Urban Honking

Lyric courtesy Remy Martin, soundtrack courtesy Summer Madness (yes, it really is that good–for one, 50 gets mashed sensitive over the PM Dawn song from the Boomerang soundtrack–and that’s just the beginning?). Summer Madness courtesy my HBO bootleg BFF and your favorite blogger, Chris. PayPal him some love okthx. Last night I dreamed I told […]

the hit it or quit it editorial massif continues to hold it down in central HQ, making diagrams, grinding up smarties and snorting them, writing reviews as 1st person Lou Rawls, writing titles in their own handwriting and holding each others’ hands in a circle of friendship bonds whispering never broken, never broken. meanwhile, I […]

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 your entries after the following example. sorry for the confusion. KEEP YR VOCABULONS COMING challahtronix—when […]

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 told you about the Cam’ron Purple Haze ice cream truck that drives thru my neighborhood, […]

“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, beat shifts, snare swing until it hits about about the last thirty seconds and everything […]

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 sorry to say, I won’t be blogging here for a little while… because THIS DJ […]

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 about the Nelly protest Florida Atlantic University cancels Ying-Yang Twins concert Essence’s Take Back the […]

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 not what we get from La Chappelle) but Laura gets snaps and safety pins for […]