One of my followers on my main TL had me over here digging in my memory banks so I thought I would share this video....
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(Rap History) The History of Snagglepuss: THE RAPPER...
One of my followers on my main TL had me over here digging in my memory banks so I thought I would share this video....
(Video) @phontigallo & @9thWonderMusic Courtesy of Allhiphop.com Speaking on Biggie...
This isn't 'brand new'...Just so you know but it did take place in 2012... I believe at the Red Bull Academy Event in Philly...
(Pictures/Video) Rest In Peace to the man who bought us the Porsche 911: Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Here is the newest version of the car...
The car's history...
The turbo version's birth..
(Video/tribute) A Tribute to Heavy D... Will Smith and many more speak on him in this joint..
You can catch it on Centric (and as soon as they MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO BE EMBEDDED, I will embed their link...hint..hint..nudge..nudge...PUSH..) smh
I was an UNAPOLOGETIC HEAVY D FAN as a youth and as an adult. I know some of you 'respected him' but really didn't start giving it up to him until MUCH LATER. Never that over here. I always loved his music.
His brother Floyd sent this to me via Twitter. It is Floyd's daughter singing in tribute to her Uncle Heavy..
In the meantime though, Yardie came through with it..
(Here's the clip where that scene you see up top came from..In case you are wondering.. Classic movie..
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I was an UNAPOLOGETIC HEAVY D FAN as a youth and as an adult. I know some of you 'respected him' but really didn't start giving it up to him until MUCH LATER. Never that over here. I always loved his music.
His brother Floyd sent this to me via Twitter. It is Floyd's daughter singing in tribute to her Uncle Heavy..
In the meantime though, Yardie came through with it..
(Here's the clip where that scene you see up top came from..In case you are wondering.. Classic movie..
21222726 by YardieGoals
(Video) DisneyWorld circa 1957..
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| One of my personal Disney pictures (Pretty sure I'm not the first to take one though..lol) |
Those of you that have been will note the changes in the park over the years..
(Video) Courtesy of @DJPRemierblog: KRS-One Tells The Story & Meaning Behind The '93 Album "Return Of The Boom Bap"
Learn your history... He talks about the P.M. Dawn shit and how it changed his career..
A look at a VERY DIFFERENT Miami back in 1979....We all have seen Scarface but this is the REAL happenings...videos..
Even the reporter said she wouldn't ride around Miami-Dade unless she was two guns deep...Damm.....
An ENTIRE CLASS OF POLICE OFFICERS were either dead or suspended from duty? Welp....That's how bad they needed cops on the streets. Most of what I am speaking on is in the second video but the first one is dope too.
Here is the beginning of that Time Magazine article....
November. The days grow short, the nights cold. Time to reach for that travel brochure for, where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court.
Those snapshots of life in South Florida are as accurate today as they were a generation ago. But they are being crowded out by some altogether different scenes, a collection of photos not found in any Chamber of Commerce travel brochure. Here is a picture of a policeman leaning over the body of a Miamian whose throat has been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living in a tent pitched beneath a highway overpass.
South Florida—that postcard corner of the Sunshine State, that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West—is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost.
Consider what South Florida is up against:
> When the FBI issued its annual list of the ten most crime-ridden cities in the nation last September, three of them were in South Florida: Miami (pop. 347,000) was in first place, West Palm Beach (pop. 63,000) was fifth and Fort Lauderdale (pop. 153,000) was eighth. Miami last year had the nation's highest murder rate, 70 per 100,000 residents, and this year's pace has been even higher.
> An estimated 70% of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the U.S. passes through South Florida. Drug smuggling could be the region's major industry, worth anywhere from $7 billion to $12 billion a year (vs. $12 billion for real estate and $9 billion for tourism, the area's two biggest legitimate businesses). Miami's Federal Reserve branch has a currency surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nation's twelve Federal Reserve banks combined. Drug money has corrupted banking, real estate, law enforcement and even the fishing industry, whose practitioners are abandoning the pursuit of snapper and grouper for the transport of bales of marijuana ("square grouper," as fishermen call it) from freighters at sea to the mainland. About one-third of the region's murders are drug-related.
> Since the spring of 1980, when Cuban President Fidel Castro opened the port of Mariel to those who wanted to leave, about
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922693,00.html#ixzz1UO9evA3A
The Sylvers..UNSUNG... @tvonetv doing us right...Full episode....video.
This is a must see. Hell, I will probably watch the ep again after Colbert goes off. Just so I make sure I didn't miss anything. Another one of those groups that my Dad had on the reel to reel/vinyl....Loved 'em.
Twitter found Jack Dorsey cites his RIM 850 pager, AIM updates and a system he programmed using both as orgin of Twitter..
Read the rest here....I just thought it was interesting. We are talking around 2001 and since this is something I wanted to know too, I thought I'd share.
"I loved seeing at a glance my friends status updates. But I also really appreciated at the same time the dispatch aspect, where you're out in the world doing something away from the keyboard and IM did not allow that," said Dorsey. "I had a RIM pager, the 850, the first email device. I programed a system where I could fire off an email from that and set my status from anywhere. And it worked! And I was able to also at a regular interval pull my buddy list and get those updates sent to my email address. It was awesome! But the number of people who had those mobile devices was so minimal that the timing was just not right. This was 2001."
In 2006, when he was working for Evan Williams at Odeo, Dorsey resurrected the idea. He combined the timeline aspects of LiveJournal with the status updates of instant messenger and the concept of dispatch software that delivers them all remotely. Boom. That's Twitter.
"I loved seeing at a glance my friends status updates. But I also really appreciated at the same time the dispatch aspect, where you're out in the world doing something away from the keyboard and IM did not allow that," said Dorsey. "I had a RIM pager, the 850, the first email device. I programed a system where I could fire off an email from that and set my status from anywhere. And it worked! And I was able to also at a regular interval pull my buddy list and get those updates sent to my email address. It was awesome! But the number of people who had those mobile devices was so minimal that the timing was just not right. This was 2001."
In 2006, when he was working for Evan Williams at Odeo, Dorsey resurrected the idea. He combined the timeline aspects of LiveJournal with the status updates of instant messenger and the concept of dispatch software that delivers them all remotely. Boom. That's Twitter.
Happy birthday to Stevie Wonder......some of my favorite Stevie songs..including a Sesame Street memory..
How many of ya'll remember this?
These are just some of them...Trust me. I could be here for awhile listing 'em. (Waits for you to tell the corny joke in your head that 'He wouldn't know 'cause he can't see..'. I know you want to. Go ahead..)
This one is really close to me because it was something that my Dad would play EVER DAY. Without fail so yeah..
These are just some of them...Trust me. I could be here for awhile listing 'em. (Waits for you to tell the corny joke in your head that 'He wouldn't know 'cause he can't see..'. I know you want to. Go ahead..)
This one is really close to me because it was something that my Dad would play EVER DAY. Without fail so yeah..
I know some of you know ALL ABOUT AMG..Others just know the letters that it stands for..
Either way, you should enjoy this video of the company that works HAND AND HAND WITH MERCEDES-BENZ to produce some of the best cars IN THE WORLD.
*If you don't know anything about AMG, fear not. The video will explain it all.
*If you don't know anything about AMG, fear not. The video will explain it all.
Let me give you a little history on Delaware hip-hop- Blu Chip
Courtesy of my friends Grouchy Greg and Blu Chip.
Blu Chip speaks on his experience in California, The Game and more. It is good to hear him tell these stories to Greg 'cause we all heard these stories at Made4Men (Shout out to EL and Dead Denim! Ali! Suite 302 ) on 4th St. in Wilmington, Delaware WHEN HE WAS GOING THROUGH IT. (Shout out to Cliff aka Bleek too his partner in crime at the time.) So to hear him say it to someone official like GREG to solidify and document what he has done. Good to see him doing well.
Feel free to click on the video and look at it on YouTube. Subscribe to Greg's page. He gives out a lot that doesn't always make it to the main site. I may post things from there from time to time still to show you what I mean by that.
Blu Chip speaks on his experience in California, The Game and more. It is good to hear him tell these stories to Greg 'cause we all heard these stories at Made4Men (Shout out to EL and Dead Denim! Ali! Suite 302 ) on 4th St. in Wilmington, Delaware WHEN HE WAS GOING THROUGH IT. (Shout out to Cliff aka Bleek too his partner in crime at the time.) So to hear him say it to someone official like GREG to solidify and document what he has done. Good to see him doing well.
Feel free to click on the video and look at it on YouTube. Subscribe to Greg's page. He gives out a lot that doesn't always make it to the main site. I may post things from there from time to time still to show you what I mean by that.
