IT’S AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY…
…but for some it’s just another routine check.
Red white and blue lights blaze the sky like it’s the 4th Day of July, but it’s not the 4th Day of July, it’s a Friday night in the Winter! F*ck firecrackers – these crackers fire at n*ggas!
Also,
Happy Indepedence Day America
POKEPUNS
These are so corny, they’re hilarious. Finally built up a bloggable collection.
4CHAN’S MOOT NAMED THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON BY ‘TIME’
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TIME's 'Most Influential Person of 2009' as voted by You
“In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it’s worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.”– Source: TIME
did you vote for ‘moot’? wat is ‘moot’?
how has ’4chan’/'moot’ touched your life???
does he deserve to win?
He beat Barack Obama = could potentially be voted into office???
is ‘democracy’ still the best system after y’all???
BRUCE LEE vs. IRON MAN
Bruce Lee, Iron Man, and a special guest appearance… So amazing. Be sure to watch in HD.
via kanyeuniversecity
DROPIN’ THE ‘KANYE BOMB’
Graphic via publicen3my
This entry is a response to a comment made by one of my friends on Kanye West (and rappers in general) dropping the ‘N bomb’ in their songs:
“I was also listening to Kanye’s remix album Sky High. One thing about that guy really bugs me, well it’s all african american muscicans that use the “N” word. First, [why] would you use that word in the first place? And then, I read this article while looking up stuff about him, and Kanye goes and talks about it being “so totally beautiful that we have a black/white president in a country that was once divided by black/white”, are you kidding me? … You make a big deal out of a half black guy becoming president, and think it’s such a huge step towards a less racist country (it is, I agree with that), but then you use the N word? … Really bothers me. I think the song I was using it to kept describing the song itself as “black nigger music”, repeating that phrase like a hundred times, or something of the sort. I skipped past it. Unless it sounds different in context …, I lost respect of him for that.”
I’m personally not gonna speak too much on the issue, but here is an excerpt from a cover story on Kanye West from Time that will hopefully shed some light:
Like most people who’ve ever stared into a camera lens or picked up a microphone, West is better at integrating his flaws into his art than into his personality. As he says on the new song Touch the Sky, “I’m trying to right my wrongs/ But it’s funny the same wrongs help me write this song.” Still, his behavior during awards season was reminiscent of the video-set collision between church architecture and large breasts. It seemed a little forced. “He’s trying to change this genre, and in order to do that he’s got to get people to listen to his music,” says a fervent McDaniels. “They’ve gotten so used to hardness, to stupidity, that if he has to engage in a little of that to be relevant, so be it.”
"'He's trying to change this genre, and in order to do that he's got to get people to listen to his music,' says a fervent McDaniels. 'They've gotten so used to hardness, to stupidity, that if he has to engage in a little of that to be relevant, so be it.'" Image via zingboom
West won’t cop to exaggerating his petulance. “I was just trying to create some entertainment,” he says, adding that his act will probably tone down in the future because “people mature” and “I have a lot more to lose.” In another context he admits to a contradiction truly worthy of him: in his attempt to shatter the rapper stereotype, he’s sometimes willing to behave stereotypically. “Take the word nigga,” West says. “I don’t like the word, and I made an attempt to change it on this new song Crack Music”–an indictment of drug abuse. “I tried saying, ‘This is crack music, homey,’ but it just didn’t have the same impact. My mom’s a teacher, and I’m kind of a teacher too. But the hood, the suburbs, MTV and BET are my classrooms, and I know how to talk to my class.” The word nigga appears multiple times on the album.
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The College Dropout was 76 minutes of someone cramming every thought he’d ever had about himself into rhyme. It was immaculately produced, but what made it compelling was the contradictions. The song Jesus Walks mixed spirituality with skepticism and rap with gospel. All Falls Down slammed the “single black female addicted to retail” but concluded with West admitting, “I wanna act ballerific, like it’s all terrific/ I got a couple past due bills, I won’t get specific/ I got a problem with spending before I get it/ We all self-conscious, I’m just the first to admit it.” Throughout, West careered between the Protestant ethic and street fantasies, revealing himself to be wise and stupid, arrogant and insecure, often in the same breath. But by baring his flaws and being self-critical–and daring listeners to do the same–he created a fresh portrait of African-American middle-class angst, and you could dance to it.
Source: Time
(Tyrangiel, Josh. ”Why You Can’t Ignore Kanye: More GQ than gangsta, Kanye West is challenging the way rap thinks about race and class–and striking a chord with fans of all stripes.” Time 166.9 [August 29, 2005])
On another note, I wanted to feature the work of zingboom, the artist behind the illustrations of Kanye’s lyrics.
PHARRELL ACTS A FOOL @ McDONALDS & GETS DENIED
“On a connecting flight home from Malaysia, we stopped in Paris. At 6am, Pharrell tries anything to get McDonald’s to open up early. Maybe a little song and dance might do the trick. or maybe not…”
– Source: nerdarmyvideos
Here we see the black man denied of service once again.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES = SOUL PLANE??? (RAPPING FLIGHT ATTENDANT)
Can’t lie, I was worried about the reaction of all the old white people up front, but at the end of the day he got rhymes. I forgive him for dissin’ on United Airlines where my pops works.
via THAT BADASS MADAPAKA ‘ROME & mbyluo
THE MORE YOU KNOW & BESTDOGBRO
“It took us a couple days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”
— President Obama, on when asked by a CNN representative why he waited two days to make a statement about the AIG bonuses.
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