I missed Flashback Friday, so lets make this Flashback Friday Saturday (work with me here, people). It’s almost ’08 but I’m still chillin’ like Souls of Mischief back in ’93 til.

Stays in Vegas Will end up on the internet. I didn’t drop any posts on The Block yesterday, after over 12 hours of canceled flights, rebookings, layovers and a five hour flight, I’m in the Sin City for New Year’s. We almost didn’t make it but me and the Ozone crew finally touched down in Las Vegas last night. Ozone is presenting four parties in Vegas this weekend to kickoff the grand opening of Spin nightclub and last night Yung Joc jumped things off.

My dude Thaddeus came through and you can peep photos from Joc’s show on exclusiveaccess.net here. If you notice any pics of your boy R.E. looking unroyally, cut me some slack. First, my barber wasn’t around before I left ATL to get my weekly fresh cut. Then, Delta airlines still has our luggage only God knows where, so I was stuck wearing a random “flight outfit” to the club (one that I’m still wearing right now. Where the fux is my bag, Delta!). And then, since there’s a three hour time difference from ATL to Vegas, it may have only been 3 a.m. in the club here last night but back home it was 6 a.m., so I was tired as hell. But then again, I might have been looking crazy, but bitch, I’m in Vegas.

Anyways, I’ll try to recap my Vegas nights as much as possible while I’m here, but if for any reason I can’t update The Block, Happy New Year’s to all my Block readers and I’ll catch ya’ll nuccas in ’08.

Random Weezy video…yeah, very random.

Bonus Track: Wale ft. Lil Wayne – Nike Boots (Remix)

We can’t bring in ’08 without a 2007 Rap Up from Skillz…we just can’t.

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Below, behind the scenes footage from the “2007 Rap Up” video shoot.

(Shouts out to eskay, who I pretty much swagger jacked this post from and hit up Riz for the 2002-2007 Rap Ups).

I think it’s the time of the year to crank those end of the year awards, and I’m going to start by listing my fav rap albums. I’m gonna go ahead and crown Graduation as the best album of the year. You can disagree if you want but it’s my favorite and you can catch the rest of my Top 10 after the jump.

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I have to tip my Santa hat to David Banner. While most of you bum azz rappers waste money making it rain for dirty azz strippers, Banner (and JB), spent his Christmas passing out toys and money to families in Jackson, MS. For all successful rappers that didn’t give back to the community in any shape, form or fashion this holiday season, I hope your next album goes double wood. Matter of fact, kill yo self.

Bonus Video: Merry Christmas From T.I.

We interrupt your Christmas morning to announce that yesterday Jay-Z stepped down from his position as President of Def Jam Records. (Full story here).

Now back to opening gifts, making Xmas dinner, watching A Christmas Story, sending annoying azz “Merry Xmas” text messages or whatever the fux you were doing this Christmas.

I fuxs wit’ this joint.

Even though YN is the boss at the Evil Empire, I have to tip my hat to the dude. Over the weekend, he dropped 24 posts in 24 hours (well, actually he threw in one more for the hell of it, so he went 25 for 25). I can’t front, that’s some dope shit. So if for some odd reason you can’t find anything else better to do for over the next few days, YN’s drops are entertaining.

Elliot Wilson’s 24 in 24.

A miraculous thing happened when I touched down at my parents house in the Chuck yesterday. After 10 years of dial up, my peeps have finally, finally made the switch to high speed internet (sweeeet). As my longtime Block readers know, anytime I make a trip to the hometown I’m pretty much ghost to the net. Trying to blog using a dial up connection is like trying to smash a chick with a limp dick, (believe me, I’ve tried both…it’s damn near impossible).

I spent all morning hooking up my parents DSL modem, wireless router and installing the security features, so now I’m ready to go. Hell, maybe I’ll start coming home more often now.

I haven’t logged on to The Block in a few days, so I have a little catching up to do. Shit, YN just dropped 24 posts in 24 hours, I have my work cutout.

So, here’s a wack azz video from Rick Ross. I never had to flip a key, so I really can’t relate to slacks in a cereal box or an uncle that’s still selling dope at 65 (that’s sad).

And on a side note, all of Rick Ross’ singles have pretty much sucked azz, so I’m guessing his Trilla album will brick hard.