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Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool"
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Sex Edition
Our second-annual issue dedicated to all things sex.
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A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion
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How Not to Be a Rap Star
Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.
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Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept
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Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool" (21)
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Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept (15)
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Booty Crawl (10)
We find our nemesis and a lot of booze during a Waldo bar hop.
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No one feels sorry for Councilman Terry Riley as much as Terry Riley (7)
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China Syndrome (7)
For a real immigration debate, just look at what happened when the Chinese invaded Mexico.
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Buckle Bunny Confidential: The Young Woman's Guide to Getting Down With Rocker Boys
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Tom Russell discusses his art, his music and why he doesn't sing about politics
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Eyes of the Betrayer
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Oh, Omé: This local cage fighter turned R&B singer thinks he knows how to treat a lady.
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Pickin' on Syd
Lawrence's the Gnomes channel the spirit of Syd Barrett
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“Shake It Off” by Str8jakkett
Way back in '94/I was writin' all my flows for 2000, D.L. rapped on DVS Mindz' essential collection Million Dolla Broke Niggaz. On Mood Swings, D.L.'s DVS crewmate Str8jakkett puts his own twist on this space-time connection. His rhymes might be ahead of their time, but many of his beats sound like they've been sitting on the shelf for at least a decade. This Topeka MC gets deeper than blind fish, combining inventive boasts with starkly honest self-analysis and graphic sex talk (he rhymes money shots with runny snot), but his vivid imagery occasionally sinks into the abyss of yawning synthesized beats. On the plus side of the production ledger, Kansas City's SG donates the disc's best backdrops, and he even drops a solid verse over his own grimy piano-and-thump loop during the standout posse cut "Short Bus." The club banger "Shake It Off," on which DJ Retroblast and D.O.P.E. collaborate, is fueled by electronic bass blasts and sets Str8's delivery sprinting to keep pace. Absent from wax for some time, Str8 clearly wanted to return with a full slate, but at 78 minutes, Mood Swings runs a few tracks too long and includes the standard rap-album filler: voice-mail messages, a bank-robbery skit and a fake live radio spot from "DJ Dick Goesinya at Club Nutsack."
YO THANKS FOR EVEN GIVING ME A REAL REVIEW.EVEN I CAN ADMIT YOU WERE RIGHT ON TWO POINT'S,THE ALBUM IS TWO LONG AND THE SKIT'S. I GOT THE POINT,NOW WATCH ME STEP IT UP! STR8JAKKETT DVS 4LIFE!!!!!
Comment by stuvious — February 29, 2008 @ 09:46PM