When I was in the 3rd grade digging ditches for my dad I thought this was the song that should be playing in all the clubs I would visit in the future. And I still feel that way.

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Sleepy and binary hash out the first five minutes of an 80s movie of a man in his time and place, establish twittiquette, recall zwinkies, and endorse a sensible future for apps.

Free4all: level one

Part two focuses on grand dragon librarians, cutting off people from internet help, fear of adaptation to technology, Black Wizards, DTV, and how Paul Harvey can fix Microsoft Excel.

Black Wizards: level two

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Even rats. Everything is terrible.

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So it all started for me when Questlove posted this link on Twitter:
http://www.freshselects.net/charleshamiltonstealsbeats

I read all about it, so should you, it’s interesting even if you don’t follow hip-hop or even don’t follow it too closely, but as I kept reading it got better. Look, I like gossip and I like hip-hop, and this is the best of both worlds. I don’t like the “beef” type crap you see out there, when one millionaire rapper says he’s gonna shoot another millionaire rapper, because that is all WWF BS. On the other hand, this type of stuff is great because this guy got called out, the label got exposed for whoring out its artists and it brought attention to rappers/producers who work hard and take their craft seriously.
So, if you gotta second, turn off the glass nipple and read the lcd one.
For the full story follow the links and tell me what you think.

http://karencivil.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/curreny-x-rhymefest/

http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2008/12/11/the-hamiltonization-falsification/

Much respect to freshselects.net for reporting an interesting story and exposing someone for being a fraud. Also, this post lead me to your other posts which introduced me to new music I never heard, thank you. Respect goes to karencivil(http://karencivil.wordpress.com/) too, I am thoroughly impressed with your website and the fact you interview big names(to me) and introduce new artists in the realm of hip-hop. I would suggest not trying to interrupt Rhymefest when he is making a point, I understand CH is your friend but let the man speak his peace, that’s what everyone wanted to hear anyway and I know your website received a lot of publicity for it.
Oh, and thanks again @qoolquest, you are the upper echelon of twitterdom(and a living legend in hip-hop.)

Links of respect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roots
http://www.okayplayer.com/
www.myspace.com/rhymefest

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It’s a common quip nowadays that the last thing anyone wants to hear about is someone else’s fantasy team. I love hearing about other people’s fantasy teams. Unless it’s fantasy Nascar or golf I’m ready to watch someone else explain to me the ups and downs, the fist pumps and tear drops, and the close wins and last moment loses. I just finished my fantasy baseball draft and now I want to allow you to follow the Barelas Will Clarks. For the season. For better or for worse. For you.
 
At catcher introducing Bengie Molina. I think the only reason I picked him was because my friend Travis used to heckle him him back in 2001 when he was with the Salt Lake Stingers. Everyone needs to be able to say that they have heckled or have known someone who has heckled one of their players.
 
At First Base Adrian Gonzalez. I like him because he looks like he came from my hometown in Belen, New Mexico, which is to say he has thick dark eyebrows, skin that doesn’t pink and a semi-maniacal grin.
 
At Second Base Brian Roberts. This is the third year I’ve had him and he always does well for me plus he ended up in the Mitchel Report of steroid users and nobody cared. It’s probably because he’s on the Baltimore Orioles but I love a guy that can get away with something that everyone thinks is a cardinal sin but I don’t care about. Steroid away Will Clarks…Steroid away.
 
At Third Base Mark Reynolds. I have nothing to say about him. He’s an Arizona Diamondback, he’s young and he’s done nothing interesting. He’ll be on my team to go get the carryout.
 
At Short Stop Hanley Ramirez. I had the first pick in the draft and everybody in the freaking world said this was the guy to pick. It feels wrong but I did it anyways because it was so popular like when I wore khakis in the late 90′s.
 
In the Outfield Manny Ramirez. I love the guy. He pees behind the wall between innings. He takes time out of his outfield duties to high five fans and he has so much crazy lore surrounding him anytime he does something out of the ordinary it’s described as Manny being Manny. I want start doing this when I talk about my friends and then see if people start nodding. “I can’t believe he did that”….”Oh don’t worry that’s just Andrew being Andrew”. See I think it could work.
 
In the Outfield Raul Ibanez. I don’t like drafting guys right after they’ve signed a big contract. I also don’t like taking guys from teams that have just won the World Series. In both instances players can sometimes sluff off the next season because they’ve just got what they wanted and they’ve lost the fire inside. Now say I draft a player who gets a big contract to play for a team that just won the World Series. Oh shit.
 
In the Outfield Magglio Ordonez. I love this guy because he has a latin mullet and when I watched him play the girls loved him and screamed Maaaaaaaaggggliooooooooooo! Maaaaaaaaaagggglioooooooooooo!. Every team needs someone to bring in the girls.
 
As Designated Hitter Jim Thome. He’s 38. Which somewhat relieves the pain of having to root for a buch of guys younger than me. Plus he loves all ten of his nephews and nieces so much he’s putting them through college. And when one of them got in an auto accident and was paralyzed he asked Thome to hit a homerun for him. He hit two. That gets you on this team.
 
Next post…the Barelas Will Clarks pitching rotation.

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