Camu Tao R.I.P.

The Columbus Ohio based - Def Jukie - Weatherman - MHz - 1/2 of S.A. Smash - 1/2 of The Nighthawks - Rapper known as Camu Tao died this last Sunday the 25th due to a heavy bout of lung cancer. You're missed by many!
Tero Smith 6/26/77-5/25/08

Here's an early MHz track in memory: This Year

Be patient my hoods!

I have been outta town and have a heavy plate of final term papers, so bare with my inconsistant posts. Until the next, listen to some Moka....

Desired Effect II:
Beats and production from Oh No, J Rawls, J Dilla and Sixtoo. US release in 06' after short-lived Canadian release in 05'. Dirty beats, rough riffs, rusty rhythm, solid production featuring exclusive producers. Golder than earlier Moka releases!

Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Desired Effect
3. Oh-Six
4. Weener
5. All I Know
6. So Heavy
7. Miscommunication
8. Nektar
9. One Time [The Re-Up Version]
10. Problems 2003
11. It's Done
12. Grumble Grumble
13. Help Us
14. Chill
15. More Soup - feat. MF Doom
16. Keep This Moving
17. Stringbean
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Wonka, where you at!?

-what the hell happened to this little candies!? they've become lost in the massive abyss of candy...they're not even featured on the Wonka site and i haven't seen them in stores for sometime now. Wonka, you're selling out.
*don't forget about the kids Wonka, the fuckin' kids!

Portland Voters $tat$

SUMMARY REPORT Primary Election UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Run Date:05/21/08 Clackamas County, Oregon
RUN TIME:02:09 PM May 20, 2008
STATISTICS

# of VOTES

PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 189). . . . . 189
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 212,569
REGISTERED VOTERS - DEMOCRAT . . . . 86,144
REGISTERED VOTERS - REPUBLICAN . . . 77,679
REGISTERED VOTERS - NONPARTISAN . . . 48,746
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 110,209
BALLOTS CAST - DEMOCRAT. . . . . . 60,359
BALLOTS CAST - REPUBLICAN . . . . . 38,028
BALLOTS CAST - NONPARTISAN. . . . . 11,822
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . ?
VOTER TURNOUT - DEMOCRAT . . . . . ?
VOTER TURNOUT - REPUBLICAN. . . . . ?
VOTER TURNOUT - NONPARTISAN . . . . ?

********** (Democrat) **********

United States President
Vote For 1
Hillary Clinton . . . . . . . . 27,052
Barack Obama . . . . . . . . . 31,976
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 418

********** (Republican) **********

United States President
Vote For 1
John McCain. . . . . . . . . . 29,062
Ron Paul. . . . . . . . . . . 5,034
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 1,655

And people think Portland is absent of republicans . . .
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Villian of Wednesday

Today's VOW is: Leonard Smalls.
Lenny is a grisley nomadic "lone biker of the apocalypse" fully clad in worn black leather, bearing a chest full of gernades and 2 sawed-offs on his back who is a relentless bounty hunter on the search for Nathan Arizona Jr in the Coen brother's 87 Raising Arizona. This barbarian outlaw appears by flames like the devil on the desolate desert road while his menacing demeanor destroys flowers and animals while his mean-greasy-mugg portrays a villian chalk-full of pure EVIL! I think H.I. say's it best in the following clip from the movie:


Some quotes from Leonard:

"I'm not a customer. I'm a manhunter. But I do hunt babies on occasion. I heard tell you got one you can't put your hand to. Some say i'm part hound dog. Name's Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny... only I ain't got no friends. Price. A fair price. That's not what you say it is, and it's not what I say it is... It's what the market will bear. Now there's people - and I know 'em - who'll pay a lot more than $25,000 for a healthy baby. Why, I myself fetched $30,000 on the black market. And that was in 1954 dollars. You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop. Cops won't find your boy. A cop couldn't find his butt if it had a bell on it."

Death Row Records and the Source Awards

This is an interview excerpt with Bruce Williams who was Dr. Dre's right-hand-man for 16years! check it . . .

DX: Explain the atmosphere of the now infamous Source Awards incident.
BW: I’ve been to hundreds of award shows. But [The Source Awards] was by far the number one. It had a stigma where some shit was going to go down. But it also had some excitement to it. You know how they have an intermission in between filming? Usually it would be quiet at other award shows. But here? You heard “fuck Queensbridge,” “Brooklyn!” You would hear all of this conversation “Wu-Tang!” and you’d hear people saying, “Fuck them west coast niggas,” and we’d be like, “Aw shit. It’s going to be some shit up in here!” We started the show off with everybody locked in cells like they were stranded on death row.When Suge walked up on that damn stage and said what he had to say about Puffy; The whole crowd erupted. It was about to be some shit. I looked around and said “Man, how the fuck are we going to get out of this spot.” You know how there’s chaotic tension? Where you feel like something may jump off but it doesn’t? It had that feeling. It took us to the point where we thought the whole arena was ready to throw down but it never got past that point.

DX: How did you get out of there that night with all that hostility?
BW: We stuck out like a sore thumb. We are looking like L.A. niggas. I came out of the arena looking for that limo and all I could see was a sea of east coast brothers hollering, “Fuck Death Row! We gonna catch them niggas!” I’m hoping one of them doesn’t find out I’m from Cali. I find the limo and I go back to get Dre. So we walk outside and things changed. They were now like, “Fuck Death…oh that’s Dr. Dre, man! He’s cool. Ya’ll go ahead on then. That’s Dre. Fuck them other niggas though!”

*and then, there's biggie and pac:

Get your fish

and listen to Ghostface - Jellyfish

Flourescent Fashion sense

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The ultra-flourescent fashion gear is spinning out of control! Brands are sprouting up every day taking advantage of the strange 80s fixation like the dope game. Some of the gear is fresh, but there is so much right now, where the fuck is one to start? It's Miami meets oldschool NYC style, most of the gear being inspired from the crack-era of the 80s. This fad is bizarre, and believe me, i own a fair share of the bright eyesore stuff, but have been off the trend for awhile only dipping in it on Portland's hot days. My point is, this is weird, because hella fashion magazines are featuring these styles as if they're creative gods, like i said, i like some of it, i'm not a total hater (just yet), i mean, even Actual Pain has decided to do some flourescent prints. I thought the trend was over, but apparently it's not because Brooklyn says so right now, so on that tip, go cop your brightlight gear and get 80s with American Apparel while you're at it.

*As i write this post i am wearing a magenta tee . . . it all adds up.

Rappers of the Sabbath

I am pleased to announce Dr. Octagon as the Rapper Of The Sabbath. This album came out in the mid 90s and blew me away. Once again, i was at home, watching BET at midnight, perhaps: RAP CITY or something, can't remember. Anyway, on came the video for Blue Flowers, and i was tripping. The vid was janky, definitly on a 2-bit ghetto tip, but nonetheless, the track was on point and captured my nerves with pungent satisfaction. I had never heard Kool Keith before, so that night my interest was sparked and i immediatley went on a scavenger hunt for the album. Funny thing was, i never found Dr. Octagonecologyst, instead i found Dr. Instramentalist which was only intstramental, so i was without lyrics for years before i found the lyrical alubm. Kool Keith plays Dr. Octagon who is a savage maniacal surgeon who likes to perform more than just operations on his patients. The album features work by Qbert, Dan the Automator, and Kut Master Kurt and has a gang of samples from records i've never heard of! Check out Dr. Octo get down.

Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. 3000
3. I Got To Tell You
4. Earth People
5. No Awareness
6. Real Raw
7. General Hospital
8. Blue Flowers
9. Technical Difficulties
10. A Visit To The Gynecologyst
11. Bear Witness
12. Dr.Octagon
13. Girl Let Me Touch You
14. I'm Destructive
15. Wild And Crazy
16. Elective Surgery
17. Half-Shark-Alligator-Half-Man
18. Blues Flowers Revisited
19. Waiting List
20. 1977

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Rose City is HOT!

Sunny, Hot, Highs in the mid/upper 90s SON!! I can't wait to work for 9 hours today while everybody plays in the sun like the fuckin' beach boys!

Villians of Wednesday

Todays Villian is the creepy undertaker mortician also known as: The Tall Man.
He was featured in all 5 Phantasm films. He is depicted as a stone-cold-creep who seems to defy the law of physics with his height and deploy sinister flying balls of steel drilling death into the heads of victims with an evil grin. All the while Tall Man creates little goblin creatures dressed in StarWars garb who attack and mutilate any stragglers occupying the cemetary and bleed yellow goo. The Tall Man seems to possess omnicient skills and will always catch you whether you're on foot or in a car. He has no issue running down victims in his Herse that boars down the road fiending for death and demise. Tall Man doesn't speak much, he doesn't have to, his eyes say it all. Its as if there's no soul behind those pupils. Since there's really no quotes by him, i'll just post some vids that feature his sinister looks:

Stevie Wonder

The R&B-Master turned 59 years old yesterday, here's to Stevie!

The Fixed Gear Cult

PDX is notorious for its Fixed Gear bikes, and there seems to be a huge monopoly of fixed gear riders in the city, it's a fuckin' fetish in fact! I'm not going to rant about these hipsters clad in fashionably tight rolled up jeans and dirty vans, "that would be a waste of time, we're just gonna fuck you up" (Point Break tangent). So on that note, i'm just not into the whole Fixed Gear Cult (FGC). Enjoy your city . . .