The Making of ‘Ready to Die’ March 10, 2009

Huffingtonpost contributor Barry Michael Cooper interviews Puffy (known to his new fans as P.Diddy) about the making of Ready to Die, which many rap fans see as one of the best hip hop albums ever. In this three part interview, Diddy discusses when he first new Biggie was the truth, the cinematic style of his [...]

SoCal, Vegas, Phoenix and Miami broke the economy… March 9, 2009

So, we’ve come to find out that the super-hyped FORECLOSURE ARMAGEDDON that might END LIFE AS WE KNOW IT is actually a regional problem, most painful for the same housing markets that always get lit up behind housing speculation: 1.) Southern California – you know, the place where any real estate located in the earthquake [...]

Rebuilding Detroit – cop a house for $100 March 9, 2009

There is an opportunity in the middle of this economic collapse for places like Detroit to ‘reset.’ Imagine all the bombed out, raggedy, derelict neighborhoods in Motown converted to urban farms and artist enclaves. In fact, blow it out – imagine the entire broken down rust belt re-created as a life belt? Sounds nutty? It’s [...]

Drunk uncle is out of the basement again March 1, 2009

Your boy Rush got loose in front of the C-Pac home crowd. If this lasts until Monday – doubtful, but we’ll see – it will be interesting to see how the party spins this. They keep letting the old, drunk uncle up out of the basement, man.At some point, you either put that guy out [...]