Thoughts, Rants, Raves, and Drama.

Friday, October 22, 2004



Okay, the CD that currently occupies the box is the new Northern State album, All City. Yeah, I hear ya: “Demetrius, you live in Atlanta, the Dirty Dirty. You’re from the same city as Goodie Mob, Lil’ Jon and the East Side Boys, Little Scrappy, T.I., and all that is crunk. Why are you listening to three white girls from New York?” Well ,it’s nice to hear a difference perspective. I miss the fun rap. Sure, the gangsta rap was cool for awhile, but you can only hear about women, guns, drugs, and money for so long. Not because it’s so called offensive material to me, but it’s been done over and over so much that it’s boring. People need a change of pace. Like Outkast, Mos Def and Kayne West, Northern State is a great alternative for rap fans who don’t drive Escalades, carry guns, or smack their women around.

Back to the actual album. Northern State managed to get three cool producers to help out,DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill, ?uestlove from the Roots, and Pete Rock. Great beats help them out. Hesta, Sprout, and Spero has improved a lot since their indie release, Dying In Stereo. They remind me of early Beastie Boys. I know that they are probably sick of hearing that, but I think that it’s a compliment. Sure, they are not at the level of a Nas or an Eminem or a Tupac or a Biggie yet, but they have the potenial to be. Like I said, it’s nice to hear people having fun, you know? There’s room for females in rap. Not too many good ones now. The only cool established female rappers I can think of are Lil’ Kim.There is hope. Anyway, different is good. Who knows? Maybe you’ll actually share this one with your friends.

Going to politics: On the ballot in the Peach State this Election Day is whether to make outlaw homosexual marriages. Needless to say, I’m going to oppose the amendment to make homosexual marriages. First off, I’m tired these conservative jackoffs who want to bitch and moan. One of the purposes of the government is to protect us from harm. Tell me how homosexual marriages deny me of life, liberty, or property. What? Sanctity of marriage? When us breeders have a 50% divorce rate? What? Because God said so? It is not the government’s job to compel the citizens to comply with YOUR moral standards, okay? That’s why I hate the American Family Association for dissing Desperate Housewives and all these other conservative, right wing assholes who think that it’s their duty to save us from moral decay. Bite me! Why can’t people let people live their lives in peace?

So it’s the Red Sox and the Cardinals in the World Series. I love the Red Sox because they got the New York Yankees out of it. I’m so damn tired of the Yankees. Yeah, some of that comes from the times they clean the Braves’ clock in the Fall Classic. Just to show you how much Atlanta hates the Yankees, the café I went to erupted in applause when Boston won game four of the ALCS. Every single person. Of course, I dig the Cardinals, if for no other reason, because they knocked the team out of the running who knocked the Braves out of the running this year, the Houston Astros. So I guess I’m a bit torn. I do expect a good set of games though.