Merry Christmas

This will also serve as the throwback thursday post as well.

I fucking hate the holidays and everyone's joy. This is a time of stress and unwarranted gifts to people I dont talk to all year long, but still, I'm somehow required to give them something for the pleasure of knowing me. As if that wasn't enough.

Bah Humbug.

-Oliver Scrooge

In Your Face Like A Buck Fitty Wit a Razor

Pure. Raw. Classic.

OC - Far From Yours. On my '97 shit yet again. Man I miss the days...

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Necro - Underground

I remember knockin this shit really tough my Junior year of high school. The thing that stands out most in my mind is that my punk rock homies were hella into Necro, but nothing else that I was showing them at the time. I guess Necro's absurd brutal death rap transcends genre's for impressionable youth. Me? Not so much. I've been steadfast in my appreciation of hip hop music for the better part of 2 decades. That may date me a bit, but new jacks gotta know where all their favorite underground artists came from, and what impact they had in the years before you discovered them.

What were you knockin in 2000?

-Old ass Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Six Days

Maybe the only DJ Shadow track I ever liked.

Don't get me wrong, i can appreciated what dude does, but I don't have to like it... Right?

-Olls

My Youth.

I swear I spent more money renting this video in my younger years than I did on ANYTHING else in the world.

One of my favorite scenes from the flick...



Second favorite scene...



And yes, even as a shorty I wandered why in the hell these dudes wanted to joust rather than just scrap. Eh, whateva.

Throwback Thursday has been revived!!

Throwback Thursday: The Way Of The Gun

This movie is in my top 5 most bad ass flicks of all time. It is this movie and this movie alone that has given Ryan Phillippe a lifetime pass on any and everything he ever does. EVER. This guy could open mouth kiss Adam Lambert (American Idol) on live television and I would never question his absolute sheer fucking manliness.

This is the trailer for the movie to give you an idea of the basic synopsis...



Got your attention? Well, if I didn't, SERIOUSLY DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND CLICK HERE

The reason you have to click rather than being able to watch it right here is because EVERY COPY on youtube has had the embedding disabled. What a bunch of GEE AYE WHY cat ass bullshit.

That is without a doubt one of the best scenes from any movie at any point in time in the history of the world. And, just for the record, that is THE OPENING SCENE IN THE MOVIE!!

I love that he just decides to beat the shit out of Sarah Silverman and accept the ass whoopin he's got coming.

Benicio is pretty awesome too:



LOL. This is a true gem, cult classic. Right up there with Usual Suspects and The Boondock Saints.

-For the record I'll call myself Mr. Wrist

Throwback Thursday: Celly Cel - It's Goin' Down

Bettin' 5 dollars a game on Madden '95 on Sega. Whew. WATCH:



"Hit the gas, smoked 'em up, smashed off I'm outtie, bendin' corners laughin cause I left they car cloudy".

ICE COLD.

Celly Cel was with the shit in '95. I swear this fool's heart is a freezer.

This shit got remixed more times than "I got 5 on it" by The Luniz. HAHA.

-Uncle Ollie will learn ya

Don't Even Be Lookin' At My Girl: Cassie Gets Naked

Do I have your attention now? Yes, that Cassie. The same one that Mr. Diddy himself was cuttin' up on the side, the same one who was responsible for creating one of the most hated songs of my entire life:



Can't even try to hate on those dance moves though, damn shorty knows what she's doin' with those hips. I feel like Hawk from the Legion of Doom right now...



"ohhhhhhhh What a Rush..."

Suffice it to say, I have had WAY MORE than a crush on this young bitty for quite some time now. That is, until she pulled this awful stunt:



What the fuck were you thinkin' homegirl? You literally were one hit away from "top 5 in the game" and you go and pull a stunt like that.

And just when I think you can make anything any worse for yourself, you go and pull a stunt like this...



...and totally redeem yourself!!!!

The NSFW (yes, full on hacked computer pics, titties fully on blast) joints can be found right Here and Here.

Cassie took to her Twitter page this morning to address the situation. And I quote:

"IT SEEMS THAT SOMEONE HAS HACKED INTO MY COMPUTER...THAT'S REAL FOUL AND EVIL. NOW STOP ACTING LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN A TITTY BEFORE."about 9 hours ago from web

Nice job Cass. You really played it off, as if you weren't the one who leaked these photos to begin with. I am literally on the edge of my seat just waiting for the sex tape.

Normally, I don't watch the sex tapes of celebrities (yeah fuckin' right) but in this case I will not only make an exception, I will pay for it.

That's right, I will actually pay money for the sex tape rather than just jackin' it (pun completely intended and used well I might add) from the web.

Thank you Cassie. I will act like any man who has ever "seen a titty before" and continue to stare at these joints for the rest of the day.

You know what they say... "If you've seen one titty, you want to see 'em all".

Church.

Shout to Tyler Durden for the scoop.

Today is going to be a great day.

-Ollie the Provider

---------------------UPDATE-------------------------------------------

I just recieved this email, and I quote:

"I am writing from Bad Boy Entertainment in regards to the photos of Cassie that you posted on your web site at:

http://nickelplatedbama.blogspot.com/2009/05/dont-even-be-lookin-at-my-girl-cassie.html

These photos are the property of Bad Boy Entertainment/Cassie and need to be removed immediately to prevent legal action. Please confirm with me when they have been taken down. Thank you for your cooperation.
Bad Boy Entertainment | Digital Marketing
Email:"

My response, and I quote:

"I posted links to photos. Other photos of Cassie were found via google image searches."

****So BAMA nation, do I take the links down or fight the power?***

-Uncle Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Orange English

These are step by step instructions on how to create/enjoy one of the hood's favorite drinks; Orange English provided by NPB's favorite rapper Makeshift.



Step 1:



"Drink that Old E down to the cone quickfast."



"Like a G..."

Step 2:



"Pour orange juice to the brim (minute maid is the best)."

Step 3:



"Tip that mug upside down to get the butta flow mixture."

Step 4:



"Take it to the dome."

Step 5:



"Enjoy..."

Thanks to Makeshift for puttin me onto this shit.

Personally, I've never consumed Orange English. When I was a younger lad, we used to get down extra thorough with the "Project Punch".

I don't have step by step (picture) instructions, so you'll just have to read a little bit here.

Step 1: Get your "cool" uncle to buy you some boos. You'll need 1 (per person):

40 oz. of King Cobra:



and 1 bottle of Night Train wine:



After that, it's basically the same idea as the Orange English, probably about a 70/30 (beer/wine) mixture.

***Side note***

Night Train wine is vinted and bottle approx. 100 miles from my home in the lovely town of Modesto, CA by E&J Gallo winery.

Trust in this, Night train is all business when it pulls into the station, and when you mix it with the King Cobra 40 oz, even the most hardened drinkers out there will be feelin' the effects.

If you are unable to locate Night Train at your local liqua sto', you can subtitute with any of the following:

Cisco:



Mad Dog 20/20:



Wild Irish Rose (a little harder to come by):



And for the less rugged drinker (read: bitch ass motherfuckers) you can always go with the old stand by...

St. Ides (special brew):



Enjoy the concoctions of my youth.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: J-Zone - Bum Bitch Ballad

My man Zone, straight heater off the "Pimps Don't Pay Taxes" album from 2002.



"Wait a minute, you're talkin' 'bout my sister"... "50 cent juice drinkin BITCH!!"

I loves me some ign'ant behavior, and Zone defines that shit.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Hit Me With That Hardcore

1994 shit. Beatnuts. I didn’t really start fuckin’ with Beatnuts too hard until later on in my hip hop career (I’d say around ’98-’99) when Sammy Baptista used “Off the Books” for his video part in the Shorty’s skateboard flick “Fulfill The Dream”.

Anyways, this is an older Beatnuts joint that just gets better with time. Peep the 40’s and flannels.

The Beatnuts – Hit Me With That Hardcore



And just for shits and giggles, here’s that Sammy Baptista part from “Fulfill The Dream”.



It’s crazy for me to watch this shit and see how much the bar has been raised in the last 10 years. The Shorty’s ams were the best around back then. PERIOD. I mean, this video (except for Steve Olson, worst style in the history of skateboarding) set the standard for skateboarding when it came out. Now, when compared to recent videos, the shit is pale in comparison.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: My VHS Collection

I know I’ve really been on a wrestling kick lately, but I wanted to share a couple photos of my VHS collection.









Pictured above are:

Supertape Vol. 4

Wrestlefest ‘92

Wrestlefest ‘91

WWF’s Hottest Matches

Rampage ‘92

Grudges Gripes and Grunts

Not pictured is my recentyl picked-up 4 disc set of Wrestlemania Vol. 2 1990-1994.

Get your game tight.

-Oliver The Magnificent

Ric Flair Turns 60!

Talk about Throwin' it back. Yesterday (February 25, 2009) was Ric Flair's 60th birthday.

How classic is this guy? Last week I was on the Mr. Perfect kick, but I gotta admit, Ric Flair is as, if not more important to wrestling than Hulk Hogan (who I was never really a fan of, for the record). Seriously, this guy started his career sometime in the early 70's and was still wrestling as recently as 2008. This guy is as classic as you can get.

And what about the rhetoric he was kickin?



HAHAHAHA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Can anyone deny the parallels between wrestling and hip hop? Flair was kickin' that "custom shoes, money, cars, hoes" shit back before Sugar Hill Gang ever thought about droppin' "Rapper's Delight" and paving the way for today's money-crazed emcee. Think about it, Ric Flair created your favorite rapper's "swagger".



That may very well be the greatest interview ever conducted in the history of wrestling. EVER. How many woooo's did he hit there? Jesus.

I'm gonna stop here because I could literally write all day about how dope the Nature Boy Ric Flair was/is.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Diamond D - The Hiatus

The Hiatus from '97's "Hatred, Passion, & Infidelities". Shit knocks. End of story. Skip to the :28 second mark for the song. The first 30 seconds is a snippet from another Diamond D joint called "The Projects". For the uninitiated, Diamond D was resident in-house producer for the D.I.T.C. (Diggin in the crates) crew, which played host to the likes Showbiz and A.G. (personal fave), Big L, Lord Finesse, Fat Joe and numerous other classic rap acts from the hey-day of New York hip hop.



I prefer Diamond D as a producer, but i gotta give credit when it's due, and D came correct on the verses here. Straight classic material from an industry savvy veteran.

-Ollie in reflection

Throwback Thursday: Ghetto Dwellaz

Certified heater from little known (but supremely dope) Ghetto Dwellaz. Party Arty and D-Flow are menacing over what can only be described as the "definition of New York grime".



I think this joint is more like a '98-'99 era jump, but it still slaps the shit outta anything post 2001, STRAIGHT THE FUCK UP!

Sorry, I'm a bit pressed for time. Had to go re-up the meds after a doctor's visit where he explained to me the pitfalls of hydrocodone consumption. STFU and write the prescription bitch, I'm paying cash for this visit as well as the prescription I don't need a lecture.

R.I.P. Party Arty.

**Side Note** It seems like every Throwback Thursday post recently has ended with an "R.I.P." attached. That is completely unintentional.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Mr. Perfect

You know how some things just require background music? Well this is one of those times. Press play before reading on...



Fact: I was obsessed with WWF wrestling from 1989-1993 and then for a little while roundabout 1996 when the N.W.O. angle kicked in.

Fact: I have gone on record on more than one occasion and claimed Bret "The Hitman" Hart as my all time favorite wrestler in the history of the WWF. That is 100% true. I will never deny that. EVER.

Fact: Except for a select few, I almost always root for the bad guy. The villain. The guy that sticks his hand out for you to slap and then pulls the "too slow" move on you. The dick. The heel.

Fact: Mr. Perfect was the all time greatest "bad guy" in WWF history.

Lets run down the credentials...

The "Perfect" entrance music? Check.

Swagger? Check.

Bravado? Check.

Best name ever? Check.

Ties to goons and "bad" guys? Check.

Intercontinental champion? Check.

Coached by Bobby "The Brain" Heenan? Check.

Awesome finishing move? Check.

This guy had some of the best rhetoric of all time. I have spent half of my day looking for classic Mr. Perfect moment's on youtube and can't seem to locate the stuff I wanted to show. But I did find this video from like '99 where he cheats at chess. Just classic asshole behavior from THE classic asshole.



Man this guy was a goon. I just love how everything he did was "perfect". He did that ill entrance move where he threw the towel behind his back and caught it. He would spit his gum in the air and then slap it into the crowd (SO ICEY). I wonder if he ever even considered that the gum could get stuck in someones hair? Or for that matter if he even cared enough to wonder? I am convinced, to this day, that Mr. Perfect was the exact same person out of the ring as in, just a straight up, good old fashioned asshole.

He was great. R.I.P. Mr. Perfect

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Rocket Science

This post is particularly close to me for several reasons.

First of all, the photo that you will see in the video is the cover of the MHZ "Table Scraps" album. The photo was taken by our late friend Justin Zuk, but the illest part about it is that Zuk just took a picture of his table. The way it sat the day of the "photo shoot". Yeah, for the "hip hop" heads out there you will notice the "Twist" bottle on the table. Who's TWIST? Legendary graffiti writer out of the bay. His bottles now fetch a pretty penny on EBAY. R.I.P. Z.

Second, I'm pretty sure the homie Sam from FTKconstruction.com, got the credit for the layout and design.

Third, it was executive produced by their then manager Bobby Naugle. This guy gave me one of my favorite mixtapes to date back in like '96-'97. The aptly titled "For The Kids" joint.

Finally, one of the most surreal "hip hop" moments in my life came while I was maxin out with Bobby, Copywrite (first emcee on the track), and Cage (of Eminem beef, "Agent Orange" fame). The four of us were coolin in a hotel room down in L.A. listening to Cage tell us how all he needed was a Just Blaze beat and his single would be bigger than Eminem's. At that time, Eminem was going out of his way to diss Cage at least once an album, it was a fairly big deal. Anyways, so we just finished eating Fat Burger when out of nowhere "Role Model" (one of the singles off of The Slim Shady L.P.) came on. I just look up to notice Cage straight heated. In the song, Eminem says:

"...Ran on stage and sprayed Cage with Agent orange then wiped my ass with his page in source..."

This triggered a series of events that ultimately lead to me and Bobby rollin out.

Anyways, back to the story, Copywrite is an extremely cool cat outside of the studio, but when he is destroying "you" on a track, he is one of the meanest muhfucka's on the planet. And I love it. Enjoy...



"I've seen tighter (w)rappers on a candy bar"...

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Captain Planet

Of all the cartoons I used to watch, Captain Planet seemed to be the only one concerned with worldly issues, such as polution, destroying the rainforests, etc. Do you remember the premis for this show?



Yes, every single episode started with that intro. I always wondered why the one homie got stuck with the "heart" ring. The shit seems forced. Like, they needed 5 elements and couldnt come up with anything outside of the earth, wind, water, fire, so they just went ahead and threw out random ideas in the pitch meeting and somehow "heart" was the power they settled on. Whatever though, this show had one of the best theme songs of all time...



"Captain Planet, hes our hero, gonna take polution down to zero"...

I hope, in the off chance that I ever reproduce, that cartoons like this make their way back into the world to help sculpt the young peoples minds.

Oh yeah, Warner Brothers, Fox, Lions Gate, and all the rest of you awful movie producers out there, this idea is free. The next one will cost you.

This would make an excellent movie. With the influx of turning cartoons to live action and remaking every film under the sun, why wouldn't you fuck with Captain Planet, and for Pete's sake, give Thundercats some burn. I'm tired of waiting.

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Gangster Of Love

Tuesday morning I was listening to the shade45 sirius satelite radio station and this cut came on. I was straight bugged out. I forgot how ridiculously ign'ant the Geto Boys really were. This is some 1990 shit, and is definitely out of the norm for my typical throwback thursday posts which, more often than not, feature some mid '90's New York "Timberland boots and hoodies" tales of crack sales and stick ups. Not this week. I'm taking it back, waaaaaay back. This shit pre-dates my "career" in hip hop by at least 4 years, so, in all actuality, I had to go back and learn about the Geto Boys after their hay-day. Does that make me a phony? I don't think so. I just know that Texas in 1990/1991 was the most ign'ant pimperish time in hip hop history. And next to my undying affection for that New York swag from 1993-1997, Texas in this era was my favorite movement in hip hop...

Why do I like outlandishly filthy icey bravado so much?

I can't call it. It might have to do with all the gangster movies I watched as a young buck. Maybe it's because I always root for the villain in a movie. Maybe it's because "backpack rap" bores me. Whatever it is, you all get to benefit from my upbringing via these classics I drop on you every Thursday.



"I've neva been played by a hoe/ if the bitch is actin stupid... she gotta go"...

The first line of this joint lets you know out the gate what you are dealing with.

Willie D is freezin these hoes with every breath of dry ice he exhales.

I fuckin heart this shit.

How can you not get down with a joint that sampled Steve Miller's classic? I remember I saw Steve Miller perform live when I was like 11. It was that fateful day that I would remember for the rest of my life. On this day, way back in 1994, I was introduced to Pat Benatar for the first time. An instant love affair began, and since then, every microphone I've touched in every karaoke bar, in every city I've ever performed, the crowd gets treated to face-melting air guitars and leg kicks courtesy of the soothing sounds of Pat Benatar's biggest hit of all time, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot". Man, she shined on stage. I could spend days writing about my first love Pat Benatar, but I gotta get back to the lecture at hand...

AMG, UGK, Geto Boys, etc. were killin the dirty rap game in the early 90's. The only other person that was really on these cats level at the time was my uncle Todd. Who is uncle Todd you ask? Todd Shaw, a.k.a. Too Short. Man, he was beastin on these tricks from the very beginning, matter of fact, he still is. Homie is pushin 50 years of age, no joke, and he's still kickin that slow flow "bitch betta have my money" ultra tight rhetoric to these punk ass birds. Get that paper Short.

P.S. Where the hell is Willie D.?

-Ollie

Throwback Thursday: Doe or Die

For the record, AZ has and always will be better than Nas in any rap category except sales. Argue if you want, it will get you absolutely nowhere with me. I hold firm in my ways. Anywho, this is the title track from the '95 classic "Doe or Die" by AZ. If you're not an AZ guy, and don't know his body of work, get familiar, homie has been one of the nicest since his debut back in like '92. This cut didn't get the love that "Sugar Hill" got, but it was/is fire.



Posts are fast and furious today. Tryin to get my life in order for the departure this after. Go youtube AZ and send me a comment to say thanks. PEACE.

-Ollie