What's New In Dart's iPod #64 AKA The Twitter Needs A Support Group Edition

I've spent a gang of time on Twitter this month and at night I write these long pieces that I intend to use as blogs. Problem is that I 've been writing these long ass posts that won't work for the blog unless I edit them down considerably. Such is the case with two of blogs I intended to post this week. One of 'em will go up this weekend and the other will be delayed until next week (Monday or Tuesday). I'll be reviewing a couple of instrumental albums, the N.A.S.A project, Rasco's much delayed new solo project and the upcoming Ryan Leslie album.

This week I'll be reviewing five new projects that either leaked or recently hit store shelves in the following order: Dibiase "Up The Joystick EP", Hudson Mohawke "Polyfolk Dance EP", N.A.S.A. "The Spirit Of Apollo", Rasco "Global Threat" and Ryan Leslie "Ryan Leslie". For those of you new to this blog, I don’t rate albums on a scale or assign them a numerical value out of 5 or 10, instead I merely answer the all important question of “Is it worth buying or not?”. Here's how my "Cop It Or Not" ratings system breaks down below:

Oh No! This CD is a drink coaster/table balancer/doorstop/gerbil/hamster room divider/frisbee/discus/makeshift shield/last ditch choice for a visor/alternate shuriken choice. Sell this shit to whoever is dumb enough to buy it from you.

Maeby (Maybe)! Depending on your own set of personal preferences you might like this joint. Give it a listen first to see if it's in your lane or not.

Mos Def! Cop the album when it drops...'Nuff said.


Best Joints: Tetris, Mario Galaxy, Cosmic Funk, Mega Gutta, Metroid, Code Of Life, Slugfest (No Biters Allowed), Brass Knucks (Double Drag), Arcade Fashion, MC Pro Am and Contraband

Hot Garbage: N/A

Dart's Take: For those of you unfamiliar with the whole beat culture phenomenon of the Brainfeeder/Root Down Soundclash/Wonky movement then let me tell you that Dibiase is one of the most prominent producers/beatmakers on the circuit. This project is an 8 Bit take on his normal sound as he runs through Nintendo classics like Mega Man, Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, Tetris, RC Pro Am, Metal Gear , etc. and flips them then throws some crazy drums on 'em. A few tracks have emcees rhyming over 'em, with guest spots from U-N-I, Hardware, Amiri Dialect & Fifth P.

This jawn bangs from beginning to end and it never lets up. The head nod factor is definitely in effect for the duration as you bug out to the fact that the Metal Gear theme has been chopped into an ill track. I'm giving "Up Your Joystick" the only possible rating I can...a mos def. Seek it out immediately.




Best Joints: Polkadot Blues, Monde, Overnight, Speed Stick and Velvet Peel

Hot Garbage: Yonard was kinda meh to me. It should've been in the middle instead of the last track in my opinion.

Dart's Take: Yet another star on the Brainfeeder/beat culture circuit is regular Mike Slott collaborator (Heralds Of Change) Hudson Mohawke. He's contributed to some classic EP's in the past few years, tore down a gang of live shows and dropped a 7" in the All City 7x7 Beatstrumentals series. He followed that up with his "Polyfolk Dance EP". Five of the six collected tracks are certified bangers and the final track is an experimental chop that producers will appreciate but isn't all that enjoyable to listen to as the other slaps. For that reason alone it barely missed earning another mos def. Find this EP now available from Warp Records.




Best Joints: Money, N.A.S.A. Music, Way Down, Hip Hop, Gifted, A Volta, Theirs A Party, O Pata, Soul Samba, The Mayor, N.A.S.A Anthem and the bonus track (RZA)

Hot Garbage: The People Tree, Strange Enough, Spacious Thoughts and Watchadoin'? were all just meh to me.

Dart's Take: Yeah, I can't even describe this album because it's all over the place and kinda skitzophrenic. It has emcees on it but it's not really Hip Hop (Charlie 2na, Chuck D, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Fatlip, Del The Funkeehomosapien, Slim Kid Tre, KRS One, RZA, The Cool Kids, Scarface, etc.). It has Karen O, Lykke Li, Santogold, M.I.A all on it but you can't nail down a sound. Tom Waits does a track with Kool Keith for God's sake! I couldn't make heads or tails of it throughout the week or so I heard it.

You know that person that you just don't like but they've done nothing to you personally and they go out of their way to be friendly to you but you just chill with 'em for the hell of it? You have their number but you'll never call 'em but if you see them out you'll say "What's up?". If they were to move away, you wouldn't even notice or you have to check your phone to even remember their name? Well, that's this album. I listened to it 10+ times and I never felt the need to rewind tracks. Instead, I just looked forward to writing this review and forgeeting about it so I can see it on my iPod months later and erase it to make space for something I actually enjoyed listening to. I give it a maybe overall.




Best Joints: Intro, Global Threat, By Myself, Classic, Southwest, Eyes Wide Shut, That's That Shit, 3 O' Clock, Lounge Beat, Round & Round, Like This, Who's The Enemy, Mental Combat, No Time, Let It Be Known and By Myself (Sad Face Remix)

Hot Garbage: Step Game Up, It Just Don't Stop, Classic (Volta Masters Remix)

Dart's Take: As a Rasco fan and someone's that been waiting for this joint to drop for the longest I'm glad to finally be reviewing it. This is typical Rasco fare over some production that's missing something every so often. Occasionally the tracks sound like background music (the meh picks), but the rest of the time it's vintage Soulfather material. Since the tracks sometimes failed to heighten the tracks and Rasco isn't gonna transform into Royce Da 5'9" any time soon (he guests on "Who The Enemy") the best I can do for "Global Threat" is give it a recommended maybe.



Best Joints: Diamond Girl, Addiction, You're Fly, Quicksand, Valentine, Just Right, How It Was Supposed To Be, I-R-I-N-A, Out Of The Blue, Shouldn't Have To Wait, Wanna Be Good and even the meta experimental Gibberish (he definitely went to Harvard!)

Hot Garbage: Not a goddamn thing.

Dart's Take: Not this guy again. I've been hearing about this cat since his freshman year at Harvard. That's a long ass time. Every showcase. Every public performance. He's in the papers. He's in a segment on the news. He graduates and he's in the industry. He's everywhere. On YouTube making beats. He's on Vimeo selling songs. Pawning Cassie off on Diddy. Making tracks with rappers, he does it all. He had an album back in 2005 but y'all ain't heard that (I did). I just knew that he was gonna make something ridiculous so I'd continue "hating" him. I played the album...I replayed about 75% after hearing it once.

He does it all from different angles. He does the song for different occasions. He made the songs that you can play on the radio, use in car commercials, play in party scenes on TV shows and in movies. This is what Ryan does. It's what he always planned to do! This asshole even made me like "Gibberish"...HE AIN'T EVEN SAYIN' SHIT IN IT!! Just take your goddamn mos def, Ryan Leslie and leave my blog.




Late Passes (For Doz Dat Slept):


Projects I'm Looking Forward To Reviewing Once They Leak...I Mean Drop in 2009:

Rhymefest-El Che
Jay Electronica-Act II: Patents Of Nobility
Jay Electronica-Abracadabra: Let There Be Light
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Mos Def-The Ecstatic LP
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Magnif & J Dilla-Detroit Royalty
Blu-God Is Good
Sean Price, Guilty Simpson & Black Milk-Random Axe
Method Man & Redman-Blackout 2
Redman-Muddy Waters 2
B.O.B.-The Adventures Of B.O.B.
Billy Danze-Behind Gatez
AG & O.C.-Oasis: Together Brothers
Baatin-Titus
Phat Kat and Elzhi are Cold Steel
The Beatnuts-The Planet Of The Crates
Skepta-Microphone Champion
Ski Beatz-Half Man, Half Amazing
Evidence-Cats & Dogs
MF Doom-Born Into This
Eminem-The Relapse
Cage-Depart From Me

Rest In Eternal Peace, Grandmaster Helio Gracie.

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Dart Adams presents Adapt This! Revisited

With seemingly nonstop news of some kind involving another comic book, graphic novel, cartoon or video game property being optioned and given the greenlight by Hollywood for film adaptations I decided to pick quite a few properties that I'd like to see get a big screen translation or adaptation as well. In some cases, I'd even like to do the job...for a hefty fee. LOL. Since a few of the films I picked the first time around actually did get optioned, here's my revised list of potential properties below:


Black Panther

Hitman

American Flagg

Bad Boy

Channel Zero

Grey


Generation X

Tekken

Sandman

The New Warriors

Winter Soldier

Alpha Flight

X Force

Dinosaurs For Hire

DMZ

The Killer (Der Killer)

Strikeforce Morituri

Gungrave

Rifts


Grrl Scouts

Transmetropolitan

Killer7

Onimusha

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six

Contra

Assassin’s Creed

Lost Planet


Trigun

Hellsing

F.E.A.R.

The Nightly News


Sentences: The Life Of MF Grimm

Mirror's Edge

Universal War One

Haunted Tank

*Denotes that project/adaptation is currently in development limbo

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Dart Adams presents The Hip Hop Biopic Studio Pitch Blog

The surprising success of the recent Notorious B.I.G. biopic has apparently sent a rush through some Hollywood studios. The recent news is that a Run DMC biopic is reputedly in the works as well in addition to "Vapors", the story of Marley Marl and the Juice Crew. Discussions popped up at every barbershop, check cashing spot, laundromat, sub shop, Chinese food restaurant and bodega in the hood, who should be next? Should 2Pac get a proper biopic next? How about some of the Old School pioneers? What about the New School heads? Maybe we should focus on the Next School so we don't lose the young folks?

If we made the Nas biopic who would get omitted from the story? If we made the Jay-Z biopic how much do we shit on Dame Dash and Jaz-O? If we made the Lil' Wayne story do we exclude all of the love scenes between him & Baby? So many questions! This has given rise to the idea that in order to streamline the production of these Hip Hop biopics we need a studio and a collective of writers and producers that are knowledgeable about the subject matter and most importantly love it and feel a genuine connection to it. Here goes my semi serious (?) collection of upcoming Rap biopic pitches for the fledgling Hip Hop biopic film studio. Here goes:


The subject: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five/Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five, Old School Hip Hop Legends

Proposed titles: The Message, Fresh, Wild, Fly & Bold and Superrappin'

The pitch: A couple of brothers from the South Bronx (the Glovers) go to see Kool Herc spin at block parties in the early 70's and become B-Boy's. After years of seeing Coke La Rock on the mic they think to themselves " We can do that!" and they innovate new styles of emceeing. They rock the crowd and they begin recruiting they're friends to form a crew. Once they add pioneer DJ Grandmaster Flash to the mix they're guaranteed success, right?

They hook up with a shady manager and sign to an even shadier label. They make a gang of hits but have little creative control. A power struggle breaks out between Flash & Melle Mel and Flash leaves the group but is replaced by his mentor/best friend E-Z Mike. The story of the group's impact and Melle Mel's struggle to stay atop the elite of the Rap world makes for compelling viewing.

Who gets venerated?: Cowboy, Grandmaster Flash. Cowboy came up with some of the most well known Hip Hop phrases. Flash's innovations will be a big part of the early film and him leaving the group will sadden the audience.

Who gets the short end of the stick?: Duke Bootee, his contributions to the group will barely be mentioned in the film if at all.

Who gets thrown under the bus?: Sylvia & Joey Robinson, Ray Chandler. They're questionable business practices will make them great movie villains. They'll complain to the media but who'll really care? They were famous for ripping their artists off! Fuck 'em!

Who gets omitted completely?: The Kamikaze Kid, Tommy Gunn & King Lou. Will anyone really care besides them anyways? Spit a rhyme from one of 'em...It's okay, I'll wait. LOL


The subject: Rakim Allah, Hip Hop luminary from the Next School and arguably the greatest emcee of all time

Proposed titles: My Melody: The Rakim Story, Follow The Leader, Make Em' Clap To This and Microphone Fiend

The pitch: A kid grows up in Wyandach, Long Island playing Jazz with his father and uncle and later loving football. At 13, he becomes a member of the Nation Of Gods And Earths and begins writing rhymes. He becomes known as Kid Wizard Rakim and joins a crew. One fateful day, Rakim is approached by DJ Eric B. in hopes of laying down a few tracks. Ra is more concerned with playing college football but he comes through anyways. The sessions yield a couple of classics and the rest is history!

After making hits, changing the way emcees viewed lyricism and competing with some of the greatest emcees of the Golden Era of Hip Hop he became viewed by many as the greatest of all times. It won't be just him writing rhymes, recording, touring, eating fish (it's his favorite dish) and being softspoken and righteous the whole time...just the overwhelming majority of it.

Who gets venerated?: William Griffin Sr. and Paul C. They both passed before Rakim became a worldwide phenomenon and they both served as mentors to his early career.

Who gets the short end of the stick?: Large Professor and Marley Marl. Their contributions to his early career won't be a major part of any film based on Ra's life or career..unfortunately.

Who gets thrown under the bus?: Eric B., he was pretty much a show DJ that didn't do much production and Rakim took control of most of the aspects of recording and producing by the time their "Don't Sweat The Technique" LP dropped. Ra went off and started 007 Productions after he and Eric. B split and continued to record solo projects.

Who gets omitted completely?: The original 50 Cent and crew (potentially), the folks at Zakia/4th & Broadway and his old crew the Love Brothers.


The subject: KRS One, One of the greatest emcees of all times (Next School legend)

Proposed titles: The Life & Times Of KRS One: I Am Hip Hop, Knowledge Reigns Supreme or KRS One: Essays On BDPism

The pitch: A young boy witnesses atrocities during the blackout of 1977 and it changes his entire outlook on life. At age 13, he left home and wandered the streets on a quest to learn more about life. He hangs out with Hare Krisnas and earns the nickname "Krisna" which is later shortened to "Kris". He becomes a graf writer and adopts the moniker KRS One. He meets youth worker Scott Sterling and they begin a friendship based on their interest in Hip Hop music and culture. Soon, Kris and Scott form a crew and later secure an indie record deal as Boogie Down Productions.

They record the classic album "Criminal Minded" after sparking a battle with Mr. Magic's crew (who dissed them and wouldn't put them on the radio), especially Marley Marl and MC Shan after their song "The Bridge" became huge on the radio. They responded with "The Bridge Is Over" and "South Bronx" and they are on their way. Once Scott LaRock is killed trying to mediate an argument during the recording of the second BDP album, KRS One is thrust into the spotlight and eventually becomes one of the greatest and most influential people in all of Hip Hop history. Watch the progression of a legend..he is Hip Hop.

Who gets venerated?: DJ Scott LaRock, DJ Kenny Parker, Marley Marl & MC Shan (for responding and starting his career), G. Simone

Who gets the short end of the stick?: Ced Gee (his role in producing "Criminal Minded"), DJ McBooo, D-Nice, Sidney Mills, D Square, ICU

Who gets thrown under the bus?: Ms. Melodie, Mr. Magic & B Boy Records

Who gets omitted completely?: Road manager Scotty Morris, Harmony, Mad Lion, Channel Live, Heather B., Robocop, Spyder D and the list goes on...


The subject: Too Short, New School Bay Area Hip Hop Pioneer

Proposed titles: Born To Mack, Life Is...Too Short, Shorty The Pimp and Don't Stop Rappin'

The pitch: A young man named Todd Shaw coming up in Oakland, California starts rapping and hustling at a young age. He begins selling tapes of his recordings out the truck of his car and for a price he'll even make a personalized rap for you. He raps dirty and he talks about adult subjects incorporating the pimp culture in his material. At first no one would sign him so he sold a gang of units independently doing his own thing. Eventually, he got a deal with a major and his career skyrocketed.

Watch the improbable rise to fame and fortune of a young mack from Oakland. He's known worldwide and he's never once kicked a damn freestyle. You want a Too Short verse? By you some, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooootch!!!

Who gets venerated?: Freddie B., Ant Banks & Spice-1

Who gets the short end of the stick?: Various other members of the Dangerous Crew (Goldy, Rappin' 4 Tay, Rappin' Ron, Ant Diddley Dog, Father Dom, etc)

Who gets thrown under the bus?: Pooh Man, Jive/RCA Records, Yukmouth, hoes

Who gets omitted completely?: Several aspects of Short's move from Oakland to Atlanta and the whole situation surrounding his time spent there after his relocation.


The subject: Ice T, West Coast New School Hip Hop pioneer

Proposed titles: Rhyme Pays, The Iceberg, Power and O.G. (Original Gangster)

The pitch: Tracey Morrow has a tough life in New Jersey and moves to LA where it's even tougher. He experiences a completely different world there and he discovers the lure of the criminal world while falling in love with Hip Hop simultaneously. He goes from enlisted service to hustler, to thief to pimp to B-Boy to world renowned emcee and television/film actor. See the incredible life story and meteoric rise of Ice-T. Gangsta Hip Hop pioneer.

Who gets venerated?: Evil E, Beatmaster V, Afrika Islam. Afrika Islam was one of Ice T's early mentors in Hip Hop and Evil E was his long time road dog and DJ since the early days. Beatmaster V passed away way too soon and was a major contributor to his early production.

Who gets the short end of the stick?: Various members of the Rhyme Syndicate such as Donald D and Everlast.

Who gets thrown under the bus?: Electro Hop Records, Darlene Ortiz, Warner Bros. Records, George Bush, squares, hoes.

Who gets omitted completely?: Divine Styler, Hijack, the Ammo Dump Productions team.


More Hip Hop biopics in the pipeline for production via Dart Adams' Hip Hop Legends Studios:


The Life & Times Of Tupac Amaru Shakur (2010)

Hollis To Hollywood: The LL Cool J Story (2010)


The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick (2010)


It's Yours: The T La Rock Story (2010)


Illmatic: The Story Of Nas (2011)


Jay-Z, Brooklyn's Finest: The Life & Times Of Shawn Carter (2011)


Straight Outta Compton: The N.W.A. Story (2011)


Enter The 36 Chambers: The Legend Of The Wu Tang Clan (2012)


How Ya Like Me Now: The Kool Moe Dee/Treacherous Three Story (2012)


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Dart Adams presents The Top 100 Non Hip Hop Songs Of The 80's That Hip Hop Fans Loved (Deluxe Edition)

When I first compiled this famous list back in the Summer of '07 it took close to a week for me to get all of the songs together from all of the tapes I heard off of the radio and the lists I got from my contributors/voters. In my original Top 50 Of The 80's list they were dominated by songs from Hall & Oates, David Bowie, The Police, Blondie, Pat Benatar, The Go Go's, Duran Duran, Michael McDonald and Culture Club among others. I had to change the parameters of the list to include all of the different songs from that era that were surprisingly popular to urban music fans from lesser known/popular acts.

That decision meant that songs such as Madonna's "Everybody", "Lucky Star", "Borderline" and "Holiday" wouldn't be included. Considering that she had 9 songs to the original Top 50 ("Into The Groove", "La Isla Bonita", "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Express Yourself" were also included) it seemed like a good idea. I had the same dilemma in regards to David Bowie ("Under Pressure", "China Girl", Let's Dance", "Modern Love" and "This Is Not America"), The Police ("Walking On The Moon", "Roxanne", "Every Breath You Take", "King Of Pain", "Don't Stand So Close To Me" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger") and Duran Duran ("Hungry Like The Wolf", "Save A Prayer", "The Reflex", "The Wild Boys" and "Notorious") as well.

If I included all of the Hall & Oates ("I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)", "One On One", "Maneater", "Private Eyes", etc.), Phil Collins ("Sussudio", "In The Air Tonight", "Against All Odds", "Take Me Home", etc.), Peter Gabriel ("Shock The Monkey", "Sledgehammer", "In Your Eyes", "Big Time", etc.), Culture Club or George Michael this list would just look like a bad 80's music compilation so I made an execitive decision and switched it up. I decided to go back into my old notes and dredge up the next 50 songs that missed the list because so many people e-mailed me and sent me MySpace messages about the songs that didn't make the list years ago.

So here it is at long last, the full list of 100 Non Hip Hop Songs Of The 80's that Hip Hop Fans Loved (as compiled by me) sans any ties past the Top 50 selections. All of the remaining ties were all songs from the excluded artists I previously mentioned in the first two paragraphs of this write up. Enjoy:

1. Everybody Wants To Rule The World-Tears For Fears
2. Once In A Lifetime-Talking Heads
3. Moments In Love-Art Of Noise
4. Rock Me Amadeus-Falco
5. Genius Of Love-Tom Tom Club/Rock The Casbah-The Clash (tie)
6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)-Euryhtmics
7. Shout-Tears For Fears
8. 99 Luftballoons-Nena
9. Big Beat-Billy Squier/Everything She Wants-Wham!
10. Cars-Gary Numan
11. Confusion-New Order
12. Never Gonna Give You Up-Rick Astley
13. She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby
14. Din Daa Daa-George Kranz
15. Running Up That Hill-Kate Bush
16. True-Spandau Ballet
17. Burning Down The House-Talking Heads
18. Crackdown-Cabaret Voltaire
19. I Can’t Wait-Nu Shooz
20. Beat Box-Art Of Noise
21.Look Of Love-ABC
22. Mickey-Toni Basil
23. Our House-Madness
24. Here Comes The Rain Again-Eurhythmics
25. Don’t You Want Me Baby-Human League
26. Poison Arrow-ABC
27. White Horse-Laid Back
28. Something About You-Level 42
29. Mirror In The Bathroom-English Beat/Suddenly Last Summer-The Motels (tie)
30. Sensoria-Cabaret Voltaire
31. Point Of No Return-Nu Shooz
32. Words-Missing Persons
33. I Know What Boys Like-The Waitresses
34. Soft Cell-Tainted Love
35. Nineteen-Paul Hardcastle
36. Relax-Frankie Goes To Hollywood
37. Promised You A Miracle-Simple Minds
38. Blue Monday-New Order
39. Owner Of A Lonely Heart-Yes
40. The Metro-Berlin
41. Eyes Without A Face-Billy Idol
42. Don’t Dream It’s Over-Crowded House
43. Wouldn’t It Be Good-Nik Kershaw
44. Only The Lonely- The Motels
45. West End Girls-Pet Shop Boys
46. Come On Eileen- Dexy’s Midnight Runners
47. No More Words- Berlin
48. People Are People- Depeche Mode
49. Destination Unknown- Missing Persons
50. Just Got Lucky-JoBoxers

51. I Confess-The English Beat
52. I Melt With You-Modern English
53. Once In A Lifetime-Talking Heads
54. Promises Promises-Naked Eyes
55. Whip It-Devo
56. Time After Time-Cyndi Lauper
57. Holding Back The Years-Simply Red
58. Head Over Heels-Tears For Fears
59. Ghost Town-The Specials
60. Running-Information Society
61. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On-Robert Palmer
62. Who Can It Be Now?-Men At Work
63. Cry Little Sister-Gerard Butler
64. Enjoy The Silence-Depeche Mode
65. It's My Life-Talk Talk
66. Missing You-John Waite
67. Don't Dream It's Over-Crowded House
68. Foolish Heart-Steve Perry
69. I Want Candy-Bow Wow Wow
70. Careless Whisper-Wham!
71. Always Something There To Remind Me-Naked Eyes
72. Another One Bites The Dust-Queen
73. Mad World-Tears For Fears
74. If You Leave-OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark)
75. Send Me An Angel-Real Life
76. Shattered Dreams-Johnny Hates Jazz
77. Voices Carry-Til Tuesday
78. Hold Me Now-Thompson Twins
79. Take On Me-A-Ha
80. Red Red Wine-UB40
81. She Bop-Cyndi Lauper
82. Tenderness-General Public
83. In A Big Country-Big Country
84. A Message To You, Rudy-The Specials
85. Manic Monday-The Bangles
86. I Ran (So Far Away)-A Flock Of Seagulls
87. Break Out-Swing Out Sister
88. I Heard A Rumor-Bananarama
89. Steppin' Out-Joe Jackson
90. Never You Done That-General Public
91. Misfit-Curiosity Killed The Cat
92. Tempted-Squeeze
93. The Warrior-Scandal f/Patti Smyth
94. Oh Sherrie-Steve Perry
95. New Song-Thomas Dolby
96. Cruel Summer-Bananarama
97. Some Like It Hot-The Power Station
98. Mother's Talk-Tears For Fears
99. If You Were Here-Thompson Twins
100. White Wedding-Billy Idol

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Dart Adams presents 6 More Animated Films That Warped My Fragile Little Mind

The first edition of this blog series was written last Spring when it hit me how many mind warping animated films I've seen in my life. Some scared the shit out of me, others freaked me out and others opened my mind to the possibilities this medium truly possessed. The first time around I highlighted 8 animated films that warped my fragile little mind via videotape, Starcase/Preview (Prevue) Pay TV services that existed before cable took over the industry and flicks I saw on cable at my father's house or my friend's houses over the years. Either way, here we go:


Heavy Traffic (1973)

"Heavy Traffic" was one of the first Ralph Bakshi films I caught pieces of here and there as a kid but I couldn't comprehend ANY of the cartoon violence, language, or the context of any of it as a child. I remember the cartoon fight betwen Michael's parents getting indelibly burned into my memory way back in 1980. As I got older and I had some other crazy flicks under my belt I could finally appreciate this animated film for the classic it is .If you're curious about seeing "Heavy Traffic" if you haven't seen it before, the entire film is up on YouTube right now. Check out the first of eight parts here


Coonskin AKA Street Fight (1975)
I first caught pieces of "Coonskin" way back in 1979 on VHS at my father's house. It started off as a live action flick just like "Heavy Traffic" but I hadn't seen it yet. I couldn't understand why the tape cover had cartoon characters on it if there were only people in the movie. After about 10 minutes the cartoon finally started and it was apparent that this wasn't goddamn "Tom & Jerry" or "Heckle & Jeckyl" kiddie shit going on. I also didn't understand why no one was getting offended at what they saw. The older I got the more and more I understood the proper context of the film and now I love it. This controversial classic animated film is also available for viewing on YouTube in 10 parts. Check out the first one here


Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)
My mother made my brother Buc and I watch this "children's movie" back in 1980 on Star Pay TV. For some odd reason it only came on at night which was terrible because this movie freaked us the fuck out to the point where we had nightmares for days. Who thought for one second that this creepy looking shit was entertaining by any stretch of the imagination? It still irks me to this very day and I discovered that not too long ago someone uploaded this freky ass kid's movie to YouTube in 10 parts. The first of which is here.


The Water Babies (1978)
This weird ass mix of a British live action film with some even weirder animated musical sections also creeped me and my brother out back in the days. This movie was about a British orphan that went through hell and somehow unded up underwater in this horribly animated world of danger and musical numbers. I NEVER wanna see this shit again and I'm glad no one has uploaded although it is now available on DVD. Who ever demanded it is completely beyond me.


Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin (1985)
This PG-13 animated film was released in theaters as an animated 3D Sci Fi masterpiece. The film critics off the day did not agree and tore the flick to pieces, simply dismissing it as an animated Star Wars rip off. While it did have some obvious homages to Star Wars in it, it was it's own stand alone story. The part at the beginning with the mutants was crazy and a couple of people caught it in a pretty violent manner, too. This is probably one of the most slept on cartoons of the 80's and it finally came out on DVD a few years back. The entire joint is now up on YouTube in 11 parts, the first part you can view right here


Gandahar AKA Light Years (1988)
This film is made by the same French visionary director of "Fantastic Planet", Rene Laloux. Gandahar is a Sci Fi tale that is along the lines of "Heavy Metal", "Fire & Ice" and other animated features of that nature. I saw both the French version of "Gandahar" and the edited North American version helmed by Isaac Asimov that was renamed "Light Years". I saw it as a teenager and it was just trippy as all hell. If you'd like to experience this classic animated feature for yourself, the entire film is up on YouTube in 8 parts, the first of which you can view here

Updates from the first post:

The entire original Hungrarian version of this film "Hugo The Hippo" AKA "Hugo e vizlio" is up on YouTube for those of you that wanna reminisce and see the entire flick again. The first of 9 parts can be found here.

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What's New In Dart's iPod #63 AKA The Resurrection Of The Review Blog

I guess it'll be a while before some new relatively high profile releases finally drop so I'll just review an instrumental album, a downloadable solo project from a member of Tanya Morgan and a soundtrack for the most popular/best selling Anime DVD in the States in years (Afro Samurai). Eventually, things will pick up but for now I'm gonna try to keep these weekly review blogs going so I don't get out of the practice of doing them.

This week I'll be reviewing three new projects that either leaked or recently hit store shelves in the following order: Ilyas of Tanya Morgan presents "I-El: The Interlude", Seoul Avenger "Switch 4 Lanes" and The RZA presents Afro Samurai Resurrection The Soundtrack. For those of you new to this blog, I don’t rate albums on a scale or assign them a numerical value out of 5 or 10, instead I merely answer the all important question of “Is it worth buying or not?”. Here's how my "Cop It Or Not" ratings system breaks down below:

Oh No! This CD is a drink coaster/table balancer/doorstop/gerbil/hamster room divider/frisbee/discus/makeshift shield/last ditch choice for a visor/alternate shuriken choice. Sell this shit to whoever is dumb enough to buy it from you.

Maeby (Maybe)! Depending on your own set of personal preferences you might like this joint. Give it a listen first to see if it's in your lane or not.

Mos Def! Cop the album when it drops...'Nuff said.

Approach with caution/I'm walking arson/deadly like Carson behind bars with the warden/no need to beg your pardon © Ilyas


Best Joints: Almighty, Let's Kick It, Real Hip Hop Don't Die, The Night's Mine, Telepathy, It's On, Heaven's Callin' Me, LSD, Alchemy, Balance and One Perfect Moment

Hot Garbage: N/A

Dart's Take: Anyone who reads this blog should know a few things about me by now. 1) I'm damn near a Lessondary Crew stan and 2.) I'm pretty much a confirmed Tanya Morgan supporter. I got my copy of Ilyas' solo joint from my boy Khal @ Rock The Dub and I've played it nonstop for about a week now. Fuck all of the bullshit descriptions about the songs I could waste time writing, Ilyas kills this joint in every way imaginable. Just download it and hear for yourselves here




Best Joints: Mr. Jelly's Fantastic Dream, Intro, Lastblast, The Coming Atlantis 2012 and Outro

Hot Garbage: N/A (I wish it were longer!)

Dart's Take: I picked Seoul Avenger as one of my Producers On MySpace That You Need To Hear Right Now so you just know that this is five track instrumental EP is loaded with heat rocks. If you're looking for some headnod music to rock in your iPod and not take up much space then don't hesitate to rock this right now. Download it here




Best Joints: Combat, You Already Know, Blood Thicker Than Mud (Family Affair), Whar, Girl Samurai Lullaby, Bitch Gonna Getcha, Bloody Days, Bloody Nights, Bloody Samurai, Arch Nemesis, Brother's Keeper, Yellow Jackets and Number One Samurai

Hot Garbage: Nappy Afro and Dead Birds are both ass. Fight For You, Kill Kill Kill and Take The Sword Part III are all meh to me.

Dart's Take: Yeah...this was pretty much hit or miss for me. Thea? I dunno who convinced RZA that she was a mix of Bjork & Esthero but I just don't hear it. Stone Mecca? Yes please! Kool G Rap, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Killa Priest, 6o Second Assassin, Prodigal Sunn, Black Knights & Rah Digga all make guest appearances but FAR too many Wu C teamers appear on the project for my tastes (Rugged Monk, Leggezin and Boy Jones...I'm looking at you!). I cannot do better than a maybe for this soundtrack but I can't wait for "Afro Samurai Resurrection" to begin airing next week.



Late Passes (For Doz Dat Slept):


Projects I'm Looking Forward To Reviewing Once They Leak...I Mean Drop in 2009:

Rhymefest-El Che
Jay Electronica-Act II: Patents Of Nobility
Jay Electronica-Abracadabra: Let There Be Light
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Mos Def-The Ecstatic LP
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Magnif & J Dilla-Detroit Royalty
Blu-God Is Good
Sean Price, Guilty Simpson & Black Milk-Random Axe
Method Man & Redman-Blackout 2
Redman-Muddy Waters 2
B.O.B.-The Adventures Of B.O.B.
Billy Danze-Behind Gatez
AG & O.C.-Oasis: Together Brothers
Baatin-Titus
Phat Kat and Elzhi are Cold Steel
The Beatnuts-The Planet Of The Crates
Skepta-Microphone Champion
Ski Beatz-Half Man, Half Amazing
Evidence-Cats & Dogs
MF Doom-Born Into This
Eminem-The Relapse
Cage-Depart From Me


"Afro Samurai Resurrection" premieres on January 25 @ 10 PM on Spike. Voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu & Mark Hamill. Soundtrack & score by The RZA

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The Official Handbook To The Blogger Universe: Dart Adams (2009 Update)

Blogger ID: Dart Adams
Real Name: Steve Adams
Occupation: Blogger/Writer/Director
Legal status: Citizen of the United States Of America with no criminal record.
Other known aliases: Invincible Swordsman, Dartagnan, Dart Champion, Poisonous Dart, God’s Right Hand, Black King Of The Hellfire Club, The Ghost Who Walks (And Occasionally Takes The Train), Seldom Seen, The Invisible Man, Dude From Boston, Bronze Surfer, Encyclopedia Black and The Blog Obama
Identity: Secret
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Marital Status: Single
Known relatives: Buctayla (Hellsenda Productions)
Group affiliations: Hellfire Club, The Realm Organization, The Blogging Avengers
Base of operations: Boston, Massachusetts
First appearance: (as Dart Adams) August 26th, 2006 on XXL.com courtesy of Sickamore

History: Dart Adams was just a dude that commented on the messageboards of sites like AllHipHop.com, Dissensus and Okayplayer before he was thrust into the position of blogger after one of his blogs was posted up on XXL.com by Sickamore more than 2 years ago. He was asked to write weekly blogs for AllHipHop.com by Odiesel and after three months Dart decided to start his own blog and call it Poisonous Paragraphs. He has since began writing reviews for eMusic and currently takes on various freelance writing assignments.

Dart uses all the knowledge he acquired over his lifetime as a 70's baby, Hip Hop head, comic book fan, anime expert, basketball player, graf writer, emcee, filmmaker, history student, retail worker and record and video store manager in his blog making it one of the most unique in the bloggerverse. Dart is currently crafting a sinister plot in hopes of one day achieving world domination...either that or make people forget that Tyler Perry ever existed. To him it's all good either way.

Height: 6’4
Weight: 230
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Bald (Black)
Strength level: Dart Adams possesses the normal human strength of a man who always gets asked to pick up and move heavy shit like tables, couches, music and stereo equipment, big screen TV’s and paintings by everyone he knows (especially family members) because he’s the biggest person they can think of right off the bat when they need crap like that done.

Known superhuman powers: None. I think. Hold on...nope, still nothing. Technically, that's not a power.

Abilities: Dart Adams has the uncanny ability to remember shit that no one else gives a fuck about and then write about it. For instance, the Ruby Spears cartoon "Rickety Rocket" was about a group of Black youth in space with a private eye service and a broken down jalopy of a spaceship with big ass lips. He can also recall events in Hip Hop history that most people have forgotten about, like that the fallout from the appearance of DJ Quik & 2nd II None on Yo! MTV Raps with Fab 5 Freddy where they refused to freestyle indirectly led to the East Coast/West Coast feud via Tim Dog's "Fuck Compton" 12'.

He can recall things, events and people from the past that few others remember. He can quote liner notes from old school Rap albums and he has an extensive library of old Hip Hop videos and films as well as a collection of defunct Hip Hop and graf magazines that he uses for fact checking purposes in case his memory fails him (hasn't yet). Dart can write for hours and hours on end stopping for nothing other than sleep, relief or sustenance (Wait. uh...isn't that the case with everybody?).

Dart also can find damn near anything on the internet whether it be a newly leaked album, film, TV show or information. He used to showcase his abilities by starting threads on Okayplayer years ago asking people to request out of print albums and he'd scour the available blogs and messageboards all over the internet and return with what he found. Even to this day he gets requests to find seemingly impossible to get a hold of music and he rarely fails to find it.

Weapons: Dart's main weapon is his 17" PowerBook G4 with a 1 GHz PowerPC processor and 2 GB of memory which he uses primarily for writing and he also uses a Mac G5 Tower with a 1.6 GHz Power PC processor with dual drives containing 2 GB of memory each which is used for music production and film editing.

Dart Adams also employs the use of a 16 GB iPod Touch that allows his to listen to newly acquired or downloaded music for review purposes or personal enjoyment. He can also use it to watch film screeners, check his e-mail or to use Twitter. He often switches it for his brother Buctayla's iPhone for short intervals and swaps it back before he notices that it was gone. Dart Adams is also a ninja (retconned origin).

As far as actual weapons go, Dart is old school and he actually prefers close quarters hand to hand combat to wielding weapons but he's proficient in a number of exotic weapons and small arms learned from growing up in Boston's South End during it's infamous Crack Era (1984-1996).

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Dart Adams presents A Tale Of Ten Trailers 14 AKA The Obama Admistration: Day One Edition

This was supposed to go up yesterday but with all of the Inauguration Day excitement and coverage no one would've seen it anyways. I've been doing some wheeling and dealing today and hopefully something will become of it. I'm also working on some interesting stuff for the upcoming month. Let me also say that I WILL be doing a part two to my "Black Like Me: Black Comic Book Heroes Through The Ages" blog in February. Anyways, enjoy the trailers and for any info on these films hit up IMDb:































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The Inauguration Day Edition AKA Darflix Edition #49

The past couple of weeks have been pretty good for the box office. The film "Defiance" opened in limited release and the following week the film "Notorious" had a surprisingly strong box office showing by making $21.5 million dollars over the weekend to debut at #4. Considering that Notorious was only in about half of the theaters of the #1 film in the country (Paul Blart, Mall Cop) it outearned it per theater by a wide margin. Biggie Smalls is still the illest!

I won't bore you all with too much film talk because I'll do a full Sundance Film Festival recap later and tomorrow I'll post up the new installment of "A Tale Of Ten Trailers" tomorrow because today is Inauguration Day. A day that I didn't think would come anytime time soon, frankly. My niece and nephew are in school right this minute watching the 44th President Of The United States Of America get inducted into office and speak to the people of this nation. I type this very sentence as he speaks and realize just how great a moment in history this is. I'll tell my grandchildren about this...and include the fact that I was typing away on a PowerBook G4 while watching CNN with one window open to Twitter. It's a new day and a new era. Let's all face it together.

Films I recommend in theaters (1.16.09-1.31.09) or to add to your queue early or for rental from either Netflix or Redbox:

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Killshot
Taken
The Class
RocknRolla
Henry Poole Is Here
Pride And Glory
Lakeview Terrace
The Express
The Children Of Huang Shi
George Wallace (Two Disc Special Edition)
The Deal
King Of The Hill
On Each Side
The Lucky Ones
Higher Ground
Life Gamble
Downfall
Holly
The Machinist [Blu-Ray]
Antwone Fisher [Blu-Ray]
King Kong [Blu-Ray]
Election [Blu-Ray]
The Bourne Trilogy [Blu-Ray]
Groundhog Day [Blu-Ray]
Zodiac [Blu-Ray]
Any Given Sunday [Blu-Ray]
In Bruges [Blu-Ray]
Death Trance [Blu-Ray]
MI-5 Vol. 6 (series)
The Best Of Electric Company-Vol. 2
Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger (comedy)
Russell Peters: Red, White And Brown (comedy)
Sam Kinison: Unleashed (comedy documentary)
Black Is...Black Ain't (documentary)
Stanley Tookie Williams (documentary)
Operation Valkyrie (documentary)
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (documentary)
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 60's (music documentary)
The Kids Are Alright-The Who (music documentary)
Rolling Stones-Rock Of Ages (music documentary)
The Animals And Beyond-Eric Burdon (music documentary)
Beat, Beat, Beat-The Yardbirds (music documentary)
Love Train: The Sound Of Philadelphia-Live In Concert (music documentary)
Hulk Vs. (animated)
The All-New Superfriends Hour: Season One, Vol. 2 (animated)
Bleach Vol. 14: The Rescue (anime)
Darker Than Black, Vol. 2 (anime)
Blood+: Volume Four (anime)
Defiance
The Wackness
Appaloosa
The Wrestler
The Brothers Bloom
Seven Pounds
Valkyrie
Revolutionary Road
Waltz With Bashir
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading
Traitor
Eagle Eye
Hamlet 2
Towel Head
Baby
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Savage Grace
The Guardpost
Cadillac Records
Nobel Son
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Twilight
Special
Hancock (Unrated Edition)
Gonzo: The Life & Work Of Hunter S. Thompson
Slumdog Millionaire
Quantum Of Solace
Planet B-Boy
Sukiyaki Western Django
DJ Dusk's Root Down Soundclash
DJ Spooky's Rebirth Of A Nation
Decon presents Fresh Rhymes And Videotape
W.
What Just Happened
Changeling
Synecdoche, New York
Let The Right One In
Fear(s) Of The Dark
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
The Incredible Hulk
Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith
Hell Ride
Elite Squad
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Religulous
Quarantine
Body Of Lies
Ballast
Boy A
Mongol
Blindness
Choke
Snow Angels
Mad Detective (Johnnie To
The Last Minute
Adulthood
Invisible Target
Street Thief
The Last Winter
Triangle

Dart's Movie Recommendations (I personally cosign all of these joints):

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Killshot
Taken
The Class
RocknRolla
Henry Poole Is Here
Pride And Glory
Lakeview Terrace
The Express
The Machinist [Blu-Ray]
Antwone Fisher [Blu-Ray]
Election [Blu-Ray]
The Bourne Trilogy [Blu-Ray]
Groundhog Day [Blu-Ray]
Any Given Sunday [Blu-Ray]
In Bruges [Blu-Ray]
The Best Of Electric Company-Vol. 2
Chris Rock: Kill The Messenger (comedy)
Russell Peters: Red, White And Brown (comedy)
Sam Kinison: Unleashed (comedy documentary)
Black Is...Black Ain't (documentary)
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 60's (music documentary)
The Kids Are Alright-The Who (music documentary)
Rolling Stones-Rock Of Ages (music documentary)
The Animals And Beyond-Eric Burdon (music documentary)
Beat, Beat, Beat-The Yardbirds (music documentary)

Rent/Watch these movies at your own risk:

Repo! The Genetic Opera: ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!

Max Payne: The first 45 minutes were so godawful I couldn't even finish it.

Saw V: Fuk U

City Of Ember: Alternate title: City Of Slumber...the book was better.

Center Stage-Turn It Up: Turn it off.

Domino [Blu-Ray]: Domino Harvey deserved better than this Tony Scott clusterfuck of a "film". Now it's in Blu-Ray! *Rolls eyes*

Vacancy 2-The First Cut: Straight to video sequels? Agnes Bruckner...what happened to her career?

Fireproof: Fuck off Kirk Cameron!

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: No no no.

College: Another generic college/stoner movie. Kick rocks.

The Uninvited: This movie is just like the film poster...nothing but ass.


Coming (relatively) Soon To A Theater (or computer) Near You:


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Dart Adams presents The Dartflix Film Review: Notorious

I saw the long awaited film about the life of Christopher Wallace AKA Biggie Smalls BKA Notorious B.I.G. over the past weekend. Being that my brother's group Relentless was actually pitched to Bad Boy during the early years (they passed on a group of 15 year olds that wrote all their rhymes and produced all their own shit) and I was old enough to remember this era pretty well I had some personal stake in this film. My first time hearing Biggie was on Heavy D's "A Buncha Niggas" off of Heavy D's "Blue Funk" LP in 1993. I was a fan from then on.

The portrayal of the early years was fairly well done. There were things that were glossed over but it's to be expected with a biopic where certain people are still alive. Biggie didn't go down south and any point to sell drugs and get recalled by Puff in the film. He stayed in New York the whole time. You can tell that the film was steered by Voletta Wallace and to a degree Faith Evans because of the fact that Kimberly Jones is portrayed a certain way but the film doesn't really delve deeply into why Kim was the way she was due to some of the omissions of events and key characters in the film.

The complete exclusion of Lance "Un" Rivera with whom Big founded Undeas Records caused me some grief as a head because Junior Mafia got their deal pretty much at the insistence of Un and he also insisted the Kim be included, something Big was actually opposed to at the beginning. In the film, Kim spits for him and he's feeling it off top and tells her to keep at it. That could actually be attributed to his other girlfriend Charli Baltimore whom he had to push on Un. Big wrote a great deal of Kim's rhymes and after he heard her knock out a few THEN he was convinced.

Other than the glaring omission of facts or the mixing of events, the film still drew you in. The performances of Gravy as B.I.G. and Derek Luke as Sean Combs were pretty much on point. The early years were highlighted by Biggie's rhyming around Brooklyn until he made his demo that got into the hands of Matty C at The Source which in turn made it to Sean "Puffy" Combs at Uptown/MCA who wanted to sign him to a deal. He had an HBCU tour ready and Big hit the road with him back in 1992. He was still Biggie Smalls, the underground rapper from Bed Stuy "Do Or Die" Brooklyn.

They showed his release from jail, the recording of his album "Ready To Die" (especially the lead single "Juicy") his subsequent success and his first encounter with Faith Evans. They did skip around the subject of his relationship with Tupac Shakur (played by Anthony Mackie), although they say that Pac "schooled Biggie to the game" but never really went into any real detail besides just scratching the surface. Mackie kinda faxed in his performance as Pac but to be fair, his character was pretty one dimensional in this film. You get the idea they were friends (because you KNOW they were) but the film didn't do enough with the relationship itself, instead it focused on the fallout more. Mistake!

The film did deal with Big's infidelity and his relationship with Junior Mafia (although only Lil' Cease has an actually name and lines) the Sixes and the Snakes are there, too...I guess. Lil' Kim is definitely in effect and steaming at the fact that Biggie is treating her like a sidepiece while he married Faith. What's even crazier is I remember Faith performing her first single on MTV and shouting out "Junior Mafia!" all throughout her verses on "You Used To Love Me" before "Player's Anthem" even dropped. It was 1995 and Big had hits, Platinum sales, artists on the come up and he was the undisputed King Of New York.

The other aspect of the film that is annoying is that none of his issues with Nas, Boot Camp Click, Jeru, Raekwon and Ghostface ever are addressed nor is his friendship with Jay-Z. If we did all that than the film would be 4 hours long so as a writer I can let that go. The omission of Charli Baltimore from the story is a bit annoying and that White chick that Fait caught Biggie cheating with was a stand in for either Lil' Kim or Charli whom it's known that she confronted and/or came to blows with in the past. Since it was Big, Charli and Cease in the car accident that scene is a frustrating one for oldheads as well.


All in all, I suggest that you see this film because every biopic omits (several) things and takes creative license with real events (Cadillac Records, I'm looking at you...and smirking!) so all that aside I recommend this movie. If you can get past all of the Hollywood shit at the end and the fact that Voletta Wallace cast Angela Bassett to play her minus a Jamaican accent/patois or the fact that the same guy that played a young Curtis Jackson ended up playing Lil' Cease then I give "Notorious' a recommended maybe (best I can do!). Now if only I get secure a studio deal a la Marvel Studios so I could help crank out rapper biopics! LOL.



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What's New In Dart's iPod #62 AKA An Abundance Of Deep Rooted Radio

It's about damn time I got back to doing album reviews. It's annoying that the first quarter of every year seems to be so slow nowadays. Why are people so reluctant to release product at the beginning of the New Year? All of that aside we are approaching Inauguration Day on the 20th when Barack Obama finally becomes the 44th President Of The United States and Leader Of The Free World. We are also facing what could become the next Great Depression, it's time to see if America can become it's resilient old self and get it back together. Also, with the recent deaths of young Black men by the hands of the police please save that "Post Racial America" bullshit for someone that's actually naive enough to believe it!

This week I'll be reviewing three new projects that either leaked or recently hit store shelves in the following order: Deep Rooted "Deep Rooted", Exile "Radio" and PPP (Platinum Pied Pipers) "Abundance". For those of you new to this blog, I don’t rate albums on a scale or assign them a numerical value out of 5 or 10, instead I merely answer the all important question of “Is it worth buying or not?”. Here's how my "Cop It Or Not" ratings system breaks down below:

Oh No! This CD is a drink coaster/table balancer/doorstop/gerbil/hamster room divider/frisbee/discus/makeshift shield/last ditch choice for a visor/alternate shuriken choice. Sell this shit to whoever is dumb enough to buy it from you.

Maeby (Maybe)! Depending on your own set of personal preferences you might like this joint. Give it a listen first to see if it's in your lane or not.

Mos Def! Cop the album when it drops...'Nuff said.

Before the Ides of Life flashes/I used to drop classes but now I drop classics! © Ill Poetic

Best Joints: Soul Vibe, D.E.E.P.R.O.O.T.E.D., Crazy, From The Heart, Rock The Hardest, Round And Round, Fade, Closer, Do It, XL, That That, Sunshine and The End

Hot Garbage: Squeeze, and Billy Jean were both meh to me.

Dart's Take: This was a pretty solid album as far as beats and rhymes go. It boasts guest appearances from Killah Priest and Blu along with production from heavy hitters like DJ Rhettmatic, Exile, Moka Only and Mr. Brady. The vocals do a good job of blending with the rhymes and the album doesn't go off on any weird tangents. While it's a solid album it didn't make me ever lose my focus on it but at the same time it didn't give me any immediate "Dayum!" moments or any tracks that I had to repeat. For that reason I give it a recommended maybe but my neck isn't hurting. Not one bit.




Best Joints: Frequency Modulation, Population Control, We're All In Control, Watch Out! False Prophet, The Machine, It's Coming Down, So We Can Move, The Sound Is God, Your Summer Song, Mega Mix, In Tone Static, San Pedro Cactus, Love Line, Stay Tuned (Here) and In Love

Hot Garbage: N/A

Dart's Take: Now THIS is more like it! I had to rewind the second part of "Watch Out! False Prophet" three times in a row after first hearing it. All of the tracks/vocals/sounds sampled and flipped on this LP came directly off of tapes recorded off the radio. That's crazy. "It's Coming Down", "So We Can Move", "The Sound Is God", Your Summer Song", "Mega Mix", "San Pedro Cactus", "Love Line" and "In Love" are all instant headnod/multiple rewind worthy compositions.

If you actually played any of those Vimeo videos of Exile freaking different beats on his trusty MPC 2000XL then you can appreciate just how much of a genius album this is. If you're not a beathead or into music or music composition then it'll be completely lost on you just how ill this instrumental LP actually is because you can't always rap/rhyme over the tracks. Either way, this Exile project well well worth the wait and it's officially the first great release of '09. I proudly give it the first Mos Def of '09.



Best Joints: Angel, Smoking Mirrors, On A Cloud, Luv Affair, Go Go Go, Sanctuary, Ain't No Ifs Or Maybes, Pigeon Hole, Lovers And Haters, The Ghost Of Aveiro, American Pimp, Dirty Secrets, Rocket Science and Goodbye/Abundance

Hot Garbage: N/A

Dart's Take: First off, let me just say that I've had this album for a while and it was damn near killing me that I couldn't let anyone else listen to it. I played this hell out of it for more than a month now. I went shopping for groceries while having it in my brother's 80 GB iPod Classic (Apple ad! LOL) over the holiday season and I didn't realize that I was nodding my head so hard with a stinkface on in the middle of the frozen food aisle until I saw my reflection in the freezer door. Too bad I ain't a self concious dude. I just continued jammin'.

PPP perfectly executes several different musical styles on "Abundance" from throwback Soul/R&B to Bossa/Samba ("The Ghost Of Aveiro") to Detroit Techno ("Rocket Science" & "Goodbye"). Your neck starts hurting from the outset with "Angel" and your rewind button gets a workout from tracks like "On A Cloud", Luv Affair", "Go, Go, Go", "Sanctuary", "Ain't No Ifs Or Maybes", "The Ghost Of Aveiro" or "American Pimp". This album is about an hour long but it usually takes me at least 2 hours to get all the way through it once because of the replays. I give "Abundance" a much deserved Mos Def. Got cop it on January 20th and check out the PPP "Abundance Mixtape" all over the 'net!.


Late Passes (For Doz Dat Slept):

Projects I'm Looking Forward To Reviewing Once They Leak...I Mean Drop in 2009:

Rhymefest-El Che
Jay Electronica-Act II: Patents Of Nobility
Jay Electronica-Abracadabra: Let There Be Light
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Mos Def-The Ecstatic LP
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Magnif & J Dilla-Detroit Royalty
Blu-God Is Good
Sean Price, Guilty Simpson & Black Milk-Random Axe
Method Man & Redman-Blackout 2
Redman-Muddy Waters 2
B.O.B.-The Adventures Of B.O.B.
Billy Danze-Behind Gatez
AG & O.C.-Oasis: Together Brothers
Baatin-Titus
Phat Kat and Elzhi are Cold Steel
The Beatnuts-The Planet Of The Crates
Skepta-Microphone Champion
Ski Beatz-Half Man, Half Amazing
Evidence-Cats & Dogs
MF Doom-Born Into This
Eminem-The Relapse
Cage-Depart From Me

Happy Inauguration Day, America! Please God, I hope no one acts a donkey and puts a black eye on the festivities!

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Dart Adams presents The Future Is Now (2009 Update)

I did the original "The Future Is Now" post in late July after Comic Con 2008 and I purposely excluded a great deal of upcoming projects that were written about non stop at that particular time. This time around, I included all of the comic book/graphic novel adaptations or the cartoon and video game flicks that have been greenlighted or are already in current development (or development limbo) that most heads weren't even up on (cuz that's what I do!).

Here is my reworked blog including several projects that I let off last time or weren't officially greenlit as of yet showcasing 50+ upcoming projects from 2009-2012. I have since added even more recently greenlit projects, updated some release dates and even added some status changes to more films that are in developmental limbo. Enjoy:


Watchmen (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/


Crows Zero II (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232831/


X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/


G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/


Dragon Ball: Evolution (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/


Red Sonja (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800175/


Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun Li (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891592/


Astro Boy (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/


Priest (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822847/


Metal Gear Solid (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808372/


Kick-Ass (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/


Preacher (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910753/


Akira (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134795/


Gears Of War (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990406/


Y: The Last Man (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800273/


Green Lantern (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/


The Silver Surfer (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051916/


Ronin (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964580/


Iron Man 2 (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/


The Mighty Thor (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/


Sin City 2 (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/


The Flash (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439572/


Green Arrow AKA Super Max (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1008047/


Conan (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816462/


The Green Hornet (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990407/


God Of War (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1199781/


Thundercats (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047015/


Voltron (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472429/


Robotech (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472429/


Namor The Sub Mariner (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436803/


The Shadow (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0915750/


Ant Man (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/


Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2010)*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482631/


Avatar: The Last Airbender (2010)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/


Jonah Hex (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075747/


Bioshock (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230526/


Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473075/


The Boys (2010)*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/


Constantine 2 (2010)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071873/


Spider-Man 4 (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/


Luke Cage (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401601/


Halo (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464037/


Deathlok (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365107/


Superman: Man Of Steel (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/


Billy Batson And The Legend Of Shazam (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448115/


X-Men Origins: Magneto (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499519/


2 Guns (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272878/


Wonder Woman (2011)*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/


The Losers (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480255/


Masters Of The Universe (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427340/


Doc Savage (2011)*

http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=1778


Avengers (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/


Justice League (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/


Captain America (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/


Cowboy Bebop (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267295/


Runaways (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236246/


Teen Titans (2011)*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043813/


Sleeper (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280569/


War Heroes (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296901/


Villains (2011)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319745/


Castlevania (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488982/


Venom (2012)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270797/


Ninja Scroll (2012)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874844/news#ni0593334


Doctor Strange (2012)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211837/


Deadpool (2012/3)**
http://www.canmag.com/nw/12548-deadpool-wolverine-spin-off


* Denotes that the particular projects are currently in development limbo (DC Comics film realignment). Also keep in mind that listed release dates are subject to change.

** Not yet officially announced but close to getting greenlight from studio

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Dart Adams presents Finally, Justice For Jim Rice! (A Rant Revisited)

Back in 2003, one of my favorite producers named Tribeca put out this classic joint about how Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall Of Fame called “Charlie Hustle (Pony Express)”. This song was in the regular rotation on WERS, the college radio station of Emerson College (which was a few blocks down from the CVS where I worked as a overnight shift manager at the time).

It used to play during the early part of my overnight shift working at the Charles St. 24 hour CVS (from 11pm-7am) and I used to listen to that song and how Tribeca broke down the airtight case of why Pete Rose should be allowed into Cooperstown in rhyme. I haven’t thought of this song for a while...that is until today when it was announced hometown hero Jim Rice was denied admittance into the Baseball Hall Of Fame yet again.

It was widely believed that this would be the year for Rice to get in seeing as how the scandals involving players and performance enhancing drugs has put a black eye on the sport of baseball lately. Among all MLB players, Jim Rice was 1st in every major offensive category between 1975-1986 save for one (batting average, he was 4th with a .304 average during that span). While Jim Rice wasn’t the most cordial with sportswriters and the media during his playing days (it also wasn't exactly the greatest climate to be a Black athlete in Boston during much of his tenure in a Red Sox uniform) but he has become revered since he retired from the game and became a coach in the Red Sox organization.

He now is a studio baseball analyst for NESN, the network that airs majority of the Red Sox games (when they’re not playing a national game on ESPN or Fox) and a beloved by Red Sox Nation. If you look at the numbers and compare him to the other great OF’s and power hitters of his era (all of whom are currently in the Hall Of Fame with the exception of Rice) there is NO good reason why Jim Rice isn’t being inducted this year.

His final chance to make it into the Baseball Hall Of Fame happens next year, this time Jim Rice fell 16 votes short and only one player will be inducted in 2008: Rich “Goose” Gossage (it took him 8 years to be voted in). Usually, the Red Sox organization waits for a player to be voted into the Hall Of Fame before they retire his number, the prevailing attitude in Red Sox Nation is that they should retire #14 this season regardless.

Jim Rice’s career statistics: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/alltime/playercard?playerId=11569 (REMIX!). Jim Rice was finally inducted to the prestigious Baseball Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in his final year of eligibility by receiving 76.4% of the total vote. He will enter the Hall with Rickey Henderson, all time MLB steals leader, former AL MVP and 2 time World Series champion. The day he finally gets inducted just brings us closer to the much deserved Jim Rice Day at Fenway Park. It's great that one of my childhood heroes is finally receiving his due from the MLB. We already have Jim Rice Field out in Roxbury, MA!

Congrats, #14! I can't wait until your number goes up there next to the greatest Boston Red Sox in MLB history.

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Dart Adams presents Old Ghosts*

Another one of the biggest complaints that I hear often from former die hard Hip Hop fans is that producers and emcees were all technically better back in the days. This is what we Oldhead Rap Nerds like to call "The Basketball Argument". I present to you my new blog entitled "Old Ghosts":

I've often been guilty of it myself. I used to be an emcee. Not a rapper, mind you. An EMCEE. I studied Hip Hop and treated it like it was a time honored profession/calling much like the clergy or being a monk is. I took the art of emceeing seriously because of all the great, groundbreaking emcees I grew up listening to. The thing is that now cats act like emcees were super lyrical cats dropping knowledge complete with multis, 'phors, similes and ill wordplay since Coke La Rock first rapped back in 1973. Nah son!

As a matter of fact, rappers back in the days were pretty simplistic in their rhyme patterns, lyrics and delivery. It was more about call and response and coming up with something that you could always come back to that filled the gap that a lack of rhymes left. There was a special group of B-Boys that would go to DJ Kool Herc's jams and watch Coke La Rock and the rest of the Herculords rock the house. They came up with their own brand of emceeing. Brothers Mr. Ness and Melle Mel each devised the "neverending" rap style and they perfected the "back & forth" style of rhyming. When they took the stage as part of the Furious Five it was a wrap for a lot old emcees careers.

The next quantum leap in emceeing came with the introduction of The Treacherous Three. Kool Moe Dee, Special K and L.A. Sunshine completely turned the Rap game upside down and introduced the next evolution in emceeing. They expounded upon the Furious Five's innovations and added more of their own. The "neverending" Rap style that Mr. Ness pioneered was now infused with rapid fire delivery of multisyllable words in a rhyme that made absolute sense to the listener. "The New Rap Language" made the entire Rap world and the aspiring emcees in it take immediate notice. With the inclusion of the do everything emcee/DJ superlyricist and innovator Grandmaster Caz the art of emceeing had it's first undisputed greats.


The next evolution in emceeing was brought about when Special K of The Treacherous Three's older brother who was a B-Boy decided to record a track for the fledgling Def Jam/Partytime label owned by Jazzy Jay and Arthur Baker. That song hit the Hip Hop world like a megaton bomb and it's fallout would be felt for years afterwards, the name of this mind blowing track was "It's Yours". After hearing this track and emulating all of the previous emcee greats a young James Todd Smith then recorded the classic Def Jam 12" "I Need A Beat". Things could never go back to the way they used to be.

The next generation of emcees was just bananas! You had KRS One, Just Ice, Chuck D, Schooly D, Slick Rick, and the list began to get bigger and bigger. Emcees couldn't just do the simple shit that they were doing in days past. Rappers such as Busy Bee, Spoonie Gee and Kurtis Blow were experiencing a serious dip in popularity starting around 1986 because a new era of Hip Hop production and emceeing was dawning. It would later be known as the First Golden Age Of Hip Hop and it would last for years (1986-1989). Hip Hop heads often harken back to it like it was as long as Ramses II tenure in Egypt or something like that.

The Kid Wizard Rakim first made himself known to the world alongside his DJ Eric B. on the song "Eric B. For President". This is where everything essentially got fucked up for anyone who dare want to call themselves an emcee/rapper and had the gall/nerve to be born in the either the late 80's or 90's. What the fuck were your parents thinking? Didn't they know that unless you were alive or born in the late 70's or early 80's you were gonna miss out on all the good shit and only be around for when it all sucks? Do me a favor. If you were born after 1985 and you're a Rap/Hip Hop fan just go and slap your parents RIGHT NOW and then continue reading. It's okay...I'll wait.

Parents all smacked? Yeah? Heeere we go! After Rakim showed up he ushered in yet another quantum leap in emceeing. The thing is that he wasn't alone in being great in his era. We also had his incredible peers like Big Daddy Kane, Kool G. Rap, The D.O.C., Ice Cube, Ice T, Scarface, Posdnous from De La Soul, Kool Keith and Ced Gee of Ultramagnetic MC's, Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian, Zev Love X of KMD (aka MF Doom), Special Ed, Masta Ace, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Roxanne Shante, King Sun and the list continued on and on and on to the light break of dawn. This is essentially the crux of the problem we have today with Hip Hop...if you grew up in this era you compare EVERY EMCEE you hear now to the seminal greats/innovators in all of Hip Hop History.

That makes about as much sense as those assholes I know that claim that they stopped loving basketball after Magic Johnson (2x), Larry Bird and Michael Jordan (3x) all retired. "The game isn't what it once was!" they all claim. "No one can even hit a mid-range jumper!". I always console with this fact. "It took one guy back in the mid 70's to catch the ball coming off of the rim in the NBA and slam it back in before he hit the ground before EVERYONE began doing the putback dunk. On the streets, people had been doing it since the 50's!. The NBA wasn't the end all be all in basketball advancements, it was LATE more often than not (ABA, I'm looking at you!). If you couldn't watch basketball after they retired you were a fan of theirs and NOT the sport itself. Good riddance to you!

Int the same way I look at people that abandoned the NBA during the mid to late 90's because "there were no great players left" I look at people that tell me that there are no more great emcees or producers in Hip Hop/Rap music anymore. Just because you're STILL upset that Pete Rock & CL Smooth broke up that's not a good reason to give up on an entire genre of music you grew up with. If you think DJ Premier beats in 2009 are still gonna make you feel the exact same way they did in 1989 you're buggin' because YOU'RE not the same person you were in 1989 now. Don't get it twisted.

I love Hip Hop from all eras but I can separate them and keep these emcees and producers in the context of their eras just like I do with athletes in different sports. I don't compare Rajon Rondo to Tiny Archibald because if I did I probably wouldn't as huge a Rajon Rondo fan as I am now. It's unfair to completely discount the best in the game today because "someone else did it first". I don't care who came up with rapid fire rapping or multis and compound rhymes first, if he heard Elzhi in 2009 he say "Dayum! He's nice" and smile knowing that Hip Hop was still alive and well. Just like I do every day.

* "Old Ghosts" references a chapter of the world famous graphic novel "Watchmen" that will be appearing as a feature film on March 6, 2009.

One.

Dart Adams presents Fearful Symmetry*

One of the biggest complaints I hear from people that used to be huge Hip Hop/Rap fans that really aren't anymore is that Hip Hop has lost it's balance. They also feel that the next generation of emcees and Hip Hop fans have all dropped the ball and let the culture down. I'll explore that concept in depth in this Watchmen inspired blog entitled "Fearful Symmetry". Enjoy:

I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've heard it before, "Hip Hop isn't what it used to be!". "It used to be fun!", "Whatever happened to the emcees?" blah blah blah. Please, I know what you're gonna say next because I was the first cat saying it back when the shit first hit the fan. I was rocking Ecko Unlimited gear back when it was Echo Unlimited gear and buying obscure 12's on Sandbox Automatic while frequenting underground Hip Hop spots that are now long dead. I was one of those cats that HATED anything that Sean Combs was attached to...which was odd considering that he's actually a family friend.

Nothing incensed me more than knowing that every time I turned on the radio or turned on BET or MTV there were people rapping over some old 70's or 80's hit and dumbing down their bars. Then came the shiny suits and the champagne and the Phantoms and the Bentley's all over the television and airwaves. Everyone else had to follow suit with what was hot at the time or become irrelevant. Underground hero Mic Geronimo put out the lead single of his sophomore album called "Nothin' Move But The Money". In the video he was seen dancing around like Mase and spittin' like him, too. Backpackers screamed bloody murder and didn't check for his album thinking that he sold out and switched over to "that bullshit".

Mic Geronimo wasn't the only one that Puff got his hooks into, even all time great femcee MC Lyte began making moves with Puff. The worse part was that kid everyone thought was the second coming of the Microphone God Rakim Allah went off on that don/mafioso bullshit, too! I mean when the Wu did it shit was coll but now these shark niggas are coming out of the water and walking on land like shit is really sweet...what part of the game is this? It sure as hell WASN'T "Halftime", I knew that much! All of the conscious emcees and groups got dropped or released from their labels or broke up. The Wu couldn't even get on the radio anymore!

Things weren't completely lost yet, though. At least in 1997 a gang of great "non Jiggy" albums dropped, the problem being was that the closer we got to the new year we just knew that a sea change was coming and pretty soon it would all be over for the entire Hip Hop/Rap industry as we knew it. Several of us already had our fire exits mapped out and our contigency plans were pre-made. The second this shit completely took over we were gonna throw on our backpacks and abandon ship. We became less impressed with the coverage in The Source and started reading these other mags on the racks instead. We began looking for new shit on the internet via 88HipHop.com, Sandbox Automatic and UndergroundHipHop.com.

There used to be a balance at one point on the major label level. You could have Kid N' Play, Kwame & A New Beginning, Special Ed, Chubb Rock, Redhead Kingpin, MC Hammer, Ice T, Ice Cube, Cool C, Steady B, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, King Sun, Lakim Shabazz, Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah, Above The Law, Run DMC, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Salt N' Pepa, Paris, Too Short, Kid Frost, Powerule, AMG, DJ Quik, Compton's Most Wanted, LL Cool J, Black Sheep, Naughty By Nature, Geto Boys, Heavy D. & The Boyz, KRS One, KMD, 3rd Bass, Eric B. & Rakim, 2 Live Crew, Eric B. & Rakim, MC Lyte, D Nice, Kid Rock, Tairre B., Schooly D, The D.O.C., Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Slick Rick, Dana Dane, Ultramagnetic MC's, etc. ALL in your tape/record collection and no one would bat an eyelash. Never no more.

Lines were now drawn in the sand. You either made that shit that got spins on the radio or you just got out the game entirely. The rules and the game had changed. You either rolled with the program or got rolled the fuck over. You wanna kick some knowledge? Kick rocks! You wanna drop some positivity? You'll GET dropped! There was no time for dancing...at least not while your rapping. If you were AT the club, it was all good, though. The good thing was that the South was finally getting heard...problem was that some of these cats weren't exactly advancing the culture of Hip Hop. But really does that matter when you're in the business of moving units? No, no it doesn't.

After Def Jam managed to find a way to convince "the hood" that the music that was blasting all over the airwaves and getting mad burn on the Viacom networks was "that authentic shit" even though it was actually outselling Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw. The sound changed from that raw Hip Hop sound we were used to growing up to having the radio all sound like Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Puff Daddy, The Neptunes or Swizz Beatz produced EVERYTHING.

The balance was completely gone now. Damn near everyone sounded the same and if you did do something different that resonated with people you had at least 3 clones dropping the next quarter. If you wanted to be political, extra lyrical, have a message, be conscious or just even experimental you could always go to an indie label and just completely forget about getting on the radio or BET/MTV. If DMX was hot, you hit next with Ja Rule. If Ja hit you followed up with Drag-On. Rather, rinse, repeat. Soon every female rapper that got signed was pretty much either doing a Foxy Brown or Lil' Kim impression...or both.

While this complete and utter lack of balance was tearing away at the Hip Hop/Rap industry at the major label level and more and more labels were being dissolved and stripped away as they all merged it become even more of a business and less about the music or the overall quality of the project. More and more albums were full of filler and radio fodder instead of album tracks like the past. This lead to a great deal of albums only having between 3-5 "good" songs out of 14 total tracks. This was where Napster, Kazaa and LimeWire all made their prescence felt. Why buy an album for $12.99 for 4 songs? Fuck that shit!

While CD's were still flying off the shelves and some of our favorite groups who were still on majors were hanging it up or having their last hurrahs, the only fans that could really overstand what was going down had pretty much abandoned the situation when the big hand wrote "Mene Mene Tikel Upharsin" on the wall a few years back. The kids that grew up knowing nothing else that had just gotten into music were clueless and the college kids that hadn't go into Rap before "No Way Out" and "Harlem World" dropped didn't know what was going down either. To them Mase, Nas, The LOX, Jay-Z, DMX, Foxy Brown, Eve, B.G., Lil' Kim, Ja Rule, Lil' Wayne, Beanie Sigel, Master P, Mystikal, Juvenile, Method Man and Redman was all the diversity they needed in Hip Hop/Rap. Ah well.

As more time passed, even our once thought to be safe existence was shaken to it's core. Rawkus ended up collapsing on itself, Fondle 'Em soon dissolved and so we all ran under El-P's tiny Def Jux umbrella instead. One thing cannot exist without the other as they provide Ying and Yang to ensure the neccesary balance to make living things thrive and grow. Hip Hop was divided in half right down the middle and on both sides commercial interest had slowly sucked away it's soul. Are things completely dead today? No. This is because Hip Hop cannot die. Is it exactly as we remember it being when we were kids or young adults? No..but WHAT is? NOTHING. Change is natural and man was has lasted on Earth so long because of his adaptability.

So what if kids today don't know who Lord Finesse is, tell them! Share his music with them and fill in the generation gap. If an 18 year old doesn't know that Just Blaze isn't the end all be all as far as producers go then break out your records and sit him down and have a real open dialogue about it with him. If young girls think they have to rhyme or look a certain way to get noticed by labels and her talent and lyricism doesn't matter then show her the long line of proud female emcees that demanded respect and forced to look them in the face and acknowledge them as equals and peers. Like Mos Def said "Hip Hop is as we are".

One day I just got sick of complaining and blaming everyone else about the current state of Hip Hop culture and decided to actually do something about it. Back in the days I just pretty much ran from the situation and hoped it would all just pass and blow over soon. After a while, I realized that things would never go back to the way they were and maybe I just should've stuck it out instead of abandoning the situation altogther and retreating underground.

* Fearful Symmetry references a chapter of the world famous graphic novel "Watchmen" that will be appearing as a feature film on March 6, 2009.

One.

A What's New In Dart's iPod Special Edition AKA There's Nothing To See Here! Clear The Area!

Once again, there were no big leaks or notable major or indie releases this week with the exception of the Notorious OST. That release turned out to be nothing more than a glorified "best of" album with some filler tracks added in so I neglected to review it. I decided to instead showcase the wide array mixtapes that dropped in the past week.

I also had my old 2 GB iPod Nano die on me, the very same one I had when I started these same series of drops on Poisonous Paragraphs back in the summer of '07. I got it for Christmas back in'05 and it lasted for just over 3 years before it became completely incapable of holding a charge. I'll upgrade to a 16 GB iPod Touch that'll be delivered on Monday instead so I'll be able to get back to the time honored format and tradition of these Friday drops in no time. Especially since I should be reviewing PPP "Abundance", Exile "Radio" and Deep Rooted "D.E.E.P. R.O.O.T.E.D." among others next week.

This drop was also hella late because I wrote a went off a wrote couple more joints that will be appearing elsewhere in the near future and I had to meet some deadlines. My recommended list of newly available downloadable mixtapes, beat tapes and albums goes a lil' something like this:


Projects I'm Looking Forward To Reviewing Once They Leak...I Mean Drop in 2009:

Rhymefest-El Che
Jay Electronica-Act II: Patents Of Nobility
Jay Electronica-Abracadabra: Let There Be Light
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Mos Def-The Ecstatic LP
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Magnif & J Dilla-Detroit Royalty
Blu-God Is Good
Sean Price, Guilty Simpson & Black Milk-Random Axe
Method Man & Redman-Blackout 2
Redman-Muddy Waters 2
B.O.B.-The Adventures Of B.O.B.
Billy Danze-Behind Gatez
AG & O.C.-Oasis: Together Brothers
Baatin-Titus
Phat Kat and Elzhi are Cold Steel
The Beatnuts-The Planet Of The Crates
Skepta-Microphone Champion
Ski Beatz-Half Man, Half Amazing
Evidence-Cats & Dogs
MF Doom-Born Into This
Eminem-The Relapse
Cage-Depart From Me

Sony MDR V150 headphones are the Koss Pro headphones that I used to cop from Radio Shack of our times. You can cop a pair for between $12-$15 so get multiples in case one shorts out. Check me out on Twitter and look for my two Watchmen inspired posts on Monday and Tuesday.

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Dart Adams presents Even More Hip Hop Documentaries Or Concert Films

Here's the second part of my recommended list of Hip Hop documentaries and concert films. Being that I'm an oldhead and a backpacker quite a few of these heads might not have previously heard of as they were only available per Hip Hop magazine mailorder catalogs from the Backpack Era and some are now on DVD. Others or hard to locate but surpringly enough are actually available. For any more info on any of these selection just gmail me. Enjoy:


The Show (1995)

Rhyme & Reason (1997)

Streets Is Watching: The Movie (1998)

Def Jam: Survival Of The Illest Live From 125 NYC (1998)

Staticopy Imagery presents Open Transport (2000)

Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme (2000)

Jay-Z: Fade To Black (2004)


Wu Tang Clan: Disciples Of The 36 Chambers (2004)

Non Phixion: The Green DVD (2004)

No Sleep Til Shangai (2007)


Turntable TV presents DJ Q-bert Live Australia-Asia (2005)

Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow: Freeze (1998/2005)

Rock The Bells (2006)

The Adventures Of Grandmaster Roc Raida Part 3: Harlem (2005)

Tragedy: The Story Of Queensbridge (2006)

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Dart Adams presents My Favorite Hip Hop Documentaries Or Concert Films

Since I really have nothing to review this week and I decided to write something I could get paid for first and rather than post a long drawn blog out here I figured I should keep with my previous theme. Here are a gang of my favorite Hip Hop documentaries and concert films from recent years. Considering the wide array of these type of DVD's are available on Netflix I decided to highlight my favorites. Just a word of advice, please avoid the Mobb Deep DVD's like the plague unless you're just a diehard fan. Enjoy:

Wild Style (1983)

Style Wars (1983)

Definitive Jux presents The Revenge Of The Robots (2003)

Boot Camp From The Front Lines (2003)

Black Moon: Behind The Moon (2004)

Stones Throw 101 (2004)

Scribble Jam Archive Number 1 (2005)


Scribble Jam Archive Number 2 (2006)

Deep Crates (2004)

Deep Crates 2 (2007)

Beat Kings: The History Of Hip Hop (2007)

Scratch (2001)

Stones Throw 102: In Living The True Gods (2008)



One.

The First Dartflix Of '09 AKA Dartflix Edition #48

2008 ended with a flurry of activity and several films were released all throughout the holiday season. Will Smith's "Seven Pounds" took 2nd place at the box office with a $14.8 million dollar showing but it was deemed too depressing by most audiences and fans seemed to steered clear of it in favor of lighter fare as Christmas approached and the new year approached.

"The Wrestler" opened up in limited release in only 4 theaters but still managed to finish in the Top 25 on the box office money list by bringing in 288K in just 4 days. Fans were impressed with the film and especially the performances of Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei. Darren Aronofsky's return to the film world has been a rousing success so far, when the awards season approaches we'll see exactly how successful.

On the other side of the coin, the next week at the box office was extremely cruel to Frank Miller' adaptation of Will Eisner's "The Spirit". It only brought in a paltry $10.3 million dollars over the 4 day Christmas weekend and was panned by critics as well as fans. The last film to inspire equal parts hatred and defense from fanboys was the Wachowski "Brothers" cinematic dayglo nightmare "Speed Racer".

The Tom Cruise vehicle "Valkyrie" that tells the tale of the failed assassination plot against Adolf Hitler did extremely well with fans and the box office by raking in $29.5 million over the same 4 days. It fared much better with critics and it continues to find an audience weeks later. The box office did extremely well over the past weeks due to the wide array of quality films available.

The ambitious adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" wowed theatergoers and critcs alike and it brought in $38.7 million over the long weekend (which was only good for 3rd place). The performances from the cast in this film easily make this a favorite to grab some serious hardware once the awards season comes around. The next big event upcoming in film is the Sundance Film Festival. I'll be back again with a recap on the 20th along with "Dart Adams presents A Tale Of Ten Trailers 14". Now, onto the recommendations:

Films I recommend in theaters (1.1.09-1.15.09) or to add to your queue early or for rental from either Netflix or Redbox:

Defiance
Battlestar Galactica-Season 4.0
The Tudors-Season 2
Pineapple Express
Righteous Kill
The Wackness
Babylon A.D.
Appaloosa
Mirrors
The Order Of Myths (documentary)
Frisky Dingo-Season 2
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl-Season One
Duckman: Four Season Pack
Gurren Lagann, Pt.2 & Vols. 3 & 4 (anime)
Hell Girl: The Complete First Season (anime)
Glass Fleet: Box Set (anime)
Dexter: The Complete First Season [Blu-Ray]
Bangkok Dangerous [Blu-Ray]
Friday Night Lights [Blu-Ray]
The Last Emperor [Blu-Ray]
Traffic [Blu-Ray]
Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence [Blu-Ray]
Glass Fleet: Box Set [Blu-Ray]
Skins-Vol. 1
Eden Lake
The Alphabet Killer
Hit And Run (Unrated Edition)
Ping Pong Playa
Opium And The Kung Fu Master
Hard Gun (Tony Jaa)
Butterfly On A Wheel
Strays
Tokyo Gore Police
Brick Lane
Supercop
The Battle Wizard (Shaw Brothers)
Patti Smith: Dream Of Life (music documentary)
John Lennon-In Performance (music documentary)
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business Of America (documentary)
The Wrestler
The Brothers Bloom
Seven Pounds
Dark Streets
The Spirit
Valkyrie
Revolutionary Road
Waltz With Bashir
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading
Generation Kill (mini series)
Traitor
Eagle Eye
The House Bunny
Death Race (Unrated Edition)
The Women
Hamlet 2
Babylon A.D.
Bangkok Dangerous
Towel Head
Baby
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Savage Grace
Cass
This Beautiful City
Crashing
The Duchess
Badland
Bobby Z
Anger
The Brave Archer
The Guardpost
Battle Of Wits
Cadillac Records
Nobel Son
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Gran Torino
Wanted
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Twilight
Special
Hancock (Unrated Edition)
Gonzo: The Life & Work Of Hunter S. Thompson
Slumdog Millionaire
Quantum Of Solace
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Planet B-Boy
Sukiyaki Western Django
DJ Dusk's Root Down Soundclash
DJ Spooky's Rebirth Of A Nation
Decon presents Fresh Rhymes And Videotape
W.
What Just Happened
Changeling
Synecdoche, New York
Let The Right One In
Fear(s) Of The Dark
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
The Incredible Hulk
Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith
Hell Ride
Elite Squad
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Religulous
Quarantine
Body Of Lies
Rocknrolla
Ballast
Boy A
Mongol
Blindness
Miracle At St. Anna
Choke
Iron Man
Snow Angels
How To Rob A Bank
Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
Redbelt
Chicago 10
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Smart People
The Legend Of The Shadowless Sword
Warlords
The Rebel
Cocaine Cowboys 2-Hustlin' With The Godmother
Doomsday
The Last Minute
Adulthood
Persepolis
Bomb It
Invisible Target
Street Thief
The Last Winter
Triangle

Dart's Movie Recommendations (I personally cosign all of these joints):

Defiance
Battlestar Galactica-Season 4.0
The Tudors-Season 2
The Wackness
Babylon A.D.
Appaloosa
The Order Of Myths
Dexter: The Complete First Season [Blu-Ray]
Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence [Blu-Ray]
Traffic [Blu-Ray]

Rent/Watch these movies at your own risk:

The Unborn: If the trailer is any indication the brown folks don't fare too well, do they?

Bride Wars: Kate Hudson vs. Anne Hathaway? Not like this...not like this! © Switch

Not Easily Broken: T.D Jakes< Tyler Perry< A shot glass of Clorox...for each year I've been alive on Earth

Postal (Director's Cut): Uwe Boll should be charged with crimes against humanity.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: I cannot get with Woody Allen films...just can't do it.

Miss Potter [Blu-Ray]: Why?

Last Legion [Blu-Ray]: Why?

Disaster Movie: Perfect fuckin' title already!

Swing Vote: Obama won easily, we didn't need YOU redneck single dad!

The Family That Preys: Tyler Perry made this so I automatically hate it.

Tyler Perry's Marriage Counselor: Tyler Perry isn't married so...he needs to shut the fuck up. Really.

Tyler Perry's House Of Payne, Vol. 3: Sense a pattern here, yet? Write what you'd think I'D say here:___________________________


Coming (relatively) Soon To A Theater (or computer) Near You:


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Dart Adams presents 20 Music Documentaries You Should See

I grew up at the great time for music fans (don't we all think that, though?). I grew up listening to all my parents records and 8 track cassettes in an age where it was tough to trust your kids with your music collection. My mom and pops drilled it in my head to respect each record and listen to the music and handle everything with care, even the 45's. We had some family friends that lived upstairs from us and both of the teenage sons had record collections and grew up to be DJ's. Between all of those records, I was in heaven.

Little kids aren't conscious of genres or have no idea what kind of labels some music has. I listened to the radio and watched TV all throughout the late 70's and 80's and I absorbed it all. I also discovered all types of music through documentaries that used to come on Pay TV (this was before cable TV existed the way it does now) channels like Starcase and Preview. My dad had one of those old school industrial top loading metal VCR's back in the days (and my closest sibling was 6 years older than me) so I saw a gang of joints that most other kids never did.

Here is a list of some up my favorite music documentaries/concert films that I saw as a kid all the way up until now that span different genres. If you can't find any of them on DVD then chances are that some of them just might be available "somewhere" or you can watch them "somewhere". Just keep your eyes open and check out my list of 20 music docs and concert films that I recommend:


The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

Pop Gear (1965)

Monterey Pop (1968)

Woodstock (1970)

Message To Love-The Isle Of Wight Festival (1970)
Gimme Shelter (1970)

Wattstax (1973)

Jimi Hendrix (1973)

Janis (1974)

The Band: The Last Waltz (1978)

The Who: The Kids Are Alright (1979)

Urgh! A Music War (1981)

Gil Scott-Heron: Black Wax (1982)

Talkin' Headz: The Metalheadz Documentary (1998)

Big Brother & The Holding Company: Nine Hundred Nights (2001)

Made In Sheffield (2002)

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Funk Brothers (2002)

Fela Kuti: Music Is The Weapon (2003)

Festival Express (2003)

The Original Soul Men: Sam & Dave (2008)

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A What's New In Dart's iPod Special Edition AKA The First Mixtapes Of 2009

Since there were no big leaks or notable major or indie releases recently I decided to instead showcase the wide array mixtapes that dropped in the past week. This drop was late because I wrote a couple of joints that will be appearing elsewhere in the near future and I had to meet some deadlines. My recommended list of newly available downloadable mixtapes, beat tapes and albums goes a lil' something like this:


Projects I'm Looking Forward To Reviewing Once They Leak...I Mean Drop in 2009:

Rhymefest-El Che
Jay Electronica-Act II: Patents Of Nobility
Jay Electronica-Abracadabra: Let There Be Light
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Mos Def-The Ecstatic LP
Royce Da 5'9"-Street Hop
Magnif & J Dilla-Detroit Royalty
Blu-God Is Good
Sean Price, Guilty Simpson & Black Milk-Random Axe
Platinum Pied Pipers (PPP)-Abundance
Method Man & Redman-Blackout 2
Redman-Muddy Waters 2
B.O.B.-The Adventures Of B.O.B.
Billy Danze-Behind Gatez
AG & O.C.-Oasis: Together Brothers
Baatin-Titus
Phat Kat and Elzhi are Cold Steel
The Beatnuts-The Planet Of The Crates
Skepta-Microphone Champion
Ski Beatz-Half Man, Half Amazing
Evidence-Cats & Dogs
MF Doom-Born Into This
Jadakiss-The Last Kiss
Eminem-The Relapse
Cage-Depart From Me

This will be my main motivation for 2009 (inside joke w/Dioracat). Happy New Year, y'all!

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104 Weeks Later AKA 483 Posts In 731 Days

It was just a year ago when I wrote this post in celebration of my first full year on Poisonous Paragraphs. This blog has now been in operation for two years and I've finally begun to make some headway in the game. I've been quoted in books, referenced in other writer's articles and oftentimes I've even been asked for advice. Since I'm still eating ramen noodles and only spending money on necessities I find that it's interesting that people would come to me for anything but that's whatever.

I've actually been given a few opportunities lately thanks to my tireless work and damn it, I'm gonna take full advantage of 'em. It's about time that I turn this into what I've treated it as for more than two years now...a job. This blog is my resume. Folks that want to see any of my "writing samples" just come here, Craigslist be damned. Below I listed some of my favorite blogs of the past year. I had to leave some drops out otherwise it would've gotten ridiculous (who am I kidding? It already is!).

Thanks to all my readers for actually blocking out time to read the ramblings of some cat who doesn't know when to stop writing over these past couple of years. Special thanks to the entire city of Boston, Odiesel, Rideout and Sickamore. If you still haven't had enough of my bullshit from this site or my MySpace then please feel free to follow my musings on Twitter. Here are some of my favorite posts from the past year:

http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/52-weeks-later-aka-212-posts-in-365.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/darts-rant-of-day-wii-virtual-console.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/dart-adams-presents-read-book-pirates.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/grndynsty-vs-ea-sports-untold-story.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/dart-adams-presents-lost-in-translation.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/lost-in-translation-jimmy-dougs.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/never-no-more-aka-old-trends-in-hip-hop.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/never-no-more-aka-old-trends-in-hip-hop_23.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/01/dart-adams-presents-lost-in-translation_28.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/darts-top-50-goat-emcees-list-as-of.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/darts-top-50-goat-hip-hop-groups-list.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/darts-rant-of-day-i-still-love-her.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/dart-adams-presents-black-like-me.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/dart-adams-presents-black-like-me_22.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/02/dart-adams-presents-10-to-watch-in-08.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/03/dart-adams-presents-25-producers-on_15.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/03/darts-top-50-goat-hip-hop-producers.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/03/dart-adams-presents-basketball-diaries.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/03/revenge-of-80s-presents-lazer-tag-vs.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/03/dart-adams-presents-journey-into.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/04/darts-rant-of-day-jay-electronica-hip.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/04/style-master-generals-aka-originators.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/04/dart-adams-presents-supreme-rap-misses.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/04/dart-adams-presents-journey-into.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/04/dart-adams-presents-8-animated-films.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/05/blood-sweat-tears.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/05/darts-rant-of-day-what-you-think-all.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/05/dart-adams-presents-aquaman-or-no.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/05/darts-rant-of-day-dear-hollywood-please.html
http://www.wydublog.com/2008/05/interview-with-blogger-v-dart-board.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-2008-nba-finals.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-2008-halftime-show.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/closer-like-john-papelbon-aka-boston.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-memories-dont-live.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/middle-children-of-history-present-10.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-project-wideawake.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-journey-into.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/06/dart-adams-presents-commerce-ruins.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/dart-adams-presents-black-zombies.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/ether-stuff-that-makes-your-soul-burn.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/dart-adams-presents-uk-true-grime.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/dart-adams-presents-nightmares-of.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/dart-adams-presents-fallout-shelter-10.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/dart-adams-presents-future-is-now.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/07/darts-rant-of-day-things-fall-apart.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/08/whats-new-in-darts-ipod-42-aka.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/08/dart-adams-presents-no-more-heroes-once.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/08/darts-rant-of-day-madden-09.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-livications-when.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/thats-kinda-racist-norbit-part-four.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/official-handbook-to-blogger-universe.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/hip-hop-related-comic-books-and-graphic.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-dartflix-film.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/revenge-of-80s-presents-teenage-mutant.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-livications.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-livications-wake.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-secret-wars-part.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-secret-wars-part_24.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-official-marvel.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/09/dart-adams-presents-livications-no.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-official-marvel.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-official-marvel_02.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/revenge-of-80s-presents-thundercats.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-livications-oh-word.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-evolution-of-cgi.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-giant-robot-wars.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-8-albums-i-wish-i.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-journey-into.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dart-adams-presents-future-is-now.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-vs-sam-chennault-3-day-war.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-indie-hip-hops.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-dartflix-film.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-crows-by-hiroshi.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-even-more-anime.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/comic-book-titles-no-one-remembers.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-time-4-sum-aksion.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/11/dart-adams-presents-100-producers-on.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-dragon-tiger-gate.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/old-school-toy-cartoon-comics-revisited.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-tokyo-tribes-by.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-my-favorite.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-top-50-non-hip-hop.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-top-250-hip-hop-eps.html
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2008/12/dart-adams-presents-top-50-films-of.html

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