Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 11:06 am (EST)
By
Anthony Pappalardo
Yup the title is a lie but St.Obama should think about a collabo to boost his campaign. Things have been quiet since everyone became fixated on a doughy, bossy, moose hunting cunt from Idaho. By now everyone on the planet knows what a fabulous speaker Obama is, he easily cast a spell on people that don’t really count on the strength of his voice. We’ve been inundated with new clips of him, sleeves rolled up, top button undone talking with an Obamatic swagger about Change® and Progress®. The converts don’t really care what he’s saying at the end of the day, his simple slogan of Change® is all that’s important. We’re sick of Coke let’s try Pepsi. Young Democrats hate the Bush Administration, they hate war, they hate old white people and they hate that other countries think we’re douche bags. With Shepard Fairy prints and a powerful tongue Barack-The-Vote has delivered the easy message, fuck maybe if he’s elected we can look forward to Shepard redesigning the dollar bill to look like his shitty Obey crap complete with lifted graphics ….I mean clever appropriation.
I’m not going to vote for John McCain and the fake beauty queen but I really don’t give a shit about St.Obama. I hate that I can’t say one critical word about him without someone telling me I am racist or a complete asshole. Right now he’s the political equivalent of TV On The Radio. Close your eyes and TVOTR sound like white dudes playing white dude music. Obama does constantly remind you that he’s black in all his speeches but close your eyes and it’s just a dude saying the same shit as any other politician but with a little more charisma. White college chicks can take the main TVOTR dude home for semester break and dad won’t be that pissed, he might even tap his toe to one of their shitty songs and say “he’s a hard worker, they make great entertainers” and Barack would offer the same thing at the dinner table, just not the same as bringing home Young Jeezy or Jadakiss home.
I’ve been waiting for Obama’s summer jam but he’s yet to deliver a hook. He has all the elements of a great song : verses with great rhythm, clever key changes, a nice transitional bridge, and a dramatic build up but no chorus. Unlike Weezy,Obama can’t hire T-Pain for the hook. He has to come up with an infectious hit to take the election otherwise he’s going to go down as Ma$e and not Jigga.
*Oh and check out dude on the right that photo, what the fuck is he doing…it’s amazing.
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 3:12 pm (EST)
By
Tommy Esquire
According to Gallup, the Democratic National Convention was very, very good to Barack Obama. Its latest daily tracking poll (done Tuesday through Thursday) has Obama up 8 points over McCain, 49%-41%. We’ll see if this poll is a trend or a fluke when others come out, but with 2,727 surveyed, the margin of error is only ±2%. The convention couldn’t have gone much better for Obama. Huge ratings, great speeches, 95% endorsements from the Clintons. The RNC, which will feature the popular (Bush-Cheney), the star power (Tim Pawlenty) and the exorcist (Bobby Jindal), is already talking about delaying its convention so as not to conflict with Hurricane Gustav. For obvious reasons.
How Sarah Palin will impact the race is anyone’s guess. Conventional wisdom holds that running mates have negligible affect on elections, but Sarah Palin is anything but conventional. With the Obama camp’s first statement, it is already playing defense to keep women voters:
Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.
Obama rarely talks about abortion, and last night he said only, “we may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.” Now he has a wedge issue that can hurt him with Catholics and evangelicals but he hopes will keep the ladies from straying (who as of last week supported him 47%-41%).
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 7:07 pm (EST)
By
Tommy Esquire
Oh shit. Here’s the weirdest song of the year: “Swagger Like Us” by T.I., featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z, AND Lil Wayne. Sounds exciting with the four biggest rappers on the planet on one joint, only it’s terrible. The hook (and basically the whole song) is a sample from M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” where she says “no one on the corner has a swagger like us.” So yeah, it’s a UK hipster ironically jacking real rappers, sampled by real rappers. And no, it ain’t a hoax perpetrated by some blogger-DJ, it’s legit. It doesn’t work at all, and the verses aren’t even hot. Kanye turns on the auto-tune but doesn’t sound awesome like he did on “Put On” and Hov and Weez sound like they just recorded over their iphone after getting the paypal confirmation. Only Tip really goes hard, but by the time he comes in, you just want the song to be over.
I could see this being a Kanye song, or maybe Hov or Wayne trying to be daring, but I really can’t wrap my head around T.I. getting behind this. The man has the best taste of any rapper, he never drops anything questionable, and even his joints for the ladies are perfectly respectable. This is like getting your college friends together with your high school buddies, or eating cole slaw and pancakes — you just can’t believe it’s happening. I hope this doesn’t end up on Paper Trail.
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 1:27 pm (EST)
By
Tommy Esquire
Unlike his boy Tip, who has been dropping heat ever since getting sentenced to a year in the pen, Young Jeezy has kept the joints quiet off his new album The Recession(dropping next Tuesday). Until now. A bunch of shit has leaked in the last week, and let me tell you, this bitch will challenge Carter III and Paper Trail for album of the year. Usually in rap, the best music comes from the new blood and not the veterans, but these boys are seriously puttin’ it down.
The next single is Vacation. Featuring an amazing beat from NYC’s The Inkredibles, this song keeps up with the massive sound from Put On and, really, everything he’s ever done. (Sorry this one cuts off, if ya got a better one, post it in the comments.)
By the way, big ups to Jay for shouting out ya boy’s old hood Kirkwood in this joint. When I moved over there, it was nothing but dope boys and tranny hookers, and when I moved out (two years later) it was all coffee shops and health food grocers. People went from pushin’ weight to pushin’ strollers. So if my experience is any help, all you need to gentrify is bump snap music loud and throw midnight barbecues. If you smoke it, they will come. And by ‘they’ I mean white thirtysomethings.
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