Thank you, NPR.
*Bonus*
My boy Step One just uploaded one of my favorite mixtapes of all-time, Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 3 with Stretch Armstrong. Let it ride…
Videos
Throw It All Away
Music, VideosStep Brothers Evidence and Alchemist reconnect for a rainy day offering.
Related: In The Lab with The Alchemist and Evidence (Step Brothers)
Unforgettable
Music, Videos, YouthYo! This French Montana and Swae Lee (from Rae Sremmurd) shit is my new summer anthem, I can’t stop listening to it. I was looking for a way to post the stream on here, and came across this video of kids in Uganda dancing to it that I had to share. So awesome, and this song is fire—rewind selecta!!!!
*Update*
Here’s the official music video, featuring the kids from the video above…
Triple Double Trouble
Events, Sports, VideosThis dude Russell Westbrook is truly unbelievable. Of all the stats that a player can accumulate during a basketball game, I’ve always found the triple double to be the most impressive. It shows that you’re a complete player that can do more than just score. Well last night, Westbrook broke the single season triple double record in style, recording his 42nd of the season with 50 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists—including a game-winning three-pointer. “What a perfect ending to a historic day”—watch the highlights above.
By the way, Westbrook is averaging a triple double for the season. How ill is that?! Props to my man Duigs for predicting his impact in our Westcheddar Hoops season preview back in 2009.
RIP Don Rickles
Comedy, Television, The Good Old Days, Videos
The world lost a comedy legend last week—the original King of the Roast Don Rickles. I’ve been paying my respects by re-watching some old YouTube clips of his, and I invite you all to please join me because they are hysterical. Here are three of my favorites—watch Don Rickles roast Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Ronald Reagan below. Look how hard everyone was laughing, and nonstop. He was the greatest!
Some bonus stuff…
Watch Frank Sinatra share a hilarious story about Don Rickles during a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson HERE. And Adam Sandler shares some old stories with Jimmy Kimmel HERE.
This is truly the end of an era. RIP Don Rickles.
Droog x Statik
Music, VideosYOD shows off some new bars on Statik Selektah’s Shade 45 show. Nice beat selection!
Hangin’ With The Fillmore Boys
Music, The Good Old Days, VideosThe New Yorker writer Hua Hsu posted this rare, early ’90s video clip last night on Twitter of the Beastie Boys hanging out on the street in the Fillmore district of San Francisco with local rap group Totally Insane. As a Bay Area native and a huge Beasties fan, this makes me so happy. Plus the song they’re listening to is dope! Check it out it in full below, it’s called “What Ya Know” off their 1992 album District From The Backstreet.
NNGE
Music, My Dudes, VideosOddisee returns to P.G. County for his new video “NNGE,” off The Iceberg which is available everywhere now.
Related: In The Lab with Oddisee
No Smoke
Interviews, Music, VideosNew Roc Marciano video, off that Rosebudd’s Revenge. Featuring the incomparable Knowledge the Pirate. Check it out, then peep my MARCI MIX (Two Hour Special) if you missed it HERE.
*Bonus*
Roc returns to The Combat Jack Show…
Happy Street
Art, Music, VideosThe 914’s own Paul Shaffer recruits the one and only Bill Murray to sing lead vocals on his smiley new song “Happy Street.” Watch the animated video above.
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