The 4 Horsemen of the Rap Reviews Internets

It is very common & cliche for people to cry & complain that "hip hop is dead".

I concede that popular major media, be it radio, TV video, magazines, etc, is prolly horrible. I don't fully know, because I don't eff with the lamestream media to find out what good new music have dropped

Instead, I eff with what I'm calling The 4 Horsemen of the Rap Reviews Internets to find out about new dope album releases

Ironically, each of these 4 dudes, as an INDIVIDUAL'S FREE TIME HOBBY, PWNS "professional hip-hop organizations" like XXL or hiphopsite.com, when it comes to reviews. The links are to each Horseman's "best of 2007" list/blog post:

Diction
Dart Adams
Travis/WYDU
Eric/WTR

I have a very contrarian opinion about the state of rap music. I believe it has become like jazz music, in that good albums are still being made, they just have little publicity. If you "dig" & look for the music, you will find it. In fact, I submit that 2006-7 has been a GOLDEN AGE in terms of the QUANTITY of GOOD ALBUMS being dropped.

The 4 Horsemen are an excellent source to discover the new good albums being dropped.

"When I'm on the internets, you know what you will hear? The 4 Horsemen Of The Rap Reviews Internets GETS PROPS OVER HERE" (c) The Beatnuts

Australian Open update

Belize asked me for an Australian Open update. I've been following the Presidential Secondary (c) myself, process, but BAM! the AO is already in full swing. Here's some news.

Federer is cruising so far in the Aussie Open. If Fed wins, it will be 13 Grand Slam (GS) singles titles, closing in on the Great Pete Sampras’ 14 titles. It’s the 3rd Rd (Rd of 32) right now.

The top US guy Roddick went down [||] Down Under [||] in 5 sets to Kohlscreiber.

James Blake, 1 of the Dallas’ GOAT Light Skinted Brothas TM, is playing great, hopefully he can do some damage.

Dont sleep on Vinny “I Ain’t Afraid of Ya” “33 is the new 16″ Spadea either http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc4eNZPbOsc.
Spadea won 2 epic 5-setters.

Perhaps the real question, who’s a “better rapper” between Spadea & Lil Wang? My vote is for Spadea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXAAEYwnNY

The US womens’ hope are all Serena & Venus Williams, they both are playing well. They’re playing women’s doubles also, just beat the #2 seed team, so 1 of them might could take home 2 GS titles this month!

reform alternatives to the Pres. primary process

Anonomo pointed me to this interesting Nation article, which explains alternatives to the current bogus primary scheme in the President race, where less than 1% of the US in small rural white states like IA & NH, often decide who the next President will be.

I have become disgusted on how the lamestream media ignores most candidates in this race, such as Richardson, Kucinich, & Paul. Even Edwards is getting focked by being ignored by the MSM.

So I'm going to start calling the actual primaries as SECONDARIES. The unelected & douche-bag laden (reference Chris Matthews) MSM effectively has the real primary, by choosing who to focus on & who to ignore.

Lucky the MSM seems to love Obama, H Clinton, & McCain, who all seem that they might be at worst decent Presidents ala Bush Sr 41, & far superior to the idiot Dictator WOAT Gee Dubbz 43.

Howard Zinn "A People's History of the USA"

The Howard Zinn US history book "A People's History of the USA" is online.

Get your read on.

Bill Richardson, & steak vs sizzle

I have seen the MSM focus on H Clinton's talking point that she has more relevant work experience than Obama.

Meanwhile, Bill Richardson dropped out of the Presidential race today.

The fact is H Clinton & Obama’s experience is at a similar level, in terms of ACTUALLY HOLDING OFFICE OR BEING THE LEADER/CEO OF AN ORGANIZATION. H Clinton has great experience at campaigning, but I don’t value this in terms of ACTUALLY DOING THE PRESIDENT job. Exhibit #4080 Gee Dubbz Bush 43.

The fact is that Bill Richardson in relevant work experience PWNS H Clinton, Obama, & the whole field of either party:

1 Governor of NM

2 US House of Reps

3 Energy secretary under B Clinton. Energy is KINDA IMPORTANT giving possible global warming & peak oil crisis

4 foreign policy diplomat/negotiator with N Korea, Cuba, etc. A diplomat as President would be a great change from the bitchmade chickenhawk neo-clown war mongerers we have now with G Dubbz

5 Uniquely qualified to deal with US-MEX relations & illegal immigration, as Gov of border state, fluent in Spanish, & having grown up for some years in Mexico City.

Per Thom Hartmann (don’t sleep, dude is the truth), the FACT is 93% of Americans vote on “emotion”/”feeling about the candidate”. I guess I’m one of the few 7% that vote on policy & work experience. Richardson got shyted on as a non-charismatic fat guy.

SMH at 93% of my fellow Americans, who take the sizzle over the steak.

This is the same dynamic in quasi-gay rap fans who value “swagger” over lyricism/flow/voice, & take a mediocre media-hyped douche-bag like Lil Wang over true unique talented MCs like Phonte or Black Thought.

This is the same dynamic as the society that values sales & marketing “PowerPoint engineers” over REAL ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS that through creations in information technology, energy technology, genomics/pharma, etc drive the majority of the productivity & innovation in our economy.

Wake up America, time to value the steak over the sizzle.