Prince Paul talks greatest misses, and Young Zee responds to Eminem on Conspiracy Worldwide Radio podcast!

Them dudes Montana and Menace dropped a new episode of Conspiracy Radio, recorded on Friday the 13th. This features some great new music, as well as interviews with Necro, Young Zee and an incredible Q & A with the mighty Prince Paul! Paul talks about coming out of the bleachers to release new music with J-Zone and Sacha Jenkins as SUPERBLACK...

Interviews: Slaughterhouse, Copywrite, Apollo Brown, Homeboy Sandman and more on ConspiracyWorldwideRadio

Slaughterhouse with some white dude...

Our friends across the pond continue to interview the hip hop personalities I'm interested in hearing from. This episode features the mighty Slaughterhouse crew, who are in the process of recording their new record with Eminem. They also got rap cats like Danny Brown and Copywrite on this week's show. Apollo Brown speaks on his upcoming record with venerated wordsmith OC. They also got underground hip hop luminary Homeboy Sandman on this one. A loaded show, to be sure since they also bump generous amounts of hip hop music for your consideration. This is hip hop radio as it was meant to be...

Eminem OWNED the Superbowl commercials...

yeah, I watched the Superbowl. Yeah, I was pulling for Pittsburgh. Yeah, I knew Green Bay was gonna win. No, I'm not hating, but I was really just trying to watch some good commercials with my wife. Yeah, we are twisted here in America... The commercials for the most part, were mad regular. Only a few managed to stand out at all, and two of them featured the mighty Marshall Mathers...

Eminem's on 60 minutes this Weekend!

Anderson Cooper has mad middle-aged chicks swooning... I'm sure he will add a few yamps* to his Twitter following after watching him chop it up with Marshall Mathers on 60 Minutes this Sunday...

Conspiracy chops it up w/ the RZA

If you heart hardcore hip hop, you need to peep my peoples across the pond from Conspiracy Worldwide Radio! Sit back and enjoy 6 hours of fresh hip hop. In addition to spinning that funky stuff your ex-girl says is just noise, Menace and Mista Montana got an amazing interview with The RZA on this joint...

Em, Mos Def, and Black Thought

quality rhyming all around...

Run DMC inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Induction Speech by Eminem

word.
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Sick Delivery, Like I drive a Coroner Van

click the pic to download the track Sickology 101 by Tech N9ne f. Crooked I and Chino XL.

even though i'm a well-adjusted cat myself, i love to listen to cats who let their creativity take them to strange places... this is the style of rapping that made Eminem famous (before he started making skrip club tracks).

holla!

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Quotable

"I'm as good at keepin' a promise as Nostradamus..."
-Eminem

Classic Eminem footage, from The World Famous Wake Up Show.
-gM

Eminem Tries It Again...

Crack A Bottle (Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent)

After the atrocious 2004 album Encore, I figured Marshal was done. i mean, there were a couple cuts on there, but they were DROWNIN' in wack joints like my sister's french fries in ketchup... but it looks like people are feelin' the advance cuts off the upcoming joint, Relapse. lead single Crack A Bottle (Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent) broke the record for downloads in the first week, eclipsing previous fast-starter T.I.'s Live Your Life. the record should be out soon, if you can believe 50 Cent, who claimed the record was "a couple weeks" from completion about a month ago... Dre killed the track on this, Em was decent and Dre was acceptable... that's all i have to say.
lemme know what ya'll thought...
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Killer Instinct

okay, finally got outta the house and saw Wanted, the action-packed adaptation of the Mark Millar and J.G. Jones coming-of-age supervillain graphic Novel of the same name... and i'm convinced that i kinda need to write two reviews, evaluating it separately as a comics adaptation and a summer blockbuster action movie, but alas, i am not that dedicated, so you'll only get one review...
and if this was pass fail, it'd pass as an action movie. the story, which follows Wesley Gibson's transformation from spineless loser to gun-clapping badass thanks to his recruitment into the Fraternity of Assassins, is executed neatly in the American directing debut of hotshot russian filmsmith Timur Bekmambeton (NightWatch, Daywatch). Wanted's action sequences are fun, fast and so abundant you barely have time to ask yourself if you can believe them. Jolie is convincing as Fox, Wesley's mentor and trainer, and Morgan Freeman is even better as Sloan, the ice-cold patriarch of the Fraternity. Wanted packs more than enough punch for any action movie fan... Jolie brings to mind Charli Baltimore's stone-grilled killing machine, with a hint of depth we see very little but can tell is there (please tell me you guys have seen Long Kiss Goodnight written by the immortal Shane Black?), and her chemistry with McAvoy is good, too.
i would probably gush more over the casting if the comic hadn't cast the characters so well to begin with! i mean, who wouldn't LOVE to have seen Eminem as the clueless Wesley Gibson, transformed by the Fox (played by Hallie Berry, of course) into the murderous savant The Killer, following in the footsteps of Tommy Lee Jones, his dear old dad!? sure, McAvoy is probably a better actor, but nothing i saw leads me to believe Em couldn't have pulled it off just as well. having Eminem in the film would have likely helped the film's box office (which came in second last week to Wall-E, and will pro'lly not come in on top this week either), and contributed to at least a few hipHop songs being added to the soundtrack (no hip hop on the soundtrack? BOOOO!)... but unfortunately, some kinda beef between Mark Millar and Eminem's people killed that likelihood...
anyways, i understand why filmmakers would shy away from the silver-age parody elements of the comic (not to mention characters with names like Shit Head and Fuckwit), but there are tons of ways they could have stuck closer to the source material, and most of them would also have made for a better movie. i mean, the Pseudo-religious cult of Assassins whose victims are chosen by Fate is pretty cool, but not nearly so much as an omnipresent league of superhuman killers who are able to rule the world in secret because they have collaborated to systematically murder all the good guys who might have opposed them!
most of the changes were motivated by the desire to make this film appeal to as many people as possible by not offending anyone, and that's why it doesn't work as an adaptation. the story suffers because it needs to keep Wesley redeemable: he can't kill his ex, his best friend or his boss (even though we, the audience, want him to) because this popcorn film needed him to become a hero by the end. the comic pulled no such punches. Millar's Wes kills, rapes, and pillages at will. Millar was not planning on redeeming Wesley, and as a result, created a more interesting and attractive character who makes no apology for becoming a villain... in fact, only the horrific Mister Rictus made Wes look halfway human by comparison in the comic! the edginess of the comic is one of the things that makes it hot, and i don't think enough of that heat makes it onto the screen.
so anyways, to summarize, Wanted the Summer Action Film gets an A- for dope action and good pace, acting and overall direction. but Wanted the Comics Adaptation gets a C because it just doesn't bring as much punch as the comic. the missteps come from trying not to offend, which totally abandons the spirit of Millar's writing. Overall, Wanted gets a B. if you are a comics nerd who just NEEDS it to be up to the standard of the comic, skip it. people who hated the comic may actually enjoy the movie (i can elaborate if you want...), so they should check it out. everyone else who isn't feelin' anything else out, peep it. it's good ignorant fun!
holla!
-gM

Pharoahe Monch freestyle

whatup Fam!
peep this dope freestyle by ghettoManga 2007 Rapper of the Year the mighty Pharoahe Monch. here Pharoahe blesses the Erykah Badu track, The Healer from momma Badu's hot new burner New AmErykah. cop that joint if you don't have it, but meanwhile, digest this...

uno.
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classic Immortal Technique!

Bin Laden by Immortal Technique
have a nice day (LOL!)

-gM

"Night Watch" Director tagged for two comics adaptations

That's right... Timur Bekmambeton, russian writer/director of Nochnoy Dozor (that's Night Watch to you, gringo!) the movie that's taken the Russian (and now american arthouse) film world by storm, will be directing not one, but two-count 'em TWO- comics adaptations: Mark Millar's Wanted and Archangel Studios' The Red Star.

okay, first of all Night Watch is the first installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling sci-fi novels by Sergei Lukyanenko. Set in contemporary Moscow, the story revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness. In ancient times, a truce was struck, but now, things are (as they say) amiss. it's apparently really, really good (sorry... came out same week as V for Vendetta. and only in select theatres... so i missed it). probably the most highly-touted foreign film since Trainspotting or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this film shows the director has the chops to direct films based on:

Wanted. written by Mark Millar (Ultimates, Chosen, The Authority) with striking art by the inimitable J.G. Jones (Marvel Boy). the graphic novel's premise is simple: Wesley is a white collar whipping boy (drawn by Jones to look every BIT like Eminem!) who knows his girl is sleeping with his best friend but is too much of a wuss to do anything about it. Until he finds out his long lost dad has died, passing on his legacy as the world's greatest assassin and membership in the dimension-hopping supervillain massive, The Fraternity. before long, Wes becomes The Killer, as he has inherited his pop's super-badassness (not to mention his super-hot Halle Barry lookalike sidekick/boytoy: The Fox!) and an endless arsenal of weapons. and that really is just scratching the surface (did i mention the Fraternity has long since systematically killed ALL the superheroes and taken over the world? oh... well they did.). Even if they can't get Em and Halle to star (please! please!), this will still be the jiz-oint!!!

The Red Star is a Cold-War inspired fantasy/scifi epic that immediately struck me as a natural for the fantasy videogame genre that's popular now, with its blend of revisionist political allegory, epic war drama, and gripping love story. the art (you can wake up now, i'm talking about the art!) on the comic, a blend of hand-drawn and CG, balances the fantastic technological and mystical elements with the very human drama of its characters flawlessly. in the hands of a skillful (not to mention Russian) director, this actually looks promising as a live action movie as well. Plus, it'll be produced by series co-creator Christian Gosset, so there shouldn't be any compromise of the series' great characters!

anyways, these films are far from done, so who knows... i've definitely got my fingers crossed!

holla!
samax.
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