David Banner and The Roots

Yeah, you can do it. Get outta your comfort zone and just have faith in the fact that we can all bring our "A" game and work together.

What(?), you thought you couldn't have your Gino's East or Zachary's with your Confit Bayaldi at The French Laundry, and that it wouldn't go well with your fish and shrimp from Dot & Etta's or JJ's ?



PUUUUUUUUHLEAZE!!!!!!!!!

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Iron Man comes out in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The summer movie season officially begins at midnight May 2nd, 2008, and I'm a need some new underwear - STAT!

Iron Man - Trailer 2
Uploaded by cinefanboy

What can I say? I'm a nerd at heart.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Lyrics Born on Kimmel

Here's the homies Lyrics Born feat. Joyo Velarde and band performing "I Like It, I Love It" and "Differences" April 18th, the Friday before Everywhere at Once dropped in stores.

Support the album folks. It's some really good feeling music, and Trackademicks produced "Cakewalk" feat. Baby James and himself, as well as "The World Is Calling" feat. Joyo Velarde. He also did drum programming on numerous other songs on the album.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Props(aganda) Over Here

PROPAGANDA! Sowing the seeds of racism for
generations.

Let me preface this post with letting everybody know where I'm coming from:

I AM IN NO WAY SUPPORTING THE VIEWS PRESENTED IN ANY OF THESE POSTERS OR COMIC BOOKS, GOOD OR BAD. CAPISCE?

I don't discuss religious and political views publicly, because my views are my own, and you "Can't Tell Me Nothing" about how I feel and what I believe.

This is just an appreciation for the art that inhabits the borders of these one sheets. The comic books on the other hand are not being posted because of their artistic merit. I'm just posting them because they're ridiculous propaganda for children, and you've probably never seen such well known characters be so blatantly racist.

Enjoy the show...

American:






Foreign:






Comic Books:






Dr Suess:


The world is f**king crazy.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

... Of the day

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

WMC '06 Shenanigans!!!

This is a throwback, but wamp, wamp, WAMP!!!



Shout outs to Trackademicks, DJ Tap.10 and the Darren the Notorious I.G.B. for making sure I lived through the night, and didn't get into too much trouble in Miami.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

The new "Dark Knight" onesheet

Yeah. Okay. Whatever.

YES - I know I have a bachelor's degree in Cinema, with a focus in writing and directing and I'm supposed to be snobbish as a mofo. Keep my nose either up in the sky or all the way up my own arse when it comes to film.

YES- I do enjoy(LOVE!) foreign and independent cinema, (it's one of the prerequisites of being a cinema major =P), by the likes of Buñuel, Antonioni, and Charles Yi (plug!)

but... -------> THE SUMMER MOVIE SEASON IS MY SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYIT!

Hence my giddy excitement for this new onesheet:



If it's not James Bond, it's Bats. Sue me.

And for my next topical post, Christian Louboutin.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Honor Roll Live @ Fool's Gold x Dim Mak Tour SF

Trackademicks "Nothing On Me"



Mike Baker the Bike Maker "The Chase"/Trackademicks "Fetti, Scrilla, Scratch"



*Shout out to Nick Catchdubs for the videos!*

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

More Trackademicks [Re]Mixtape 2 liner notes!!!

The homie Trackademicks has posted up some more liner notes.



"I Want You Back" and "Hollywood" to go along with "WesternSlapademickTenderSmobbinCosmicMusic".

The dude's going in order!

Go read. Listen. Support. Love y'all.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

In cleaning up my place today, I came across my old copy of this book.



This and Watchmen are hailed as two of the greatest comic book stories ever told. With these stories came the grim n' gritty era of storytelling in comic books in the 80's. So enough blabbering, here's the synopsis from the DC Comics.

It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now as his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenage female Robin, Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city. And after facing off against his two greatest enemies, the Joker and Two-Face for the final time, Batman finds himself in mortal combat with his former ally, Superman, in a battle that only one of them will survive. This collection is hailed as a comics masterpiece and was responsible for the launch of the Batman movies.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Written by Frank Miller; Art and Cover by Miller and Klaus Janson. Published in 1986.



***And where else are you gonna find a story that has Superman as a pawn for the government at Reagan's beck and call?***

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Olympic athletes should never compete in the music game.

Carl Lewis "Break It Up"



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

That's my cousin!

If you happen to be in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, tune into Fox affiliate KMSP, so you can be enraptured in Robyne Robinson's on point professionalism.



The Baker-Robinson-Jacksons are sooooooooooooo multifaceted. WHAT, WHAT!!!

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

The Monday 11

So I'm sitting here thinking about music, and how I should share with you what's in my head lately. Old, new, whatever. Just stuff I listened to more than once today. Enjoy!

***Click the text below each image to get to that respective song***


Kenna Say "Goodbye to Love" (Trackademicks remix) feat. Mike Baker the Bike Maker


Casual "Later On"



Towa Tei "Technova (La em Copacabana)"


Busta Rhymes "Don't Touch Me"


Matthew Herbert "Leave Me Now"


LL Cool J "Jingling Baby (Remixed But Still Jingling)"


Charles Webster "Your Life"


Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band "Sunshower"



Santogold "L.E.S. Artistes"


Grace Jones "Private Life"


L-Deez "That's My Patna"

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Queen was onto something...

Click image for larger view.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

THE BEST RAP BATTLE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE WATCH THE WHOLE THING!!!!



There is so much off shit in this video.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Diverse Roots

Back in the summer before high school started, myself, Moxmore, and Trackademicks came together to create Diverse Roots - the preeminent high school rap crew of Alameda, CA 94501!

Then (Alameda High School):


Now (Beauty Bar Las Vegas for Hi Fidelity this past Tuesday night):


We're not Diverse Roots anymore, but we're still together, repping our moves hard in the HONOR ROLL. I guess this is just some nostalgia for that ass.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker


p.s. - Mox got that arm movement thing down pat!