Ok. HAHA. We get it. The only thing funnier than the typical Japanese sensibility is the typical Japanese advertiser’s sensibility. LOL. Strange. So different and weird. Old news.
But why—O why—is this man (Japanese wunderkind Daichi) dressed up like he’s from Planet of the Apes?
Seriously. Why? It’s an ad for Motor Oil. There’s a dude beatboxing (and killing it) in the engine compartment of a car. That should be enough.
OK, there’s no Kipa anywhere in the video, but Lil Chukee is definitely rocking my favorite tee from this past Fall, Black Magic. And, Wayne definitely calls him the cutest. It looks like they were all having fun, and Birdman stops by with his black diamonds to makes a cameo.
Bear witness: an irony-portal so dense, so graphic, and so utterly and completely obvious that you as a viewer are powerless to look away. It’s so good, so true, and so clever that you may not even think it’s very cool. So I’ll explain: The Bloglin reader can be counted on to very likely hold these two things dearly—very dearly—to their bosom, and here they are. Together at last.
Oh. Wait. You’re seeing this in your feed reader and don’t quite know whether it’s worth the click or not? Well, let me spell it out:
Beastie Boys. Sabotage. Music Videos. THE Early 90s music video. Remixed and re-imagined by way of Battlestar Galactica. Click away.
This Kotaku writeup rightly marvels at just how spot-on this video is…it’s uncanny. They even provide a link for using some sort of experimental youtube dualscreen site (which my computer HATES, btw. My ears are not happy either) which will SHOW you how spot-on they are. I, on the other hand, am choosing to be most impressed by just how deep this rabbit-hole goes. To wit:
The Beastie Boys start their career in 1979 as a punk group. They hit big in the 80s with frat-rap, and it’s not until 1993’s ‘Sabotage’ that most of their adoring fans realize that the Beasties can play ‘rock’ music as well. The X-Factor of ‘Sabotage’ had more than a little bit to do with it’s epic video that portrayed the band members as undercover detectives in the ‘Starsky and Hutch’ and ‘Streets of San Francisco’ vein. It was a perfect 4-minute parody of an entire decade’s worth of TV crime dramas.
Battlestar Galactica debuts on Television in 1978 and is to space drama what Starsky and Hutch is to crime drama. It is terrible, and dies a very quick and very painful death by 1979 and by then, Star Wars has officially happenned. In 2004, some dudes who worked on The Next Generation picked up the license and re-imagined the BSG lore as super dark, super violent, and super controversial…only after this was anybody alerted to it’s inherent coolness.
So obviously, someone would take the two and mix them. The result is like tie-dyeing a tie-dyed hypercolor shirt. It is a mix of mixes that have been mixed from mixes. And it is awesome. And it is—in my humble opinion—what places like the Bloglin are all about.
Where to start? Why to care? Our homies over at Creative Control put this video up a couple weeks ago. I’ve been listening to the song on repeat for hours at a time. The video is cool, basically what has come to be expected with the proliferation of HD. Straightforward, no high concepts, just dude rapping. It’s interesting to see how HD’s ability to captivate us with stunning resolution lets us stop fussing with the theatrics. One of the trends in both media, and technology seems to be the apotheosis of the quotidian–I’m into that. Fader had mentioned that Big K.R.I.T. is looming in the shadow of TI. This is the first Big K.R.I.T. song that I’ve heard, but I find him much more compelling than TIP #NoShade.
I’ve also been listening to the new Laws mixtape 4:57 (download here). Being that Laws is a fellow Floridian I was very excited when I found out about him. He had another mixtape over the Summer–or maybe in the Fall–titled Your Future Favorite Rapper. I’ve been keeping up with him and I’m eager to see where he’ll go. He started out, like a lot of the other Florida dudes that I know, battling. To me, that says a lot about a rapper’s potential, and it’s dude’s potential that I’m most excited for. There are definitely some bangers on both of these records, and I’m diggin where dude is going, but you can tell that he has tons of skill that he’s still holding back. I think we’ll see some good stuff from him this year.
I went to Fader’s Yelawolf show on Monday. I’ve been keeping up with this dude since early in the Fall. He’s definitely been making moves, and coming up. He put out a mixtape with @DJBurnOne (same dude that did Pill’s 4180) a few months ago. I’m not gonna lie, at first I was bummed on dude’s mixtape. I felt like it was lacking in content, but after a few listens I definitely began to feel differently. This guy is serious with the craft. He’s cold lampin on the kind of cadences that most emcees wish for. There is a great deal of finesse, and understated effort to what he does. And, that finesse really came through at the show on Monday. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was hoping that his live performance would reflect the studio recordings. It did, the guy did not miss a beat, and the delivery was top notch. I could definitely become a fan of this dude if he continues in the same fashion.
I almost promised myself I wouldn’t post this but it’s early in the morning right now and I’m making poor choices. The newest leak from Cam and DJ Drama’s upcoming mixtape Boss Of All Bosses 2.5 is a tribute to everybody’s transit beat down meme. Listen:
If there is some strange reason you want to keep this song forever then download it here.
DJ Khaled dropped his latest album Victory today, and the third single “All I Do Is Win” now has a video. This song is an anthemic hood banger and I won’t be the least bit surprised to start hearing it on the block once the weather warms up. Oh yeah, did I mention that Ricky Ross is reppin’ Mishka HARD in the video. Yeah. The guy who’s raps are so ridiculous that you can’t help but want to hear more (kind of like that pathological liar you would smoke weed with in high school when your stash ran out.) Our oversized mop 59Fifty never looked so gangster as it does in this video. I guess there is something to be said about the visual impact of stuntin’ with a Rolls Royce and a bad bitch by your side. RAAAWWWWWWSSSSS!!!!
What up to DJ Craze, the guy behind our latest Keep Watch mix, who caught the Oversized Mop hat in the video and tweeted it. Not only should you download the mix if you haven’t already, but you should follow him on twitter.
Howdy Whodies. I’m playing a show at Legion on Sunday. I go on at 8. It’s a benefit show to raise funds in order to help out 2 primate sanctuaries in South Africa.
I also have a new mixtape that I just wrapped up this morning. I hope that you’ll find one, or both of these things pleasing. And, stay up because I have a lot of stuff going on in the next couple of months.
