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"It started off as a very personal mission, as an ego trip — or perhaps an alter ego trip," he said.

"And a little bit of an ego trip," he added.

But casually shrugging off death itself is also the ultimate ego-trip, isn't it?

A joint foreign policy challenge with a close ally became an ego trip for the president.

Don't get caught up in the ego trip of how many days or years you have.

I don't think a man could've done this movie, if only because men ego-trip each other.

We filmed an amusing scene which has been described as an ego trip and a victory parade.

That doesn't mean digital advertisers, including Facebook and Google, didn't also profit from Bloomberg's expensive ego trip.

It all began as a game, turned into an ego trip and ended in a strange apotheosis.

Mr. Bruce turns the Lone Ranger into just another neurotic performer, one ego trip away from losing his work.

I was surprised and delighted by clues for TAP SHOES, EGO TRIP and THE CONGA, to name a few.

Otherwise, it's just a rich guy's ego trip (which it is, of course, but you're supposed to hide it better).

The latest batch of emails released by the State Department uncovers a massive ego trip by the former secretary of State.

Apart from the questionable propriety of collecting money to get a building named after yourself, what is wrong with this ego trip?

To all of them he was just a political novice and opportunist looking for a political party; his desire for office was an ego trip.

"My sense is this is more of an ego trip for him than a serious candidacy," said Patrick Hickey, a West Virginia University political science professor.

Having done with panache its ego trip last month (a 25 basis point rate hike), the Fed is now being reassured by quiescent inflation expectations and a flattening yield curve.

If he joined the primary, he could at least spend the next several months engaged with the central story of America, not looking like a rich guy on an ego trip.

That's been a process to this day and it'll be to the end, because I don't want my gym to be so full of MMA enthusiasts that there's that ego-trip thing.

Yes. [Laughs] He didn't really like it, and I was going through this real ego trip, this rock star hubris at the time, and I remember freaking out because he didn't like it.

Given that the predicament of a memoir is always how to talk only about your own life without seeming to be interested only in yourself, this idea of making an ego trip into an homage was inspired.

Highly productive, they quickly imposed their own style: simple yet elaborate writing, a little bit of ego trip, and never-ending stories about the gloomy everyday lives of drug dealers who have no perspective of a better future.

"This sounds so stupid — and trust me, I'm not on an ego trip when I say this — but because I was in physical good condition, my abdomen was tight and when I started bleeding internally, my stomach didn't expand," Murray said.

It's perhaps easier than it ever has been to imagine the US presidency as a one-man ego trip leaving wanton destruction in its wake, so it's to Metal Wolf Chaos' credit that it still manages to make that concept seem faintly ridiculous.

In a new interview with Billboard, the 29-year-old British singer-songwriter revealed that he first decided he needed to seek treatment after accidentally going on a benzodiazepine-based ego trip in front of his bandmates, whom he has known since high school.

"There are a lot of presidential libraries and I think there is a tendency to think of this as a monument to the past, to think of it as something that is backwards-looking … And … a little bit of an ego trip," he said.

WM: I can't tell whether the taking away of the phones lets Dave Chappelle feel free to practice the kind of comedy that he wants to practice, or whether it is some sort of ego trip to take away the phones in order for us to...he would say, focus on what he's actually doing.

I mean, I don't want this to be read only as a work and so on, because it also can be seen as too big of an ego trip, but I think it would be a lie to say, 'No, I was taking our curating head-on, and I studied art history on the side, and then I had very different ideas about art.

The staff have written and produced three television shows for the cable network, including "TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by Ego Trip," the three-part "Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama!", Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show, and Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme. 'Ego Trip' is currently authoring a book on the history of white rappers.

Wilson has been writing and talking about hip hop and rap music since 1992, when he became music editor for Beat Down magazine. He is the co-author of two critically acclaimed books, "Book of Rap Lists" and "Big Book of Racism!". Both books were created in the spirit of the short-lived magazine Ego trip. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named the ego trip collective one of the "25 Funniest People in America".

Party Time featured a fusion of rap and go-go. Ego Trip included the hits: "8 Million Stories", "AJ Scratch", and "Basketball". His 1985 album, America, garnered praise for its title track's music video.

Techtite thought the game had the core design of Myst, but with all the enjoyment stripped away. Four Fat Chicks felt that the game was an ego trip comparable to that of Queensryche's Promised Land.

Likewise, the fourth core member, Gabriel Alvarez, was formerly an editor at the Los Angeles-based Rap Pages until Ego Trip recruited him, eventually making him managing editor. The last core member was designer Brent Rollins who joined the magazine in their third year and took over as art director. Ego Trip covered a range of so-called "underground" scenes, including skateboarders and punk/indie rockers before those scenes became as commonplace as they are today. However, it was most identified as a hip hop magazine.

Mileson was not universally popular with Scottish football. St Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown described Mileson's ownership of Gretna as an "ego trip", which had experienced a "day of reckoning" when the club went out of business.

Initially, Mahalakshmi struggles to adapt herself to the college but slowly with the help of Balu, she becomes the topper. Now, there erupts a war-of-words between the love as both are on an ego trip.

Ego Trip is the fifth album by rapper Kurtis Blow, released in 1984 on Mercury Records. The only charting singles were "8 Million Stories," which peaked at 45 on the Hot Black Singles chart, and "Basketball," which peaked at 71 on the Hot 100.

It was his last Dexter's Laboratory production to be involved with and was intended to be its conclusion. Ego Trip was hand-animated, though character and setting designs were subtly revised. Its plot follows Dexter on a quest through time to discover his future triumphs.

"That would be too much of an ego trip."Hathaway Stars at Surprise Party: Incomplete Source Jacobs, Jody. Los Angeles Times 15 Mar 1978: oc_c3. His then wife Sherry Boucher played a small role and Bocher's sister Savannah was cast as Peppard's love interest.

"Basketball" is a song that was written by William Waring, Robert Ford, Kurtis Blow, J. B. Moore, Jimmy Bralower, and Full Force and recorded by Kurtis Blow released in 1984 from his album Ego Trip. The video game NBA 2K12 used the song during the introduction.

On December 30, 2010, a snippet of the O'Day and Fimbres' collaboration, "Ego Trip", was leaked on the Internet, but the track was never finished. On March 11, 2011, Fimbres made an appearance on O'Day's reality show, All About Aubrey, where they recorded a song titled "Ego Trip" for O'Day's solo album to be released in 2011, although their single was never released. In the episode, according to O'Day, Fimbres drops out of a show she would do with O'Day, telling O'Day that she did not want to be in the business anymore. In 2015, Fimbres appeared on her former band member Dawn Richard's third studio album Blackheart on a song entitled "Phoenix".

Dexter's Laboratory broadcast 78 half-hour episodes over 4 seasons during its 7-year run. Four pilot shorts were produced for What a Cartoon! that aired from 1995 to 1996, and were reconnected into season one in later airings. Fifty-two episodes were produced from 1996 to 1998, followed by Ego Trip in 1999.

On my album cover, you see me with the afro, that was kind of inspired by Michael Jackson – the little kid picture.” Since its release, the cover art of Illmatic has also gained an iconic reputation -- having been subject to numerous parodies and tributes.19 Tributes & Parodies of Nas' Illmatic Album Cover. Ego Trip. Retrieved on May 21, 2013.

John Lanchester, for The Observer magazine supplement Life in 2003, described the book as "gastroporn". Sue Gaisford, reviewing the book for The Independent, described it as a "Marco Pierre White fanzine-with-recipes" and an "ego-trip". In 2005 food critic Jay Rayner called White Heat "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years".

Sheldon Pearce of Pitchfork regarded the song as "an enjoyable ego trip full of empty-calorie raps, reliant entirely on the premise that you are as enthralled by these three artists as they are with themselves". He noted "Pi'erre's superb ear- bending production" as "the song's best feature", writing that "Scott is largely forgettable" due to his "toneless, flat, and unchanging" hums.

In 1999, Ego Trip ranked Wu-Tang Forever number three on their Hip Hop's 25 Greatest Albums by Year 1980–98 list. In their March 2005 issue, Hip Hop Connection ranked the album number 57 on their 100 Greatest Rap Albums 1995–2005 list. Also in 2005, Blow Up magazine from Italy included Wu-Tang Forever in their 600 Essential Albums list.

I could have called it 'having our baby', but the other just sounded better. It's not a male ego trip—my baby." Anka did sometimes sing the line as "you're having our baby" while performing in concert. While reviewing a 2005 concert, Dan MacIntosh of PopMatters noted that while Anka had "covered most of his career highlights", he had "wisely neglected to include 'You're Having My Baby.

But Shibdas is determined to win even if one or two of the team drop out at the last minute. They don't. Two British citizens prove that they too, are human. One of them is the match referee Puller who refuses to bend under pressure by the powers- that-be to treat the match as a ‘must-win-or-else’ ego trip against native Indians.

Alma Zohar () (born June 6, 1977) is an Israeli musician and singer. At age 25, after divorcing her husband, Zohar decided to seriously pursue her childhood dreams and become a singer. She initially worked with a reggae band which recorded in English, but abandoned the project. She experienced success soon afterwards with the release of two songs, "With Your Back" ("Im Hagav") and "Ego Trip".

He joined forces with Vigo while engaging in a two-on- one feud with then IYFW Tag Team Champions The International Ego Trip (The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy). Vachon defeated both Roddy and The Northern Studd in singles matches at IYFW's "Hanging By A Thread" (February 6) and Unsportsmanlike Conduct! (March 20) respectively before challenging the two men to a title match at the next show.

Ego Trip's The Big Playback is a 2000 compilation album released by the American record label Rawkus Records on April 11, 2000. The album was released with the collaboration of the writers for Ego Trip magazine and made as a companion piece for Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. The album consists of rare and obscure tracks by hip hop artists and groups made between 1983 and 1989.

After closing the magazine, the Ego Trip team (Jenkins, Wilson, Mao, Alvarez and Rollins) continued on to a series of multimedia projects, such as the old-school rap music compilation The Big Playback (Rawkus Records, 2000), inspired by their first book, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (St. Martin's Press, 1999). Their second book Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism! (Regan Books, 2002) spawned a relationship with the VH1 cable network.

Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show is an American reality television series created by Ego Trip magazine that first aired on VH1. In the show, ten white rappers compete with each other for the chance at a $100,000 grand prize. The show is based in the South Bronx, with MC Serch (from the group 3rd Bass) serving as the host. At the end of each show, one rapper was eliminated.

The Stimulus Package is a collaborative studio album by Philadelphia rapper Freeway and Seattle producer Jake One. It was released on Minneapolis indie hip hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment on February 16, 2010. The album included 2 singles, "Know What I Mean" and "She Makes Me Feel Alright", both of which have had videos made for them. The package was designed by Brent Rollins of the ego trip collective.

Ego Trip is the fourth studio album by Bosnian alternative rock band Sikter. It was released on 2 June 2009 by one of the biggest music labels in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hayat Production. Recording of the album began in 2006 and lasted until 2009 at MML Studio in Sarajevo. Producers of album were front-man of the band Enes Zlatar and the drummer of Bosnian band Letu Štuke, Đani Pervan.

" Pascale concludes with saying that The Captains "is still a must-watch for any Trekkie. You will learn, you will laugh, and you may even cry watching The Captains. Sure there is an element of being an ego-trip for the director, but what else would you expect from The Shatner. It is still a delight to spend almost two hours with these six outstanding actors who have entertained us for decades.

He also co-created Hip-Hop Soul. In 2004, Wilson co-executive produced VH1’s TV’s Illest Minority Moments: Presented by ego trip. In 2005 Wilson co-executive produced three specials for VH1, under the Ego trip’s "Race-O-Rama: Blackaphobia, In Race We Lust, and Dude Where’s My Ghetto Pass?". In January 2007, VH1 debuted the eight-episode series Ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show, where Wilson served as co-executive producer.

On the DVD was also released a film about the band I Was Dreaming About Smirnoff Buffalo directed by Timur Makarević. In 2009 band released their last album Ego Trip. The album was released by one of the biggest labels in Bosnia and Herzegovina Hayat Production. At the start of the 2017 band decided to no longer exist and they made a farewell concert on February 2, 2017 at Bosnian national television studio.

After the movie, McCracken would later go on to create Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, also for Cartoon Network. Both Hartman and MacFarlane left Cartoon Network altogether at this point; they moved on to create The Fairly OddParents and Family Guy, respectively. Rob Renzetti would later go on to create My Life as a Teenage Robot for Nickelodeon. In 1999, Tartakovsky returned to direct Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, an hour-long television movie.

Rap songs have mentioned Reed, recognizing his impressive athleticism and skill. Examples include Kurtis Blow's 1984 hit "Basketball" on his Ego Trip album, and the Beastie Boys' "Long Burn The Fire" on their 2011 album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Reed's name has become synonymous with playing through injury, as Cris Collinsworth described an injured Aaron Rodgers as having a "Willis Reed kind of night" on the NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast on September 9, 2018.

In 2009, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan noted that "the building itself is among the most reviled in all of Washington—and with good reason." Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp once described the building as "10 floors of basement." One historian of urban planning called the building an "out-of-towner's 'ego trip'".Gournay, "Washington: The DC's History of Unresolved Planning Conflicts," in Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities, 2006, p. 122.

In 1992, Thorburn signed with Jive Records, then in the mid-1990s signed with Priority Records/EMI. His contract was later absorbed by Capitol Records but he began recording independently in the early 2000s. He has worked with MCs such as The Notorious B.I.G., Mobb Deep, and Chuck D. He was featured on all three of Rawkus's Soundbombing albums, as well as the platinum-selling WWF Aggression album, performing the theme song for Chris Jericho. In Ego Trip Vol.

In June 2010, an original Fimbres song was leaked on the Internet titled "Brush You Off". Later, this song was revealed to be a demo that Fimbres had made in 2006. In August 2010, with former Danity Kane bandmate, Aubrey O'Day, she revealed via Ustream that both had recorded a track titled "Ego Trip" to be included on Aubrey O'Day's solo album, but was later taken off the album before it was released. They also answered some fan questions about the band's split.

195 During his reign as German Emperor and King of Prussia, Wilhelm II visited several European and Eastern countries. His trip started in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 18 October 1898 during the reign of Abdülhamid II.Hopkirk, p. 21 According to Peter Hopkirk, the visit to Ottoman Empire was an ego trip and also had long-term motivations. The Emperor's primary motivation for visiting was to construct the Baghdad Railway, which would run from Berlin to the Persian Gulf, and would further connect to British India through Persia.

In 1983, Run-DMC recorded "It's Like That" and "Sucker M.C.'s," two songs which relied completely on synthetic sounds, in this case via an Oberheim DMX drum machine, ignoring samples entirely. This approach was much like early songs by Bambaataa and the Furious Five. Kurtis Blow was the first hip hop artist to use a digital sampler, when he used the Fairlight CMI for their 1984 album "Ego Trip", specially on the track "AJ Scratch". The E-mu SP-12 came out in 1985, capable of 2.5 seconds of recording time.

It has, however, been criticized for its "archaic language and extravagant idiom" and "obsessive focus on sexuality" (and has even been called an "eccentric ego-trip" and a "highly personal reworking of the text"). Later versions of the Nights include that of the French doctor J. C. Mardrus, issued from 1898 to 1904. It was translated into English by Powys Mathers, and issued in 1923. Like Payne's and Burton's texts, it is based on the Egyptian recension and retains the erotic material, indeed expanding on it, but it has been criticized for inaccuracy.

Years after its release, Strictly Business has continued to attract critical success. In 1994, Pop selected it a complement to Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full on its list of The World's 100 Best Albums + 300 Complements. In 1998, The Source placed Strictly Business on its 100 Best Rap Albums list and included two of its singles on its 100 Best Rap Singles list. In 1999, it was judged to be the 4th-best hip hop album of 1988 by ego trip. In 2001, Dance de Lux ranked Strictly Business as the 11th-best hip hop record of all time.

Social media now > generally satisfy the need for images, contacts, and creativity. Publishing > a magazine has become so expensive… An actual print object like Purple is a > luxury item, which is why new alternative magazines don’t last more than a > few years, are often bought, or simply disappear. Doing a luxury magazine > today is one of the paradoxes of the Instagram era, when such things cost > nothing… A magazine is not an ego trip… It’s a collective work by a group of > creative people who believe in the artistic value of the print media and > share a similar vision.

The magazine's past editors include Reginald C. Dennis (formerly of The Source), Sheena Lester (former editor-in-chief of RapPages and Vibe music editor), Elliott Wilson (formerly of The Beat Down Newspaper, ego trip and The Source, currently locked in at #7 slot on The Source's Digital 30 list.)Wolfe, Roman: "XXL Magazine Fires EIC Elliott Wilson", AllHipHop, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2007. and Datwon Thomas (former editor-in-chief of King). In May 2009, Datwon Thomas resigned from XXL and executive editor Vanessa Satten, who had been with XXL since 1998, was named the new Editor-in-Chief.

Darryl Jenifer (born October 22, 1960) is an American musician, widely known as the bassist for the hardcore punk band Bad Brains and for the rap-rock group The White Mandingos. He appeared in TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by ego trip and the three-part ego trip's Race-O-Rama on VH1. Born in Washington, D.C., Jenifer released his first solo album entitled In Search of Black Judas on October 26, 2010. This post-dub work has been in the process of being developed for a decade, initially to be called 'Sacred Love Meets Black Vova Under the Irish Moss'.

The album deals with very realistic and dark topics in a sometimes violent and often dark vocal performance. Though it contains few happy "ego-trip" songs, most of these ego songs deal with war metaphors and are sung with violent tone and rhythm. More than the ego schemes, the main topic of the album stay the criticism of French society: life in poor suburbs which leads to a reference to slavery, violence of the youth connected with the violence in television and movies, censorship, racism. At least three songs deal with prostitution, but in ways from irony and fun to violent and dark realism.

The roots of the publication began with a hip hop newspaper called Beat-Down Newspaper, founded by Haji Akhigbade and Sacha Jenkins in 1992. Sacha and Haji met and brought aboard both Elliott Wilson and later Jefferson "Chairman" Mao. All three (Jenkins, Wilson, and Mao) also had extensive freelance backgrounds writing for other publications such as Rap Pages, Vibe and URB. Technically, Jenkins and Wilson founded Ego Trip (with photographer/documentarian Henry Chalfant given honorary status as co-founder as well), though Mao was a part of the staff from the first issue and eventually became editor-in-chief after Jenkins left to become music editor at Vibe.

Review: Inga Enna Solludhu is boring – Rediff.com Movies IANS gave 1 star out of 5 and wrote, "It is not because Ganesh plays the lead that Inga Enna Solludhu is unarguably boring, but because it is a shoddily written story that fails to entertain. It's a film that makes a success story look like a joke on screen".Movie review: Vincent Selva's Inga Enna Solludhu is a damp squib – Hindustan Times Deccan Herald wrote, "V T V Ganesh turns Inga Enna Solludhu into a putrefied ego trip, soaked in self-pity, thanks to director Vincent Selva pandering Ganesh's whims without much qualms about his own reputation".

A stage musical of the film was mooted after the movie's release. Robert Preston and Julie Andrews were meant to reprise their respective roles but then Preston pulled out saying there was no way the musical could be profitable. "It's just this big ego trip for Blake", he said. Victor/Victoria premiered in out-of-town tryout at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 1995. Another tryout was held at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, Illinois from July to September 1995. The musical opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on October 25, 1995 and closed on July 27, 1997 after 734 performances and 25 previews.

The album cover art was created by Stones Throw's art director Jeff Jank, based on a grayscale photo of Doom in his metal mask. In an interview with Ego Trip, Jank said: The photo was created by photographer Eric Coleman at Stones Throw's house in Los Angeles, and edited by Jank. While working on the Madvillainy album cover, Jank drew inspiration from King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King artwork, however, following its completion, he noticed the artwork eerily resembled Madonna's Madonna artwork. Despite this, Jank stuck with the original artwork, labeling it as the "rap version of Beauty and the Beast".

Viewer approval ratings led to a half-hour series, which consisted of two seasons totaling 52 episodes airing from April 27, 1996, to June 15, 1998. On December 10, 1999, a television film titled Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip aired as the intended series finale, and Tartakovsky left to begin work on Samurai Jack. In November 2001, the series was renewed for two more seasons containing 26 total episodes, which began airing on November 18 of that year and ended on November 20, 2003. Due to Tartakovsky's departure, the new seasons were ran under Chris Savino and a different production team at Cartoon Network Studios with various changes to the visual art style and character designs.

Nate Patrin of Pitchfork gave the mixtape a 7.8 out of 10, saying, "Das Racist's Brooklyn-buzz affiliations and humorous bent might mislead you into thinking it's an exercise in cheap laffs for people who don't take rap seriously, but this album feels a lot more like the irreverent hip-hop fanboy mania of ego trip magazine than smarmy genre tourism." Chris Molnar of Cokemachineglow wrote: "Maybe the most refreshing thing about Shut Up, Dude is how it sounds completely free of calculation." Sean Fennessey of The Village Voice called it "a deeply self-conscious batch of word-association jumbles, references to other artists' lyrics, and half-hearted hooks." Stereogum placed the mixtape at number 30 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2010" list.

In 1998, "Lyte as a Rock" would be listed in The Source's "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. In 1999 hip hop magazine Ego Trip ranked the album 12th on their list "Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of 1988". This year they also released "Hip-Hop’s Greatest Singles By Year", in which "I Cram to Understand U (Sam)" was on the 1987 list while "10% Dis" and Paper Thin on the 1988 list. In February 2008, Rolling Stone included "Lyte as a Rock" along with other albums such as N.W.A's debut album Straight Outta Compton and Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on their list of the best albums of 1988, which considered "Rap's greatest year".

The album was released with the collaboration of the writers for Ego Trip magazine and made as a companion piece for Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. The album consists of rare and obscure tracks from hip hop artists and groups originally released between 1983 and 1989 with many tracks that had previously not been released on compact disc. Many of the tracks have been described historically important with many tracks being sampled by more famous hip hop artists on tracks like "Holy War (Live)" by Divine Force (used by DJ Premier on a Jeru the Damaja song) and "Get Retarded" by MC EZ & Troup (used by Dr. Dre on "Zoom" from the Bulworth soundtrack). Ego Trip's The Big Playback was released by Rawkus Records on April 11, 2000.

Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather than being published in the usual manner. Burton's original ten volumes were followed by a further six entitled The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (1886–1888). Burton's 16 volumes, while boasting many prominent admirers, have been criticised for their "archaic language and extravagant idiom" and "obsessive focus on sexuality"; they have even been called an "eccentric ego- trip" and a "highly personal reworking of the text". His voluminous and obscurely detailed notes and appendices have been characterised as “obtrusive, kinky and highly personal”.

The song's signature melodic line, a sample of Otis Redding's “Hard to Handle,” has surfaced on Snoop Dogg's "Ghetto Symphony", Nas and The Firm's "Affirmative Action (Remix)", Mos Def's "Habitat" and other songs. Meanwhile, Big Daddy Kane's famous line, “Put a quarter in your ass 'cause you played yourself,” pops up as a looped sample on the Beastie Boys’ "Hey Fuck You". Along with earning the 49th spot in Rolling Stone’s “The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time,” “The Symphony” ranks fifteenth in Ego trip (magazine)’s list of rap’s best posse cuts. Kool G. Rap's line "I'm on a rampage" is scratched into EPMD's "Rampage" which features LL Cool J. The song was sampled on UGK's 2007 cut "Next Up" also featuring Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap.

On February 21, 2001, Cartoon Network announced that Dexter's Laboratory had been revived for a 13-episode third season. The series was given a new production team at Cartoon Network Studios, and Chris Savino, who later went on to create The Loud House for Nickelodeon in 2016, took over the role of creative director from Tartakovsky, who at the time was immersed in launching his next series, Samurai Jack. During season four of Dexter's Laboratory, Savino was promoted to producer giving him further control of the series, including the budget. Revival episodes featured revised visual designs and sound effects, recast voice actors, continuity shakeups, and a transition from traditional cel animation, which was used until Ego Trip, to digital ink and paint, which was used permanently beginning with season three's premiere.

The New School Wrecking Crew were scheduled to wrestle IYFW Tag Team Champions The Grindhouse (Maxx Burton and CJ Scott) and The International Ego Trip (The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy) in a three-way match at April 17 "Amsterdamage" show in Amsterdam, New York, however, both Vachon and Tanner were unable to wrestle due to injuries; it was during the match that The Northern Studd and Fronz Roddy won the tag titles. Vachon chose Vigo as his partner to wrestle the new tag team champions at the 2010 Coronation Cup tournament on June 12. Vachon and Vigo defeated Fronz Roddy and The Northern Studd via disqualification, however, the team retained the championship. Vachon, egged on by Maxx Burton, blamed Vigo for costing them their chance to win the belts and attacked his tag team partner after the match.