Stolen moments from The Fancy Show BKCF edition at Littlefield

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The Fancy Show Brooklyn Comedy Festival Edition at Littlefield was a dream and photographer Jenni Walkowiak was there to capture the moment.

 

Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak
Photo by Jenni Walkowiak

See all the photos here.

The Fancy Show Brooklyn Comedy Festival Edition at Littlefield

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The Fancy Show BKCF 2017

We’re bringing our amateur detective agency, The Fancy Show, to Littlefield on Tuesday August 22nd for the Brooklyn Comedy Festival.

We’ve invited some of our favorite comics to join us this year, including:

T.J. Miller (Silicon Valley, Yogi Bear 3D)
Liza Treyger (Horace and Pete, Comedy Central Half Hour)
Roy Wood Jr (The Daily Show, Variety Magazine’s Top Ten Comics to Watch 2016)
Michael Joyce (that’s me)
Simmons McDavid (chad)
Lane Pieschel (Bridgetown Comedy Festival)
Janelle James (Comedy Central, 50 Most Funny in Brooklyn)
Hosted by Rob Haze (Comedy Central)

Tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door

The Fancy Show – Brooklyn Comedy Festival Edition
Tuesday August 22nd at 8pm, doors at 7
Littlefield (635 Sackett St between 4th and 3rd Ave, Brooklyn)

Top 5 laid back Ice Cube songs

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One strength of the rapper Ice Cube that I feel gets overlooked is his aptitude for the laid back flow. Much like in his movie Friday, when Ice Cube spits cool, laggard rhymes he showcases his complex and charismatic nature. Laid back Ice Cube may be my favorite so, as a belated celebration of the rapper’s birthday, I listed my Top 5 laid back Ice Cube tracks.

Ice Cube is best known for his aggressive, up-tempo raps that attack his enemies, critique the ills of society and describe the gangster-rock star lifestyle.

One thing that impresses me most about Cube is his ability to make an articulate argument that expresses the frustration and anger of a community that’s been oppressed for 400 years all while delivering blistering, concise raps. Cube’s push back to police brutality in NWA’s “Fuck tha Police” or his explanation of the L.A. riots in “We Had to Tear This Mothafucka Up” (off The Predator album) are prime examples.

But there’s another strength of Ice Cube that I feel gets overlooked – his aptitude for the laid back flow. Much like in his movie Friday, when Ice Cube spits cool, laggard rhymes he showcases his complex and charismatic nature. Laid back Ice Cube may be my favorite so, as a belated celebration of the rapper’s birthday (who’s the inspiration of our flagship t-shirt, Ice Cubism), here are my top 5 laid back Ice Cube tracks (solo albums only):

5.) Who’s the Mack? Amerikkka’s Most Wanted

Ice Cube tells 3 tales of manipulation and mackdom, laying his crisp prose down over a mesmerizing bass line, velvety sax and a little flair from the flute. Cube schools us to the game and stays true to himself while everyone else is claimin’ P.I.M.P.

4.) Until We Rich, War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc)

The best thing in life, is life. Cube tells the kids to turn off the TV and be themselves in this uplifting summer jam. I must admit I’m partial to any track featuring Krayzie Bone as I’m a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony enthusiast, but this song is highly listenable on many levels. Melody, harmony, lyrics – it’s musical pizza and everybody likes pizza. The track gets dinged a few points because it’s feels a little like an “It Was a Good Day” remix, but still works for me.

3.) You Know How We Do It, Lethal Injection

A G-funk classic and West Coast rap at its very best. This song never hit number one, but there’s a reason Ice Cube included it on his greatest hits album. I don’t really have to explain this one, the music says it all so just turn up the volume and, in the immortal words of HOV, “If you in your car, I don’t care if it’s winter I want you to put all your windows down. Zone out, buckle up, let’s go.”

2.) It Was a Good Day, The Predator

This song could easily be #1 – It’s suffering from what I like to call the “Hey Ya” effect – a song so good it gets played over and over again which subconsciously makes you exclude it from the playlist. That and it loses a few points in the realism department because Cube hired a statistician to keep track of rebounds and assists during a pickup basketball game and the Goodyear Blimp calls him a pimp. But c’mon, an all-time great song that everyone loves. Duh.

1.) Down for Whatever, Lethal Injection

Damn I’m such a G, it’s a pathetic – Ice Cube’s opening line rivals “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This is another prototypical G-funk track where Cube’s sharp wit and storytelling prowess is on full display, mixed with cartoon references and a healthy dose of bravado. In the second verse he tells a story about his uncle throwing party goers out of his house and yelling in the yard and he uses so few words while painting such a vivid picture of the scene that Ice Cube makes Ernest Hemingway seem verbose. Laid back has never hit so hard.

 

 

Eating Off The Floor And 6 Other Traits I Proudly Passed On To My Daughter

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Each one of us has about 20,000 protein-coding genes and the composition of these genes is what defines us as individuals. They are passed down to us by our parents and our parents’ parents and our parents’ parents’ parents and this is why my farts smell exactly like my father’s (Don’t fact check me on this one, Neil deGrasse Tyson).

I’m something of an amateur scientist so I urinated some blood and went ahead and mapped out all 20-some odd thousand of my genes to select the top genetic traits that I’ve passed on to my child.

The Ability To Sleep Through A Fire Alarm

Daddy likes his late night grilled cheeses and professional chefs and I both know that the secret to a top-notch grilled cheese is, it’s cooked to perfection when the smoke detector goes off…

Read more about the genetic traits I passed on to my wee one on Fatherly.com >>