Ok this is the best I can do for you...

After searching the net for a decent fast loading url, i realized that since youtube deleted it from it's site, the only options that remained was the extremely slow loading sites like youku etc. so insstead of posting one or all of those videos, i'll just give a link.

"But Pro, A link to what??" you might ask, seeing that i've completely left that part out.

"oh yea , my bad ... it's only a link to the GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME."

But The 1st Rule is that i cannot talk about it. and the second rule is i cannot talk about it. and another rule is that you cannot ask questions. so there you have it lol.

This Link will take you to a very fast loading site which will enable you to cycle thru all 8 parts rather quickly and it gives easy instructions on going to fullscreen.

the main reason i decided to post this was to try and go straight to the conversation in the bar, but this is an extra treat. I say that bcuz if you have'nt seen THIS you ain't seen SHIT.

Ashley Youmans a/k/a "Kristen"

Only one question: This girl was (is?) a high priced hooker?



And for the record, I went to her myspace page when the Times broke the story around 5 p.m. and she had 70,000 hits. As of 10 p.m., she had 1.2 million. Wow. I need that type of press.

BTW Kristen, Ashley, Alexandra (or whatever your name is), if you're reading, and you still want to be a pop star, let me be yo manager.

Quick update: as of 10:15 p.m., she had 1.5 million hits.

13 hours later (11:15 a.m. on March 13): 4.9 million hits. Um, wow.

Client #9

Back from Arizona. More on that to follow. Shout out to Sha Money XL and Ex-Governor Spitzer.

Oh yeah, new Snoop LP, Ego Trippin', in stores now, featuring "One Chance (Make It Good)" produced by Frequency!


In the meantime, check out my new post on HHNLive.com...

So I was reading a post by Noz today over at another site (which I won't promote out of respect for the good folks over here at HNNLive.com), which essentially was about the new Erykah Badu and Gnarles Barkley albums. I was actually thinking of writing a post about Ms. Badu over here, like I did at my own site (http://still-legal.blogspot.com - shameless plug), but then I got inspired by the parenthetical that Noz wrote underneath some Queen Latifah picture from, presumably, some corny movie she did. (read more)

March 9th

Freshman year of college. A Sunday morning like any other. Or at least it started off that way. I was, of course, sleeping dumb late, feeling the effects of what your average college freshman gets into on a Saturday night. The phone rings. I'm thinking something along the lines of "who the fuck is this, calling me at...10:46, Sunday morning?!" - or whatever time it was. Who cares?! I just knew it was still before noon, and whoever was calling me had better have a damn good reason.

It was my then-girlfriend.

She told me Biggie was dead.

My attitude quickly dissipated, giving way to incredulity. I ran to the student lounge and turned to MTV. Surely my girl was buggin'! She must've heard some bullshit rumor or something, right? Right!? But no. There it was on the screen. Dude was gone. Just like that.

He was only around long enough to give us two (classic!) albums. He didn't leave behind very many unused recordings. Yet somehow - and I know this may sound like clichéd sentimentality - his presence has remained so strong in hip hop's collective psyche, that one can hardly believe it's been 11 years since his untimely departure.

As a small tribute, rather than some "greatest hits" type deal ('cause who doesn't already have those?), I put up some of his rarer or lesser known gems and collabos that you're not gonna find at your local record Itunes store, plus this video of him back in his unsigned days, ripping some poor bastard a new one. Haha.

Biggie Smalls is the illest. R.I.P.

Baduism

You think she read my blog? I haven't checked my BlackPlanet (yup, I was on BlackPlaent) page in a looooooooooooooong time.

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Today March 5, 2008

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ErykahBadu

Thank God for that Figghhhttttt

VS.

At least for Papoose, who hasn't had very much in the way of buzz lately.

Wait, Freq's not working with him, is he?

Hold up. Before all of that, I should probably introduce myself first. Cinsere here, at your service...hip hop connaisseur and all around know-it-all. Now some of you may be thinking to yourself, "Hmmm...Cinsere. Sounds familiar. Where do I know him from?" Allow me to jog your memory. I'm sure you know me from that one time I was on Josh's college radio show way the fuck up in Ithaca, NY, like ten years ago (shout out to The Doctor), and I was talking about how dope it was that Big Pun's Capital Punishment had gone platinum on the strength of just ill rhymes and dope beats. If not (though really, how could you not?), then you might know me as that random dude occasionally tagging along hanging out with Josh and Frequency at industry events. That is, unless your name is Eternia, in which case you wouldn't know who the hell I am, since we've been introduced like five times, yet you never seem to remember me. Not that I care. Because I don't. Really. No, really. Anyway...you probably just know the name Sincere from Nas's character in the movie Belly, since that's where I got it from. I just switched the "s" and the "c" around, because I'm clever like that.

Back to the program. It seems that in the latest story written into World Hip Hop Federation, Fat Joe and Papoose are now mortal enemies. Well, maybe not mortal, seeing as how nobody got shot. But apparently, according to 50 Cent's website who broke the story, and later confirmed by both parties, Joe and Pap shot the five at some hotel somewhere down in North Carolina. The two of them were in town for a show they were doing together, along with a lineup of other acts. Oddly enough, Cassidy, who was also on the bill, seemed to play as a referee of sorts, since it happened in his room yet he was not involved in any way. Word on the streets (read: internets) is that Cass asked Papoose to come to his room, and shortly after Pap arrived, Joe shows up with his goons to confront him about...um...something. That something is a bit unclear, but speculation is that it stems from Papoose being on 50 Cent's radio show while 50 was talking his patented shit about Joe. Pap may or may not have laughed. I don't know. If anybody heard the show, holla in the comments. In any event, it seems Joe took offense, and deemed it necessary to confront Papoose about comments made by somebody who was not Papoose. Go figure. From here on out, it's strictly hearsay. According to Pap, it was 1 (him) versus 10 (Joe and 9 other dudes, but I'd say that's more like 12. Joe's a big dude.). But as Joe would have you believe, it was a very even and fair 4 on 4. Pap says he put in "work" on Joe's chin (though he didn't specify which chin). Joe says Pap got "pounded out" (um...pause?), and that one of Pap's dudes ended up in the hospital. I say, dudes should go the Floyd Mayweather route and actually get paid for such well scripted drama.

In the end, I don't believe either one of them. If you could ask the fly on the wall, he'd probably tell you it was a staring contest. Not to take anything away from either of them, of course, but something tells me it just wasn't that deep, and once word got out, they both had to spin it in their respective favor. And it becomes a win/win anyway. Joe gets free pub for that new album he's dropping, and Papoose...well...he's got the streets buzzin' again.

Being humble is so 2007. Trust Me. (c) Erykah Badu

I have a confession to make.

I love Erykah Badu.

I don't even know why.

There's just something about her.

I don't even know her music that well. I've never bought any of her albums. I own her first album, but I only have it because I found it abandoned in a computer lab at school many years back and took it. I don't think I ever even listened to it. That "Tyrone" song was hot as was "Bag Lady," but since then, I can't even tell you what she's done.

This is what I know:

- She did a new album with production from Madlib and 9th (sounds cool to me, but where was Frequency? Oh yeah, apparently she has a production team with ?uestlove called Frequency (which I learned last month courtesty of...Frequency (guess which one?). I think I'll buy it, even though I was hoping for a free copy when I was up at Universal last week (they had none!).

- She used to date Andre 3000, Common, and (get this) the D.O.C. Yup! She has a 3 year old kid with him.

- She moved to NY 11 years ago from Dallas into a rent controlled apartment in BK. She still lives there.

- Steven Hill (of BET) says "[Y]ou can't look Erykah Badu directly in the eye. She will suck you in, and you just want to follow her. . . ." I think he's right.

- ?uestlove says "Everyone she met fell in love with her within five minutes." I think he's probably right.

- The quote that is the title of this blog is really from Erykah Badu and it is so true. Word to Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin' album. Coincidence? I think not. You only got one chance to make it good. A little cryptic, I know, but it makes sense. Think about it! Seriously.

- I love Jill Scott too. I think I'm a closet neo-soul freak.