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Last Thursday April 23rd was the one year anniversary of Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Blog and April 28th marked the one year anniversary of HHM!!!: The Podcast! To celebrate Chiv and I got together, played some Mario Kart Wii, and listened to Nas’ second album for our first ever Album Vs. Album episode.

Chiv and I begin our "Album Vs. Album" series where we take two albums, break each one of them down and then decide the overall winner. In this first installment, we put former foes Nas and Jay-Z against each other once again as we compare the albums they released in 1996. Be ready as I reveal I have 2Pac on speed dial, Chiv asks Foxy Brown questions she can't hear, and we both cower in fear at the phrase "Nas Is Coming"! As Diddy would say, "Let's go people!"

Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Podcast – Episode 4: Album Vs. Album #1 – It Was Written

Take a guess at who he was going against.

Oh yes.

So when I left the Urban Diner this past December, I really hope you didn’t think I was completely done with radio. Cause I’m not!

I give you Victory Jumpoff Radio, Hip-Hop Manifesto’s answer to satellite radio in the form of a podcast. What I do is take some of the music I’ve come across recently that I enjoy, record it as one long mix, and add in fun segments. In this first episode, I’m talking about twitter’s rise, cops coming after me and Kwames over a fake video game and more. Without further ado…

1. Drake - Uptown (feat. Bun B & Lil' Wayne) (6:22)
2. Paycheck Game - Live Fast, Never Die (3:11)
3. Justin Timberlake - Love Don't Love Me (4:21)
4. Q-Tip - Renaissance Rap (Remix) (Feat. Busta Rhymes, Raekwon & Lil' Wayne) (3:44)
5. The Kid Daytona - Fly Shit (3:12)
6. Keri Hilson - Turnin' Me On (Remix) (Feat. T-Pain & Lil' Wayne) (4:21)
7. Rihanna - Whipping My Hair (3:21)
8. Kid Cudi - The Sky Might Fall (3:10)
9. Amanda Diva - Devils (4:08)
10. Joe Budden - Sidetracked (3:47)
11. Capone-N-Noreaga - Grand Royal (3:40)
12. Ludacris - MVP (3:49)
13. Little Brother - Can't Win For Losing (4:20)
14. Mickey Factz - Rockin N Rollin (Prod By. Precize) (3:18)
15. Common - Punch Drunk Love (Remix) (Feat. Pharrell) (4:33)
16. Blood, Sweat & Tears - I Can't Quit Her (3:38)
17. B.o.B - I'll Be In The Sky (4:06)
18. Lil' Wayne - Every Girl (Feat. Drake, Jae Millz, Gutta & Mack Maine) (4:52)
19. Pharrell Williams & The Yessirs - That Girl (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Charlie Wilson) (5:48)
20. Tune - Beastie Boy (3:57)
21. Beyoncé - Video Phone (3:35)
22. Busta Rhymes - Blown (Feat. DJ Khaled & T-Pain) (5:13)
23. Drake - November 18th (3:07)
24. Young Jeezy - Rumor Has It (Feat. Pharrell) (4:08)
25. Nelly - Lie (Feat. St. Lunatics & Keri Hilson) (4:20)
26. 50 Cent - I Get It In (3:23)
27. Slim - So Fly (Remix) (Feat. Jadakiss & Freeway) (3:35)
28. Drake - Successful (feat. Trey Songz & Lil' Wayne) (6:14)

Victory Jumpoff Radio Show #1: 03/06/2009

Tom asked me to extend the instrumental I did for the original version so I decided to change the instrumental to Eminem’s “Bitch Please II” and add in a different quote from the show. Hopefully this will soon be appearing on Better In The Dark.

B Hyphen – Better In The Dark Theme 2

I told you this was a long episode. But I didn't think you'd have the patience to listen to us talk for two hours. Yet. lol. So without further ado...

And we're back! Chiv and Hyphen finish off their two hour long conversation about their favorite hip-hop music of 2008! In this hour, Chiv talks about Murs For President and The Million Dollar Backpack while Hyphen goes in on Paper Trail and 808s & Heartbreak! And as an added bonus if you call now, they'll even throw in honorable mentions and disappointing albums!

Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Podcast - Episode 3: The Best Of 2008 Part 2

Now let's hope it's not 8 months before the next episode.

( I Don't Know How Some Will Feel About This Cover So Here's A Cut. )

Not a dream! We actually did a new episode. And it was so long we had to make it into two episodes! Instead of talking about the eras of hip-hop (which will get done) we sat down and talked about our favorite music on 2008. Best episode ever! lmao.

Just when you thought they had given up, BEHOLD! The return of Chivalry and B Hyphen aka Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Podcast! After a 7 month layoff, the guys got together on New Year's Eve to recap their favorite music of 2008 by picking 5 albums or mixtapes that they couldn't get enough of. This is part one so go to Episode 3 immediately after you finish this one. Happy 2009!

Hip-Hop Manifesto!!!: The Podcast - Episode 2: The Best Of 2008 Part 1

Part two is on the way!

Any ideas for my first episode of Spideyville: The Clone Saga? The only thing I won't talk about is music because I have two other podcasts for that. lol.

I've never made it before. lol. It's not coming along too bad.

So I DJ-ed my last show on the Urban Diner. It was just time to go. The Diner never had the ambitious director it deserved and I was always too busy. More often than not, we got stuck with DJs who weren't consistent with their shifts. There was no promotion. No fanbase other than the FCI inmates and their family who called in to do shoutouts. And Kwame left. And E left. And I found myself really bored with the shift.

Hopefully there will be some new DJs that will come and take the Diner out of its rut. Someone who will care enough about the music to make the show relevant again. We'll see.

I'm going to be starting my own internet/radio podcast soon tho, Victory Jumpoff Radio. This way I can play whatever I want, run things how I want and listeners can download and listen whenever they want.

And I'll also be starting a new solo podcast as well. Spideyville: The Clone Saga. This podcast will be wide open. Whatever I feel like rambling about will be the topic. I called it The Clone Saga because I have a feeling I might run a bit long on certain subjects, so it's a warning of what's to come. lol.

I need to work on my french toast skills. lol. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. Oh well.

I have some errands to run today but besides that I'm off. Guess I'll go find something to get into.

I hear this all the time on Better In The Dark. And Bruce Campbell is awesome.


See BITD: Episode 40.

So Juan Epstein is my favorite podcast after Better In The Dark. It's done by these two DJs out of New York on Hot 97 named Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg. The other day they got Latarian Milton, the 7 year old who stole his grandmother's car and wrecked it, on their podcast.

According to what I heard, Cipha said he would buy Latarian a Wii. But apparently, Rosenberg said he would go half on the Wii or a present for Latarian.

Now Rosenberg doesn't want to go half on a Wii for various reasons.

Cipha is mad and says he's not doing anything but the morning show with Rosenberg anymore.

So no more Juan Epstein!

I don't know what the fuck happened, I don't care, but to lose one of my podcasts over a damn video game is stupid.

I'll give Latarian my Wii.

Sike.

But I see both sides of the argument. I just hope it gets resolved.

The show where everything is aired out:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/18138296e5ac8508/

Juan Epstein Archives
http://www.rosenbergradio.com/feed?cat=10

I shouldn't care this much. lol.

Listening to Mickey Factz' new mixtape. WOW.

Pretty average day today. It rained.

I was walking matter of fact and I saw this car pull up real slow behind me. So I figured I knew who it was. Nope. I paused my ipod and turned around. This guy asked me where I was heading and I told him just down the street. He said okay and said something along the lines that he was going to give me a ride if I needed it. I thanked him and declined and he went down the road.

Now...I looked myself over. Cargo shorts, WVU hoodie, Jordan 14's. I didn't look like I needed help.

So this guy was actually asking if I wanted a ride out of the goodness of his heart or he had weird intentions.

For a 25 year old. lol.

I'm going with good intentions.

Then I asked myself if I would have stopped for joe schmoe on the street in the rain.

Doubtful.

Than a couple bars came in my head. Then a song title.

We'll see if it goes any further.

I put the first real posts on HHM!!!: The Blog that I'm truly proud of in awhile...http://www.hiphopmanifesto.org

Got the new Better In The Dark finally.

Caught up on all the Angry Video Game Nerd episodes I missed last night.

Messed with that Mugen program most of the night. Now I'm over it. lol.

I guess today was more eventful than I thought...

Because I should be doing it more. I'm gonna try to have at least one post a day from now where I actually type something from here until 2009. Not too difficult a task right? Weekends don't count tho. lol.

Went to FallFest last night, which is WVU's big welcome back concert they have every year. Lupe Fiasco was here and he KILLED it. Matt and I weren't in the best spots ever but I saw the whole show thanks to the huge video screen. I studied his show a lot too. Anytime I can soak up some knowledge that's going to make my stage show better, I'll take it.

I've now seen live:
Jay-Z
R. Kelly
Kanye West
Usher
Talib Kweli
Common (for 10 minutes. Stupid thunderstorm!)
Lupe Fiasco
Black Eyed Peas
The Roots
Pete Rock (DJ)
Fatman Scoop (DJ)
Redman
Boot Camp Clik
Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Young Gunz (they all came out during Jay's set, so they count. lol.)

Back in school. Day 2 went fine. Now I just have to get through one more year and a few summer classes and I'm done. Really.

Music is kinda at a standstill. I haven't done a new song since I did a song for DJ Coutz' album. I redesigned my myspace tho. lol. You can check it out at http://www.myspace.com/spideyville and you can also listen to or download The Mind's Mixtape volume Three there. The good news is I've never been more comfortable on stage and my live show is the best it's ever been. I really feel I'm starting to come into my own there.

Matt and I's blog is in the middle of reconstruction. I got a little too happy with trying to post every single new song that came out and I found myself dedicating 5 hours of a recent Saturday just to updating the blog with 2 weeks worth of missed tracks. So I'm reconstructing the site back into form that Matt and I originally invisioned. Johnathan also joined the site as a contributor but he has yet to contribute. lol. You can check that out at http://www.hiphopmanifesto.org. We'll also have the new episode of the podcast soon too.

I have an update I need to do for Marvel Anthology. It's only two issues but anything new is always welcome. I have three issues of Robin I'm about to turn in at DCA. My first issues in over a year and a half. I'm a great writer by the way. lol.

I'm going to be redesigning B Hyphen.com again. lol. I can't find something that I truly like enough to leave it there. But I got some ideas, hopefully something good will come of it.

I also plan on continuing and finishing my Behind The Music series for The Mind's Mixtape volume II and The Thunderstorm Mixtape. Then I can do the one for volume Three. I wanted to start on volume Three but I didn't think it was right to skip two mixtapes.

For now tho, I think that covers all the bases. Here's two facebook photo galleries from my last two shows.
August 7th @ Bucks - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2228249&l=831e6&id=25816698
August 16th @ 123 Pleasant Street - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2228454&l=afad5&id=25816698

It's coming along nicely. Got a great review from Derrick on the podcast, the blog is getting hits. I'm not complaining. I'm actually working on some new posts over there now. And Episode 2: Bouncing Thru The Eras Of Hip-Hop is coming. Here's the linkage.

BLOG - http://hiphopmanifesto.org
PODCAST: http://hiphopmanifesto.podomatic.com