Tag: rap
-
Tunesday: 1988 Revolution Music–N.W.A.
I’ve gone full cliche, recently dropping the “music didn’t used to suck” on one of my kids the other day, after seeing some lame-ass pseudo-country kiddie pop band on the teevee, a wretched clump of excrement called Florida Georgia Line. We got a good laugh at these bozos, but oh, man…before I knew it I…
-
Monday Meme: Straight Outta….
It’s like yesterday–taking my then-small children to the movies to watch “Are We There Yet” (a great movie with little kids) and realizing I’m laughing in places where nobody else in the theater is laughing–because that’s freaking Ice Cube and this would be like Jello Biafra starring in a remake of The Brady Bunch.
-
Two Great (And Necessary) Pop Music Parodies
First, Ron Jeremy ride’s Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball Next, James Franco & Seth Rogen skewer the ridiculous Kanye West Every time I hear this clown, Kanye, I remember when rap was something impossibly cool and vaguely alien to an rural Appalachian white guy like me. Compared to Eric B. & Rakim, for example, Big Daddy…
-
Smell The Irony: Ice Cube #1 at Box Office In “Ride Along”
So, Ice Cube is a big winner this week starring as a police officer in the “cop buddy-action-movie” Ride Along, and I have to say that I’m just tickled to death. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/showbiz/movies/ride-along-box-office-ew/ I’m laughing, of course, because I’m thinking of the video attached below. I know, I know–Ice Cube sold out long ago. I took…
-
Twitter: A Doorway To The Soul
I don’t know anything about “50-Cent” except that when my rural caucasian children say his name they say “Fitty Cent,” which is kind of awesome. Like this tweet….
Old Road Apples 