First off, I’m going to admit up front, I’m not against rap music. I used to only listen to rap music just a few years ago. I like to think that I’ve expanded my music horizons enough to not be biased towards one type of music. That being said, rap has turned to shit. Even tracks like Usher’s Yeah didn’t bother me. This new crunk hop phrase of music that’s slower than 85 beats per minute drives me nuts. When I’m djing someone comes up to me and asks “can you play something I can dance to?” This happened last Friday and the girl in question wanted to hear the new track by Hurricane Chris entitled, A Bay Bay. At this point, I’d like to introduce exhibit A.

When I Holla Ay Bay Bay
I Finna Get My Groove On
Its So Hot Up In Da Club
Dat I Ain’t Got No Shoes On
Im Holdin’ Up A Big Stack And Dem
Hundreds In A Rubba Band
Girl Don’t Ask Me For No Cash
Cause Im Not Dat Other Man
Everybody Trippin’ Cause Im Limpin’
When Im Walkin’ And Im Pimpin’ When Im Talkin’
I Don’t Trick On Chick Dats Talkin’
Dem Boyz In Da Back Dey Be Rollin’up Dey Doughdy
Then Dey Blow It Till Dey Chokin’
Dats Wat Godly Came Out

Over the weekend I heard this song playing in approximately 75 cars. I severely wish that people in general would be more open to music that is actually able to be danced to. Yes, now I sound like a hypocrite but stick with me. The only way people dance to the new wave of rap / hip hop is follow the last word, hop. You put your hand up in the air and hop singing the words. Please, kill me now. The thing that gets me is people want to hear this style of crunk hop song after song. I gladly rip through the 10 big crunk hop balls of poo in 5 minutes so I can tell the people asking for them “I’m sorry, I already played that song”. So in conclusion, I can’t wait for someone to come up with a new style of rap / hip hop. Please at least be club friendly and use words in the english language.

To finish up, I’ll leave you with Chris’ interpretation of T-Pains, Buy You a Drank.

After a brief discussion with Tarken I settled on my new work development server being run on CentOS. For those of you that are unfamiliar, CentOS is the open source community’s free version of RedHat 5 Enterprise. I had initially downloaded the dvd iso image only to realize that my new server doesn’t have a dvd drive. Instead I opted to go the route of a network install. After about an hour of seeing this, I jumped on to irc to see if anyone could help me out with the problem. I was able to ping the booted server, but I wasn’t seeing any network traffic going through.

Finally I realized what was going on, you guessed it, Windows Firewall at some point had opted to turn itself back on. Whether this is an added “feature” for Vista I’m unawares at the present moment. Regardless, after turning it off, the install still started puking running through a web server. Partway through the install I would get a system exception error. Pointing my ftp server to the iso however fixed the problem.