In his upcoming solo album, “Dark Matter,” Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA rhymes about the Big Bang. The legendary rapper performed his new material at Bronx Compass High School, where he hopes to pique students’ interest in science by introducing hip-hop to the lesson plan.
Above, GZA gives a sneak peek to his album. Think you could out-rap him? Submit your own science rap here for a chance to win a shout-out from the legend.
I don’t think you’ll read two better paragraphs all evening
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The 2pac you don’t hear about.
FOREVER REBLOG!!!!
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PHOTOS BY MARC JOSEPH, 2004
This has gotta be the Wu-Tang Clan’s best song, and by extension one of hip hop’s best songs period. Everything about it is remarkable-the fact that they manage to cram every member into a four minute song, the way the RZA subtly alters the beat on each verse to suit each member’s style, the fact that you can’t pick out a weak verse from the lot of them, the fact that this is the first and only time that U-God will ever be the standout performance…it’s all kind of a masterpiece. Method Man’s outfit in the video is just icing on the cake.
In 1995, Tupac was sued by the estate of a slain Texas Trooper. The Trooper’s family claimed Tupac’s music incited police shootings.
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Hard to believe it’s taken me this long to hear this album. This is my favorite track so far.
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No Church-Gunplay
The sound mixing is horrible on this mixtape so make sure to crank it.
An Ode to Pen & Pixel Album Covers
Yesterday was great because any day where I spend over an hour looking at Pen & Pixel art is a great day. First my friend Marko put up every Pen & Pixel cover he had, then I found an even bigger archive while trying to track down one Marko didn’t have. It is 65 pages of photoshopped flames, lens flares and blinged-out letters from before “bling” was a cliche. It is the best thing you will see all month.
To bring everyone up to speed, Pen & Pixel is a graphic design firm based in Houston who made their name doing album art for rappers, primarily in the South and Southwest. The golden age of Pen & Pixel was the late 90’s and early 00’s (especially when No Limit had a new album in stores every fucking week). You know the style even if you don’t know the name: a typical Pen & Pixel cover involves the artist surrounded by photoshopped cars, weapons and women usually in the hood but sometimes in a graveyard or a church, under grandiose typography depicting their name. It’s actually hard to say what a “typical” Pen & Pixel work looks like because their process is very hands-off; they are more or less happy to do whatever their clients want. Not anything, as they explained in the Ego Trip Book of Rap Lists (nobody goes on the cross!), but their concerns were about politics not taste. No amount of computer-aided thuggin or computer-aided stuntin’ was over the line.
