Category — The Exact Same Size As Hip Hop

Yes, we’re are back from DC just in time to hit the Braves home opener. Sorry about the lack of posting. Here is a new single from Big Boi, Royal Flush. It features Andre and Raekwon. The song will be featured on Daddy Fat Sacks new album Sir Luscious Left Foot.

1. It’s good to be king. It’s also good to be the mayor’s daughter. Kai Franklin gets what amounts to a free pass on her money laundering charges.
2. We got this info for cheap. Clipse, Three Six Mafia, and others will be in town for the A3c Hip Hop Festival this weekend. See below.
3. “Alleged liberals” - this is the term we are going to use whenever neighborhoods fight density.
4. CL takes a negativeview on Grant Park eatery Stella. We went there the other night. Their hostesses were cultishly friendly. We hit the road when we realized that a liquor license hadn’t yet been obtained.

The AJC and other media outlets have virtually ignored the EAV.  Many in the neighborhood have just recently got their power back.  We give love to our South Atlanta brethren (or sisteren or whatever) with these pics.

[One of many older trees lost in the neighborhood.]

[Common sight this weekend.]

[Debris, debris everywhere.]

[We were told by friends that parts of the neighborhood were inaccessible by car on Friday night.]

[Impassable road.]

[From the roots.]

[If DPD is hiring, we recently heard this sailor was unemployed.]

The Dekalb County Police realize they have an image problem with several generations of men raised on hip hop (and, of course, police violence). They want to let the people know that they are also in them streets everyday. Unlike Jeezy, we believe they look down on peddling so much white, it’ll hurt your eyes. Luckily, they got them skills in the production booth. [Read more →]

Not really. But here she is saying “cunt” on national teevee. Also, we spent like 30 minutes trying to find an Atlanta connection for this Katt Williams video. We couldn’t, but are putting it up anyway. Another post should be available immediately following our lunch break.

[Mmmmmm Nitrates, or is Nitrites?]

1. Wonkette talks about Georgia’s pending water war with Tennessee. Once get past the Northern elitism it is an interesting read. (h/t AM)
2. Goodbye workforce housing, hello high falutin’ living. The word is that some high end condos going replacing their low end brethren across the street from Cross Keys High School.
3. Attractive Eighties Women are playing a free show at Criminal Records tomorrow night. FREE BEER AND HOT DOGS. I repeat, FREE BEER AND HOT DOGS. CL con le scoop.
4. A bill is up to restrict development on Jekyll Island. We are all for keeping developers from turning the island into a holiday version of Atlantic Station, but this bill proposes to revitalized the existing hotels From personal experience we can feel confident in judging numerous Jekyll hotels to be beyond repair. AJC with details
5. Interested in inexpensive furniture?
6. Bro, the Bonnaroo line up is up. The shift away from Jam Bands continues. Who do we like in the line up - Kanye, M.I.A., Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson, Robert Randolph, Lupe Fiasco, Rilo Kiley, Drive By Truckers, Aimee Mann, Black Kids. Cable & Tweed with the full dealio.
7. H&M is adding a second store in Atlanta before the first store even opens. It will be at North Point Mall. I wish the word “metrosexual” wasn’t so passe, because we totally could have used it. Atlanta Business Chronicle with more.
8. Reknowned Atlanta hater and hip hop heavyweight Pimp C’s death has been attributed to sippin’ on the syzzurp.
9. Here is an interesting column from the AJC about how the mortgage [insert any term but crisis] has affected homeowner’s association dues collection. What will suburban parents do without lifeguards to babysit their kids this summer?
10. The dates for Corndogorama have been set. That sentence sounds funny enough on its own.

[Our Current Conception of Where Forsyth County is Located]

1. Panderfest 2008, also known as the Georgia Legislature, is going to be sure that you can water your lawn. Good to know our commitment to water conservation isn’t meaningful. Next on the agenda, making sure Whitewater stays open. Our favorite part of this legislation is the online tutorial. The AJC details this waste of your tax dollars and more.
2. PeachPundit has dubbed Glenn Richardson Tax Jesus. More coverage here.
3. Atlantan Cee-Lo and former Athenian Danger Mouse are getting ready to release Gnarls Barkley’s second album. I guess Q-100 may finally have to stop playing Crazy. SOHH with the details.
4. The AJC lets a GSU professor roll out some serious anecdotal evidence about when science was wrong. He lists, like, three whole times. This of course leads to the logical conclusion that “we know almost nothing” about global warming. This editorial would fit nicely in a high school newspaper, so long as that paper was published at a below average public school.
5. Katt Williams is coming out with a rap album. I wish he would come out with a comedy CD. For those who haven’t seem The Pimp Chronicles, I express my deepest sympathies.  The special was filmed at the Atlanta Civic Center.
6. Braves and Birds talks about the Falcons new head coach, Mike Smith.  I am on the Falcons season ticket wait-list.  Think I will get my tickets?
7. One of our favorite state legislators has a competitor in his next Republican primary.  Tondee’s Tavern with some sparse details.
8. Atlanta retail robbing crews should start making plans now.  Oscar de la Renta is opening a store at Ben Carter’s Streets of Buckhead development.
9. SunTrust profits are down 99 percent, but at least they are making a profit.  With last year’s rumored buyout partners suffering worse fates, it seems that SunTrust may not be on its way out of Atlanta.  AJC with coverage.
10. Y’all seem to love lists (lawyaz especially).  Forsyth County is 13th on the Forbes list of richest counties in the US.  Don’t get all cocky Forsyth, you’re still, like, a 2 hour and 45 minute drive from Atlanta.
11. Manchester Orchestra is playing at the Loft tonight.  Chances of awesomenes, 100%.
    

[Unfortunately, we will always remember fat Marlon Brando]

1. Homegrown Restaurant Concepts, the Atlanta-based restaurant group that created Doc Chey’s, is opening an Italian Restaurant called Stella Neighborhood Trattoria in Grant Park near the corner of Memorial Drive and Boulevard. The restaurant will have a bar and patio and opens in February. We could probably insert something hilarious about A Streetcar Named Desire if we had ever seen the play. Simpsons episodes excluded.
2. Greenwash - a pejorative term that environmentalists and other critics use to describe the activity of giving a positive public image to putatively environmentally unsound practices. We apologize for the condescension if you already knew this definition. Watch the local news and realize how pertinent it is.
3. I’ll take intifada for $1000, Alex. Salman Rushdie is going to be at Emory on Sunday 10 February at 5:00 pm. Tickets are $10.
4. The Atlanta Business Chronicle talks about Luda’s new restaurant. They titled the article New restaurant not really a Ludacris idea. No really.
5. Gyant at Soul of Hip Hop has written a letter to Andre 3000 asking him to save Atlanta Hip Hop.
6. Burnt-tasting coffee aficionados will have to find a new spot. Starbucks in Virginia-Highland is closing. Bloglanta talks about it.
7. Delta appears to be staying in Atlanta. All Skymiles tickets are booked through 2027.
8. Creative Loafing details a man who wants to get the prostitutes out of Midtown. In other news, the United States seeks peace in the middle east.
9. Metroblogging wants you to know about the Sheriff of East Atlanta.
10. Wasn’t there a time when Barry Manilow jokes were funny. No, before Can’t Hardly Wait, in the eighties or something. He plays Phillips on Saturday.

I am not going to get into the background information about DJ Drama’s legal trouble. For that information you can look here (CL) or here (NYT). I want to fully focus on his major label debut album, Gangsta Grillz. It is the type of underground promotional mix-tapes, whose distribution was tacitly approved by corporate music, he had recently thrived upon. Although each track on the album’s rear cover is listed as “Drama featuring X, Y & Z,” it is essentially a mix-tape, using a wide variety of both producers and mc’s.

I broke my habit of listening to an album in order upon first listen, because I was so excited to listen to some new Clipse. It was a good choice as these three were some of the best. When Pharrell, Pusha & Malice (minus Pharrell=Clipse) rap about a city thriving from the drug trade I thought they were talking about Atlanta, only later in the track do you realize they are talking about Miami. I was a little relieved, although I realize that major drug trafficking occurs in and through Atlanta, I would prefer it not be the setting for every artist’s musical version of Scarface.

[Some Say Atlanta’s Best Captured Through Barb Wire. Nobody I Know Personally]

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