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I have only listened to the thing once and I haven't really been paying attention to the lyrics - but then again who does? Here it is, my two cents on "Magna Carty Holy Grail", the first album with its own Android-App.

01 Holy Grail: Justin Timberlake's cheesy chorus ruins an otherwise nice track.
02 Picasso: Classic Jay-Z. Dope. Could have been on "Reasonable doubt" (1996).
03 Tom Ford: Borrowing from "M.I.A. - Bad Girls" is never a bad move. Brooklyn we go hard, anyone?
04 F*ckwith...: I can already see Rick Ross riding in a black car in slow motion in the video. The song doesn't surprise one bit.
05 Oceans: Hmm.
06 F.U.T.W.: Classic Jay-Z. Dope. Could have been on "The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse" (2002)
07 Somewhereinamerica: Lean back and enjoy. Two and a half very enjoyable minutes.
08 Crown: Very "watch-the-throne-esque". Goes hard. This would be my second bet for a video with cars turning corners in slow motion. In this case, that's a good sign!
09 Heaven: Not bad, not amazing.
10 Versus: May just be the highlight. Very very short, but very very good.
11 Part II: The obligatory Beyonce-feature-track. Could have been worse.
12 Beach is better: 45 seconds long. Very hardcore.
13 BBC: Promising list of producers and features. Sadly, as those things often go: Too many features spoil the track a bit.
14 Jay Z Blue: Hmm.
15 La Familia: Don't like Jay-Z rhyming very slowly with long breaks between every line too much.
16 Nickels and Dimes: Oh, I take back what I uttered about track 15. Obviously it's not Jay-Z's rhyming style that annoys me. Because on this track it works rather fine.

My little remix of the promo artwork. Now it's about a holiday in Morocco, the relax-factor of which the woman in the picture is not quite sure about because some random greek dude grabs her from the back and probably tries to molest her.

Here is the verdict:

It's Franz "Mystery Man" Kafka's Birthday. And of course the day is "honored" by google with a google doodle, displaying a little bug person with a hat carrying a briefcase through a door. Which makes a lot of sense because "Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis" is totally about a little beetle-type dude with a cute hat and a little briefcase.

Oh, no it's not. Well, maybe for some it is, although an insect (and that is what Gregor Samsa turns into) can be a lot of stuff, not only a gentleman-like bug.

As we are on the topic. Good job honoring the dead's will, people at google. Here is what Kafka wrote in a letter to his publicist Kurt Wollf about the subject: "Das Insekt selbst kann nicht gezeichnet werden. Es kann aber nicht einmal von der Ferne aus gezeigt werden!" which roughly translated means something along the lines of "Don't you f*ing dare paint a little bug guy coming home from work, you imbecile!"

Happy birthday Franz!

Looking forward. A lot. And since we're on the topic. How cool is Rick Rubin? Love his ethic. He is not to be messed with, absolutely not. Never mind his athletic Sportlehrer-im-Erdkundeunterricht-pants and Pyjama-shirt. He might just be the Messias.



No leak yet. Four days to go. Suspense.

Hawk House (formerly "A Yellow Man"; a much better name if you ask me) have recently released a rather nice little free mixtape. I have no idea how and why I found that little gem (God Save Soundcloud!) but I love it. It's full of that sophisticated and mellow UK vibe, mixed with classic Boom Bap and modern electronic elements. The ideal recipe for a tasty sunday lunch!



Download: Hawk House - A Little More Elbow Room

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B b b b b Betty Ford Boys, beotch!

You know that feeling? That a little article for your blog is basically in your head, totally finished and just needs to be typed into some kind of a computer machine? That you got loads of brilliant videos and images that magically capture the whole vibe of the experience that your article is about?



Well, I had this feeling all day today. Until I realized that with Vine (for Android) it's basically impossible to embed Vines (and i did at least 6 or 8 of them) in websites, that all the videos from my phone from yesterday were either shaky or out of focus and - that aspect might be the saddest part - I actually don't know what to write about the whole thing.



So instead I am giving you the trailer for the real thing I attended. Yesterday the Betty Ford Boys, consisting of Suff Daddy, Brenk Sinatra and Dexter ripped a small but very cool venue in nuremberg (K4) to pieces. In a good way of course. And for a change it wasn't a concert that consisted of the artists and the audience nostalgically holding on to music that they have already celebrated years ago (btw Iron Maiden are still touring, oh, and The Pharcyde hit Erlangen just this week), no, it was quite the opposite.



There was definitely something innovative and new in the air. My mood was a bit like "I have no idea what it is they are playing, but even though the sound is not ideal, i really like it". I prefer that very much to the mood I was in approximately one year ago in cologne. I paid a shitload of money to see Jay-z and Kanye during their Watch The Throne tour. And what I ended up experiencing was Kanye West not even pretending to have fun once during the whole fucking gig plus the sound was extremely awful. And don't get me started on the little fanboys and fangirls that kept screaming "let's go let's go" into my ears hours before the concert was due to begin. Yupp, they played the hits. And Jay-Z has still got it. But somehow it just wasn't very enjoyable because somehow there was very little love involved. Most of the dicknoses in the audience - I think - were just there to show off their Nike Air Yeezys to as many likeminded braindeads as possible.



Back to the Betty Ford Boys' "Leaders of the Brew School" concert in Nuremberg. I loved it. And I'm pretty stoked that this is just the beginning. Who knows what these dudes and their conglomerate (twit one and the likes) will be coming up with. I will stay very very tuned and advise you to do the same. Nuff said. Nuff.



Not quite. A lot of praise is due to the ones that never get enough love: The ones that took the risk of booking the new kids on the block (thank you Musikverein/K4) and the ones that "foreplayed" the shit out of the venue to get the audience excited. As ever, it would still have been a pretty decent evening, even if the main act hadn't appeared (massive thanks mathe katze and funkee flow!).

Check my Vine for a lot of little 6 sec impressions of the whole affair: username @FloduardQuolke