Linkoln Logs April

But I don't party and shake my butt
I leave that to the brothers with the funny haircuts...

CO SPORTS:

-Every Day Should Be Saturday has the recap of Coach Hawk's visit to Gainesville. I have a sneaky feeling that ol Hawk might get a web-wide and media-wide rep for being the Hulk Hogan of the coaching realm.

-Your Colorado Rockies, first place, bitches. The Purple Row has a breakdown of the early-season "showdown" between the titanic Rox and the Fathers. April 6? So what, get those World Series plans ready. Either that or start talking about the Broncos as usual in August.

HIP HOP:

-A album that I've really been feeling this spring is Wisemen's Wisemen Approaching. It's definitely flown under the radar but offers a classic, stripped down sound and impressive wordplay between MCs Bronze Nazareth, Kevlaar 7, Salute, and Phillie. The CD is peppered with guest appearances from Wu-affiliates Killah Priest, Prodigal Sunn, and GZA. Other guests include Planet Asia and Vast Aire of Can O, who blesses the track "Iconoclasts" with some straight fire.

-Beefs in Hip Hop are about as common as shiny rims, gun lyrics, and wack beats. Unfortunately, none of theses beefs are worthy of LL-Moe Dee or even Jay-Nas. EWA takes a look at the "beef" between producers Scott Stoch and Timbaland. There's actually alot of material there: Storch's wack Darth Vader sunglasses, Tim's freakish steriod-Tookie-like physique, the fact that either of them are rapping. What's next? Sound engineer beef? The roadies? Tour bus drivers? "Yo, you pull into the Flying J all stupid lame, you fill the bus with low octane gasoline." Holler.

BEER:

-A trip to the liquor store yesterday revealed the lot of spring seasonal beers that breweries flood the shelves with. Seasonal beers seemed to be limited to one- Coors Winterfest that your drunk Uncle brought over on Christmas Eve. Now we are hammered with beers for every season (I got tipsy off a November candied-yams beer last year.) Beer Advocate chronicles the spring selections for the imbibers and Slushy Gutter heads.

Linkoln Logs

Her mean mother stepped up, said to me hi
Looked Sally in the face and decked her in the eye
Punched her in the belly and stepped on her feet
Slammed the child on the hard concrete...

Note and news from around the Hip-Hop realm...

*Passion of the Weiss has a day in the life of Jim Jones. Baaaalllliiin! (NOTE: this phrase is dangerously close to already being played out; when the overweight checker at KMart yells it to another, then it's time to go away)

*Rappers just keep going and going these days, even Kurtis Blow mentioned his new CD on his Sirius show the other day. Should rappers be banned from picking up the mic at a certain age? 33Jones looks at the Top 10 Albums from Post-30 Rappers

*Some joints can be completely butched by freaking wack choruses. Ohword has a list of a few of the illest sang in recent memory.

*New MF Doom! Not a new CD, but rather a new figurine. Sure to be the hot gift this year.

*The Rap Up has a comprehensive timeline of all the Jim Jones versus Jay-Z beef. No verdict in my book: Jay-Z wins this one going away. The "Brooklyn High" jam is classic.

*Nice: Nas f/ Jay-Z and Sean Price remix, "Black Republicans" (nahright)
*Hot: New Clipse CD, Hell Hath No Fury, finally dropped (allhiphop)
*Soon: The second Ghostface Killah album in 2006, More Fish (hiphopdx)

*Old School video: Earle The Poet, "High Noon" If you spent any part of 1990 watching Yo! or Rap City, you'd occaisionally catch this clip. After it dropped, we never heard a peep from this MC again.