The Many Faces of Manny Faces

In some cases, as the video in the story I am linking to shows, I can find some amazing moments that are VERY New York, and VERY hip hop, and in those moments, I am VERY excited about what BirthplaceMag.com is becoming.

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I cannot front. I want this.

Available here. Thanks to I Did It Creative for the link.

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Here’s a story of a guy I know.
Mike is in his mid-30s, a largely self-educated, highly successful mid- to senior-level manager in the business world, having spent 12 years or so rising through the ranks of various media firms, just outside of New York City. Mike has shown great skill and natural acumen at managing [...]

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Man, I don’t really expect too many heads to be checking for me here (although I am surprised because I do get emails and feedback, so thank you all who do care..) I have been insanely busy in my ‘real-life’, job, school (yes, as I mentioned in a previous post I have gone back to [...]

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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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Funny how things work.
February 3
I share a birthday with my Hunni. While this makes it unlikely I’ll ever get a surprise party, it does make for a fun time of year when we co-party, and occasionally, have a co-party. This was such a year. On the way home from BJs, I hear Funk Flex blasting [...]

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Happy New Year. It has certainly been a minute or 3 since I last appeared in my blog-form, and since I know that my devoted readers have missed me so, I apologize to both of you. Ha! Ok, well, to whoever is checking in on me, I appreciate the appreciation, and I am aware that [...]

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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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Everytime I secretly start thinking about giving all this up, I get something like this:
[From Damian via MySpace note]
Wow…
That’s all I can say right now, man. Your revisions and recreations of familiar songs are so refreshing to my ears. The ears of a hip hop fan that yearn to hear something new and exciting. You [...]

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As a comment on the KrucialKeys blog, after a number of their supporters took my not-really-trying to be a hater, as being a hater, Krucial took the high road, and clarified some things:
“In Reference to Manny Faces, Its All Good, Homie Stated his Oppinion everyone has a right to. He Took it personal, I [...]

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