The Culture Capture Champs catch Mos Def during a break in the studio while recording “The Ecstatic” . Hear how he dissects some of his favorite MF DOOM lyrics & talks a bit about his influences.

Btw, “The Ecstatic” comes out next week.

From Beef Rapp:

To all rappers shut up with ya shuttin up
And keep
your shirt on, at least a button up
Yuck, is they rhymers or
strippin males?
Outta work jerks since they shut down
Chippendale’s
They chippin nails, Doom… jippin
scales
Let alone the pre-orders that’s counted off
shippin sales
This one goes out to all my peoples skippin
bail
Dippin jail, whippin tail, and sippin ale
Light the
doobie til it glow like a ruby
After which they
couldn’t find the Villain like Scooby
He’s in the
lab on some old Buddha Monk shit
Overproof drunk shit, and
who’da thunk it?
Punk try an ask why ours be
better
It could be the iron mask or the Cosby
sweater
Yes, you, who’s screwed by the dude on the CD
nude (we need food!)

And here is one of my favorites: “Kookies,” by MF Doom. enjoy.

That $700 billion bailout has since grown into a more than $12 trillion commitment by the US government and the Federal Reserve.

That’s even more than I was estimating last year… and I posted in September that a Bloomberg analyst had it at $5 Trillion

btw, the US GDP in 2005 was just about that much ($12 Trillion)

and an article in the Yemen Times estimates about $12 Trillion as the opportunity cost of conflict in the Middle East.

You should definitely check out Andy Kroll’s article entitled, “The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold.”

Given the lack of transparency and accountability, don’t expect taxpayers to be able to object too much. After all, remarkably little is known about how TARP recipients have used the government aid received. Nonetheless, recent government reports, Congressional testimony and commentaries offer those patient enough to pore over hundreds of pages of material glimpses of just how Wall Street friendly the bailout actually is. Here, then, based on the most definitive data and analyses available, are six of the most blatant and alarming ways taxpayers have been scammed by the government’s $1.1-trillion, publicly funded bailout.

I bet you didn’t know the Milky Way was visible to the naked eye? Well you probably won’t be able to experience this wonder in an urban (street lights, building lights, etc.) environment, but that’s alright as a William Castleman created this time lapse video of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is as bright as ever, and the images were taken with a 15mm fisheye lens.