Barry was lickin’ shots at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner yesterday. Yeah, yeah, he has writers obviously, but still, his delivery was great. How strange is it that our President is cooler than us?
By the way, this >>>>>> the Justin/Samberg “Mother Lovers” skit.
It’s time to put the smack down on these Republicans and their sickening behavior in the House and Senate. Not only are they being contrarian just for the sake of arguing, they have absolutely no legs to stand on. When you’ve run the country into its lowest point since the Great Depression and have made wrong decision after wrong decision, your opinions and theories are null and void. You had your chance and you failed…epically.
I’m glad Barack is playing nice with these fools, but they’ll soon find out that all their whining and complaining is going to be moot as he gets to work. I just wish they’d spare us the show. STFU and sit your ass down in the backseat. You drove the country off the pavement at every fork in the road, and now you’re trying to tell us how to drive. Why on earth should anyone listen to you?
Do your thing Barack and let’s get this headed in the right direction.
Damn, this came out of nowhere. Brainchild and Phonte haven’t recorded an episode of GGR in a minute, but it’s back just in time for Tay to drop his thoughts on the upcoming year. Plus, Brainchild kills the mix…as always.
- DJ Day “Four Hills”
- Daru & Rena “Things You Do”
- Ed O.G. & The Bulldogs “Bug-A-Boo”
- Shawn Jackson “Fix Ya Face”
- Sa-Ra “High Life”
- Portishead “Lot More”
- Bjork “I Miss You” (Dobie’s Sunshine Mix)
- Apple Juice Kid “A Different Blues”
- Fat Jon “Tell Me”
- The Foreign Exchange “Take Off The Blues”
- Ron Browz “Pop Champagne”
- Q-Tip “Dance On Glass”
- Hueston Independent Spit District “Jus Sayin”
- Hi-Gloss “You’ll Never Know”
- The Whispers “Keep Your Love Around”
- Carl Anderson “Buttercup”
- Jermaine Jackson “Where Are You Now”
- Prince “My Love Is Forever”
- Joey Negro presents The Sunburst Band “Every Day”
- Made In Japan “The City At Night”
- Musiq Soulchild “Until”
- The Pharcyde “She Said” (Jay Dee Remix)
- Cunninlynguists “Yellow Lines”
- Theophilus London “Cold Pillow” (feat. Jesse Boykins III)
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Here’s Kanye’s performance from one of the inaugural balls last night in DC. ‘Ye kinda killed it, mullet and all. This was the same ball that after Barack and Michelle shared the dance, he told the crowd…”we call that ‘old school’.”
Coolest. President. Ever.
More true words from Jay Smooth. Like I said in my last post, we have to “be the change” we want to see. That means we have to get to work and take pride in what everything do.
I’m making 2009 a huge year for myself and I hope y’all do the same. Live better in every aspect of your life and get things moving in the right direction. Do your best to really experience life. Remember what Jimmy V said?
To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
In spite of this picture, the most important thing to remember today is that Obama is not alone. We cannot expect him to solve all our problems and make the world a better place without buying into his vision ourselves. As he’s mentioned numerous times, “be the change you want to see in the world.”
If you want things to be better in your life, in your family, in your neighborhood, in your country, or in the world, you have to take responsibility. Be smart. Be positive. Be caring and be there for other people. We can do this, but we have to pull together and demand the best from ourselves and each other.
Let’s go.
(Pardon the language, but I never did get the chance to use one of my favorite pics of the year)
Alright, there are two things that are slightly bugging me right now, at least enough that I felt the urge to blog ‘em. Welcome to the rant.
Issue #1: The buzz around the net about the new Common album is off the charts. Unfortunately, I’m seeing damn near nothing but negative reviews. What album are y’all listening to? You really wanted him to make a 3rd album in a row that sounded pretty much the same? Eff y’all, Universal Mind Control is heat. My dude Dru suggested I do some reviews every now and then, but working 2.5 jobs kinda kills that. Here’s my track by track faux review:
So look. 9/10 songs are good and one isn’t. That’s 90%…that’s a A-. You messageboarders, bloggers, and Debbie Downers in general need to calm down. If you want to hear Resurrection again, go put in your CD.
*bangs gavel*
Issue #2: The political pundits (worth about as much as hip-hop pundits) are getting all worked up because Barack has been hiring people associated with both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and they’re wondering what happened to “change.” First off, the people he’s picking are very qualified and are all excellent choices. Secondly, these people are respected across party lines, which was a huge theme of Barack’s campaign. When I worked for them, the official mantra was “respect, empower, include.” You can’t change things for the better when you alienate half the people in the country. This is the beginning of a new way of politics, perhaps not ‘post-partisan’, but moving towards that. And it’s certainly a HUGE ‘change’ from Dubya’s (mis)management style.
Thirdly, Barack has been set up for these attacks since day one. Regardless of what he does, people will try to criticize him because they are, rightly so, fed up with government. However, let’s not forget how we got here and who was at the helm. We’re at the lowest point in American history since the Great Depression. Literally every day for the past 2 weeks I’ve heard of either personal friends losing their jobs or seen large business make massive cuts. Finally, at the first of the month, CNN sent out the hilariously titled “breaking news” that we were in a recession since last December. Thanks for the update fellas.
If Barack picked a team of brand new faces, he would be ridiculed for selecting unknown commodities when we’re in such dire straits. When he picks a balanced and diverse group of accomplished and, gasp, intelligent appointees, people flip because they aren’t “change-y” enough. Miss me with that, please. Anyone want to let these people actually get in office for…I dunno…a week…before trying to tear them down? Barack’s not going to be able to fix things completely in 4 full years and you already want him solving the world’s economic crisis 2 months before he’s sworn in? Wow. We really do live in an “instant gratification” culture. Speaking of which…
*pops dinner in microwave*
Ok, I should wrap up this rant. Before I do though, I need all you conservatives, particularly the bombastic, comically dimwitted talking heads on the “news” to do one thing. Shut. the hell. up.
Really now, these people shouldn’t even be allowed to speak about issues. You lost your rights when you voted for George Bush. TWICE! This is like getting driving erratically and crashing your car, only to tell the ambulance driver to be more careful as he’s taking you to the hospital. No. You can’t say anything right now. Just sit in the back and let the adults try to fix the problems you created.
If your beliefs and policies have brought America to its knees, I refuse to sit there and let you talk about what ANYONE should be doing. Do you let Shaq coach your free throw technique? Do you let Soulja Boy help you with your bars? Do you let Chris Webber handle your clock management down the stretch in a NCAA Championship game (still bitter)? NO! So why listen to former Bush sycophants whine about what we should do to fix any of the myriad of problems they helped create. Like George himself said:
Don’t get fooled. These people have no ground to stand on.
And now back to your regularly scheduled blog…
From a song perspective, this is miles better than Will’s “Yes We Can” video, but it may not be as inspirational. That said, this ish is dope! It’s catchy as hell and does a good job capturing the feelings we all felt on Tuesday night. It’s crazy to think that everyone – college kids, celebrities, children, foreign governments, people in 3rd world countries, scholars, etc. – were all celebrating like this when we finally did it.
Now it’s up to us to fight and work hard for what we believe in. Obama is merely the inspiration. We are the movement.
As I mentioned earlier, Tuesday was an incredible day in history and damn near everyone/thing I was rooting for ended up winning (*crosses fingers for Al Franken’s recount*). However, in the same day that we took a huge step towards equality by electing Barack Obama as our 44th President, Californians voted yes on Propisition 8 and banned gay marriage. Again, the idea that one could vote for acceptance and discrimination on the same ballot is sickening, disappointing, and confusing.
People have been protesting in the streets all over California this past week and the court battles have just started. It’s critical that they keep up that fight and it’s important for us non-Cali residents (*hides Cali driver’s license from WA DMV*) support as best we can.
One simple way is to cop these “Repeal Prop. 8″ t-shirts from ChunkyTees right here. You can either buy one for $10, or more than 3 for $8 each, with all the money going to the cost of pressing and shipping them. In other words, this isn’t a money making venture. This is an important statement we can make to the world about equal rights. Dr. King’s words have never been more true than they are today.
Some footage of Capitol Hill here in Seattle after Barack’s our victory swiped from Blogs Is Watching. Do you realize that Obama literally had people dancing in the streets throughout the entire world? I’ve been telling you this is big. [Usual Suspects] I mean ‘orca’ big [/Keyser Soze]. We’ve never seen anything like this and it’s almost like all our mistakes have been erased. We have a chance again…
More footage from my dude Druuuu:
Dru, you need to add that Journey dance mix to the gym soundtrack ASAP.
