Soulful Sundaes: Death Cab For Cutie - Grapevine Fires

Before we get into this, I gotta say that Death Cab is by far the dopest band out. I need to start incorporating more of their music into the blog, as I feel we've been focusing a bit too much on hip-hop. Death Cab IS Seattle!!!

Now when I FIRST heard this song a month ago...it brought so many emotions to mind. It is a VERY VERY powerful song and has such a deeper meaning than the lyrics themselves. Enlightened symphonies indeed. Undeniably amazing. And I must say that as much as I loved the song, when I saw this video it almost made me cry. If it really IS based on a true story....MAN..Hearts go out is all I have to say. ENJOY.

*DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO HERE!*


Walter Robot created the masterpiece video for the song, and if you haven't seen any of his other work, I'll be glad to make this weeks Soulful Sundae Robot-HEAVY! Stay tuned kids..and of course..

Welcome to Soulful Sundaes.
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Soulful Sundaes: Jake One - Home feat. Vitamin D, C-Note, Maineak B, Ish

Dopeness. Welcome to the town.



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UPDATE!!!!


I shot and edited this lil bit of fiction... but the dope thing about me blogging here... is that I'm going to show you'll the uncut BTS that never made it to the scene... which was a lil better in my opinion.

Wes Goodlife

Who is GMK? Mini-Documentary by Wes Goodlife

So everyone wants to know..just who is the man behind all this dope ass music we've been hearing lately. If you missed his show with Wale and Colin Munroe, and you haven't yet heard about Songs for Bloggers than keep your eyes on The Bomb cuz we'll have THE exclusives from GMK! In the mean time here's a lil bit of background!

GMK -Songs for Bloggers: Mini Documentary from wes goodlife on Vimeo.

Whatup Wes Goodlife!
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May 16th @ Evo - Massive Monkees 10 Year Anniversary Battle

ILLERIFIC.
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Soulful Sundaes: Sunday Night Sound Session. 4/19/09

From Hyphen-

Another week, another dope edition of SNSS in the books and now your inbox for y’all. We ran new joints from folks like Pac Div, Skyzoo, Defari, Chali 2Na, Asher Roth, B.o.B, Kid Cudi, Shad, Outasight, U-N-I, Drake, and more, plus we were joined in the studio by one of the dopest up and coming producers in the game, Kuddie Fresh. Y’all know the drill…

This weeks show CRACKED.

Show #203 (4-19-09)
Crooked I & DJ Wicked – “Jackin’ For Beats 2009”
Pac Div – “Pac Div (What It Is)”
Nipsey Hussle ft. Slauson Boys & K. Young – “Roll The Windows Up”
Defari – “Show Some Luv”
Skyzoo ft. Wale – “Freshfest”
Grynch – “A Dream Undeferred” (Local Artist)
Chali 2Na ft. Talib Kweli – “Lock Sh*t Down”
Stepbrothers (Evidence & Alchemist) – “It’s Coming Down”
Big Pooh – “Rear View Mirror”
**INTERVIEW WITH KUDDIE FRESH**
Asher Roth ft. Miguel Jontel – “His Dream”
B.o.B ft. Devin The Dude – “Gettin’ High”
Sharam ft. Kid Cudi – “She Came Along”
Chester French – “C’Mon (On My Own)”
Dyme Def ft. Saigon – “Pick Up Ya Flow” (Local Artist)
Jadakiss ft. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah – “Cartel Gathering”
Shad – “Get Up”
Outasight – “Even Say Goodbye”
Common Market – “Escaping Arkham” (Local Artist)
Kidz In The Hall – “I Got It Made (Reebok Classic ’09)”
U-N-I – “Lauren London”
Drake ft. Lloyd – “A Night Off”

Here's a link to the show
http://www.mediafire.com/?zjwznhl3w2m

GET THAT!
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Just in at Blackbird

So if you aren't familiar with Blackbird than you must know that you aren't REALLLLYY up on game if you think you can dress. Hidden in Ballard, most Seattle-ites would be caught of guard at how DOPE this place actually is..I suggest you make a visit kids..

Check the Fresh:

The Fuck Clay Bennet Bill

Mad props to the homie AB from the proof on this one.

When you call, you'll speak to a representative and they'll take your message down and deliver it to your elected officials. I'm a shy dude, but to see Chris Paul up in this bitch, it's worth it. Call, voice your support.

Finally a few of our elected officials got off their asses and proposed a bill to fund Seattle Center improvements, which would give us a really good shot at getting Chris Paul/OJ Mayo in a Sonics uniform in the next couple years.

CALL THE STATE LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE AND VOICE YOUR SUPPORT NOW!

Leg. Hotline # = 800-562-6000

But when you call, don't mention anything about basketball. The key to getting this passed is focusing on the other areas of need addressed by this bill. Including:

- JOB CREATION! – Construction, Service, Tourism, Restaurant, etc.

- A dedicated funding source for sorely needed infrastructure improvements at Seattle Center.

- Funding for cultural centers, performing arts, youth recreation and low-income housing.

- The opportunity to remodel a public building (KeyArena) with 50% private money.

- And last but not least… the evil bastard Clay Bennett will officially be on the hook for $30 million to Seattle!

IF YOU WANT A TEAM BACK, CALL 800-562-6000 IN SUPPORT OF SB #6116 NOW!

Some excerpts from the bill:

In a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more … authorized to levy and collect a special excise tax of not to exceed two percent on the sale of or charge made for the furnishing of lodging…


… “capital improvement projects” may include, but not be limited to a stadium restaurant facility, restroom facilities, artificial turf system, seating facilities, parking facilities and scoreboard and information system adjacent to or 15 within a county owned stadium, together with equipment, utilities, accessories and appurtenances necessary thereto.


… for art museums, cultural museums, heritage museums, heritage and preservation programs, the arts, and the performing arts.


… Stadium purposes as authorized under subsection (2)(b) of this section; acquisition of open space lands; youth sports activities; and tourism promotion.

… for the purchase, design, construction, and remodeling of performing arts, visual arts, heritage, and cultural facilities, and for the purchase of fixed assets that will benefit art, heritage, and cultural organizations…


As used in this section, “tourism promotion” includes activities intended to attract visitors for overnight stays, arts, heritage, and cultural events, and recreational, professional, and amateur sports events…


The county shall not lease a public stadium that is financed directly or indirectly by bonds to which the tax is pledged to, or authorize the use of the public stadium by, a professional major league sports franchise unless the sports franchise gives the right of first refusal to purchase the sports franchise, upon its sale, to local government…


The legislative authority of a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more may impose a special stadium sales and use tax upon retail car rentals within the county that are taxable by the state under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW…


(Section 6)

Money deposited in a special purposes account under this section may be used only for the following purposes within the county:


(1) Funding tourism promotion as defined in RCW 67.28.080;

(2) Funding youth or amateur sports activities or facilities;

(3) Funding regional centers or performing arts centers, but excluding regional centers or performing arts centers within: (a) Cities with a population of one hundred thousand or more; and (b) Cities described in RCW 35.57.010;

(4) Maintaining or improving publicly owned stadiums or arenas;

(5) Funding community development; and/or

(6) Funding low-income housing.

Upcoming Fashion Shows!!

Someone get me right wit the image sizing.

Double up... Its Mardi Gras time!!!!!!!!

Looking for some place to get drunk and make some mistakes this Mardi Gras years? Well look no further Wes did a lil bit of home work and came up with this “mess” list right here.

for a good time but not to much....
Can Can's party, Mardi Gras Carnival Celebration, will begin at 7:00 pm

for a lil more... um sexy time....
The Seattle Erotic Ball is also tonight at Trinity featuring burlesque and other unique freakyness; 8:00 pm

To get down and dirty, maybe fight a muthfuk@ or two...
Earl's on the Ave

or any local dorm or dive bar... more spots to come... and remember be safe. "It's never bad to double bag..."

Seattle is crowned the most wired city in America!

Emerald City ftw bidges!!!!!!!!!

From Engadget:

"Seattle takes the lead in our annual list of the most broadband-connected U.S. cities.

While these marquee names have long lent the Emerald City tech-y cachet, it was Seattle's increased use of broadband that powered it up Forbes' annual list of the 30 most broadband-connected cities in the U.S. High marks in two other wired city categories--broadband access and wi-fi hot spots--helped Seattle clinch the top spot.

Yahoo! Buzz-Since 2007, Forbes has measured cities' wired quotient by computing the percentage of Internet users with high-speed connections and the number of companies providing high-speed Internet. Since many urban residents access the Internet by wi-fi, we also measure the number of public wireless Internet hot spots in a particular city.


Our formula remains the same as previous years with one exception: the addition of broadband penetration data from Scarborough Research. The change was made to complement similar data from Nielsen Online.


Washington, D.C., rocketed from No. 11 last year to a solid No. 3. Like Seattle, it made dramatic progress in its broadband adoption rate. It also improved its wi-fi hot spot showing to rank second only to Seattle. "

I'm super surprised Atlant is up there. I guess magic city has to keep track of all their "business associates" somehow.

HOTlanta! lol.
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until next year, Boppers..

I think the blog is done for the year. I'll be compiling my top 10 of 2008 this upcoming weekend, as I just finished listening to Seal, Avant, Crystal Castles, and Bloc Party early this morning. I'm sure my list will surprise a lot of you, to those that realllly know me it will be mostly typical..except for one or two. I'm going to make a "50 albums you NEED to have of 2008." That paticular one I'll host on my personal blog over at Up Jumps The Blog. A 2008 rap-up newsreel-ish post will be there as well. So if you passed out on your narcalep-tip you can catch up with the help of ya boy =ToP!FLiTE=

So Drop-Bomb.com is officially 1 year old tommorow and it feels tremendous, stupendous. I know some of you are looking at these words I'm typing into my blackberry like "dude isn't this just a BLOG????" Well...it is, but big things start small. I've made strides this year as far as getting where I want to be in this crazy world of ours. And as small as it may be at this point, we HAVE made a name for ourselves with Drop-Bomb. Even if its only two new people that know about us, that's two more that didn't yesterday.

Did you know that if you give a man a penny, then two cents, then 4 cents, and continue to double it everyday for a month...just guess what his total earnings will be at the end of the month???

I'll leave that to yall to figure out, but that's where I intend to bring this Xxplosive shit too. I had an idea, set it in motion, got some great people involved in it with me, and you can definitely go around Seattle now and SOMEONE at a hip-hop show will know us. The blog yall LOVE to hate =).

1st phase complete.

Phase 1(2008): Put title/name to the movement

Phase 2: Generate INTENSE buzz for everyone we "fux" wit

Phase 3: (code name/working title)"Slugworth's Revenge"

Phase 4: To the Top of the City..

Thank you to all my friends that have decided to join me on this venture we've started.

(In no paticular order) Fresh aka GK aka Mo-B, Drewdown aka Drewcifer aka Andrew Dice Clay, tiffLOC, Steveizzle aka Scuba aka Fite!, Smizz aka Jay Smart aka Clark Kent, and everyone who's fuxed wit us over this last year..

State of the Artist aka SOTA, Colin Munroe and everybody over at marked music, YSL at Blogsiswatching.com, Henry aka H. Dilla with Crooked Lake(Crooked Lake is a navy, better yet a coast guard!!!), GMK, DJ Semaj, Jae Ruckus aka Mookie Layblox(I'm gonna put them slaps to us bruh!), Wade and Tendo(I still got those beats I'm workinonit!), Termanology, DJ Sabzi, Khingz, Grynch, Juantonimo! Aka Notes, Wes Caswell, Everybody over at Raindrop Hustla, Laced Up crew, Wes Goodlife, DJ Pryme, DList Magazine, Seaspot, Jovi at Soy Clothing, Brandon Beuachesne, Chelsea at Karmaloop!, Meli with Obese Productions(A MELI A MELI A MELI A MELI!!!!!), DJ Hyphen, Matthew Brown, Chris Lozano with UNDFTD, Benito and the whole Soul Gorilla crew(except that lil short nicca ak, haha ima see him), everybody in Seattle City, and all of our readers around the globe.

Royal Family, well...I guess it's back to Michael-Jordan in this b*tch. Only Jay Smart's gonna know what that means, but chyea..besides Ruckus and Fresh EVERYONE's fallen off(musically)..Chase I see you! Get money G. As for the rest of yall...god bless..I can't do nothin else for you.

To everyone, be positive and prosperous in 2009! Can you believe its almost been a full decade in the new millenium?? Crazysexycool. I'm ready for whatevuh.

Sky's The Limit. I'll see yall next year tho. Heh..
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Talib Kweli - "Get By" (Live in Seattle)

TK performs get by while in Seattle. and if you stole his laptop. We WILL find you and drop a bomb on your house. lol. The name ain't for show kiddies.

Termanology added to Method Man and Redman's tour!!

They're gonna be in Western Washington for two dates! First, in Bellingham on November 2nd, down to Portland on November 4th, and then on November 5th in the city of Seattle. Soon I'll add them to the sidebar.

In the mean time enjoy the video!


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Jeepney Akira Jackets - LIMITED EDITION! ONLY 100 Made.

COP and robbers.
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Jake One, Rik Cordero & Brother Ali

Jake One & Brother Ali - White Van Music from Three/21 Films on Vimeo.

The gods have aligned on this album. A few get together here to discuss the first video for Jake One's White Van Music.

Banana Creme Pie: Seattle Night Ryders

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. ON SMAASSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!



You can find this in your local Seattle lounge spot, nightclub, and/or fast food restaurant parking lot. We get it in! She puts it out! haahahahahaahaha.

Get-get-get-get-get get it gurl.
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Gems, Lake Street Bar and Grill, DJ Vinny the Pooh featured in September DList Magazine

Holler at your Local Folkal. I STILL need to get my happy ass down to Gems. I haven't checked that spot out, but I'm hearing nothing but good things about it. Anyway, if you haven't heard of DList magazine, you don't REALLY care about the local scene AT ALL. You can pick it up for FREE at any of your favorite salons, barber shops, fashion boutiques and stores, restaurants, even DOCTOR's offices. The mag is a good read. I got to meet the fashion editor the other day, she's pretty sound ppls. Anyway, go check it out. Don't forget..it's FREE!!!

YOU CAN READ IT HERE AS WELL.

Common & N.E.R.D. at Showbox SoDo

September 18th. Only $37. Ridiculous.

Buy presale tickets now [PW: showbox] or wait until tomorrow at 10 AM.



It's too damn hot to blog, but I'll be back on it soon.

Ladies.. Got a lot comin up for ya.

Instead of that SeaHawk SILLINESS!!!! Some Raider highlights.

It's almost that time.  You know it's time to get ready to root for your favorite NFL team when Madden is about to hit the shelves.  Week one of the pre-season is outta tha way.  Now it's officially the time for fans to talk exaggerated shit to each other because it's no way we can tell who is who yet.  Now, my turn to ruffle some FEATHERS, GO RAIDERS!  HAH! Yea, you damn straight I'm a Raider fan.  F**k all your other teams!  And those birds who stay in the cold who will NOT DO SH*T THIS YEAR!!!   I'm kiddin', they'll be pretty good.  Be prepared for me to do alot of week one analysis this year.  Football is my cup of tea.. Anyway!

Raiders VS 49ers, pre-season week 1..

Well anyway, I can't wait til this season starts, cuz I love how Darren McFadden HITS THE HOLE!  An SEC version of Reggie Bush, meanin' bigger, stronger, may be a tid bit slower.  But unlike Bush.  Mr. McFadden HITS THE HOLE, with no hesitation, and he's fast as hell, can't wait to see 'em break one.  It's still a rebuildin' year for us.

Hometown Heroes: SOTA video mix

SOTA Mix Video 2
by stateoftheartist206

State of the Artist. Shouts to the extended royal FAM!! This is just a mix video they put together with two of their tracks behind it as vibes. I think that last shot was out in Chelan, I'ma find out. I know it CRACKS in Chelan though, and that looks about rite. Anyway, HOLLA!

WHATUP P!
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