So, a part of me feels like I should make a feeble attempt at explaining the recent absence of GP from your life. The only problem is that a bigger part of me, like the part that matters, remembers that it’s my site and if I want to get struck with writers’ block and allow myself to be semi-burned out on working a job and writing for three sites, then that’s what I’m gonna do. It’s honestly been a mixture of me being lazy and burned out. Some days it’s not so easy convincing my fingers they should engage in the slow dance with my keys just to birth these words that someone out there inevitably reads.

Work’s been shit, so let’s not go there. Well, then, what’s big in the news? There is something out there people are calling the iPhone 4, that shit’s all over the place these days. I don’t mean literally, and that’s all because Apple and AT&T totally fucked up the preorder process for Cupertino’s latest miracle gadget. I’m going to hesitate talking too much trash on the phone, especially since Mrs. Mike and I should be receiving ours in the mail any day now. Yes, I joined the darkside. I’m basically Lando Calrissian; which is okay by me ‘cuz we all know Lando was fucking BA!

Other than that there’s not much I feel like reporting today. Maybe it’s the waning effects of the writers’ block that had the left side of my brain in a sleeper hold for the past month… I’ll just leave you with a little bit of Big Boi that will be followed by a sprinkling of The Legendary Roots Crew. Big Boi is so ridiculous and when his solo album, Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, drops next week the world will wake up. Seriously, the joint leaked early and bonkers doesn’t even begin to describe the ridiculousness. As for The Roots, well, I’m embarrassed to say that I was later to the game than I’d like. I was always one to underrate the legends, but Black Thought is a fucking monster; Top 5 “Current” MC for sure. Their latest album, How I Got Over, was released last week and it’s too good. The video for “Dear God”, which is the one below, is amazing and the song is absolutely beautiful. It’s the kind of song that can turn people into lifelong fans of hip-hop. Get it and rock it hard, it deserves nothing less. Enjoy, and stay thirsty my friends.

Dear God from Okayplayer on Vimeo.