The good people at Gourmet sent me out a nice little promo package.

Big thanks to Greg Lucci and the whole Gourmet team!!!

I am sure barber shops all across the world are having this debate. Kim or Nikki? You be the judge.

I feel better now that I got that out of the way.

Bein’ High by Paul Mighty

Ladies and Gents…meet M.D.

I first heard M.D. during a routine trip to the barbershop on a Friday afternoon. My barber Ryan wanted to show me some tracks from a friend of his, so I jumped in his SUV and the rest is history. Once I heard this young MC rhyming over some early 90′s beats and some tracks he’d done with his camp (YoungStar), I knew he’d be a perfect fit for my style of production. Ironically, we had a show that night opening for “RADIx,” and M.D. just happened to be opening as well. I met him and his team and we talked a bit and exchanged contacts before our performances. Days later, I invited M.D. over to the studio. In about two hours of putting in work, he had laid down seven verses to a few different beats I had laying around. “Bein’ High” is a result of that studio session. M.D. and I will be putting in some serious work this coming summer, so be on the lookout for more music. Enjoy.

-Mighty

Love him or hate him, there are not too many people that can fuck with Eminem when it comes to spitting. He absolutely killed this shit right here.

Check out Worcester, MA artist Ariez Onasis with an all new video for his two new singles “Street Fighter” and “Work.” Shot and directed by Nicholas Black and edited by Omari O’neal. Shout to Ariez and the whole Deep Blue family. Keep up the great work ya’ll.

Ariez Onasis – Street Fighter/ Work from Nicholas Black on Vimeo.

…Delivery

Epiphany Media out of NYC is one of the leaders in creative partnerships. Their job is to introduce “us” to “them”. Their partnerships with companies like Pepsi and Timberland have resulted in great energy that plugs directly into the vein of the influencer.

I am never surprised at what they manage to accomplish.

Thanks to my friends @Team Epiphany for the great gifts. Visit them here: www.EpiphanyMediallc.com

Pepsi x Zero Halliburton

Pepsi x Sharpie / Pepsi x Dee & Ricky

Pepsi x New Era (this one was sent to me a few months back but fits nicely with the others)

Thanks again!

The homie Set Free has found some free time in his already super stretched schedule to start a internet radio show. Why not! His live show features guests, call ins, great commentary on lifestyle and of course music. Peep it here on voltaradio.com.

He has also lent his assistance to MTV’s upcoming “My Block” series which is highlighting “the city of brotherly love” Philly which will feature Freeway, Young Chris, Gilbere Forte, and a host of others.

Affiliates DJ Don Cannon and Set Free at the Compound studio in Philly. I spy a Concepts skate deck….

When an artist or high profile person passes on, a fan’s way of mourning is more of an acknowledgment of what they’ve done than who they are as a person because there wasn’t a personal relationship.

Sometimes that bond made through music is more personal than a relationship with someone you knew. My life story is no more tragic than the next person from my area. A youth filled with parents divorce, city life, running the street, moving constantly, lost some friends to the pen and the other side. Music was truly my “safe place”. Mom and dad arguing was drowned out by EPMD and Gangstarr. That’s it. I could plug to a lie director test on that.

Gangstarr was and is everything to me. Guru’s voice was the reasoning of a person that was college educated, street smart and had knowledge of self— all that came through the music. It was what I gravitated to during a period where things weren’t great.

Hearing Guru passed away and the circumstances behind it truly made me sad.

He will live on in his music and through the legacy he left behind with his art.

Maybe my brother Franco will bump into him up there—

Rest in paradise.

Keith Elam (July 17, 1961 – April 19, 2010)

I have always been a fan of Seinfeld, always. I know that some people genuinely hate this show for reasons I can not even fathom. This image popped up online and I instantly loved it.

The answer is “Hip.”