I been watching and rewatching this video over and over since it dropped. I forgot I had a blog and that you could embed Youtube videos on it and stuff. So …yeah..the homie Bambu doesn’t have a single weakness as an emcee:

I was gonna try to come up with 10, but it’s too hard. My memory is mad spotty – plus I don’t really pay that much attention to commercials unless they’re dope. So top seven it is.

By the way, I don’t watch much TV except sports, so…uh…take that for what it’s worth.

7. Cog
Honda, 2003

What??

6. Pony
Ally Bank, 2009
This brown-haired girl gives awesome facial expressions – at :03 when she is overjoyed at getting a toy pony, and even more delicious is the glare as she cocks her head to side to let him know he needs to stop messing around.

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Mos kills it. Eminem and Black Thought might have the punchlines, but Mos strangles this to life. Primo on the turns.

BTW, ten years ago, this would have been crazy, but now that these dudes are all like 35+ years old, it’s that much better. There’s a lot more weight to their verses than I bet there woulda been had this been off a Rawkus compilation in ’99.

Enjoy!

You could see him almost every morning going on a walk through Chinatown with his sister – he was just dedicated to the neighborhood his entire life. He passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Click here to read his obituary from the Boston Globe.

Also, check out this fun video from a few years back of him telling the story of growing up in Chinatown, being surrounded by bootleggers!

There’s been a lot of talking about how inappropriate Wilson was the other night, but I haven’t heard that much talking about how inaccurate he was. Olbermann went in on him on both counts.

Your comments were inappropriate and regrettable and wrong! You got up in front of the world, embarrassed your district, embarrassed your state, embarrassed your party, embarrassed your nation, shouted at the President like he was a referee at a ballgame and you were a drunk in the stands, and you were wrong.

I’m going on vacation this week. All the traveling I do has finally paid off! Me and wifey turned frequent flyer miles into two tickets to away from here.

I don’t think I’ll have Internets access, and even if I do, I doubt I’ll be using it much. So I’m leaving you with a couple joints that I can’t get enough of right now. (BTW, when I fall in love with a particular song, it’s usually already a couple years old…)

Wu Ooh – Rae, Ghost, and Meth with that old Wu chemistry. The beat is bananas. If this is what Cuban Linx 2 sounds like, then I’m already there.

Mr. Brightside – I was a latecomer to the Killers, but I think Brandon Flowers is the best American pop song writer in 10 years. their execution can sometimes be transcendent and sometimes super sloppy. But the songwriting is always top-notch.

Mother of All Funk Chords – I know this was hot a few months ago, but every few weeks I remember how dope it was and I go find it again. MAN, it’s so fun! I feel like I could watch/listen to this for hours at a time.

Everything off Stars & Stripes – I am not necessarily a big fan of mash-ups – but when they’re done out of love, then you can tell – and Adrian Champion def has respect for all the source material here.

And of course: Travellin Man by Mos and Honda. I can always relate to this joint, but now that all that time away from home has paid off in a vacation, I’m all about it!

People have been talking about the world being crazy nowadays as though there was nothing we could do to change it.

The world is crazy because we’ve encouraged it and allowed it to become crazy.

I was put on to this video by my friend Sham. Please be warned that many of these images are extremely disturbing. For more about the artist Humble the Poet, visit him here.

What would you do if you were performing one of your hit songs and Prince got up on stage and took the place of your guitarist?

A lot of people are hating on this movie, but I can’t see why. A movie about Biggie’s life? What…too soon?

I guess the major beef people have with it is that Gravy plays Biggie. But I don’t know who else would have been the obvious better choice? Sean Kingston? Forrest Whitaker? Anthony Anderson?

Stop hating. I can’t wait for this flick – to come out on DVD so I can rent it from the Redbox…$12 is too much even for a movie about B.I.G.

Many shouts to Nas and the director of this viral music video: Rik Cordero (Asians represent…)

Hotness. For clarification on my views toward Fox News, go here and here.

UPDATE (7/14): I heard rumors that Nas was gonna show to that China earthquake fundraiser in NYC Chinatown over the weekend. But who knew it was actually gonna happen? Publicity for the upcoming album? Yeah of course, but he took the time to explain his presence instead of just showing and specifically said he was there to “support the Asian community.”

Dag Nas, you’re creeping back into my Top 5 dude…