Wack MC's

Calling all whack MC's or hip-hop lovers, theres a new book out that teaches the art of MCing. HOW TO RAP:The Art and Science of Hip-Hop MC makes sure you no longer have to stand around in cyphers in the freezing cold or memorize every line/metaphor/rap pattern your favorite MC spits. First came the rhyming dictionary www.wikirhymer.com now you have the chance to read up on some of the greatest MCs flow. MCs and groups featured are Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, Mobb Deep, AZ, Cypress Hill, Pharoahe Monch, Boot Camp Clik, Masta Ace, and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as recent acts such as Clipse, Styles P, The Black Eyed Peas, Crooked I, Immortal Technique, Royce Da 5’9”, Papoose, Nelly, and Jurassic 5. No bullshitting this book includes:

- Exclusive advice and guidance from many of the finest MCs/lyricists
- First book to fully explain how ‘flow’ works
- Invaluable insights from the pros on every aspect of rapping/MCing
- Classic examples to illustrate all the techniques used in rapping/MCing
- Increase your Hip-Hop knowledge by learning about a huge variety of different artists, the styles they use, and what they have to say

As well as:

- How to create compound rhymes like Eminem, Kool G Rap, and Big Pun
- Writing in your head like Jay-Z and Notorious BIG
- How Dr Dre, The Neptunes, and DJ Premier work with rappers
- Picking the right singles and beats, including the stories behind classic songs
- Ghostwriting for P Diddy, Dr Dre, and others
- Advice on working in a group from Mobb Deep, Pharcyde, and others

Is this just another example of how Hip-Hop is selling out to mass culture or is this an attempt to prove the artform of MCing is a true craft mastered by true Masters of Ceremony......

Fuh-Gedda-Bout-It: Life and Times of Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.

Caravaggio, who somehow painted when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police assassins or getting his face mutilated by one of his many enemies, was one of the greatest painters of all time.

Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian, Caravaggio moved to Rome in his early 20s. Huge new churches and palazzi were being built in Rome in the decades of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries, and paintings were needed to fill them. The Counter-Reformation Church searched for authentic religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate. Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, with the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value. An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him." In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head. In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. By the next year, after a relatively brief career, he was dead.
Famous (and notorious) while he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Despite this, his influence on the new Baroque style indirectly influenced such artists as Rembrandt.

Patersons Crucifixion

Over the past few days your televisions and newspapers have been flooded with goofy images of our Governor David Paterson. The Democratic leaders want him out and everyone has been trying to unload as many skeletons out of his closet as possible. But is this another case of race politics?. What could he have done so horrible.

David W. Johnson was a senior adviser to New York Gov. David A. Paterson until he was suspended without pay in late February 2010 because of developments in a domestic violence case because in the fall of 2009, Mr. Johnson's longtime companion, Sherr-una Booker, went to court in the Bronx to testify that he had violently attacked her, and to seek a protective order against him. Governor Patterson did a little pursuing of his own in an attempt to have her drop the case in hopes that all wouldn’t backfire but I guess he didn’t see that one coming (ouch). Get it? He’s blind.

Gov. Patersons second strike happened in Yankee stadium. The Yankee Empire has attempted to accuse Gov. Paterson of taking advantage of his political career to score some Yankees tickets. The poor guy is our senator he should be able to go to a Yankee game. It wasn’t like he was taking some regular joes’ seat. None of us were going to be at that game. So if he took a seat from some rich guy what’s the big deal; well I guess that is the deal. Dozens if not all politicians take advantage of their power at some point of their career. You have politicians deciding on laws with the influence of outside parties throwing money at them(that is what we call "LOBBYISTS"). Governor Paterson is legally blind but if he wants to watch a game, wait up, listen to a game he should have the right to. I bet your Ex-mayor Giuliani the devil gets his Yankees tickets for free.

His enemies aren’t no angels. Andrew M. Cuomo has the responsibility of deciding whether to bring criminal charges in both the case of the domestic abuse accusations against Paterson’s top aide and the governor’s acquisition of tickets to a World Series game at Yankee Stadium last fall but yet Homo, oops I meant Cuomo has some dirt of his own.

Cuomo has been active in a high profile investigation into lending practices and anti-competitive relationships between student lenders and universities. He has created a lending system in New York college universities that don’t allow for competition, causing students to rely on high interest lenders and banks. He been sucking to much Wall Street cock I guess:

“He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why."

Cuomo has a few race cards he pulled as well, in a press conference in 2008 he refered to Pres. Obama as “Shuckin and Jiving” his way into his nomination. In case you dont be using this kind of slang with your friends...

Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a slang term primarily used by African Americans. It refers to the speech and behavioral mechanisms adopted in the presence of an authoritative figure. Shuckin' and jivin' usually involves clever lies and impromptu storytelling, used to one-up an opponent or avoid punishment . Such behavior is believed to have originated in the era of slavery.

John Liu our new State Comptroller is his other arch-nemesis. John Liu is the Asian focused politician. While running for state comptroller he lied that he worked in a sweatshop with his mother since his father couldn't find a job within his means. Yet the Daily News revealed Liu's father first job in US was International Officer in Hokkaid Takushoku Bank. And even Liu now states his mother brought work from the factory and he sometimes helped her. Liu's family bought a split level home with 2 car garage in 1977 when he was barely 10 years old. As many of us can see the Korean population isn’t doing so bad so why did he have to throw that in our faces for a sign of sympathy. Most of our fruit, clean clothes and some of our hair (Good Hair_Chris rock_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-4qxz08So) is even owned by Korean businesses.

Damn I get to get out of this city………….