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The Bay’s 50 Greatest Rap Songs According to Complex Magazine

For those of you who don’t know, the bay area has a rich hip hop history. Yes, it’s not Queens, Brooklyn, or Compton but they come with their own distinct flavor and swag. They come up with new trends and slang faster than you can say, “Yaaaadrimean.” Between Too $hort, Spice-1, E-40, and of course 2pac they’re verbally efficient enough to slay most rappers from Brownsville to Crenshaw. For me, the list is a little thin on the Mac Dre cuts. He was something like ODB west, there was no father to his style. As far as lists go, “That’s not my job, I don’t do that. I’m a pimp/rapper, I thought you knew that.” You can peep the list here .

Palin V. Fey

Both are beautiful and accomplished women in their own right. So who do you choose? Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley had that very debate last night when Tracy Morgan dropped by to settle the debate.

Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows up on the right-hand side of the screen it calls “sponsored stories.”

The unit will give brand-related action such as a “like” or a check-in a lot more visibility on Facebook by adding them to an ad unit in addition to users’ news feeds.

For example, if Starbucks buys a “sponsored story” ad, the status of a user’s friends who check into or “like” Starbucks will run twice: once in the user’s news feed, and again as a paid ad for Starbucks. Though clearly marked with the words “sponsored story,” the ad — which will includes a user’s name, just like the news feed — is not optional for Facebook users.

The product itself is broken into four possible buys for advertisers — page likes and check-ins, and actions Facebook is calling “application play” and “page posts.”

An application play works like this: If a user goes to the Coca-Cola page, and Coke has an app for users to upload photos, the sponsored story that shows up as an ad will read “John Smith used the Coke app to upload a photo.”

A “page post” is when an advertiser posts something and it wants to get more distribution, so it can buy a sponsored story to further distribute that post — in the news feed and on the right-hand side of the home page.

The settings that exist for users to control whose feeds they see and who sees their feed also apply to the sponsored stories. Users, however, will not be able to opt out of having their action turned into an ad and having that broadcast to their connections on Facebook.

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PAST FROM THE BLAST w/ John Felix Arnold, Japanther

Thursday, March 3 – March 13, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2011 6-9pm
Opening Night Performance by Japanther: Thursday, March 3, 2011 9-11pm

Closing Reception: Saturday March 12, 2011 6pm-Midnight
Closing Night Performances by Omori, First Family, and Great Willow
with Live Visuals by Goldwave

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Queens Nails Projects is pleased to present Past From the Blast, an interactive art experience that melds fine art, installation, and sound in a collaborative presentation conducted by John Felix Arnold and featuring an opening night performance by musical duo, Japanther. Past From the Blast is a hyperbolized visual depiction of a post-apocalyptic future world in which man’s obsessive drive to dominate and innovate leads to the reset of human civilization. The work for this exhibition is meant to examine what Arnold sees as an impending shift in human evolution. Past From the Blast is a collaborative idea between Arnold and Japanther and serves as a visual and aural document of what happens when science and society’s need for “bigger, better, faster, more” overtakes us, spinning out of control and becoming more than we can handle. The work for this exhibition will feature large sumi ink paintings on paper, mixed media pieces, sculptural “relics”, and a central installation that will function as a shelter, altar, and performance space for the opening and closing night musical acts.

Past From the Blast will be exhibited at Queen’s Nails Projects, located at 3191 Mission Street in San Francisco. The artist’s reception will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2011 from 6-9pm, followed by a musical performance by Japanther from 9-11pm.

Outstanding: Charlie Wilson & The Gap Band’s Hip Hop Legacy: Mixed By DJ Synapse (free download)

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DJ Synapse – Outstanding: Charlie Wilson & The Gap Band’s Hip Hop Legacy by DJ Synapse NYC

Outstanding: Charlie Wilson & The Gap Band’s Hip Hop Legacy: Mixed By DJ Synapse

1. Yearning For Your Love – Gap Band (Original)
2. Runnin’ (Jay Dee Remix) – The Pharcyde (Samples “Yearnin’ For Your Love”)
3. Life’s A Bitch – Nas (Samples “Yearnin’ For Your Love”)
4. The Joy FT. Pete Rock, Jay -Z – Kanye West
5. There Goes My Baby – Charlie Wilson
6. All Of The Lights – Kanye West (Feat. John Legend, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Tony Williams, Charlie Wilson, Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys, Fergie, KiD CuDi, Rihanna & Elton John)
7. Download (Remix) – Lil Kim Ft. T-Pain, Charlie Wilson, The-Dream & Soulja Boy
8. Computer Love Remix – Zapp Feat Shirley Murdock & Charlie Wilson
9. Boy You Knock Me Out – Tatyana Ali feat. Will Smith (Samples “Outstanding”)
10. Happy – Ashanti (Samples “Outstanding”)
11. Summer Bunnies – R. Kelly (Samples “Outstanding”)
12. Alright (Humps For Your Trunk Mix) – Kris Kross (Samples “Outstanding”)
13. Da B Side – Da Brat Feat. Notorious BIG (Samples “Outstanding”)
14. Every Little Thing I Do – Soul Four Real (Samples “Outstanding”)
15. Outstanding – Gap Band
16. Blow Your Mind – Redman (Samples “Outstanding”)
17. Snoop’s Upside Ya Head – Snoop Dogg Ft. Charlie Wilson
18. Oops Upside Your Head – Gap Band
19. Mo Pussy – DJ Quick (Samples “Oops Upside Your Head”)
20. Burn Rubber On Me – Gap Band
21. Humpin’ – The Gap Band
22. Supa Sexy – Charlie Wilson Feat. T-Pain
23. You Dropped A Bomb On Me (Remix) – Gap Band
24. Fake Hair Wearing Bitch – 2 Live Crew/No Face (Samples “Oops Upside Your Head”)
25. Tommy’s Groove Outro