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Sesame Streets is Watching · by Rafi Kam
This CollegeHumor clip seems to be making the rounds, I just caught it via Kimani of the serendipitously named Roosevelt Franklin.
Bert and Ernie Ante Up
Or for an oldie but goodie, how about some hardcore?
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Jul 09, 2008Futuristic Brunch (new ICs video) · by Rafi Kam
Finally, part 2 in the Ghetto Big Mac trilogy.
Song “Knock Knock” by Bless-1.
More at internetscelebrities.com
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Jul 05, 2008Scorn on the 4th of July · by Rafi Kam
Though I had some great ribs and hot dogs yesterday, I recognize that July 4 represents more than just a day for bbq, cold beer and fireworks.
The holiday is also an important marketing opportunity for your favorite anti-establishment rappers. After a hearty meal of patriotism, there’s always room for a bowl of lime-colored quivering dissidence.
So it’s good timing that new music is out from rabble-rousers like Immortal Technique and Nas.
There’s also this fiery Killer Mike / Ice Cube video which is so effective it makes me want to put a brick through my own window.
Still, I bet these guys all had some bomb-ass barbecue yesterday.
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Jul 04, 2008Facebook Voyeur: Happy Bday Danyel Smith · by Rafi Kam
Aw, the person who took these photos has requested we take them down.
I thought since anyone on Facebook could see them, they wanted to share.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Jul 03, 2008Brighton Port Authority - Toe Jam video · by Rafi Kam
A very clever video for Toe Jam by the new Fatboy Slim project Brighton Port Authority. The song features Talking Heads frontman turned building instrumentalist David Byrne and that one good British rapper.
Given the declining budgets for music videos, this is a great example of how to do more with less.
Warning: though it’s purportedly safe for broadcast, this video might still be not safe for work.
(via Harry Allen)
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Jul 01, 2008comments temporarily down · by Rafi Kam
I’m temporarily disabling comments while I make some changes.
Sorry, in the interim you’ll have to find another source for your pharmaceutical laden spam poetry.
Jun 27, 2008A day that will live in infamy? · by Rafi Kam
“Urban culture and lifestyle has come under attack by a group of cyber terrorists.”
OMG IT’S LIKE OUR GENERATION’S 9/11
OUR WHOLE SEGMENTED DEMOGRAPHIC WAY OF LIFE IS THREATENED. AND THE PAGEVIEWS, THE PAGEVIEWS!
WHY DO THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM?
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Jun 19, 2008Knowledge, fresh beats from Philly · by Sweeney Kovar
Straight outta Illadelphia, Knowledge began making beats before he could remember (true story) and is slowly but surely building up a healthy MySpace buzz amongst post-Dilla beat makers. This guy is a problem, but the problem is not too many people know about him.
I can remember when I first met him online and began to get a few beat snippets over AIM a few years ago. I can’t lie; my very first impression was that the beats sounded a little out there. But the more time we spent building, the more I understood where he was coming from and was able to realize this dude was for real.
Knowledge is a workhorse as well. Peep his myspace, he changes beats on there damn near daily, and I know that is only a taste of all the shit he is cooking up at the crib. He has some kind of instrumental EP in the works and he just had a beat on Invincible’s stellar debut LP, so I’m glad to see more people beginning to gravitate towards the kind of music he is creating.
It was a little hazy back then, but now I can see there is a musical common ground that you can hear when you peep cats like Flying Lotus, Ras_G, Samiyam, Hudson Mohawke and others. I’d like to add Knowledge from Philly to that list.
Directionz
kev brown power bars REMIX
gamble
mono shuffle
milbemycin Oxide
bad newz
Sweeney Kovar also does his thing at Classic Drug References
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Jun 13, 2008Get in at the ground floor as an IC producer! · by Rafi Kam
The Internets Celebrities make movies for the love of it. But time is money and even our shoestring operation requires both.
That’s why we turn to our audience now and ask who will step up and help produce the next Internets Celebrities flick?
It’s a fitting move because we wouldn’t be doing any of this without our audience.
We made our first video, Ghetto Big Mac, because of the way bloggers and commenters were giving energy back on Dallas’ sneaky sandwich from the future. A few months later, when some people with money flew us to Sundance, we could have gone squirrelly like the other Hollywood folks but we made sure to keep it hip-hop… for the most part. We did that for you!
We broadcast the BK Hip-Hop Fest, Rock the Bells and the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors so that you out there on the Internets could be transported – if only for a few minutes – to a world outside of your mother’s basement.
To keep it hip-hop, we mixed the party up with politics on so many of our videos, especially Checkmate and Bodega. We know you recognize what we do. Now you can get involved and keep this train rolling, by becoming a producer of the next IC flick for as little as $1.
As Cas says at the Internets Celebrities site:
Seriously, even 1 dollar would be appreciated. The great thing about our internets is that we’re lucky enough to be able to get our documentary on check-cashing places in front of almost 500,000 people. If even a fraction of that group pitched in a dollar each, we’d be able to make movies our dayjob.
Now, we don’t have tote bags. And we’re working on T-shirts. Sweet Jesus, we’re working on some T-shirts.
But what we can offer you as a small token of our appreciation is a producer credit.
We don’t have a patron at the moment. We don’t have an agent. We don’t have any sponsors yet. So, basically, we’ve got a lot of room in our end credits and we want that space to go to the people who fund our next movie – essentially producing it.
The producer on most projects is the one who either comes up with the money or handles the money’s distribution throughout the set. For a $1 minimum contribution, you will be listed in our next movie’s end credits as one of our producers.
The wheels are turning on the next project and it’s going to be great. We can’t talk about its content yet as we don’t want to be scooped. But if you’re interested in finding out more before committing some cash, email us for a short synopsis on the next opus.
We’re always happy to discuss future projects with our producers.
Thanks very much for any consideration.
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Jun 12, 2008all i wanted was a pepsi · by Rafi Kam
Nostalgia within nostalgia. What does it all mean?
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