OK, not really Seth Rogen. It’s DJ Jason Smith on the 1 and 2s at the MTV Youth Inaugural Ball last Tuesday. (Though am I the only one who thinks that Pete Wentz looks like Paul Rudd in this pic?) I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Smith is probably the only DJ to tour with both Rascal Flatts and Fatman Scoop. Word on the Street is that when Obama rolled up to the ball, he rocked out to Smith’s set including Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ (No surprise for our R&B-loving prez) and Stevie Winwood’s ‘Higher Love’ (Really, Obama? Really? Do you genuinely like 80s blue-eyed LITE-FM pop or are you our first ironic hipster president? This demands an investigation.) Regardless, for more on Mr. Smith, check out his …
I don’t often look to the O’Reily Factor for insight, but they might have a point courtesy of Dennis Miller. The former comedian was discussing the clip of Jay-Z and Young Jeezy performing ‘My President‘ in a DC nightclub the weekend before the Inauguration. Somewhere between to callow sniping and hypocritical complaints about ‘hate’ levied at Jeezy’s anti-Bush comments, Miller made the statement:
‘You’re looking at an obsolete model there because if the dinosaurs were done in by the asteroids, role models in the black community like that are about to be done in by a shooting star named Barack Obama.’
And he May be on to something. Hip-hop has a long and uncomfortable history in the role it plays inspiring the black community. Even at the highest echelons of pop stardom, artist stumble between …
There’s no argument: The web is flooded with Obama-themed tracks–most of which my grandma could have spit a better 16 over. So the good people at The Black House got together with LA luminary Akili Shine and crafted this dope audio visual for Generation O (that’ s us, just in case you missed that thing that happened two days ago). Mad proppers.
With the inauguration of Barack Obama and 2009 well underway it’s time to look towards the future. We’ve had a really great couple years in the blogosphere but we May have reached a stalemate. There are too many blogs that publish too many rubbish tracks that sound like everything loyal internetters have already heard.
If you’re like me you’ve been dying for some fresh sounds to burn out in a week and dismiss, so that the next best thing can fill that void a week later. It’s a culture of consumption and I’m here to feed you peoplez.
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