Man 1996 was a f**king great year for rap music. I could go on forever about the classic albums released that year but I'm not going to. Not right now at least. Con's got a pretty good story here about bone thugs vs wu-tang, which is beautiful. I don't know who I'd bet on if that was a vegas card. What would the matchups even be? wish vs ghost? layzie vs inspectah deck? bizzy vs killaramy? Where would your loyalties lie? I got cleveland on this one, partially because kyrie irving is the sh*t.

Hahahahahaha. Look at these motherf**ker's try to explain snapchat and khaled to your grandparents. I can't believe that khaled actually thinks that half of his snapchat followers are "old fans". Come on now, until snapchat, khaled was khaled's only fan. I know that, you know that, I feel like he must know that too. If my kid's school was having khaled in to talk to the children, I'd get my kid transfered. Khaled says everything as if he's asking you for confirmation. I will not confirm khaled. There was a moment not too long ago where people were questioning how self aware khaled is. Does it matter? Truthfully I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that this whole time khaled has been suffering from post-concussive symptoms.

What would it sound like if ty dolla $ign got on some weird sh*t? Well here you go you curious lil' motherf**ker you, I could have told you that it would sound dope. Hearing it is probably better though.

Buffalo represent. From everything I've seen buffalo seems to be a pretty bleak place, westside gunn is definitely not going to change any minds about that. His bio says that he's more designer than rapper but he sounds like a rapper to me. You guys remember when new york was the cultural hub of the world? When everyone was a lot meaner but also a little more honest because motherf**ker's were checking you and you had to stand by what you said? This sh*t reminds me of all that. I love this post-ghostface style of new york rap where you chop a sample and then don't do sh*t to it and throw some raps on top. If you also dig that, this is for you.

As far as first looks go, allan kingdom had a pretty f**king good one when he made an appearance with kanye doing that first glimpse of "all day" that had everybody geeked. I like him because he's from minnesota, which for all intents and purposes is basically canada. It's cold. The people have funny accents. Black people play hockey. All of that sh*t.

Maaaan, tweet and missy huh. Fit like a glove you know what i mean? At 2:47 the track switches up and turns f**king beautiful. Also If you need reminding of the classic songs they've done together, here's one of them.

Look at that. 2 chainz is sounding like vintage 2 chainz. At the very least, weezy's voice is sounding like vintage drugged out weezy.  And doesn't everything sound better backed by the roots?

I just realized that when I was talking about wavy rappers before, I had f**ked up and forgot about french. I think I've held resentment towards french because I used to do the same "unh" adlib way before him. Which is pretty ridiculous because we both stole it from missy anyway. As you can see there with the loopy cover, french just dropped a mixtape, and french tapes are always good for 3-4 f**king jams. Here's two. Here's Three. As usual he works best in a collaborative affair, which isn't an insult because a lot of the time he ends up the best part. To me french is secretly the king of new york. Well maybe more like the mayor of new york. I mean he even has diddy sounding dope! that hook part "on old man wildin" is the best diddy has ever sounded. Ever.

Yoooooo, this is wild as all hell. It took me a second to catch it at first but I'm f**king with this sh*t heavy. He's from danny brown's crew "the bruiser brigade" so that pretty much explains all that. This is definitely the next level though.

I think this might be good. Rhymefest was doing all the radio/internet interview rounds awhile back when that "chiraq" movie was coming out. He made a lot of good points about spike lee being a d*ckhead. If you don't know rhymefest, the short of it is that he's a rapper, he's a smart motherf**ker, and he's been with kanye from the very beginning* though he was/is? signed outside of g.o.o.d music. I once saw or read a good story about his friends wanting to beat up a teenage kanye the first time they met him because the teenage kanye was soft and an arrogant asshole. It's been a long time but kanye never get's his credit for how he blew up and tried to put on for every chicago artist you could think of, I mean he had a whole chicago rap industry signed to g.o.o.d music itself. I read a piece about this documentary before showtime got involved and I remember being really intrigued and captivated but it had no distribution so I resigned myself to never seeing it. I might be a little bit of a defeatist.

* He even wrote on a bunch of kanye songs throughout his career. It looks like all that is over with though. On the other hand I guess you can never tell, buddies will be buddies right?

Once again here I am discovering music from the end of a movie. You can make a good case that it's turning into my main source for finding new music. Despite all appearances this is probably my favorite type of sh*t, being from a long line of city dwelling musicians who for no good reason think they're f**king cowboys. I think it's the only way of holding onto one's edge while you know, searching the depths of your soul and other soft ass sh*t. It should be mentioned that dan auerbach produced this right here. If that doesn't mean anything to you, you're slipping.

I have this friend that plays in a pickup basketball league with Win Butler from Arcade Fire. This isn't some country club sh*t either, this is some everyone give your five bucks to Marc-Andre who rented the gym type of deal. My friend isn't a music fan, so while was he telling me about all this, he couldn't remember Win's name. He just kept referring to him as "this musician that goes hard in the post"

This clip is from Win Butler's semi-annual Pop vs. Jock basketball game at the 2012 Pop Montreal Festival. The POP team usually consists of Win alongside his musician friends (Nikolai Fraiture from The Strokes, Justin Vernon from Bon Iver) and ex-ballers like Luke Bonner, Brian Scalabrine, and Matt Bonner, while the opposition are usually players from Montreal's University basketball teams. Here we see the POP team down 3 with 17.6 seconds left in the 4th. Fresh off a timeout, team POP runs an effective inbounding play anchored by Win. I won't spoil the finish but check the fundamentals on this guy as he cuts across the paint, leading with his long-ass arms. On a side note, I think that the political statement homie made during his 2016 celebrity game MVP acceptance speech was great. Too bad they didn't let him finish, I have a feeling he was going to say "Everybody's entitled to free healthcare. That way when I break your nose backing you down in the paint, you won't have to mortgage your mom's house hoe. F**k Kobe, and tell Amber Rose to come holler at me."

Boathouse is a producer from chicago/minneapolis who I'm not too familiar with but this track is great, I'm definitely going to try and keep up with everyone involved. I read he engineered the chance the rapper/lil' b mixtape last year. How's that for a f**king random fact?

In all honesty my dilla knowledge kind of ends around the time he stopped being jaydee. Fortunately no dilla knowledge is necessary for the enjoyment of this clip. Just an appreciation for rap history and an appreciation for motherf**kers telling stories. I would like to thank whoever edited this video for blacking out what sounds like a pretty bleak situation in the background.

The answer is yes. She tried to give me weed after but it felt weird.