Bostonian hip-hop for grownups since 1990. Tommy O'Deed, Matt Reyes, and Bill Ierardi make music the old-fashioned way: for the love of it.
Boston, Massachusetts
Joined August 2009
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As a bookend to 2022's "Instrumental Health", here are 24 more pieces of music created while on indefinite vacation in Outer Pandemia.
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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM
For the first time in 46 years, the World Series will be played between two teams that have never won a championship!
Best of luck to the Milwampa Rayers! Or, alternately, the Tampaukee Breways!
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Even though writing on US rap & hip-hop history is still just scratching the surface, I think a very interesting book could be written about hip-hop's diaspora out into the world, with detailed chapters exploring when & how rap arrived & took root in different parts of the globe.
I guess for me, the "at twelve" feels a lot older than the context the question is implying. I grew up a precocious reader of anything/everything. My father took me to R-rated foreign films. By age 12 I was traveling the MBTA alone, breakdancing to rap music, stealing porn mags.
There is a special level of hell reserved for those who do not cut out the tendon when making chicken fingers. It's not a particularly deep nor hot level, but it remains there waiting nonetheless.
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It's unfortunately ironic that all those braggin' & boastin' 80s MCs rapped nonstop about being #1, being stars, being rich. Yet while many persist as legendary names in hip-hop history, most of their dreams of popular & financial success would be achieved by the next generation.
I put on Jon Favreau's blu-ray commentary for "The Mandalorian & Grogu", and it's one of those inane pointless tracks where the director basically just narrates what's on screen: "Here's the bad guy. Here's the inside of the AT-AT. Here's where he shoots the guy." I shut it off.
This year's World Series will feature a team that's never won a championship, against either another team that's never won a championship, or another team whose last championship was 78 years ago. So that's cool!
People pointing out that the new Ben Affleck film "Animals" has the same plot as last year's Spike Lee film "Highest 2 Lowest" are halfway there, and I'd like to congratulate them on their perspicacity while also inviting them to watch Akira Kurosawa's "High And Low" from 1963.
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When someone asks you what your song is about, you should have a more interesting answer than "It's about three and a half minutes long."
"Digger" is supposed to be a cautionary satire, not a fucking recipe.
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, the planet's widest and most unpredictable glacier, is melting "more aggressively" than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates. cnn.it/4dHWdTP
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This is a series of turntable mixes that I put together on 4-track with my friend DJ KooKoo in 1990-1991, featuring many of the popular hip-hop and club music of the time. We used to have a lot of time on our hands.
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