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Killer Mike
“Reagan”

This new Killer Mike album is so serious and so awesome at the same time. I don’t really get why #occupy has drum circles when it should just have G-Side/Killer Mike/Danny Brown circles instead. Oh, right: #race.

Anywhicheverwaywho: this album is pure awesome.

It’s not as skronky and jagged as El-P’s, it’s a bit more cohesive than anything the internet-type rappers seem to be doing, and it’s basically anti-commercial anti-authority makes-its-own-authority. It’s an atom bomb comet cloud scouring the filthy bath tub of etc. you get it. I like it.

The Roots - How I Got Over

The Roots - You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu)

The Roots - 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)

Nas - Halftime

So last night’s halftime show got me thinking two things:

1. It was praised for being “what it’s supposed to be”: a glittery spectacle of pop music celebrity and excess and ridiculousness, and for some reason nobody knows, LMFAO. Okay, I buy that, but is that what it’s “supposed to be”? I mean it’s preferable to aging 70s rock stars fumbling around the stage singing worse versions of songs we’ve heard a thousand times before, but like, can’t we just have Prince every year?
2. Man, Illmatic was a good album.

The Roots - One Time

GSOYW: Except the bus is always late for me. This city blows.

Kanye West - Never Let Me Down (feat. Jay-Z and J-Ivey)

Can we just stop for a second and discuss how perfect The College Dropout is?

K’Naan - My Old Home

Jurassic 5 - Sum of Us

If you wanna fight the power, get the power to fight.

Aesop Rock - No Regrets

Happy Labor Day(s)!

How many of you all are losers and have to work like today like me?

Cage - Ballad of Worms

My New Year’s Resolution is to watch this video at least once a day.

Expect a full, line-by-line analysis soon. Somebody has to do it.