Lullaby

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My good friend DJ Filthy Rich passed me some very interesting CD’s a while ago.  I didn’t know these existed and may be old news to veteran parents, but I thought they were pretty awesome.  These are from the “Rockabye Baby” series of CD’s which are basically lullaby renditions of popular music.  The ones he picked up for me were the Bob Marley, U2 and Kanye ones.  The artwork is also very cool as it pulls inspiration from the original artist.  They music itself is a bit monotonous, but you can clearly identify the tunes and it’s probably meant to be…

Unintentionally…

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Ever since I bought my first record, I was a fan of Hip Hop music.  Hip Hop artists have a lot of traits, but many like to (or can) be characterized as chauvinistic, proud, masculine, and pretty tough knuckle-heads.  Very rarely would a hip hop artist openly support being gay.  That’s why when my friend Filthy Rich sent this link of “14 More of the Most Unintentionally Gay Rap Lyrics Ever”, I thought it was hilarious.  Check out this list in full but here are some of the highlights.  I really like how the article breaks up each lyric into “What he’s probably saying” and “What…

The Wu

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I’ve always been a fan of hip hop.  When I was a kid, I would follow my Dad to the record shops (this was a time when only LPs and cassette tapes were sold) and as he shopped the classical and jazz aisles, I would wander over to the hip hop section.  I think I was drawn to Hip Hop (back then it was actually labeled as “Rap”) because of the eye catching cover art and the music itself.  For me, it started when my friend Wil and his older sister gave me a copy of DJ Jazzy Jeff and…