crank Dat. If you haven't seen this yet, your welcome.



Congratulations to Jake and Nick to having an awesome party this weekend too. I'm glad you guys' birthdays ended up being such a good time. Pictures can be seen all over facebook, they're currently dominating my mini feed. But yea, goodtimes. Now it's time to do work.