T-Bones and Comics & Stuff bring you Hattiesburg’s 2nd Vinyl Record & Comic Swap. We’ll have vendors from all over, with thousands of Comics, Vinyl Records, Art and More for you to buy, sell, or trade. Weather permitting, we will be setup in the parking lot, with beer, food from the Cafe, and live music from DJ Young Venom!
*There are NO sellers fees. The more vendors the merrier! We also are looking for artists, photographers, etc for vendors. We are an Equal Opportunity Swap! If you’re interested in selling, please send an e-mail to tbone@tbonescafe.com. You will need to provide your own table.
Detroit is one of the most depressed urban areas of the United States. You can buy a home online for prices lower than the poverty line. Roll out to their massive suburbs and witness mile after mile of a once proud American industrial city in ruins. Rapper Danny Brown comes from the mighty G-Unit, the General Motors of Motor City hip-hop. Engineer and rhymer Black Milk has continued to keep Detroit’s underground sound alive. Faster than you can say Tony Yayo, Brown found his own renown. Now paired with the Dilla-esque beats and samples of Black Milk, these big two are out to put Detroit back on the map with Black and Brown!
Using Dilla’s right hand Karriem Riggins and his own inventive sampladelic style, Black Milk paints blaxploitation pictures for Brown to star. Given the sexually explicit content of his rhymes, Brown is the latest in a series of dirty rappers that extends from alien (Dr. Octagon) to earthy and strange (Blowfly). Unlike Lil Wayne and today’s rappers who rhyme about the act like playing the dozens (or perhaps, the new game), Brown is both clever and demonstrates a neverending sexual lexicon.
“Loosie” is a slow strut built for Brown’s Superfly routine. Yeah, you’ve heard all of the parts of these lyrics before until he unleashes “morphine metaphors” and “runnin’ away from crackhouses to make out with brickhouses.” With Black Milk along in second position, Brown’s words carry power. While amusing, Brown is uniquely confessional about his sex and drug escapades. Yet this is no cautionary tale but once an airhorn goes off over wistful children’s music, you should feel that this is not your typical hip-hop album – commercial or underground.
Brown is “like cue balls – always hittin’”in the hilarious “LOL.” Black Milk concocts a funny/funky Tribe-meets-De La Soul groove for Brown to rap all about a new “Buddy.” With fragments like “Dark Sunshine”, Milk proves that he is not out to replace the pastiche loops of Dilla instead using each small piece to either set or offset a mood. ”Zap” is an insane mix of two songs that despite their differences, mesh together well. In the end, while Black and Brown! is a scant 22 minutes – it leaves you wanting another joint effort.
Whether its funky bubbling electronic (“Jordan VIII” – where he “talks like Snagglepuss”) or loading samples to sound jarring next to Brown’s megaphone of a voice (the weird “rapped like turban” Middle Eastern sidestep of “Dada”), Black Milk has a background for every occasion. Just to prove his power, ”Black and Brown” is huge. This stadium-ready closer works even if Brown bows out of rhyming for the last two minutes.
Like some unholy union the blazing ribald raps of Brown and the funktastic 70′s beats of Black Milk belong together. The mix of braggodocio and blazing rhythms allow Black and Brown! to offer some of the most colourful hip-hop you will hear in 2011.
