Aesop Rock’s Fav. Cereals, Plus Fall ‘08 Tour Dates Announced!

Aesop Rock aka Aes-Rizzle, aka the coolest person/per height ratio outside of Howard Stern and Kobe Bryant, has listed his Top 10 Cereals. It’s a good read.

People of Earth,
Let’s talk cereal! You know you love it. I love it. It’s easy to love cuz it makes a good lover, AND there are SO MANY CHOICES. And GOOD choices at that! Cereal rules because: If you were to blindly pick a box of cereal off a store shelf, chances are it will be good! Most cereal is da bomb! I have been wanting to write something about cereal for a while, but every time I sit to write I am not in the mind state to write about it (as I’m usually off writing about dragonz and orbz and such.) But tonight… tonight my good citizens… tonight no wheat goes unshredded!! I’m feeling juussssst about right to get into some serious carb talk. Let’s go!

Here are my top 10 cereals. Understand, I love all cereals, and this list changes by day, but as of 2:21 AM on Tuesday July 8, 2008, this is it. Holler at your kinfolk.

FOR AES’ LIST + COMMENTARY GO HERE

The Below are Aesop’s Top 10 accompanied by MY 2-cents on each of his picks.

1- Honey Bunches of Oats
I can’t front on Aes’ #1 choice. Though I’d go with the Almonds over the Oats. Call me square.

2 - Fruity Pebbles
Hrmmm I probably wouldn’t have had Fruity Pebbles so high up on the list, but then again I can’t remember the last time I’ve even had Fruity Pebbles. It def. aint ‘bad’ but I haven’t had it since the stone age.

3 - Smart Start
Wtf is Smart Start? What cereal are they selling Aes out in San Fran? Lol.

4 - Lucky Charms
This would be in my top 3. I eat this shit like ‘crack’ was invented in Ireland.

5 - Rice Krispies
I can’t front nor hate on Rice Krispies. It has def been in my recent rotation. It’s def good on top of ice cream (so are corn flakes for that matter). Probably not #5 on my list but def in the top 15.

6 - Frosted Flakes
Damn, these are always good in any given situation. When I buy those combo packs with 12 random collection of cereals, the Frosted Flakes are def the first to go. (Which is also a good way to determine what is one’s fav. cereal).

7 - Apple Jacks
These are def yummy, but not as high as #7 on my list.

8 - Special K
Again, can’t hate on the Special K. A little boring, a lot healthy, and def. worthy.

9 - Cheerios
Meh, plain cheerios is wack. At least Honey Nut to even bother being worth considering.

10 - Grape Nuts (only to be served w/ honey)
Not to hate, but honey or not, this has to be an error! Though, I can’t say I’ve tried it, and who am I to hate on a recipe handed down by Aes’ mother. I mean it helped him be a strong, tall, grown-azz-man! Pass the honey that comes in a bear jar.

Fall Tour Dates After The Break…

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El-P’s WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMeggamixx2 Download For Free!

WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMeggamixx2
Who knew that blankcds could be your gain. In other words, El-P released a tour-only mix tape, but some of the discs were un-burned blankcds (hence some pissed off jukieheads). Anyways, somewhat PR conscious (or he just got annoyed of people leaving comment spam on his blog, bitching about the cds), El-P has decided to give this mixtape for free. Though, a heads-up, you will have to register an account on definitivejux.net. If Goodyear made running shoes, put on your Run-Flats and sprint to cop this ish… it’s hot.

Quote:

from producto…with love

I have decided to make the mp3s of disc one of theWEAREALLGOINGTOBURNINHELLMEGGAMIXX2 (tour only limited edition double disc cds) available for free. You won’t get the Eat My Garbage CD (disc 2), nor will you get the amazing original artwork by Travis Millard or the bragging rights of owning a cd that is going for 150 (so ive been told) bucks a pop on EBAY. But to be honest i felt kind of bad not letting fans who weren’t able to go to the shows hear this stuff.Also, for those lucky 500 who bought the limited pressings I am offering to replace any of the cds that may have been blank. Unfortunately I have heard that a small portion were, which sucks dick and makes me feel like an asshole at the same time. So in a bid to quell the justified pain and borderline rage some have felt popping in a blank cd please send your blank cd to Def Jux

115 South Oxford St.Suite 556
Brooklyn NY 11217
and we will send you a replacement of the cd only, keep your packaging. love, el

go to to download:

http://www.definitivejux.net/news/el-p/438

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My Mind Is On Carmen Sandiego’s G550 Jet. I’ve Lost It, And Waldo Is Being A Douche On His Two-Way Pager.

Carmen Sandiego - I’m all over the place.

Just some random thoughts going on… I missed the Tila 2 finale last night? Did I? Well, I am sure it was lame. I know way hotter Vietnamese chicks in Texas than her. She’s a fidget anyway.

So, did you hear about the new iPhone coming out on July 11th? Really cheap: $199 and $299 respectively… If you look under the hood though and by hood I mean AT&T’s pricing plan on the service side, that same unlimited data goes from 20$ to 30$ a month and those free 200 txt messages, that’s now five dollars. Want the 1500 txt message package? That goes from 10$ to 15$ a month. So for me, that would total an additional 15$ a month or… quick math $145. er, fuck I can’t add: 180. Either way that blows, $igh.

What’s up with milfs these days, esp the “newly” divorced ones. Not only will they ask you what knd of car you drive, but’ll if you happen to be in your friends car, they’ll ask what car your friend’s driving too…wtf.
Way to take the LF out of milf, okay nm, that’s still in effect despite the golddiggery.
Be a mother, get rid of the damn eyebrow-piercing-ring. Why attract attention to your eyes, where crows feet lay, right? You’re not 18 anymore. And you’re 30 going on 40.

I hope Artie Lange is okay in Iraq, where he is performing this week on the USO Show tour.

Amy Whinehouse called Kanye West a cunt. How great is that?

Did you know the next Survivor is being filmed right now in Africa?

Fu*k I hate spam like this, New message: “why is your myspace photo here on this site.. laquinka . com
”
I dunno, let me rush on over to la-quin-ka.com real quick and see.

There has been much squabble over “shitty parts of NYC to hang out”. By squabble I just mean different sources of opinion saying similar things. And from respectable sources. Apparently El-P & Alaska of Hangar18 both hate Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. I thought that was the hip-artsy-fartsy cool part of town. Shows you how much I know. But I still rep BKNY. Cue…

El-P:

editor’s note: Williamsburg - im not talking about williamsburg. williamsburg is the only place in brooklyn that sucks harder than manhattan as a rule no matter what the circumstance.

Alaska:

Williamsburg – I don’t know a single person that likes that pisshole yet people are always going there, hey someone is spinning some shitty MIA at a loft party, or let’s go to this shitty as boutique my friends dad bought, they have like one sneaker, four pairs of jeans and a coffee table book. People dress like the tourists in Times Square and have shitty mustaches it might as well be Milwaukee, sorry Milwaukeeans I didn’t mean to insult you because although you guys dress like that you do shower and aren’t a bunch of pretentious pricks who base their whole personality off what pitchfork.com thinks and whichever t-shirt is recommended in the latest issue of Vice.

Pwned!

Word on the street is to find Waldo El-P Sandiego, ya just gotta go to the lower east side of Manhatty, or just let him tell you where he hangs out.

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Hangar 18 - Really Wide (Video)

That’s wassuppp …have them open really wide =)

My man over at One Viisiion Productions + Def Jux have released the new music video for Hangar 18’s “Really Wide”/”Jump Mutha”. It’s off the bone meat wrack with an empty bottle of A1 sauce.

I am reallyyy curious who the hot chick in the video is… you know… for research purposes only. Props to Alaska of Hangar18, too.

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DefJux - Catching Up With Cage Before He Departs From Me

The DJX site has been redesigned and now has daily content. They posted a quick interview with Cage on what the f- that man’s up to these days. The thing I love about Cage is that all of his fans are fucking crazy fucksticks. (Yes I am a Cage fan, but that’s besides the point).

Excerpt:

DJX: First and foremost, how far along are you on ‘Depart From Me’ and do you know when it’s supposed to come out?
Cage: I have about ten songs but i keep writing new ones so I guess when i feel like I have the record I have the record. I would love to see it come out this year.

DJX: What is the album about for the most part?
Cage: Hell’s Winter was about growth and learning how to identify Satan. Depart From Me is about casting him out and having a good time doing it.

DJX: What is the progress of the movie [For those who don't know; Cage's good friend and promising film actor, Shia Labouef is working on a feature length biopic of Cage's life] and will it coincide somehow with the release of Depart From Me?
Cage: Shia is doing Indie 4 [Indiana Jones 4] press and I am making a record.I suspect I will have cool news soon.

DJX:What do you while you are home working on an album when you AREN’T recording?
Cage: Lately I have been running about 2-4 miles a day.The writing and recording is all the time.No time off. Work for fun.The best is jumping out of the shower to write shit down. I have every game system and they are covered in dust and thats a good thing.

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Cage fans are crazier than Real World MTV fans when they realize they’ve added a fake Joey (real world hollywood) profile on facebook -rofl:

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Del the Funky Homosapien Interview By Aesop Rock

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Aes Rizzle better known as Aesop Rock interviewed Ice Cube’s cousin, better known as Del the Funky Homosapien. Here’s an excerpt:

Q: How old were you when I Wish My Brother George Was Here came out? Can you speak on those days at all, working with Ice Cube, Da Lench Mob, having a song like “Mistadobalina” get airplay at a young age? Did it all kind of pick up out of nowhere?

I was around 17 when we did I Wish My Brother George. Back then I was just coming out of high school, and had been going out to LA pretty much every summer working with Sir Jinx. Jinx was my mentor; he coached me through creating songs and using the equipment at the time, looking for breaks to cut up and sample. Just learning the ropes, what it took to create an actual LP. I was bugging Cube about helping me do something. My style at that time was extremely abstract. Pretty much just rhyming to hear myself talk, styling. Jinx would direct me in ways that would challenge me creatively. Coming up with concepts, little funny stories, stuff like that, stuff from my own experience. I guess he thought I was dope, because he ended up working exclusively with me. He actually was going be with me on that first LP as a group, but it didn’t work out that way. But Jinx was a real factor. He introduced me to a lot of the LA underground scene. Jinx is Dr. Dre’s family and he went to school with Cube. They had a group named C.I.A. in school with K-Dee. You may remember K-Dee from the Street Knowledge days. Anyway, this is how it all started. Cube basically had plug with Dre through Jinx, Jinx helped me out as well. This is when Cube started to jump off with N.W.A. They were really starting to get it poppin’.

Now, Cube is my cousin and all, but he wasn’t about to just help me be a liability. He also kind of trained me as far as writing some songs that the average person might be able to stand, at least. My shit used to be sooooo way out that only certain types of cats could appreciate it. And back then there weren’t that many. I was around gangsters and weed slangers all day in LA. Or just regular cats in the hood. They called me Crazy Del back then because I was known to just do the fool out the blue. Being in that LA environment did give me a chance to learn how to relate to cats that weren’t super hip-hop heads.

DJ Pooh produced the LP. I had a lot of fun with him and he helped me out a lot as well. A lot of the material for I Wish My Brother was written while recording the album. That’s why everything was on some real shit, because I was living in LA basically; gang violence and all. So that’s what brought out that perspective on the LP. “Mistadobalina” was one of the songs that I did myself at home in Oakland that was actually accepted, even though the crazy sampling and the abstract lyrical content is still there. At least people could tell that it was about someone that I didn’t like. So that’s one of my favorites that I did. The fact that it bubbled kind of didn’t really hit me. I’ve been through a lot of stuff, so I’m not impressed easily. It was great to be touring and doing the rapper gig, but I didn’t get souped.

Q: And beats … you did everything on the new record, and you have a nice history of production on your resume.

The classic E-Mu SP 1200: Sir Jinx had one and Cube had one. So I would sneak onto Cube’s SP when he would go out with some chicks and leave me at my aunt’s house. But I watched Jinx for years do everything on that. He didn’t really teach me, I don’t remember asking him. Initially it was just from watching him use it year after year. My mom ended up buying me my very own later on.

Q: Your approach to writing and delivering lyrics has always been a major part of what helped set you apart from everything out there. Can you tell me any methods you find yourself using during the actual writing? (Do you write in a notebook or computer, do you scribble notes or thoughts on paper all the time, mini-recorder, do you always write in the studio, are there things you always avoid, etc . . . )

I’m usually creating music on my Macbook with Ableton. Rarely at this point do I just write notebooks of miscellaneous rhymes that end up thrown away. I focus on creating things with purpose. Once I make a beat or someone slides a beat my way that I feel inspired by, I may start writing. I also write on my Macbook. So everything is somewhat organized and ready to go. I try to write to a beat so that I have an idea of how I want the lyrics to work together with the music. I don’t try to destroy the track anymore; I try to unite with what the music is doing. This is strictly first listen type stuff I do to keep people listening long enough to even have a chance to care about the actual content. Depending upon the nature of the song I may be more fundamental in my approach or I may become more technical, but really I try to blend both together to create some kind of peaks and valleys.

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Radiohead - [In Rainbows] Rainydayz Remixes By Amplive

Check out this ill Amplive - Radiohead remix of Radiohead’s historic seventh album, In Rainbows. The songs are available in a zip file below and feature verses courtesy of Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homosapien. (All Amplive’s [Rainydayz] Remixes). All a must have.

Tracklist
01 Rainydayz
02 Video Tapez (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien)
03 Nudez (ft. Too $hort & MC Zumbi
of Zion I)
04 Weird Fishez
05 All I Need
06 15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday)
07 Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na)
08 Faustz

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One more freebie:

Over at the DefJux FREESHIT catalog you can cop a few thangs. One is the: 17 page lyric book for Aesop Rocks’ None Shall Pass Album - full of Chrissy Piper’s photos - Peep game…

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Yak Ballz…

Here’s an interview that Yak did with Karmaloop. The only thing I got out of it was that, don’t bring 40oz’s to interviews, unless the person being interviewed is as cool as Yak, and won’t bash you over the head with the bottle. Though I will say, if you gonna be rediculous like that, at least come correct with a nasty-ass brass monkey (aka the poor man’s mimosa)!

a 40 of Olde English 800 mixed with some OJ.

Typically one drinks the 40 down until the beer is level with the top of the cylinder of the bottle, then fill the bottle back up to the top with orange juice.

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RIP Camu Tao

The shadowing/light on Camu’s face is from an angel above him.

From Cage’s Blog:

Tero Smith aka Camu Tao 6/26/77-5/25/08 R.I.P.

I am writing this only to kill all the speculation and nonsense.I believe something official will be announced soon.Tero had been fighting lung cancer for the past 2 years of his life on chemo. He didn’t want to go public until recently. His time was cut way too fuckin short. Music was his life. His pain and suffering is over. His music will live forever.
WM

Statement From El-P’s Blog:

CAMU TAO R.I.P.

TODAY, around 2pm, our dear friend, family member and musical collaborator Tero “CAMU TAO” Smith passed away in his home town of Columbus, Ohio. Tero had been quietly fighting for his life for the last year and a half after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

To those who knew Tero, he was an almost uncategorizable force of nature. Wild, hilarious, proud, loving, tough, outspoken, spontaneous and brilliant. He wore his heart on his sleeve and he dripped creativity, leaving inspiration and awe in the hearts and minds of anyone who was fortunate enough to see him work.

We, his friends and family, have truly had our collective hearts broken by his passing. Not only because of the loss of our friend, but because of the loss of his contribution to those who never knew what we knew about his talent and his potential. He was the secret that no one wanted to keep and we always knew that one day his vision and his heart could change music forever the way he changed all of our lives.

His departure from us all 1 day away from his 31st birthday is nothing less than a tragedy… nothing less than a crime. he was a gift to us all and he is irreplaceable. Rest in peace, Mu. We will love you forever. May god bless you and your family.

R.I.P.
Tero “CAMU TAO” Smith
born 6/26/77, passed 5/25/08
wm/cc

sincerely,
jaime “el-p” meline (on behalf of many, many wonderful and broken hearted friends)

Camu Tao - Samurai Champloo

RIP Mu.

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Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn (Aesop Rock Remix) + Poll Results

Sketch Theatre Artist Nate Frizzell creates a sketch video for The Mountain Goats/Aesop Rock remix of “Lovecraft in Brooklyn”.

RESULTS OF LAST WEEK’S POLL:

I guess we’re all Cage Kennylz fans here… as that was indeed my vote as well, though I love all the WeatherMen.

A New Poll will be up shortly!

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