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Arab rapper ethered by hipster rapper

When this guy Mazzi from Soul Purpose put out a dis record, "Lesson A," about Jay Electronica and the Cool Kids, I didn't really pay that much attention, since I hardly gave a shit about any of the rappers involved.

At least NYOIL had the sense to dis Nas, the guy who put out the best rap album evar according to the Internets.

Just now, Andrew Barber at FSD sent me a link to a response to "Lesson A" - "Plan C," by this guy Mic Terror. I'm not even sure if Mic Terror was involved with the original beef. But like I said, I haven't been following this shit too closely.

He described it as being "pretty offensive," so I was like, "Fine, I'll listen to it." (Rappers, note, I just revealed my weakness.)

Man, this shit turned out to be fucking hilarious.

See, this guy Mazzi is some sort of Arab. So "Plan C" basically just consists of a bunch of anti-Arab slurs, along with the usual "you're wack" and "I'll shoot you."

Granted, it's way obvious and kind of a low blow, but, well, that's hip-hop. Try to intellectualize it all you want, but the reason Nas won his beef with Jay-Z is because he made a bunch of gay jokes about him in "Ether."

Hip-Hop is just childish like that. Not that I'm complaining or anything, I'm just saying.

Checkit: Mic Terror - Plan C [zShare]

The ball's in your court, Mazzi. Just don't blow anyone's shit up!

Wait, 16 is legal in Florida?

Checkit: Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube [CNN]

Live: Radiohead @ Riverport 5/14/08

Standing there last night at Verizon Wireless (heh) Amphitheater, my old stomping grounds (I once worked there briefly, and it's where I graduated from high school), in a sea of cargo pants-clad cracka-ass crackas, it occurred to me: As long as I'd been listening to Radiohead, I'd never actually seen them live. In fact, I'm not even sure the last time they were here, or anywhere around here. A few songs into their set last night, I realized this was probably neither the best time nor place to see Radiohead for the first time.

First of all, there was the venue. Riverport, as I'll be referring to it from here on out (fuck you, Verizon Wireless!) would be one of the gayer places to see a concert even if it wasn't a shitty outdoors amphitheater.

Last night, I copped a sixer of Bud Light at the Convenient Food Mart over at Lackland and Craig, another one of my old stomping grounds. I downed the first half of it at a nearby house party that looked like some shit out of the movie Kids, and I was gonna down the rest of it in the parking lot at Riverport before I went in. But just as I was cracking open beer number four, someone was like, "Oh shit, there's the cops." They were busting some kids who were tailgating the next row of cars over. So I had to pour my shit out and toss the rest of it in some guy's trunk.

Someone get this child some help before he kills us all

Remember Latarian "Real Talk" Milton, the little fat kid from Florida who stole his grandma's SUV, crashed it into a bunch of shit, then went on TV talking about how it's fun to do bad things (which it is, actually)?

Well, he's back in the news. This time, he beat the shit out of his grandma in a Wal-Mart, because she wouldn't buy him some chicken wings.

No, really. I don't even know if I could make some shit like that up if I wanted to. (Okay, I could.) There's actually another hilarious evening news segment, not unlike that first one, describing this most recent incident.

Apparently, Latarian and his long-suffering grandma were shopping in a Wal-Mart, when Latarian decided he wanted some chicken wings. (Wal-Mart's in the South apparently sell chicken wings like that.)

His grandma said no, he couldn't have any chicken wings, probably because she's trying to save up to get her SUV fixed. But Latarian "Real Talk" Milton was like, "Fuck that shit." He went over and ordered the chicken wings anyway. Then he proceeded to beat the shit out of his grandma.

Once he got done doing what he had to do, his grandma took him home, where the police later arrived to have him taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. As far as I know, he's still in the hospital. No word yet on whether or not he actually got those chicken wings.

Video: Woman Says Joyriding Grandson, 7, Beat Her Up [WPBF TV via Rosenberg Radio]

You assassinated!

via my good friend and colleague Miss Info

Radiohead, anyone?

UPDATE: Got rid of 'em. No one else email me. Especially if it's about rap music. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing about rap music.

I know this is extra last minute, seeing as that Radiohead will be playing here in a mere matter of hours. (Yay.) But if you're here in St. Louis, and you want to see Radiohead tonight at Verizon Wireless (the fuck?), hit me on my email. I might be able to get you a ticket.

Or I might not be. See, my little brother and I have tickets between the two of us, because back when they went on sale, we both bought as many as they'd let you buy, thinking we might be able to sell them or we might know someone who wants them.

Fast forward like two months later. I never got around to seeing if any of my friends (of which I have none) needed tickets. So the other day, I was gonna put my extra seats on sale. But my little brother was like, "Don't. I found some people who need a ticket."

Only thing is, my little brother isn't as smart as I am. (Most people aren't.) So it could be the case that he hasn't actually found six other people who need tickets. Which would mean that I'd be stuck paying for some tickets I didn't need and didn't sell in time.

I suppose I could stand along the Earth City Expressway and try to scalp them, but I'm way to lazy to try some shit like that. Plus, I could run over.

So... um, yeah. Email me. No guarantees or anything, but I might be able to hook you up. Nullus.

After the jump are some Radiohead videos I found on YouTube.

No these crackas just didn't

Checkit: Group protests Cobb bar, calls Obama T-shirts racist [Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Undercover Black Man]

Kidz In The Hall - The In Crowd: Album Review

Kidz In The Hall, The In Crowd (Duck Down, 2008)
Hipster rap duo Kidz In The Hall put out an album on the new Rawkus a couple of years ago, but it didn't perform very well in the marketplace. I guess having their lead single sound like a budget version of the worst Jay-Z song evar wasn't the most inspired bit of A&R. So now they've signed with Duck Down and are focusing on their strength, such as it is: making songs that kinda sound as if they could've been made in the 1990s.

• Kidz In The Hall @ MySpace

Pull your head out of your ass

Lukas Kaiser, the white Eazy E, just hit me off with this new Talib Kweli joint going at Hillary Clinton for not pulling out of the race already.

Idle Warship (Talib Kweli & Res) - Fall Back feat. Chester French

Sample lyric: "We all know you ain't gon' win. Time to throw the towel in. Pull your head out of your ass and fall back."

On the chorus is a fellow named Chester French, whom I'd never heard of until just now. I consulted his MySpace, and it looks like he might be trying to become the next Vampire Weekend. But he might want to consider a career as the 2008 version of the dude who used to sing on those Black Rob records.

And since we're on the topic, here's jimbrah izrael, at his latest pro blogging venture (honestly, I'm not enjoying any of these as much as his real blog - where's the stripper stories?), on why Hillary shouldn't pull out of the race just yet. His reasoning being that, if Obama wants to prove he's the real deal, he needs to prove he can actually win, rather than just having the race handed to him.

I'm gonna have to disagree though. The real test of Obama's mettle is gonna be when he has to face Karl Rove, et al., and whatever they've got in store for him. Personally, I believed Hillary when she said she had some extra nasty dirt on him, but she wasn't gonna put it out, because that just wouldn't have been right. And my guess is that John McCain's crew has got all of that plus some, just waiting for the general election.

For example, I don't know if there's any truth to this guy Larry Sinclair claiming he smoked crack and had relations with Barack Obama in the back of a limousine in 1999, but I see he's got an entire blog devoted to proving that he did. And it looks like he might be down with that guy Pastor James Manning, who did those videos talking about how Obama is a long-legged mack daddy.

That could definitely be an issue.

After the jump, since I'm not sure if I ever got around to posting it here, is the clip of Pastor Manning talking about Obama being a pimp.

Bill O'Reilly can't stand incompetence

About one minute in, he just snaps. (via Hip Hop 4 Prez)

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