And the “trucks” drive like lifted minivans... blech! So glad I steered my wife towards a new focus vs used SUV...

That’s a fine collection, just missing a classic... get ridda that sonic and snag one and you're set...

Janelle Monae... I don’t think that when she grows up she’d have qualms about you having played Kendrick, Vince Staples, Logic, anderson.paak, cardi B, Smino, KYLE is something tame that’d be pretty well suited for an 8yr old, Kali Uchis, Aquemini and later Outkast as someone else mentioned, Rae Sremmurd maybe... you…

Eh I’d say that’s a bit harsh of a review for the Jay Rock album— it’s a bit generic/bland but the inclusion of King’s Dead ensures it’s already got a ‘hit’ on it, and it’s got some playable tracks (Rotation, ES tales, the Bloodiest). I didn’t really like either record much, but the Nas record was just generally a…

Yep... Google Maps.

There was no passion or punch in much of Nas’ rapping on Nasir, but Kanye is putting out some of the worst lyrical content of his career, and he was never known as a wordsmith. Kanye wins this race to the bottom, IMO.

In the weekly hip hop album release battle, the winner of Nas vs Jay Rock was.... Beyonce? The Carters record was the best of the week, IMO, with Beyonce taking her clear place as the head of her family (musically). Jay-Z seems to be falling off a bit as he ages, which you’d expect, while Beyonce seems to be lining…

It does a poor job calculating traffic on city streets. Like report 3 hours of traffic as 20 minutes bad, as I experienced yesterday.

Google maps is cancelled. There was horrendous traffic for my commute yesterday; google recommended going through the suburban streets in Alexandria instead of waiting in line to get on the freeway immediately. 11 minutes faster it claimed. 3 hours later I arrived home. Left at 545, reached the “11 minutes faster”…

“When the leader of the country calls them animals it dehumanizes them to be treated like this.”

Cops Shot the Kid wore out its welcome for me pretty quickly (about halfway through); the sample was a fresh idea but it was used a little too prominently to the point where its call out to the brilliant “Children’s Story” reminds you of how much the Nas song pales in comparison. Agree on Adam and Eve— classic Nas and…

Wow, somehow your order is the exact opposite of mine. Almost like we have ‘taste’ buds :-P

Gonna take some effort to beat “letting 4000+ Americans in Puerto Rico die”...

How do I switch back to the Berenstein Bears timeline? This one is a stain on humanity with the US’ state-sanctioned child abuse. Plus, I could really use a fun rewatch of that Sinbad genie movie to replace some of the memories of the horrors of the last couple years...

That’s the stateside perspective I’ve always heard. It makes more sense to me considering that the leading bands coming from the States were things like Hendrix, the Beach Boys, Greatful dead, Dylan, Byrds, etc... Beach Boys and Beatles were bands of boys that made poppy songs, while a lot of the other stuff people…

Boy band members can be kinda grimy in real life— I remember back in high school one of the members of BSB was supposedly dating a 18yr old senior from one of the local all-girls catholic schools; he was in his mid 20s. Their image was still polished and clean at that point...

I think most people concur they *started* as a boy band; their musicianship grew exponentially from that simple start and they became the Beattles we know. Their debut EP was definitely boy-band material; really most of what they made through Sgt. Peppers...

Tesla is actually the more valuable company— so I guess technically GM is punching up ;)

They were always deplorables, and it was always stupid for Clinton to say it out loud.

I guess in terms of some counterpoints: