Respect is always an interesting topic, it’s hard to earn & easy to loose. In life, respect seems to take on a handful of faces, idolizing without envy, admiration without jealousy, reverence without awe and being star struck. It also seems that due to surplus of factors that we need not get into at the moment that respect has taken on some ugly faces as well. I know this isn’t new or shocking news, but money, power & appearance don’t always guarantee respect, at least genuine respect. It’s character, soul & your word.

R.I.P. Big L (May 30, 1974 – February 15, 1999)

Pink: D.I.T.C. (Big L & Fat Joe) – Da Enemy (don lowed)

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D.I.T.C. (2000)

Respect “Old Frankie Blue Eyes” and oh yeah… respect coffee.
R.I.P. Frank (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998)

Pink: Frank Sinatra – The Coffee Song (don lowed)

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Sony BMG (1946)

I remember being young and staying up late with my brothers to watch Carlin specials on HBO, the appreciation began way back then. Both my collection and respect has grown since. Being able to say absolutely anything you want, no matter how uncomfortable it makes some or how (often times very) politically incorrect, takes balls. Now making it all funny as hell and socially relevant deserves respect.
R.I.P. George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

Stink: George Carlin – A Modern Man (don lowed)

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“Life is Worth Loosing” 2006

Love, Peace & Respect –
Benjamin Buttons a.k.a. “The Stimulus Package”

The newer N.E.R.D. album is HOT!!! I’ve been honking this to everybody and won’t stop. Pharrell is smooth, very smooth. I think “The Neptunes” commercial production stuff serves its purpose and the joints they collectively do, is what it is and normally is the hottest track on whatever artist’s release. But… the N.E.R.D. releases feel so much more personal and showcase so much emotion. Smooth like the ice behind the zamboni.

Pink: N.E.R.D. – Yeah You (donlowd)(2008)

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www.n-e-r-d.com

A different type of smooth in my book, but still thick and creamy none-the-less. In weird but not awkward way, versatile but not for the sake of being versatile… no ham. The scratchy voice raps with great rhythms and it turns over into a buttery singing voice that lathers up various slices of toast. Delicious –

Pink: K-os – The Love Song (donlowd)(2004)

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www.k-osmusic.com

The undeniable, impeccable, old school superman of smooth…Big Daddy Kane! A quick story: Back in 1989 a young Zito set out in a car full of family members to Milwaukee, then Chicago for a summer vacation which included a Brewers, then a Cubs game. Half way there we stop, stretch, eat and walk around a mall. I pick up 2 tapes, Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation” & Big Daddy Kane “It’s a Big Daddy Thing”. Hard to argue with this track as a classic and/or standard in smoothness. Although Sade may have something to say in regards to the title… wait, I’m not sure which song came first. Kinda like that saying, which came first… the chicken or this Big Daddy omelet?

Stink: Big Daddy Kane – Smooth Operator (donlowd) (1989)

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www.officialbigdaddykane.com

Sorry I’m late with the post today. Not like anyone noticed, but either way… my apologizes.
Love, Peace & Tardy Grease-
Zito-

Alright, here it is… For awhile I watched wrestling. There I said it. Feels good to get it out there (try to imagine a sigh right now). Sure, when I was a kid wrestling was just in its uprising stage, but it was pretty good. Randy “The Macho Man” Savage, Brett “The Hitman” Heart, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine, Jimmy “The Superfly” Snuka, Paul “Mr. Wonderful” Orndorff… I really could go on & on. Saturday morning cartoons, primetime Saturday nights, giant plastic action figures. I mean come on now, those where the days, (imagine another sigh if you want). I grew out of it. I was a kid, so you can’t blame me.

Then I relapsed… years and years ago, I didn’t mean to or even want to. I largely blame alcohol. But for a moment a decade ago it turned into a type of soap opera for me and some buddies. I’m not proud of it (imagine a reassuring sigh), but it made me feel like a kid again, be it only for a minute. Akrobatik & Esoteric know what I mean.

Pink: Akrobatik featuring Esoteric – Battle Royal

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Detonator Records 2000

You all may know this by now, that another “Guilty Pleasures” is thick, dirty, nasty, grimey, in your gut, puts a look on your face like someone farted in your kitchen type beats. Jumbo is nasty.

Pink: Lyrics Born featuring Evidence & KRS ONE – Pack Up (Jumbo Remix)

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“Same Shit Different Day” Quannum Projects 2005

Another “Guilty Pleaser” is local Music/Hip-Hop… I like listening, seeing what cats are up to around here, I’m a sucker. But I guess if I find something dope in the area, I want to support it… but its slim pickings now a days (optional sigh).
Big ups to “The Majestic Theater” in Madison for having “The Mighty Underdogs” and homebrewed “”Dumate” in this Tuesday. This is “dumate” from a bit back that I like.

Stink: Dumate – Dudley Puddles

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“dumate rite (the known knowns) Inatty Records 2005
By the way: The new “N.E.R.D.” album is fresh.
By the way: The new “The Mighty Underdogs” album is very fresh. Myspace them.
By the way: D-Pike loves Wrestling
By the way: TUNAWAX loves life more than you!

Love, Peace & a Lex “The Total Package” Luger headlock full of armpit Grease –

I always thought that with age comes wisdom, then how come so many old people are dumb. Age ain’t nothing but a number and ain’t, ain’t even a word. I’m a year older now, I don’t feel any different… just a little bit older. I know I’m old when I remember and like this song.

Pink: Ill Al Skratch – Chill With That

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1994

The Large Professor has got to be pretty old by now, he’s still got that same flow & still has thick beats. Thick like butchers bacon. Thick like grandma’s meatloaf. Thick like a brick! Loved the Main Source days, loved the straight production years, especially the first Nas album, but there is so much more. He still has something left in the tank. HARDCORE!

Pink: Larger Pro – Hardcore Hip-Hop

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Gold Dust Media 2008

I’m not old, we as humans aren’t even that old… a mountain, that’s f**kin old. Dirt… old. Icebergs …old and not just because they’re shrinking. Alright, maybe I’m a little old. I do need coffee in the morning or else I’m going to be a nightmare, or at least cranky for a bit. My back is shot, that’s an old person thing, right? I like the crossword in the paper, I still like reading the paper… seems kinda oldish. Maybe I am getting old, well older, but not old. If you still got vigor, the look in your eyes, pep in your step. It’s OK to be stuck in your ways, just as long as you can do it with an open mind still. I’m old & out.

stink: The Perceptionist – Frame Rupture
(Akrobatik, Mr. Lif & DJ Fakts One)

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Produced by EL-P
Definitive Jux 2005

Love, Peace & Bear Skin Rug Grease –
Zito-

Oakland/San Fran Bay Area-
Fisherman’s Wharf, Ocean Beach, North Beach, Chinatown, Alcatraz Ishland, The de Young Art Museum, The Oakland Swap Meet, Haight & Ashbury Street, Cal Berkley and The Golden Gate Bridge. Record highs 65-70+ everyday, not a cloud in the sky.

Green Bay, WI
Lambeau Field, a record amount of snowfall in December, a bitter cold January. So fridge, that last Thursday and Friday school got canceled. Due to the fact that temps with the wind chill dropped so low that School District Officials deemed it un safe.
That’s COLD!

The new EPMD album, “We Mean Business” ?
Kinda Hot.

Pink: EPMD – BLOW (dl)

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Produced by JFK & Erick Sermon
Scratches by DJ EV

I stumbled onto this group from Las Vegas called ”Somobe”  on Myspace, I’m not sure how or through what channel. All I know is I couldn’t find it online, I was all about this one super hot track and I found it record shopping on Haight Street. Buy it here.

Pink: Somobe – We Need a Love Song (dl)

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In honor of our host out in the Bay Area, Headnodic, who gave us a sneak peak at the new The Mighty Underdogs video, so fresh. We’ll post it when it gets released in a couple of weeks, but for now here is the track. Mighty Underdogs on Def Jux. Buy Science Fiction here.

Pink: The Mighty Underdogs (Gift of Gab, Lateef & Headnodic) – Science Fiction (dl)

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Good times. Sad to leave The Bay? Yeah… And when I’m scraping a thick layer of ice off my window shield in the airport parking lot… I miss it even more.

Love, Peace & Swap Meet Grease –

It feels like big things are coming, for good or bad, who cares… well I guess a lot of people, but damn at least it’s coming.

A lot of other groups did it earlier, harder and/or better… but I’m not really a rock guy, so I could care less. I remember this song from way back in the day, punchy, hits hard… I don’t know, I’ve always just liked it. Riding to work today, my feelings were reconfirmed. Apparently unknown to me it is actually a Guitar Hero song… that makes sense.

Pink: Helmet – Unsung (download)

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I hate Walgreens, it may be CVS were you’re from but either way, I always leave that place with about $30 more than I planned to spend. I guess that’s the same for the grocery store and strip clubs. Those things (Walgreen’s) just friggin’ seem like they are everywhere! It doesn’t help that I’m in constant need of something. Regardless, I stumbled upon a cheap CD rack at a Walgreens, a bunch of Best of’s and that type stuff, but I found this… which I remembered but had forgotten about. Maybe I like Walgreen’s.

Pink: Taj Mahal – Chevrolet (downlaod)

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I honor of my trip out to the Bay tomorrow, one of my Bay area favorites.

Stink: Casual aka Smash Rockwell – Say That Then (download)

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Produced by J-Zone

Love, Peace & Fresh Coast Grease.

Back from break baby!!! Hope all is well and the holidays went good. I normally don’t do resolutions, Don’t really believe in them. I understand the whole New Year, start a new concept but I’ve always thought any day is a good day for one. But what hell here’s one of mine for this year… I’m going to start posting and listening to more music that isn’t Hip-Hop from between 1987-1995.

Well starting after this.

Pink: Shyheim – Here Comes The Hits (download)

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Another resolution… More traveling and vacationing, both big and small. Ohhhh donkey ballz, I already crushin’ this one!!! The lady & I are heading out to the Bay Area in a handful of days. The San Fran/Oakland bay area, not the Green Bay area or the Tampa Bay area (that’s not til the end of March). Headnodic get the coffee ready.
I’m not really sure when this is from but I like it, but I like it.

Pink: L Fudge & Big L -Freestyle (download)

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I know the usual ones, stop smoking, get in shape and lose weight. Kill all that noise. Here’s a couple more I’m kicking around.

• Eat more bacon-
• Beer bong less Mad Dog 20/20-
• Eat more Banana Popsicles (Blue Bunny)-
• Continue shopping at thrift store clearance racks-
• Start getting my manscaping professionally done-
• Run for Village President–
• Improve my credit score-
• Finish my memoirs & recipe book-
• Listen to more RZA-

That should get me to damn near 2010!!!

Stink: Styles of Beyond – Dont Feel Bad ft RZA (download)

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Not really sure when that’s from either. Oh well, add this one to the list, Do a little more research next time after making a resolution. As always…
Love, Peace & Bacon Grease-
Zito.

It is COLD!!! outside… well at least it is here in Wisconsin. Don’t believe me? Then go ahead and ask Raashan Ahmad of the Crown City Rockers, who I finally met up with last Sunday in -35 degrees (wind chill) conditions. Headnodic is Fam, so Raashan is Fam, getting to chat, talk music and friends, and jump on stage with him was a long time coming. I’ve been a long time fan of Raashan and you’ll be seeing and hearing more from that whole family on djnodj for sure. Mad talent, great cat and deserves all the love and support we can show him. If you know already, continue to give it up. If you’re late onto this wagon, it’s alright we forgive you this time… just don’t let it happen again. Make sure to check out Raashan Ahmad’s new album “The Push” and be on the look out for the new Crown City Rockers album coming soon to a boom box near you.

Pink: Raashan Ahmad – Here We Go (Japan Version) (download)

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http://www.myspace.com/raashanahmad
http://www.myspace.com/crowncity
www.crowncityrockers.com

Continuing to dig through the mass amounts of CD’s like a bear on top off a garbage dump, I find myself uncovering a half eaten bun cake here or there. I’m glad I gave this one another listen. Planet Asia’s official debut major release “The Grand Opening” has some pretty dope moments. Asia was in Fresno and The Bay, on a ton of mixtapes, a major label but didn’t release anything off of it…I think Interscope. He has done work since, before and collaborated with Rasco as “The Cali Agents” on a handful of projects.
This is that duo off of Planet’s 2004 release.

Pink: Planet Asia & Rasco (aka The Cali Agents) – The Greatest (download)

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I like this song. Dance to it.

Stink: The Clipse – Wamp Wamp ft. Slim Thug (what it do) (download)

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Love, Peace & Holiday Grease

I don’t know what it is… I nod my head in the car at the stop light and I don’t care if you’re watching. In the shower, I scrub & wash in rhythm, especially if you’re watching. Most times my laundry gets folded with tempo. When TUNAWAX upper management was front row at Lambeau Field for the Packers game, I could be found pelvic thrusting the railing to whatever “cheesy” tunes were coming over the P.A. Wait… that one could have been due to the glorious combo of bad beer, cheese curds, brats and blackberry brandy out of a flask disguised as binoculars. Either way, keep it movin’.

Subwave – Think (Original Mix) (download)

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Drinking coffee in the morning, flipping those eggs or pumping that gas. Getting the mail, cleaning the house or walking down the street. Playing basketball, picking out a movie at the store or losing in Memory to my 6 year old. Either way, I try to do it with a little peep in my step.

Bulljun – Eternal Reflection (download)

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I’m not always so optimistic, but if I gotta get something done and don’t necessarily want to or it’s not the most exciting thing in the world, I’ve got a list of tracks that motivate. On the flipside, I’d rather have someone stepping on my beanbag with a military boot then have country music in the background of me doing anything. Pop rock? How about just you just punch me right in the face! I know, to each his or her own… I guess. Fish Go Deep, great name. I found “Layback” on the Tokyo Lounge compilation, which is also great.

Fish Go Deep – Layback (download)

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Love, Peace & Booty Grease.

(updated: My last save didn’t work, sorry for the messed up-ness today)

A week later, I may still be suffering from post partum turkey depression. Thursday at Nana’s house, turkey, ham, mashed, stuffing, bun, green beans, corn, cream cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon, Old Style and pumpkin pie…Whooof.

Brooklyn born Dana Dane best known for his humor and fashion rhymes got his start way back with Slick Rick in the Kangol Crew. Slick Rick’s English accent real, Dane’s not so much. He actually put out an album that went Gold in 1987, led by “Cinderfella Dana Dane” but I remember him from the tracks “Nightmares” & “Delancey Street” from old school mix-tapes. In 1995 on Madonna’s Maverick Records, yeah I know messed up right, he released “Rollin Wit Dana Dane” but anyway “Record Jock” was hot.

Pink:Dana Dane – Record Jock (download)

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Produced by DJ Battlecat

The day after T-Day… the sequel T-Day 2. Friday up north… WAY the F’up north. Turkey, ham, baked broccoli & cauliflower w/ cheese and a crushed ritz topping, bun, stuffing, mashed, squash, and more pie… Oooooof.

Short doggs in the house, once again
Trying to fade the platnum, with shorty the pimp
And when I do, Im going straight to the bank
Withdraw some money and buy some dank
You cant relate to my motherfucking homies
Thats why they listen to the one and only
I grew up on the funk called p
But these motherfuckers growing up on me
And if I ego trip, and my head is fucked
I take my ass back, to where I grew up
And get real boy, its never too late
Before I do like you and make a weak ass tape
Im in the trunk…

Pink: Too Short – In The Truck (Primo Remix) (Download)

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Produced by DJ Premier

T-Day 3.0 “Revenge of the Leftovers”. A triple pie combo breakfast… pumpkin, cherry and apple… all with whipped cream. Then a full day of repeating days 1 and 2, but at a slow, long, grueling pace.

MC Ren’s 3rd solo album “The Villain in Black” has one of my favorite, slow, dirty, grimy, nasty, ugly, mean-ass, gut punchin’ and nut stompin’ tracks ever.

Stink: MC Ren – Mad Scientist (download)

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Produced by The Coooooooooooold 187Um