Friday, February 27, 2009

Market Report

Damn. The weather is ugly right now.

Stand and Deliver: Greer Barnes

I just saw this guy for the first time on Comedy Central last weekend, but I'm going to keep an eye out for his name from now on. Ridiculously funny cat. His stage presence reminds you of one of your homies cracking jokes on the porch steps with you. Here he explains the benefits of having a European accent.

Stephen Colbert Represents

"Let me find out hip-hop's turnin Republican"
—Joe Budden, "Dumb Out"

Funny clip here from The Colbert Report about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, and his lyrical skills.

Leave Pole Dancing to the Professionals

Preferably, to the professional women. Nice try though, buddy.

Snoop and Cube talk Lakers

Two west coast legends talking about their beloved Lakers. I'm not sure how Cube got away with the black Dickies shirt and Snoop had to fit up in the bow tie and pony tail. They could have at least let him spread his perm.



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Nike Foamposite Kryptonate



Nate Rob is the NBA story of the month and now he has some shoes to go with his 2009 run. Unfortunately these won't be easy to get.

They'll drop either Saturday the 14th of March, or, on St. Patrick's Day the 17th of March for about$185 at the House of Hoops in New York and select accounts in Asia will get them.



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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Daily Dunk: Some guy who jumped too far...

...and cracked his chin on the rim. Well done sir.

Market Report

This is a broken record. I'm tired of it. Boo hoo.

Rich Eisen Runs the 40

Here's a hilarious video from the 2009 NFL Scouting Combine. The NFL Network's Rich Eisen takes his annual shot at the 40 yard dash, and Deion Sanders & Co. have some fun afterwards with the video footage.

Download: Trap-A-Holics "Trap Music 8.0"



I haven't listened to this outside of the Ludacris song that I posted yesterday, but if you're a fan of down south music that's been hot recently, this mixtape should keep you happy for a week or two. I'm guessing there's about ten strip club anthems and some music you can sell drugs to. If you're a backpacker, this probably isn't for you.

Tracklist

01 Gucci Mane - Gucci Girl
02 OJ Da Juiceman & Young K - I Ball Hard
03 Lil Wayne & The Game - Where U At
04 T.I. - When I Want To (prod. Dr. Dre)
05 Lil Boosie - Pain
06 Rick Ross - Sittin’ On Top Of The World f. Avery Storm
07 Ludacris & David Banner - Come With Me
08 Gucci Mane & Big Mike Bucalino - I Be Jiggin’ ‘Em
09 OJ Da Juiceman & Suga Suga - Benjamin Franklin
10 Lil Wayne - She Don’t Know About Me
11 T.I. - A Party Ain’t A Party (prod. Dr. Dre)
12 Ludacris - Grizzly
13 Lil Boosie - Ain’t The Same No More
14 Rick Ross - Believe It
15 Young Jeezy - That Ain’t It
16 Waka Flocka Flame - O Let’s Do It pt.2
17 Project Pat, Juicy J & Webbie - Dynamite
18 Yo Gotti - Pyrex King
19 Gorilla Zoe - I Like Them Girls
20 Big Mike Bucalino - She Nasty
21 Lil Meta & Young Yo - Who Are You To Judge Me
22 Lil Trey - What’s Trappnin’
23 Dink Dinero - Got Haterz
24 Young Jeezy - Bang Bang
25 Yo Gotti - Shawty Said (rmx)
26 Jay White - Loyalty
27 OJ Da Juiceman - Count Them 100’s
28 Young Jeezy - Turn My Scale On

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Good Samaritan Rewarded with Ticket

Fresh from the department of "F**k the police," comes this story of a Denver bus driver who risked his life to save three people, and is now being punished for it.
DENVER – A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket.

Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night.

Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He was in serious but stable condition Wednesday.

The Colorado State Patrol issued the citation. Trooper Ryan Sullivan said that despite Moffett's intentions, jaywalking contributed to the accident.

Moffett had been driving his bus when the two women got off. In the interest of safety, he got out and, together with another passenger, helped the ladies cross.

Moffett's stepson, Ken McDonald, said the driver of the pickup plowed into his stepfather, but not before Moffett pushed the two women out of the way.

When he awoke in intensive care, he learned of the ticket. "His reaction was dazed and confused. I was a little angry," said McDonald.

The other man also was cited for jaywalking, while the pickup driver was cited with careless driving that led to injury. Sullivan said the two elderly women haven't been cited but the investigation is ongoing.

I really hope that in the coming days or weeks, the Colorado State Patrol throw away the charge. Was the guy partially in the wrong for helping the women to illegally cross the street? Yes. But isn't a bleeding brain, as well as numerous other serious injuries, more than enough punishment for that mistake?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Market Report

We are now approaching the 6000's.

Video of the Day: CunninLynguists "Never Come Down (The Brownie Song)"

The CL homies are at it again in this classic video about... flying high.

Download: Ludacris "Grizzly" x "



This is from the Trapaholics mixtape "Trap Music 8.0" and unfortunately is tagged up but it's a banger.

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Phil Ivey cleans Durrr out in cash game



On Monday Phil Ivey fell short of defending his WPT title for $1.7 million at the Los Angeles Poker Classic.

Yesterday he won a nice consolation prize, taking over $900k off of Tom "Durrr" Dwan in a head's up cash game on Full Tilt. The players were playing in the Thurnderdome and Ivey only bought in once, while Durrr continued to rebuy and bust out. Ivey was also sitting with over $400k in the nine-handed PLO/NLHE mixed high stakes game on Full Tilt.

Daily Dunk: Nate Robinson

Yes I agree this is Nate Rob overkill but when a player goes on the David Letterman show and dunks over a stageman, it deserves the Daily Dunk nomination. Looks like Nate the Great aka Kryptonate aka Nate Rob is taking his act to Hollywood.

Bugatti Veyron Centenaire

This little piece of metal is rumored to have up to 1350 horse power, which would enable it to travel up to 261 MPH.

The Volkswagon Group will be premiering it at the Geneva Motor Show.






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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

High Stakes Poker Season 5 Teaser

Here's a good clip of a strong call down by Patrik Antonius. I'm not sure but I think these episodes will start airing on Fox Sports in the next week.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Fellas, pour out a little liquor. One of the world's foremost natural beauties, Adriana Lima, is now Mrs. Marko Jaric. Reports have come out that the two—she of Victoria’s Secret print and runway fame, and he of professional basketball fame—secretly wed on Valentine's Day.
"We are so excited about our future together," Lima told People, capitalized. "And we are really looking forward to a big romantic wedding this summer with all of our friends and family" ... and bloggers she may or may not mumbled underneath her breath.

Call me a hater, but I never like to see this type of thing. Ignorance is bliss, and secretly suspecting that you don't have a snowflake's chance in Hell will always be infinitely better than actually knowing that you don't have a snowflake's chance in Hell. This is exactly the type of thing that killed my relationship with my ex, Jessica.

Women, huh?


Monday, February 23, 2009

Daily Dunk: Nate Robinson

Anytime Nate gets up and smashes in a game it's probably going to be the DD. Westbrook had a nasty one this weekend but that team is black listed.

Tail Report: Danica Patrick

She may not be every male's ideal beauty (especially those who prefer to have more booty on their cutey), but you can't deny that she's the sexiest woman to ever go over 200 mph in a racecar. Here are a few pictures from her Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue photo shoot. Do your thing, babygirl.







Friday, February 20, 2009

Stand and Deliver: Christopher Titus

A special Friday bonus for you. First, a great clip about an abusive ex-girlfriend from his classic 2004 special "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding":



Our second clip comes from 2007's "Christopher Titus: The 5th Annual End of the World Tour":

Teflon Weave

For all of my sisters out there, here's proof that getting your hair done could save your life. This crazy story out of Kansas City, MO just made my weekend.
Officers found a bullet in the woman’s hair and said her tightly-woven weave stopped the bullet.

The victim was not harmed.

Here is the original report by KSHB-TV in Kansas City (how often do you get to see a news link titled "See What a Kansas City Hair Stylist Has to Say About the Bullet Proof Weave"?).

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Goddamn You, Chris Brown

You knew it was gonna happen eventually, and the 1-1 favorite on the purveyor of this pic was Kev's favorite media outlet, TMZ.

About four hours before the Grammy Awards, Rihanna looked like this:



A couple hours later, she looked like this:



Chris Brown is a motherf*ckin' b*tch, yo.

Daily Dunk: Kobe Bryant

This is why thousands and thousands of kids, teenagers and grown men have posters of this man in their bedrooms and dens.

As promised, any 360 dunk in a game will be the Daily Dunk.

Market Report

It's getting ugly.

Making the beat: My President is Black

Tha Bizness ft. Henny & Dow Jones take us through their process in designing the sick production behind Jeezy's "My President is Black."

Lebron VI St. Vincent St. Mary's

I can't wait until Nike designs my own shoe and then makes a model for my high school team. That will be sweet. The SVSM Nike Zoom LeBron VI is worn by and inspired by LeBron's "alma mater" St. Vincent St. Mary's High School in Ohio.





The Nike Zoom LeBron VI is set to release at the House of Hoops and select Nike retailers in Asia.

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Your day could be worse

Don't forget to get to the airport 1.5 hours early or things might go down hill.

J.Dilla Appreciation Print by Obey




For those that don't know, highly acclaimed producer J.Dilla died of Lupus, a disease that his surviving mother is now battling as well.

Shepard Fairey has designed this print with Brian Cross in an effort to raise funds for Dilla's mother Yancey.

The prints drop 2/20/09 for $55 (18x20") and can be found at ObeyGiant.com.

You can also order t-shirts to raise funds for Dilla's mother at Standard.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Welcome to L.A. Shannon Brown Block Party

This is top ten blocks I've ever seen in my life even though they whistled him for the foul. Yuck.

Jordan 5/18 pack re-release



These are back and can be found for $310 at eastbay.

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Market Report

Download: Joe Budden Freestyle "I Get It In"



The net is high on Joey right now and I'm loving it. Everyone cop the Padded Room LP.

"Dudes are salty, I'm fond of the sodium/ Anticipate the shots like *edit* Obama at the podium..."

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Daily Dunk: James White

I was going to put up Kevin Durant's two hand shittage from last night but let's not forget that we are boycotting the Oklahoma Garbage this season.

So here's the 2009 NBDL dunk contest champ, James White, who has been in the youtube spotlight for his free throw line dunks for the past six years.

Air Penny 1/2 Cent Black



Freshness.

No release date yet.

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Download: Dr. Dre, Nas, T.I. "Topless" Radio Rip



Detox album? No one knows what this is for.. yet.

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FDL St. Louis Archers Fitted



By Frank 151 for $50.

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The challenge begins



Today Tom "Durr" Dwan and Patrik Antonius started their 50,000 hand face-off. The players will spread four tables of Omaha and NL Hold 'Em for 50k hands. If Dwan is ahead at the end of the match, he wins an additional $500k from Antonius. If PA is ahead, he wins $1.5 million.

So far at the end of 1,541 hands played today, the totals look like this:

durrrr's results: +$134,911
Patrik Antonius's results: -$135,209

You can see regular updates at Highstakesdb.

Summarizing the challenge:
The challenge, which is outlined in an upcoming issue of Bluff Magazine, basically consists of 50,000 hands of online heads up play spread across 4 tables with minimum stakes of $200/$400. Games being played would include both No Limit Hold Em' and Pot Limit Omaha.

The interesting part comes in the fact that Durrrr is willing to lay 3:1 on his money that he will be ahead by the end of the 50k hands. He's willing to post $1.5 million to his opponents $500,000.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Zach Randolph

Can we call Zach Randolph the Suge Knight of the NBA? I'm not sure what else to equate him to. He was blessed with a ton of talent, had everything in line to make an incredible career, yet somehow has screwed it all up.

Last night he decided to test out his spar game.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Download: Joe Budden Album "Padded Room"



This is fresh out the factory...

Tracklist
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01. Now I Lay (Produced By Blastah Beats) 3:27
02. The Future Ft. The Game (Produced By Fyu-Chur) 3:50
03. If I Gotta Go (Produced By The Klasix) 5:44
04. Don't Make Me (Produced By Blastah Beats) 3:34
05. Blood On The Wall (Produced By Moss) 4:04
06. In My Sleep (Produced By The Klasix) 4:23
07. Exxxes (Produced By The Klasix) 6:09
08. I Couldn't Help It (Produced By The Klasix) 6:09
09. Adrenaline (Produced By Dub B) 4:46
10. Happy Holidays Ft. Emanny (Produced By Qwan) 4:00
11. Do Tell (Produced By Blastah Beats) 3:54
12. Angel In My Life (Produced By Blastah Beats) 3:36
13. Pray For Me (Produced By Versatile And Dilemma) 5:03
14. Family Reunion (Bonus Remix) Ft. Fabolous, Ransom And 5:50

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Market Reports

We can just blame Chrysler and GM for this one. Anytime an already failing company that has already received a ton of money in a recession asks for MORE money, we're in trouble. Good job guys.

Universal Cell Phone Charger

This past December I lost the charger to my cell phone one Friday night (don't ask), and my phone's battery died the following afternoon. Because my phone uses a charger that's rare this side of the Atlantic, I was stuck with an expensive plastic paperweight until a new charger could arrive from Nokia about a week later.

Somewhere out there, the cell phone gods must have heard the proficient, curse-laden rants that flowed from me during that week. 17 companies have agreed to adopt micro USB as a standard charger format.
The big savings for manufacturers and buyers will come in the sheer number of chargers that will no longer have to be bundled with handsets: The use of a standard format is predicted to result in a 50 percent reduction in the number of chargers that have to be produced and sold each year. That's significant.

The list of companies immediately signing on to the initiative reads like a who's who in the GSM cell phone space -- LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AT&T, T-Mobile, Motorola -- but lacks a few key players, notably Apple, which is holding on to the legacy iPod connector with a veritable death grip. RIM and Palm are also both missing from the initial list of supporters.

For the full article, click here.

Flight of the Conchords - Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor

If you don't watch Flight of the Conchords on HBO Sunday nights, you're missing out.

And for all of us that have been to clubs with fucked up male:female ratios, this song hits home. Faded T with the dime.

Air Penny 1/2 Cent drops today



Retailing for $190.

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Video of the Day: Royce Da 5'9" "Part of Me"

New video from another Slaughterhouse member.


Royce Da 5'9" - "Part Of Me"

KK with the assist via nahright

Lebron and Jay-Z 3rd Annual Two Kings All-Star Weekend Party

Looks like everyone is wifed up except for CP3. I'm sure he did alright that night.