via Hypebeast
The poem below was written by my longtime friend and aspiring writer, Emil DeAndreis (peep his A-Rod video below). This poem, entitled "Ode to Purple", was inspired by the picture included below. Enjoy.
Amongst a cratered mass of dream,
Fixated on its Mother's scent
Are cocooned princes, royalty--
The speckles of His laziness.
The color purple--misty haze
Of mischief and promiscuous,
Voluptuous betrayal of
Morals and codes that don't exist
A million branches reach to find
That heaven's something in their minds,
A truth that withers them to bone
And makes them want to stand alone.
Life can spoil under black soil,
That also births the richest oil--
The color of an endless maze
Of glitter and unanswered questions.
Is the water warm, I ask
Across an ice rinc blue with sleep
Where one snap of a finger can
Amount to tidal waves elsewhere.
Who will swim in the warm lake
Or climb the limbs of this bare tree,
Who will dream and fuck and cry,
And live a life against His will?
A cratered glow perched on our land,
That you can pluck with your own hand
Means we're at war with what is dream
And what we fear we've never seen.
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Drizzy Drake Rogers touched down in the ATL a week ago for a live appearance. Here is footage from that concert in which Drake performed the main tracks off his recently released mixtape So Far Gone, along with previous material. SF I got you!
[You are witnessing the future of hip hop.. Don't sleep on Drizzy!]
Drake - Take You Down Freestyle | Mediafire
via Boing Boing
After watching this clip, a flurry of words come to mind: Bizarre. Dark. Psychadelic. Funny. Off-the-wall. Those are just a few of the adjectives which describe "SuperJail!", an American cartoon created by Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick in 2007 (it premiered on Adult Swim in September 2008).
The show takes place in SuperJail, a super-maximum prison located on a volcano within a volcano. The jail exists in its own reality with unique properties of time and space that are controlled by the Warden, who resembles a perverse, sadistic Willy Wonka. According to the accountant in the show, SuperJail houses more than 70,000 inmates.
Eminem is back!
This video is for "3 A.M.", Eminem's newest single. It debuted on Cinemax over the weekend (as you can imagine once you see the video, it is a little too extreme for network television) and is the third track on Eminem's upcoming album "Relapse", which is set to release on May 19th. This video, directed by Syndrome, echoes "House on Haunted Hill" with its creepy camera work, quick cuts, extreme gore and its setting in an abandoned mental hopital. It's a pretty creative and disturbing video, but I gotta say, it's not a surprise coming from Eminem who has a track record of making songs in which he plays the role of a psycho and/or killer.
While I enjoyed this video for its visual creativity, that is only of secondary importance to me. Eminem's last couple albums have been lackluster at best and displayed a frustrating lack of effort; it was as if Eminem wanted to find out how far he could dumb down his flow and still sell tons of records (it got pretty ridiculous). Therefore, the bigger question is whether or not Eminem's flow is still sharp - based purely on this track, I'm not sold - and whether or not he cares about making a decent album. This song is a step in the right direction but taken together with his previous single, the jury is still out. The only thing I can say for sure is that I am eagerly anticipating his next album release and desperately hoping the old Em has returned.
