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Posts tagged "New York"
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #42–A New York State of Mind
The first time I visited New York it still had parts of it that I had read about in beat novels and saw on the television and in the movies. It was still grimy and dirty and had a certain edge to it. I loved every minute of it. I couldn’t wait to see all of the places I had read about or seen, the locations that for the last 3 or 4 years had been peppering my dreams and […]
Who The Hell Is…Bear Ceuse?
I am far from a hipster (or even a blipster), but based on what I know about the skinny-jeans scene, there are a lot of bears out there, and I’m not talking about bears of the Yogi variety (or of the hairy leather wearing variety, either.) From the massicely successful (and reasonably dope) Grizzly Bear to upstarts I Wrestled A Bear Once, people do dig themselves some bears. Enter Bear Ceuse-the New York based band has gotten quite a bit […]
The Viewfinder: Talib Kweli’s “Distractions”
Talib Kweli has been a very busy man these days. In the past two years alone, the Brooklyn-bred emcee has recorded an album with producer partner Hi-Tek as Reflection Eternal, collaborated with outside-the-box R&B singer Res on the Idle Warship project, released his own album Gutter Rainbows, and has also played shows and recorded material with his longtime rhyme partner Mos Def (I will not embarrass myself by asking for a new Black Star album because…well, I’ve done that before.) […]
Saturday Backspin: "Fuck Compton"
Just so you know, the East/West Coast rap wars didn’t start with Tupac and Biggie. Actually, that beef always kind of made me laugh. ‘Pac was born in New York. Anyway, the animosity between rappers from New York and rappers from California started almost as soon as West Coast rappers began making noise. Growing up in Brooklyn, no one in my neighborhood was walking around with Ice-T tapes. Cali cats were corny. They wore jheri curls or perms. New York […]