Tuesday
Aug052008
Cool Site - ill Doctrine
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 6:30AM
I came across this site via StumbleUpon and subsequently spent the better part of a day watching his past videos.
I know that merely seeing the words "hip hop" may cause some of you to run in fear immediately, but you really should check it out this site. (Seriously, whenever I tell people I went to the Wu-Tang/Rage concert outside Harlem they look at me like I said I've been hanging out with a militia in the DR Congo. It's just music people, it won't hurt you.)
by JEKY
It's not just hip hop he covers. It's also pop culture, the music industry, celebrity, politics, and philosophy. He has some really interesting viewpoints on things, and he's able to articulate them very well. It's not just listening to what he has to say, but how he says it. Below is a good example of what I'm talking about.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc]
Like all good writers and speakers he's able to say a lot in relatively few words. And his choice of words is diverse enough to minimize repetition while managing to avoid sounding like he's reading from a thesaurus.
After going through his past topics, he's given me quite a few ideas for future posts, and provided me with another standard by which to judge my writing. Another site to add to my RSS reader.
ill Doctrine is a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad.
I know that merely seeing the words "hip hop" may cause some of you to run in fear immediately, but you really should check it out this site. (Seriously, whenever I tell people I went to the Wu-Tang/Rage concert outside Harlem they look at me like I said I've been hanging out with a militia in the DR Congo. It's just music people, it won't hurt you.)
by JEKY
It's not just hip hop he covers. It's also pop culture, the music industry, celebrity, politics, and philosophy. He has some really interesting viewpoints on things, and he's able to articulate them very well. It's not just listening to what he has to say, but how he says it. Below is a good example of what I'm talking about.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc]
Like all good writers and speakers he's able to say a lot in relatively few words. And his choice of words is diverse enough to minimize repetition while managing to avoid sounding like he's reading from a thesaurus.
After going through his past topics, he's given me quite a few ideas for future posts, and provided me with another standard by which to judge my writing. Another site to add to my RSS reader.
Reader Comments (1)
Jay Smooth makes me swoon.