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Where did you go, Joe? I missed you. I remember the time when I didn’t have to learn complicated dances to be cool. I didn’t have to tell Soulja Boy anything,chicken noodle soup was something I used to relieve myself of the cold, and when it came to jerkin’…well let me not get into that. The fact of the matter is when Fat Joe was around all we had to do was pull up our pants and lean back to be the hit at the club.

Well Joe has returned, but what he brought with him is not simplicity. From the looks of “Hey Joe”, a new track from his upcoming CD J.O.S.E.2 (Jealous One’s Still Envy), he’s back to make a statement. The song samples from a classic Jimi Hendrix song, but that’s not even the kicker. Granted I’ve never been a big Fat Joe fan, but I’ve never seen him so raw and emotional as in this video. The cinematography also has a lot to do with it (it was directed by Gabriel Hart).Here’s the video below and make sure to get J.O.S.E. 2 October 6.

WHOA!

It’s been a while.  I moved (kinda) and my scanner broke so I really couldn’t do much.  Luckily my Grandma gave me a new one!  What a nice lady!  I have a ton of new stuff to upload eventually.  However, I still need to install Photoshop and Illustrator and play around with some of my drawings before I let you see them.  THE SUSPENSE MUST BE KILLING YOU.  As for now, here is a bunch of doodles I’ve done at the summer camp I work at now.  I love summer camp.  It lets me be calm and peaceful and allows a lot of time for drawing and reading.  There are some doodles I would like to isolate and work with in some neat design-y type things, but I’ll save that for another day.  HERE THEY ARE:

And here’s a mock-up of a silly shirt I am going to make!

DO THE ROCKAWAY

Hulu is offering a new TV-like experience in a downloadable application that mimics a TV interface and aims to give viewers the lean-back experience they’ve enjoyed from traditional television for decades, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service.

Watch the video

Yet it’s still not ready for real TV viewing. For now it’s decidedly a PC experience.

Hulu began offering the application for download Thursday.

Pregateste`te (sau nu , ca vine`n Bamboo , si degeaba te pui sa strangi bani de acu` ca tot nu`ti vor ajunge) ca vine omu` si va face sa ploua(Make It Rain) si apoi te invata sa te lasi pe spate (Lean Back) . Fat Joe va fi prezent pe 24 aprilie in Club Bamboo Bucuresti si va presta in fata unui public manelizat si house`izat (vorba aia) , va fi de cacat intr`un club de cacat (din privinta oamenilor) .

Via: Cancan .

Jealous Ones Still Envy 2 will be Fat Joe’s 9th solo album (wow) and is set for a May 19th release date.  J.O.S.E. 2 will feature collaborations with Lil Wayne, Lil Kim, Ron Browz, Akon, T-Pain, Fabolous and Raekwon.  Now all we need is for Joey to hook up with Finesse and Diamond D for a D.I.T.C. reunion album.

Joey Crack hooks up with Dj Infamous for the single Hey Joe, borrowing the title and sample from the classic Jimi Hendrix song.  I was always wondering when someone would flip Hey Joe, one of Jimi’s best/gangsta records and it only makes sense that it was Fat Joe. 

  Download/Stream–>   http://www.zshare.net/audio/57351135f64df443/ 

*BONUS*  Joe does his thing over the new Rick Ross single Magnificent  

Download/Stream–>  http://www.zshare.net/audio/575118774b548511/

DANCE! Nothing left for me to do but DANCE off these bad times I’m going through! Just dance! Got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby!

…ENJOY THE GENIUS.

Yeah, I know it doesn’t connect to the lyrics like these ETG intros usually do. But it’s my blog and my rules, so fuck it.

In this installment of ENJOY THE GENIUS, we’ll be taking a look back at some of pop culture’s most memorable dance crazes. No, you won’t be seeing stuff like the Twist or the Charleston or the Electric Slide or the Hustle. Come on, people. It’s an ENJOY THE GENIUS post. What do you think you’re going to see?

You’ll find out after the jump. And no, I don’t mean this kind of jump…

(By the way, what’s with the boob scanning? Is Patrick Jumpen some kind of early Terminator prototype that they tested by having him scan girls for nice boobs just to see if the processors were working properly? I can scan boobs just fine on my own, thank you very much. I don’t need some kind of computer chip in my brain to tell me when a girl has a nice rack. And if you’re at work and hate your job, just click that link and you’ll be fired in no time!)

So let’s get this party started, shall we? And because I love you all so much, I’ll start things off with this all-too-familiar celebration of promiscuous girls and arm movements. It doesn’t even matter whether or not you were alive in 1996. Chances are, you’ll still know this song.

See, the nice thing about the Macarena is that even though the dancers in this video are making it look really cool and complicated, you barely even have to do anything at all. You can just stand there like a damn statue if you really want. All you have to do until the end of the dance is just move your arms. Then you jump a quarter-turn to your right and start the whole thing over. If you really wanted to, you could start doing the Macarena now and keep doing it for the rest of your life. The dance only ends when you (or the DJ in charge of your party) decide it’s time to end it. You can try to resist all you want, but unless your will is strong enough, once the Macarena has you in its grasp IT WILL NEVER LET YOU GO AND IT WILL MAKE YOU LIKE BEING UNDER ITS CONTROL. The Macarena is Big Brother and back in 1996 we were all Winston Smith. We had won the victory over ourselves. We loved the Macarena.

It still amazes me to this very day that this dance and this damn song ever became as popular as they were. Fascism is never cool, not even when it’s got a catchy beat and girls singing about threesomes with their boyfriend’s buddies (listen to the end of the second verse).

If the Macarena is too difficult or evil for you, fear not! Here’s a dance that is so easy to do that inanimate objects could probably learn how to do it. I give you the Rockaway, or as it’s also commonly known thanks to the song spawning it, the “Lean Back.”

Lean back, lean back, lean back, lean back… that is literally all you have to do. How does this even qualify as a dance? I guess they figured they had to come up with a novelty dance that anyone can do, whether they’re newborns, comatose, handicapped, elderly, or morbidly obese. Even dead people could probably do this dance. Truly, Fat Joe is the world’s great uniter.

Also, I think it speaks volumes about our country’s recovery from the trauma of 9/11 that just three years after the worst terrorist attack in history, a group calling themselves Terror Squad was allowed to top the charts and teach kids across the country how to tilt their bodies backwards in time to hip-hop beats. Truly, Fat Joe is also a symbol of American resilience. You may take our lives, but you’ll never take our dance parties!

Moving on…

Guys, have you ever wondered what you would get if you were to set lyrics from “Rapper’s Delight” to Latino pop music and somehow combine all this with that Hand Jive dance from Grease? Then it’s clear to me that not only do you need new things to wonder about, but you also don’t remember this…

What any of this has to do with ketchup is beyond my understanding, though I don’t know enough Spanish to translate the verse lyrics. For all I know the song actually could be about putting ketchup on things like hamburgers and french fries and hot dogs. But if I can’t be bothered to learn enough Spanish to understand what Bradley Nowell is singing about in “Caress Me Down,” then why the hell would I ever try to learn the lyrics to “The Ketchup Song”?

And speaking of stupid food-related dance crazes…

First of all, this song basically exemplified everything I hate about popular rap that doesn’t involve Soulja Boy. They didn’t try to write any clever or interesting lyrics to “Chicken Noodle Soup.” In fact, they didn’t really try to write lyrics at all. They didn’t even try to explain exactly what you’re supposed to do in order to successfully perform this dance. And the beat is this minimal drum-and-bass loop with a loud and annoying siren blaring in the place of actual music.

As for the dance itself, all I can really say is that it kind of reminds me of a sped-up version of this. You’re just kicking your legs around, maybe waving your arms a bit, and looking like a complete fool in the process.

And speaking of the devil, where would we be without the one and only Soulja Boy and that stupid dance that helped make him famous? The guy even made an instructional video teaching people how to “Crank That.”

Oh, Soulja Boy. I’m sure someday you’ll figure out a way to make music without getting under my skin. Allow me to suggest resigning from the music industry and playing with your Fruity Loops in the privacy of your own bedroom where nobody else will ever hear your creations.

Anyway, I’m sure there are plenty more stupid dance crazes where that came from, and there will be plenty more in the future for guys like me to make fun of on the Internet. Thankfully, we have comment threads for such discussions. So until next time, keep on enjoying the genius.

This is some damn good advice and you should take it very literally.  The concept of “leaning” is incredibly interesting when you dissect it a bit.

I talk a lot about power in this blog, and this is a technique that will make you seem MUCH more powerful.  If you are talking with an extremely attractive woman, it is really easy to lean forward in the conversation (physically as well as psychologically)- so you may not even be aware you are doing this, but you probably are.  You are conveying too much interest.  If you will put your weight on your back foot, it subcommunicates that you are willing to leave at any time.  This will in turn make her interested in YOU.

In environments like clubs where women are hit on often, if you are a stranger and walk up, often the first thought is: who is this person? It puts her on the defensive.  When you lean back, you eliminate the pressure of interrupting and being unwelcome in her space.

Earlier tonight I tested my theory.  I stopped by a local tanning salon to pass out flier for an upcoming event I’m putting on.  I consciously leaned back when conversing with the two girls working the front desk.  I started making my way to the door and the girls kept talking to me! I leaned on the door to go and BOTH girls literally came out from the behind the desk to follow me to the door.

I had to say ‘bye’ quickly and walk out the door so they’d STOP talking to me.  I wasn’t saying anything particularly profound, but I was coming from a place of power.  I was doing the opposite of what the other 100 guys had done.  They leaned forward.  They wanted sex coming from a place of neediness.

Do you see why this is so powerful? You are communicating that you are the leader and they are the follower without saying a word.  It frames them as the pursuer, and you as the powerful one. You come across as confident and a challenge.  This is the opposite of needy behavior, and it turns them on!

Keep in mind, low status people frequently bow forward in submission.  You don’t see pro athletes with forward head and shoulders.  She wants someone more powerful than her.

So stop leaning in and following her lead. Lean back, convey confidence, and say what you have to say.

We all know that breakdancing or breaking is an essential element of hip hop but some of the dances that we adopt into our culture are just plain ridiculous. Here’s my top five worst (recent) dance crazes in Hip Hop.

5. The Harlem Shake: The first time I saw it was in G. Dep’s “Let’s Get It” video. And soon, that ish spread like wildfire. Kids all over the country were shaking and going on and there is nothing worse than a bunch of people convulsing and seizing.

Personally, I prefer the original, Ethiopian Eskista Dance:

4. The Dougie Fresh: I might lose my Texas card for this one but…seriously Dallas?

Won’t even get into it but…wild homo. I still like to hear it in the clubs but I’ll pass on the dance. And who is the hype man behind the camera? Sounds like one of the Ying Yang Twins.

3. Lean Back: Requires no skill, no rhythm, nothing. And that’s just what it is…a whole lot of nothing. Had everyone in the club seriously thinking they were gangsta because they couldn’t dance. No excuses. This ish was terrible. Terror Squad indeed. I never even felt remotely motivated to do this “dance”

2. Cholo Lean/Lean Like a Cholo: Whatever it’s called, it is also one of the worst songs ever made it. WTF does it even mean? This is just plain dumb. And the low budget video makes it even worse.

1. And the number one, worst (recent) dance craze is…(drumroll): CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP!!!

If this isn’t the most cooningest, corny, shucking and jiving bunch of tomfoolery I have ever experienced the same person attempted to popularize the “5000″ which combined the Chicken Noodle Soup with the Harlem Shake.

As if it wasn’t bad enough the entire country looked like a bunch of fools doing this retarded ass dance, he tried to meld it together with other corny ass dances and force it down our throats. Harlem, this shit must stop. Please.

Just one Black Woman’s Opinion

You’d think that the Soulja Boy/Ice-T battle had died down, but with neither side of this hip-hop rivalry showing signs of yielding, the war of videos continues. In this first installment of Station Conversation, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger discuss whether or not Ice-T is relevant, Soulja Boy is right, and what it all implies about the current state of new media.

Liz: So, to start off, I feel like it’s safe to say that despite having been going on for almost a month, this feud hasn’t yet been resolved. Tell me, as a staunch Ice-T fangirl, what did you think of him lashing out at Soulja Boy like this?

Jill: I gotta be honest, much as I love Ice-T — and I really love Ice-T — I don’t think it’s super cool to pick on a teenager and tell him to eat a d**k. That said, hip-hop has always been about throwing down with other artists. And if Ice – tells you you suck and you need to eat a d**k, well then you man up and take it! ‘Cause he’s Ice-T.

Liz: But seriously, when was the last time Ice-T did anything to advance the cause of hip-hop? By which I mean — when was the last time Ice-T released an album?

Jill: Well, 2006. I will admit it didn’t exactly rock the industry. But if you are a recognized founding father of an industry, do you constantly have to keep creating and innovating for your opinion to be valid? Does cred have an expiration date?

Liz: I think it does. You can respect a founding father for their contributions, but it is possible for them to become irrelevant to the overall medium. Take Stan Lee and comics, for example. Everyone grants the man his place in history, but no one cares about his current projects.

Jill: Yeah, but if Ice-T spoke positively about a new hip-hop artist — “discovered” somebody who then hit it big — nobody would say that Ice-T’s opinion was irrelevant. They’d say it was great that somebody old school was still supporting new blood.

Liz: Is Ice-T citing any examples of new blood worth celebrating?

Jill: In his response video to Soulja Boy’s response, yes. Lil Wayne, T.I., Young GZ, Ludacris…

Liz: Ludacris isn’t exactly new blood.

Jill: That’s true. But let’s talk about Soulja Boy for a second, because as inelegant as Ice-T might have been, his point was about the music. And Soulja Boy didn’t defend the music or the trends of the genre. He just called Ice-T old about 7,000 times.

Liz: The argument in Soulja Boy’s defense is that he represents new media in a profound way. Ice-T claims that all of hip-hop is going to come down on Soulja for attacking an elder statesman. But the thing is, hip-hop is part of a dying industry. Ice-T’s disapproval is not going to impact Soulja’s success at all.

Jill: But I don’t think Soulja Boy is far enough along in a career for ANY of us to predict how long his success is going to last. Because he IS at the forefront of a new way of distributing and consuming music, we don’t know yet if he’s got any kind of long-range chops…or if he’s a just case of a good hook with the right technology at the right time.

Liz: But Soulja doesn’t aspire to be the salvation of hip-hop; he has a specific niche — dance party jams — and he does it well. This is like Stanley Kubrick rising from the grave to slap Brett Ratner around. Brett Ratner makes crappy movies, but no one confuses what he’s doing with high art.

Jill: Soulja could’ve said, “Look, I’m just trying to make music people like. If that offends you, you can suck a d**k right back.” Or, “The people determine what’s popular; they’re not listening to Gangsta Rap (Ice-T’s 2006 album), they’re listening to Crank That.” But he didn’t say any of that.

Liz: Wait, Ice-T’s 2006 album was called GANGSTA RAP? Did it come out on victrola? Or 8-track?

Jill: HEY! Do not link my Ice-T to 8-tracks. I will cut you. I will cut you where you stand. Probably with the edge of an envelope or something, but still.

Liz: I’m going to go look you up on Wikipedia and find out if you’re an actor who plays a cop on TV a decade after saying “F*** Da Police.” Because that right there will probably win me this argument.

Jill: Well, Ice-T recorded Cop Killer, for sure. But seriously, are we going to say that people can’t PLAY A ROLE — as in pretending — DECADES after they record a song? Not to mention that when Ice T was recording stuff like Cop Killer he was responding to police brutality and dirty cops. He was NOT declaring war on all police.

Liz: Look, I’m new media. I’m happening right now. I don’t have time to do things like research or fact check my statements. LEAN BACK!

Jill: Ice-T may be old, he may be out of touch, he may say “the YouTubes,” and he may be slightly dick-ish himself for attacking a 17-year-old out of the blue. However, he made a passing slam. It’s Soulja Boy who made it a debate/war by creating such an extensive response, and a response essentially without much substance, even though he did in theory have a valid argument to stand on. And that is why I think Soulja Boy sucks.

But I do like that Crank That/Barney mashup.

Liz: That just makes you part of the problem, you know.

Jill: Yeah, I know. But I don’t feel that bad about it, to be honest.

Nicht sooo gut gelaufen für Terror Squads frühere first lady.
Sie ist nämlich gerade zu acht Jahren Bau verknackt worden, weil sie im Juli 2007 eine Frau zweimal umgeballert und schwer verwundet hat. Schätze, damit muß man wohl rechnen, wenn man sowas tut.

Selbst wenn sie Einspruch erheben sollte – der Richter Rena Uviller hat ziemlich eindeutig klargemacht,
daß er sie nicht als Rapperin verurteilt hat, sondern als eine Frau, die keine Verantwortung für ihre Taten trägt. Die ganze Geschichte kannst du hier, bei AHH.com lesen (englisch), oder, wenn du dem englisch nicht
soo mächtig bist, aber ne Klatschzeitung mit viel Bildern vorziehst, hier, bei TMZ. Das Foto hab übrigens nicht ich geschossen (Remy auch nicht, höhö), sondern Street Knowledge. Danke fürs benutzen lassen.

Schätze, es ist überflüssig zu erwähnen, daß a) ihre Karriere spätestens jetzt komplett tschö sein dürfte,
und die groß angekündigte Hochzeit mit Rapperkollegen Papoose wohl eher auch nicht stattfindet.
Warum erinnert mich das alles nur an diesen Song?

Alea iacta est for Remy Ma, formerly Terror Squad’s first lady.
She now has been sentenced for 8 eight years in prison for shooting
another woman twice and wounding her severely in July 2007.
I guess its true: You do the crime, you gotta do the time.

Diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen

Even if she objects to her conviction, the Judge Rena Uviller made it crystal-clear, that he did not treat her as a rapper, but as a woman who does not take responsibility for her actions. Read the full story at AHH. Or, if you’re into more drama: The TMZ version. Credits for the Pic go to Street Knowledge.

Needless to say that a) her career is over and b) her planned wedding with Rapper Papoose may not happen either. Why does this Instantly remind me of this song. ??

De Amerikaanse vrouwelijke rapper Remy Ma is dinsdag veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van acht jaar voor het beschieten van een vriendin net buiten een nachtclub in New York in juli 2007. Ma, wier echte naam Remy Smith is, had de vrouw beschoten omdat ze dacht dat die 1.900 euro van haar had gestolen. Het slachtoffer liep inwendige bloedingen op en moest drie weken in het ziekenhuis verblijven. De advocaten van de zangeres beweerden dat het vuurwapen per ongeluk was afgegaan tijdens een gevecht tussen de twee vrouwen. Maar de jury gaf hieraan geen gehoor. Ma werd schuldig bevonden.
Rechter Rena Uviller oordeelde dat Ma “een extreem bittere vrouw is die helemaal is losgeslagen.” De zangeres zou maandag in de gevangenis het jawoord geven aan haar verloofde, rapper Papoose, maar de huwelijksceremonie werd uitgesteld nadat een sleuteltje van handboeien werd ontdekt op het lichaam van Papoose. Remy Ma sleepte in 2004, als lid van Terror Squad, een Grammy-nominatie in de wacht voor de hitsingle “Lean Back”. Ze oogstte ook succes met nummers als “Conceited” en “Feels So Good”. In 2005 werd Remy Ma uitgeroepen tot beste vrouwelijke hiphop-artiest tijdens de BET Awards.

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Last year I learned how to “Lean Back” from Fat Joe in his Hip-Hop Video. I tried to learn “The Krunk” from Lil John…but I guess I didn’t have enough “Junk in my Trunk” to execute it properly. Then I thought about another time and a simpler dance that everybody could do…The TWIST!! Capitalized not because it was such a great dance…but because it was such a great social equalizer! “The Twist” was written by Hank Ballard and Henry Glover, popularized by Chubby Checker, and made into an international phenomenon by “Jet-Setter”, Zsa Zsa Gabor! It was more than just a cultural phenomenon to me…it was a turning (or should I say, “twisting”) point in my life. Armed with my fake ID (which I made in High School print shop), I’d hit all the clubs in New York and do “The Twist” all night long in the early 60s’.

I was a singer/songwriter, starting to make a name for myself. I was dating Dee Dee Sharp, (“Mashed Potatoes”), which thrust me into the center of the dance universe. I remember going out to dinner with many of her well known friends, including Jerry Butler, Joey Dee, Ronnie and Nedra of the Ronettes, La La from the Crystals and various members of the Crests. Although I was the unknown and poorest of the group, in my shiny dark blue irridescent suit, I did look pretty affluent…and would be the one the waiter would always hand the check to. Fortunately, one of my well heeled dinner companions would grab the sweaty check away from me!

These associations lead me to be put on lists of the Peppermint Lounge, the Apollo theater, the Gold Bug and smaller venues all over the city, where I would bring artists and producers from all over the world. I remember taking Chas Chandler from the Animals, Billy J. Kramer and Gerry Marsden, from Gerry and the Pacemakers his brother Fred, to the Peppermint Lounge, where we saw the Ronettes perform one night. I felt like I was in a scene from the movie, “Don’t Knock The Twist’…The “High School Musical” of it’s day! At one point in the evening, the entire overcrowded room was on their feet. Even the fire marshall was “Twistin’ The Night Away”!

These days I keep looking in vain for a “Twist” night at the Disco. I guess I’ll just rewind my Betamax while I’m looking for my Hula Hoop!