kickin, thinkin

So I just listened to Game Theory the latest release from The (Legendary) Roots. After the clearly lukewarm Tipping Point, Tariq and Ahmir have brought it back. Net heads are rumbling about the early hype of how Jay-Z gave The Roots a blank check in terms of artistic license. That this record shoulda been the More people were jonesing for after the Roots first showed up. You know what? That isn’t going to happen. Doesn’t mean that Questlove isn’t able to make a raw album to make the heads nod and the brains think. This is definitely a 4/5 record. Black Thought has never been on the story telling tip the way he is on “Baby.”

Its been years since I’ve had a straight-through-listen with an album like the way I just had with Game Theory. Now I’m about to listen to the new Method Man record (gracias, bit torrent), and after that the J.Period The Best Of The Roots disc. I don’t know how good the Method Man record’s gonna be, even though the leaked tracks I’ve gotten so far were alright. It hits stores tomorrow, along with Game Theory. The J.Period is not that easy to find in stores, unless your stores include places like Fat Beats and similar locales.

Supposed to go to a Yankees/Tigers game tomorrow, but it looks like that shit’s gonna get rained out. Oh well, maybe mo’ mothersnaking snakes on more mothersnaking planes.

Oh, and Prison Break was good tonight. Yeah, I didn’t mention this, but I’m addicted to that too, now. Anything that supports Peter Stormare is worth my time. C-Note might be one of my favorite characters on the show though. That surprise at the end of 201 was a mighty mind frack, though. Seriously.

This isn’t my day job, obviously.

So, here I stand having posted nothing in 6 days. Life is hectic, and, without a deadline, I’m unable to abide by an intangible schedule. Here’s a new idea: expect posts on Sundays at the very least.

Yours,
Henry

ps: shouts to jeremy piven on his emmy VICTORY! and to entourage’s music supervisor for using the instrumental from “Tell Me When To Go” by E-40 as Ari swaggered around Miller-Gold

“MaddenHoliday,” my ass. Today is DillaDay.

Finally, J Dilla’s The Shining is in stores. (and online, OkayPlayer & iTunes) If you can only get one album today (I know people are eyeing the new Outkast and the new Supersystem), make it The Shining, better beats, better lyrics, and most likely most authentic of the three.

I know everybody (and their family members who still love to blare “Hey Ya!” out the side of an SUV) is all orgasmic that Outkast has a new album, but the advance word is that it’s not up to snuff, that Andre 3000 is going a little bit too far into outerspace. I’m about to listen to it, so I know what it’s like when I get their autographs at Virgin Times Square today, and my expectations are not where they should be.

And to the kids spending their money on another rehash of Big Fatty McFatAss’s video game, don’t you know when enough’s enough?

I won’t link to it, because I don’t want you to sue me for lowering your IQ, but out of sheer boredom I watched Kevin Federline’s performance from the Teen Choice Awards, WORST NON-POLITICAL-MOMENT ON TELEVISION EVER.

Oh, and the folks at OkayPlayer just announced a very-very limited edition dilla shirt, so don’t be like Turtle, hustle to get it while it’s there.

Kick Flip Acid Trip

This is the cover of Lupe Fiasco’s long-delayed, once-leaked, getting-play-on-Entourage album Food & Liquor. Damn, this looks like it should be called “Music and the effects of LSD.” Nobody could design a better cover? Hell Ludacris’ Chicken-N-Beer had a better – still, albeit lame – cover. We see Lupe’s jam box and his DS Lite (something I’ve had my eye on as of late), but we don’t see his damn skateboard.

Oh well, I guess I should just pay attention to the music, not the art. Like OkayPlayer’s gingerlynn is saying about the cover of J. Dilla’s The Shining “it’s all in the music.” “I Gotcha” is the brand new jam to dance to right now, anyways.

Introduction to the first project

Video killed the radio star. The Buggles said it, and ever since then it’s taken as a fact. Now, has the blog killed the print media? Many have made the claim, newspaper ad revenue reports support this theory, and many bloggers have taken pride in claiming its truth. But, if this is so true, how are there so many magazines in the world these days?

Allow me to reintroduce myself …

Just so you know, when I say Pop Culture I don’t necessarily mean top 40, it’s just that I’m staying away from concepts like counter culture and indie culture and underground. It’s all flowing in the same stew these days, so why not give it some umbrella name for the sake of this blogs’ title. Don’t worry, I’ll get the titles and genres right in the posts, just doing this for the set up right now.