
You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised. That is, as you very well may know, the opening verse to Gil Scott-Heron 's classic, 1970 pop-culture critique The Revolution Will Not Be Televised . Sadly, Scott-Heron passed away somewhat suddenly on the weekend at 62. [...]

As it turns out, this past Saturday was my 36th birthday (I have no idea why I'd start that sentence with "as it turns out", like it was a surprise to me?), and as you might remember from last year , I share my birthday with a few fun folks. Namely Jay-Z, who turned 40 on our birthday last year, but also Master Ace , who was born some 8 years before me, on December 4th, 1966. I was planning to put up a little birthday post with some Master Ace [...]
Since I featured 5 Alive's remix of the Beastie Boys' 'Roots Down' back in July I've been keeping tabs on the New York remix artist. I've been sitting on these mashups since the end of the Summer but figured now is a good time to reintroduce his stuff. Love his treatment of the classic Santana moment [...]

This week's OSM is of the grab box variety. And I do mean box, not bag, as in when I have nothing in mind for OSM on Sunday night I reach into one of the boxes of tapes in my storage room and write about the first thing I grab. This week it happened to be the legendary Master Ace's debut, Take A Look Around . I love Ace, but I was sure I'd featured this album before on the hill, so I did a little searching through the archives. Despite the [...]