R - A - D - I - O

Check this out. http://www.kkfi.org/streaming.php. This is my boy's radio show that comes on weekly from the heartland of the nation, Missouri. However, if you're into NASCAR and expect to hear some Garth, this probably's not your cup of tea.

SHOUT OUT TO DJ EB! PLAY THAT KANYE "FLASHING LIGHTS". YOU'LL DIG IT!

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NFL injuries

I've read a couple good stories this week about the retired NFL
players fighting for better disability benefits. One story was from
ESPN and the other from our local free paper, The Pitch (I like this one better).

It sucks that there are soooooo many injuries in football. I never gave it as much thought before I started playing fantasy football (FF). FF forces you to pay a ridiculous amount of attention to which players are hurt and which aren't. I really don't want to care that much about rich athletes, or take pleasure when the opponent's player is hurt, but I can't help it. FF is fun, and its my guilty pleasure (at least one of them).

So despite all the pads and safety rules, football is still a dangerous sport. Some people say that they don't like to watch boxing because its too brutal, but football is just as bad! Guys get concussions all the time. Hardly anyone, it seems, makes it through a whole season without an injury. And so many guys are so messed up by the end of their career that they can barely walk. It just seems less brutal than boxing because you don't see any blood. Usually.

So from the sounds of it, I think the league could probably do a lot better at taking care of the former players. Yes, the players are rich, and many (but not all) could probably afford the surgeries. But the owners are even richer, and they're not risking their bodies, so let them chip in some more cash for the cause. I'm rooting for the players in this battle. Its a lot better of a cause for a players' union than trying to forbid a salary cap, that's for sure.

50 Cent v. Kanye West - The GloGlobe Review

This is the 1st music review for the blog and it comes at an exciting time in music and in hip-hop. The past week saw the release of both 50 Cent's and Kanye West's 3rd albums, "Curtis" and "Graduation" respectively. This was also exciting because this will probably be one of the last times that physical CD sales will approach the numbers that these two disks have this past week. Reports are that Kanye West outdistanced 50 Cent by 200,000 units, 800,000 for "Graduation" to 600,000 for "Curtis". These numbers are impressive, especially since iTunes and music pirates have struck a deathblow to CD sales. I personally bought both of the albums when they came out. This was my 1st non-online purchase of music all year. Crazy how things change so fast, but no tears are shed for these artists. Ringtones make even the one-hit wonders rich and concert tickets require a 2nd mortgage now, so keep downloading them tunes. Eventually, the songs will be advertisements for the other revenue streams anyway, like radio and tv is today.

Now for the reviews: It's hard to review these two albums against each other. Yes, they're both rap/hip-hop albums, but that's too general of a category to place these albums in. 50 Cent is a pure gangsta rapper. Cursing up a storm, talking about getting money and hoes, flexing his lyrical muscles. Kanye West is a psuedo-backpack rapper on a more positive vibe, i.e. Talib Kwali, or A Tribe Called Quest. I say "psuedo-backpack" because Kanye is more about being introspective about his feelings and how those feelings make him act the way he does. Also, artistically, 50 Cent just raps while Kanye West also produces the bulk of his tracks.

While both albums were good, I give the edge to Kanye West's "Graduation". Kanye pushes himself musically and lyrically with this album. Being his third collection, he really has become one of the better writers in the game. Breaking in as a producer on the classic Jay-Z album "The Blueprint", he has already proven to be a force as a producer. Now, the rhymes that coincide with his beats are awesome. "...The devil wears Prada, Adam & Eve wears nada, I'm in between, but way more fresher, with way less effort..." is one of many lyrical gems that laces the album. Plus, the production is not your typical hiphop beats. These are musical masterpieces with strings, violins, piano mixed with basslines and samples of classic songs, like Michael Jackson's "PYT". It gets 3.5 out of 4 (4 being as good as "Thriller").

"Curtis" is a good collection with some great moments, but gets boring with the same themes of being a hard ass brotha in the hood (even though he's made a reported $100-$400 million from his investment in Vitamin Water). The albums best moments come when 50 Cent teams up with Justin Timberlake & Timbaland on "Ayo Technology", Dr. Dre on "Come & Go" and Mary J. Blige on "All of Me". You can't just give 60% of an effort, especially when you've sold 20 million copies of your 1st 2 disks. So, it gets 2.75 out of 4 (4 being as good as "The Chronic").

Who's Yo Daddy

This is some funny stuff from my sister Leslie. I like #5 personally. Enjoy folks. (Fire Dorrell).

1. Regarding the identity of the father of my twins, child A was
fathered by Jim Munson. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of
child B, but I believe that he was conceived on the same night.

2. I am unsure, as to the identity of the father of my child as I was
being sick out of a window when taken unexpectedly from behind. I can
provide you with a list of names of men that I think were at the party
if this helps.

3. I do not know the name of the father of my little girl. She was
conceived at a party at 3600 East Grand Boulevard where I had
unprotected sex with a man I met that night. I do remember that the sex
was so good that I fainted. If you do manage to track down the father,
can you send me his phone number? Thanks.

4. I don't know the identity of the father of my daughter. He drives a
BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels.
Perhaps you can contact BMW service stations in this area and see if
he's had it replaced.

5. I have never had sex with a man. I am still a Virginian. I am
awaiting a letter from the Pope confirming that my son's conception was
ejaculate and that he is the Saver risen again.

6. I cannot tell you the name of child A's dad as he informs me that to
do so would blow his cover and that would have cataclysmic implications
for the economy. I am torn between doing right by you and right by the
country. Please advise.

7. I do not know who the father of my child was as all blacks look the
same to me.

8. Peter Smith is the father of child A. If you do catch up with him,
can you ask him what he did with my AC/DC CDs? Child B who was also
borned at the same time...well, I don't have clue.

9. From the dates it seems that my daughter was conceived at Disney
World; maybe it really is the Magic Kingdom.

10. So much about that night is a blur. The only thing that I remember
for sure is Delia Smith did a program about eggs earlier in the evening.
If I had stayed in and watched more TV rather than going to the party
at 8956 Miller Ave, mine might have remained unfertilized.

11. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of my baby, after all,
like when you eat a can of beans you can't be sure which one made you
fart.

That Sux 4 Portland

Saw that Greg Oden is out for the season and I felt bad for the cat. There's enough pressure being the number 1 pick in the NBA draft and the savior of a team in a very basketball depressed town like Portland. But Portland also has the curse of Sam Bowie, the very injured big man who was chosen before the GOAT (#23)(and after Hakeem the Dream), and Oden was going to break this curse. Also, he was going to be the face of the revived TrailBlazers and complete their transformation from being the "JailBlazers". Guess not, at least for now. What's worse is that Oden will come back (he's only 19), but if Kevin Durant, the only true freshman EVER to sweep all of the major college basketball awards in one season, becomes the next coming of even Ray Allen, Oden will never be able to shake the tag of being a bust (Kwame Brown anyone?) unless he puts up wins and stats. Wins maybe, but stats are not his forte. He'll score in double-digits, but I doubt he'll ever average 20 points in a season. His best years will look like this: 17 ppg, 12 rpg, 2 apg, 5 blks. Good stats. Not great. Probably not good enough to shake the bust tag.

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