This video says it all. A great follow up to last week’s “My Radio” post. Let me know what you all think!!!

I can remember being a young adolescent listening to the radio. I would get so excited when a MJ song came on and I would sing along to my favorite joints like Arrested Development’s”Everyday People” or Tupac’s “Keep your head up”. I remember loving the variety the radio stations would play, from Whitney Houston & Phil Collins to MC Hammer & LL Cool J. Now, I do not listen to the radio much. Being that my car radio doesn’t work and I would much rather listen to my iTunes packed with my playlists. However, once in a while the mood strikes and I turn on my radio. There is still the Oldies, Classical, Country, Soft & Classic Rock Music Stations. Both Chicago and Boston have lost their Jazz stations due to lack of funding, but there’s your ethnic music stations and of course, Talk, Sports and News radio. Amongst all the commercials and paid advertisement, there are the popular radio stations that play this sick cycle of mainstream music that consist of songs about meaningless sex and trivial messages. Every once in a while a DJ will spin some throwback greats to relieve the listeners from the monotony. Then there’s the stations that spew out song after song about relationship woes, off the hot 100. Take Soulja Boy for example, his danced-based radio hit “Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)” blasted him into stardom. Even Ellen Degeneres  had her entire audience doing “The Superman”, the Souljah boy dance about ejaculating on a woman’s back while she is asleep and then covering it up with a bed sheets. Or, take the radio king, Lil’ Wayne, whose radio hits consist of a song in which the chorus says,  “I wish I can fuck every girl in the world”. Where’s the variety? What happened to thought provoking music that fueled a generation’s fire? like the soundtrack of the 60s or music with a message. There are pressing issues going on across the globe. We are still a country at war and the numbers don’t lie, these are trying times. Since 12/07 the unemployment rate has increased from 7.6 million to 15.1 million. Yet still the most popular songs are about Sex and Money. In my opinion, in more ways than one, MY RADIO is a perplexing sign of the times. Ironically, if my radio didn’t have a clock, I would not even own one…

I am so interesting in knowing how you all feel about your radio. Please leave a comment!

It’s kind of crazy how the hip-hop game really lacks an identity today. Not that I like things to get “branded” or “labeled”, but I try to flow with the times. Honestly, I don’t watch videos anymore. It’s not because I don’t like any of the music out nowadays, it’s just not something I turn the T.V. on for.

I’m an ESPN head. That’s where I go first, and my stay tends to be pretty long. I stop watching music videos because they just got boring after a while. There was a point where broads and champagne poppin’ was the norm.

The only time I get to see the latest videos are when my Nieces come over and watch MTV/BET (the difference? One has a B and the other doesn’t). I expect them to be in to that stuff. They are 18 and 21. I’m out of the “gotta keep my swag up by watching music videos” game.

This weekend I was watching videos with friends and I got a nice dosage of what was “hot” on the music video scene. It’s basically the same as what you hear on the radio. There was the usual Beyonce shake that ass video (don’t mind that at all), Kid Cudi, and a couple of south records.

Soooooo, which song do YOU like better:

Jim Jones “Na Na Nanna….” or Soujah Boy’s “Turn My Swag On“

I know people who love “Turn My Swag On”, but say Jim Jone’s new song is wack?! Both of them are garbage, but if I had to pick one…I’d rather shoot myself in the face.

I feel like all of us hip-hop fans are lost on an island and the only thing around to eat are rats. Everybody wants to live, but nobody really wants to eat no f@cking rats.

Just my thoughts…

Peace….

Oh la la! Tout plein de remix super bon qui te donne le gout de dancer comme un Tom Cruise en bobette avec des wayfarers (sans la partie scientologue bizarre). Cousin Cole fait des choses tres tres folle, j’aurais jamais penser aimé Timbaland, mais le cousin fait changer d’idée.

Ghislain Poirier – Blazin’ (modeselektor remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?57ymczzojxh

Souja Boy – Crank dat (travis barker remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?fdtmgyjwkd4
yooooouuuu!!!

Soulja Boy – Crank dat (cousin cole remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?b4yhmn2tnyc
Oh my god, je ne me peux plus, je me mets du liquid paper dans lunettes!!!!

Teki Latex – Les matins de Paris (surkin remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?0gscdvsnzbj

Timbaland – The way I are (cousin cole remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ekixmjzz9ze