@cristodisco + @JeLaSol @ElBarATL = Boogie Down Ponce Thursdays

Tonight (Thursday) at Atlanta’s best venue for progressive good music EL BAR located directly behind and below El Azteca on Ponce de Leon in Atlanta.  DJ Rob Wonder has turned a former 1970’s hispanic swingers spot into a beacon for all the hottest dj’s and biggest shows crossing all the genre’s from Dubstep,  Electro,  Crunk, 90’s hip-hop ect… For the few and proud from Atlanta this is the place to go,  and for those wanting a taste of something authentic with NO COVER the above flyer is your golden ticket.  This bar has a special place in my heart because I have eaten at El Azteca over 500 times.  I actually went to it when it was called PEPE’s as I was born and raised on chips and queso.  The Boogie Down Bronx might be a gentrified historic relic,  but Boogie Down Ponce is the here and now every THURSDAY for FREE all night with many undisclosed drink specials.

BONUS TRACK:::: here is a song to get you pumped up for THURSDAY @elbaratl

Gangster Boogie - Geto Boys - Click to DOWNLOAD 

DO NOT BUY : DOWNLOAD

MOVIE REVIEW SERIES - NOTORIOUS

I know this is late in the game as this film is leaving the theaters,  I was about to go see this in the theaters when my friend alerted me to that it was on the net.  I explained to him that this must be a monumental film and that it would be worth the money.  As I said this to him on the phone a man in the gas station agreed that this was a good movie,  now it was confirmed NOTORIOUS must be a good movie. Also all the blogs seemed to have liked it,  thus it must be good.  I had very low expectations about this film before it came out simply because Puffy was an executive producer and I did not think it would be objective.  I didn’t see this on the big screen as I had too much vapor and missed the last show,  deciding to instead watch the download.  I was glad as I would have been very angry if I spent ten dollars as the movie to me was a big disappointment.  The overall problem I have with the movie is that it is way too vague and general with very few details or historical facts,  but mainly the film reveals nothing new,  it tells us nothing we didn’t already know.  The most riveting part of NOTORIOUS comes at the end when we see actual documentary footage from his funeral in BK.  Going into the movie I always thought BIGGIE’s involvement with selling crack was minimal,  and that he really was playing the roll of storyteller commenting on what’s around him.  In the movie he starts out selling crack and that’s all he does until he blows up and is saved by Puffy.  Puffy tell’s him to make a choice as he is wise.  At one point BIG hides his stash of uncut/halfway cut cocaine under his bead on a plate exposed,  this made no sense to me as no one would do this without at least securing the coke especially the huge amount he leaves precariously under the bed.  Throughout the film we are introduced to various possible side-plots:  His absent Father,  The friend who takes a jail bid for him,  and his relations with women&mother.  Yet it is all dealt with so superficially by the end of the movie at his death we know nothing of the people who surrounded him thus BIG’s impact seems lessened.  I guess the real interest for me would be the drama after his death,  the aftermath.  How this man’s shadow has been over hip-hop since my senior year of high school when he was killed.  Nick Broomfield’s BIGGIE AND TUPAC was far more interesting than this because it raised questions,  while Puffy’s NOTORIOUS merely answer’s questions we already knew and confirms that PDiddy made it all happen both good and bad.  Who is responsible for Biggie’s death? The media is slightly implicated,  we see a few shady characters the night of the killing but that’s it.  Some people feared that this picture was too soon to be made and I agree It would have been much better to have waited until Puffy was dead.   At the end of the movie my thoughts wondered mostly about 2PAC,  would a 2PAC movie be better than  this? Was 2PAC better than BIGGIE because he made so much more music?  Did Puffy ruin NYC hip-hop? Will they ever solved who killed BIGGIE? These modern day Hollywood music bio pics sure do suck. Click the poster above for movie download link

The Pen & Pixel Madhouse click me

Here is a site long over due devoted to the hip-hop album covers by pen&pixel .

The site seems to focus mostly on New Orleans/Houston/Memphis hip-hop covers and is not really organized but a def good effort.