"It's 90 degrees outside and you got on a scarf"

I got this in an email like half and hour ago and I just had to post it lol...Hipsters.....

Fashion: BAPE Fall/Winter 2008

For all you Fashionistas, its fashion week in London and fresh for your enjoyment is the 2008 fall and winter 2009 collection for BAPE. Anchor pieces include some classy jackets and sweaters, but fear not BAPE hasn't abandoned its tradtional street camo look. Check out the rest of the collection. Next week is Fashion Milan and follwing that is Fashion week Paris, which will headline new collections from mainstream labels Gucci, Dolce and Gabanna, Ralph Lauren (Suppose to be super hot) and my new favorite, Tom Ford. Stay Locked

BAPE Fall/Winter

Music: Zo! and Tigallo Love the 80s

Now I been playing this joint for a while, but I gotta put it up because the full length album "Zo and Tigallo Love the 80's" is about to drop on October 7th. For those of you not familiar with this project, Zo, a DC area producer (by way of Detroit), who produced record for Little Brother hooks up with Phonte (of Little Brother) cover a couple hot 80's tracks. Check out my boy Jamie over at Funkadelic Freestyles for a full length interview with Zo! and Phonte.

In the mean time enjoy "Take on Me" a cover of the A-ha off Zo! and Tigallo Love the 80's

Zo! and Tigallo on Myspace

Take on Me- Zo! & Tigallo

let us know what u think of the track!

Politics: Tim Wise - This is Your Nation on White Privilege

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

September 13, 2008, 2:01 pm

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.”


White privilege is being able to say that you support the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance because “if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,” and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the “under God” part wasn’t added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.


White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.


White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.


White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.


White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a “second look.”


White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.


White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.


White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a “trick question,” while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.


White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a “light” burden.


And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole “change” thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain…


White privilege is, in short, the problem.

UPDATE: Music: New Love Lockdown Version and Remix Ft. Lil Wayne

I have to admit that this song is kinda growing on me. enjoy!

Remastered Version of Love Lockdown

Remix Ft. Lil Wayne

Music: Asher Roth - Lyrically Edowed Pigment Impared MC

About a month ago I downloaded this song on a whim of off Gowherehiphop.com. I was nominally interested in the fact that there was another "Roth" MC, but after listening to "I Love College" I found my self unable to get this kid's voice out of my head. On the advice of legendary hip-hop aficionado and long time friend of CB&M, Evan Dorfman I got Asher's recently released mixtape hosted by PA heavy weights DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon "The Greenhouse Effect." I listened to the mixtape straight for about a week and I still can't get enough of it.

Asher Roth's music is a culmination of a lot of trends that have been evolving in hip-hop recently. With the rise of Eminem in the 90s the white kids in the suburbs who now make up most of the industry's consumer base finally felt they had a champion who they could aspire to be. Slim Shady's clear mid-western accent made his complex cadence easier for suburban kids to understand the kind of solid Biggie influenced story telling mixed with punch line rap that was furthered later by Chicago MCs Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. Enter the beer pong playing, cardigan wearing, new white hope Asher Roth whose voice and cadence make him a dead ringer for Slim.

Asher was signed literally out of his dorm room by Steve Rifking, after Jay-Z passed on him for Pittsburgh Slim (a point Asher is not quick to let go). The Greenhouse mixtape is the best lyrical showings from any new MC that I've heard since the Farenheit 1/15 Mixtape by Lupe. His choice of beats also suits him well. He absolutely murders the Rock Boys beat as well as flipping the Cannon beat into what we can call his senior thesis on punch line rap. It will be interesting to see how the community reacts to the self proclaimed "king of the burbs." He has the potential to become a great unifying force or just another device white boy trying to rhyme at the back of a house party.

Whatever happens in a year that seems to be all about change, Asher will certainly force the hip-hop community to do some soul searching and determine which values we care to continue to up hold. Regardless I'm thinking we make a "Roth Boys" Mixtape together but I got to find the cat first... damn - guess I'm next up -

Stacks Rothstein

Asher Roth "I Love College"

Asher Roth featuring DJ Drama and DJ Cannon - The Greenhouse Effect

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