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In Batman #20 Bruce Wayne attempts to examine where his one-time friend Harvey Dent went wrong, but is quick to condemn the villains actions following what he did to two young children months prior. Good thing for the detective he has a friend like Alfred to keep him straight and set him right when he's threatening to go off the tracks.

In JLI #7 the team losses a member after a brief encounter with her sister forces her to shift her priorities. Beetle and Booster Gold investigate a strange power surge that's plaguing their headquarters while Max Lord has an encounter in the cyberworld that makes Tron look like a day at Disney World. And just as the League losses a member another returns to take her place, and she's none too happy with Booster Gold.

In Teen Titans #18 learn the origins of a meta-human teenager whose laying down a righteous butt-kicking on the Teen Titans in Los Angeles in an attack that could leave the city buried under feet of ice. Good thing that the Teen Titans get help from an unlikely ally who may be the only one around able to reason with the rampaging teen.

Teen Titans: Millennium continues to look at the alternate reality version of the Teen Titans. Mr. Jupiter's team is in a bit of a transition even as the book marches to it's final issue. They're confused and unsure of their relationships, but a few will find the answers they were looking for.

In Wonder Woman #9 the elementals come face to face with a brand new pantheon of elementals that are looking to take over and eradicate the traditional elementals as they're no longer relevant to this world. Diana learns that she wasn't the only one subjected to a metamorphosis as her rogues gallery comes at her in the first wave of their assault on behalf of Modo. The Red Tornado bears witness to the birth of a new elemental and Geo-Force appears to offer Diana an invitation that she can't refuse.

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Once I heard the news about Michael’s passing, I immediately thought about doing a tribute episode. But considering how unsuccessful I’ve been with trying to get out the Slaughterhouse show or Chiv’s mini-mix, it’s a good thing my good friend DJ Strizy immediately went to his turntables and did this MJ Tribute Mix in one take. He was kind enough to let me use his mix for my second official show. So enjoy, and I really promise I have new episodes coming.

Victory Jumpoff Radio – Show #2: DJ Strizy’s Michael Jackson Tribute Mix

Tom and Derrick team up with their Hip Hop Maestro, Kelen 'B Hyphen' Conley as they discuss one of Brooklyn's favorite filmmaking sons, Spike Lee! Join the trio as they discuss a quintet of Spike's films, from the seminal dramedy Do The Right Thing to the utterly savage satire Bamboozled and the controversial relationship dramas She's Gotta Have It and Jungle Fever. Plus Tom and Kelen commiserate over the present fate of the Oakland Raiders, Derrick recognizes his co-host as The Blue-Eyed White Devil and Kelen tries to explain how he wouldn't make out with Sasha Grey! It's time to wake up, so get to clicking!

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I was checking out the latest episode of Better In The Dark and Tom mentioned that the James Bond podcast, For Your Ears Only had recorded their own version of the BITD Theme song. Of course I tracked it down and it’s amazing. Here it is for everyone’s enjoyment. For the full episode, check them out at the shiny link.

I recently started covering the NBA Playoffs for my homie Ryan Ventura’s website Class & Grime.com. My second article just went up this morning and I’ll be contributing to the site for the foreseeable future. As long as Ryan holds up his end of the deal and helps out at Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Blog. lol.

So back in January I found this beat on Soundclick. The beat sampled Phyllis Hyman…I went into it back then. Anyway, I really took my time with this song since I was going to use it for Spideyville Unlimited and I really wanted it to be top notch. I wrote the first verse in April and then I finished it in May and I’ve been recording and mixing it trying to get it perfect. I finally get to  point where I figured I would record the vocals and ad-libs one more time to get more emotion and I’d be done with it.

I get on 2DopeBoyz and I see Wale released 2 new songs through his twitter, “Hot Shit” and “Gotta Be Magic”. Guess what “Gotta Be Magic” was? The same beat I found and been working on.

Now, I can’t really be mad. I got the beat when it was up for free download and Wale’s did have a few new sounds in it. I didn’t pay for the beat and I’m sure he did. I’m just upset that what I thought would be a big song on my album has now turned into a song I’ll probably throw on Thunderstorm 2.

I did notice when I first came across this page that it said the name Best Kept Secret (who did a lot of Wale’s The Mixtape About Nothing) but I didn’t think that was really his Soundclick page.

And Chiv thinks its funny. But I don’t think he really liked my track anyway. lmao.

In other news, I just moved to a new place and got the studio set back up again. Hopefully I’ll be back at it before I know it.

Angel said I’ll come up with a better track than the one I lost. I sure hope so.