I have not done music, remixes, etc. in quite some time.
Instead, I have re-focused my energies on Birthplace Magazine, www.BirthplaceMag.com, what I hope will soon be known as THE online source of New York-area hip-hop news, views and all other things.
Check out the original ‘manny-festo’ by reading “Re-Birthplace: Documenting New York’s (Hopeful) Hip-Hop Resurgence”
Check out [...]
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The Resurgence of New York Hip-Hop
January 4th, 2010 ·
Tags: announcement · life · music business · news · things with manny faces
He Run DC
January 22nd, 2009 ·
I cannot front. I want this.
Available here. Thanks to I Did It Creative for the link.
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Polow the Leader.. or.. Garage Banned
April 7th, 2008 ·
So, what happened was, Usher’s new song Love In This Club, was produced by Polow Da Don. But it turns out, Polow Da Don essentially made the track using preset loops in Apple’s GarageBand software, which comes free with a Mac computer [seen @ Miss Info]. Well, this interests me of course, and as usual, [...]
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Hip-Hop (and Sean Taylor) Is Dead. Long Live Hip-Hop.
November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
So I was e-leafing through the hip-hop related blogs in my RSS favorites when I came across a posting on RealTalkNY regarding an entry written by FoxSports columnist, Jason Whitlock, that appeared to blame ‘hip-hop’ with the shooting and subsequent death of the NFL’s Sean Taylor. The responses were, as expected on a blog [...]
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I’m sorry. But ONLY….
November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
because I got caught.
They’re never sorry until they get caught. Amazing, huh?
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Things With Manny Faces – Episode 1
October 21st, 2007 ·
Ok, I lied. I DO want to make this place to highlight certain things that I think are interesting so that people who come by to check on me, don’t get beat over the head with ME and have something else that will entertain them.
That being said, here’s an idea that I sorta wanted to [...]
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USA Gov’t = Brilliant!
February 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Ok. So a small town fire dept in Massachusetts needed a new fire truck…
…so they ask the govt for a lil help…
(small town)
…so the dept of homeland security gives them $665,000!!…
(small town)
HOW SMALL IS IT?
(3,500 people)
…only big ‘target’ for terrorism in town is a 1450-pound concrete sculpture of cheese…
(yes, cheese)
…and the best part?
None of the [...]
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February Stuff
February 7th, 2007 ·
So ok, I’m pluggin’ along… Day jobbin’ it, working on a biiig possible project.. Oh, and I got a puppy. This added to the 3 cats, 1 parrot, 2 kids and 2 adults already in the house. Call me crazy.
The astronaut story kills me. Some people are saying space virus. I say, there are people [...]
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New year.. New Manny?
January 3rd, 2007 ·
I can’t figure out how to do with my life, what I’d like to do with my life.. So that will be a priority this year. Don’t get me wrong, in so many ways I am content and happy (home life, love life(!), family, etc.) and I’m not starving and things could be so much [...]
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Movies, news and stupid videos
November 6th, 2006 ·
Ok, I really should blog more. Not sure why exactly, not sure that anyone will stumble across this area of my e-persona.. However, for those that do, I will at least try to put up some interesting things that I stumble across during my online adventures.
First of all, interesting thing I’ve been doing lately… I’ve [...]
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