Perfect mash up… for today.

check out the rest @ www.yeswecarve.com

Peace

Halloween and T-Minus 5 days

John McCain lets this guy run his campaign… him and Sarah Palin wow some sound decision making from the guy who wants to be president.

counting today and Tuesday there are only 5 days left until you have to got out an try to make a change.

I can’t believe I slept on this next one

an on Halloween, go out get crunk, enjoy the freaks just hope you don’t have any nightmares.

(sorry no good vid)

Peace,

NWK

Grindin’ in the Basement til I go VOTE

thats all I got for you now… good stuff to come TRUST…

Next Tuesday, VOTE.

from http://www.247hh.com

Showin your A$S and what happened??

Ok so in the last 24 hours I SHOULD have posted here like 12 times, bc there’s some stank comin’ from the basement, but instead I’ve been workin (for the man), grindin’ (for myself), and cookin’ up some new OSH -ish about to drop. (more on that in the weeks to come)

But first… Y must Dick’s show there tips in public? Or better yet why did happy hour cause some lumberjack wannabe, baboon to show his ass last night? Unless you OWN an place of business… you ALWAYS end up lookin’ like an ASS when you act like a caveman.

and dude I look like a caveman.

ok sorry about the PSA

But for real, and its a good segue to our next topic.

Rap Ads

What happened when they start drinkin sprite?.

I was listenin’ to a Mixtape from BlindIUseToBeForTheKids and mid way through the track list I noticed a St. Ides freestyle, this would normally not be a thing but I thought of of of my boys back in college and his unnatural love for “flavored Crooked I” so I skipped to check out the old Wu St. Ides commercial freestyle. It was short, and the sound quality sucked; but They loved that product and the verse had some fire to it. It was a refreshing break from overly produced sprite and Impala commercials of today.

So I started to do some research and talked to Rah for a bit… I found out that back in the day rappers used to rap about products that they actually used, and kick it with people in commercials they may actually be seen with. Now I don’t know if Biggie or Meth ever did a Dutchie commercial or if Slick Rick ever gave props to the dude where he got his chains. and I know for a FACT Flavor Flav never did a Timex commercial and though Run DMC did more for Adidas in one song than any ad agency could in the entire life of the brand, somehow they didn’t even cross paths in the commercial sense until 2007, after the death of Jam Master Jay when the company paid only for stock footage and the use of a song. So why aren’t rappers really reppin’ in ads what they rap about in songs.

Well come to find out the St. Ides ads caused a stir among the community and ended up making rappers look more gangster and more like “hooligans” and this did not bode well for a new genre on the rise. So according to another blog Str8 Dope heres a more in depth histor y of the commercials and the controversy .

Amazing! I then proceeded to dig around Google and I found a small blurb from 2002 from a record store:

V/A DJ Drank’s Greatest Malt Liquor Hits cd-r 11.98 VERY LIMITED. And we think the blurb on the back of the cd says it best, so we’ll just quote it: Before the appropriately named Alkaholiks DJ/producer E-Swift hooked up with King Tee and DJ Pooh to work on a series of 60-second St. Ides TV and radio commercial spots that they had been commissioned to do: complete with a budget that allowed them to bring in some of the best emcees of the day. These rap commercials were really really good (they sound better than most commercial rap crap today!) and were so immensely popular at the time (early 90’s when commercial radio didn’t play nearly as much rap as today, esp. West Coast artists) that they resulted in listeners jamming radio station request lines at stations like Wild 107, San Francisco just to hear Cube or the Geto Boys rap about their favorite high-octane malt liquor. Not surprisingly with lyrics like Cube’s “Get your girl in the mood quicker, get your jimmy thicker, with St. Ides malt liquor,” it wasn’t long before controversy soon overshadowed the advertising campaign. Outraged protests followed particularly in African-American and Hispanic communities where malt-liquor billboards and posters were defaced. Additionally the St. Ides commercials were publicly criticized by the U.S. Surgeon General and the New York State Consumer Protection Commission and drew fines from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Additionally Korean grocers boycotted St. Ides, but for a different reason, for their use of Ice Cube as their spokesperson. Their protest was based on Cube’s derogatory lyrical comments about Koreans in his album “Death Certificate.” (Note: McKenzie River, the San Francisco-based maker of St. Ides, consequently temporarily discontinued using Ice Cube.) But the biggest criticism of the St. Ides commercials was that it used hip hop/rap music, a genre most popular with teenagers at the time, to sell malt liquor directly to underage drinkers. This was further enforced when St. Ides blatantly marketed a nonalcoholic drink for kids, boldly using the St. Ides name/logo (check out the lyrics to Ice Cube’s “Crooked I For All Ages” track #30). Overall the reaction to the St. Ides ads was so intense that G. Heileman Co., the national brewer that had created the St. Ides label, disavowed any connection with St. Ides. And eventually the commercials were banned altogether and never heard/seen again.

Instead leaving us with crap like this,

But rest assured I’ve done the leg work and now I’m about to reopen the St. Ides vault…

(the quality is all over the place and I just have them in Alphabetical order but enjoy.)

2Pac & Snoop

Cypress Hill

DJ. Pooh

Dr. Dre

Ice Cube

Ice Cube & Geto Boys

King Tee

Mc Eiht

Meth & Red

Notorious BIG

Rakim’s radio commercia

The Wu

and finally the 8 minute mixtape, I’m lookin for an mp3 for ya’ll but just open a new tab and put this on in the back.

Red and (talkin’ about the WU) Meth have a show in San Diego on Nov. 13th. just know that.

Peace…It’s not just a word.

I’m off to grab a Crooked I.

NWK

Time For Change Mixtape

01. George Bush – Highlight Reel

02. Nas – Speaks On Politics

03. Styles P & Cassidy – Make It Out

04. Jay-Z – The American Dream

05. Johnny Polygon (Invasion) & Amanda Diva – Colorblind

06. Joell Ortiz Ft. Dante Hawkins – Letter To Obama

07. Jay-Z – Lick A Shot

08. Joe Budden, Twista, & John Mayor – Waiting To Change The World 2008

09. Barack Obama – On Hip-Hop

10. Qadir & Dwayne (Invasion) – Its My Time

11. Martin Luther King’s last speech

Download

Go vote in November!

808’s and Heartbreak I’m still waitin for a

Good Ass Job…

What ups ya’ll? After that John Legend I’m stuck on some GOOD [Getting Out Our Dreams] Music so when i heard this in my car today I had to drop alittle knowledge.

Well it looks like in this economy even the head of GOOD Music, Kanye West, can’t find a “Good Ass Job”. The prereleased title of his fourth album will have to wait because last night in LA Ye held a listening party for his NEW Album, thats right slated to release mid December is 808’s and Heartbreaks, a new album from Kanye West on which he is rumored to SING on every track. I hope this doesn’t mean that Kanye meets Scream and we end up with a voice modulated opus that falls short, but with what I have heard from it (you know not being on Ye’s super-exclusive listening party list and all) it COULD be tight. Ye usually does a great job mixing feels and styles and voice modulators can get tired quick so I guess we”l have to wait for December to make any real decision.

Hey but if it it flops, according to Kanyelive.com and one MTV report Kanye will be back to rappin’ and drop ANOTHER CD in June. Maybe by then after the election, the holidays, and some CHANGE, we could get back to gettin that “Good Ass Job.”

Until then Check out the only leaks I’ve found so far. and make sure you peep the final debate tonight. and next month VOTE-  and if your in CA  NO on prop 8, and NO on prop D if you want reasons just ask.

Peace

-NWK

Before I head back to the basement…

So I’m between work, class, and about to head down to the OSH Basement but before I do, I wanted to drop a little knowledge, jazz, soul, and piano for all you to groove to.

DL

back to the basement…

peace.

NWK

The Best Rapper Alive Is…

Over 920,000 votes later, VIBE announces the winner of it’s first annual Best Rapper Alive tournament

When VIBE decided to let the people decide The Best Rapper Alive, we just wanted to have a little fun. But with a final tally exceeding 920,000 votes, it’s safe to say we touched a nerve. Since the competition began on July 21, the NCAA tournament – style bracket sparked bedlam. T.I.? Nas? Joe Budden? Rick Ross? Decisions had to be – and were – made.

In the early rounds there were few upsets, as most of the higher-seeded competitors triumphed. Until the final eight MCs remained, it looked as though all four No. 1 seeds – Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Eminem, and Andre 3000 – would land in the final four. But then, the bark of underdogs could be heard in the distance.

The lesser of the two upsets took place in the Big Punisher bracket. Andre was defeated by No. 3 seed The Game, just as his album, LAX (Geffen), was impacting nationwide. In the Pimp C bracket, Lil Wayne, the man who many thought would take home the title, lost to Ludacris, also a No. 3 seed. Unfortunately for The Game and Luda die-hards, Cinderella would not be anyone’s date to the big dance. Jay-Z and Eminem easily beat out Ludacris and Game respectively, setting up a titanic final matchup. In the end, Eminem prevailed in a surprising landslide victory. Despite no proper album releases, since 2004’s, Encore (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), 69 percent of the votes went to Detroit’s native son easily outpacing office favorite Jay-Z’s 31 percent.

“It’s obviously an honor to have won the fans’ support by being voted the Best Rapper Alive,” Eminem said in response to his victory.   “I don’t think that there is any one rapper that is simply the best though.  Everyone who was in consideration and many others are the best at certain things, and at what they do.  But since VIBE’s offering the distinction, hell yeah I’ll accept!”

But no matter the victor, one thing was clear: The debate about who The Best Rapper Alive is (or is not) lives on. We just might have to do it again next year. For a complete breakdown of all the matches, go to VIBE.com/bestrapper.

Up from the OSH Basement

Yo Its the NWK and even though I OWE you all, and trust I’ve been in the basement cookin’ up some recipes for the future of OSH. and except for a 6 day hiatus in Miami my brains been workin’ around the clock tryin to figure out what ya’ll need. nuff said on that though.

Just stay posted and look for big things to come. Now since this little encoded blog post and lack of posts is probably pissin’ all ya’ll off, here check this.

The Nappy one is hitting you with our first mixtape- ok so its bootleg and last time I had a shitty day my old roommate put this together, I’ve been bumpin’ it on bad days ever since. Damn usually by song 5 or 6, I forgot what I was even piss’d about.

NWK Today was a sh*t Day

track list

1. Rise Against – Bricks
2. Redman – Put It Down
3. Jay-z-Takeover
4. Rich Boy Throw some D’s
5 Chevelle – Brainiac
6. Styles P – G-Joint
7. The Clipse – God Damn
8. Rise Against – We Give it All
9. Chevelle – Humanoid
10. Styles P f/ Talib kweli – Testify
11. Bayside- Masterpiece
12. Chevell – The Clincher
13. WhiteZombie – Electric Head
14. 2Pac- No More Pain
15. Notorious BIG – Who Shot Ya?
16. Jay-z-Dirt off Your Shoulder
17. Big L – MVP
18. Craig Mack- Flava in ya Ear [BadBoy Remix]
19. Mos Def- Ms. Fat Booty
20. Poster Boy- Jurassic Harlem

download- http://www.sendspace.com/file/sut9sz

Peace

Back to the basement.