Yo thats right its Wu Thursday. For all ya’ll that know me, know any day can be a Wu tribute but guess what its NOW. Wuchess mentioned somethin today on twitter that everyone needs to peep, and just like the first Wu mixtape I got this is free so I don’t wanna hear the .. “aww but I don’t by cd’s anymore” shit, So heres the deal set your DVR’s to BET tonight and if you don’t know peep the OFFICIAL WU MOVIE, trailer seen here http://wumovie.com/ .
And realtalk, come on here and post what you think of the movie, I know its no Wu- Manual, found here but the old school ODB footage should be worth the DVR.
I’ll probably peep that at some point this weekend because tonight, if your in the San Diego area, and you got $26 in your pocket you need to be down at Canes. I’ll be at Canes. Johnny Blaze will be at Canes, the Funk Docta Spock will be at Canes. You should be at Canes.
But yo I get it its not even like Meth or Red have done anything that you might like.
Plus its Thursday and a full moon so don’t worry there won’t be any freaks out.
If you can’t get to Cane’s, well you should be embarrassed but at least the Wu will be back, well more like the Wu will be at HOB next month… … Sans their old frontman Meth, who will be on the East coast leg of his Methodman Redman Tour.
So If I don’t see you tonight at the show.
and let me leave you with this.
Peace,
John, John Bacardi straight up
hold the ice
so nice like New York
they had to name me twice.
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 11.98VERY 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.
So incase you were wondering Yes, I had a case of the Mondays. That can happen though when you enjoy the weekends as much as I do. Also I want to take a minute to congratulate my cousin Kenny and his new wife Else Summers who got married over this weekend on a huge rock right on the Pacific down here in So Cal. I had a great time friday at the wedding, the reception and the after party, best of luck to you both.
Normaly I wouldn’t mention a wedding, but this one was amazing [quick, great location, natural, casual] and it was the first wedding I’ve been to where noone mentioned money or gas prices bc it was outside on an annexed spot on a local beach.
Ok now back to the OSH business at hand,
Usually I won’t sleep on Monday’s, I’m sorry, but the good news is that just like when we work together Rah had my back and gave you the new -ish to start your week.
So since he held me down yesterday, I’ve decided today to build off his first post, by giving you some of the best hip-hop/ animation crossovers.
This First video is sorta cheatin’ because the song was actually never released as a single, but the priceless costumes and fact that it was on the Simpsons makes this hard to find Ludacris spot one of my alltime favorites
And this is 50.. so I’ll hold my tongue… yeah right with all this money 50 you prolly should have spend some on lighting or maybe textures. [I went to school for this man, don't brag about money then underpay]
Murs holds it down here with a mix of Old School NES and some live action
and who could hate any of Busta’s early vids [even if it is just fisheye lens and some sweat costumes]
or
But before all of them De La was puttin’ hippie rap on by utilizing a little known technology back then [the green screen]
and even Snoop’s tryin to get alittle more animated before taking [his] “Medicine” and finishing his bluegrass project
and finally one of the dopest videos ever. hands down. Nuff said.
Peace
-NWK
If your lookin’ for some more hot videos check out clips from addictive TV, I caught them mixing music and video live at SxSW and they were the second best dj’s there, next to Prince Paul.
