In the week following the last-minute debt deal, the stock markets plummeted, giving many flashbacks to the dark days of the 2008 financial crash. The steep dive took place Thursday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 513 points, or 4.3%, which doesn’t sound like that much, but it’s a lot, a lot, a lot. In fact, it’s the biggest one-day percent drop in the past 2 years. The other averages that are used to measure the stock market, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, fell by 4.8% and 5.1% respectively that day. This obviously isn’t good news for our not-so-hot economy, as the stock market is used to predict what will happen financially in the future, and you can bet this will be THE (somewhat boring, but important) topic on the tongues of the Republican presidential candidates.

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I don’t know about you, but when Outkast released their double album Speakerboxx/The Love Below back in 2003, I was convinced it was the hottest album of the year. Everywhere I turned, I was hearing one of the tracks – and that was fine with me. I loved them then and I love them now. However, their release of Idlewild in 2006 left me a little upset. It was good, sure, but it wasn’t Outkast good. I listen to it now and then, but I still go back to Speakerboxx/The Love Below when I want some sophistifunk.

Keeping in mind that Outkast is probably one of my favorite groups of all time, imagine my excitement if I were to find a leak of what will hopefully be one of their new singles. Can you feel it? No? Well, let me make that a reality.

On Kanye West’s blog, I stumbled upon the first awesome leak of the year. “Royal Flush” is the name of the song, and it has our boys Big Boi, Andre 3000, and features Raekwon. I gave it a listen. And then another listen. And then another. I couldn’t find the lyrics anywhere, so I had to pay close attention…which is no problem for me, really. I turned up my poor beat up computer speakers and listened. Read More »