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• GANG STARR - One Of The Best Yet

  nzshadow

  November 2019
  Are you fucking kidding me?
  
  Christmas came early this year my dudes. Here I am at 46 goddamn years old, posting on Soulstrut about a NEW GANGSTARR ALBUM.
  
  I love it. I absolutely fucking love it. As soon as I heard Gurus voice, I damn near teared up. Yeah I said it - I damn near teared up. 
  
  So many memories, so much time since Guru passed, we have all grown & spread out across the globe, & not to get all emotional but on a personal note, 2019 was a rough year. But now, on the other side, the healthy recovery side, with a stent in my heart that saved my life & gave me back the feeling of youth, I got to sit down with my teenage sons and together we listened to a new Gangstarr album. Together. 
  
  This shit MEANS SOMETHING.
  
  R.I.P Guru.
  Gang Starr for LIFE.
  
  
  

  

• Recent Finds

  nzshadow

  May 2019
  I have not dug out a record worth mentioning in almost six months.
  Since moving seven years ago to a small country town I have had droughts but this is starting to wear.
  It's brutal.
  
  
  
  
  

  

• Does anyone know NZShadow in the real world?

  nzshadow

  May 2019
  Hey. 
  
  I'm good, I appreciate the thoughts,  I just finally hit my limit with social media.
  
  I was beginning to notice some serious addictive behaviour in myself & then I stumbled upon a short video by Cal Newport & I realised that all I had to do was go cold turkey.
  
  Since deleting my IG I have gone on a bit of a tear researching the effects the 'constant companion' social media business model has had on society & have really come to the conclusion that it added sweet fuck all in value compared to the real cost.
  
  I could go on a fucking tear about Constant Companion, Surveillance Capitalism, Attention Economy, Pavlovian behavioural training, but I won't.
  
  Anyway, this is the short vid that opened my eyes:
  
  
  
  
  
  And this is an excellent speech by another champion of a better way of doing things:
  
  
  
  
  

  

• Jordan Peele, Yay or Nay?

  nzshadow

  April 2019
  
  
  My brother.
  
  Here's a post-paintball shot from the very early 00s. The aformentioned Nicole Parker shot me point-blank in the thigh after i did a sweet Miami Vice roll straight into the hut she was already hiding in. We were all off our faces. I don't have any memories of Jordan from that day apart from power rolling spliffs in the bus on the way to the paintball place & getting quite fucking stoned on the bus. That man in the foreground is stuff of legend. You have no fucking idea. I saw so many shows with him, Isaac Hayes, P-Funk, Herbie Hancock, he also bum-rushed a Breakestra stage at Amsterdam's Paradiso, grabbed the mic & took on vocal duties. 
  The next day he caught a train to Tilburg i think, to deliver a considerable amount of good vibes to the band as a way of saying sorry.
  

  dollar_bin said:

  nzshadow said:

  Between this and The Mop I can only imagine the stories that you haven't already disclosed online. I'm issuing a blanket invitation, if you're ever in Silicon Valley I will happily buy you a very nice dinner to unlock some of the realheadz knowledge. dollarbin at gmail dot com

  

• Jordan Peele, Yay or Nay?

  nzshadow

  March 2019
  Oh and,
  
  That JB skit clip - The woman in that video is Nicole Parker. Also an ex Boom Chicago cast member. She once won a serious Battle Rap competition at a club in Amsterdam. I was there, absolutly fucking hilarious.