Archive for November, 2008

BIG DADDY KANE 20 YEARS DEEP

Posted by Dante Ross on November 18th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Miss info has the ill footage me I got a lil something something… The Biz yeah I know I’m late I’m lagging blah,blah…..anyways here’s some the BIZMARKIE going off and more….and some more KANE getting busy….Good vibe dumb crowded in there and yep I posted my pal Miss Info’s footage if ya aint already seen [...]

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OG NYHC FLYERS

Posted by Dante Ross on November 16th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Trolling on the net the other day I decided to google my old friend Sean Taggert. He did a gang of Old School New York Hard Core flyer’s, was an occasional drinking buddy and a all around funny mutherfucker. His flyer’s and illustrations defined a moment in time to me and I aways thought they [...]

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MIRIAM MAKEBA REST IN POWER

Posted by Dante Ross on November 15th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

We gonna Make it: Miriam Makeba

Quit it Now
One of the greatest African singers of all time passed last week. Miriam Makeba was a freedom fighter of the highest order. She was exiled from her country South Africa in 1963 for her vocal anti-aparthied beliefs. She was married to activist Stokely Carmichael and later [...]

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PEN AND PIXEL: BEST ISH EVER

Posted by Dante Ross on November 13th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Remember when the whole dam rap world seemingly was f***in with these cats? There’s been a few Pen+Pixel retrospectives floating around but none of them have my colorful commentary
This one was a smash when it came out……Master P  before Lil Romeo started stealing his shine…. Fuck that lil dude I liked P when he was [...]

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OLD DIRTY BASTARD:LIVE JON STEWART SHOW

Posted by Dante Ross on November 13th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Today’s the 4th anniversary of Dirty’s passing. Cat was a trip, I actually hooked this up my friend was a booker on the short lived Jon Stewart show and was a ODB fan. I got my 3 awesome friends the infamous uber stylist Lysa Cooper , her side kick DJ Belinda Becker and my friends [...]

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MR.CARTOON’S ROOFTOP VIEWING

Posted by Dante Ross on November 11th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

When I was in LA I popped in to the Paper magazine 24 hour pop up shop composed of a bunch of brands selling there wears. It was cool but super hot so I had to bounce, on the way out my friend Alanah let me know Mr.Cartoon was gonna be showing a bunch of [...]

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TV ON THE RADIO: LIVE FROM LA

Posted by Dante Ross on November 10th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Staring at the Sun

Wolf Like Me:

A cool reworking of sorts of Staring at the Sun and a really dope version of Wolf Like Me two of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands to come along in a long time. I dig how they rocked out Staring in the Sun too bad my [...]

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ASHER ROTH ON CARSON DAILY

Posted by Dante Ross on November 9th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

In LA and the audio on my Mac is totally f’d up. Got take this joint in to Tech serve aka the worst place in the universe tmrw. Not a happy camper so the blog’s gonna be slow for a few days around here more or less…..In LA and forgot my download cable in NY [...]

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CHANGE GONNA COME

Posted by Dante Ross on November 4th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Today is the most important day politically in my entire lifetime. We are at the initial stages of a so called new day. It will be interesting to see how much change will be implemented and how the economy will be redirected. With this changing of the guard I believe/hope the future will be much [...]

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JAM MASTER JAY 6 YEARS LATER….

Posted by Dante Ross on November 1st, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Today marked the 6th year anniversary of Jam Master Jay’s murder. Jay was the first famous person in HipHop to befriend me. I used to play ball with Jason in my late teens and had the pleasure of producing Run-DMC shortly before Jay was tragically taken from us. Jason was someone I looked up to [...]

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