like, rock a party, star.

Diamond Skull (Iced out Domey, Homie)

i thought the whole let’s-try-to-make-a-song-like-da-shop-boyz shit had reached it’s apex w/”do the rockman” by some-no-name-group that get’s played-way-too-much on the radio down here. apparently, i forgot that Mr. Piss-on-You liked making music that was appealing to children, so he enlisted luda ((doesn’t he have a daughter? call me whatever makes you feel better, but i can’t resolve the problems that would go on in my head if i had to work with dude-who-married-a-fifteen-year-old)) cris to help him out w/a shitty ass, “rockstar, baby” song. i’m kinda disgusted that justin blazintini had anything to do with this song, but won’t be picking up a copy of “double up” to check the production credits to make sure.

truthfully, outside of whether or not he tinkled on a toddler, i don’t think i could get past the album cover pic. just look at robert in his fully bedazzled glory. i can just envision Arruh asking Tana to get her nieces to help the stylist pick out the clothing for the video shoot at hot topic. the only thing that kellz wack ass song is missing is a travis barker name drop ((is he paying these dudes for all this press?)).

enough of the garbation…

[audio:rundmc-kingofrock.mp3]
run dmc – king of rock
there was a time when people used guitars because they were hard as fuck, not because it was a trendy marketing ploy to attract kids between 9-14. at least i like to think that’s why they were being used.

more music after the jump »

top five worst possible cellmates for Michael Vick: Oz Edition.

i live close to atlanta, so it’s been pretty much nonstop Vick coverage for the past 4 months. now that Vick will accept the plea agreement, the only thing left are the absolute final details of his involvement, and, of course, the sentencing. forgoing any unimportant information about whether or not numba seven murked a mutt or two, we can start to look back at the first half of his career and towards his upcoming time as Prisoner #IH8BARKN.

up until this point, Vick has lived a life of fun, frivolity and fantasy, so, his next step should be into a world of whimsy, namely, Oz. of course, i am talking about HBO’s Oswald State Correctional Facility. i couldn’t possibly think of a better place to learn about life behind bars than turning to the great givers of knowledge, my emotional mom: TV and my pragmatic pop: the Intarweb.

on to the list…

5. Kareem Said
outside of his annoying muslim rhetoric ((don’t get all pissy, ham-haters, every “leader” of a “religious group” spews annoying rhetoric)) Vick will also have to deal with his around the clock praying, educated-man over-annunciating, Said mumbling ideas about his next book and frequent visits from his underlings.

Another Late Meeting

the best Vick can hope for — Said’s charismatic ways and strong conviction will force Mike to reevaluate his life decisions and he’ll come out muslim like Mike (Tyson, that is). after changing his name to Ahmad Dawgsrokka, he’ll quietly return to the NFL.
what’s likely to happen — tasty beanpies and some interesting reading in the next copy of the final call, on the good side. on the bad, gets hit by a stray bullet fired in Said’s direction and ends up in one of Augustus’s hand me down wheelchairs.

4. Tobias Beecher
Beecher probably won’t attempt to kill Vick. But, he is unstable and prone to erratic changes in his mood and thus, his behaviour. while in Oz, basically everybody in Beecher’s life was a target, so, if you have a nice positive relationship w/the Beech, you may find yourself in harm’s way. also, depending on whether or not Schillinger and the KKKrew have recently attempted to kill anyone that Beecher cares about, Vick could return to his cell to find Beecher geeked up and violent.

not to mention, this fuck is a lawyer. and if you’ve ever spent time sitting in a cube next to a co-worker that knew a lil’ bit too much about how a pending case in pop culture was going, you can easily understand how spending 20 hours in a 6X9 with this legal beagle could be make your 12month sentence feel like 16 games against the ’85 Bears.

the best Vick can hope for — after yet another of one of the people beecher cares about is murdered, he might end up in a huddled mass of tears, bawlin’ in Vick’s arms then offering him a bit of sweet mouth.love.
what’s likely to happen — in an attempt to fram Beecher, Vick’ll catch an inventive method of murkination along the lines of being slammed into a pool of electrified water and drowning while unconscious.

outside of their holier-than-thou rants (just imagine how much Beecher or Said would bitch about the legal & moral aspects of dog-fighting) there is one more thing the muslim and the lawyer have in common — neither one of them is likely to attempt go spelunking down Vick’s manhole. from this point on though, all thoughts of a well preserved, exit only mangina can leave Vick’s thoughts, forever.

things only get worse from this point on »

World War Banner

As WWH wages on over in the funny books, David Banner continues to drop bombs on “black leaders” in the form of songs, open letters and interviews. I do think he should go on Sharpton’s show, even if that would mean a ratings coup to big perm, it stands as an opportunity to increase his visibility.

the jena six: around the net.

so, you’ve heard about the jena six by now, right?

The Jena Six: the White Tree
this image is from while seated

i’ve been trying to figure out why separate searches for the phrase “the jena six” and the 3 words the jena six give different search results. i mean, i understand why, but i don’t “know” why.

technorati has 2058 blog posts about this. when i click publish, that’ll go up by at least one.

the most dugg ((is that the correct terminology? i don’t really eff w/social bookmarking sites)) story on digg has 10 diggs.

somebody went and registered thejenasix.com and has been updating with the ongoing particulars. although, i think i got the most out of the updates from While Seated (although i would defintely avoid the comments on that page).

Petition Online is probably a neat thing, and maybe it’s really important to somebody, but i always disregard it as online bullshit. so, although i did sign it, i also wrote this lil’ entry about it. i implore you to do the same. somebody that googles into your blog for music, fashion & other bullshit would be well served to run into a lil’ injustice as well.

and, over here, we can find a few more links to places of action.

your new favorite favicon.

The at.yamomzcrib.com favicon

i’ve been trying to come up w/an interesting favicon for awhile. the fact that i was iconless has been slapping me in the face since i made the firefox switch. although i’ve been playing around w/some text that recalled the glory days of Yo! MTV Raps, trying to convert graff text & polka dots to a 16X16 square just didn’t come off as nice as i wanted it to.

eventually, i think i’ll remix the icon to include some of the polka elements, and, of course, the colors are gonna switch up when i decide to give the site mezzoblue treatment, but i think i actually like the placement of the pixels.

like basically everything else i do, i was fairly underwhelmed w/the finished product in comparison to the process, so, hopefully it’ll (re)grow on me.