Rock The Bells Me and my friend from Denver come the same place. Not just the same hometown but a place where hip hop has a special place and I think gives way to our current taste in music. I think that a majority of the music I listen to know is influenced by a time where my whole world was hip hop. Needless to say I was jealous when I saw the line up for the current Rock The Bells. Luckily my friend BJ from [ A Walking Disaster ] was able to [...]

Method Man explicó que él no siente que haya más movimientos de hip-hop. No al menos desde los 90s. "La música era más importante lo que lo es hoy. Hoy no se siente ningún movimiento. En ese momento sí. Como cuando el Wu-Tang Clan apareció. Dónde fuimos no tiene nombre. La gente sabía quienes éramos. Aunque estuviéramos en una nueva ciudad, siempre había alguien que sabía quienes éramos y ese lo esparcía entre la gente", explicó. Explicó que lo mismo sucedía con Cash Moeny, No Limit, Death [...]
The following is a series of text messages sent between Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, writers of films such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and Diasaster Movie: Monday August 11: "Is Barack Obama black?" - Jason, 11:29 pm "I think so. If we shave Method Man's beard, I think that he can pull it off." - Aaron, 11:37 pm "Fuck dude, Linday Lohan's girlfriend is ugly. That's pretty funny, right?" - Jason, 12:44 pm [...]
Chicago Loves Links Kaki King/Mt. Goats kick off tour in Chicago 10/13 Talking with Tea Leaf Green BB King/T-Bone Burnett ready covers album Method Man has a comic book White/Keys will do the Bond Theme
Method Man and Redman - Da Rockwilder Click to view more videos and photos from Rock The Bells 2008...

Rock the Bells is generally considered the premier North American hip hop festival, pretty much by default. The tour kicked off at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, IL last weekend with a full day of beats, rhymes, and all the confusion and technical difficulties that have come to define the festival. Guerilla Union, the company responsible for Rock the Bells, gets a lot of play out of the "real hip hop" mantra. Whenever I hear an artist or a DJ or a writer talking about "real" or "true" hip hop I can't help but [...]

So this is the second part in the continuing six part preview of Rock the Bells 2008 which I will be attending on the first date in Chicago this Saturday. The excitement is building among my group of friends, so I decided to go ahead and dedicate this second post to Method Man and Redman. These two are one of my all time favorite hip hop tag teams. Method Man and Redman set the world on fire there at the beginning of the decade, with one of the best collaborative hip hop albums ever released (Blackout), the now classic stoner [...]

I discovered yesterday that the legendary Rock the Bells tour, the always excellent looking American hiphop festival, is due to hit the UK on September 20th at the London O2 Arena (formerly the Millenium Dome, now the best arena venue in the UK by miles). Although pretty standard fare in the US now I'm sure, the lineup of the reformed A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Method Man, Redman, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, De La Soul, Raekwon, Ghostface, Dead Prez and The Cool Kids is pretty much the best hiphop lineup in the UK this side of the 80s [...]

I discovered yesterday that the legendary Rock the Bells tour, the always excellent looking American hiphop festival, is due to hit the UK on September 20th at the London O2 Arena (formerly the Millenium Dome, now the best arena venue in the UK by miles). Although pretty standard fare in the US now I'm sure, the lineup of the reformed A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Method Man, Redman, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, De La Soul, Raekwon, Ghostface, Dead Prez and The Cool Kids is pretty much the best hiphop lineup in the UK this side of the 80s [...]
I can't wait for this movie to come out, I saw a trailer a few months ago and I have been eager ever since. Truth be known, I don't know much about the movie besides that it stars Ben Kingsley and some dude from a Nickelodeon program, Mary-Kate Olsen is in it a makes out with Kingsley, it is a dark coming-of-age tale set within NYC in 1994, and that Method Man is in it somewhere as well... Sold! Well, I have heard some things, mainly that it isn't as lighthearted as the trailers make it out to be but [...]

Oh, Ratatat . We all remember (don't we) "Wildcat" (beggars mp3). And the 9 Beats leak. And the remixes (volume 2 zipped rapidshare... here ). And then recently, "Shiller" . And now the LP3 tease: "Mirando" (beggars mp3) You may have already downloaded the above mp3 from a variety of source... here or here or here or here or here or here or here or [...]
Whether it's to relive 1994 or see Mary-Kate Olsen in dreads, I recommend going to see The Wackness this summer, a coming-of-age comedy set in the year of hip-hop. No, I wasn't at Sundance this year (or any year), nor am I best friends with director Jon Levine, but watching the recently released trailer and viewing the awesome website is enough to know --- this is going to be solid. One of the biggest reasons to go see The Wackness is its cast, starring Josh Peck (who I love) of Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh, legendary [...]
stuffed up from a flu hyped for: method man - i get my thang in action
M-E-T-H-O-D MAN...is kicking off this year's Forecastle Fest! Forecastle has already been named one of the stops on Paste Magazine's ultimate summer music fest road trip guide and now we have an opener to look forward to. He is the second confirmed artist for the fest...that I know of. The other is Louisville's People Noise. [...]

And for those of you who've just put your rent checks in the mail or just found out your landlord cashed it in (finally), there's no better day than the 14th. Right? Ugh. Anywho, we love our readers like fat kids love, well, everything. So here's a few tracks to get you through the day, including the newest track from Rainer Maria alum (get back together you guys!) Caithlin De Marrais , who'll be dropping her debut solo record, My Magic City , very soon. (mp3) [...]

SKEET! I'm with you bro. Shwayze and I also got up, i mean stayed up, to drive down from Park City in a blizzard at 4am to make our possibly snowed in 6am flight to Miami. PROBLEM #1: MIDDLE SEAT!! Ewwwwww! PROBLEM 2: It looks like Fargo outside and nobody at the fucking airport will give me a straight answer about the fate of my travel plans. So we get on the plane and I am sitting in front of the loudest, most obnauxious family ever! I finally had to look back at them and tell them to [...]
Forget all that optimism from yesterday. The Saints scuffled through a boring first half against the Colts last night, missing an opportunity to score a couple times and take the driver's seat. Instead they got frustrated by the Colts D until Hugehead McManning figured out that we were actually starting that shitty dude who played CB for them last year. Why we thought Jason David would be an upgrade over Fred Thomas is way, way beyond me. Anyway, watching that game was like having an extended rectal exam performed by John Madden, and although I didn't watch the [...]
Jul 18, 2007, 2:06pm
MVSW
Here's the OS/OHW Wednesday video for this week: Wu-Tang Clan ~ " METHOD Man " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =nZqri7VSC4U Lyrical exerpt: M-E-T, H-O-D, MAN M-E-T, H-O-D, MAN M-E-T, H-O-D, MAN M-E-T, H-O-D, MAN Hey, you, get off my cloud You don't know me and you don't know my style Who be gettin flam when they come to a jam? Here I am here I am, the Method Man Patty cake patty cake [...]
Jul 18, 2007, 1:38pm
MVSW
Song Washington Social Club ~ " Bigger Than Your Boyfriend " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ineMN5cd3sU ~DC Style~ On the Dischord label. That's good enough for me. I first started listening to WSC when I heard the song "River and the Road" a year or two ago. I think I liked it mostly because it reminded me of River Road and my old hood growing up. Now add to it that they are supposed to have [...]

CONTESTS: Two contests this week - one for El-P , and one for something a little different: the Public Theatre show "Passing Strange". Info at the end of this post. DOWNLOAD: X-Clan - Weapon X (MP3) ( via ) DOWNLOAD: J Dilla - Love (featuring Pharoahe Monch) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Method Man - The Afterparty Ft. Ghostface Killah (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Z-ro, Devin the Dude & Juvenile - The Mule (Ratatat remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: [...]