“If [his Kanye] joke was a little obscure for the hip-hop fans watching, President Obama, who has shared the contents of his iPod and Spotify playlists with us before, went a little more direct. “In my first term I sang Al Green,” he said, referencing the 10 Seconds That Saved the Music Biz. “In my second term, I’m going with Young Jeezy.” Michelle Obama reacted with an enthusiastic, “Yeah!” and Obama continued, “I sing that to her sometimes.” He’s presumably referring to Jeezy’s 2008 track “My President” featuring Nas, and not one of the billion cocaine raps the artist known as the Snowman has churned out over the years. When word of the shout-out reached the rapper, he tweeted from Europe, “You know they love the snowman in the White House #Turntup,” thereby capping one giant coke joke.”
—YESSSSSSSS. You bumped Jeezy’s “My President” like 5443 times on election night too, right? I remember driving down 4th ave in Brooklyn in Nick Catchdubs’ shoe-shaped mini-van and leaning out the window at stoplights to high-five complete strangers because DUDE YOU GUYS DO YOU REMEMBER THAT NIGHT?!?!?! BROOKLYN WAS POPPING.
April 2012
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“In the global community of dolphins, there can be no hiding, no lying, no reason to mask anything but truth. In other words, what we would call an Aquarian existence–a seemingly impossible dream–has been a reality to dolphins for millions of years.”
—THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF DOLPHINS MADE AQUARIUS A REALITY MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
Esoterica: It feels like zero critiques of hip hop ever point out rapper's depression →
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I mean I never hear people every talk about the 15000 rappers going through depression and usually dedicating several tracks off of their debut albums to talk about their addiction to drugs or pills or their suicidal tendency. The only exceptions are Eminem and Biggie’s…
REAL TALK. [SELF-PLUG: in my upcoming Spin cover story on Waka Flocka, we did talk about this, a lot.]
The Simpsons live in Oregon? That's unpossible! →
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Uh, no shit. Matt Groening grew up and went to school in Portland and visited there ALL THE TIME. Here is a mad old blog post I wrote about the time I worked at Reading Frenzy (comic/zine store in PDX) and he came in and bought a fuck ton of hentai.
