The Cool Kids are to hip-hop what Wilco is to rock: different, better, smarter. They’re superindie, having gone from dropping beats on myspace to build their hardcore fanbase to now starting to cross over into sorta mainstream radio and video play (in fact, I just heard this track on kexp.org, right beofre Moby stopped in for a guest DJ set). The Cool Kids get heads nodding with the backpack crowd with a sound as rooted in old school as modern hippity-hoppity, but some of their subject matter is supernerdy; witness the shoutouts in the above song “A Little Bit Cooler” to Star Wars belts and eating Fruity Pebbles (mmm… purple milk…) . More importantly, there’s an awesome homage to Street Fighter at the tail end of the track. Jump 1:32 in to hear the duo rap about playing SF on a Sega Genesis, closing with a sweet beatbox imitation of SF sounds. Street Fighter, Street Fighter!
Whew! It’s a veritable tsunami of Capcom info here on the blog today. Just turned up a Newsarama interview with UDON’s Project Manager Jim Zubkavich about all the killer Capcom-related books they’re prepping for the summer and beyond. Jim talks about their work on the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project, new SF comics and the supercool upcoming Street Fighter Tribute book.
I was complaining to Seth this morning that I was suffering from a “techno headache,” resulting from cranking the new full-length from an up-’n-coming UK band Hadouken! (name with exclamation mark) at skull-crushing levels in my car. If you like your music electronic, dance-y and filled with stupendously-sized Prodigy-esque beats, give ‘em a spin. Any band named after a Street Fighter move can’t be all bad, right? Now we need a Norweigeian death metal band called “Raging Demon.”
Bay-Area Dhalsim, spotted amongst the other drunks, tweakers, and swarthy cosplayers at this year’s Bay-to-Breakers “race.”
For non-San Francisco locals, while Bay-to-Breakers is technically considered a 12k “fun run,” it’s more generally viewed as an excuse to dress up, ride a float, and puke on someone else’s lawn. Now that I think of it, that’s kind of what San Francisco tends to do with pretty much all its public events (because things are more awesome that way, duh).
Update: Rey J spotted a few of Dhalsim’s friends in the race as well. Click here (at your own risk) to see a past-his-prime Sagat with some kind of skin condition, and a motley cast of Ryu, Chun, and Blanka in the background.
In the latest issue of Edge, the UK’s highbrow games mag, the creative director of the next Prince of Persia game name checks Street Fighter IV as a reference point for their design. Ubisoft Montreal’s Jean-Christophe Guyot told Edge:
“In terms of style, we know we’re on the right track when you consider something like the new Street Fighter.”
Additionally, Edge reveals that art influences on the new PoP include the aforementioned SFIV, Princess Mononoke, first-person running/hopping/climbing game Mirror’s Edge and everyone’s favorite lupine painter, Okami. Not bad company, really. For the record, we’re looking forward to playing the next Prince of Persia game!
I think it’s unfair that Kotaku has people sending them tips for cool news, but we don’t. That’s how they can have awesomely cool posts such as the following Street Fighter music mash-up video.
Created by Hyadain, it’s an awesome Street Fighter theme song remixed with tons of actual Street Fighter sound effects. Actually, I don’t know if it’s a theme song, because it’s mostly in Japanese, but they do say “Street Fighter” a lot in the lyrics. In any other circumstance, this would be horrible tacky and bad, but as always is the case with things like this, it’s another case of it’s-so-bad-it’s-awesome!
It is time to think about Deion Sanders again. “Straight To My Feet” brings you a train-wreck collision of 1994’s most quickly fading b-listers with the cast (can’t properly call them “stars”) of Street Fighter: The Movie.
The concept: take the performers, then sort of randomly mash them in with the actors. Also we’ll have have surprising cuts to unrelated scenes from the movie. You know, to tie it in. Rather than be clever, we’ll just throw them all into a night club. The night club has really bad bouncers that somehow didn’t catch the giant set of knives sticking off Vega’s hand when they patted him down. Also the night club has a sumo ring.
Hm. Now I feel like I kind of want to go to this club, which is in my face since I started out intending to make fun of it.
Whew! It’s a veritable tsunami of Capcom info here on the blog today. Just turned up a 
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