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Chicagos fineste står på Sentrum Scene i morgen. Mye kan sies om den spirituelle halvrasisten, men liv pleier han nå å lage. Jeg er blakkere enn deg, deg og deg, men akkurat denne konserten skal jeg nok klare å komme meg på uansett. Med andre ord; ingen unnskyldning for å ikke møte. Det går rykter om en, to og tre etterfester, men de er jeg ikke kul nok til å skrive noe om.

Her er et par låter som du sikkert har hørt mange ganger før, men som du bare har godt av å høre noen hundre ganger til:





Jeg kom meg forøvrig aldri på Paul Wall, men her er et lite intervju jeg gjorde med ham før hans Oslo-konsert: http://www.kingsize.no/News.aspx?ArtNo=4611

Hvil i fred - Pimp C


Bun B: He was passionate. He wanted to be as honest with people as he could — almost to a fault, you know? And it's just ... it's kind of hard to really put a lot of that into words, the kind of man he was. But everything he loved — everyone he loved — he loved hard and embraced it fully. He was very passionate if he felt a certain way about things; he couldn't hold it in, he couldn't filter himself, he couldn't be politically correct. It just wasn't in him to not say what he felt. Whether he felt he was right or wrong at the time, he spoke from his heart.

He said a lot of things over the years to a lot of different people about a lot of subjects. And at the end of the day, even if you didn't agree with him, you have to give him credit and respect the fact he was willing to stand by what he said. So many people can be wishy-washy about statements and what they do, and very few give a damn about anything anymore. You know what I'm saying? And he really cared about everything and everyone, and just wanted everyone to be their best. He wanted rap to be the best. He wanted Southern hip-hop to be the best. He wanted everyone involved to be the best. He never looked down on anybody. He never made anybody feel small. He tried to uplift, especially. Sometimes that honesty can come across the wrong way, and sometimes it can be taken the wrong way, and sometimes people don't want to hear it. And that's why, even though if I [didn't agree with] how he felt, I couldn't tell him to not speak from his heart. There's a lot of things that we didn't agree on. There's a lot of opinions I had on things that he didn't agree on, but he was down with me. It was documented he didn't want to do [the Jay-Z collaboration] "Big Pimpin'," but he rolled with me on that. And that's just the relationship we had. That's just the kind of person that he was. He didn't know how to love a little; he didn't know how to care a little.

Endelig hjemme...

Da var man "endelig" hjemme igjen etter den lille fylleturneen som startet på torsdag. Høydepunktet? Mos Def! For en mann! For en konsert! Hvis du er en av de som mener at konserten var dårlig, at den sugde eller slike dumme ting: Gå, skyt deg selv...

Den tidlige juleaften!

Så har dagen kommet! Mos Def, også kjent som mannen I mitt liv, er bare noen timer unna Rockefellers kjære scene. Hvor skal man egentlig starte når man skal erte de som ikke har billetter? Hvor skal man begynne for å avsløre hans skeptikeres idiotisme?

Vel, han er mannen bak på to av tidenes beste album, Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star og Black on Both Sides.





Så tok det noen år før han i 2004 ga ut en av tidenes mest undervurderte skive, The New Danger.


I fjor kom True Magic. Den var i forhold til hva man kan forvente av Mos Def litt skuffende, men fortsatt, tja, magisk.


Ethvert rim fra Mos Def er knivskarpt, uten så mye som en antydning til et nødrim. Alt han rører blir magisk… sånn som dagens konsert kommer til å bli.

Som om ikke alt dette var nok er han planetens kuleste fyr og en fantastisk skuespiller. Kort fortalt er han mannen jeg ville drømt om hvis jeg noen gang skulle blitt homofil…

Litt fra protestene rundt ”Jena 6”:



Arrestert utenfor MTV VMA:


Også litt filmklipp til slutt:



Dante Smith; one hell of a guy!