Dang, I was just listening to F*** Compton the other day. Longtime Ultramagnetic associate (and recent Dateline subject? weird) has passed away. (Click through, apparently he went at Kanye and Jay-Z recently too! Which I find quixotically...

“DJ Magic Mike and the Royal Posse,” the album, is especially interesting; it came before that deeply disappointing brand of geographic discrimination against the south even had a chance to develop. This why I think the track “Def and Direct” is so interesting — emcee Infinite J seems to be channelling Keith Murray before there was even a Keith Murray. Love them big...

So there’s some movie called “Magic Mike” out. Unfortunate that the mere mention of the name doesn’t default to the Orlando DJ, who was really a huge hip-hop/bass pioneer. I imagine that literally the only reason he’s not more known today is geography. What’s interesting is that his work existed before there was much of clear line between “regular hip-hop” and “Miami bass;” as a result, a lot of his stuff was the best of both worlds. Best example, his seminal “Drop the...

Jeez, no disrespect to the other two, but he was probably my favorite openly fat rapper of all...