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Must Buy - The Best of Raw and Smack Down 2011 Blu-Ray

I'm a huge wrestling fan. More specifically, I am a massive WWE fan and have been for most of my life.

My good friends over at e one sent over WWE's latest Blu-Ray for review. 'The Best of Raw and Smack Down 2011' Blu-Ray is an exhaustingly thorough at 2011 in WWE. The Blu-Ray clocks in at a whopping 13 hours on 3 discs.

140 Views: Drake 'Take Care'

Welcome to a new feature here at brokencool called '140 Views.' The idea? Poll the twitterverse for their 140 character reviews of new albums. Along with your opinions, I'll issue my own 140 character review with each edition of the feature.

First up in '140 Views'...Drake's 'Take Care' album (in stores November 15).

Hit the jump for more reviews.

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First Review of Get Him To The Greek (Diddy Gets High Marks)

The first review of this summer's anticipated blockbuster Get Him To The Greek has appeared online. The review is spoiler free but does give some good insight into the hotly anticipated flick, including the reviewer saying the following about Diddy's role:

"The real story here is P. Diddy, who fucking owns this movie. He is playing a part he’s born to play, an a-hole record exec. The character just comes naturally. At first he’s just the cliché dick boss, screaming at his employees with as much stereotypical disdain as an 80’s action movie police captain, but when the journey leads everybody to Vegas at the end of the second act he just explodes as a comic dynamo. Never saw that coming, and it borderline blew my mind."

High marks also go to Jonah Hill in the film described as "The Hangover meets Almost Famous":

"Being the straight man to Russell Brand’s out-there eccentricity kind of lets Jonah Hill be very reminiscent of a young John Candy, a second coming I’ve long since been waiting for ever since Kevin James fell from grace by taking the rip-off Farley route."

The reviewer's general consensus is that the movie is great with lots of laughs but not phenomenal. Sounds good enough for me.

REVIEW: Ghostface Killah "Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry In Emerald City"

(Review by brokencool.com writer Maxine Ross)

Ghostface Killah is putting out an R&B album on September 29th. I know what you’re thinking because I was thinking it too. The first single featuring Raheem DeVaughn ‘Baby’ is a mixture of auto-tuned love crooning and Ghost’s signature loud rhythmic flow. Not particularly exciting, it doesn’t give the true thematic scheme of the album. It would be natural to expect a so called R&B album by a non R&B singer to be conceptually confusing. With "Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City" though, the Staten Island native has managed to maintain and even elevate his storytelling ability and abstract grit so loved on previous projects.

REVIEW: Jay-Z "Blueprint 3"

In some ways people have been waiting for Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" since the original "Blueprint" album. Yes, in between we had "Blueprint 2" but it was a bloated, double disc affair that lost much of the special qualities found on the original album. Can "Blueprint 3" regain the classic, soulful feel of the "Blueprint" album?

REVIEW: Eminem "Relapse"

Shady's back...tell a friend. Eminem releases "Relapse", his first album since '04's "Encore", on May 19th. The album is lead by the singles "Crack A Bottle", "We Made You", "3am" and "Beautiful." Here is broken cool's review.

"DR. WEST (SKIT)"

The album intro features a doctor who doesn't appear to have Em's best interests at heart as he encourages the soon to be discharged Eminem to continue to partake in his vices (drinking, drugs) only to have an alarm sound go off revealing the whole thing as a dream. It's definitely no "Public Service Announcement."

"3am"

One of the album's singles that definitely sounded better once its video dropped:

The song features Eminem at his storytelling best complete with twisted lyrics, murder and jerkin' off to Hannah Montana. Em's delivery on the song does grow tiresome on the ear but the hook is one of those that just lull you in after several listens. The background screams and door creaks really add to the movie esque feel of the song.

"MY MOM"

Dr. Dre's production on this, while strong, sounds very similar to "What's The Difference" from the "2001" album. I'm not complaining...just stating facts. The concept behind "My Mom" is basically Eminem blaming his drug addictions on his mom. To be perfectly honest, this track sounds more like something that Eminem should have been speaking to a therapist about rather than rapping about. And when Em impersonates his mom, it's nothing like the great voice he did on "Brain Damage." Interesting but not as humorous or clever as the shots he took at his mom on songs like "Kill You" and "Marshall Mathers."

Bitchassness Is Genetic; A Review

(Post by broken cool writer Maxine Ross...no Officer Ricky)

As we crossed over into Leimert Park it became clear this would not be a regular night in LA. The line to get into the MC thick Project Blowed was out the door and cats were squaded up 8-10 and sometimes more deep. An all female MC Song battle dubbed “The Female Perspective” hosted by the (Sis) Tem, a West Coast collective reminiscent of Wu-Tang, was a few minutes from going down.

The buzz in particular seemed to surround the Black Wall Street crew’s B-Fly, better acquainted as Los Angeles native The Game’s little sister who was entering the battle. Wearing a T-shirt brushed with the words “Thugs Need Hugs” burgundy hair streaks and two different rainbow dunks, one would imagine young B-Fly had swag to spare.

broken cool Takes The "Pulse Of The People"

(Event recap and photos by broken cool writer ShaBe)

dead prez & DJ Green Lantern "Pulse of the People" Listening Session @ Chung King Studio 4/28/09

On a hot, spring evening while the rest of NYC was cooling off, Chung King Studios was heating up during a listening session of dead prez's latest album, Pulse Of The People. The iconic SoHo studio was packed to capacity with industry tastemakers, journalists, and other artists who wanted first dibbs on the next RBG classic. As the crowd indulged in their fair share of Heinekens and Coronas provided by the hosts, the beats pulsated and heads nodded in approval of M1 and stic.man's "Turn Off The Radio Vol.3", which was produced almost exclusively by the Evil Genius himself, Team Invasion captain DJ Green Lantern. On hand at the invitation only event were the creators of the musical masterpiece, dead prez, Green Lantern and Team Invasion, and Rack Lo of the infamous Lo-Lifes crew. Johnny Polygon, a guest MC on the album, blessed the guests with copies of his new EP, Group Hug on Invasion Music.

Read more and see additional event pics after the jump.