Monthly Archives: December 2007

ImHipHop End of The Year Address

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As We are about to move on to 2008, I look back at this past year with Bittersweet memories.

The Bitter: Not winning any Black Blogger awards (yea I’m still salty about that) The whole Brickhouse situation (holla at me Sean), just alot of things didn’t go the way I planned this year, the sweet, Being recognized, regardless of how the offers ended up, They all complemented my site, and my work ethic and really isnt that all anybody wants? For somebody to recognize how hard you work?

I think I deserve some credit, considering that I do this all myself, I’m not in New York, I dont work for a hip hop magazine, I dont have a team of cats posting, and I dont have a sexy co-host who can interview these rap cats(no dis, just facts).

Its just me L.

Ya’ll have no idea how i break my neck for this site, but I love hip hop so I do it for my culture.

When I changed the site back in October, It was meet with mixed response, alot of you loved it, some of you didnt see the need for change. In hindsight, i did it to compete with the other sites, and to really expand on my HTML knowledge. Im still working on a new banner, and some more things.

One thing that came up, is alot of you commented on my “Lack of Exclusive Content”.
I take that as meaning interviews, music and such.

Well, I dont do interviews, just point blank, unless they wanna do email interviews, I’m not the interviewing type. Take it as you want.

I created a section called “1st look” to addresss that very issue. Everything in the 1st look post, I believe I’m posting first. Whether its an album cover, magazine or whatever, thats why its in that section.

Now I get 7000 daily hits, so anybody can copy one of my 1st look things and post it on their site and call it their 1st look. It really began to urk me, because most of the time if I take something from another site I try to give credit(hence the source sites) but nobody gives me credit. That’s one reason why I have the time listed under each post, so you my readers can say “Hey L posted it 1st”, but that’s not happening.

Alot of times i’ll post a song weeks before some sites. So if you wanna call that exclusive you can.

So I went out an copped some software that lets me tag my photos. Now for those of you that dont know what tagging is, its where a word or logo can appear across a photo. So people can know where the pic came from. I’m going to start tagging every and anything I post 1st.

Something else I’ve started is the ImHiphop Store. You can now purchase ImHipHop Shirts, wife beaters and the Official Eye Candy Tee Shirt. See here

http://www.zazzle.com/assets/swf/zp/zp.swf?zp=

Well I wanna Show love to those of you who cop these items, So Im starting a new post where if you send me pics of you rocking your IHH gear, I’ll post it. I also am going to start holding Photoshots for the Eye Candy models, and to further show that I’m not just taking peoples pictures of the internet and i actually have spoken to all the females I post, watch out for the women to start rocking the “Official Eye Candy” shirts.

In 2008 I wanna make this site one of the premier Hip Hop sites out. So if ya’ll have any suggestions, anything ya’ll would like to me add or change on this site. Please leave a comment. Blogger now has it so u dont have to have a google membership to comment.

So let me know what ya’ll think.

-L-

P.S. Oh yea, Happy New year.

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ImHipHop End of The Year Address

Posted on by 5 comments

As We are about to move on to 2008, I look back at this past year with Bittersweet memories.

The Bitter: Not winning any Black Blogger awards (yea I’m still salty about that) The whole Brickhouse situation (holla at me Sean), just alot of things didn’t go the way I planned this year, the sweet, Being recognized, regardless of how the offers ended up, They all complemented my site, and my work ethic and really isnt that all anybody wants? For somebody to recognize how hard you work?

I think I deserve some credit, considering that I do this all myself, I’m not in New York, I dont work for a hip hop magazine, I dont have a team of cats posting, and I dont have a sexy co-host who can interview these rap cats(no dis, just facts).

Its just me L.

Ya’ll have no idea how i break my neck for this site, but I love hip hop so I do it for my culture.

When I changed the site back in October, It was meet with mixed response, alot of you loved it, some of you didnt see the need for change. In hindsight, i did it to compete with the other sites, and to really expand on my HTML knowledge. Im still working on a new banner, and some more things.

One thing that came up, is alot of you commented on my “Lack of Exclusive Content”.
I take that as meaning interviews, music and such.

Well, I dont do interviews, just point blank, unless they wanna do email interviews, I’m not the interviewing type. Take it as you want.

I created a section called “1st look” to addresss that very issue. Everything in the 1st look post, I believe I’m posting first. Whether its an album cover, magazine or whatever, thats why its in that section.

Now I get 7000 daily hits, so anybody can copy one of my 1st look things and post it on their site and call it their 1st look. It really began to urk me, because most of the time if I take something from another site I try to give credit(hence the source sites) but nobody gives me credit. That’s one reason why I have the time listed under each post, so you my readers can say “Hey L posted it 1st”, but that’s not happening.

Alot of times i’ll post a song weeks before some sites. So if you wanna call that exclusive you can.

So I went out an copped some software that lets me tag my photos. Now for those of you that dont know what tagging is, its where a word or logo can appear across a photo. So people can know where the pic came from. I’m going to start tagging every and anything I post 1st.

Something else I’ve started is the ImHiphop Store. You can now purchase ImHipHop Shirts, wife beaters and the Official Eye Candy Tee Shirt. See here

Well I wanna Show love to those of you who cop these items, So Im starting a new post where if you send me pics of you rocking your IHH gear, I’ll post it. I also am going to start holding Photoshots for the Eye Candy models, and to further show that I’m not just taking peoples pictures of the internet and i actually have spoken to all the females I post, watch out for the women to start rocking the “Official Eye Candy” shirts.

In 2008 I wanna make this site one of the premier Hip Hop sites out. So if ya’ll have any suggestions, anything ya’ll would like to me add or change on this site. Please leave a comment. Blogger now has it so u dont have to have a google membership to comment.

So let me know what ya’ll think.

-L-

P.S. Oh yea, Happy New year.

UNCUTmag.net

“Urban News in its Rawest Form”

ImHipHop Sports: Raider Report 4-12

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Its been a while since I’ve done a Raider report, to be honest its because we’ve sucked this year. Now I am a die hard raider fan so we can go 1-15 and I’m still going to pop my ish about the Silver and Black, But I kinda thought we were going to have a better season this year.

While we doubled our win total from last year (we were 2-14). I was still expecting more. At least 8-8.

Now with rumors of Warren Sapp’s retirement, Defensive Coordinator Rob Ryan being fired, Nnamdi Asomugha’s and Jerry Porters Pending Free agency, next year aint looking to promising.

Well the good thing is Jamarcus Russell finally made his 1st start yesterday, and he looked good. His stats( 23/31 pass completions, 224 yards passing, 1 touchdown and 1 int) while not mind blowing, they were decent, and enough to give Raider nation some type of hope for next year. I figure with some time, a full training camp and preseason, if JR works hard in the offseason, and the raiders try to surround him with some good young talent, he can be a Pro-bowler.

I would advise Coach Lane Kiffen to look at how the Cowboys of the ’90’s were constructed. Remember Troy Aikman’s rookie year they were 1-15. It wasnt until they added a young Halfback to carry the load (Emmitt Smith) and an exciting deep threat at receiver(Michael Irvin), that Troy showed his Hall of Fame talent.

Now hopefully, we can find a way to keep Nnamdi (Franchise Tag) bring back Rob Ryan, and just replace who we lose with the draft. We could compete with the Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Jags next season.

I have a trade idea that I hope happens. Trade Lamont Jordan to the Bears for WR Bernard Berrian. That would cushion the lost of Jerry Porter, and dump Lamont Jordan’s massive contract. I’m sure we would have to throw some draft picks in or something to compensate for Jordan’s contract, but i think it would be worth it. it would clear up the logjam at RB and we can start Dominic Rhodes. It would Also give us a deep threat that we deeply need since we got rid of the guy who plays in New England now.

Now on the Bears side it would give the a Feature back, cause Cedric benson aint doing it. Also Lamont Jordan would thrive in the black and blue division since he is such a punishing back. hell a we’ll even throw in a QB, we got like 8 of them.

So here’s to next season. Can we see 8-8 in ’08?

if not I may have to quit football.

Nah, win lose or tie, Radiers til I die………
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ImHipHop Sports: Raider Report 4-12

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Its been a while since I’ve done a Raider report, to be honest its because we’ve sucked this year. Now I am a die hard raider fan so we can go 1-15 and I’m still going to pop my ish about the Silver and Black, But I kinda thought we were going to have a better season this year.

While we doubled our win total from last year (we were 2-14). I was still expecting more. At least 8-8.

Now with rumors of Warren Sapp’s retirement, Defensive Coordinator Rob Ryan being fired, Nnamdi Asomugha’s and Jerry Porters Pending Free agency, next year aint looking to promising.

Well the good thing is Jamarcus Russell finally made his 1st start yesterday, and he looked good. His stats( 23/31 pass completions, 224 yards passing, 1 touchdown and 1 int) while not mind blowing, they were decent, and enough to give Raider nation some type of hope for next year. I figure with some time, a full training camp and preseason, if JR works hard in the offseason, and the raiders try to surround him with some good young talent, he can be a Pro-bowler.

I would advise Coach Lane Kiffen to look at how the Cowboys of the ’90’s were constructed. Remember Troy Aikman’s rookie year they were 1-15. It wasnt until they added a young Halfback to carry the load (Emmitt Smith) and an exciting deep threat at receiver(Michael Irvin), that Troy showed his Hall of Fame talent.

Now hopefully, we can find a way to keep Nnamdi (Franchise Tag) bring back Rob Ryan, and just replace who we lose with the draft. We could compete with the Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Jags next season.

I have a trade idea that I hope happens. Trade Lamont Jordan to the Bears for WR Bernard Berrian. That would cushion the lost of Jerry Porter, and dump Lamont Jordan’s massive contract. I’m sure we would have to throw some draft picks in or something to compensate for Jordan’s contract, but i think it would be worth it. it would clear up the logjam at RB and we can start Dominic Rhodes. It would Also give us a deep threat that we deeply need since we got rid of the guy who plays in New England now.

Now on the Bears side it would give the a Feature back, cause Cedric benson aint doing it. Also Lamont Jordan would thrive in the black and blue division since he is such a punishing back. hell a we’ll even throw in a QB, we got like 8 of them.

So here’s to next season. Can we see 8-8 in ’08?

if not I may have to quit football.

Nah, win lose or tie, Radiers til I die………
UNCUTmag.net

“Urban News in its Rawest Form”

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