Msanii_XL

Black keys Pick this up if you get a chance, it is a good ass record.

I'm riding with the redeem team They are playing on a higher plane than everybody else. While on that note the Olympics have been interesting. Something I noticed when the USA athletic team was prancing, showboating and all that other nonsense people rightfully called them on it, now all i hear is silence when bolt prances and showboats...its all funny and hypocritical to me. Nigeria vs Argentina should be fun.

I'm carrying a more Nagging cynical feeling this week, my patriot shield missiles are on alert.

Football is right around the corner, Can't wait for the league to start granted I don't see my squad winning more than five games, I mean looking at the schedule I see us being 1-6 by week 8, and still the one winnable game is a toss up. and can we give the One star(Steven Jackson) we have whatever he wants?

Ravens <<, the only consolation is that they will prolly lag in their division and suck like us... i don't think they are better than us we are more stable in the Qb position, our WR's are better,Running backs as well, the Offensive lines are tie i think. The only skill position they beat us is TE.

On that note Eff the other squads, Patriots,Redskins...hate hate hate

Cynically yours

Peace!

Labels: Random, Sports

So I picked this up the other day, truth be told i was not a huge tech fan, but i recognized him as an artist who believed he could convey his message through his music. I mean music to me, especially if i have never heard of you has to be aesthetically pleasing first, and the first few tracks i heard from him i could not go past his flow and voice i thought it was too forced, but I eventually came around to it, and dude is aiight. With the latest offering i must say i dig it, the beat are hard, the flow is vicious, the message is wide and varied, i bet you rappers out here none of them are talking about gentrification, third world, republicans, aiming guns at politicians and with DJ green lantern executive producing I like the direction this album took. The collabo's mesh really well, whether its ChinoXL with his rapid fire flow, or crooked I who had the hugely successful hip hop weekly.

Fav tracks, 'Harlem renaissance', 'The 3rd world', 'Hollywood drive by', 'open your eyes', 'mistakes'

Pick it up.. Immortal technique - The 3rd World.











Nas latest offering is one word ...DOPE, excellent record except the mid beginning part with 'hero' and make the world go around. I did not like hero at all...people were hyping it on the N.I.G.G.E.R Tape...when i got to hear it i was disappointed, speaking of which how ill was that "N.I.G.G.E.R Tape" ?? That really set the template for this album 'Ghetto alert' was a banger, the track with stic man (dead prez) was nice as well. Back to this album though. The intro itself set the table, strictly keys, no drums, no nothing just Nas... " hip hop was aborted/ so Nas breaths life to the embryo"... 'Sly fox' a shot to faux news is another favorite track..'fried chicken' surprised me, it is nice cut, project roach a simultaneous shot at NAACP, while at the same time speaking on the conditions of ghetto. I also like 'louis Farrakhan', Nas does well in third person speak. On 'testify'....this quote from a review my boy did breaks it down well "'Testify' is a genuine lamentation straight from Nas' heart. He raps about the paradigm of being a successful hip hop artists knowing that over 70% of all hip hop record & concert sales are to "little rap fans that live out in safe suburbia" who don't really identify with his 'struggle'. "....dope!. A Cop worthy album in the midst of the ringtone era.

'The Blue God', by my personal fav Martina Topley-bird (she has a delicate, soothing voice) is an incredible record, a follow-up to 'Quixotic' from 2003. (Stephen Marley sampled 'sandpaper kisses' for 'you are gonna leave'). Danger mouse of the gnarls Barkley fame did most of the production work and I can only say i was impressed. Carnies the first single is a nice cut..., baby blue is another fav, 'Poison' is my joint now...its they type of album that you would have to listen more than once to get into it, i brushed it of but sat down later on and enjoyed it immensely. Now it stays on heavy rotation. samples in the myspace link...

Labels: Hip Hop

Dark night is out this weekend a must see, I'm jealous S/O went to see without I, but its understandable. But people are buying 3am and 6 am tickets? wow....there are people who love movies i tell you.

This is going be one of the previews , Watchmen, the trailer is nice as hell I caught it last night..peep ... Trailer

My blogging is become more erratic by the minute, nah thats not the word i think less and less..hmmm. Either way, some few things I wish to ramble about, I happened to watch 10000 BC, ....Garbage rolled into crapola, sprinkled with an overall lameness. The movie is made by the same guy that did Independence day so you already know the dialogue is shit... If i say the plot leaves a lot to be desired I would be very generous. How in the hell this cat gonna have Maasai looking dude knowing the language of 4 different peoples, not including his, the "heros tribe( of which you are like what tribe are they eskimos? cavemen?) and the attackers whom by the way the only contact they had was during the raids?? ? not including his, throw in the blind guy language in too and english?? . Why is the lead actors tribe, speaking English with an accent? a cross between trying to sound like african hollywood accent and some other nonsense. were in existence gazelles around the time period mammoths were? and the ten feet hens? really? movie making has never been this worse and this from a person who has seen a few uwe boll movies.

How are they in one area a dense forestland with 10 feet grass, a few more times its winter, then the savanna and then the desert cot damn, how far did they walk??? smh at killing two elephants with toothpicks twice....this hands down Thee worst movie I have ever seen...no redeeming qualities, fun? NO, epic? NO, fantasy? NO, unintentional comedy? no...not even one memorable scene.. Just an episode of horrible CGI...crap, do you self a favor only get this if you want to watch how bad it is...trust this is not one of those subjective type movies...it isn't

and ...have I mentioned how a person rises from the dead thru osmosis that has traveled the same distance this cats traveled, only with fraction of the time taken? I can only imagine my ire if I had paid for this shit..

I also watched Ironman= excellent, nuff said. Forbidden kingdom, thumbs down underwhelming considering jet li and Jackie chan were in it. Redbelt was nice till the final few minutes, the ending was disappointing it left with too many questions. War inc, another disappointment the trailer made it better than it was.

The finals have been aiight the squad i'm rooting for LA Lakers hasn't played well but had chances to win both games...the second game showed just how bad officiating is, and you boston fans can expect the same treatment tonight, yup they ain't calling those two fouls on Kobe in LA guarantee it. It is a ridiculous thing that teams get away with getting those close calls their way, by virtue of being home. So game 3 tonight let go LA.

Oh and heads need to listen this here track( Motown 25)- elzhi featuring Royce 5'9, talk about rhyming your ass off...Dope. Royce just goes off!!!

Labels: Elzhi, Hip Hop, Movies

So, the crew that set it off, is about to drop an album -Jamhuri Day, I got myself a promo track in addition to the track I heard( from minute 25) on this African hiphop radio show in Holland....and it is dope, dope.... dope, I feel I should temper it, because on one hand its not like they doing anything out of this world, new or revolutionizing their sound but nah if I'm bumping to this and I'm furiously nodding my head, and enjoying this..then thats dope to me...so about the tracks..

The first one Featuring Yvonne with chiz'n brain on the boards...Kama kills it, he sets it of lovely that was ill...since 'constantly kwenye kona' ...his flow is a bit faster these days, but i mess with that, they do better job sandwiching roba, he has been lack luster for the last few tracks i have heard, but the star? Vigeti aka Representative wa mangandula ....obliterates it " hardcore kutoka vidole za mguu mpaka utosi" ...Filthy. roll na wakamba unaelewa vile navyosema?/ yaani ndumba haarifu...

'Wanabonga tu' is another excellent produced track..crap I went overboard describing the first track...but this is an excellent track look out for it on bnts namba 11.

I think personally Vigeti is a sick emcee, the sickest emcee in KE period (I mean this all said knowing i have never heard how he would hold down an album by himself which that in itself is disappointing ..but ehhh), but ninja kills each and every track he is in i can't say i have heard a weak verse...

The playoffs started with bang, but it seems like they are fizzling out, off the jump I don't care for Boston... but I can say objectively they are incredibly overrated team, none of the leaders of that squad went anywhere further than Conference championship, that says a lot about them..., they had the best record in the L, but they were pushed to 7 games by an 8th seed that did not even post a .500 record, and cannot even win on the road??? disgusting... perhaps they close out the series today....perhaps, but bron is not about to let that happen, so will see about that tonight. The spurs are a whiney, hacking ass squad...cot damn Duncan has never committed a foul ever, and horry is goon, disgust....am surprised bruce lui kang bowen has been quiet, the head gooon himself, even role players act like they haven't fouled anyone...The hornets are doing a good job, but if they don't have David west then its wrap come Monday...Oh and CP3 is an excellent point guard. I hope the MVP and LA close out tonight, fuck a u tah(except dwill lol)...boozer has been abused all series by odom, his defense is horrible...

Labels: Jamhuri day, Kalamashaka, KE hip hop, Nba

Great project by two brothers Milton and Fred Ochieng, who are both currently studying Med, in Vanderbilt. Visit the website for more info on the project and how you can support them as they embark on building a hospital in their village.

SONS OF LWALA

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Not that this matters, but the first few years of highschool I was out there, I think the highschool was the biggest school closest to the town, Rongo you hear Milton speaking about.

Much props to the Milton,Fred and everyone involved in the Sons of Lwala project, Salute.

Labels: Charity, Sons of Lwala

Dope dope track one of my favorites in the album, just right for the lovely weather around my way.


















Rising Down track list (From mtv newsroom)

· The Pow Wow (Intro) (The 1994 meeting between Black Thought, Questlove and former Roots manager, AJ Shine, after they got threatened with being dropped from their record label)
· Rising Down (with Mos Def and Styles P... and Dice Raw on the hook)
· Get Busy (with Dice Raw & Peddi Crack & Jazzy Jeff)
· @ 15 (Tariq freestyle at 15 years old)
· 75 Bars (Reconstruction) (with Tuba Gooding Jr.)
· (Up Theme) Becoming Unwritten (instrumental)
· Criminal (with Truck North (a Philly MC bubbling under) & Saigon)
· I Will Not Apologize (with Porn (another Philly MC bubbling under) & Dice Raw & Talib Kweli (on the hook)
· I Can’t Help It (with Malik B & Porn) (This is Malik B’s response to The Roots’ song “Water”)
· Singing Man (with Porn (as Virginia Tech-like Shooter) & Black Thought (as Sierra Leone youngin’ soldier) & Truck North (as suicide bomber))
· (Up Theme) Unwritten (with Mercedes Martinez)
· Lost Desire (with Malik B & Talib Kweli)
· The Show (with Common)
· Rising Up (with Wale & Chrissette Michelle) (p.s. Wale says “this is not a go-go song”)
· Birthday Girl (with Patrick Stump)
· HIDDEN TRACK: Live at WPFW (Howard University), 1994
· HIDDEN TRACK: The Pow Wow 2 (end of the phone conversation)

Rising down new roots album coming April 29th can;t wait to pick this up, form the few tracks I have seen/heard (Get busy is crazy,PD cracks verse is nice, the drums and synth dopeness) and the track in bold I can't wait to hear, its Malik b's response to Water(Phrenolgy album), should be interesting. I'm also tryna see if I could go see em when they(as Erykah's guests) come around my way next month.

I'm still waiting for my copy of Mc Kah's -Subira, Did Wakamba Wawili drop? I also picked up a mixtape from Rags to records called beats za hype, some good shit on there , the production impressed me most, nice to hear producers improving on their craft(the dude nik punk is definitely doing his thing), played this the whole weekend. On one of the tracks "...Mtaani tunachomwa na jua kali/ ka Pili pili/ Mpaka tunaishiwa Morale", dark track, Definitely not for radio I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Peace!

Labels: Beat za hype, KE hip hop, Roots