The End All & Be All (Top 100 Hip-Hop Albums of the 00′s)

We love lists don’t we? And the end of a decade is always a great time to make some. So I give to you, the Louis M. Grafix Top 100 Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s. This list started as a top 50 and just kept growing. A few rules to be set out before we get into this. Rule #1: Only official albums are allowed to be considered. No mixtapes. Rule #2: No greatest hits compilations are allowed (e.g. Big Pun – Endangered Species) Rule #3: The album has to be released after January 1, 2000. While doing my research I came across a lot of lists that had Dr. Dre – 2001 in it. Just because the name of the album is 2001 doesn’t mean anything, it was released in 1999.

Michael Jackson: 10 Greatest & 10 Most Overrated

Growing up in the 80′s with a father who loved music and an uncle who was in a band I spent a lot of time watching MTV and VH1, thus I was a pretty big fan of Michael Jackson. He is one of my first memories growing up. “The Way You Make Me Feel” was my favorite song and music video for quite some time. I also loved “Billie Jean” and “Beat It”. Then I remember watching the mini-series “The Jacksons: An American Dream” when it aired in 1992. I recommend anybody and everybody to watch this by the way, I’m sure it will be being aired a lot now. This further cemented my respect and appreciation of his music along with opening my eyes to the music of the Jackson 5.

Now as much as Michael was eccentric and out-there he was a genius and easily the greatest performer and dancer ever. I don’t know when we will ever see an icon of his magnitude again, if ever.

So stick around and see my countdown of The King of Pop’s top 10 greatest songs and his 10 most over-rated songs (as great as he was, he wasn’t perfect).

Summer Sunday

Another long absence from posting… this can not go on. I have a couple of top 10 posts in the works, so look for those coming soon.

In the mean time I bring to you an art gallery I stumpled upon this past weekend. Texas Firehouse is a gallery and performance space in Long Island City. It is housed inside of a 150 year-old firehouse which was the first firehouse in Long Island City, which in case you didn’t know, was its own city much like Brooklyn was before it became part of New York City.

I would of never found this place if it wasn’t for my new bike, which I recently purchased at Bike Stop in Astoria. This purchase was one of best things I’ve ever done. On my second ever ride in Queens I discovered a lot of cool things and got to take in the beautiful sites of New York City. Like this photo I took with my phone of the Hell Gate & RFK Bridges.

Arrival

Louis M. Grafix opens a blog… finally. Updates to come very shortly.