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I spoke with Benji's family this morning and I know a few people already received the news but we lost a really great last week. Benji Connell @_concreteclouds passed away last week of a previously undiagnosed heart condition. He was one of the great hallmark artists of our community and has many great collectors. Much of his work was on Known Origin (and a few on superare) as he mostly called KO his home. He found his footing there and the rest is history. Over the next few days, I am going to be posting my favorite works that he has done within my collection. Before KO closed down, he gifted me this work he made of himself (with a bear suit on) riding off into the sunset on his chopper with his bag of mints. I thought it would be fitting to post this one first. Love you Benji.

@Nore_MCC Everybody just googling producers so the can act like they genuinely know how to even identify what the protocol is for puttng together such a list.

Which hip hop producers are on the 2020s Mount Rushmore? (Alchemist is a non-negotiable)

.....crafty???? Any public defender should know that cops cant pull over anybody outside jurisdiction in most places for a traffic violaton. Only if they were in "hot pursuit" or if it is a felony tragic stop or warrant. He clearly pulled him over for a trafgic violation first and that violation was.outside jurisdiction. This isnt a hard call judge and he should know that.

Very Crafty defense attorney pulls a slick technicality that impressed the judge. ​The defense is arguing that a traffic stop outside an officer’s jurisdiction is inherently unlawful under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 14.03(d). The logic? If the officer doesn't have the authority, the stop shouldn't exist. All the other charges hinge on it the original stop was legal or not. ​Judge Fleischer calls it "crafty," but he’s not sold yet—he’s testing the defense by posing hypothetical scenarios to see if their argument holds up against serious public safety concerns. ​This is what legal nuance looks like in real-time. Do you think the jurisdiction argument stands, or does the judge have a point about the limits of that logic? It's an interesting conversation point in my opinion.

@Strangerous @Hitchslap1 It probably does to some extent

@Matteynice @Hitchslap1 Maybe the concept of someone thinking whether they should tell the truth or not shows a lot about their character.

Writing is the communication mode where people lie the least. Graph shows lies per social interaction across media types.

@Strangerous @Hitchslap1 When someone asks you a question in a video chat, you do not have long to think of an answer. When someone asks you a question over email, you have time to think if you want to lie, the degree of the lie, or you can choose not to lie.

@Hitchslap1 It's probably because writing is harder to erase than a verbal interaction.

@Just_1_James @GigglingGanon She drove all the way to the house. Imagine if somebody else did that? They would hold you at gunpoint when you do finally stop.

@GigglingGanon This is just another perfect example of rules for them and not for us. She should have been held at gunpoint thrown on the ground and taken to jail. That's what would have happened to any of us normal peasants. Just more cops doing what they want.

District Attorney has no problem telling officer that she is above the law because she will prosecute herself if he gives her a ticket. ​Webster Police Officer Cameron Crisafulli clocked a vehicle traveling 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. When he initiated his lights and sirens, the driver—Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley—refused to pull over. Instead, she led the officer on a low-speed pursuit for nearly a mile until she reached her own driveway. ​Once inside her garage, Doorley ignored commands to stay back, repeatedly called the officer an “asshole,” and told him to “get the f*** out of my house.” ​The most egregious moments involve her weaponizing her position: ​She informed the officer: "I am the DA of Monroe County... I’m the one that prosecutes [tickets], okay?" ​She called the Webster Police Chief on her cell phone during the stop, demanding he tell his officer to "stop f***ing following me." ​Despite the "stop" order, the blatant disrespect, and the refusal to comply with a lawful command, Doorley was not arrested that night. She was eventually censured by the New York State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct and retired shortly , but the damage to the public trust was already done. ​This footage is more than just a heated exchange; it is a glaring indictment of our two-tier justice system. ​Let’s be real: If any "regular" citizen led a police officer on a pursuit to their home, ignored orders to stay back, and verbally berated a cop while calling their boss to make the problem go away, they wouldn't have been handed a ticket and a "have a nice night." They would have been ripped from that garage, slammed against the hood of a cruiser, and hauled off to jail in handcuffs for fleeing, eluding, and obstruction. ​When the person who is supposed to represent the law decides they are above it, the entire system loses its legitimacy. Integrity shouldn't be a suggestion just because you have a badge or a title. Until the "powerful" are held to the same standard as the people they prosecute, we don’t have a justice system—we have a protection racket for the elite. Good job by this officer for trying to do his job.

@poorteffy Nice ragebait

In what world has a dub ever meant 1 gram

@NFTland As someone who spoke there I can tell you that the bar is not high.

nft nyc turning into a bot fest popularity contest is the bullshit we all deserved

@MissyElliott You cannot overstate the imporatance of Timberland and Pharell Williams when it comes to how hip hop music is produced, recorded and the sheer sonics of the mix. There wont ever be something of this magnitude changed within hip hop ever again.

This album CHANGED the GAME & the SOUND of MUSIC! The VISUALS are still like no other👽🔈🚀🔥🔥🔥🔥

I also think that we keep talking about "barriers to adoption". This isnt going to get any easier than buying on Verse or any place with a card. I do not believe that that these barriers exist. If people are interested, its pretty easy. If not, they usually figure it out by themselves or they have somebody to help. Nobody is saying " i woud love to get into digital art collecting but there are too many barriers to adoption so i am not going to take the leap today". We have convinced ourselves that the reason why there isnt more organic adoption is because there are "too many barriers".

Tell me you’ve never bought on Verse without telling me you’ve never bought on Verse

@BillDA @JamesonCamp Its only getting more expensive actually

@JamesonCamp Zero percent chance Harvard/Stanford/Wharton/MIT are dropping tuition by one dime

Only a matter of time…Credentialism from legacy institutions is dead

@livinprooof @chribdotnet Yeah they fucked it up but they didnt know any better.

@chribdotnet Nigga u mean nut ass yb?? You’re scatted😭😭😭😭

“nut ass freakboul” is the funniest philly shit in the world

@championswimmer Tuition is up 3 percent since 2022 at Wharton. This is a lie.

MBA is finally dying after 10 years of influencers saying it is already dead.

@Polymarket What business schools?! Wharton tuition has actually risen 4 percent since 2022. Its like 90,000 a year for tuition alone, up from 82,000 in 2022. Include living expenses and books it can be 120,000 a year. The only ones that are cheaper are ones that never mattered.

JUST IN: Business schools are slashing MBA tuition by as much as 50% due to falling demand.

Exactly my point. You realize that they never intended for those early songs to be pop records. MTV and VH1 would constantly have their songs in top 10 songs because they were so hot, not because they were pop records. These were the prodicers who transcended hip hop. Pharrell and Timbo both said they never sat down before the songs and said "yeah lets make a pop sounding record". They were just creating beats without samples and at a time when the synthesizer was getting big.

@Matteynice @KlNGDOMlNUS Again, both are on my top producers of all time but majority of their hit records are mainstream pop songs.

Which producer(s) sound has had the biggest impact on Hip Hop?🎛️🎚️

@ArtOfMusic_ He saw the meta glasses and probably thought it was an undercover ATF officer doing the secret shopper nonsense. When meta glasses guy started trippin, it probably only solidified his idea that he was indeed an undercover atf officer.

Meta Glasses for the W

@metaDJZOii @KlNGDOMlNUS Why? Because their sound transcended hip hop, you label them as......(clears throat) alt hip hop? Genuinely trying to understand why you label as such. Is it because they didnt use samples in their production?

@Matteynice @KlNGDOMlNUS Pharrell is one my favorite producers of all time but he’s more alternative hiphop, Timbo too

@AlmineRech, @HauserWirth as well as Marian Goodmen all legacy galleres debuting work at Zero10 in Basel. It also looks like they will be exhibiting non web3 native artists (to be expected.) Hopefully their draw will help expand into a newer collector base that cannot be reached by our beloved native web3 galleries.

@thobbsjourno events that unfolded in late 80s and early 90s that led hair metal to grunge unfolded in a totally different environment at a totally differet point in the technology and human arc in history.

i remember writing about this being the case nearly ten years ago. you gotta let theory go, bro

@metaDJZOii @KlNGDOMlNUS x.com/i/status/20541…

@Matteynice @KlNGDOMlNUS Missing a few big names but name them

There are only two names in hip hop production that were able to transcend hip hop in an extremely large way through their production styles. Timbo and Pharell.