Here are a few facts about me as a youngster. 1) I was a camp counselor. 2) I could use computers. 3) I knew something about music. 4) I had a tendency to take on too much responsibility. Add all that up, and you get involved in a lot of photo montages from graduations or end-of-session assemblies. Back in the 90s, there were a few obvious choices for soundtrack, no-brainers that worked every time. For a while, it was Sarah McLaughlin’s “I Will Remember You,” but in 1997 came Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life).” Why was it so perfect? It wasn’t just the nail-on-the-head lyrics, but the wistful, bittersweet tone of the music that someone made you want to put your arms around the smelly, t-shirted frames of people you had spent far too much time around in the past weeks and sway back and forth. But what, I wondered, are kids using today for their montages? I took to YouTube to find out. More »
Yes, Chamillionaire takes on the commenting/blogging hordes in the lead track from his new mixtape, Mixtape Messiah 4; he name-checks AllHipHop, SOHH, HipHopDX, and 17-year-olds who hate the way their mothers cook broccoli in the not-very-subtle “Internet Nerds’ Revenge.” More »
Following yesterday’s hip-hop congressional hearings, Chamillionaire has posted a long, heartfelt, and excessively convoluted stream-of-consciousness blog post for BET about the state of America/hip-hop, which I found myself occasionally nodding along with in agreement (despite also occasionally losing the thread of his argument[s]). Until I got to the following:
ARTIST: Chamillionaire
TITLE: Ultimate Victory
WEB DEBUT: Sept. 6, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 18, 2007
For those of you keeping score: MTV2 didn’t cut the word “murder” from a 2-ish a.m. viewing of Chamillionaire’s video for “Hip Hop Police”–despite its dropping the same word from “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance approximately 24 hours earlier. More »
Chamillionaire’s clip for “Hip-Hop Police” takes a serious subject–the idea that hip-hop is currently the No. More »
– Eminem has allegedly written a song that goes into “really specific, intimate detail” about his brief fling with Mariah Carey, including the night they watched The Passion Of Joan of Arc and debated the global-economy ramifications of violence in the West Bank. More »
Thanks in no small part to the ever-growing number of hip-hop blogs and mixtape-torrent sites, some sort of overcrowded remix track surfaces every two hours or so, each one featuring a staggering number of guest spots. More »
On “Not A Criminal,” the first single from Chamillionaire’s upcoming Ultimate Victory album, the “Ridin’ Dirty” rapper takes shots at his record label, “magazine critics,” and Osama Bin Laden. He even references Master P, which is so summer of 1998: Chamillionaire feat. More »
