Besides being the birthday of the legendary James Brown (The Godfather!), this Saturday May 3rd, there is another event worth celebrating. Fuse gallery plays host to Sweet City Woman, an all female art show featuring esteemed graf artist and former Mass Appeal art director, Queen Andrea. Fuse is located at 92 2nd Ave between 5th and 6th streets.

911-is-a-joke-cop-killa.mp3 The Game - 911 Is A Joke

In the wake of the acquittal of the police involved in the Sean Bell shooting, a lot of rappers have had a lot to say. But where are the doers? Of those thoroughly disappointed by the trial’s outcome, the Game strikes me as someone who just might end up on the front lines. Check him out addressing the situation from what looks like a pretty dope video shoot after the click through. (more »)

In a recent interview with MTV, the ever enigmatic Weezy F. revealed some details from the heavily anticipated Carter III.

“I’m not gonna have skits on the album. [The different versions of ‘A Millie’] will be where the skits would be,” he explained. “It’s gonna be like I’m calling home and the person who’s on that track is gonna be, like, inside Tha Carter at that time. Only people I put on there is all new artists — artists I think is gonna be in this music sh– for a long time. Tyga, Corey Guns, Hurricane Chris, Lil Mama — it’s gonna be ill. On the video, I’m introducing my artist, Lil Chucky. He’s 13 years old. He’s hot in the South. He’s got his own part for ‘A Millie’ too.”

With the exception of Hurricane Chris, I’ve almost forgotten all of these artists since reading that sentence. Now its not uncommon that artistic genius implodes on itself to where as said artist is completely out of touch with even his fans, but the question here was probably best posed by the Wayne himself; is he “Crazy for being Wayne, or is Wayne just crazy?”

You can easily be the rawest dude in the club if you hop out in a pair of these classic leathers. And if not, just bust a windmill during the old school set and accidently kick anyone in the face who tried to play you. Wait, you can break-dance right?
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I knew the GTA IV hype was serious, but is the game worth losing a job for? We’ll have the answer for that and many more questions on Tuesday, but in the meantime, dudes have been getting bagged left and right for snagging a copy from stores’ shipments. The best part is, they’re only taking one copy each. They’re not flipping them, they just wanna have it early! Once again, Biggie’s words ring as true as ever: UPS, is indeed hiring.

These days, Red Bull is powering a lot more than last minute cramming sessions and bachelorette parties. They’ve amasssed a pretty sick skate team, who will be putting on a demo this Saturday in Sayersville. If you make it out, tell ‘em Mass Appeal sent ya. It won’t get you (or us) anything, but at least they’ll know you’re down with the kings. Also brought to you by the most underrated little skateshop in the tri-state area, NJ Skateshop.

With just under a zillion new releases every year, Nike can’t possibly expect to strike gold every time, but when they do, oh boy. These soon to-be-released Court Forces are dripping in Native American influence in the form of patterns, leather laces and even beads. They’re speculated to be releasing sometime before the next harvest moon. (more »)

killer-mike-ft-shawty-lo_-_2_sides.mp3Killer Mike - 2 Sides

If you made it out to the 50th issue release party, you saw a number of amazing things, Killer Mike included. One of the highlights of Killer Mike’s performance, however, besides him pouring vodka shots for everyone in the crowd who wanted one, was this Shawty Lo sampling banger. Turn it all the way up and go to your happy place. It’ll be like you’re right back at the party.

Ooh wee, Prodigy is crazy! Good crazy though. Not the kind of crazy you try to avoid getting trapped in the same subway car with. The kind you trap in the booth before an impending jail term to squeeze bangers like this out of. HNIC 2 is in stores as of yesterday. Go got that!

Why, yes we did just get a shipment of Trojan condoms to use in upcoming photo shoots. We have to give a big, big thanks to Trojan. It’ll be a very safe week for everyone over here. Oh yeah, on the Magnum box, it says “Living Large.” Nice.