I’m on a Philly potato chip roll, apparently, following up on my entry last week about Chumpies. This week I found a bag of RAP SNACKS featuring Bell Biv DeVoe on the cover. The chip flavor? “Back at the Ranch”! Rap Snacks, like Chumpies before it, was started in Philadelphia. Created by James Lindsay in 1994 according to Wikipedia, the…
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Street Fighter Underground Remix Album — Hieroglyphics, Qbert & More
I’ve been pretty hyped on Capcom’s upcoming HD remix of Street Fighter for Xbox Live and Playstation Network. Capcom just sent out a press release announcing the game’s long-delayed, but finally cemented November 26th release date. But what caught my eye especially was mention of the Street Fighter Underground Remix album featuring the likes of Qbert, Hieroglyphics, DJ Toure (which…
Chumpies: The Original Philadelphia Potato Chip
I was browsing through some old things around the crib, and oh snap! — look what I found: A bag of Chumpies! Chumpies was a brand of potato chips started in Philadelphia in 1991. They were still around when I left Philadelphia in 2004 and you could pick them up in bodegas and the like. They were fairly common and…
Xbox 360 Turns On, Murs Stares Back
I kinda bugged the other day when I turned on my Xbox 360 to play some Gears of War 2, when who is staring back at me from my dashboard but Murs??! From the screenshot, it appears you will be able to play against Murs over Xbox Live on November 16th, 2008 between 7PM – 9PM EST, in Rockstar Games’,…
Lisa Wu-Hartwell Rocks Nicacelly Dress on Housewives
Wow, check out this clip of Lisa Wu-Hartwell rocking some dope Nicacelly fits on Bravo TV’s, Real Housewives of Atlanta television series: Here’s a screencap from the video: Nicacelly is a close friend of mine from way back. She has been working hard at this, and I think it shows in her original, one-of-a-kind women’s clothing. To see more clothes…
Reef The Lost Cauze in San Francisco
Just got back from seeing my man, Reef The Lost Cauze completely kill shit at Slim’s nightclub tonite here in San Francisco. The Philly native MC is currently on tour with Outerspace and Jedi Mind Tricks. The tour is steady rolling throughout the US, so be sure to check them all out. Here’s a few pics I snapped of Reef…
Will.I.Am Appears As a Hologram on CNN
Former Atban Klann member-cum-Black Eyed Peas frontman, Will.I.Am appeared out of nowhere during the 2008 Presidential election on CNN in holographic form. Oh yea, shit got real-real. Straight out of Star Wars, I have no idea what Will said on the show because I was too busy bugging out at seeing Will beam onto the CNN stage and then bum-rushing…
Yameen Photos from Thailand!
My homeboy, Travelin Matt hollered from Bangkok with some fresh new pix of the Yameen album making its Thailand debut: “I shot these at the Grand Palace and Wat Pra Kao (The Temple of the Emerald Buddha). The most sacred place in Thailand.” Word, duuk. Came out slamming! Check out more pix from Travelin Matt in Thailand in the Photos…