A beat/song I made earlier this week dedicated to my lost homeless friend Mark. I found out last night he's currently on the ICU (and apparently has been in and out of hospitals getting dialysis treatment for some months now). Mental health is no joke... I have so many regrets, wishing I knew more

Right now my brain has decided to play Biggie rapping "Who Shot Ya" over the beat for Diamond D's "Check One, Two". With some Diamond D lyrics mixed in there lol It's always weird spontaneous DJ blends up in here lol #HipHop

Went to the premiere of Spoon of Chocolate at Tribeca Film Festival… written, produced, and directed by RZA. Powerful film!! 💪 Definitely go see it in theaters, and if you can…. go in COMPLETELY BLIND!! #SpoonOfChocolate #RZA #WuTang #TribecaFilmFestival 👐

Since I verified through my own domain... do I get a checkmark?

Cleaning is... well it's cleaning lol

Has anyone yet rapped over the beat for Kendrick's Not Like Us but on the hook instead going: "🎵🎶 dun-dun dun dun // They not that tough // They not that tough // They not that tough...." Feels like a missed opportunity lol #HipHop #Rap #Kendrick #Drake

Kendrick called it, turn the TV off. Ain't no way the Chiefs coming back from this. Eagles got this.

No way the Chiefs coming back from this. Tonight just ain't their game. Fly Eagles fly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🦅 🏈

When you lose someone, it's okay to fall apart. Grieve however you want. Had a friend tell me to pull myself together… but really just 2 mix his song smh. Once even let anger slip in his voice… (Just don't do it in front of moms… or whoever else is equal to you or closer in the circle of grief.)

Last night during the Tyson fight I kept hoping that in the 8th round we'd suddenly hear glass shattering over the loud speakers… then Stone Cold Steve Austin would run into the ring and hit Jake Paul over the side of his head with a steel chair. A guy can dream. #StoneCold #MikeTyson

Whenever I hear the "D-Generation X" theme /wrestling entrance music in my head, my brain automatically mashes it up with "Killing In The Name Of" lol #RageAgainstTheMachine #WWF #WWE

There is this woman on the subway *right now* walking up and down between all the cars, barefoot with a lit cigarette in her hand, mumble-crying "Somebody help me". And I feel like she's America.

Piracy is preservation

It's Phanpy if you use SkyBridge skybridge.fly.dev

This is really dope - you can use *any* Mastodon app for Bluesky using the tool @lucid00.com shared below. Now I can use Phanpy's Catch-Up feature on Bluesky and...it's perfect. This is what happens when we build on open protocols. We get to use the social web the way that works best for *us*.

Lmaoooooo 🤣

Wow! It's hard to believe that Bluesky hit 10 million users! I'm sure they aren't all active. And I'm sure that many of the ones before I signed up were squatters and bots. But I'm now officially #86,236 and it feels good to be part of the top .0086% 😜

We all cope in different ways. The problem with me is that, like AKW always tells me, I really DO be moving in silence. I could be going through it all night and you wouldn't even know it.

#FatmanScoop is one of those people in Hip Hop that I just always thought would be here. So sad that he's gone. If you grew up in NYC, he was DEFINITELY part of the soundtrack of your youth. Every DJ had a "Fatman Scoop section" of their set that was super hype. Many still do. Rest In Paradise

"New York, New York! Legendary rhyme force code-named Charley Horse." 👐

Nothing feels better than getting on that M60 bus after a long, painful cramped plane ride. (Especially with the satisfaction of knowing how much money you're saving.)

I wish more people I knew were on BlueSky. I love this app and the idea behind it. But for smaller indie creators like me, it's harder to get a lethargic/less-active tribe/audience/family of followers you built over years to go to a new platform.

Can't believe Akira Toriyama is gone. A blood clot? Far too young at 68, he looked so healthy. This year I started reading all of colored Dragon Ball in order. So glad I did! Incredible Art. Here's Yoshihiro Togashi of Hunter X Hunter & YuYu Hakusho talking about him: ford4d.com/videos/Togas...

Honestly, the Hunter X Hunter manga is on another level. It you've only seen the anime adaptations, you're missing out! Yoshihiro Togashi really knows how to pace a page panel-by-panel, and his artwork is really something special, in my opinion. #HunterXHunter #Togashi

I know I'm probably super late to the party on this, but I love BlueSky's new #butterfly inspired logo. I think it's honestly exactly what they needed. It's a symbol that goes beyond the limitations of letter forms and cleverly typeset words. Bravo!

I like to read bad reviews for films that I enjoyed. HUGE avenue for learning. (Especially if it's even vaguely "Art House".) A director can get *so much* right… and yet still make a subjectively bad work of art. It's interesting. Exception to this rule: Popcorn movies. 🍿🎥

Guys, Amazon deforestation is down 50% this year! It's worth saying twice: Amazon deforestation is down 50% this year!!!!!!! 2023 was also the best year ever for reforestation and carbon reduction! We're doing it! We're really doing it! #ShareGoodNewsToo

For some reason in my head it just keeps playing the first verses from Renegade (the original Eminem & Royce Da 5'9" version) over the beat for Freeway's "What We Do". On repeat. Why does my brain do this? Who knows, lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good ol' Henry Kissinger — everyone's favorite war criminal! — has passed away at 100 years old. As a child during the holocaust he witnessed first hand what happens when you don't have power, and became obsessed with brokering it. For better or for worse, he created the world we live in today.

Hentai. feat. Mark Pheonix Recorded by @ford4d.com Produced by Me. Cover art by Me. A song I made a long time ago that wasn’t released because I’m still waiting on a 3rd verse from somebody lol. Def a song about sex, but lowkey about body positivity too. soundcloud.com/lucid00/hentai #Rap

thinking about how facebook lied about video viewership numbers and accelerated the pivot to video and then killed a bunch of print/text media: www.ccn.com/facebook-lie...

Talking to @lucid00.com about this classic: Anybody else remember Waynehead? Also: This show was crazy woke ahead of it's time, cuz the main character had a prosthetic and THEY JUST NEVER TALK ABOUT IT. It's not like they called him Wayne leg. (Or it was like a common condition for kids then.)

Big fan of tiny, literal-thumbnail sized shopping lists (and putting them in the hands of my Baby Yoda sticker).

Filming Amaurys Grullon in 16mm at #BronxNative for #Hanes, celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop! #HipHop50

I wish Prodigy was still alive so that a young Pop / RnB artist could feature him on a song called *Girls Just Wanna Have Duns*

Seems like all people talk about on this app is how much they hate this app lol

EVERY time it rains out on location (or gets even slightly dark): "That's okay… We brought the sun with us." #ProductionDadJokes #SetLife #ProductionMemes #DadJokes #Production #FilmProduction #SetMemes #FilmMemes

Brotherhood

My old friend Steener would always greet everyone on the 4th with a cheery "Happy Fuck The Queen In The Eye Socket Day!" This is the first year in our lifetime where you could maybe actually go do it

I mean, don't. You'd get in trouble. But there's no way they're guarding her skull that carefully anymore.

Been living "off the grid" for a minute. Refreshing for my brain. Seems more appropriate to state that here than on other social media lol

Tossed out a bunch of invites to hip-hop or hip-hop adjacent folk (rappers, producers, fans, etc). @ford4d.com @89thebrainchild.bsky.social @thewolvesden25.bsky.social @jonathancloud.bsky.social @jonnyjukebox.bsky.social @mboogs.bsky.social

The EU really said “Reimagine your entire device design paradigm in 4 years. No excuses.” And I’m here for it. I’m sick of retiring tablets when their batteries age out. By 2027, new smartphones and tablets in the EU must have user replaceable batteries. Like the good old 90s. 😅 #technews

Bluesky: “We instaban anyone with mental health issues” Users: “How about banning Nazis instead” Bluesky: Bluesky: Bluesky: “Fine, we’ll wait a little bit before we ban users with mental health issues”