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The link is to the right in the sidebar, but it has to be highlighted: KindaLame.com is proud to host Ill Poetic’s two mixtapes of Joe Budden & Portishead and NIN & Outkast.

NINaliens – Ill Poetic Presents Outkast Meets Nine Inch Nails

via Kinda Lame » Ill Poetic Free Music Downloads.

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May I present my personal choice for 2009? It’s not a new song, but it’s a song that applies for 2009. A classic that deserves to be heard. Drum roll please?

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’

 

The song can be purchased for iTunes for a mere $0.99, not even a whole dollar and the provided link (which isn’t an advertisement)  gets you straight to the iTunes Plus version announced at MacWorld ’09. The song comes in a high quality DRM free format. Wow, DRM free music from iTunes? Times are a changin’!

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The iTunes Music Store (or iTMS) is already the gold standard of music sales. Why shouldn’t they try to become the worlds clearinghouse of music? They have the user and active buyer base to just swallow the competition in utter control of the market. (And why aren’t they buying the rights to music yet? Or are they?)

They should partner up with Myspace to sell their music downloads. iTunes or Myspace would never let this happen, but they (Apple) could push it in a real slick way. They could just ask Myspace to forward their downloads through iTMS. By forward, I mean that Apple would be a clearinghouse of sorts for Myspace music downloads. They would hold a digital copy of the catalog and only allow downloads through some sort of encrypted API that allows users to purchase the music on Myspace’s mobile application, and have it downloaded and integrated into iTunes.

The question is who stands to lose money? iTMS could suffer because they have made it easier for a competitor to enter the market (on their device no doubt!). Myspace could be suckered into paying too much. I propose just one cent of the purchase should go to Apple. They would be able to make a profit on a few million songs I’d think. The electronic music download market is primed (current economic times excluded, of course) and it could produce more opportunities like this. It could allow any competitor to plug into Apple’s user-base. Apple must do something to compete too. Google Android is just around the corner – it could do this for free (as in speech).

The songs would integrate into the iPod/iPhone and iTunes and create a harmonious experience for the end users and Apple can tax every download that goes through their device. Why not try it? Then get the competitors to do it too and then you have money coming in from every angle. And most companies, I would think, would love to tap into the iPhone user’s wallets.

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It’s been about one month since I’ve started to use iTunes as the primary music player in the house and it’s a great time to check the standings.
The top ten is made up of Lil Wayne (mainly), Eminen, ill poetic, Snoop Dogg, Outkast, Beastie Boys and Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony.
The reason I love it is that even though Lil Wayne is playing now, of course, my buddy ill poetic is up at the top hanging along with some big names. It’s not bias, it’s the sound. That list is all different types of rap sounds and he fits as a supplement and as a compliment. Yeah, Lil Wayne is still the best rapper alive, but as far as a sound, music, a movement, he’s up there.

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Couldn’t not share this one.
http://www.theonion.com/…/members_of_twisted_sister

NEW YORK—In a stunning reversal of their long-stated reluctance to take it, members of heavy-metal band Twisted Sister announced Monday that, after 24 years of fervent refusal, they are now willing to take it. Read More

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Good bye friend, we will miss you.

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It’s going to be a fun night and it might be a sad night. The problem we are seeing tonight is that hip-hop has no love on this city, so we are losing someone we were lucky to get.
Tonight we officially say goodbye to ill poetic, the music maker, the friend. In this world we can never say goodbye when we leave, but text messaging and MySpace don’t always give you enough. I’m bad at staying, and keeping, unfortunately, in touch. I wish our friend well, and tell myself that I want to improve on that keeping in touch thing. This time.
Good bye friend. Next time I want to see you, I’ll put on one of your tracks and picture you rollin’.

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Not Lame – And I say so because I love Super Mario Bros! The game of my childhood, and what ultimately took time away from working on, and eventually becoming, a man!

Ingenious? Yes, but still nothing is ever as good as the original.