The hiphop, simpsons and wrestling blog

It always sucks when my girlfriend is funnier than me. Couple days ago I told her Coolio had a cooking show. Her reply was: (more…)

Normally one is quick to associate wrestling with lowbrow, rednecks who certainly wouldn’t vote for women’s rights, gay rights or any other rights than the right to put the smack down on candyasses. In previous years The Rock has appeared at Republican conventions and Ric Flair is an avid supporter of Mike Huckabee. But, Barack Obama has gained a wrestling-supporter, and it’s not just any wrestler either! (more…)

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the filming of the movie “Wild Style”. Actually this year is the 26th anniversary, but the writer, director and producer of the movie, Charlie Ahearn, is still traveling the globe celebrating its quarter-century birthday. Last week he came to the glorious freetown Christiania. (more…)

These days El Comandante aka Fidel Castro is passing the torch in the friendly communist dictatorship known as Cuba. Plans are his brother Raul is to take over, and noone knows what’s going to happen from hereon in. However, things would be much different if another leader was elected: Che Homero. (more…)

Kind of a weird week for hip-hop’s support of Barack Obama, as he’s gained a huge supporter in Will.I.Am, while 50 has predicted his assassination should he be elected president. (more…)

Recently Barack Obama was asked which music he had listened to at the moment, and he answered Jay-Z’s new album. Aside the fact that a presidential hopeful spends his time listening to a rapper pay homage to the biggest Harlem drug lord in history, this got me to wonder if we could actually get the first president in history, that actually likes hip-hop. While this remains to be seen, it seems that hip-hop will play an increasingly bigger part in the (Democratic) campaign, so I decided to give you an overview. (more…)

George W Bush takes office and quickly becomes the most hated on president out of all the presidents that say they get hated on. Barack Obama, however, receives nothing but praise. (more…)

Hip-hop is the full blown angry voice of the black youth. Rappers diss the presidents and the presidents diss the rappers right back. But who had dinner with the president and who was splashing over Monica? (more…)

Carter smiles goodbye, Reagan’s in office, Jesse runs, Kurtis Blow rules the world, Public Enemy revives the spirit of the Black Panthers. It’s the first encounters of hip-hop and the presidents: (more…)

So Tom Cruise took a break from Kid Katie to tango with a real woman. He locked horns with the mighty Queen Latifah and boy was that a mismatch made in heaven. I guess when Latifah rapped she “Had it up to here”, it was about the spot Tom reaches upto. Danes might remember a similar mismatch from the 1970’s, it went a little like this: (more…)