Dare Olonoh

Finally, it feels like warm weather is here to stay.  No more quasi-blizzards going on when it should be 70 degrees outside.  We apparently traded April snowstorms for massive earthquakes and warm weather… but I’m cool with that.

Jay-Z talks on the Tavis Smiley show about how Rocawear, a company that now has annual sales of $700 million, was started with 3 sewing machines and a credit card hook-up… this is great stuff.

My brother hipped me to Afrikan Boy recently. Besides the fact that he’s reppin’ hard for Nigerians everywhere, he’s a dope MC creating some pretty innovative & fresh music.

“I live everyday like it’s the first of October… all I want to do is make my dollar and my naira”

(October 1 is Nigeria’s Independence Day & Naira is the country’s currency)

You can check him out in MIA’s Paper Planes song rockin’ the traditional Nigerian wear… now that’s what’s up!

Bonus: Here’s the Pineapple Express trailer that the Paper Planes song is featured in. I’m posting this just b/c the movie looks funny as hell & these guys are having an incredible run right now! You shouldn’t watch it at work, though.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted and I have a couple things I want to put up here, but I want to start with an old Jay-Z freestyle he did on the Funkmaster Flex show. It’s pre-Kingdom Come so I hesitated posting it but it’s hot as hell so f it

Some highlights:

“The more successful

The more stressful

The more & more I transform to Gordon Gekko

In a race to a billion

Got my face to the ceiling

Got my knees on the floor

Please Lord forgive him

Has he lost his religion

Is the greed goin’ get him

He’s having heaven on earth

Will his wings still fit him…

Time’s most influential

What’s impressive

Especially since I wasn’t in the artist section

had me with the builders and the titans

Had me right with Ruport Murdoch

Billionaire boys and some dudes you never heard of”

(you gotta love those old school phones)