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Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

Whoooeee.

The two-decade plus hate affair between the Village Voice and Al Sharpton reaches a new level with this cover story hit piece by Wayne Barrett.

On Democracy Now, Barrett got in an even tougher jab: Sharpton only walked out of South Carolina with 9.5%, not enough to claim the delegates he needs to position himself at the Convention in late July. Here’s the NY Times story.

Still rooting for the guy, underdog love. And Dems shouldn’t crow too loud. Lots of hip-hop heads are pulling for Dean and Kucinich and Sharpton…

On the other hand, glad to see you go, Joe. Relax. You and C. Delores can hang out a lot more now.

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

Deadline staring at me like a hungry wolf. Nothing interesting to say about anything today, not even about the continuing, uh, fallout over Janet’s, uh, pop move. (My UPS guy says he’s now a Justin fan.)

Instead, here’s a story about the making of Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya!’, thanks for the link to the good folks at Rock and Rap Confidential.

Also, O-dub reviews one of my favorite unreleased albums ever, King Tee’s “Thy Kingdom Come”. Now I can put my Aftermath advance cassette to bed, and hopefully some of that loot is getting into Tela’s pockets. I have a great story about that record, actually a few, aww hell, I could talk all day about it. But you’ll have to wait. Sorry.

In the meantime, read SFJ who has been on fire this past week, recognize.

And for your listening pleasure: Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby’s In Dub Conference Vol 1 <---> Art of Noise-Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise? <---> Innerzone Orchestra-Programmed.

If anyone has an algorithm for painlessly cutting manuscripts, please send.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 10:05 am | 0 Comments

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

GET SERVED!

Go Julianne! You never need read another review of this movie–or any other hip-hop dance movie–in your entire life. (But hey, Chinese martial arts, what what!)

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Monday, February 2nd, 2004

WARDROBE MALFUNCTION!?!!?!!

Outraged (and, uh, titillated) FCC Chair Michael Powell is launching a, uh, probe into Justin Timberlake’s encounter with Janet Jackson’s right titty yesterday at the Super Bowl.

Damn. A culture war over Justin’s grab and Janet’s breastess? Who needs fiction? Yeah it’s funny now, and I don’t mean to be alarmist but when this shit becomes a presidential election issue in–what, hours, days?–oh man.

Meanwhile Jay Smooth and friends on the meaning of The Nipplegate Crisis. Definitely check the comments too.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 10:12 am | 0 Comments

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

EVERYONE LOVES A HAPPY ENDING

Mingering Mike finally finds fame. I’m sure you’ve seen the backstory already, but if not, it’s here and here .

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