Compared with the Dalai Lama, the young Karmapa is a more earthly presence, quick to mention his fondness for the Internet, hip-hop, and video games.
Those groups — skaters, Internet hip-hop nerds, curious indie rock partisans, idiosyncratic thugs, nihilists-in-training — came to Odd Future naturally.
9. KENDRICK LAMAR "Section.80" (Top Dawg Entertainment) Mr. Lamar, a prolix young rapper from Compton, Calif., is neither much of a link to the '80s Compton rappers before him nor the tricksterish Internet hip-hop around him.
Porter, 34, of Santa Rosa, California, is not a mechanic by profession – rather, a DJ at an internet hip-hop radio station – but with sweat, determination and a few hand tools, was able to successfully extract a sunroof and two windows from another Lexus LS400, which, in Pick-n-Pull's San Jose store, was gradually succumbing to the forces at the tail end of the automotive economy.
A cursory examination of internet hip-hop message boards (this is what we do all day, btw) will reveal that The Pack are taking a controversial stand with their choice of footwear.
I attribute a large part of that to (1) the internet hipping me to bands I would have never come across any other way (2) the internet making it possible to impulsively buy a song or an album with the click of a button.
We one of the most Internet-hip cities in America, but well-meaning groups have and continue to try to stop the deployment of wireless technology on a daily basis.
Anyone concerned about the death of the album is already a step behind: this year saw a real contraction on the song level, too, particularly among young, Internet-minded hip-hop stars.
The MC born Chancelor Bennett is a leading light of today's young, Internet-centric hip-hop scene.
The afterparty will be at Ibar (15 Holdenhurst Rd), a new "digital bar" - a hip internet cafe with knobs on - with a box room gig space in its basement.
(Are dogs using Craigslist, too?) In addition to the for-sale ad for the used stick, there are classifieds seeking a lost human ("Responds to 'Knuckles' "), romance ("Are you my Tramp?") and canines that want jobs like junkyard dog ("Must provide own chain") and start-up mascot ("Hip Internet software company seeks dog to lie around on poured concrete floors to give office casual air").
