Freaky Franz aka Franz Lyons is a funny dude. The Columbus skateboarder will disappear for about a month. Then someone will slide you a fashion mag, and he will be modeling. Or you will catch wind he is on tour with Trapped Under Ice. Or He will just appear in a MIA/RYE RYE video.

Anyway, he currently has a local hit poppin’ with his song about getting that mail, Karl Malone.

I caught up with Franz just to soak in a little bit of the game.

How do you feel about these lames handcuffin?

I can’t call it man. I don’t mind it . But don’t cuff a girl who is supposd to be out here gettin it in. Then your just being a ball hog. Hit me on twitter i’ll set them straight @FREAKYFRANZ
If you are Karl Malone then who is John Stockon?

I would say my best friend and dj Cj b.k.a. Cornelieus Jackson (@cjtownsend88)

Do you really play with Utah Jazz on NBA Jam?

Na I’m a cavs fan BROWE but i mean I’m the mail man in real life

How did you end up in that MIA/Rye Rye “Sunshine” video?

It was the last few days of a new york trip and my friend AL hit me up and was there and said they wanted another black skateboarder and so we both went and Mia and Rye Rye thought we were cool so we all just hung out all day.

Where are you from in Columbus?

I’m from the HILLTOP. then I moved to the north side. Now I’m in the Short North

How do you have women in Norway if you are from there?

I mean swag recognize swag a language barrier couldn’t hold me

I heard you also be modeling on your own?

Ya, I was in some Converse commercials . And an extra in Law and Order SVU.

The fuck is up with converse?

They put me on and cut that check.

Some people front on Karl Malone? Why is that?

Cause they don’t know how to pass the ball and ride out for the team. They just wanna score

There are a lot of poor people out there? What are the top 5 ways of getting mail?

Of getting mail?

1.) Be a bad lookin bitch
2.) have guap
3.) Be FREAKY FRANZ
4.) play madden
5.) play NBA JAM

You get to skateboard on tour? What spots have you hit?

in 2010 i went to 32 states and 7 plus countries

What city has the ugliest women?

Butte, Montana

Who has the least swag in skateboarding?

LONG BOARDERS

I follow you on twitter. What is up with fightin?

Well I don’t know.  I don’t know how to keep my mouth shut sometimes.

Would you ever wear a shirt that says “I treat bitches right?”

OF COURSE

Whats next for Freaky Franz?

GET MORE FOLLOWERS @FREAKYFRANZ MAKE SOME MONEY AND PUT OUT THE “FREAKY TALES” &  “TOUR DE FRANZ” MIXTAPES

Here is a new song by Rye Rye featuring MIA. It is very likable. But mainly I’m posting it because Lil Franz from Columbus has a cameo.

While sitting around watching a movie about vagina dentata, I was told that M.I.A. played this video as the intro to her Columbus performance. I guess the video is of radical Kouichi Toyama who ran for a  Japanese Governor  position under the platform of overthrowing and completely destroying his country’s government. He finished 8th out of 14 candidates.

Allegedly after this rabble-rousing clip finished, M.I.A. took the stage performing “Bamboo Banger”.

Also, Detox has contacted me about making my remix concept a reality.

Well. I was at a Wedding in Cincy all weekend. Bro’s before the Year’s Most Crucial Show.. So I missed out. From the text messages and phone calls I received I have gathered this much:

1. Although Soulja Boy is a household name because of “Crank Dat’, he was the opener. And people didn’t really give a shit either way that he performed.

2. MIA’s show was so live that at least 3 members of IGLU and 1 PBJ member got kicked out, and snuck back in at least 4 times for crowd surfing, underage drinking and god knows what else. From everything I gathered MIA was demanding security to let people dance with her on stage. I guess greater 270 turned the Newport into a huge dance riot similar to Get Right.

I am sure this is most photographed for myspace/facebook event in Columbus History. I got these photos from the homie Steve Lieb’s Blog, We Got More Bounce in Columbus.

3. Changed my mind about MIA not being attractive.

4. I also think there should be a remix of “Paper Planes” where I make various weapons noises with my mouth to replace the gunshots. Like the first part would have me making punch sounds maybe I would say “arugam” from Street Fighter first. Then the second part I would make machine gun noises. Eventually I would lead up to making bomb explosion noises.

What? Like I said I missed the show.

Rap music is great because it hypnotizes you and convinces you that caring about anything but making money is a sign of mental illness. And I thank rap music for this, normally. But El-P’s album reminded me the reality is that we are still paying “30 Percent a Year to Fund the World’s End”. And the everday conversation with many of youse may be worse than the government’s intentions. El touches on that as well.

Video:El-P performing TPC and Smithereens at Little Brothers in Columbus

2. MIA, Kala (XL/Interscope)

M.I.A.’s record is kinda like a futuristic Robin Hood if Robin Hood was a female that made music that people will dance to in Third World Countries 50 Years from now after the American dollar becomes more worthless than a Congolese franc. I also want to be the first to point out that MIA is not physically attractive. I’d hump a terrorists daughter on GP, but she still is pretty average looking.

LINK:Value of Dollar Dropping

3. Times New Viking Presents The Paisley Reich (Stiltbreeze)

I have a friend that paints graffiti a lot and works a really shitty job. He is really nice and only listens to Lil Wayne and Nirvana because they sing romantically about despair, love,drugs, and death. Lil Wayne is a lot funnier than Nirvana as is TNV. My 2008 resolution is to get him into TNV.

Video:Some Guy in Canada named “DipsetMuthafucka” Dancing to TNV’s Little Amps.

4. Wu-Tang Clan, The Eight Diagrams

Most of all the other Hip Hoppers were out here trying and failing at trying to figure out the formula to sell records, ring tones, and themselves. Wu remembered that they are the sole controllers of their universe, and it is their duty as poor righteous teachers to civilize the uncivilized in the Wilderness of North America. So they made a Wu-Tang album that sounded like a good Wu-Tang album. Can a devil fool a Muslim?

Hypem:Wu-Tang Clan-Campfire

5. Lil Wayne, The Drought

Lil Wayne boasted in Fader that he does nothing all day but take xtc, and receive oral sex while constantly recording. The result of drug use, work ethic, and an inability to keep his music from being uploaded meant we got to experience exactly what was going on in Wayne’s brain at all times.

HYPEM:Lil Wayne-Dipset

6. Cam’ron, Public Enemy Number 1

You know that game where you say: what if I was alone in the bathroom with a douchebag CEO of a Major Corperations?Would I take his head and slam into a urinal? Well Cam got in earshot of both Jay-z and 50 Cent and made fun of how they dress and said that only DIY rap bosses are cool. Cam got himself blackballed. So what did he do? He record two discs worth of good music and gave it away for free on the internets and out of his friends automobile. Punk.

MP3:Cam’ron-The Cycle is Sick

7. Lupe Fiasco, The Cool (1&15th/Atlantic)

Lupe’s album is pretty great despite of not having heard Midnight Marauders. The so-called Islamic jihadist has the ability to jump around from double-time Twistaesque joints to artsy defiant manifestos to poignant tacks that humanize crappy myspace rappers who front on how many clicks they get on their page cause he knows they aren’t the enemy. They are just trying live. Lupe takes a route that rejects what he probably views as American Colonialist activity without demonizing the lumpen proletariat. So while backpackers argued about how their culture is being disrespected, Lupe made a really moody, conceptual album that revealed him as a talented story teller.

Video:Lupe explaining Paris,Tokyo for a Radio Station.

8. Justice, +(Ed Banger/Vice)

I hate techno and ravers. So this album must be really good.

Video:Justice Live on Jimmy Kimmel

9. Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)

True True. Worst record. Still real good. Anyone who sees the correlation of sipping on lean, hitting up the Magic City boob hut and garage rock n roll makes more sense to me then trying to reinvent the Munsters over and over again. Betty Page has a fat ass but thats where it stops.

Video:Black Lips Performing Bad Kids

10. R.Kelly, Double Up (Jive)

The difference between Micheal Jackson and R.Kelly is that R. Kelly is a creep that likes 14 year-old black girls, and Micheal Jackson is a creep that like 6 year old white boys. Who do you think has a more relevant taste in music?

Video-R.Kelly:Real Talk

11.Kayne West, Graduation (Roc-a-Fella)

Kanye’s worst album but still pretty great. This made him to the most important man in music right now.

Video:Kanye West addresses Gay Rumors

12. Little Brother, Get Back (ABB Records)

Jay-z abandoned grown-folks music in order to sell heroin while missing the point of American Gangster because his publicist told him white bloggers in all-over print shirts and fitted hats would think he is cool if he rapped about selling drugs again. Little Brother showed you can make music for grown people if you are funny and and still like making music. It’s true you can go to the club, and not get laid or kill people. Ooh Ooh real school Hip Hoppers please stop defending Jay-z and 50 like it was Betty Shabazz’s last wish as an extra feature on Style Wars and support a group that got dropped from a major for actually being about something. I mean these guys said, hey we don’t like how black people are portrayed in the media. Got dropped. Kept it moving independently.

Video:Producer Khrysis on the Making of Little Brothers “After the Party”

13. Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane didn’t make any albums of the year. However my favorite song this year was “Pillz” cause it was about being fucked up and having some annoying broad disrupt your happy stupor. This song isn’t even from 07, but I spent the time I shoulda been listening to Panda Bear, Wilco,Battles,Radiohead, and Animal Collective bumping Gucci Mane.

Video:Karoake Video for Pillz

14. Walter Rocktight, School of Rocktight

Columbus Hip Hop is at the lowest point since, iono, Da Mad Clown couldn’t stop selling yayo in 1993. Fronting is at a whole new high, and most people aren’t really labbing or creating their own identities. They think myspace and mixtapes are enough. Fuck branding, btw. At Least Rocktight put this cd out so we get to hear Jakki,Copywrite,Illogic, Spitball over topnotch bangers made by a much slept on producer. If you like Dre,Timbaland and Primo then you will prolly should check for Rocktight. Obviously I just listed the greatest beatmakers in hip hop history, but hyperbole is warranted when you think attention is deserved. Especially when hip hop in Columbus is pretty terrible.

Preview the Album on CD Baby(Please say the baby)

15. Budos Band, II (Daptone)

I am pretty anti-funk and soul but this shit is textured and variegated enough to keep me interested.

Video:Budos Band at Ravari Room

Here is the real video:

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Here is an excerpt of what she wrote yesterday on her MySpace blog:

SO THEY TRIED TO SHUT ME DOWN AGAIN. I MADE THE PAPER PLANES VIDEO. I MADE IT HOW THEY WANTED. NO VIOLENCE. AMBIGUOUS. MTV – FRIENDLY. NOW TODAY, I CHECK YOUTUBE AND SEE THE LEAKED MTV PAPER PLANES VIDEO UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. I CLICKED ON IT AND OUT COMES THIS FUCKED UP MESS WITH DOUBLE-TRACKED BULLSHIT MESS

WHO THE THE FUCK IS DOING THIS TO ME?????

THE VIDEO WAS SABOTAGED FOR WHATEVER REASON AND IM DISAPPOINTED THAT MTV HAS HAD SUCH A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS. THE BLOGGERS WHO ARE LAZY ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THE MTV LINK AND POST UP AND COMMENT ON THE SOUND WHEN THAT HASNT BEEN COMPROMISED AND THE GUNSHOT ARENT REPLACED AND EDITED MAKES ME SAD. I DID FIGHT FOR THE SOUND , BECAUSE PUTTING MEANINGS IN YOUR VIDEOS, IN MY OPINION IS A DYING ART. I CAN FILM MY SELF ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND LET YOU KNOW THE TRUTH , BUT THE SONG IS WHAT I WANTED TO PRESERVE IN THIS CASE.

TO ALL MY FANS, LOOK, ITS LIKE THIS,
IM LEARNING THINGS ABOUT THIS WORLD WITH YOU, I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME , I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WILL SIT AND SPEND ALL SUNDAY TEARIN ME DOWN FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN MAKE OR PUT OUT, SO PEOPLE WELCOME TO MODERN DAY PROPAGANDA MESSAGE MANGLING.

IN 2007, AN OUTSIDER OPINION WILL BE CONFRONTED THIS WAY , AND THIS IS HOW THE BATTLE GOES, MY MESSAGES AND IDEAS AND MEANING WILL ALWAYS BE BROUGHT TO YOU WITH SLIGHTLY TAINTED CHANNELS. IF YOU SUPPORT ME BE SMART, AND KNOW THAT.