Jeff Weiss

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Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Jeff Weiss
Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious Alfred......
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The Block Is Hot: Hot Chip Take Over the Jimmy Kimmel Show

Jeff Weiss
The Green Room backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show is one of the more supremely wonderful places on earth. It's Xanadu--a place specifically designed to hit all the pleasure receptors of the male mind. No matter how refined or cultured you think you might be, it's impossible not to get......
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Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

Jeff Weiss
Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big's deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the film casts one eye on the zeros padding their bank accounts and one eye on the leeches, crooks and hustlers vulturing around them. Unfortunately,......
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Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

Jeff Weiss
Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother and rest of the flotsam and jetsam that currently constitute the rest of the Kennedy clan. This displays Hogan's ability to transcend the......
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Wale: Actually Worth the Hype

Jeff Weiss
The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rolling Stone and XXL have profiled the guy. Hell, Urb even put him on the cover of their150th issue (Though I'll admit that when I......
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The Special Technique of 5 O' Clock Shadowboxin'

Jeff Weiss
You'd be hard-pressed to find two rappers more diametrically opposed than Zilla Rocca and the man known as Weezy F. (Scott Fitzgerald) Baby. The two practically exist in different galaxies. Wayne, an iced out, ecstasy popping maniac from the streets of New Orleans, practically extra-terrestrial in his weirdness. Zilla, an......
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Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists

Jeff Weiss
Bill Clinton's reappropriation of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" might be the first song that comes to mind when talking campaign themes, but every American president has had one, dating back to George "G-Dub" Washington's 1780s barnburner, "Follow Washington," which briefly caused quite a stir in Colonial powdered-wig......
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Boyz II Men: A Philadelphia Story

Jeff Weiss
When Boyz II Men dropped  Motownphilly in the spring of '91, it not only signified the end of the New Jack Swing era, it also heralded the arrival of the l...
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The Old Testament: Fela Kuti

Jeff Weiss
I haven't wanted to listen to anything but Fela Kuti for weeks. It's getting a little weird. In the car, Expensive Shit/He Miss Road has monopolized my stereo. and at home, rather than feebly attempt productivity, I've burnt countless hours scrounging around miscellaneous legally dubious corners of the web vainly......