The Day the Music Died

This post should be retroactive somewhere to a few months after Kanye West's "Late Registration" dropped.

Remember in the first couple years of high school when you were friends with that kid who was kinda weird, but he had friends both in the popular kids group and the not so popular kids group, and then somewhere around Junior year he threw a party and became the hottest shit around and started acting like he owned the school?

Kanye West, you have officially become That Guy. I don't know what is the bigger scar on his resume: the Bonnaroo debacle (in which he went on stage 2 hours late - at 4:45am - and then the wait was longer than the set), his completely ineffective flow/freestyle on SNL sometime last year, or 8 of the 13 tracks on Graduation (one of which, by the way, was a track that he scrapped for The College Dropout and appeared on a B-Sides album 3 and a half years ago that he simply put over another - lamer - beat).

You threw the hottest fucking party ever on The College Dropout, but not everyone came. The people who were there had the best time of their lives, and some of the coolest kids came, so you were golden. You threw another party, and it was alright, but because everyone felt bad they missed out on the biggest new thing to hit rap in the new millennium, everyone got on the train. And now Kanye, your parties suck. People keep coming because they fear that they won't get invited if you ever throw a good one again. And your real friends from back in the day, your fans who respect the music you used to be about, we're left outside looking in going, "hey, remember when our friend wasn't a tool?"

Ok, I've beat this metaphor to death...but even if Kanye makes another good album, he's tiresome. Let's hope Lupe Fiasco ignores every piece of advice Kanye gives him.

In other news, Summer Culture is raging. I have a show going up this weekend, Blogi has a project he is putting together, and I don't have time to play the wave of massively awesome video games that are coming out this summer exclusively for PS3 (suck it, XBOX). I meant, it would be easier to play said games if I had a working PS3 instead of my junker...but, whatever, actually playing the game is overrated...

In other gaming news, I never got into the old Hitman games for PC/PS2 - but my little brother gave the PS2 trilogy to me for Christmas (which oddly enough, starts with Hitman 2), and I am completely addicted. I am not a criminal mastermind so the game is very challenging, really great problem solving, and there always reaches a point where you get caught and just gotta go to the smg and run around having some fun before restarting and getting back to the issue at hand. This is the type of experience I always wanted from the GTA games but never got (though I reserve full judgment because I haven't played IV). If you accidentally flash a piece in Hitman, everything goes to shit. You can run down the streets of Vice City with an RPG and you'll maybe get a star for wanted.

Joba got his first W as a starter last night in a good ol' fashioned shelacking of the Pirates, a night after the Yankees got spanked like a little kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Recap:
The Good - Joba's first Win
The Bad - My broken PS3
The Ugly - Kanye West since 2 months after the release of Late Registration

-Jobimoto Out
"Yo...you think we can still get that deal with Roc-a-fella?"