Posts Tagged: de la soul
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City Potholes To Be Filled With Aquaphalt Water Curable Cold Patch

"Keeping our streets in good condition is essential to our economy and to our quality of life—and that’s why we are always looking for ways to do the job more efficiently. We’re debuting new technology to repair city streets faster, while closing less lanes to traffic. We also took advantage of the mild winter this year and resurfaced additional key corridors to get a jump on repaving season, and we are on track to repave 1,000 lane miles of city streets this year.” —Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference in Queens today to brag about the city's new pothole-filling technology. Last year, the Department of Transportation set an all-time [...]

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First Serve, "Pushin' Aside, Pushin' Along"

Oh my god this so good! It's basically new De La Soul, as "First Serve" is the name chosen by Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove, two-thirds of the the storied Long Island rap trio, for their new project with French production duo 2+4. Apparently, they're making a concept album (and maybe a movie?) for which they've adopted alter egos (Posdnuos is "Jacob 'Pop Life' Barrow," Trugoy is "Deen Whittier"), that tells the story of a pair of goofy Queens teenagers hoping to make it in rap. Conceptually and musically, First Serve harkens back to De La's old pal Prince Paul's super-awesome, not-nearly-well-enough-known 1999 rap opera, A [...]