bluescholars.com It was like November 2009 and I was rolling Beacon Ave with my friend Saman, an Iranian girl who’d grown up between the US / Kenya / England. We were in the Nissan Sentra she’d bought from a mutual friend who’d previously bought it from me, and I had bought it from another Iranian dood in Whitecenter who makes some of the best homemade Joojeh Kabob you’ve ever tasted. She was playing this record from a band called The xx she recently was referred to by a friend or something off the iPod plugged into the tape-deck thru an adapter while powered by one of those cigarette lighter things from Radio Shack. Yea that’s right, it’s a cigarette lighter. Funny how new cars don’t have “cigarette lighters” and instead have a circular hole thing for “power supply” that you still need to buy a special adapter for. Originally, plugging your walkman, discman, and later cellphone via adapter into these lighter plugs was an innovative way of drawing power from what was available to you as a car owner. Now smoking cigarettes is suddenly super taboo and new cars don’t have cigarette lighters built in to them, but they still have this power-hole. My question was, if you’re gonna make a car with a power-hole, why not just make it a REGULAR OUTLET? If you’re no longer supplying the cigarette lighter, there’s no point in keeping the whole power-hole thing in it’s original form. Well, more and more new consumer cars have regular outlets now and that makes this whole argument a …
#1 written by Johnwalkingtwice October 7th, 2010 at 07:39
@wilfredKUN Its actually from the XX song “intro” it was even in a commercial for apollo ono during the olympics.
#2 written by wilfredKUN October 7th, 2010 at 08:18
The beat is Dope!
#3 written by inivitable October 7th, 2010 at 09:06
hip hop aint dead
#4 written by danielmoonn October 7th, 2010 at 09:15
Dope shit.
This and Bayani keep me occupied allllll day
#5 written by hiimhereforhotties October 7th, 2010 at 09:35
instrumental by the xx is sooo brilliant…and of course geo and sabzi can do no wrong on top of it…such good shit
#6 written by BaphometV October 7th, 2010 at 10:27
yeah hip hop is alive… lol… major beat of the track is from The XX album intro track… so yeah… crossover for the win
#7 written by CwalkinZoom October 7th, 2010 at 10:35
theres a radio station here in germany which played this track yesterday, i never heard this kind of hip hop before, so awesome man!
#8 written by IronViking99 October 7th, 2010 at 11:29
Such an amazing song… I wish I could see them live again sometime.
PS: Anyone know where I can find the song “Invocation”?
#9 written by coolmartcol October 7th, 2010 at 11:43
this song is so damn amazing…
#10 written by JAdorable4 October 7th, 2010 at 12:17
The Instrumental Is From The XX – Intro
#11 written by Niho10BiH October 7th, 2010 at 13:15
Blue Scholars are bad ass! Love their music.
#12 written by bazballnut94 October 7th, 2010 at 13:36
The instrumental is called Intro by The xx
#13 written by Allovertheplace2012 October 7th, 2010 at 14:34
this song tight! it was even better live yesterday at the Bowery NYC!
#14 written by haythamabubaker October 7th, 2010 at 14:50
Wow! Can’t wait for the new album. This is real music.
#15 written by kingpin9819 October 7th, 2010 at 15:46
Look Up mike posner, one foot out the door. the first song on the record. i dont knwo what came out first though.
#16 written by brapsherpa99 October 7th, 2010 at 16:45
favourite intro ever with one of my favourite rappers… i just jizzed
#17 written by Red1Champloo October 7th, 2010 at 16:59
hip hop is still alive, yuh just gotta look for it, these guys are the essence of hip hop, respect from england
#18 written by Cajanek026 October 7th, 2010 at 17:43
instrumental is a sample of the xx – intro
#19 written by VoltaVon October 7th, 2010 at 18:42
@Tensssin Three times if you feel me, wether your hands are artillery
#20 written by hitch4645 October 7th, 2010 at 19:15
672 views. i swear i must have been responsible for a good 200 of those
#21 written by pksk8er October 7th, 2010 at 19:35
if only this was broadcasted worldwide while everyone simultaneously listened in, shit would be all right for 2 minutes
#22 written by ochocincoTO October 7th, 2010 at 19:40
@linnekka thanks so much. i found it.
#23 written by linnekka October 7th, 2010 at 19:46
the xx – intro
#24 written by dizzie1212 October 7th, 2010 at 20:18
@ochocincoTO …. YEAH WHERE CAN I FIND THE INSTRUMENTAL? and what song isit from???
#25 written by dizzie1212 October 7th, 2010 at 21:17
wheres this instrumental from??????????