Monthly Archives: June 2005

dear best friends forever, i forgot to mention all submissions for hit it or quit it‘s VOCABULON slangtionary section have a format! so if you are submitting–and guess what? you have 22 minutes left!–please email them to julianneshepherd@yahoo.com and model … Continue reading →

on break from cutncopy editing, prosp. park 2005, fancy flossing the sweaty jogbra! (QUE!) to de la soul the grind date (it’s a good median pace/bpm for jogging FYI): Boyz n da Hood promotional van. which reminded me, i never … Continue reading →

“what they gown doo” by rod lee, off “Rod Lee’s Vol 5” and I literally started crying almost it is SO FUCKING BADRACULA. the uphill climb of the classic break through a forest of lil jons, horn section, whistles, bass, … Continue reading →

Friends, It’s been totally awesome being here with you all these years. I’ve made so many friends and had such intimate experiences with so many of you, there is no way l will ever forget these special times. But I’m … Continue reading →

Hello, alternet friends! Here are some more links for hip-hop feminism, in rough chronological order: Joan Morgan’s When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down Spelman student Moya Bailey blog and Alternet archive, including the story … Continue reading →

Ms. Laura Sinagra (that is MIZ) on Rize. Good on ya, madame. Still would’ve liked explanation in film re: African dance footage interspliced w/krumping (the form was beautiful, he would have done better to add commentary tho i understand that’s … Continue reading →

Rize. AMAZING. inspired me to stop sending money to Rob Brezny’s astrology fund and go legit curandera dance instructor, complete with herbal briefcase and kneepads. here’s what i wrote peter about it, reality tk: M & i just returned from … Continue reading →

young jeezy, who is just here to motivate the thugs btw, was on the radio this morning all like “I feel as though Gucci Mane has surrounded himself with the wrong sorts of people, perhaps those who encouraged him to … Continue reading →

and i swear to god my favorite album review ever, period, is Chris motherfucking Ryan’s send-up of Stankonia in Hit it Or Quit It 17, ca. 2000 AD, “it’s” instead of “its”es and everything. Makes the hair on the back … Continue reading →

Billy Corgan and I bond over our late-20s crises. Sigh. No, the fragile bald head was not a diss. I was mind-alteringly caffeinated and he looked smaller and paler than I expected him to–vegan?–esp. considering my high school world was … Continue reading →