The musings of a madman...

Duck Down Records In the mid-90s, I was a high schooler. I feel a certain way about the hip hop I allow myself to consume. Summer 1996, Heltah Skeltah released Nocturnal, an album unlike anything I had heard to that time and I was a fan. At the time, I thought Rockness was the better lyricist of the two but they were both entertaining enough as a collective to hold my attention. I HAD to have listened to that album every day senior year. Things happened, the duo split for a while and Sean Price started making solo albums... Great. Fucking. Solo. Albums. He was new to many, but simply getting better at his craft to the ones who remembered. Unfortunately, on August 8, 2015 Sean passed in his sleep. On the second anniversary of his passing, we get his second posthumous release, titled Imperius Rex. The conventional album release day used to be Tuesdays but that was abandoned by most a couple of years ago. I am going to go with the coincidence of the release da

     Okay...  New website, new series… On Mondays, I will post the results from my Friday riddle/quiz. I speak fluently in metaphor, sarcasm, humor and symbolism.  That said, I FULLY expect that people might miss some of these. Down to it…  This week’s riddle was this: Look, I am not even gonna keep y’all here long. While I was driving to Atlanta (well…  Conyers) on Memorial Day weekend with my mom and niece, I chuckled.  When she asked what was funny, I could only say “nothing.” I mean, it’s not like the 3 hours left in the trip was enough to explain the joke.  More importantly, it is not like a joke that needs to be explained in detail is as funny on the recipient as it is on the deliverer. So in detail… The compromise for me to have the music I need to drive to and music that she can live with in her Kia for the trip was Sirius XM Fly – formerly known as BackSpin. Naturally, in the 90s/00s throwback hip hop, we heard “Mama Said Knock You Out” and in my hea