An excuse to post a photo of Amber Rose eating a burrito. She’s a Steelers fan (or she’s just dating Wiz Khalifa).

Either way, take that Kanye (read: excuse to post a sexy photo of Amber Rose and Kanye).

(H/T PSAMP)

Well, Lil Wayne went and did it, and he delivered.

I’m from New Orleans, but I’m a Packers fan/We knocked the Eagles and the Falcons and the Bears off/Now we ’bout to cut Troy Polamalu’s hair off.

Hear the full Green & Yellow freestyle at Nah Right. I’m not sure why they went with a photo of Lil Wayne bowling – other than to remind us that even his shins are fully tatted.

And once more, do check out the Kobe rap from awhile back if you missed that.

Next Sunday marks the first Super Bowl since Lil Wayne got out of jail. At some point he’s going to say who thinks is going to win. And for some reason I care.

As a fan of his body of work, I implore Wayne to step up and do more than just make his prediction for the outcome of the game – he needs to rescue us from the musical direction of the Super Bowl thus far – Black Eyed Peas at halftime and just announced Christina Aguilera singing the National Anthem.

And don’t act like you don’t care about the music at the Super Bowl, you know you wish AC/DC was playing halftime.

All that considered, I’d very much appreciate it if Lil Wayne rattled off a Super Bowl rap sometime before next Sunday (he’ll probably log about 120+ hours in the studio between now and then). Just something upbeat to get us fired up for Pittsburgh – Green Bay that the kids and B.J. Raji can dance to.

And not for nothing, he should feel obligated after picking Favre to beat his hometown New Orleans in the NFC Championship last year.

For those of you who question whether Wayne could pull off a killer sports rap, check out this verse he did about Kobe a while back.

Got to squeeze in one last post before Christmas.

To supplement the astute observations that took place throughout 2010 on Steady Burn I posted quite a bit on my Posterous – mostly music videos and musical performances that I enjoyed during the year. Including the best below starting with Lil Wayne and Eminem on SNL last week.

Note: Several of these were originally posted as band appearances on Jimmy Fallon that have since expired. I did my best to find adequate substitutions.

Subscribe to my Posterous if you’d like to experience much of the same in 2011.

Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” LIVE w/ Sleigh Bells Philly 5/5/10 from ‘SUP Magazine on Vimeo.

Record Club: INXS “New Sensation” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

See you next week or in 2011, friends.

Apparently Marilyn Manson, actor, has gone method – kind of. According to Interview, he’s been walking around dressed like Kenny Powers, being rude to people a la Kenny, and wants to kidnap Danny McBride.

I’m not entirely sure what that last bit has to do with Manson, as Kenny would say, wanting to be me, but the point is his next on-screen appearance will not be in Eastbound (as some might assume), but a slasher film called Splatter Sisters where he plays a metal band leader named Lars.

I guess he felt he did enough method-preparation for the role of Lars in the 90′s.

Here’s what director Adam Bhala Lough, the man behind Splatter Sisters, told Interview:

“Whenever I see Manson, he’s repeating entire chunks of dialogue and dressed like Kenny,” says Lough. ”He just walks around dressed like this and fucks with people on the street. If a waiter or valet tells him, ‘Have a nice day,” he’ll respond, ‘Don’t tell me what to do.’ Stuff like that.”

It’s all very insane, but, at the same time great promotion – again, kind of. Great promotion for the upcoming second season of Eastbound &  Down; I guess he felt Manson as Lars in Splatter Sisters sells itself.

Marilyn Manson’s Mullet (Interview)

Last night, I watched ESPN’s 30 for 30 doc “One Night in Vegas”, it’s really, really good. The documentary by Reggie Rock Bythewood, director of Notorious, chronicles the oddly similar trajectory of the careers of Tupac Shakur and Mike Tyson, who were close friends going back to the late 80′s, early 90′s. Fittingly, ESPN premiered it on the anniversary of Tupac’s fatal shooting in Las Vegas following Iron Mike’s first round knockout of Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand on Sep. 7, 1996.

The documentary features a couple of unreleased Tupac tracks. One I’m still looking for; the song he recorded a few days before the Seldon fight. In what was the most interesting part of the documentary, a Death Row Records engineer talks about the smash and dash production of that song (according to him, all Tupac needed was 20 minutes, a blunt and some Hennessey). This dude definitely told this story before – probably to every rapper, mixer, keyboard player and production intern he’s encountered in the industry since 1996.

The other unreleased song in “One Night in Vegas” is “Road 2 Glory,” another track that Tupac did for his friend Iron Mike before his WBC Heavyweight title fight against Frank Bruno – his first title fight after being released from prison in 1996. Check it out below – audio’s not great, overlay of boxing announcers doesn’t help much. Also included the video of Tyson walking out to it before the Bruno fight in March of ’96.

If anyone comes across the Seldon track, pass it my way.

Roughly a week ago myself and my officemate @moneyries heard what I believed was the song Half Light II (No Celebration) off the Arcade Fire’s new album The Suburbs. And we loved it. I was bounces around the office going “move to the city, come back home, move to another city” and no one knew what I was so jovial about, and I didn’t really care. To hear it, go to VC guy’s Fred Wilson’s radio station FredWilson.fm and check out track 11.

Earlier this week, NPR launched a stream of AF’s new album The Suburbs, much to my chagrin that tune was not part of the album’s stream, but a different version was. To sample that version, allow me to present the Arcade Fire performing it live two nights ago at Madison Square Garden.

It’s highly evident that this is the real Half Light II (No Celebration). The remarkable thing to me is that each version could be the best song on The Suburbs.

Well, we’ve tried everything we could think of to figure out what exactly that other song is. We shazam’d. We Googled “Move to the city, come back home, move to another city.” We tweeted, clearly. To no avail.

Any suggestions? Anyone in the know? This is new territory to me – liking a song and not knowing what’s it called. Hell, it might not even be Arcade Fire after all, though it sounds like them. It’s kind of driving me nuts.

(Photo: Spin)

T.O. is taking his pageantry to Cincinnati. Ochocinco and him are already acting foolish together on Twitter.

Big deal. Did you see the music video for Dancing Pigeons’ song Ritalin? Boy, oh, boy, it’s good.

Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin from Blink on Vimeo.

via Laughing Squid

Over the past two weeks, USA soccer became all-consuming to me and I’m still reeling from that loss on Saturday. I can’t bring myself to post about sports right now. I tried. I found a hilarious picture of Diego Maradona celebrating Argentina’s win over Mexico yesterday, and all I could muster was: Looks like you got some gum on your sideline wingtip there, brother.

With that said and in the interest of pushing down that post about Donovan’s goal against Algeria from Friday, check out some videos from this past weekend’s Afro-Punk Festival at Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn, NY.