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Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: Album Review

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (Motown, 2008)
Retarded though it may have been, I found myself enjoying that "might have to flush the yayo" record Erykah Badu had out a few years ago. But then she just kinda up and disappeared. I'm assuming it was drugs. Or maybe she finally somehow managed to have the same effect on her own career as she's had on any number of rappers.

• Erykah Badu @ MySpace

MTVU's The Lab

An underground hip-hop video show hosted by Pete Rock.

You probably have to be in college to get MTVU, but they're streaming the entire thing on the Internets. Sweet!

Checkit: The Lab

And after the jump is Ralph Nader on MSNBC explaining how Barack Obama used to be pro-Palestinian when he was in the Illinois State Senate, but now he's AIPAC's bitch. Anyone want to explain this one away as smart politics? C'mon, he's the first black man lightskinted enough to be elected president. It'll so be worth it.

Pete Rock - NY's Finest: Album Review

Pete Rock, NY's Finest (Nature Sounds, 2008)
You may remember Pete Rock from that time when he got chased around at a barbecue and beaten like a rented mule by his weed carriers the YGz. Or that time when CL Smooth suggested he had some personal hygiene issues in an interview with AllHipHop. This is his third or fourth solo album since I was a senior in high school.

If you haven't already illegally downloaded it, you can stream the entire thing off Pete Rock's MySpace profile.

• Pete Rock @ MySpace

Proof Obama is a Muslim fifth columnist?

Perhaps not so much, but still.

Should Barack Obama have known better than to dress up as if he was trying out for a stage adaptation of one of those Danish Muhammad cartoons? Or could he ever have suspected that this would be an issue?

Of course I'm gonna go with the former, but you guys know I'm a hater like that.

With my Internets browsing history, I could never run for president anyway. But if I was, I would never wear any shit like that on GP. Because fuck Islam - not on the grounds that it was Muslims who blew up the World Trade Center (which it definitely was), but because it's bullshit.

Just like any other religion.

Even if Muslims never did anything other than beat the shit out of their wives with a stick for looking too slutty in public (which is understandable, if not condone-able), I could use someone with a much more secular world view running my country, thank you very much.

I understand that there isn't anything about the outfit that's necessarily Islamic, but come on... it's a fucking turban. The guy looks like a suicide bomber. If someone offered some shit like that for me to wear, I'd object if only because I wasn't sure if there was a bomb in it.

Perhaps even more problematic is that this latest kerfuffle provides some insight into Barack Obama's leadership ability. Or lack there of, I should say.

Case in point: How come Barack Obama can be photographed dressing up like a suicide bomber, and be in all kinds of churches and shit here in the US, but he can't be seen with Tavis Smiley at a conference seeking to put together a political agenda specific to the black community?

Now, I don't mean to suggest that Obama's faux pas here lies in that he put on the wrong hat while he was in Africa. Because I'm sure if he would've known better, he probably wouldn't have done that either. But I wonder: if he had more balls, would he even be in this situation?

Barack Obama had to have known decades ago that, if he was to run for president, people would try to paint him as a secret Muslim. Let alone two years ago. The guy's middle name is Hussein fer chrissakes! And yet, what has he done to remedy this issue other than to deny it up and down?

The obvious solution would be to find some Muslim and throw him under a bus. And then back it up and run over him again a few times, if necessary. An Arab Sister Souljah, if you will. Just like he's done with Tavis Smiley and various other black leaders, i.e. his own people.

And yet, to date I haven't heard of him doing anything of the sort. What gives? I'm sure the tendency is to want to suggest that Obama is playing smart politics, but my guess is something a lot nastier: an innate desire to please people in power, which in this country is obviously gonna mean white people and religious people.

In fact, the older I get, the more I realize that, if that's not the only way to get somewhere in this life, it's almost certainly the only way you can get to the point at which he's arrived. The guy's a (powerful) people pleaser - which might not be a bad quality to have in an election, but I wonder what good he could possibly do if he was elected.

An Obama-Clinton ticket is an awful idea

According to Last Week's Poll
At this point, I think it's safe to say to say that, if Hillary Clinton wants to get back into the White House, her best chance is to hope that Barack Obama offers her some kind of a job.

I know it's not a mathematical certainty that Barack Obama is gonna win the Democratic nomination at this point, but it's beginning to look more and more likely.

The only way Hillary Clinton could win enough delegates in the Texas primary, which is coming up on some asshole's birthday in a week or so, is if evidence is uncovered that Obama once beat an hispanic hooker to death in the parking lot of a strip club back when he was still on coke.

And nothing about Obama really suggests to me that he's got it in him to pull some shit like. As I mentioned in my comments about last week's poll, there's a strong likelihood that he hasn't even dropped it off in anyone other than his wife since he's been married.

The question remains though: Would Barack Obama select Hillary Clinton as his running mate in the general election? Last week's poll had to do with whether or not this would be a good idea. Here are the results.

An Obama-Clinton ticket?

1. An awful idea (147 votes)
2. It could work (86 votes)

As it turns out, a pretty strong majority of you fruits think that an Obama-Clinton ticket wouldn't be a very good idea. I wonder why that is. Is it an electability issue? Are people still pissed about the shit Bill Clinton was trying to pull down in South Carolina? If you voted nay on this one, and you're so interested, you're certainly free to explain your reasoning in the comments section.

I seriously doubt it's gonna happen one way or the other, but I'm not so convinced it would be such a bad idea. The obvious downsides would be that a) Hillary Clinton is a woman, and b) Hillary Clinton would be a woman on the same ticket as a black guy. Which, let's face it, would be like handing John McCain a big stick with which to attack the Democratic Party.

Also, that might be a bit too much "change" at once for Hillary Clinton's base at this point, i.e. poor white people and hispanics (I wonder what they have in common), and you'd run the risk of driving them into the open arms of the Republican Party - like, again, so many of the less fortunate in the white community who voted for Reagan in the 1980s.

But if you put aside hispanic people being all racist and shit, the two of them do seem to compliment one another quite nicely. Obama's black, Hillary's white. Obama has about as much experience governing as I do, Hillary flew on Air Force One with Bill to several foreign countries. Obama's rhetoric mostly involves hope, while Hillary's rhetoric mostly involves cynicism.

You'd think that the two of them would combine to make one hell of a ticket. Not that I'd be inspired to vote for them, but I'd imagine a majority of the kind of people who get together every four years to help maintain the status quo in this country would be.

Update re: Gary Coleman's sex life

Or lack thereof, I should say.

A week ago, I reported that Gary Coleman had never gotten any stank on his hanglow until just now.

Or at least no stank he wanted anyone to know about. Maybe he managed to talk Dana Plato into letting him stick it in her ass for a few rocks; or maybe he did something strange for some change with some perverted cracka-ass cracka (let's face it) who's into the idea of a grown-ass man who looks like an eight year-old boy.

But as far as talking a girl into having sex with him of her own volition... nothing.

Which of course struck me as tragic. It's no wonder these schools keep getting shot up. No justice, no peace. OK, perhaps justice is a bit strong a word, but you catch my drift. This guy was on one of the biggest sitcoms of the 1980s.

As it turns out though, Gary Coleman hasn't actually banged his wife yet. Media Take Out just said he did.

Or perhaps they were mistaken. If you read the quote from People magazine, it sounds like he said she was the first girl he ever had sex with. He wasn't saving himself or anything, it's just that she was the first girl he was ever that intimate with.

In the video clip posted below, however, he claims that he's yet to actually have shoved it in his new mongoloid-bride.

What's he waiting for? Who knows. My guess is that he may have already done it (how are you gonna marry a broad and not fuck her, even if you're Gary Coleman?), but he figured he wants to save the "Gary finally gets some stank" plot point until the series actually begins.

Think about it. If the two of them already did it, that would be rather anti-climactic. But if he hasn't, it'll be like that Gary Coleman series with Sylvester Stallone's ex-wife, with the minstrel-esque black guy chasing after the grotesque white woman. And then maybe he finally gets to hit it on the season finale.

Or am I reading too much into this?

The best argument evar

Branching off from the new (albeit not actually new) best rap song ever, I also recently stumbled upon what I think might be the best argument evar. It happened a couple of weeks ago though, so if you're especially with it, you might just want to call it an early weekend.

It's from the Howard Stern show, and it was between Howard's sidekick Artie Lange and this guy High Pitch Mike who works on the show. High Pitch Mike is called that because he has a ridonkulously high speaking voice, and it's been suspected for some time now that he might be teh ghey, though he flatly denies this.

The argument began after Super Bowl Sunday, when it was reported that High Pitch Mike spent the day at the movies watching that movie 30 Dresses, or whatever it's called. Of course Artie thought this was funny and suggested that High Pitch Mike might be teh ghey. But High Pitch Mike claims that the movie took place before the Super Bowl, and that he did watch the game.

Also, HPM mentions the fact that Artie had opened Baba Booey's paycheck to see if made more money than him, which was a sore point with Artie, because you know how you're not supposed to do shit like that at work. That and the line about how he's gonna bang Artie's sister to prove he's not gay I think set Artie off, and Artie just launches into some of the most ridonkulously virulent gay-bashing possible.

I'm actually surprised one of these teh ghey groups hasn't tried to extract any blood money from the Stern Show, but it could be the case that, since Sirius is mostly subscriber-based, they can't pull that bullshit McCarthy-ite game where they try to project homophobia onto the show's advertisers just for advertising on the show.

Check the audio, via YouTube, after the jump. A cursory Internets search reveals that there's also a torrent of this making the rounds, in case you need a copy of this to hold on to, for posterity.

The new best rap song evar

KRS-One - Adventures in Emceein': Album Review

KRS-One, Adventures in Emceein' (Duck Down, 2008)
You wouldn't know it from the cover, which looks like some shit a chinaman put together for the purposes of bootlegging, but Adventures in Emceein' is a real album, supposedly released on Duck Down the other day. If only KRS-One was as good at marketing his albums as he is at making himself look crazy.