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2009 Blind I Award Winners

Thank you all for participating in the voting for the 2009 Blind I year-end awards! It was fun to come up with the categories and see nominated artists push their campaigns quite heavily through their own outlets. We had a bunch of nominees on long lists when we started this process, and as we dwindled them all down to the best we knew we had something dope on our hands. We put up the polls, you voted, and now we present to you the 2009 Blind I End Of The Year Award Winners!

Foreign Exchange came and shut it down, winning our Album Of The Year category with 40% of the vote!

Foreign Exchange also picked up the award for the Best Collaboration, with Muhsinah for “Daykeeper“, which received 28% of the vote!

The Best Compilation award went to *Pbbt!’s “Jay.F*cking.Elec” compilation, showcasing some of the best from Mr. Electronica, with 33% of the vote!

The award for Best Live Act went to Mrs. Electronica, the incomparable Erykah Badu, who smashed with 35% of the vote!

The Best New Artist award went to San Jose’s own Don Prahfit, who came away with 33% of the vote!

The award for Best Post actually went to 2 posts – both Maiya & Meezy’s Jay-Z/J Dilla Mashupposts, which came in with 36% of the vote!

The Video Of The Year award went to Don Prafit’s cover of Kanye’s “I Wonder” with 39% of the vote!

The award for Most Improved went to – but of course - Pacific Division, with 31% of the vote!

Foreign Exchange swept every category they were in, including the award for Song Of The Yearwith “Daykeeper” getting 35% of the vote!

This was a tight one, but the Tweak Of The Year with 32% of the vote went to Kanye West at the 2009 VMA’s! *kanyeshrug*

NEXT YEAR we go bigger with MORE categories, MORE nominees, and MORE people to vote! Thanks for participating in this fun little exercise…now let’s see what 2010 has to offer!

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2009 BLIND I AWARD WINNERS!

Thank you all for participating in the voting for the 2009 Blind I year-end awards! It was fun to come up with the categories and see nominated artists push their campaigns quite heavily through their own outlets. We had a bunch of nominees on long lists when we started this process, and as we dwindled them all down to the best we knew we had something dope on our hands. We put up the polls, you voted, and now we present to you the 2009 Blind I End Of The Year Award Winners!
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VIDEO: FIGHTING SMACK IN THE ORPHANAGE PSA

We here at Blind I care a great deal about the communities we belong to. Especially the children of those communities, and ESPECIALLY especially the homeless and parentless children. I, *Pbbt!, urge you to watch this video and do your part to fight smack in the orphanages of America.

Go forth, kinsmen and women, and put yo’ ankles in it.

Click HURR to join the fight.

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Weekly Tweets for 2009-05-03

• Blind I For The Kids Weekly Tweets for 2009-04-26 http://tinyurl.com/cfa9xt #
• @QQENTERTAINMENT check out BBU http://www.myspace.com/binladenblowinup they’re lookin for management I thought of you in reply to QQENTERTAINMENT #
• #musicmonday http://www.blindiforthekids.com #
• Chicago is on Twitter today!! #
• Julian Wright, Jon Scheyer, Sherron Collins, Isiah Thomas, Derrick Rose, Luther Head, Dee Brown, Dwayne Wade, Corey Magette, Kendall Gill… #
• Quinton Richardson, Deon Thomas, Nick Anderson, Shaun Livingston, Frank Williams, Darius Miles, Eddy Curry…they’re all from Chi/Illinois #
• Don’t forget Tim Hardaway and Derrick Rose… #
• Member Tim used to hoop with Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullen for the Warriors and with Mourning in Miami #
• RT: @el710 @Blind_I April 09 NOKD is cold…good shit #
• Man I love Derrick Rose but we gotta get my dude some media training…I was watching interviews on his website and I got a headache. #
• Blind I For The Kids MACHINE GUN FUNK 4/30 SAN JOSE http://tinyurl.com/c83fmf #
• “Ewing for Smith….Smith……….Smith Smith STOPPED Smith Stopped Again!” The Bulls blocked the Knicks’ Charles Smith 5 times in 1 play #
• And don’t forget people, most of these Bulls moments weren’t regular season games….not first round or second….but Finals games & schitt #
• Blind I For The Kids 9TH WONDER X DAVID BANNER – NO DENYIN’ http://tinyurl.com/dg9zd6 #
• Loving the Chester French album….cop that when ya’ll get some cake! #
• John Wall….the next LeBron? http://tinyurl.com/cqfx97 #
• Cezar Guerrero, only in 9th Grade!! Ridiculous handles | http://tinyurl.com/dmwk4r #
• Who in the fuck would wanna stalk Derek Fisher? @symonefisher, that’s who. Check it on ESPN: http://tinyurl.com/c7ax86 Fucking weirdos! #
• There’s only one Chicago Larry in my eyes, and that’s Larry Hoover. #
• I studied under Bruce Lee n*gga….he was on the 4th, I was on the 3rd. #
• @houseshoes Blasphemy. Harold’s Chicken FTW in reply to houseshoes #
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• Blind I For The Kids VIDEO: MAYER HAWTHORNE – JUST AIN’T GONNA WORK OUT http://tinyurl.com/dcgr5z #
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• Blind I For The Kids IZZA KIZZA – WIZARD OF IZ [NEW MIXTAPE/RELEASE PARTY] http://tinyurl.com/dj7lwv #
• RT: @MsHuStLah@Blind_I Is it just me or is the layout for Blind I messed up? All I see is a lot of whitespace…? #
• Blind I For The Kids VIDEO: ASHER ROTH – BE BY MYSELF (FEAT. CEE-LO) http://tinyurl.com/cwklku #
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• @MayerHawthorne we’re giving away your CD tonight thanks to Jamie, I’ll be in the building I hope you tear the shit down! #
• Sorry Mike Posner, I dont support anything from Duke. I’m even content with Luol Deng not playing for the Bulls. Fuck Duke!!!! #
• I made a mixtape called “Down Ass White Boys” with Chester French, Asher Roth and the Lonely Island FTSWINDLE #
• One of my favorite albums ever…Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E. http://sharebee.com/b9b92f3c #
• @angelonfire *ahem* FTSWINDLE! aka as they swindle us all! And yes i think Chester French is a swindle! in reply to angelonfire #
• Sleeper album of the year so far….Diamond District – In The Ruff. Every joint….wow #
• @angelonfire Yeah Twitter slang is something vicious. FTSWINDLE, add it to your vocab! in reply to angelonfire #
• I like Necro, but how’d he manage to make it on the Rock The Bells lineup? #
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• Joakim Noah looks like a skinny Hurley from Lost #
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• Who saw that f*cking game last night? Wow! #
• I love my homies @HollywoodHolt @DJMano “Thug rage all night, gonna get shit-wolfed” http://vimeo.com/3889660 #
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• RT: @NBA Best 1st rd series ever? Whatever you think…it ends tomorrow. 8pm ET on TNT. DO NOT miss this. Here’s why: http://tiny.cc/kanye20 #

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TIRON – KETCHUP

To piggyback *PBBT!’s post earlier re: not puttin up some schitt we been sittin on, (nig… i told yall im stupid busy these daze) I would like to say I AM SORRY! But better late than never right? Aight so… the heads know that TiRon runs with the Pac Div/Diz Gibran/Bleu Collar mafia, and for those who don’t… well… now u do. He is featured on Pac Div’s Paper & She (oh how I can’t wait for the full damn song already) just to name a few. Str8 up… the cats he runs with are stupid fresh, thus, they wouldn’t roll with anyone who was less fresh than them. He IS that doode! Peep All The Kings featuring Blind I fave Blu…

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Awwww… hip hop is coming back so strong isnt it!?

Track List & DL after the J…

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*PBBT!’S SMORGASBORD MARCH 2009

*Gucci Mane voice* Aw damn…this tracklist so cold man…Aw g man gotdamn…$ went in on this cover art

Seriously though guys and gals, this playlist is probably my favorite next to the “The Crib” joint I posted a while back. And that’s not because I put a track I produced on this one [/shameless plug]. I predict you will enjoy it thoroughly.

DOWNLOAD Pbbt!’s Smorgasbord March 09 (zShare)

Tracklist after the jump just in case you dont trust me. $ put that together too. It looks equally as cold.

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*PBBT!’S SMORGASBORD FEBRUARY 2009

Hmm…my mixes are usually a lot more random than this…but hey, I think it still can be rocked with.

The weather has been getting a little better in Atlanta so I’ve been compelled to roll my windows down, so there are quite a few bangers on here.

Well, I hope SOMEBODY likes it… :-\

Tracklist after the jump

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*PBBT!’S SMORGASBORD JANUARY 2009

CHELLO ALL!

As always, made with the fellow crate diggers and producers in mind.

I’m telling you, there’s some good shit on here, I promise.

Scout’s honor :-p

(Sorry about the Megaupload link, too big for Mediafire)

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Tracklisting after the jump

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*PBBT!’S SMORGASBORD DECEMBER 2008 – FAIL

*sigh*…yeah this playlist is pretty…interesting…

It’s been a hellova few days…playlist should give an idea of the kinda mood[s] I’ve been in as of late.

Tracklist and link after the jump.

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