That White Man Is Racist! Jessies Jacksons Greatest Hits Album.

I've been sitting on this thought for a really long time now, and i think over the last so many years i've grown tired of his antics. I mean calling every Tom, Dick and Harry Racist is offensive. Its degrading and deplorable. Its really offensive to real racists.

Real Racist work waaaaaaaaay to hard to be racist, to just call someone you disagree with racist. I mean, Every year or two Jessie has to pop up and say, Hey out of Touch White Man!!! You're RACIST!!!!! and normally i let it slide, but this time he went a little too far.

Jessie calling a business owner a Slave Owner is just retarded. Jessie has as much in common with Don Imus in regards with dealing with the struggles with the black community. No matter what the occasion Jessie could be talking about an amazing Chicken Cobb Salad, and i know he would be waiting to call the salad racist for the reason it has chicken in it.

PUSH is based in Chicago, but i have yet to see them really do much. Ideologically i am at odds with The Nation Of Islam, for the fact that i have been called the White Devil more times then i care to talk about, but at the same time, NOI and Farrakhan do so much for the east side of Chicago, i will take it with a grain of Salt. Jessie does a lot for Jessie.

Jessie got a chance to run for President back in like the 80's or something, then when Obama really had a chance of winning, Jessie had to stick his head out and say some dumb shit, it's like with him the dumb ass verbal hits just keep on coming. Out of touch, out of energy, out of credit, so now its free for all to call all white men racist.

Give me a break Jessie, i am tired of your Greatest Hits Album, I mean, you really are the GOAT of calling out of touch people racist. No one calls nothing like you do, i mean, the fact that you have a few kids outside of your marriage is touching. I am still waiting for you to STFU.

I'm pretty sure, you had a message back in the day, when racism was as clear as White Only and Black Only drinking fountains, but unfortunately you are blast from the past, sounding like a washed up Emcee who is bitter that, new people have come in, and started something different, you sit in the back and say, "No one calls an out of touch white man racist like i did"

And for that, i say, Please sit down and stop embarrassing your legacy, you did a lot for the civil rights movement 50 years ago, but in the last 25 years, no one but people getting paid by being around you are taking you seriously.

Sincerely,

Icy Mike

P.S. Fuck Mel Gibson, but i have hated him since the Passion. That shit was disgusting, but i guess, Jessie didn't have time for that as well, so he went for the completely stupid Dan Gilbert shot. sheesh, talk about missing a golden opportunity for an addition to the Greatest Hits Album.

Every time Eminem drops an album.......

Why do i have to become the official spokes person for his music? when truth be told, i really don't enjoy his music, i like his raps on occasion, is he one of the greatest, yes. do i buy his music the day it drops, not a chance in hell. People from back home ruined that shit.

When you listen to people say they don't listen to "black rap" and all they listen to is Eminem and ICP, and the real thing is, that turned me off to his music completely. After hearing that more then fifty-eleven times, i said peace out to his music. I only gave it another shot coming to Chicago.

One thing i really get mad at is when any a-hole writes a review about a hip-hop CD they immediately throw out that the rappers are misogynistic and homophobic, when realistically that is a pretty subliminal racist statement. Black males have always had to fight this image of being Violent, Overly Sexed, and Homophobic. So, when they are throwing that knee jerk hip-hop pejorative around, i don't miss that for a second.

I have a lot of black friends who just don't like to be around Gay people, and have everyday struggles with women and the mothers of there children, but Only with white people have i heard of them openly talking about lynching gays, and being proud of slapping women. Em talks about both of those things with supreme microphone skills.

Eminem has set the bar for Misogynistic rap, shit he has killed and raped so many women on his albums, how do people keep buying it? but T-Pain admiring strippers is an abomination? ya'll got it twisted. Em clearly has so many issues with Women, its amazing that women buy his albums. But, it's all right cuz he's all white with ya'll. lol!

I get tired of people thinking thats how i ride is with Em, truth be told, i have never paid full price for any of his music, he's an artist that i would steal off the internet, his albums don't excite me. They excite me as much as Rakim and Nas, super lyrical but outside of that, meh. I don't even defend his art, its in defensible.

Realistically, I look at Em the same way as BET, they are both minstrel shows in there own right. I was repping hip-hop back when i first heard the Beastie Boys back when i was 6 years old. Those dudes are the just hip-hop, no one ever gave a shit that they are Jewish/White, they just made ill music.

Making great music is all i ever care about, honestly, lyrics are one of the last things i ever pay attention too. when your lyrics are the only focus on a track, you should have done a spoken word album, your voice should blend in the music and just exist with part of it, and not be all of the track.

All i ever care about in music is that you make music for my soul, Eminem does not make music for my soul, there is only one song of his i can play over and over, The Way I Am. Because truth be told, I am what ever you say I am. If i wasn't, then why would I say i am? The news, the paper, every day i am. I don't know, thats just the way i am. I couldn't agree more with Em.

So please stop asking me to review his albums already, next review will be Curren$y, Jet Life fool!!!!

Twitter=Time Waste Matrix

Well, Several months of solid Twitter at least 6 or 7 at least and let me tell you what i have gained from Twitter..............Actually, i haven't decided if ChatRoulette's endless supply of masturbating people or if twitter is worse. Actually i have, and it is Twitter.

Twitter is one of those things where you have to ask yourself, why? I mean really, why? Why does it exist? Does it exist as a medium for artist to get to know fans, or fans to get to know artists, or people to get to know people, artists to get to know artists, i believe its all of that, but in actuality, don't be anything other then those stated.

I have lost a great deal of respect for artists i once admired, and the fans and other artists surrounding them. I can only think of one time when twitter was useful, but, that would have happened in a natural time parameter anyway. I meet people in a very organic way, and stay connected with them. but, back to twitter.

Twitter is this messed up digital world of hipsters, twitter thugs, emo kids, artists, twitter vixens, and a lot of desperate people. If i follow anyone on twitter, chances are I know you in person. I learned my lessons about following people i admired from a distance. Here's looking at you Jane Doe.

Its a sick universe and a lot of people on twitter need to see a psychologist. The tweets are those of sadness, desperation, cries for attention and just overall lonely and unhappiness. only a small handful of people ever say anything important on there, I only occasionally say something somewhat intelligent.

I got onto twitter back in oct 2008 and didn't touch it because i thought it was really self enveloped, and really quite lame, then i had some friends talk me into using it, and i did, i have been using it solidly since dec of 2009, and i have literally only gained Two solid business contacts, and like i said, one of them would have happened naturally.

Its the time waste aspect that is the worst, you end up sounding like a lame ass when you talk about what @picklesandfries ReTweeted aka RT talking about how if you follow this Trending Topic it will get you to a new level of Douche, and @picklesandfries is right. Most people on there are sad, uninteresting, aggressive, ignorant and just overall idiots, trust me i am in that mix more often then not.

There are some people on twitter that make it amazing and a learning experience, but those literally make up only like 10% of the tweets. The other 90% is just self absorbed idiocracy and just overall stupid useless and heartless shit.

Its worse than ChatRoulette, at least with that you know exactly what you are getting, some dude masturbating, some dude about to start masturbating, some pervert looking to masturbate, or someone actually looking for conversation and the later makes up 10% and that is a cool 10%, at least you can skip over the other 90% of bullshit.

Thats how i approach everyone in my life, a lot of my friends and extended family are through some awesomely divine style of meeting, various jobs of mine, odd situations of how we met, but one thing that remains, we always know one person along our awesome long journey. But, Twitter NEVER has that impact. EVER. and by EVER. I MEAN. EVER.

It's all in good fun i suppose until you realize some people tweet hard and do there best to upset feelings, and just overall are looking to be a Hipster Tweet Thug Disciple from Bucktown, but fail to realize that they can get there retweet deleted real quick. don't get cute and get caught in lies, its not pretty.

My Name is @IcyMike on Twitter. and i am calling for Death Of Twitter, start learning to craft a thought above 140 characters and please stop using twitlonger, that shit is infuriating, click on a link to read your unimportant high/drunk/coked up tweet, no thank you. So glad SpringBoard is dead, that was literally more faggish than twitter by a mere 10 million penis in your mouth.

Sincerely,

Icy Mike

Dear Pullman Part Deux

Yes Wal-Mart passed through, with absolutely no real thanks to our neighborhood. People gloating about being a scourge of inaction and thwarting progress, I'm sure the people who helped save this neighborhood look at you as absolute fools.

Some people in the neighborhood would be happy with absolutely nothing, just for the solid reason it is not exactly what they want, even though, exactly what they need is willing to post up in our back yard.

I am disgusted continuously to listen to some peoples inane diatribes about stopping progress, if a WalMart wants to be in our back yard, Great. So they want to pay workers minimum wage, who cares, I know young men and women that would love A job that Older People are not taking from them.

A good majority of people that live in this neighborhood forget that there are some seriously ravaged areas of the city, the type of stuff you watch documentaries on from netflix. I am out in these areas working hands on. Lets call a spade a spade here, if you are opposing WalMart, you have never been broke.

If any of you have ever experienced what people experience in these areas you would want to get out as soon as you get the chance, the only problem is, the odds are stacked completely against you doing so, trust me. I am a rarity of my environment.

If all we ever do is whine about progress, and stop it when its in our hands, we might as well be dead. For a lot of the people i talk to, i am disgusted that i share this gorgeous neighborhood with you.

You act like you're an Elite, when in actuality you bought in this neighborhood for the same reasons my wife and i did, its affordable and nice enough, never mind that last night i just heard a continuous barrage of hand gun fire.

So, You can pretend like nothing needs to change or we can actually have the chance to have some real direct change, and trust me, things cannot get worse around here, we already have a gang in the neighborhood that keeps us safe.

So, what i am really saying is, if you were against WalMart from the moment you found out it was coming, please put your money where your mouth is, Sell your property, move to Bucktown (they love your hipster mentality) and Go Shop At Whole Foods. Some of you disgust me to a degree i didn't even know possible.

Sincerely

Michael P Bliss 7735595774

p.s. if you feel like i am talking about you, i am, call me and we can have a beer, and i will say the same things.

How I Got Over

Literally, This Album presents Hip-Hop at a full converge of what the genre is really all about, its not about fruity loops, samples, boom baps or anything akin to that, even tho, it is laden with some of those parts of the art. This shows you the blues base of which the art was birthed from.

This presents The Roots as a Band, in which they are, all of the members are an intricate part of the art. Hip-hop has grown tiresome at times, too many rappers and not enough MC's. I tell people that Black Thought is hip hops last great MC that is commercially relevant, and they scoff and argue, but i ask them if they have seen Black Thought live, and if not, i tell them to keep quiet.

Rappers rap and thats it. MC's Move The Crowd and are true Microphone Controllers. Rappers focus on pure words for the sake of words. MC's blend in with the music and are just part of it. A symbiotic relationship of sound notes and words. Rappers stay beating a beat to death with words, no style, no charisma.

I love it when words become secondary to the sound of a band, words should only enhance a score of music, everyone on here, is literally just a sonic treat to have on the album, no one feels out of place, the way the album is set up is perfect, This is as much of a treat as J.Dilla's Donuts. Nothing forced, just getting back to the roots of the culture.

I've been rocking out to The Roots hardcore since 1997, i have had the extreme pleasure of seeing them perform twice in Chicago, if you have never been to a Roots show, your life is missing out on the greatest live performing band out touring, period. They are the hardest working no ego artists out there. Check there work ethic, its impeccable and you will see them rocking out 35 years from now.

How I Got Over proves itself as one of the most beautiful pieces of art that has come through in a long time. If this would be your first Roots album purchase or your 11th, you can enjoy exactly what this album is, for what it is right now, you will play this album 15 years from now, and see all the live performing rap acts and see where it was birthed, a culture in the blues.

Over all thoughts of How I Got Over, buy a copy and then go see them when they are in a town near you, worth ever bit of money and time.

The OJ Simpson Disorder.

This is one of things i have been mulling on for some time, is peoples relative craze about whether or not OJ Simpson murdered Nicole Brown-Simpson. I even asked the homie Rhymefest if he did do it and if it mattered. Rhymefest said "it doesn't matter at all." and he is right.

It doesn't matter at all or not, because all that is for sure, is that those two kids are going to be scarred for life. Victims of domestic violence and having a mother that was brutally slain.

So, everyone can keep up the racist diatribes on either side thinking that they are having a real conversation, because like most issues, most of you are missing the point. These are some kids that have been victims of domestic violence, but you like to make spectacle out of someone else's flaws.

Domestic violence is real, and it is horrible. Everyone cracks jokes about what they would do in this scenario, but most have never been victims of domestic violence.

It's easy to dissect celebrities lives, because most never take the time to look at there own. I personally don't care about celebrities coke sniffing habits and things of that nature, but don't ever fail to miss a valuable lesson when one is being given at a great cost.

I would say a lot of people i know have missed this lesson. Some actually blame Nicole Browns family for her being murdered, regardless of who did it. Claiming it was a set up, instead of realizing, that there two kids no longer have there mom and dad. Congrats people for keeping the inane racist diatribe and not being human.

Because, it really doesn't matter if OJ did it or not...in so many different ways.

Fish Market Part 2

All i can say about this album is that it is a great example of what a mixtape can be. If the art is dope enough, why not sell it? Thats what Chali 2na has done.

I've been a fan of Chali's work since the Jurassic 5 EP in what i believe was 98 or 99. He is perfect example of making rhyming seem so easy, he's just effortless cool with the flow.

He's definitely the James Earl Jones of the rhyming world. This is one of the first solo projects i have picked up from Chali in a very good while. He's been rapping for a looong time and always blessing us with good art.

It's crazy that more people never really got on board with J5 and moreover Chali. He's one of many artist that is crazy successful with 0 ego.

I think i found my new Cigar smoking and comic book reading album. This album is very much me. Effortless cool and effortless style. You just feel good listening to this album...i need a cigar now.

Chali shows that you should never be afraid to go against the grain of the industry. He's been putting on classic material for over 12 years. so, my question is...where have you been? Sleeping and Bullshitting.

Total analysis, but 3 and pass two, it will not burn you.