Debuts:The Notorious B.I.G., "Juicy"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTvdpAYeHENas, "The World is Yours"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZ_RD--LpgOutKast, "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T0SorIk3n0Fugees, "Nappy Heads (remix)"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD_Enr3Ea1wKurious, "Walk Like a Duck"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tmzwEp8cQ4Jeru the Damaja, "Come Clean...
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Posts by Omagus
Has there ever been a better year for hip hop than 1994?
Why don't black women like hip hop?
November 11Femi is wondering why black women don't like hip hop. 11:21pmOn Friday, November 9, I hit downtown Austin to see one of hip hop’s best live performers, Lyrics Born. As I sat in the back waiting for the wack second act to mercifully get off the stage so that LB could rock the spot, I engaged in a favorite activity of mine: people watching. In doing so, I observed a group of people t
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The Greatest Albums Ever (the 9/04/2007, 8:49PM CST Edition)
Recently, I've started listening to my CDs a lot more. It wasn't a conscious decision; rather it was something that I had to start doing out of necessity.One of the first things that I noticed about Austin after moving here: no sports radio. Specifically, no ESPN radio. So with no Mike & Mike to listen to on the way to work, and no Galloway and Company to hear on the way home that automatically el
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Black people screaming, "Racism!" White people screaming, "Reverse racism!" Chinese people screaming, "Sideways racism!"
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Artist:
SITUATION NUMBER ONE A while back I tried (very unsuccessfully) to spread the gospel of Lyrics Born. One of the few people who actually gave him a shot was JoyPearl. She later admitted to me that she had listened to some of his stuff and liked it. I chalked that up as a victory in our ongoing war as to what constitutes good music. Then some time after that, I got home from work, jumped onto
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Answers to the Stolen Lyric Game
My apologies for taking forever to put this up...1) I'll say it for you, travel the globe and tell everyone to aim love toward you (Visionaries, If You Can't Say Love)2) It's Saturday, the club smells like cigarettes and aftershave (Mars ILL featuring D.R.E.S. tha Beatnik and Ishues, Saturday Night Special)3) Warlocks in wonderland/ I've got a megatropolis in my hand (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warloc
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The Stolen Lyric Game
Step 1: I put my MP3 player on random.Step 2: I posted the first line from the first 30 songs that played, no matter how embarrassing. Then I listed each of the artists' that were played.Step 3: Your job is twofold: 1) Match up the lyric with the correct artist and 2) name the title of the song.Step 4: The idea is to see how many lyrics can be named AND to see who can match up the most lyrics wi
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