The spirit of Russell Jones live on.

ODB and this guy, two of a kind. This is what happens when you hang around Mel Gibson too much, or is it Russell Crowe?

As actors go he's definitely one of the best around these days, but it looks like the normal rapper turned actor role reversal is being played out, well, in reverse and by the looks of dude, backwards through a bush.

So if he want's to do hip hop I see no problem, he has millions already, and it's a healthier catharsis than hard drugs, lets not forget his brother River, lost to an OD in Keanu Reeves's nightclub, or was it Johnny Depp's?

If he can do Johnny Cash he must have some chops, let him rap. I hope it's for real though, it would be a dissapointment if this was all part of his method.

Trailer Park Edition; Beef in country music and feline assisted intoxication retard (FAIR).

Two of country musics biggest names have gone rappish and made beef in a public forum. The first shot came from grey headed nipponphile lead singer of alt-country super group The Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne who accused the band known as Arcade Fire and most specifically lead singer Win Butler of being real life dicks who ' treated everybody in their vicinity like shit'. Now this is all well and good and bands should be checked for diva-ish behaviour but as far as I can tell Arcade Fire are only guilty of two.5 things, being Canadian and recording country and western music while being Canadian, whether or not they super glue embroidered maple flags (a crime against needlework in its own right) onto their band equipment cases remains unconfirmed. Everybody likes a good scrap be it in real life or battled out through the medium of mp3s and PDFs, and these guys and their marketing teams in the backwaters of Idaho or wherever they be at, know this and realise that in these highly charged pro-war times the get-along-gang dont sell on Itunes. Cue suggestive strategy meeting and the next thing you know these guys are realising that beating someone over the head with their banjo might be more profitable than actually playing it.


Now an RSPCA related news segment/picture and word game: WHAT IS THIS?




An underwater antarium perhaps?






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NO!!

THIS IS A CAT BONG!


OK how it works is you prep your substance of choice place it in the black bowl on the right, open the airtight trap door, insert cat and light up!

WTF????

What this guy gets out of filtering his weed smoke through a kitten I will never know, it could be an ancient secret passed down by the cat loving pharoahs but is most likely the result of the final stages of the degenerative brain function disorder known as South Park Syndrome, where as time progresses the sufferer finds themselves doing things that increasingly appear as if they were scripted by stoner/cartoonist Mattparker Treystone.

"American...wait er British actually Psycho"

Christian bale can be heard here going king kong on some poor unsuspecting mother loving gentle rigger on the set of his latest blockbuster T4: whos the guvnor? umm no wait let me google it. Edit: Terminator Salvation (he's John Connor, former boy). Sounds like his Brando moment was interrupted mid meaningful look and instead of saving the planet from indestructible robot aliens he himself transformed into a red eyed fiend-bot and identified his target, the unfortunately named Shane Hurlbutt.
NSFW!

And they all came 2 by 2.

SONG OF THE YEAR SOUTH AFRICA 2008,

Collabo produced K. Salaam, with a sample from Tracy Chapman Mountains of Greed.

Mos Def &Sizzla/Victory mp3

SPOTLIGHT! Reporting a new phenomenon; post Obama racism. WHO YOU CALLING.......

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Just two days after Senor Presidente Obama went where no other brother has been and no I'm not talking about the moon, there have been widespread reports of racism across the land of hope and dreams. There was a brief ceasefire in discriminatory behaviour negotiated by leading members of the NAACP and a coalition of organisations with eurocentric interests, overseen by Boutros-Boutros Ghali comedically named former UN Dictator-General. Following unprecedented falls in the use of slurs such as porch monkey, cracker and dot head, the deadlock was broken when an elderly white male using public transport was heard to utter a racially demeaning epithet towards a woman of the Hispanic persuasion; "At first I thought he was making a sexual advance towards me like he had some viagras or something, but then I when heard him talking about tacos I knew that he had crossed the line, I immediately called Jesse Jackson and told him to call of the ceasefire" And almost immediately across the country white woman in line for lattes started receiving extremely laid back service, with some having to wait almost 8 minutes for a skinny. So with almost no time on the clock the new administration has been shown to be failing, but who is really to blame? Can we really expect one man to be everywhere putting his hand over peoples mouths? Should they implement a Santa Claus policy where offenders do not receive tax breaks or other financial incentives that go to good citizens should they speak or think racist thoughts? Some think this is the way forward; Wolmera 24 from Brooklyn thinks so "Look at what Santa has done for our kids, all on a threat, lets do the same for these people who think it's ok to proceed with judging people based on preconceived notions of incompatibility". One thing is for certain the nature of the beast post-no-black-boss ever is definitely going to be hard to pin.

In other news that is not really news:

Newly presidented son of Kenyan immigrant signals intent by undoing some of his predecessors best work;

1. Tough new laws for lobbyists- these are the people that make sure the prices Americans pay for medicine remain the highest in the world among other things, in a word...what the hell is he thinking!!

2. Closure of Guantanemo Bay-Already? c'mon 'O' dude give peace a chance, see if you can't drown out some more answers to why G-Dub pushed down the towers while calmy reading "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs".

Something I'm Recommending

From Austrian beat whizz kid Dorian Concept comes Maximised Minimilisation, a 3 track effort that caught my ears while perusing Boomkat. I've heard enough atonal, janky rythms lately, the Dilla bump synthed to the gills for tech heads for consumption through headphones and coffee table listenings, the 'I never heard of quantize' movement which is strong from LA to Detroit all the way to the most dangerous town in Britain namely Glasgow via Lucky Me et al. What it is with this release that got me though is the departure from down tempo on the A side with a banging dance track that can only be described as minimal maximised, a tempting piece of egghead electro.

Dorian Concept/Maximised Minimilisation/Virtual Output/
Dalston dog says: That's what's up!

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