Hey look! It’s a thing that I’m in! It’s for a local TV show called The Sustainable Region, the video my team made can be seen here.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon: The History of Rap

When Jimmy Fallon first started his late night show, I had a feeling that he might just end up being one of the greats. Like, beyond Conan. It sounds crazy, but I think I should just put that out there now so I can say ‘I told you so’ 20 years from now.

This is great on a lot of levels, and is clearly a television show doing a bit that’s meant to go viral online. It’s also troubling. It reminds me of the fact that a lot of North American pop culture is really arts and culture from black folk that got taken and given a lighter face to sell to the wannabe-gangsta kids from the suburbs in order to take it big. This is literally two white guys telling/owning the history of rap, with THE ROOTS playing backup. 

As problematic as that is, it’s also part of what makes the clip funny. If it was Jaime Foxx and Will Smith, I might think it was cool but not surprising or particularly forward-able. So when all’s said and done, as long as we can recognize this as a well put-together promo for The Social Network (and a fan-freaking-tastic performance by Jimmy Fallon; performing right along with TImberlake is no small feat), we can all look back on this and laugh. But seriously it’s weird that The Roots are the background in this, even if their instrumentals were perfect.

We have a new video up for The Province’s Inside the 18!

Thanks to edit+upload troubles, this one’s pretty late in the game. But it’s still entertaining enough to watch, especially if you’re into FIFA at all!

First teaser trailer is out for The Social Network!

I’m still super excited for this David Fincher-directed, Aaron Sorkin-written movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Eisenberg seems to have the Zuckerberg voice down in a way that sounds right but isn’t spot-on enough for the movie to be as unbearable as listening to Mark for two and a half hours.

Justin Timberlake manages to sound the best, even with just one line “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

I would say that the 11th episode of my and Ben Wright’s podcast is one of, if not the best episode yet. 

We recorded it in person instead of over Skype this time, along with our friend and hip hop producer Mannan Ahmed, aka kthx! We even play ‘It’s Complicated’, a creepy facebook stalker song that Mannan and I made about a year ago.

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