Wu Massacre Artwork/T-Shirt

This is the artwork for the forthcoming Wu side project album from Method Man, Ghostface and Raekwon, titled Wu Massacre. Following on from the wicked House of Flying Daggers video from Raekwon's previous release, the Wu have again coupled great artwork with some great music.

As if that wasn't good enough, Wu Tang have collaborated with Rocksmith to produce this shirt to accompany the album.

Supra Skytop II in White

Supra have become more and more popular recently with many other brands mimicking their currently in vogue style.

Here are the latest edition of Supra's original Skytops...think high tops but a bit higher.

Would I? Yea go on. Despite the fact most people would probably rock these with skinny jeans...which by the way I wouldn't unless looking like a giraffe wearing a pair of drainpipes was a good look...they get my thumbs up.

Guess Who's Bizzack?

Ok so in a million guesses you probably wouldn't have guessed who or what I was talking about but...drumroll please...one of my favourite websites ever is back online.

hiphopsite.com is a must visit, sorry scratch that, a must favourite for any self respecting hiphop fan. I was going to write a little history but DJ Pizzo (one of the site creators) has done such a good job himself that i suggest you read his here if you are interested.

I used to visit this site daily for its features such as News on the DL (a daily gossip/news column), In The Deck (reviews)and their renowned Best and Worst lists. It's a great thing to find a site that stays true to it's beliefs and no matter what pressure or money may be being thrown at it from certain quarters, sticks to its guns and gives an honest opinion. Because of this I always found their reviews to be on-point and would often buy albums off the back of their recommendations.

On the note of buying music, another of the reasons I visited the site so often was to buy music, yes they were based in Las Vegas and I have an HMV down the road but did HMV offer free mixtapes, hats, shirts and other goodies and all for pretty much the same price as buying from down the road (incl. shipping)? (The answer is no, by the way).

So albeit without the store (a victim of the massive changes in music retail), the site is back up and running and it may have a new lick of paint but the old soul is still there. In fact years worth of archived reviews and features have been uploaded so check it out and fill your boots.

Def Jam win the race to sign Shyne

Def Jam has won the race to sign former Bad Boy rapper Shyne. It has been rumoured that a bidding war between Dre Dre (come on Dre has had many artist at his label and just wasted their time i.e Stat Quo, Bishop Lamont, Rakim and Busta Rhymes to name a few and by the way they have just re-signed The Game for what ever reasons), Jimmy Iovine and other labels. Def Jam now have the rights to release Shynes highly anticipated album. His last album was in 2004, with classics such as “Bad Boy” (just a reminder video below).




Shyne is reportedly planning to record his album in London even though he was not allowed entry into the country because of his convictions and immigration papers.

I’ll keep you posted peeps…

Timbaland – Carry Out f. Justin Timberlake (Video)

Can't lie I'm a fan of the 2 Tim's when there together, its seems like a great music friendship...

Timbaland drops his lastest single "Carry Out" with his boy JT....(it is catchy so don't blame me) lol

Charlie Murphy Life after Chappelle Show

CHALIE MURPHY!!!……(said in Chappelle show style) most famous for being the older brother of Eddie until Dave Chappelle brought his exploits with Rick James to the TV screen Charlie Murphy is dam hilarious stand up in his own rights. To let the world judge this “I Will Not Apologize” comes out on the 16th Feb


There is also CD “Live At the Roxy Theater Atlanta” doing the round on the net & share site’s (check a clip below)from last year while is well wroth checking to…..

NBA Vs D League Dunk Contest

So like alot of NBA fans at this time of year only means one thing ALL STAR WEEKEND & the best part of that would be the dunk contest.This years line up on paper looked nice (even though it was mean to boost one LeBorn James this year). Nate Robinson, Shannon Brown, Gerald Wallace & Demar DeRozen. The dunks started but nothing to make you stand up & wake up & shout & that's my point. What happened to spark? meanwhile the D League dunk contest(like the 2nd division in football)was a WOW each dunk..



Next year things need to step it up! Maybe NBA Vs The D League? Get the X factor judges to mark them? something. But props goes to nate for winning for the 3rd time which hasn't been done before. not bad for a 5'9 player

Redman - Oh My

Redman by far is one of my fav mc's, with his new album dropping this year, this is the first offical single called Oh My.

Also added his video Coc Back feat Ready Roc (Red keeps it real and one of the many reasons why I'm a big fan....



Love this tune....

Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives

No doubt this album being released on April 20th this year, it will do so with no big fanfare and probably fall below the radar. Shame that. I can understand though, there won't be songs about lollipops or some new dance craze, the content will no doubt be deeper than a child's paddling pool, plus proceeds of the album will go towards building schools in the Congo...I can see how this may put off the modern hip hop fan.

Anyway, with my usual cynicisms over, I am looking forward to this project and will definitely check it out when it's released. So far a few tracks have been released and here's one of my favourites that i've got on constant repeat right about now.

Nas & Damian Marley - As We Enter

MusicDNA - The Future of Music?

It has been revealed this week that the creators of the MP3 have made a new music file format. They have called this new format "MusicDNA". These files will work like MP3s but allow extra content such as videos, artwork, lyrics and blog posts to be included in the file. This content is continually updated keeping the file up to date.

Am I excited about this? In a word....no.

This is hardly an great evolution of what we currently have. When you download new music from iTunes you can get a digital booklet with it, do you really want anything else? I can imagine checking blogs or reviews etc before purchasing the music but after?

Over the past 20 odd years there have been big leaps in the way we play our music. In my mind the main reason for moving forward should always be because either the quality is greatly improved or because the new media makes is more easily portable. Being more easily portable isn't really an issue nowadays with the ability to carry 100s of thousands of MP3s on a single device.

The jump from vinyl to cassette was massive and the walkman was king. Moving on to CD the jump in quality was huge. Even minidisc had it's day due to it's size.

Whether MusicDNA becomes the next BluRay or Betamax remains to be seen. To me though it's like needlessly putting things together that exist on their own well enough in the first place. This is not an evolution.

Adidas ZX800 Black & White

I've been liking quite a few of the colourways in the Adidas ZX range and they've done nicely with their latest black and white editions of the ZX800.

Admittedly not many trainers that aren't made by Nike generally touch my feet but at times you can't beat Adidas originals for giving you that something different.

The subtle chequerboard pattern is a neat addition. Still lovin my black and white Adidas Forum Mids at the moment but might just have to add these to the collection too.

Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, Rihanna - Stranded

Here's a performance of the Haiti aid track "Stranded". Got to say it's pretty impressive considering how quickly it's been knocked together. Shame they couldn't keep Rihanna away from proceedings but it's all for a good cause

Go purchase the song on iTunes. All proceeds go to help Haiti via Partners In Health.

A New Basketball League...For Whites

I saw this story over on TheRapUp....Apparently those nasty blacks are ruining the good old game of basketball, so one "canny" boxing promoter in Augusta USA has come up with an ingenious alternative to the NBA. Imagine a league where the players just play the "good, old" type of bball, where the players are all "wholesome" characters. Well you could be part of this, oh, well as long as both of your parents are caucasian!



I guess it could work, I mean just looking through some comments on related YouTube videos there are a few valid points made, there would be no guns in dressing room lockers, no nappy headed hoes at games (hold tight Don Imus), instead of dunk competitions they could have lay up contests!

Well let's hear from the man himself...big shout to Donald Trump's barber who has done a sterling job on this dudes syrup too.



So there you go...would this ever be a popular idea? What would be the equivalent if we switched it around? A blacks only swimming club? hmm...what happened to Eric the Eel?!

Ludacris new video "How Low"

Can't stop playing this new booty bounce tune from his new album called Battle of the Sexes....Ludacris always seems to bring out these kinda tracks that make you wanna smack the DJ for not playing it.

Video is jokes, it's got a dancing Ludacris busting some moves and of course some fine ladies dropping it low...check it out

Ludacris New Mixtape

As Ludacris prepares for his new album titled "Battle of the Sexes", he's keeping busy promoting his new drink called Conjure, with a free mixtape. Oh yes, I love the freeness like I love my food!

Hit the link for the download...
http://usershare.net/rxfsrnd91nd1

Enjoy folks....