Goodness Greyson
June 2, 2010
I gotta post this. My dude goes in on Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi”. This video has all the middle school girls I work with in a frenzy. And rightfully so. This is an incredible performance. Just look at all the girls in the back watching him with their eyes wide and mouth’s open. Nice job Greyson Chance. You deserve the buzz, and the millions and millions of YouTube views. Good luck kid.
Connect Four *Yankees Vs. Red Sox*
May 29, 2010
You need this in your life. Everyone’s favorite summer camp game, now available in a Yankees Vs. Red Sox MLB edition. Very cool. Cop it HERE.
Luca Long Legs
May 29, 2010
Born on his Daddy’s birthday, 5/25. Welcome to Westcheddar baby boy…
Seinfeld Sync
May 10, 2010
Kids are so funny sometimes. I think I take for granted that my job allows me to hang out with kids all day and just listen and watch them say and do the most hilarious (and impressive) things. Please watch the video above of two brothers lip syncing a Jerry Seinfeld stand up comedy routine about Halloween. It’s a treat. Spotted it recently at Vashtie’s blog, who coincidentally is a music video director (among other things) responsible for THIS Kanye x Pharrell x Lupe video that I posted a while back. Cheah.
X Marks The Spot
March 11, 2010
I posted the link below last night to the first ever BGC Open Mic (which I hosted at my job), but I wanted to give my boy Xavier Simmons his proper shine, because he especially went in with the spoken word. Xavier has transformed in the past six months from a rapper to a full fledged musician and writer, focusing more on poetry and writing songs on the piano than just murdering instrumentals (which trust me he can do with ease). Here’s his performance from the BGC Open Mic, titled “The Mechanics Of Life”….
Crazy, right? My G is gifted with it. More videos and pics from the open mic HERE. Please check it out, there were some great performances by some really talented kids. And before I go, I gotta throw the video up of my dudes the Gym Lawyer Band, two of my best friends who performed together live for the first time in over a year at the event (you might recognize Matty B from “Hammer”). How raw are these guys?
Lots of talent in Westchester County. Who else is out there? Holler at your boy and let me know so I can check them out. Uno.
Broken Bell Blam
March 10, 2010
I missed my boys Broken Bells perform on Letterman last night in celebration of their album release (it dropped yesterday). Did anyone see it? Did you cop the album yet? Don’t see last night’s clip online, so instead check this live, in studio style performance of “The High Road” they just released, which I’m sure is fairly similar to their Letterman performance (they rocked the same song). Enjoy, and go cop that Broken Bells album!!!!
*Bonus*
A tough set of judges (kids) review the new Broken Bells single “Vaporize”…
Also, MTV’s got a performance of “The Ghost Inside” on their buzzworthy site. Watch it HERE.
Bring The Chorus In
February 12, 2010
I posted a video of the PS22 Chorus singing their version of “Run This Town” a few months ago, and now they’re back with Matisyahu’s “One Day”. Love it. These kids are great performers. And I gotta give props to their teacher for this one too. Check the video below…
Turns out the PS 22 chorus has tons of videos like this, and they have their own blog! You gotta check this out. They’re resume is crazy. Good Morning America. MTV. Performances with all sorts of celebrities. Sooooooo cool.
I love to see stuff like this for kids. It inspires me. Keep up the great work PS22!!!
New School
February 2, 2010
My young boy Rell from the BX is still at it, writing good songs and making cool music videos for the streets. I support this dude 100 percent, and have posted his stuff a couple times on Westcheddar (he’s one of Matty B’s students). Here’s his latest, over Jay-Z’s “A Million And One Questions”. It’s called “I Feel”…
Check out all his videos on his YouTube channel HERE.
Another dude I’m checking for right now is my geee Killa Whale. I’ve known this kid since 7th Grade, and he lives up to his name on the mic. He’s ferocious. Even as a 7th grader his bars were so ridiculous you would’ve thought some grown ass man was ghostwriting for him. Now he’s a senior in high school, and still doing his thing. I’m looking forward to hearing some new stuff from him (his latest mixtape cover is above and is available on his Myspace page). Check out this two part interview with Killa Whale below. Thanks for the shout out Whale! White Plains stand up!
Now please, download this song onto your nearest Ipod or computer or whatever the hell you listen to your music on. These are my high school boys from Mount Kisco, and trust me, they are focused. All original beats and rhymes. Alon “Life With Stars”. I fux with this hard body…
DOWNLOAD/STREAM ALON “LIFE WITH STARS”
One more. This is from my boy Chase (from White Plains but lives in Mt. Kisco). He is writing every day, and recording every night with me where I work. Great kid, and he’s got some dope lyrics. This is his newest track, which he said is one of his best, so I thought I’d leak it out here.
DOWNLOAD/STREAM CHASE “WINNER”
Who else is nice around the way that we should be checking for? Let me know in the comments section. Peace…
Jerk Off
February 1, 2010
If you are in tune with the youth of America right now, then you know that the biggest dance in the country is called the “jerk”. It’s basically like a backwards running man. Where I work, all the kids from Kindergarten and up can do it. It’s awesome. I think I’ve got it down too. Check out the video above of a couple of my fly whiteboy middle school kids (Killa Cam and Fettucini) doing the “jerk”. I join in towards the end. LOL
Now, watch the OFFICIAL tutorial of how to do the dance, by the guys who started it all. I guess the move we are all actually doing is called “the reject”, and something else is the “jerk”. Huh. Well, around the way it’s all the same…
Now you try it!
Totally Toasted
January 20, 2010
I’ve been teaching a blogging elective class at a local jewish high school here in Westchester. My class is made up of a small group of senior boys who kind of remind me of the crew from the movie American Pie. To their credit, they’re cooler and smarter than those guys, and really passionate about New York sports culture. So I linked them up with my boy Tommy Dee from The Knicks Blog last week, and they proceeded to throw him in The Toaster, which is an interview show they created for their blog The Bagel’s Roar (a goof on their school’s literary journal The Lion’s Roar). Watch part one of the video above, where Tommy talks about how he got started blogging and his thoughts on The Knicks this season. And below, in part two, he discusses why Lebron James should come to New York, his history with jewish girls, and what he likes on his bagel…
I also brought in another prominent sports blogger and author, Adam Zagoria of Zag’s Blog (which gets over a million hits a month), to share some knowledge with my guys from The Bagel’s Roar. And he ended up getting toasted too…
The Bagel’s Roar is just getting started. They’re less than a month old, but they’ve got some pretty good stuff up there, including a pretty insane Toaster episode with a kid who got kicked out of school and had to live in the woods for the summer, and also an interview video where they go around asking people at their school who they would hook up with. Check out their blog HERE. Shalom.
P.S. Thanks for the RECOGNITION boys!
*UPDATE*
Check out this interview Tommy Dee did with Will Leitch of Deadspin, where they discuss new sports media. Interesting…
