Lil B - Blue Flame

Awesome No Limit-style cover for the Berkeley MC (but not as awesome as the latest Lil B freestyles cover).

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that this is the first mixtape west of Texas that Trap-A-Holics has put out. I have ended up listening to this mixtape far more than any other album I have since it came out a couple of weeks ago, and Blue Flame combined with his Soulja Boy collab mixtape and so many youtube video posts is gonna make him completely blow up any day now. I'm expecting a big Waka Flocka Flame music video feature or something.

My favorite songs on Blue Flame are Rich Ho, I'm Heem, The Trap, BasedGod, Wonton Soup, I'm Paris Hilton, and the Blue Flame remix.

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Project Blue Beam

Ok so this ones a big deal. It should happen any day now. The powers that be will create earthquakes in all major holy lands (using an earthquake machine called HAARP, and plant objects to suggest that every major religion had it close, but no cigar. Then they will use the same microwave spitting CIA funded HAARP station to send messages directly into our brains making us think demons are talking to us. At this point they will project visions of the new Christ into the atmosphere over each country, and send out more microwaves into our brains to make us think this new, giant, religious figure is talking to us directly into our brains in our own languages. Now I'm thinking this will go down either 2012, or 42012. It's hard to say.

Random Basketball Statistics

On average, the heaviest team in the league is the Los Angeles Clippers at an average weight of 230 lbs. The lightest is the Golden State Warriors at 216 lbs. The oldest team in the league is the Lakers with an average of 28 years old. The youngest is the Timberwolves at 23.4 years.
Do those stats appear to mean anything? As far as weight goes not really, although the Warriors are the fastest paced team in the league (well, we'll see this upcoming season but I imagine they will continue to be so with Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis running their back-court). However, age does seem to make a difference as the Lakers are the best team in the league and the Timberwolves are clearly the worst team in the league. The next 5 oldest teams are the Nuggets, Heat, Suns, Celtics, and Magic--all of whom are contenders to at least get to the Conference Finals.
I also looked up the average height of each team (that was actually the first thing that I was looking at) and surprisingly players for every single team were on average either 6-6 or 6-7. I figured that there would be at least a couple of teams who had a good inch or 2 on everyone else.

The Golden State Warriors are a completely different team this season

While we wait to see where Carmelo Anthony will end up, I wanted to make note of my favorite Western Conference baskteball team's complete revamping this off-season. Everyone has been talking about the Heat, the Cavs, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Nuggets, the Bulls (aka teams that made/are making moves that actually have a chance at getting to the finals....other than the Cavs), but the team that changed in every aspect the most this off-season was the Warriors. Now that Don Nelson is gone, centers and power forwards will actually be allowed to play for more than 20 minutes per game. Unfortunately though, they accidentally let Anthony Morrow walk away for nothing to make more room for David Lee's contract and traded Kelenna Azubuike, Anthony Randolph and Ronny Turiaf to the Knicks for David Lee and his gigantic contract. He's a very good player, but all 4 of those guys were pretty good players, and now that Nelson is gone who knows how good Anthony Randolph could've been in the Warriors system. And Corey Maggette and CJ Watson are gone too. I think that CJ Watson will continue to improve and that he would have been the main guard off the bench this upcoming season for both point guard and shooting guard if the Warriors hadn't let him go. Watson will get to win more in Chicago, but will play less than if he had stayed in Oakland.

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Uncle Murda - Back On My Bullshit

Uncle Murda doesnt get much attention considering that he's one of NY's best rappers; he does tracks with pretty much all of D-Block and G-Unit; he was with Def Jam until Jay-Z left; and he got shot in the head and discharged himself and was smoking and drinking again within 24 hours of it happening, bullet still in head. I feel like a lot of people know who he is but not too many people are talking about him or listening to his music outside of the east coast. Listening to this classic 2008 mixtape of his is the equivalent of watching a very well paced street/action/drama movie. It is loud, high energy, NY street rap. 50 Cent even has a link to download it on his personal website. Uncle Murda makes it pretty clear for most of this mixtape that he's all about murdering pretty much whoever.

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This is a music video that Uncle Murda featured on for Ra Diggs, the song is mainly about being broke and that being pretty lame. Uncle Murda comes in at about 2:25 and in the middle of his verse there is a great 10 second dramatic interlude.

Lo-bat - Game Boy

This is an awesome EP by 8-bit artist Lo-bat (who I think has been retired as Lo-bat for a bit now). White Russian and Tizzy (as heard on my Radio) are my favorite songs on this but the whole thing is pretty great. Very frantic but not anxious, and catchy rhythms. From 8-bit peoples.

http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/by/lo-bat

50 Cent - Sincerely Yours, Southside

 Even if you think you don't like 50 Cent, and especially if you haven't heard his more recent mixtapes, you should check out this mixtape he made available in 2009. It is a mixtape in a truer sense then most of todays mixtapes, as he often times lets the songs he's rapping over play out after his verse is finished. Most, if not all, of the beats he uses are 80s-early 90s pop/r&b songs.

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Also, I never saw much response on his feature length movie Before I Self Destruct that 50 wrote directed and starred in and that came for free with his last album of the same title, Before I Self Destruct.
This was a clip that was posted as a teaser trailer leading up to the movie's release: