Today's levels

Kilburn: 10
The Bricks: 10
London: 10
Howth: 10
Foxrock: 10

Happy fuckin' Chrismuss,

Cardinal Yule

Minked up

How is Memphis different for you than LA?

Daz: Motherfuckers out there in Memphis is doing it. One thing I know about like all the south, is they some hustlers. They’re selling everything, namean? Weed, yay, everything. They got some booty, they’re selling ass, everything. Out there its like money, motherfuckers rolling big ass rims, this big, chrome. And them motherfuckers ain’t cheap neither, riding candy-painted. Whole cars got about 7 to 8 thousand and it’s a ten thousand dollar car. They balling out there. Motherfucker, you go to the club right now, and everybody be looking like Chewbacca. Everybody got a mink on in that motherfucker.

Kurupt: Minked up.

Daz: But everybody out there, you know, they show me love. My moms, all my family, they’re from the south. I’m just happy to take care of my grandma, my mom. I got a house in Miami too.

What’s next for you two?

Daz: Taking over this motherfucker.

Kurupt: Making movies, fashion, the whole thing, the whole thing as a union. Go get this money. That’s all. Independent and with the majors.

Daz: We ain’t afraid to go nowhere, we done already been there. We done did streets to the suites.

Kurupt: Streets to the suites! Man, that’s the next one. Streets to the suites.

Daz: Hotel, all that shit. Motel 6, we used to sell dope in those little fuckin hotels. We just glad to be here.

Today's insult

Ye dopey article

Representing Shaolin, Shyheim the Rugged Child

Times is gettin hard, word is bond, I swear to God, I even got caught tryin' to steal from the junkyard: A born terror, a rebel without a pause, I never had a good Christmas... SO WHO IS SANTA CLAUS!

All you Dublin lads think yer so fuckin cool

All you Dublin lads think yer so fuckin cool

Paddy

Of all my friends, I'd have to say that Paddy Byrden is the most likely to join a revived R.U.C.

Within

To pay tribute to the fallen guitarist PRIMAL CONCRETE SLEDGE from Northern Ireland will play the music of Pantera in Eamonn Dorans, Dublin on Saturday, 10th of December.
PRIMAL CONCRETE SLEDGE are made up of members of some of Northern Ireland's best known metal bands including Stand UP Guy, Hexxed and Condemned.
Support on the night comes from Slave Zero and Within.

Sony Music=Scrooge

Dear Fans,

This is Kool Keith. This is my first time writing you all personally, because this is a serious issue. I love all my fans, but I am a little bit angry with my record company. Aren't you mad? I am on a big label, but I am getting no promotion.
The label fucked up a lot of stuff that you kids want to have access to. The video should be on TV for you kids to see. The video was done before my tour. You can call and email the following people to ask them what's going on. My project is available, but I know it's hard for you not to get any of the material, and latest updates.

You should really e-mail these people constantly, to give you the information that you need about the Black Elvis CD. Visually, radio time, show updates, and next singles and albums. You can email these people 24 hours a day, and you will get a response. Write in your complaints about the album not being seen in your local stores, or wherever you can't find Kool Keith product.

Email these people and tell them why you're angry that you haven't seen my new video. Email these people 24 hours a day nonstop, you will get a response. Ask for wigs, product, posters, videos, radio,and etc. And that's it.

Here is who you can ask what:

Why is Kool Keith getting no Promotion? Why is Columbia Records not supporting Kool Keith? Why is nothing getting done?

mailto:Tim_Devine@sonymusic.com
mailto:Paul_DeGooyer@sonymusic.com
mailto:Josh_Rosenthal@sonymusic.com
mailto:Garrett_Schaefer@sonymusic.com

Why do I never see Kool Keith on TV shows like Letterman or Moesha?

mailto:Amy_Osler@sonymusic.com

Why do you not care about Kool Keith?
Have you ever heard of Kool Keith?

mailto:Don_Ienner@sonymusic.com
mailto:Will_Botwin@sonymusic.com

Why is Kool Keith not getting played on the radio? mailto:Cindy_Levine@sonymusic.comx

Why hasn't Kool Keith been on Howard Stern?

mailto:Jerry_Blair@sonymusic.com

Why isn't Kool Keith's video getting played on MTV?
Why isn't Kool Keith's video getting played on BET?
Why isn't Kool Keith's video getting played on THE BOX?

mailto:Geordie_Gillespie@sonymusic.com

Why is KoolKeith.com owned by Columbia Records? Why haven't you given Kool Keith the digital camera you promised him? Why is http://www.Koolkeith.com never updated?

mailto:Mark_Ghuneim@sonymusic.com

Please be nice and professional to these people. Don't curse them out or harass them. But please, ask them the questions you want answered. Even if you don't see the questions here, feel free to ask them any questions pertaining to Kool Keith and Columbia Records. Fell free to email them often, until you get the response you are looking for. Remember, it is up to you fans to make your voices heard. Tell them what you think they should be doing for Keith. Let us know what you are writing these people. Please forward a copy of all of your letters to mailto:KEITHELVISBOX@AOL.COM

Thank you
Kool Keith

Christmassy

Interviewer: Do you feel that a lot of people are trying to capitalize on your name?

Kool Keith: Yeah, of course. I think a lot of people are trying to capitalize on my name. They trying to get their record deals, their tours, their shit. Everything is affiliated with Keith and I had nothing to do with a lot of that shit. Everybody is trying to bank on production and all the way around the board. Definitely, that is one thing that is going on right now. Everybody is trying to get me into anything

Leeson Loungin', kid

Throwing craze on 22 December. Old heads dropping slang again. Rep it while you trek it, the whole mountain is juice. BRING BOOTS! London, BK, the Bricks, Deansgrange, Killiney, Northside connects. Big up Foxrock, the 'Logue, Blackrock, just, just the whole motherfucking southside of the Liffey! (Fukuoka: drop knowledge.)

Please: no Peelers.

Sick Dog

But when I grow back I grow back twice as strong. When I get rich, Ireland gets rich.

An ill 2005

I just want to thank the utility companies and financial institutions without whose services 2005 would not have been half the year it was. London Energy, Thames Water, Visa and NatWest: I love you all. Let's keep catching wreck in the next. Peace also to Hackney Council, no longer "failing"! I'll miss throwing you that £500 a year. Represent!

Wax off

Rest in Peace, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. The Great Sensei has called you home to the big dojo in the sky.

We are the mods x 2; we are the x 2; we are the mods

Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris allegedly tries to decapitate him but Best chips legendary Chelsea keeper Peter Bonetti from an impossibly tight angle. United win 4-0

This Christmas

Puffin' mad chronic nugs.

THINGS COUNTRY LADS LOVE

1 A nice bit of ham.

2 Buttered biscuits.

3 Diggin Houles.

4 Saying its too cold to snow

5 Pretending to know about The Ra.

6 Tayto Cheese & Onion

7 Pretending they're in The Ra.

8 A stretch in the evenings

9 Lucozade

10 Accordians

11 Pretending to like Holy Week.

12 A dinner dance

13 Gettin clattered in muck.

14 Shania Twain.

15 Heifers

16 Spittin in their hands before doing anything
manual

17 Steel toe caps.

18 A big bowl of carrots & parsnips.

19 Eating sangwiches out of the boot of a car at GAA

20 Saying someones 'Opened a Book' on something.

21 The smell of fresh dung.

22 Slice-Your-Own Loaf.

23 Work Clothes

24 A bottle of mineral.

25 Fightin'.

26 Puttin on a ganzee to stop them from bein'
foundered

27 'The' Hurling/Fitball.

28 Being overweight.

29 Weemin wha resemble heifers.

30 Saying "Aaah" after taking their first sup of
tae.

31 Drink driving.

32 Red diesel

33 The Fear of Change.

34 A nice bit of Barnbrac

35 Lying.

36 Building walls.

37 Being starved with the cold rather than with a
lack of food

38 Pretending to like mass

39 Talking about shite like Flax and the Corncrake.

40 A good blackthorn walkin stick.

41 Shouting 'Yeeeeeoooo' when something good
happens.

42 Mohammed Ali.

43 Machinery.

44 Strange uppy-downy walks.

45 A good f**kin read of Irelands Own.

46 Gelling their 1cm fringe tight to their forehead.

47 Scandal, as long as its about other people.

48 Turf, because Sentirl heatin's for weemin.

49 Soda farls.

50 Sponge 'n Custirt

51 Newmerica', and anything to do with it.

52 Givin the dog the wildest baytins.

53 Givin the wife the wildest baytins.

54 The Ra.

55 Winning a leg of lamb in a raffle.

56 Wrecking the house whilst steaming.

57 Club Orange

58 Rubbing their hands together before tucking into
their dinner

59 The Foot & Mouth.

60 Aetin' a big feed of spuds.

61 TK Red Lemonade

Cardinal Rule does not sleep. He waits.

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Where did you come from. Where did you go?
Where did you come from Cotton-eye Joe?

Today

Today's phrase: Game ball, lads, for fuck's sake.

Today's level: Bellevue: 10

Things Shakespeare couldn't think of

Keith, aka the number one curser came through with style last night wearing a Glasgow Celtic top and demonstrating to the crowd the improving effects of angel dust and mental illness on rapping originality.

Ray

My woman and I were fortunate enough to view this truth-talking film over the weekend. Taylor Hackford! Son did not flinch from the realities of the drug experience, and made it plain through some Nine Inch Nails-type visual metaphor and plainspoken dialogues that heroin would take Jamie Foxx away from the one thing he loved more than his family and bitches: Music! At the end, the disabling hallucinations leave him, and he can see again! His mother is always with him. Seriously though, Georgia on My Mind is fucking banging.

I feel so good.

Adam: Tell me about Lost Masters 2.

Kool Keith: I think Lost Masters 2 is a great distinctive record. I went into percussion. As one of the top producers, you have to change. So, what I did was put a lot of different percussion and drums and bongo sounds in their. A lot of congas and stuff. You really don't need a snare and a kick all the time necessarily to get a rhythm. It was all about the acoustics and finger snaps. Musically, things are open. You got tribal music, African music, and all types of different genres of music. And I expanded rap music another ten years, because rap was just stuck with a lot of stagnated music. So, what I did was a lot of futuristic sounds around acoustics. Lyrically, it's my shock value. My emotions and what I go through. So, I write the truth of what I feel. You hear people like, in certain songs I can't just dazzle lyrics, rappin' 2000 miles an hour, flippin' the skill, flippin' the words. I'm not doing all that. I am just writing these percussions to get my point across. I feel so good. ‘Matthew' was so wild with kicks and snares, but this is brand new acoustics and I am saying what I like to say on these records. It's good for me as the number one curser. It was a setup. When the ‘Personal Album' was out, I fooled everybody. Even in the industry, everybody thought I was in love and was all cuddly. What I did was sidetrack everybody. All the producers around the world and all the people listening, went for it. They ate my poison like a rat. I like when they ate my poison. So, when they ate my poison, I came out bam with ‘Lost Masters 2'. Just cursing and beats with so much tension. It's a notch above what everybody else was doing. I loved it all. I broke laws. I didn't use a snare. I didn't use a kick. I just programmed bongos and turned into a mad African drummer on that album.

Los Corrections

Artifacts were from the Bricks (thanks Dun-dog). I always think Philly because Tame One's moms lives/lived in Philly and he stayed there and painted the walls a lot in his teens. I think that fact comes from an interview in the late, great STRESS Magazine (New York's Relative Force).

Re. The Roots. One of the great songs is on the blue record: Silent Treatment -- all down to Cassandra Wilson on the chorus:

Girl you know that you need
to stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby
Can't you see what you mean to me?
I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me
And treating me silently

"William"

'Ridenhour is not the only member of Public Enemy to develop a TV career in recent years. He is presumably used to the antic behaviour of his long-term-sidekick William "Flavor Flav" Drayton - when they met, at a student radio station in 1984, Drayton was apparently wearing "four or five" jackets, one on top of the other.'

Philly cheese

Hip-Hop is a broad church but time and again, people have disrespected the door policy by showing up and failing to represent. Whole cities for whole periods, too. Philadelphia spent a good twenty years shucking corn in New York's direction, while next door Newark was holding things down. If you think Philly's being unreasonably dissed here: Tracey Lee, The Roots, Jazzphatnastees, neo-soul in general, The Roots. Everyone up til Freeway. As Max Cavalera put it: Roots, bloody Roots.

The High and Mighty don't count, being ultimately pretty boring aside from the cover of that Air Force 1 record.
Neither do Cru, despite "Better call Cru, they probly in the studio, Phil Collins in the background, Su-su-sudio," such is the toll of wackness of Roots record after Roots record after self-important, pseudo-poetic Roots record.

A Metaphysical Elation -- on the real

Anthony Burgess (1917–94) lived longer than Sherlock Holmes – an astonishing fact, given the evidence of a forthcoming biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell. According to Mr Biswell, the Burgess household got through a dozen bottles of gin a week in the 1960s, even though “they hardly ever entertained visitors”. This fortified Burgess when not at the dinner table (“a couple of bottles of wine”) or at the local pub (“pints of beer with double whisky chasers”).

Burgess was a prodigious writer of novels, essays, reviews, customarily producing more than one piece per day. To help him through slow periods, Biswell reports, “he would take three dexedrine tablets, washing them down with a pint of iced gin and tonic”. When in need of a pick-me-up, he mixed a cocktail, Hangman’s Blood, described to readers of the Guardian in 1966:

“Into a pint beer-glass doubles of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port, and brandy. A small bottle of stout is added, and the whole topped up with champagne. It induces a somehow metaphysical elation, and rarely leaves a hangover”

Today's word:

Furburger

Todays levels:

Bow: 9
New York: 8
Houston: 7
Hotlanta: 9
L.A.: 9

Gear

Walking along Oxford Street, U.K. this morning I was struck by the window displays of several shops. Struck to the dome. Sir Benni Miles, Akademiks, Avirex -- you all are no longer Cardinal Rule Official Street Certified.

Was Not Was

It's about time someone used them for a beat. That Kim Basinger one. "You can't hit home runs like Babe Ruth and you can't put your finger on the truth."

Paper Boys

Dave and I saw neither Grand Agent nor the Cali Agents in Oslo and there was no evidence of a Landspeed Recordings showcase. On the other hand, G-Unit Wear WAS available, as were New Eras. As the man said "When I'm G-Unit fitted I'm just more confident."

Thug Renaissance

And where is this Thug Renaissance we keep hearing about? Who now can say they truly deserve to ship platinum? Lyor, what's up?

Don't cipher with snitches

So G Unit and Mobb Deep were in Selfridges on Saturday buying Evisu jeans, the word goes. I'm shocked at the Mobb. Having taken an honourably hard line on snitches early in their career, here they are palling around with Snitch Money himself. Why did Jam Master Jay get clapped? A lot of people are disappointed with the way Queens has gone. Where's Codename 13 in all this? Selling raps to other MCs.