Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

I hate to stereotype, but most professional basketball players who try to rap suck massive elephant balls (I use the word “most” because maybe someday I’ll be proven wrong). I refuse to give lame songs any amount of play, so I’m not posting any links to their tracks, but trust me… it’s bad.

There are so many people who try to rap, from athletes to pop singers and they’re just making a joke out of the whole art form.

My views are expressed pretty well in rhyme form in a Tonedeff song called, “TNT”:

Your art is fake, and it’s troubling, yo
There’s kids who think the underground just started with Company Flow

Now we’re stuck with these shows

With 14-year olds and poser herbs

Claiming their emcees,

dropping their fumbled attempts at spoken word

Who don’t deserve the recognition, but they’ll take it

Cause when you had the chance and you didn’t say shit…

You embraced it

Anyway, rather than make a huge post about how much they suck I thought I’d just point people interested in rap in the right direction: Nas - Street’s Disciple.

I’m actually a little surprised to see the high ratings this album is getting on Amazon (average of 4.5 stars out of 5 with 115 reviews at the time I write this post). Not that I don’t think this 2-disc album is great, but I didn’t think so many other buyers would agree. Maybe there’s still hope for mainstream hip hop!

I find that my hands are getting cold often. And I like to go outside and walk a lot, but this December weather isn’t being real friendly.

I’ve come to the conlusion that I might have to invest in some gloves. I’ve never bought any before and I have this idea in my head that all gloves are like those on astronaut suits and make the simplest tasks difficult. I’d have to be able to type comfortable. And it should be able to conceal my fingerprints from surfaces that I touch (for example: keypads, car doors, weaponry, etc).

Any recommendations?

I’m writing this post from my local Barnes and Noble on my all mighty PowerBook. I found out recently that they have wireless internet here (and you can use it as long as you have an account with SBC, which I do).

This is great, because now I can be a geek outside of my house, as well as inside.

I should really try to balance my geek level by reading some sort of non-geeky book. I feel that reading a book about PHP5 isn’t helping this situation at all.