Mr. Ducker

Jun 04

I have a 10 part series called On the Job Training for waxpoetics.com about who directed the videos that ran uncredited on Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City circa 1988-1991. A new director will be featured every weekday for the next two weeks.This was an awesome project to finally get to do and I’m really proud of it.First up is Lionel C. Martin on The Symphony, Night of the Living Baseheads, Self Destruction and much more. There is also a select videography of other videos he did. http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/on-the-job-training-part-one

I have a 10 part series called On the Job Training for waxpoetics.com about who directed the videos that ran uncredited on Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City circa 1988-1991. A new director will be featured every weekday for the next two weeks.

This was an awesome project to finally get to do and I’m really proud of it.

First up is Lionel C. Martin on The Symphony, Night of the Living Baseheads, Self Destruction and much more. There is also a select videography of other videos he did.


http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/on-the-job-training-part-one

notesfromthestall: The Flushinator. (via 51thand8th)

notesfromthestall:

The Flushinator.

(via 51thand8th)

Jun 03

“With rap, there’s a macho posturing because the flip-flopping only comes on stuff that’s ‘softer.’ And that goes from rappers joking about Kwame’s polka dots up through critics trying to pretend they were always up on UGK instead of Black Star. (Kwame was dope, by the way.)”For A Rational Conversation I talked to Christopher R. Weingarten of SPIN about El-P’s new album, ’90s underground hip-hop bonafides, and music critic revisionist history. http://thedailyswarm.com/swarm/rational-conversation-spins-christopher-r-weingarten-tackles-indie-rap-revisionism-following-el-ps-cancer4cure/

“With rap, there’s a macho posturing because the flip-flopping only comes on stuff that’s ‘softer.’ And that goes from rappers joking about Kwame’s polka dots up through critics trying to pretend they were always up on UGK instead of Black Star. (Kwame was dope, by the way.)”

For A Rational Conversation I talked to Christopher R. Weingarten of SPIN about El-P’s new album, ’90s underground hip-hop bonafides, and music critic revisionist history.



http://thedailyswarm.com/swarm/rational-conversation-spins-christopher-r-weingarten-tackles-indie-rap-revisionism-following-el-ps-cancer4cure/

May 24

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May 19

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May 18

Photo by Glen E. Friedman As you can tell, MCA has stayed on my mind. I put together a rough Garage Band mix of some my favorite songs by the Beastie Boys. Some singles, some album cuts, some remixes, some rarities, some randoms. Click here to download Jam Palace Mix: Fully Down, A Tribute to the Beastie Boys Tracklist: Rootdown The Lisa Lisa / Full Force Routine Unite Intergalactic (Ill Communication era version) Intergalactic (A-Team blend) Shadrach Finger Lickin’ Good Sneakin’ Out the Hospital Don’t Play No Games That I Can’t Win (Major Lazer remix) Stop That Train Slow Ride El Rey Y Yo by Los Angeles Negros (full song interlude) Alright Here This Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze remix) Sureshot (Green Lantern mix) Dropping Names Transitions Mark On the Bus Gratitude I’m Down

Photo by Glen E. Friedman

As you can tell, MCA has stayed on my mind.

I put together a rough Garage Band mix of some my favorite songs by the Beastie Boys. Some singles, some album cuts, some remixes, some rarities, some randoms.

Click here to download Jam Palace Mix: Fully Down, A Tribute to the Beastie Boys

Tracklist:

Rootdown

The Lisa Lisa / Full Force Routine

Unite

Intergalactic (Ill Communication era version)

Intergalactic (A-Team blend)

Shadrach

Finger Lickin’ Good

Sneakin’ Out the Hospital

Don’t Play No Games That I Can’t Win (Major Lazer remix)

Stop That Train

Slow Ride

El Rey Y Yo by Los Angeles Negros (full song interlude)

Alright Here This

Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze remix)

Sureshot (Green Lantern mix)

Dropping Names

Transitions

Mark On the Bus

Gratitude

I’m Down

“It’s always sad when people die too soon, and I think being famous means that someone out there identified with you and is ready to write the super-personal essay about your life and accomplishments. I’m not trying to argue for a Yauch exception, but I think his case was different for people of a certain age because he and the other Beastie Boys, whether by design or not, seemed invested in having fairly normal lives distinct from the Beastie Boys as these traveling, performing personas.” I talked to Hua Hsu about how MCA was memorialized specifically and how we memorialize musicians in general for this week’s “A Rational Conversation.” http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/rational-conversation-grantlands-hua-hsu-media-memorializing-adam-yauch/

“It’s always sad when people die too soon, and I think being famous means that someone out there identified with you and is ready to write the super-personal essay about your life and accomplishments. I’m not trying to argue for a Yauch exception, but I think his case was different for people of a certain age because he and the other Beastie Boys, whether by design or not, seemed invested in having fairly normal lives distinct from the Beastie Boys as these traveling, performing personas.”


I talked to Hua Hsu about how MCA was memorialized specifically and how we memorialize musicians in general for this week’s “A Rational Conversation.”


http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/rational-conversation-grantlands-hua-hsu-media-memorializing-adam-yauch/


May 17

(Source: jeffrey-lebowski, via mishkabloglin)

May 16

May 14

Blake Griffin and Marc Gasol, photographed by Robert Gauthier for the Los Angeles Times.

Blake Griffin and Marc Gasol, photographed by Robert Gauthier for the Los Angeles Times.