"WE LOVE ROLL CALL, Y'ALL" (c) Mister Senor Love Daddy

Since it is the end of another great year... it is time to say thanks to some important people in my life.

Mom, Dad, Michelle, Dominic, Mariam, Victor, Kevin, Monica, BJ, George, Donwill, Von Pea, Ilyas, Che Grand, Moses, The DBs, Gene, Evan, Ralph, Kat, Lamont, Chris, Tim, iD, Trackademicks, Mike Baker, Honor Roll, J*Davey, Loosie Music, Suburb, Alfie, Joe, Jocelyn, Brandye, Jack, Carrie, Jon, Daniel, Scott.

I want to thank you for making my life a little brighter.

"Got nuthin but love for ya, baby" (c) Heavy D

This movie is fuckin great! She is a sarcastic smart ass who uses pop culture references in her sentences like they are nouns, verbs and adjectives in the dictionary... it is great. The whole cast does a great job.

"Yup Yup" (c) Teddy Riley

still flyer than the rest. period.

"Cold world" (c) Gza

Even on the coldest of winter days, I still prefer to drink Slurpees and other ice based drinks instead of coffee, hot cocoa, etc... the only exception is tea. The looks you get from people can be priceless.

"Off to Never Neverland" (c) Metallica

"The Orphanage"

I was expecting it to be a little more frightening with a few more twists and turns, but overall it was a good flick. All of the actors did a good job.

I still believe that any type of horror/suspense flick involving little kids can be more frightening than other flicks with ghosts, killers, etc... "Children of the Corn," "The Omen," etc... except for Chucky... that one was NEVER scary.

"No more words" (c) INI

Cops Put an End To 'Pee on the Rocks'


By Stephen Yagielowicz
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007
OSAKA, Japan – In what some observers see as the beginning of a campaign to clean up the area, a popular adult club in Osaka's Minami entertainment district has been targeted by police.
Recently six of the club's hostesses and one male customer of Impulse, a "sexual cabaret club," were arrested on charges of indecent exposure after the hostesses allegedly worked while in the nude while the customer exposed his genitals.

Other allegedly indecent acts have been reported at Impulse.
"As soon as you enter the club, a hostess will give you a hot towel that she has already used to swipe her private parts. You can start fondling the hostesses' breasts as soon as you sit down, but that's nothing. You immediately get a drink, but it's a hostess's urine served on the rocks. They also serve tidbits sprinkled with cuttings of the workers' pubic hair," Shukan Jitsuwa reported. "They also had a service where the ice served in drinks is first inserted into the hostess's private parts. They just kept on getting wilder and wilder and I think they went too far in the end."

While Impulse forbids media coverage, word of the club spread quickly, making it one of the most popular clubs in Minami.

"That place was warned plenty of times in the past for going too far," a sex industry writer said. "I knew there'd eventually be arrests there some day."

"Sure, it stretched the limits, but it never really went beyond them. It didn't provide any sexual services that resulted in ejaculation and if there was any nudity going on, it was never anything more than a quick flash," a call girl service operator said. "Even its most raunchy stuff wasn't that serious. I think the arrests have been made to send a message to others."

"Some people are saying the tough line cops are taking on adult businesses in Minami will only go on until the end of this year. But I think they're wrong. I think this crackdown is going to keep on going for ages," a writer covering Osaka police news reported to Shukan Jitsuwa. "And the reason why I feel that is the cops working on Minami now are the same ones who carried out the massive clean-up a couple of years ago of the Kabukicho district in Tokyo."

"In the mix... c'mon kick it" (c) DJ Evil Dee

This man put out a dope album:


These people made it hotter.

"Dipped to the theater set to ill" (c) Fresh Prince

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

- One of Depp's best performances

- One of Burton and Depp's best movies together (second only to "Edward Scissorhands")

- Visually amazing

- Some of the best music I have heard in a long time.

Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman both did a great job as well.

"Can't keep running awaaaaay" (c) The Pharcyde

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini is one of the most amazing books I have read in recent time. But when I heard they were making it into a movie I was a little skeptical because it isn't the easy story to digest at all. And then of course there is the controversy regarding the situations the young actors were placed in (I do believe that the kids and their parents should have been told the entire story, so that they new exactly what was going to happen before filming ever started). Even with my issues regarding the movie, I decided to check it out.

Overall, it is a decent movie. It isn't great and it isn't horrible - it is simply an easy digestable straight adaptation of the book. The interpretations of Amir, Hassan, Baba and Rahim Khan are good for this version. The truth is that no movie can ever really capture an entire book. The screen writer has to squeeze hundreds of pages into 2 hours, which is not easy. The best way to describe "The Kite Runner" would be "alluding." The movie alludes to various aspects of the book without showing or discussing them in detail (but it is done in such a way so that you don't have to have read the book to watch the movie). That is my biggest issue with the movie. The details in the book are what made it interesting to me. The internal conflict that Amir deals with through out the book are not fully explored in the movie. And his journey back to Kabul doesn't evoke the same emotion as it does in the book. Now I know this would have made it into a 6 hour movie, but I think that these parts of the story are most important. And I felt they rushed Sohrab's story at the end.

This movie is a great introduction to the book. It gives a nice summary of the book minus the roughest parts of the story. I would suggest everyone watch the movie and then read the book to get all of the real details of the story. I am happy that a studio was at least willing to take a chance on this story. 3/5

Cold Blooded (c) Rick James

http://www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com/

"Getting funky in the mix now" (c) The D.O.C.

This is one of the freshest album covers I've seen in a minute.

Murs 3:16 Presents: Murs And The Misadventures Of The Nova Express:

"It's supposed to bubble" (c) UGK

Am I the only one interested in hearing a new Kris Kross album?

According to MTV News:
"That backward-clothes-wearin' teeny-bopper hip-hop duo from the 1990s are all grown up and back together to make us all "Jump" again. Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly, now 29, and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith, 28, have reached out to Jermaine Dupri to produce their comeback opus, according to rumors."

I'm the only one, huh?

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I was never a huge fan, but I had nothing but respect for UGK since I first heard "Pocket Full of Stones" in '93 and Super Tight in '94.

"It's Supposed to Bubble" is still one of my favorite songs of all time. R.I.P. Pimp C

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I hope they re-release this on vinyl with this cover... that would be so dope.

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Still more gangsta than anyone who ever picked up a mic

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Tera Patrick is a DJ?!?!?!!!!??? I wonder if she can actually mix or if she just plays records? hmmmmmm...

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Wow... so this is what the game has come down to, huh? smh...

"Life ain't rosey, but I roll with it" (c) Jay-Z

I want to yell about a few things right now, but honestly there is no point to it. Yeah, you're going to get thrown curve balls... you're gonna deal with stress and bullshit... you're going to be annoyed, pissed off and happy, but that's just life. No matter what you have treat yesterday like it's a memory, and just wake up everyday and get back to the grind. A lot of people don't agree with this statement, but life is simply a game. And it is up to you to choose how to play. Me? I play the game at an expert level everyday... it's never easy, but it what you have to do to make moves in this world. Like Jay-Z said, it ain't rosey, but I roll with it. Cause that is just what you have to do.

In the past (almost) 20 years, I have listened to a lot of music. Everything from Classical to Hip Hop. My personal style has always been Hip Hop/R&B/Soul... that is just what I have always enjoyed. I have listened to rap music from all parts of this world. I have listened to emcees from almost every continent (who knows there might be a penguin down in Antarctica spittin a hot 16 about how he glides through the water with ease and how dope he looks in his suit, so dope in fact he doesn't have to change it cause it changes for him, and how all the girlies want him to sit on their eggs to the beat of his homies flipper claps)... from Canada to Mexico to Brazil to South Africa to the UK to France to the Middle East to India to Japan to Australia... i've heard a lot. I've always prided myself on the fact that I will listen to anything at least once. I might hate on it before and i might hate on it after, but I will listen to it. I've heard cats spit/sing some authentic shit and i've heard dudes act too hard because they think that is what will sell. I've heard cats spit some amazingly ignorant shit... from talking about murder, dead bodies, drugs, etc... Ignorant hip hop records are a dime a dozen, which makes it hard to be shocking. There have even been many ignorant R&B records with dudes saying some crazy shit... "You remind me of my jeep" anyone... anyone. But even tho there have been ignorant R&B records in the past... they are still surprising to hear. Maybe it is because i always associate singing with love or rememberance... not crime and violence.


After all of these years, it amazes me that still the most ignorant album I've ever heard is this R&B album:

I was shocked to hear the content of this album when I first heard it over 10 years ago. And it is still a little shocking to hear it today.

When I first heard it, I was hoping there was a CB4 twist at the end because it would have been brilliant, but sadly that wasn't the case.

But for real, I can understand why a label would put out an album like this at that time.

"The sh*t that I be sayin ain't worse than your western movies" (c) Scarface

Scarface is one of my favorite rappers of all time. There are very few other rappers out there who can say that over 20 years they have kept it 100. Face is still making the records he was making 20 years ago. I grew up listening to Face's music. I discoved Brad Jordan back in 91 through the Geto Boys classic "My Minds Playing Tricks On Me." Face doesn't make happy music. All of his tracks are about the realities of all the shit that others rappers talk about with joy. I mean yeah the dope game can bring fast money, but it can also bring about many evils and Face tells those tales quite well. He writes tracks that a lot of these "Gangsta" rappers wish they could, but are too concerned with selling millions to do it. His new album "Made" has cracked my top 5 for the year because of it. "Girl You Know"... "Burn"... "Boy Meets Girl"... "The Suicide Note"... Scarface is Scarface... he isn't for everyone, but deserves the respect he's earn over the years.


Plus you have to love the only record label with the nerve to brag about the Feds not being able to bust them.

"Public Service Announcement" (c) Jay-Z

"Cloverfield"



"Rambo"





2008 is going to be a great year for good and terrible movies... yessur!

"Nooooo More Lies" (c) Michel'le

Let me get this straight... four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. You can't be serious? hahaha



Thank You, United States District Court of Northern California for a huge waste of time and money.


Moving on...

"Take your rhymes around the corner to the rap rehab" (c) LL Cool J

In the past 20 years I've heard A LOT of records, but "Smell Your D*ck"... ummmm.... wow. i don't know what to say any more.

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Chris Rock is right:

Chris Rock: Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician. Everybody's getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs together, you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line?

RollingStone: Plenty of rappers say, "I'm not a rapper, I'm a businessman."

Chris Rock: That's why rap sucks, for the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it's just not at its best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I don't really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett's album - or the new CD by Paul Allen. That's what everybody's aspiring to be.

We live in a weird time. No one knows who's smart - we just know who makes money. "Hey, somebody invented Viagra! We don't know their name,but we know Pfizer, because they make the money." That guy made apill that keeps your dick hard, and nobody knows who the fuck he is.The pharmaceutical companies are like fuckin' record companies.There's literally the Bo Diddley of medicine walking around, not getting his royalties. He signed all his fucking pill publishing away.

"Born To Roll" (c) Masta Ace

I have a secret... i love lowriders. I used to deep into loweriders, but it something people wouldn't know unless they knew me before 1995. Truthfully, when I become rich and can spend ridiculously (after giving to charities of course) the only car i really, really need to have is a 1963 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport... sittin on 100 spoke Dayton Wires and white walls... with a 4 pump system in the back.

The reason for my love of lowriders is really the design. The 63 Impala is amazing with regard to design. It has this edge running down both sides with points at both ends that make it stand out. And if you look at it from the right angle it looks like it goes on forever. You add the three circular tail lights and the grill on the front... it simply looks amazing. But then you when you drop it to the ground... put it on Daytons... with a candy coated drippin paint... and a hydrolic system... daaaaaaaaaamn! It just makes it look more ridiculous.

The other part is the hydrolics. To be able to make a car do something it shouldn't do also makes me smile. You can't help but be amazed when you see a lowrider hop or hit a 3 wheel motion. They are basically Hot Wheels for grown ups. You gotta love it.

The truth is any car can be a lowrider, but honestly most cars after the 1980s just don't work as lowriders. I'm all for cutting emissions and a greener planet, but the designs of modern cars just don't work for lowriders. You can candy coat any car and put some rims on it, but it just won't look as dope as the ones you see below.

And sorry Vic, but all of these street racers... the Hondas, Acura, etc... I don't care how fast you can drive... hell build it so that it can go 300 miles per hour down a city street... will NEVER look as dope as a 63 Impala on 100 spokes. The lines... the chrome... the paint... what more can i say.

I used to get Lowrider Magazine every month cause I couldn't get enough of them. I'd be lying if I said the beautiful Latina women posing with the cars didn't spark my interest as well. Beautiful Latinas and beautiful lowriders are a great combination.

"Fresh dressed like a million bucks" (c) Slick Rick

For real, "30 Days of Night" was 29 days too long. It is amazing how people can mess up a vampire movie.


However, "The Last Dragon" is still one of the best movies from the 80s... sho nuff.


Jay-Z's "American Gangster"... wooooow! #3 with a bullet on my best of the year list.

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One of the freshest t-shirts I've seen in a minute:


These are dope as well: