One to watch: American Gangster

This is turning out to be the event of the year!



Besides the Jay-Z, "inspired by" business (this song and now the video just get me hype!!! love the film concept), the American Gangster soundtrack features Hank Shocklee (source music) and Marc Streitenfeld (score, he also did the score for 'Gladiator').

And of course, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Ruby Dee! on film. Not to mention Common, Chiwetel Ejiofor and so many more. Whoa!

Because of the fact that this is a (test)...we will now take the time...to (re-fix) it

Shout out to Steady B, Blastmaster KRS-ONE, TaT Money on the cut, and Doc, breaking it down like this! The combination of black & white cartoons and 1920's-sounding samples makes this song really memorable for me. I've never heard the original to this song, but I've never needed to, this song is a classic.

I just wanted to update the Hamlet Safety project. I have taken the suggestions and questions I received from people to update and hopefully improve the project. Please let me know if you have any other comments or suggestions. Much appreciated.

I am also including another test project i did. I added a visual component to the excellent musical language lessons provided by earwormsMBT. This is a demo of a German lesson for the video iPod. I was planning to make a trip over to the father-land (why is it called this?) when I was waylaid by a bit of bacteria in the system. Long story short, I never got to test my supposed German language learning.



On another note, big up Kerry Washington for directing an amazing video for Common's "I Want You". There is not alot of talk of female directors out there, let alone black female directors. This is not one of the top five songs on the excellent "Finding Forever" album, but this video goes a long way in making the song work for me. The video is really well thought out with a story line that adds to the song rather than just represents it. I haven't enjoyed a video from Common this much since the MK12 designed "Go".

o:{Big up OnSmash for the link. Apologies for the logos in the way. (like I did that!)}