So it’s been a month, time for my first video rap battle between The Pack’s Vans vs. Cool Kids Black Mags to end. Let’s recap. A month ago I posted each video and asked you guys to click the blue link of the video you wanted to win. The Vans video had 31,540 views while Black Mags had 1,706,755. I love these two videos, make sure you gosee them, if you haven’t already.
As of now, The Pack’s video has 33,747 views, and the Cool Kids video has 1,810,991.
Before you jump to conclusions, let me drop science on all y’all.
I did the math and calculated the odds, and Vans wins by 0.78%!
Say wha’? Meany meany meany meany. Hold up, wait a minute!
Vans views increased by 6.54% while Black Mags increased by 5.76%. Sure, Cool Kids’ Black Mags had 102,029 more views than The Pack’s Vans, but to be fair, the ratios have the weight (it’s not always about volume, there’s bass too!). Thanks to Matt, for making the choice to comment. You came correct!
I want to thank all for playing! Stay tuned for more random video rap battle throwdowns!
The usually disorganized chaos that is a VH1 show rang true on Monday night television with the VH1’s Hip Hop Honors 2008. I guess they were trying to say that they knew the time since they didn’t get played on prime time, airing at 10pm Eastern, but with Flavor Flav announcing the honoree who had just been on stage, at least twice, it became quite clear that they really didn’t know what time it was, let alone what time it is.
But really, who cares about post production when you have a list as long on legends like HHH has.
The Honorees
Cypress Hill
De La Soul
Naughty By Nature
Slick Rick
Too $hort
Performers
Wyclef Jean
Kid Rock
Lil Jon
Big Boi
Ghostface Killah
MC Lyte
Bun B
Biz Markie
Q-Tip
Scarface
Busta Rhymes
Cee-Lo
PE in almost full effect aka Public Enemy - “Mista Chuck” D & Flavor Flav
Estelle
EPMD
Fat Joe
Gym Class Heroes
Jim Jones
Juelz Santana
Mack 10
and…
Luther “Luke” Campbell
“The Queen” Latifah
Eve
Joy Bryant
Hosted by “$2 gets you to all the Boroughs” Tracey Morgan
There is no greater honor than being sent up by your peers. If having Fat Joe and Busta coming out in full Cypress and Ricky D. styles wasn’t enough, there was a full on tribute to Isaac Hayes, in true hip hop form. With a list like the one that Hip Hop Honors delivers, it’s tough to separate the best from the best, but I have to say that Fat Joe’s send up of Cypress Hill in particular stole the show, and Lyte’s flow is always unstoppable. It was also great to see PE and EPMD… ah hell, it was great to see hip hop on TV period.
It’s really too bad that any cats outside the US are blocked from watching the video clips on VH1, I mean really. Just who do the corporate legal suits think they’re kidding… the cool kids know proxies.
Oh and, why did VH1 make De La rap Me Myself & I?
Plug 1… Plug 2… Don’t they know that they hate that song??? I mean, they really do hate performing it, and it shows. I feel for them everytime they struggle through it. I mean, if they are being honored, then let them choose a damn song that they love and want to do. You corporate types better lay off the “remember when” crack pipe. Hip Hop needs to breathe. The only thing that lives in a vacuum is dust. and mites. and Aunt Beatrice’s nose pickins.
Well, there’s more to what’s happening out of the Los Angeles hip hop scene than The Game, and if you didn’t know that, then I’d better make the introductions, and I’d first like to introduce you to Flying Lotus.
September 18th, 1970, Jimi Hendrix passes on leaving us a wonderful legacy of fantastic rock & roll. The music that Hendrix created has played a vital role in the music of hip hop culture. I’m not going to just spoon feed you this one, you’re going to have to look it up. The world of hip hop is forever indebted to this musical soul. Rest In Peace Jimi! Hip Hop says Thank you.
Love Lockdown, what a brilliant piece of music from Kanye West! Saw it on the 2008 MTV VMAs, and it blew the show, away! Keep your love locked down! Sound advice from Mr. West. Right now the errand boys and girls, sent by grocery clerks, are all over YouTube pulling this segment of the show that manages to get posted (the lawyers are still wondering how the kids do that), but if you go over there now, I’m sure you’ll find something (I’m just saying… psst, over here… even lazy lawyers can’t stop this). The geeks shall inherit the earth.
Google launched Chrome on Tuesday September 2nd, it’s their new browser in their ongoing effort to take over the online world. Check it out here. Though it lacks the bells and whistles of Firefox and Internet Explorer, it may just be the Safari killer in the PC market. Apple recently launched its traditional browser for Mac on the PC world, and I’m sure they’re cringing right about now.
Google Chrome is probably the fatest browser on the market, the advantage of not having those bells and whistles clogging up system resources, (Safari is a close second). Since I downloaded Chrome, I found that it handles YouTube videos with ease. You don’t get the fancy AJAX whirlygig while the video is loading. I really don’t know if Googleopolis optimized the browser for their products or not, (Google owns YouTube, if you don’t know, now you know).
So check out your favourite Hip Hop videos on YouTube in Chrome, I highly recommend it. Be the first kid with the high tech floss in your neighbourhood. Just be careful of where you surf, apparently there’s an exploit in Chrome that will automatically download executables. So stay away from those sites your mama warned you about!
After you’ve downloaded Chrome, come back and check out The-Dream - Falsetto, here. You feel me?
I think that it’s about time that MuchMusic’s RapCity gets a new theme song. Not that I tune in that often anymore, I’m a man with responsibilities now, and I tend to miss the timeslot, but that show has me wondering how much mileage can a network get out of one show’s intro/outro/and theme?
With Chum being bought by The Globe (my-tongue-in-check) recently, is there change’a'coming for shows like these? Is this the end of such programming for good? Stay tuned…
All it really needs is a makeover, they’ve been using that same music since before your mama’s born. I mean, if you are going to run a hostless ghost ship, you better spend some money on production. With the recent buyout, I think they can afford it.
Just make sure to keep it Canadian, only without the cold Canadian budget aka low budg. production values. I mean, really make it, “The freshest rap videos you want to see every week.” - Don’t just say it.
Who’s in charge of SS MM/MMM anyway? I want to see more Rap Videos on my music TV.
Grilled. You guys and girls at MuchMusic make it too easy.
