OK enough about the Oscars, there are much bigger and better things to be concerned about.

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#JEWISHRAPNAMES - THE MIXTAPE: KINGS OF SCHLOCK

So the past few days on Twitter there was a highly amusing trending topic called #jewishrapnames. The concept, simple: take a rapper’s name and add or substitute a word with Jewish puns.

It should be noted I’m not even remotely Jewish but I thought it was hilarious and came up with: Nicki Mi-nosh, Ultrameshugganetic MC’s, Andreidel 3000, and Invisibl Skrtch Shekelz. You get the idea. At one point even Samantha Ronson and DJ A-Trak jumped in with some names of their own.

Now the idea has manifested itself into a mixtape which you can DOWNLOAD HERE

Tracklist:

1. Dr. Demento - Hebrew Rap
2. Meshugah Hill Gang - Rabbi’s Delight
3. Sephardic-Cyde - Passover Me By
4. Beastie Boys - Passover the Mic
5. Yiddish Ebonics Interlude
6. Brand Jewbian - Schlep to the Rear
7. Jew Tang Clan - Shame on a Meshugganah
8. Souls of Mitzvah - ‘93 til Yontifinity
9. Main Schwartz/Nasty Nashkenazi - Live at the Bar Mitzvah
10. Biggie Schmaltz - Jewcy
11. Dr. Dreidel - Nothin but a Jew Thing
12. Old Dirty Mamzer - Shimmy Shimmy Yahweh
13. Craig Maccabbe - Flava In Yahrzeit
14. Jerusalem The Damaja - Brooklyn Tuchus
15. Method Manischevitz/Mary Jew Blige - I’ll Be There for Jew
16. Queen Haifa - JEW.N.I.T.Y
17. The Lox feat Lil’ Yom Kimpur - Gelt Power & Respect
18. 2 Live Jews - Oy It’s So Humid
19. Hasheminem aka Slim Zadie- I Just Don’t Give a Schmuck
20. Lauryn Hillel - To Zion

Some of my favs: Moses Def, Latke Flocka, Kiddush Cudi, & A Tribe Called Kvetch. For a list of all the names CLICK HERE. Shoutouts to upnorthtrips.com

Keep Bouncin’

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RUTHLESS

Lamont Coleman (May 30, 1974 – February 15, 1999)

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“Now remain calm, no alarm, ‘cause my Farm ain’t Phat, so what’s up with that?”

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What more can I say?

“Til The Casket Drops: third time’s a charm, right?”

Hate to be the Debby Downer of the bunch, but I just can’t 100% get behind this new Clipse album. I have been a Clipse fan since their GRIN-*DING* days, and have vocally stood up for their emcee prowess in many a hip-hop discussion (discussions in which names like Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Raekwon, Ghostface, Lil’ Wayne, et al were being tossed around). And in their prime, Pusha T and Malice were ones to ne’er disappoint and rightfully deserved to be in a cypher with the likes of hip-hop’s greatest “coke rappers”.

HAVING SAID THAT, this album is a different style we are accustomed to both from Clipse and VA bros and long-time collaborators The Neptunes. Be it the newfound existential “semi-conscious” lyrics, or them catching a bad case of lame hooks disease (and in The Neptunes’ case, lazy beat disorder), Til’ The Casket Drops just does not have the swagger and space-age production we normally hear from The Brothers Thornton.

Yeah I know they “matured” and wanted to give critics something besides “coke rap”. Damn you Pitchfork for planting that seed! But that’s like asking Michael Bay to direct a remake of The Seventh Seal. Sure, I want to see Michael Bay evolve and eventually favor plot and dialogue over car chases and explosions, but you know what? That’s what I love about him. That’s why there are Michael Bay Hollywood blockbusters and Jim Jarmusch artsy thinkpiece movies. And it’s not like the entire album is filled with life-lesson storytelling, but it’s hard to take them serious when you’ve built a career of effortlessly clever punchlines about violence, drugs, and money…and now you’re saying you’ve got “the spirit of Chuck D”.

But even when Chuck D was rapping about cars, it was still HARD with no autotune-y hooks.

Granted this album isn’t horrible by any means, and as Malice said himself, his lyrical content and recent “enlightenment” is a bit of a contradiction. Maybe blogcats have put Clipse on such a high pedestal and any shred of sub-par rhymes means they “fell off”, but I just hope this is their awkard transition phase into what will be on something next level in the near future. Red pill or blue pill, fellas.

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You got BBD all on your bedroom walls
But I’m “Above The Rim” and this is how I ball

LL Cool J
Walking With A Panther
Def Jam, 1989

One day when I’m super rich and live in a giant palace and have an enourmous ego that goes with being super rich and living in a giant palace I will make sure to get several panther cubs and drape them with dookie rope chains to signify that I’ve officially made it. I would name them all after fallen Def Jam artists circa 1984-1995 and then record their growls and make beats out of them sort of like what Ratatat did but better. Let this be my new goal in life.

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