The Pack - Vans Wins!

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 go see 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!

Peace,

Grillless.

VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2008

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.