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  • Not Necessarily The News – Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Suge Knight

    I love the music gossip and braggadocio.

    The End Of Lupe?
    According to Billboard.com, Lupe Fiasco has stated before that his last album could be his next and that he will name it LupEND. And he even explained that END would mean everywhere, nowhere and down here. I thought END simply meant END.

    Big Boi Promises 3 Times The Outkast
    Big Boi promised a solo album for each he and Andre 3000 as well as an Outkast album before the year is over based on an article on MTV.com. That’s great news except release dates are so tricky that when you wet the appetite of fans, it’s easy to disappoint when something happens and the albums get pushed back. But that’s not even the best part of the article. Big Boi says that his album will be called Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty. I guess Speakerboxxx 2: Da Return was taken.

    Suge Knight Blames Kanye
    It’s quite odd to me that Suge Knight is suing Kanye West if this SOHH article is correct. He was harmed at a party that Kanye hosted before the 2005 VMAs. He’s suing Kanye for the price of the diamond earring that he lost after being shot in the leg. Well, then Tupac’s estate should be able to sue Suge Knight since Pac was shot and killed in his car right? Eh, it’s not even important to bring up the past. But I just find it so frustratingly odd when things like this come out. Suge Knight isn’t really newsworthy, but then again, this ain’t necessarily the news.

    Photo of Lupe Fiasco by Drflet

  • Infatueighties # 69: “It’s The End of the World As We Know It”

    What the hell is this song about? Do the members of R.E.M. even know what this song is about? Who knows? All I know is that it’s one of the first (if not the first) song from Athens’ favorite sons that can accurately be called “fun”. It’s also one of the first R.E.M. songs that you can understand most of the words to, as first evidenced by me when I witnessed everyone in Madison Square Garden screaming along at the top of their lungs when Michael Stipe and company closed their show with this song during the Monster tour in 1994.

    “Birthday party/Cheesecake/Jellybeans/boom!”

    Aw, screw it. Here’s the video. It’s one of the best of the decade, as well.

  • Friday Throwback – Buffalo Stance

    Hey, it’s still Friday on the West Coast.

    My dad was very slow to any sort of new kind of music. But every once in a while he’d surprise me with something that was kind of hip. Enter Neneh Cherry.

    Cherry has always been this mysterious musical figure to me. I’m almost sure that I haven’t heard anything else except Buffalo Stance, but I should have right? She’s this eclectic artist with a great name and even named her first album Raw Like Sushi. Like, shouldn’t she have been a break out star?

    – Even though this video was probably shot in 1989, it’s still far closer to the videos of the 80s than of the 90s.

    – Huh? Sucka.

    – No money man can win my love either Neneh.

    – I wonder how much the gold toothed smile dude got paid to be in this video for 2 seconds.

    – She really needed about 5 hours worth of acting classes for this video, but it’s great in all of it’s terribleness.

    – How do you like that fat gold $ around her neck?

    I didn’t know this, but this song was a number three single on the top 100 charts and number one on the dance charts.

    Pops was right on the money with this one.