‘Roxanne Roxanne’

  Even for someone like me who’s more or less the same age as hip hop, it’s hard now to imagine the early days, when even people who saw money couldn’t imagine millions of dollars.  When it was a neighborhood thing and not a worldwide culture.  ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ does an excellent job of reminding you […]

Song of the Day – ‘Drop’

  It’s the weekend! This popping up in my feed both made me excited as I forgot how innovative this video was, and misty eyed because it took me back to my DJ mentor Uncanny whose not with us anymore. Have a good one gang.  Take nothing for granted.  

Song of the Day – ‘Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)’

  Was on vacation but I did catch we lost one of the backbones of Bad Boy’s rise last week. It still bumps, but this feels like one of those ‘you really had to be in the club/party scene’ at that moment in time to understand how influential this song (the original and this remix) […]

‘Ricky Gervais: Humanity’

  The new Ricky Gervais stand up on Netflix is interesting to me because, it’s really three shorter sets edited together… In the first set, he’s basically doing his David Brent, ‘oblivious asshole’ character to poke fun at the Kardashians (well just one really) and how his own celebrity and wealth have left him ‘out […]

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

  The writing was on the wall about a month ago… The car breaking down every three months?  That stopped happening.  The hopping around from job to job which is somewhat expected in a town like Los Angeles, but I always seemed to be on the extreme end of it?  That stopped happening.  I’d found […]