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Post by $heriff Tom on Jan 15, 2007 8:26:22 GMT -5
Anyone?
Listen, this is worth a burn. And, if you miss the original episode, its only shown 75 more times that week. This show is very funny. I am sure its full of the same "reality show" bells and whistles and tricks (ie - "unreality") but boy did they pick the right people to be on TV.
Watch this for "John Brown" alone. After all, he's the "King of the Burbs" and he is trying to spark a "ghetto revival." How a guy from the "burbs" relates to "the ghetto" is anyones guess, but its fun to watch this play out. Original showings Monday at 10, with all the replays. MC Serch (3rd Bass fame) is an endearing host. There are cameos promised all the way through (Grandmaster Flash already made his appearance last week)
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Post by joetee316 on Jan 15, 2007 9:39:07 GMT -5
Tom, one of the new shows I was most amped for this season. Serch hosting was enuff for me to tune in. I love 3rd Bass. The first episode was as good as I anticipated. Quality stuff. I think the final three will be: Persia (a chick from Far Rockaway that can really spit it) ,JusRhyme, and Shamrock. That kid Sully isn't half bad either. You guys gots to tune in. Their crib in the South Bronx is funny as hell. A lot of cliches but you'll get past it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jan 15, 2007 9:59:51 GMT -5
Yeah, we really enjoyed the show.
Hey, Joe, do you know what the other guy from 3rd Bass is doing these days? He became, of all things, a baseball historian. He has become known in the field, and owns a store in Cooperstown and has written a couple of baseball books. He also used to lead a cemetary tour of old ballplayers gravesites in Brooklyn.
I live in Westbury. I'm the King of the Burbs.
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Post by joetee316 on Jan 15, 2007 10:21:19 GMT -5
Interesting stuff. I often wondered what the Prime Minister is up to these days. Nevertheless, here's what his brother does. I know Pete Nice used to be a good basketball player but he pursued the rap business instead. athletics.stfranciscollege.edu/Sports/mbball/2006/bb061206.asp?path=mbballI wikipedia'd Pete's name and it mentioned the Brooklyn tour. Now I want to go up to Cooperstown and check out his store, if in fact this is true.
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Post by Furious D on Jan 15, 2007 11:38:35 GMT -5
"Step Off!" is a much better catch phrase than "You're Fired" or "the Tribe Has Spoken". And throwing the sneakers of the loser over the telephone wires at the end of the show is hilarious.
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Post by Jackass on Jan 15, 2007 19:59:21 GMT -5
"Elroy Cohen gets the gas face!"
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Post by 9 on Jan 15, 2007 22:38:35 GMT -5
Why you always dissin Dante on records, y'all?
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Post by Chris on Feb 1, 2007 17:21:07 GMT -5
Suprisingly good! I watched two episodes this morning. The political white rapper riddled with "White Guilt" is annoying as hell! He had a white t-shirt on with one of those rifle-site cross-hair things printed on it...someone said something to him about and he replied, "Yeah, but do you see what's in the cross hairs? ?........WHITENESS!" The little tagline under his name on the show touts him as a PHD candidate for some sort of sociology/poli-sci type discipline. No fucking way...this guy is a complete tool...that simply can not be true.
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Post by Chris on Feb 1, 2007 17:26:28 GMT -5
I also found it funny that the little white girl named ... ahhh hell I don't remember....something with the word "child" in her name....anyway she was basically a Vanilla Ice worshiper, yet claimed to be some sort of walking encyclopedia of "old school hip hop culture."
Did she not know that her benevolent host, Serch, basically tore Ice a new asshole with the song "Pop Goes The Weasel?" He even kinda mocked her a bit in private while deliberating with Prince Paul, saying that she stayed true to her mentor, then mimicked the cheesy Vanilla Ice style.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Feb 1, 2007 18:01:18 GMT -5
"G-Child." She was annoying as hell.
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Post by Chris on Feb 2, 2007 5:22:43 GMT -5
It's really funny to me how much white youth is into rap music these days.
Now I am by no means trying to come off as some "O.G." white hip hop guy. In fact, in my hey day, in the early to mid 80s I was a punk rocker...a hard-core dirty fucked up down and out street punk. When I moved to California, some of the Mexican gang-bangers that me and my pals used to buy "things" from were really into break dancing and hip hop music in the 80s. One of those guys who I was pretty tight with turned me on to Run DMC (pre-Walk This Way...more like It's Like That era), LL Cool J (Radio era), Whodini, Kurtis Blow, etc.....later on I even tagged along to a big rap concert at The Orange Show Pavillion in San Bernadino that featured Run DMC, LL, Whodini, and The Timex Social Club - it was basically 2 or 3 thousand Crips and Bloods, a sprinkling of cholos, and ME...haha. I remember getting this Run DMC t-shirt that said "We slay all suckers who perpetrate and lay down law from state to state" on the back. I wore that shirt out a few times and white people, normal white people here in open-minded sunny Southern California gave me a lot of shit for it. I took a LOT of shit in the 80s for being a punker....jocks and preppies and cops always fucking with you....but this was a whole different ball game....this was me wearing a Run DMC shirt as nothing more than a goof, and white people across the board taking real offense to the perception that I was attempting to co-opt black culture. It's just funny to me how things have changed - rap music is almost the dominant form of pop music...and pop-culture in terms of music, fashion, and television programming and advertising really make a concerted effort to market to the "wigger" (for lack of a better term)
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Post by baldvinny on Feb 2, 2007 13:06:44 GMT -5
this show rules
and jon brown is gonna win it all, persia will come in second
HALLELUJA HOLLA BACK!
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Post by 4dogg on Feb 2, 2007 18:48:32 GMT -5
very good show indeed...since i live in the rockaways,gotta root for persia......the local paper last week stated that mc serch was also from far rock.....is that true?
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Post by Jackass on Feb 2, 2007 19:22:07 GMT -5
Cho,
For me, it was the B Boys that put me on the tip. I was into their early punk stuff (Cookie Puss was a classic) and then just followed.
I used to listen to 1580 KDAY to get the only rap on the air. I think they were really the only station in the US to play rap.
They used to play Stetsasonic, JJ Fadd, Roxanne Shante, The Real Roxanne Shante, Ice T, Young MC, and a lot of the east coast bridge wars shit which was funny because I didn't know why they were dissing each other. I think I remember them playing Digital Underground, but I might be imagining that.
They used to have this dude on there named Bobby Jimmy and they had a feature called "Bag on Bobby Jimmy" where people would call in and snap with him and he would destroy them.
Hell, I even used to go to shows at the old World on Wheels rink where they would have rap shows.
Those were the days.
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Post by baldvinny on Feb 3, 2007 10:57:22 GMT -5
i'm pretty sure Serch was born in far rockaway, but moved to the freeport/hempstead area when he was doing the 3rd bass thing. i used to work at Shoppers Village (an indoor flea market in west hempstead) and remember seeing Serch, Pete Nice, Flavor Flav, Chuck D, Terminator X and Joe Simmons (aka RUN) in there all the time
back in the day here, it was 98.7 KISS fm that used to play all the rap at the time. i remember that shit like it was yesterday
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 3, 2007 13:29:35 GMT -5
Ha, at least I'm not the only one who got stuck on this......
The funniest was when Jamar from BranNub was dissing John Brown, asking why he wanted to "revive the ghetto", and John Brown was speachless. And then the little Vanilla Ice girl did that b-boy stance at the end of the team rap, holy shit that was funny. Serch had a fucking funny look on his face.
But I think I hate that boston mick the most, though....he really needs to step off!
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Feb 4, 2007 18:10:08 GMT -5
I agree w/ Vinny. Jon Brown will win and Persia will come in second. King of the Burbs.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 5, 2007 9:43:21 GMT -5
I'm in agreement. John Brown and Persia, matching up in the final duel.
I wonder if we are going to get a one-time 3rd Bass reunion on this show.
I pretty much enjoy the dynamics between the remaining characters. This show is a breath of fresh air in a very tired genre/style.
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Post by Chris on Feb 5, 2007 12:26:21 GMT -5
Vinny - I TOTALLY remember 98.7 KISS!!!! I would listen to in off and on when I moved back to NY (White Plains) after HS around 88 or so...D.J. Red Alert's and Chuck Chillout's shows were my favorites.
Jackass - remember KDAY and Bobby Jimmy as well. Remember Bobby Jimmy would do rap paradies. He did a cover of Timex Social Clubs (not rap) "Rumos" changed to "Roaches." Funny thing is, one of the I.T. guys at my girfriend's work is one of the L.A. Dream Team guys. You know, KDAY is back on the air in an FM version.
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Post by Chris on Feb 5, 2007 12:28:23 GMT -5
I liked 100 Proof just because he had a little bit of punk rock to him.
Don't know that I have a favorite horse in this race, but I do want Jus Rhyme to leave in the worst way.
Also thought it was hilarious to see House Of Pain shown on there as some sort of musical royalty. That group holds zero credibility with me and this is why - back just before (and I mean like minutes before) "Jump Around" broke, I was working a show at the Hollywood Palladium (various backstage "gopher" type work that I took through a friend just for the sake of meeting The Ramones) - the show was The Ramones, The Cro-Mags, MDC, and House Of Pain. House of Pain were strutting their peacock feathers around backstage like they were gonna tear shit up. Don't know how the got on this bill, but they did. Anyway, House Of Pain starts the show and literally (I mean LITERALLY) got booed off the stage before their opening song, "Jump Around" was finished. Now I've heard the term "booed off the stage" used pretty loosely, but this was an honest to goodness ass-kicking doled out by an pretty unruly punk rock/hardcore crowd causing this band to walk off the stage with their heads hung in shame before finishing one song. Arrogant pricks got their asses handed to them, and since that day they are a joke to me.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 5, 2007 14:15:59 GMT -5
Thats a funny story Cho. I heard a story a long time ago, that during one of the HOP video shoots (outside of McSorley's, I think), John Bloodclot of the CroMags and his brother crashed the shoot and ended up beating up DannyBoy and some of his crew.
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Post by Chris on Feb 5, 2007 14:52:39 GMT -5
Good!
I laughed when Everlast was saying that when he was out, there was "The Beastie Boys, 3rd Base, and us."
I played first base in Little League. That would be like me saying, When it comes to 1st baseman named Chris there was Chris Chambliss, Chris Shelton, and me.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 5, 2007 16:48:10 GMT -5
Ha, Everlast is a sucker.
First, the Beasties were around 10 YEARS before he was. 3rd Bass came out in 87-88 with the Cactus (5 years before ChumpAround). In '90 Everlast was still doing wack dance-rap tracks alone. Even MarkyMark hit before HOP. FUCK, even Vanilla Ice's IceIceBaby was before him.
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Post by Chris on Feb 5, 2007 18:55:24 GMT -5
And didn't Everlast take a shot being a Stone Temple Pilots-soundalike with that Whitey Ford record?
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Post by Chris on Feb 6, 2007 4:04:07 GMT -5
Fell asleep half-way through tonight's show (thank God for Tivo) but I thought the fashion show concept was lame.
I do like the challenge after that because I like any challenge that makes them write raps....but I'm not really sold on the music video part. I wonder if any rapper with a record deal, who has music videos actually has to come up with their own concepts for the videos - I doubt it. I like it better when this show sticks to the "It's not a game, people" aspect and the challenges revolve around realistic aspects of being a rapper...the comedy is inherent in the fact that some of these contestants are total tools - they don't need to force it with rubber chickens and old ladies in wheelchairs.
But, this show STILL kicks ass! I love it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 6, 2007 8:23:41 GMT -5
Everlast was actually all over the charts with that lame stuff that he did. I remember, at that time, I was a regular call-in to the Mason and Kolinsky morning show here in NYC. I would go on at 7:20 every other morning, and every single time I would call in and wait on hold, Everlast's "whats its like" song was on. Every time. I cant hear that song without thinking about waiting on hold to get on the air.
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Post by Chris on Feb 6, 2007 12:53:45 GMT -5
In the shower this morning, I was thinking that the one rapper who was all over John Brown's ass for "Ghetto Revival" is actually the one guilty of misunderstanding.
Ghetto REVIVAL:
Revival - A restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor after a period of obscurity or quiescence.
What's so offensive about that?
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Post by yanksgooner on Feb 6, 2007 14:20:30 GMT -5
I watched this show and I was embarassed to be white.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 6, 2007 14:37:04 GMT -5
Your White??
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Post by baldvinny on Feb 6, 2007 21:03:00 GMT -5
i didnt get to see this weeks episode yet, but john brown is in my top friends on myspace and his new profile pic is him on the cover of XXL magazine
think that means he wins?
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