How’s it going, Earmilk? My name’s Quan and I’m the newest addition to the Earmilk team. I was brought on to be mad intelligent and thoughtful and write long-ass essays about rap and shit. And it’s certainly been an eventful week between the disaster in Haiti, news of Wyclef Jean’s possibly shady charitable organization, the passing of Teddy Pendergrass, and now the passing of Killa Sha. But all of that sad news has got me in a sort of daze and I couldn’t think too coherently if I wanted to.

Thankfully, half of my day was really great the other day, so great that I fucked around and bought me a lottery ticket. I started thinking of all the great things I would do if I won the lottery and here’s a list of all the hip-hop-related things I would do:

1. Release Detox. If I couldn’t force Dr. Dre to release Detox himself, I’d just buy the best beats from his ghost-producers, buy verses from his best ghost-writers and rappers, and pay someone like DJ Quik to master and oversee the whole project. Not exactly the same but close enough.
2. Produce “The Egyptian Hip-Hop Concert.” Not with actual rappers of Egyptian descent (anyone know of any good ones?). But featuring the Hieroglyphics crew, Pharoahe Monch, Egyptian Lover, and Sun God (Ghostface’s son). I’d use the Luxor in Las Vegas as a venue.
3. Travel to New York. To ride in a cab driven by Cappadonna. He can show me around the slums of Shaolin.
4. Re-unite Da Band. So they can go get me some cheesecake and Cambodian breast milks.
5. Visit Huntsville, Alabama, home of the hands-down illest hip-hop scene in the country right now.
6. Make it rain in the club. Literally. I’d install a moon-roof ceiling into a strip club in Seattle and let the elements take over.
7. Travel to Atlanta and go to Room 112. I’ll tell them Blocko sent me. I’ll make sure not to double-park by a hydrant though.
8. Do drugs. All kinds of them. I’ll get hyphy, sip on some sizzurp, tip on them 44’s, whatever, whatever.
9. Block Party 2. Let’s do this Mr. Chappelle.
10. Buy medical coverage for Ma Dukes. And set up college funds for J Dilla’s kids. I kinda don’t care about lupus though, forreal, we all gonna die someday.

11. Get a Biz Markie doll/action figure. And a Ghostface Killah doll. (video above)
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Ol’ Dirty Bastard is debatably the most eccentric man in hip-hop. Put simply, he was a genius of the culture. His rhymes were ludicrous, his attitude towards life was positive and he always kept it real. But, like many other eccentrics, the mans life was more complex than the fun-loving surface that everyone saw. This documentary is compiled of footage and interviews chronicling his past, his days with Wu and beyond. The documentary was created by ODB’s brother, Raison Allan. I shouldn’t have to tell you to be on the look out for this one. If you want any insight on the life of a legend, this documentary is coming soon.

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