“I Gave Her A Lil’ Will CD & A Fuckin’ Poster…”

-Big Boi, Da Art Of Storytellin’ Part 1

Remember that female that wanted to sick Boi’s duck? Well, she was one of the few that actually saw a physical copy of a Lil’ Will CD. The album, “Better Days” was the Dungeon Family album that stayed where it was made. Will wasn’t a bad singer, but he wasn’t great. He was your typical 90’s singer and “Better Days” is pretty much your standard 90’s R&B album. The DF flavored production is one of the main things that keep this album from being irrelevant. It has standout cuts: “Looking For Nikki”, “Yesterdays” & “April Rain” and other tracks that don’t blow you away but they also don’t put you to sleep. So, if your a fan of the first family of Atlanta hip hop, give this joint a listen.

Better Days 

-JK

Believe it or not, Kurtis Mantronik of Mantronix (the “white” guy) is a Jamaican Canadian. The fella in the FILA cap is MC Tee. They did their damn thing back in the day and in my opinion the music they made resembles some of this electronic/dance/hip hop music out now. If you close your eyes and listen to Mantronix and then Spank Rock or The Cool Kids maybe, you can get a little bit of the same vibe…a little.

Mantronix - The Album

-JK

Cool electronic/rock album by White Williams. My favorite on it currently is “In The Club”.

Smoke 

-JK

Saw this online and then it got taken down everywhere….so I downloaded it, and uploaded it myself. Partake in the glorious roasting of BET.

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(Image Courtesy of Who Cares? Im Straight Gafflin’)

METHOD TO THE MADNESS: I wrote this because I was feeling a certain way this weekend. Digesting hundreds of songs, dealing with the day to day b.s. life throws at you etc. But whatever, it was just a little introspection.

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12:56 AM 1/27/07

I am confounded. I had to look up the word confounded just to double check that I actually am confounded. I am currently on a steady diet of hipster dance music, especially remixes. Yet, I don’t want to be a hipster, or I think I don’t want to at this moment. But I think I am turning into a hipster kinda like that 80’s rock/pop/electronic? group was turning Japanese. I also didn’t mention, I am consuming all of this dance music and my ass can’t really dance. I kinda two step and sway. I am not stiff, just awkward, a result of my lack of social interaction for part of my teens: The part of your teen’s where u actually use your body in a dancing manner. I say im awkward just because im so self conscious at times but…where the fuck am I going?

Ok I guess that just goes to show you I am confounded. I like peppering my writing with words like confound just to change up the flow. Confound is a good word because it shows you have moderate intelligence, enough that you use a word other than confused to tell the world that you are in fact, confused. That is true with many other words and at some point I hope to master this skill, if you would call it that. I came up with a song idea tonight due to my emotions. It has an emo-rock-like long title that will draw attention simply because it goes against the grain of popular culture’s ideas about how long a song title should be. The title is “Fucking Tired of This Hipster Shit”. That is tentative, don’t hold me to it, I reserve the right to politically correct it and buckle beneath the pressure of “The Man” at the record label if I do in fact ever sign to one.

The song will feature such chant-a-long lines as “If you rockin’ size 13’s, better give them shits up!” which will be repeated at particular points in the song. I guess im inspired by sing a long, standard dance/club, hip hop influenced remix songs, like the one’s im listening to while writing this. “If you rockin size…” means im robbing a hipster and taking his ridiculously priced sneakers that are not so ridiculous once you realize that if I had the money I would be buying them too. I believe they call that irony. Oh, im catching on with these big words. The whole song will be kinda tongue and cheek and yet introspective. It will be both because im not taking myself seriously but I am letting the world know I have insecurities and a desire to in some way be a part of this group. I say I lack the money for these shoes at a time when my wallet looks like it could stop a bullet. Im literally holding on to $1200 and I guess I just think their are more important things for me to buy at the moment besides designer sneakers. The more important things were apparently a wireless router and a Slingbox so I can watch t.v. on my laptop. Speaking of laptop I used to always think it was labtop but whatever.

I am also at odds with myself at times because I would like to dress the way I truly want to but being a full time hipster is exhausting. Because of this predicament I wear the fashionable but not-as-up-to-date-as-I-would-like stuff. I do this because my money flow is not limitless and it still seems like im allergic to getting a job, plus the pollen seems to be out in full force at the moment. Im sure “true” hipsters hate the word hipster because they think they are too hip to be called a hipster. Or perhaps, they are so far ahead of the curve that they actually laugh at themselves because thats what the masses will find cool 6-12 months from now. Wow, that was deep.

To sum it up or something, I despise the readers of URB as well as the people in the pages, all the while, a URB magazine stares at me from 2 feet away on my bed and my earphones blast at high decibels, the music talked about in URB. I want to be so hip that I despise myself for being so hip. I want to have the music before the artist strums his guitar, flicks a knob or clicks a mouse. I want the news of the helicopter explosion before the Iraqi “insurgents” blow it out of the sky. And I want my expensive kicks to be played out before the third world hands stitch them together. I keep coming with that deep shit, im so hip. Geez JK your a poet and you didn’t even know it. Geez, your talking to yourself in third person and referring to your nickname at the same time! Johnathan your so fucking hip! The crowd roars in approval but I tell them to shut up because im too hip for that. Ok, I went too far, the gimmicks wearing off.

Ok, what is the point im trying to make? No point really. I just write and whatever comes out, comes out. These are just my honest feelings. “Only a hip person would say that”.

-JK

Limited edition jumpoff, available only in select Japanese vending machines, hidden in random Pocky boxes. Like an eastern version of Willy Wonka. Ok, that was complete bullshit except for the limited edition part, just an excuse to drop some new UNKLE.

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-JK

Gnarls Barkley - “Run” (Rapidshare)

Gnarls Barkley - “Run” (Sharebee)

These dudes and others like them are what music needs. $

A thumbs up from Kanye, a resurgence in Chi-town hip hop, a song in a Mickey D’s commercial = No album to show, walking papers from your label and perhaps a missed chance at blowing up? I like Bump J and I hope he does see some success or at least a record that is released by real record stores and not MixUnit and street peddlers. But, while browsing URB Magazine’s website today I saw a link to a new mixtape from the man.

Dinner Time

On top of that I have the old Gangsta Grillz mixtape featuring the man that I been waiting for the right time to post so here that is.

Chicagorilla 

-JK

7 years ago…I was 7 years younger. Good night! Thanks for coming! But seriously, 7 years ago when I was new to the teens, I heard a song that I absolutely loved. That song was “Frontier Psychiatrist” by The Avalanches. I was in the 8th or 9th grade and finally started to broaden my musical horizons. I wanted to be a DJ, discovered Daft Punk, started writing rhymes etc. Electronic music meshed with hip hop was new to me but I welcomed the sound I was hearing when I listened to that single from that Australian group named after a natural occurrence.

According to wikipedia, the bible for writers when searching for accurate facts (sarcasm , if you didn’t realize) the group’s debut album “Since I Left You” was composed of 3,500 record samples. If that number is accurate or even close to the truth you have to appreciate the effort alone required to put this album together. When you listen to the record however, you will likely appreciate the execution and the result. The album flows together, it’s bouncy, soulful, jazzy, poppy and thoroughly entertaining. A classic in it’s genre, straight up.

Since I Left You

-JK

I’m every marketing person’s dream. When I am standing in line I buy shit close to the register. I know…I know. I had been wondering what this Sia: Some People Have Real Problems album sounded like every time I was in Starbuck’s. I mean on the cover it’s a grown woman that colored on her face. So due to my curiosity, I got got and bought it.

I popped it in while I was cleaning up and it’s pretty smooth. Kinda reminds me of Fiona Apple a bit, Feist at times. Good to cool out to.

http://www.mediafire.com/?0yhmhmz2mwz-M

-M

That little Hot Chip post with the newest album from the group was quite popular. It’s simple, if something works you roll with it. So get chippy and marvel at my clever post title and my not so clever integration of the word chippy. Oh and we also got the musical sounds of Hot Chip for that ass!

2004 - Coming On Strong

2005 - All Filler No Killer 

2006 - Over And Over EP 

2006 - Boy From School EP

2006 - The Warning

2007 - DJ Kicks Part 1  Part 2

2007 - Ready For The Floor CDM

2008 - Made In The Dark

2008 - Blind I For The Kids Presents: BBQ Circuitry Part 1

1. Woop Woop - The Chap

2. Robot Man (Hot Chip Remix) - The Aliens

3. Enemies Like This (Hot Chip Remix) - Radio 4

4. Destroy Everything You Touch (Hot Chip Remix) - Ladytron

5.  Kids With Guns (Hot Chip Remix) - Gorillaz

6. Don And Sherri (Hot Chip Version) - Matthew Dear

2008 - Blind I For The Kids Presents: BBQ Circuitry Part 2

7. In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix) - Junior Boys

8. She’s The One (Hot Chip Remix) - Caribou

9. Voodoo (Hot Chip Remix) - Chungking

10. Must Be The Moon (Hot Chip Remix) - !!!

11. Crambodia (Joe Chip From Hot Chip Remix) - Plastic Little

12. Girls And Boys In Love (Hot Chip Remix) - Rumble Strips

13. Rehab (Hot Chip Remix) - Amy Winehouse

–2K8: The Blind I Crew Ain’t Nothin’ To Fuck Wit’–

-JK

This is just a lil, slightly, tad, old, but…shit is hot. Do yourself a favor and download it…you know…if your into that kind of thing.

1. DLake - Bmore Of a Hipster “V-Mail” Intro Feat. Symbol & Spank Rock

2. DLake - Dance All Night Feat. Symbol & Demetrius

3. M.I.A. - U.R.A.Q.T.

4. M.I.A. - XR2 TURBO! (Diplo Re-Edit)

5. Blaqstarr - Hands Up, Thumbs Down

6. Bamabounce - Wu-Tang Slide

7. Wu-Tang Clan - Ain’t Nothin’ To F Wit’ (Bird Peterson Remix)

8. Scottie B - Find A Way Feat. A Tribe Called Quest

9. Dre Skull - I Want You Back Feat. The Jackson 5

10. Beastie Boys - Girls (DLake Remix)

11. Gotye - Hearts A Mess (DLake Remix)

12. Royksopp - Remind Me (DLake Re-Edit)

13. Justin Timberlake - Love Stoned (Justice Remix)

14. Rihanna - Don’t Stop The Music

15. Fergie - Glamorous (Space Cowboy Remix)

16. DLake - Diffibulator Feat. JC & Demetrius (Bird Peterson Remix)

17. Qualo vs. Green Velvet - Shake Yo’ Pockets (DJ Morsy Remix)

18. Lil’ Jon vs. Goose - Throw It On (DJ Morsy Remix)

19. Thunderheist - Suenos Dulces

20. Spank Rock & Benny Blanco - Shake That (DLake Re-Edit)

21. Kid Sister - Damn Girl (Curtis Vodka Re-Edit)

22. Kanye West - Stronger (DJ A-Trak Remix)

23. Diplo - Work Is Never Over

24. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

25. Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby

26. DLake - Bmore Of a Hipster “Shameless Plug” Outro

Bmore Of a Hipster “The Mixtape” v1.0

Check out DLake at his website The DLake 

-JK

It may just be me, but I feel that this election and the recent debates have made me move further and further towards wishing Bill Clinton would run for election again if it was possible. The things this man says makes me reminisce about a time when the president actually knew what he was talking about. I’ve said since day one of Hillary Clinton’s election stint that Bill would be her trump card of sorts, especially with African-Americans. I mean, they even went so far as to ask Obama whether or not he felt Bill Clinton was the first black president. But I’m from Chicago, I’m black, I’m educated, and I STILL see the everyday struggle that so many need a mere symbol of hope to feel like they can still emerge. So I’ve come out with My Obama trump card.

Her name….is Monica Lewinsky.

Yeah. Remember shorty?

Received this in an email and though that it was quite comical:

The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in its Style section called the ‘Style Invitational’.

The requirements this week were to use the two words ‘Lewinsky’ (the Intern) and ‘Kaczynski’ (the Unabomber) in the same limerick.

Now, remember, the following winning entries were actually printed verbatim in the newspaper, no bleeps or xxxs:

Third place:

There once was a girl named Lewinsky
Who played on a flute like Stravinsky
‘Twas ‘Hail to the Chief’
On this flute made of beef
That stole the front
page from Ka! czynski.

Second place:

Said Clinton to young Ms. Lewinsky,
We don’t want to leave clues like Kaczynski, Since you made such a mess,
Use the hem of your dress And please wipe that stuff off your chinsky.

And the winning entry:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown
What Kaczynski must surely have known,
That an intern is better
Than a bomb in a letter,
When deciding how best to be blown.

And now,

Gnarls Barkley - “Transformer (Remix)” - YouTube

Be easy.

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Everyone here at Blind I seems to have a compilation that they put together, so…why not me? Now, I didn’t give $ an advance warning so hopefully in a later volume he can hook me up with a sick ass cover. Until then, enjoy my mummy drawing, ha.

I was gonna wait to put this up but im sure some people out there haven’t heard these GLC songs yet so I slapped this together. Ish is hot if I do say so myself. Enjoy.

1. Honor Me - GLC

2. Blinded By The Light - GLC

3. Rosanne - GLC

4. I Tried - GLC

5. Take It Easy - Amanda Blank Feat. M.I.A.

6. Get It Now - Amanda Blank

7. For The Unloved - Amanda Blank

8. So Fucking Disco - Pase Rock

9. The Motherfucking Rave Is Over - Pase Rock

10. Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge - Pase Rock

11. Sexy MF (E-Marce’s Fuckin’ in the Shower Overnoise Edit) - Pase Rock Feat. Amanda Blank

12. Juicy - DJ Eli

13. Shake It To The Ground (Claude Von Stroke Remix) - DJ Blaqstarr

14. A Cause Des Garçons (TEPR Remix Tecktonik) - Yelle

15. Selfridges Girl Not On Myspace (Boy 8 Bit Remix) - Lethal Bizzle

16. Phantom Pt. II (Boys Noize Remix) - Justice

17. XR2 (Tigerstyle Remix) - M.I.A.

The Johnny Bendtrix Experience Vol.1 

-JK