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2006 was a major turning point for Hip-Hop. As the rise of Southern Hip-Hop loomed over the East Coast’s reign, and mixtapes paved the way for the upcoming blog era, new rules were being established and old rules were being broken.   For a year marked by classic albums like Clipse’s “Hell Hath No Fury,” Lupe Fiasco’s “Food & Liquor,” J Dilla’s “Donuts,” and “The Roots’ “Game Theory,” Andrew Friedman dives further to come up with the ten most underrated rap albums of 2006.  Read the full list on powmag.net: https://www.powmag.net/p/the-ten-most-underrated-rap-albums-2006

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After catching a Paul Wall and Termanology show, Andrew Friedman (@steadynappin_) ponders the White Rapper Mount Rushmore, Hip-Hop dichotomies, and the phenomenon of two Americas.

Read the full article on powmag.net: https://www.powmag.net/p/paul-wall-white-rapper-mount-rushmore

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We're closing out Jay-Z week at POW with a revisit of Hov's solo studio albums, ranking from his debut "Reasonable Doubt" to 2017's "4:44." This is #13 - #10, with words from @pxthompson @steadynappin_ & @nextlevelhattie

Read the full list on powmag.net: https://www.powmag.net/p/jay-z-albums-ranked

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For the second installment in our series covering 2001 in Hip-Hop, Andrew Friedman explores Cannibal Ox’s 2001 abstract futurist masterpiece “The Cold Vein.” Out now on powmag.net

🔗: https://www.powmag.net/p/the-2001-project-cannibal-ox-the-cold-vein

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Why referring to Roy Ayers as a “frequently sampled jazz artist” doesn’t come remotely close to capturing his full legacy.

And other weird glitches and misrepresentations from our AI copy pasta present.

“The way samples influence the legacy of the established jazz cannon feels like retconning, where the past gets rewritten to conform to the present.“

🖋️: @steadynappin_

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WEDNESDAY ADAMS!

A friendly reminder that only 23% of eligible New Yorkers voted for mayor… and out that percentage, only 67% voted for Eric Where-Da-Hoes-At Adams.

To break it down “to the very next compound” - in a room of 10 people - only 2 & a toddler with a fake ID & voter registration voted, and out that, one person and a very cantankerous infant with Saturday morning cartoons political leaning voted for DJ At-It-Again Adams.

🎶”see how that sounds? A little unrational”🎶

Now if I was Mayor, who should I serve? All of New York (the correct & only answer), or that baby that escaped his crib, found 3 other kids, and they all stood on each others shoulders on some Scooby Doo shit while wearing a trench coat, fedora, and private-eye sunglasses, to cast their crayon colored vote?

If I wanted to be re-elected, I’d be changing diapers and finding a way to breast feed that baby. Romper Room my entire campaign around that dwarf. Why? Because I know for a fact that - unless their mom puts them on punishment - they are going to show the fuck up.

And what’s all this pressure on the mayor anyway? There’s are about 59 community boards through the city, each one having about 50 unpaid members each. City council alone has 51 members. You wanna know why your nana has to walk an extra 7 blocks because they rerouted her bus line? Or why your block is littered with outdoor restaurants/ rat & roach motels, taking up valuable parking? START THERE! I bet a Metrocard most of you don’t even know who your local spokesperson is. Neither did I, so I take that bet back… the fair just went up $2.90.

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I’d give you a Jay Z library card instead, but he don’t write is rhymes… so what’s the point of reading anyway? I bet you this though, he will get his Casino in Times Square, shit he already changed most of downtown Brooklyn… why? Because chicken don’t fry without grease. And while we are all laughing at his bootleg Basquiat in a suit impersonations, he’s dripping Mazola Corn Oil at boring council meetings, sending them vintage Rocawear & Ace of Spades, creating the New York most of his day-one fans can no longer afford.
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Social media needs to be segregated by age & location.

Not a day goes by where I catch myself in some spat with a child 2 decades younger than me, trying to redefine what I lived through with new slang & slurs I’m not familiar with. Having to google if some stranger insulted me on the internet is not a way to spend a Saturday.

Instead I’m going to try out this Nutcracker recipe from the Times and see if I can bring the same energy to the Farmers Market.

It’ll probably be slow at first, but then again I get to ponder why we stopped beating our kids. Am I pro child abuse? As someone who’s been beaten by everything my mom could get ahold of, FUCK NO. But then again, every once in a while I speak to someone who I can tell never got the switch when they where kids, because I want to punch them in the face as an adult. Lucky for me, my urges aren’t my master, and I’m free from violent tendencies and approach everything with the respect I deserve.

Mental health is a real thing, and needs to be treated with empathy & patience, but manners should be paramount, and a pillar of character.

That’s why I have a therapist, I’ll trauma dump all over him before I shit on someone else’s vibe. Talking to a professional is not a crazy idea.

I guess that’s why “Stay Inside” gang is flourishing right now. I can avoid any discomfort while still looking out of my cellphone window at the world.

Sounds perfect, until you hit “send tweet” and someone wants a to bully you into believing Lil Wayne is a top 3 rapper.

Maybe in your timeline, not in mine. And it’s ok to have different opinions. What’s not OK is insulting a person when they do.

That’s why this summer, everyone’s welcomed to the blocked party. IRL & in real life. I stopped having the bandwidth for it when everyone I loved started dying, and I realized tomorrow really isn’t promised AT ALL. So quote my favorite movie and the first major black action hero ever: “I’m too old for this shit…”

IYKYK.

(Be good to each other, and please visit the link in bio, it ain’t a nutcracker but you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls of you don’t get one, only 4 left.)

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We regret to inform you that another NYC opinion has been formed by a study.

Besides Steve Harvey trying to keep his “don’t say anything inappropriate” face on, my favorite thing about Family Feud is how many times people fuck up on what are the most common things. Then you gotta sit there and ask yourself “who the fuck is Survey Says, and why isn’t ‘standing on line somewhere in Soho’ or ‘running from the ops’ one of the main reasons people by running shoes.

But hey, here we are, NY - a city left for dead several times over - is the number one spot Batman goes to relax and have a great time.

I don’t listen to surveys, I prefer listen to you, and so far… it’s all looking (Larry David voice) pretty pretty pretty good.

(For some people now, let’s not be naive. You don’t want Uncle Steve Zoot-Suit-from-the-Mask Harvey looking at you like you took the Short Bus here.)

Chin up, eyes open, and try to be good to at least one neighbor today. They may not be experiencing the same renaissance you and Beyoncé are having. Then again, WE MIGHT SEE QUEEN B AT A RED LOBSTER SOON and the thought of that is making all spiked-coffee warm inside.

We all have loses, but no one is ever a loser in NYC. Especially if you can afford the rent.

But yeah some of us do suck. And if the shoe fits then take the dick/ Clit out your mouth. We can all do better, no survey needed.

It’s the Yin & Alexander Wang.

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(Oh yeah, speaking of fashion, only 6 shirts left! Link in bio kiddies. And thank you all for your continued suPPPort. After several days with my Sun & nephew up here, my bandwidth was tapped, but that don’t stop the trap.)

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It’s the late 90’s/ Early aughts. You get your news from MTV & whichever free NYC local that hasn’t been pissed on. Everything you know culturally about America is on UPN 9 & WB 11. Y2K is the last fun party you have until the Blackout of 2003, and M&M’s isn’t a code word for drugs you can buy in Times Square, because there’s an actual M&M store there.

Your “Vice Do” is really a Don’t. Your mayors are Republican garbage men who revamp the city into a homogenized episode of Friends. You move to the outer boroughs the minute Sex & The City stops airing and the “authentic NY diner” you found of the Lorimer L/G train stop would be so much better if you stopped getting mugged there.

You party in places you might die in due to a severe lack of OSHA oversight. You learn several languages to secure a rental in what your parents consider an “undesirable neighborhood”. You spin the Astor Cube ironically, as every turn means another block downtown gets gentrified. The Yankees win a bunch, the Mets & Knicks don’t, and everyone walks around looking like Urban Outfitters had a dumpster fire while Lower Manhattan still burns in the foregrounds.

And during this time, a little pale cancer-face-looking boy from Staten Island - who grew up on Wu-Tang & Fun Dip - plotted to fuck every human you ever fantasized about… and he did. Because not only did he NOT forget 9/11, he made sure you didn’t either. In fact, he made you laugh about it.

Watch episode 2 of Pete Davidson’s “Bupkis” on Peacock tonight. Amazing show. In case you need a palate cleanser from Heat vs Knicks, & a reminder as to why we’ll never forgo the Orange & Blue.

Orange form the sun that rises in the East, and blue from the bruises when we’re Jerry Springer beat.
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PPPOST ITS: The Sneaky Pete Edition!

Whoa now, hey there my lil tall anemic looking friend? You OK? The Knicks won baby? Geez… what could that retired pharmaceutical rep possibly have said to Sketey to get him so mad? I mean he gets to play himself in any movie imaginable, and Ye is now dating what - according to the last fashion week - a human condoms with cartoon boobs & ass… what could that guy have possibly said???

SWIPE FOR ALL THE SHENANIGANS AND LETS GO KNICKS!!!!!

(Side note, I want to give a special shout to my dear friend @jubileedj. A talented musician, skilled DJ, and overall gem of a human being. An honorary New Yorker by my and many other standards. She was raised in the bass heavy palmed trenches of Miami, and has given more to our culture - locally & globally - than any human could possibly take. I was cool enough to hang with her, and lucky to have worked with her, and now I want to give her all the flowers.

🌺 🌹 💐 🌸

Today she expressed on Twitter how upset she was that I wasn’t mentioned as an “NYC IT GIRL”, and how could I ever be? Especially standing in a greenroom next to her? I am dumbfounded, and truly honored. She de-gendered “IT GIRL” just for me, so now we can all be “IT”.

So please, go follow her. Do yourself a favor and buy her music, see her play, cop merch, and when round one of these Knicks/ Heat melee begins, please send all of these emojis to her IG:

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Humpday… and the future is FUCKED.

Actually no - cuz sex can be enjoyable (just don’t tell the wife) - this is more like dry humped, in jeans with no underwear on, and a cramp.

Nice to know the cop following you on his military issued Fortnight iPad can’t beat up a person who’s job is to basically blow out birthday candles. There’s a reason why Ice Cube never made a “Fuck The FD” song. Who doesn’t like a person who’s job is to rescue cat from trees and NOT be a trigger happy pussy when it gets a little too hot in the kitchen?

How bad are our defenders of the law? The Chinese had a whole police dept of their own in Chinatown, which is like a block away from 1 Police Plaza!!

And now bodega owners have to police Asians (& others) who wear masks for cultural reasons, cuz the NYPD has lost control, and a N95 is the new ski mask.

I hate stereotypes, and think anyone who views the world with those glasses deserves a black-eye, but as someone who had to work behind the counter, snap judgements is the difference between a genuine safe space for future Oat Milk buyers or lying dead in front of the on-sale Colt 45 display with rabbit ears for pockets.

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Yell racism.

Everybody does. But nobody dares whispers accountability. So it’s every individual for themselves, in a city that needs everyone in order to prevail.

Just so happens, we have a little cancer polyp throbbing & thriving right in the middle of NYC. Day in & night out they funnel fear into the frumpy & insecure, sucking on the glass crack pipe of the American dream, cross-eyed-high on the fabricated terrors of migrant tyranny, gender-piety, or reproductive hierarchy. The fact that they settled out of court, instead of being forced to say they are liars:

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A few days 2 people were shot knocking on the wrong door by accident. No pranks. I’m surprised it’s not 200. But those happened in rural parts of the U.S. where Fox News is GOD (like the one I live in now 😬), so don’t worry, the odds of that happening to you are 1 in 1 parking lot collapsing on you.

Good luck. My black ass will be home googling how to remove actual raccoons from my kitchen, and sending my white wife on errands.
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@steadynappin_ and I analyzed 5 years of budgets from over 400 cities and found that there is little evidence for widespread police defunding in the US - Data and full statistical analysis are linked in the article on @therealnewsnetwork!

🔗 https://bit.ly/3uRkWik 🔗

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