The last time we left off, Justin Bieber was flowing over Gang Starr’s DWYCK with Hot 97’s morning crew. During a visit to Bootleg Kev’s show on Hot 97.5 in Las Vegas, the Biebster let off some raps from the top to Biggie Smalls’ “Who Shot Ya.”
After the jump, watch McDonald’s latest commercial which features Craig Mack’s “Flava In Ya Ear”…..
Thanks to Tuma/MTVJams for the link to Wale’s latest video “Bait.” His album Ambition drops on Nov 1st (pre-order link), and I’ll be hosting a special release week celebration show with Hot97 in NYC!
In related news, Wale and DJ Khaled dropped by Rick Ross‘ Wingstop fried chicken franchise in Memphis… Watch video of that…
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HAHA! “El Forkqueta Satanica!”
I am crying after watching this clip from The Daily Show about the real reason why Donald Trump (remember Obama’s ether?) and Sarah Palin’s lunch date in Manhattan was a smack in the face in all New Yorkers…The Crimes Against True New York Pizza.
Everything about this is genius.
-The mock Trump restaurant: “The Trump All You Can Eat “Fwoah”-Gras and Caviarteria (Where you are guaranteed to contract gout…the disease of kings)”
-The seething anger over the fact that Donald Trump took Palin to a Famiglia’s Pizza….a horrid franchise that you find in every airport food court where they serve rubbery triangles of motor-oil soaked dough with ketchup and cheese whiz on top.
-Jon lists some obvious options that any assistant with a friggin’ cell phone and Yelp could have found for them instead: Lombardi’s, Grimaldi’s, Totonno’s, John’s, Arturo’s on Houston St., Denino’s, Joe’s on Bleecker….Seriously, how sad is it that Trump is so removed from the city whose heavy accent he flaunts. He probably eats lunch in hotel ballrooms. Feh!
-Then, at the 5:29 mark, Jon works himself into a froth over Trump’s blasphemous fork-use and demos how a real New York slice should be eaten! “You fold it, you eat it, one hand!…maybe you use your other hand to take an irresponsible amount of napkins!”
Church!
Now I haven’t had all of the famous and revered pizzas in NYC, but you know, I’m serious about my food, lol….and I do have some favorites….
And some pizza gripes…
And one bucket list pizza, lol…
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In my opinion, 10.Deep is one of the few, still wear-able, “street-wear” brands out on the market. They stay consistent without going over the top, just for the sake of it. Check out what they got cookin’ for this spring.
(photo of a home-brewer who makes $700 profit off each batch of Nutcracker, via the NYT)
That highly potent and deceptively sweet alcoholic concoction known around New York City as the Nutcracker has been around for years, but lately, its been getting alot of attention. We all heard N.O.R.E.’s ode, and now even the New York Times have taken notice. The drink is a home brew often made in a Nutcracker peddlers’ kitchen or living room. The recipe varies but generally consists of the highest proof liquors and fruit juice. “Kool-aid”, the Nutcracker dealer from the NY Times article, makes his with 160-proof Devil’s Springs vodka, 151-proof Bacardi 151 rum, Amaretto and cranberry, mango, pineapple and peach nectar. Fruit and jolly ranchers can also be tossed in the mix for added flavor. The beverage is than packaged in plastic bottles (even quarter water bottles) and peddled from apartments, from car trunks, from bodegas and more, all throughout Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem and the Bronx. A New York EZ-Pass to a quick buzz .
Of course, the NYTimes is a bit extreme with their characterization of the drank, but its crazy to see how this ‘hood favorite’ has found its way to the mainstream…
“People in the neighborhood said selling nutcrackers had become more prevalent in the dismal economy, a means some have used to supplement their incomes with quick and easy money. Some who remember the crack boom of the mid-1980s and early 1990s, and the destruction it heaped upon the community, justify the sales, seeing them as akin to marijuana dealing or numbers gambling.” – NYTIMES
Well, we did a little investigative reporting of ourselves and asked a man who has done more than his part to help Nutcracker become a household name….
Foxy Brown performed on Sunday night at BB Kings (just days after being arrested for allegedly mooning her neighbor, the same neighbor who got hit in the head by Foxy’s cell phone in 2007). According to Nigel/RealTalkNY, Foxy announced she’ll drop a new album before 2011…and that The Firm is back together. Now, by The Firm, she means herself, Cormega and AZ, but no Nas. Maybe a new group name would be warranted. Foxy also made a statement that seemed directed at the oft-targeted Nicki Minaj….
“They tried to keep a bitch down…..I’m the only rap bitch in the game that fucks with all hip hop all dancehall and I’m the only bitch that can do that for real.”
Well, technically….Lyte and Latifah did it pretty “for real” too. And honestly, I just don’t think you can claim that someone is biting your style if you’ve been inactive for more than a couple years. The same way I think Gaga’s Madonna-aping is permissible because they’re of different generations.
But anyhoo, look at these photos (from RealTalkNY and TheSocietyOnline). No, seriously, look at these photos.
In all fairness, the crowd goes nuts when Foxy brings out Cormega, AZ, and Spragga Benz…watch video….after the jump (more…)
wow….so not only does Christina Milian have to suffer the humiliation of seeing her husband and baby father, The Dream, cheating on her with his own personal assistant Melissa Marie…..but we, the innocent public, have the image of these two porpoises doing remedial kama sutra in the ocean.
Ok….I hope y’all aren’t sick of me (I am) but anyways…
asking all the Hip Hop Honors artists about their favorite Southern cuisine was the most fun because….I am a bonafide stretch-belt semi-professional eater. Mannie Fresh talks about roux, (that’s the flour and fat base of a good gumbo), Drama and Bonecrusher talk about some spot they go to called Busy Bee’s (I want to go to there!), and Uncle Luke tries to get me to become one of those unsanitary Sex and the City human sushi platters…a HELL NO!
But my favorite moment is Gucci Mane’s comment at the end, and my delayed lightbulb reaction….Hellooo!
50 Cent has been keeping a low profile lately, but the real reason was because he was losing weight for a movie role, and knew that the change in his looks would be so dramatic that fans may react with horror….Thisis50 posted an US Weekly story on the transformation, in which Fif says he dropped from 214lbs to 160lbs in 9 weeks….by basically starving himself. Now that he’s done with the film, and going back on tour, Fif will probably reunite with his trainer Jay and get back to fighting weight.
Now the movie, Things Fall Apart, called for 50 to play a football player who has cancer, but Hollywood has had other examples of extreme dieting….and it’s interesting because it always becomes the actor’s badge of “dedication to the craft.” See, below, Christian Bale’s scary skin over bone look in The Machinist, and Matt Damon’s turn in Courage Under Fire.
(how awesome is this sculpture in the lobby of Madrid’s Atocha Train Station? An awake baby head was on the other side.)
Still out in Spain….getting more used to the time zone (6 hours ahead of NYC) and pace (late mornings, afternoon naps, 10pm dinners)…but had a bad run-in with a shiesty gypsy who somehow managed to bump me so slightly and slip my blackberry out of my purse in about 3 seconds. The crazy thing is that I’m almost positive I know exactly which gypsies did it, they were parked on the same corner by the Reina Sofia Museum the next day too. This time, I gave them the ice grill and they left us alone…but obviously, my blackberry is long gone : (
On the plus side…not having my BB has been really liberating. For one, it’s forced me to look at the sights around me, without constantly relaying them to an audience back home. (And, being unreachable also means that I couldn’t keep checking for emails or calls that weren’t coming. Which was the emotional break I definitely needed on a personal level.)
Today we took the bullet train** from Madrid to Toledo, the old capitol city of Spain. Toledo was home to Christians, Moors (Muslim) and Jews, and you definitely see the influences of all 3 in the architecture, etc.
(Me and Jules in Toledo, in matching Barbour jackets…rockin’ our James Herriott “All Creatures Great and Small” steez, lol.)
More from Toledo, and then foodie-heaven with crispy baby pig at Botin….after the jump
