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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Real Talk Tuesdays: NCAA Championship

I love college basketball. It's one of my biggest passions. About this time each year I have what I refer to as the "College Basketball Hangover". The season is done. A champion has been crowned. Only this year's game has me thinking that the fix is in.

In the closing minutes of a very tight game, a plethora of calls (or no-calls) went Duke's way. Basically insuring the win. And almost every single incident involved Duke's Justise Winslow. It's like the refs were getting kick-backs to boost his draft stock. 

Here are some of the more outrageous plays in question. Disgusting. Good game, Wisconsin. 

 

Don't like this call. How do you defense this otherwise? Would have been Winslows 4th

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Real Talk Tuesdays: Hello Larry

My buddy (and DC comics writer), Tony Bedard just played the theme song from Hello, Larry for me this morning. I totally missed this show but real talk? I would also totally watch it. It's basically Fraiser before Fraiser.  And it has Meadowlark Lemon in it for chrissake!

 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Earl Sweatshirt

I really dug Earl's debut, Doris. His sophomore effort, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside is streaming now on Spotify. So heady. So cool. Dig it.

Real Talk Tuesdays: LEGO Back to the Future

Real talk? I would watch the shit out of this. 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Stupid rules

Folks. If you have a rule (or a law) that is severly underwritten and/or outdated - don't be afraid to call for change. Some of these are downright silly (did you know that in Winona Lake, Wisconsin it's illegal to eat ice cream at a counter on Sundays?). This week in California, Harbor City Narbonne high school girls basketball team was ousted from their state tournament for wearing pink-infused uniforms in support of breast cancer awareness. The powers that be stated "Uniform colors may only be a combination of the official school colors". What a crock of shit. Read the whole story here. Let's do better, humans.