So I was listening to a cassette tape (that’s right–cassette tape) I made of the 1997 Wake Up Show Countdown when “Making a Name for Ourselves” came in at number seventeen.

Canibus:

“Niggaz be diggin my styles like fossils and Pterodactyls. Who wanna battle? I’m bad to the bone marrow.”

The word Pterodactyls is hard enough to spell, forget about rhyme with (or near rhyme with, anyway).

and then

The Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible. Coming to damage you, spitting understandable slang at you.

I mean “mandible?”

Common (Sense was still lingering at the time):

“Move crowds with kinetic wisdom. It’s like a Malcolm X-orcisim.”

plus

“Relaxed like Dru Down’s hair.”

That just took me back– and now back to the countdown. Hope my tape player keeps working.

I’m in that kind of mood.

Plus, it’s Wednesday.

“His conception was recondite.”

Can you believe that sh!t?! I had to get my dictionary.

And Premier! Ah man, Premier.

Those were the days…

O.k., this doesn’t really count as a post, but I did put up a new link:

Snacks and Sh!t

At least someone’s on the job. The name alone is excellent, referencing one of my favorite Jay-Z songs to go to for laughs. I mean:

“We can go bowling.”

Howling,

JB

Now I’m being just plain lazy:

“Lamont do with Rollo”

All hearsay and conjecture, just in time for the weekend.

Well here it is, Sunday. I only dropped in to check on a new version of Wordpress (another saga), when I noticed the words below had been tucked away under Drafts.

This was written a handful of years ago (note the reference to an actual CD) and sent out to nearly everyone on my e-mail list. I must have dug it out of the Sent box to save it for a rainy day. It’s not a rainy day, today, but it is Sunday and why not. Read the rest…

Greasetender is back! And what do we have here…

“I make your jam vibrate like a Nokia.”

Come on now, you know you love it! Makes me wanna do The Snake.