Friday, May 17, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Popular vs. Important
It seems today (and maybe technology and social media has something to do with this) our artists want to be more popular than important. Rather be at the 'it' party than make a piece of art that defines a generation. And there's nothing wrong with being popular until it compromises someones greatness for something so temporary as popularity.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Where The Lonely Kids Go When The Bell Rings
Great doc made by a 'fan,' about the rise of Kanye West. Great if you are love his art.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Born Sinner (J. Cole)
J. Cole's mom talks about working at the Post Office and the day her son retired her...good stuff.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Ms. Hill on facing time...
"I was put into a system I didn't know the nature of. ... I'm a child of
former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on
me...I sold 50 million units ... now I'm up here paying a tax debt. If that's not likened to slavery, I don't know what is."
#revolutionarywords
#revolutionarywords
Monday, May 6, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Assata Shakur Case x Cuba x Terrorism
Angela Davis and Assata Shakur’s Lawyer Denounce FBI’s Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorist List
Candice Glover
There's always at least one special voice on Idol. Candice Glover this year...even if she doesn't win she's the best this season without question. Not even close.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
virginia...
day after day we gazed at the ocean.
and the waves teased our hopes and dreams
we realized early on that no one was coming
that we were on our own
in this hell they called virginia
so we decided to embrace beautiful ugly country
in our hearts we retreated
and called it home
fully aware that we would never see our birth place again
so we prayed to our gods
and when they told us that was unacceptable
we prayed to their god
asking to see our home land once more
maybe in our dreams
or if we were lucky, when soon we would die.
and the waves teased our hopes and dreams
we realized early on that no one was coming
that we were on our own
in this hell they called virginia
so we decided to embrace beautiful ugly country
in our hearts we retreated
and called it home
fully aware that we would never see our birth place again
so we prayed to our gods
and when they told us that was unacceptable
we prayed to their god
asking to see our home land once more
maybe in our dreams
or if we were lucky, when soon we would die.
LIFE SHOTS...
The Williamsburg Flea. Brookyln. On the water, good food, beautiful people and expensive nostalgic junk!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
On why Jay-Z was chosen to score The Great Gatsby film...
"Actually, I made that decision because Fitzgerald puts African-American
[jazz] music in his novels. It's a fad, everyone says, but it lasted.
Fitzgerald put popular culture in his books, and I wanted you to feel
like you were reading the book in 1925. The idea was, jazz was
African-American street music, and it suddenly informed the times. And
hip-hop is the African-American street music now. If that was the jazz
age, this is the hip-hop age. Bryan Ferry is also doing traditional jazz
with an orchestra, and the music is very woven in. I like to think this
is a coming together, a maturing of all those things."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
On tragedy slogans...
For every slogan we create following a tragedy we inspire another lost soul to find their path to becoming visible.
Monday, April 22, 2013
On equality...
Equality doesn't exist in America. It never has. That's how America can be so rich and so influential on the world. Because it knows how to leverage power over another culture. If there was equality in any nation, there would be peace. When we find equality, we will find peace. When we have peace, we will finally know what being equal truly means.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Looting at the Boston Marathon
These people were not helping, they were looting. This is sad. What's worse is this was not even a blimp in the media. This is a great example of unbalance in the media and America. Why wasn't this a story? You tell me.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Scenic City Massacre
I heard in Chattanooga they killing over territories.
Somewhere a Native American laughs at the ignorant.
Wish I could tell the cops that these kids aren’t monsters they are just petulant.
But he probably won’t know the meaning and ask: you trying to sass me boy?
Naw, I’m trying to tell you that these kids’ lives are as fragile as a toy.
I heard in Chattanooga they killing over gang affiliation.
A shootout emerges from something that started as a celebration.
A concert turns into a funeral where someone mimics Mahalia Jackson.
My city is dying, but what’s really happening.
Society doesn’t look at these kids as human; they look at them as lower than pets.
Maybe some of you righteous do-gooders can start a march at Olivet.
But how can you offer peace to a child that’s at war with themselves.
When by the age of 15 their own dreams have been placed on the shelves.
Amazing that these young cats could even conjure dreams in the first place.
With how we all have been taught to not include the brilliance of their race.
Knowing I was a king before a slave did wonders for my self-esteem.
But we ain’t teaching that in school, we just teaching America’s cliff noted dream.
I was barely taught about my history and I went to the most progressive school in the state.
So just imagine how these kids are getting mentally raped.
But alas, they supposed to master the mastery of good and bad.
When most of them are poor and probably missing dad.
So they find Pop in a street and the street becomes their solace.
Only things they keep clean are them J’s and the hand gun they polish.
It’s disgusting. While downtown looking like they kingdom come.
We can’t get a plan together for the lost soldiers on the Southside, it’s dumb.
Let one of them soldiers accidently hit a McCallie kid in the dark.
We’ll have the National Guard roaming f*cking Highland Park.
But as long as they killing each other we’ll just report a line or two in the Times Free Press.
No rush if they not rushing to save themselves.
Let one of these kids get loose on a gal at GPS.
Next day an hour long feature on PBS.
NBC, CNN, pick up the paper it’s in the USA TODAY.
But let a poor black kid die over and over and no one cares in the USA today.
It’s the American way.
Equality, we haven’t seen the day.
They need to understand the education system doesn’t give a f*ck about you.
That’s why the books you learning from in 2013 were published in 1982.
You just a modern day Django and the bullsh*t is silent.
Yet you continue to live up to the hype of being violent.
Cause ultimately it’s on you because you are the one that pulls the trigger.
And best believe the word thug they use to describe you is a synonym for n*gger.
In Chicago they have been getting murdered for years with no talk of a resolution.
Then some white kids get killed in Newton and American wants to rewrite the Constitution.
And you want me to look up to Lincoln?
What you thinking?
I grew up in every neighborhood in Chatt and was taught to ignore fear.
Sh*t, I feel like my city needs a 33-year-old Mr. Sabir.
I remember the impact Pep had on Howard.
Now in my city, Kings are growing up Cowards.
I bet you’d want to help if a stray bullet happened to hit you.
Need to stop teaching these kids that their ancestors were ‘freed’ and teach them about Timbuktu.
But you don’t get it.
You just wanna hit up the lake.
It’ll take care of itself, there’s not much at stake.
Last time I checked a young black male made this country what it is today.
Before him it was a bigoted country with hypocritical morality…but hey.
I’m just some dude rhyming some words.
But I’ve taken more time to do this than politicians have acted, that’s what’s absurd.
I want to come home but I’m more Toussaint than Malcolm.
I’ll let you Google that name to understand the outcome.
Maybe we should do some psychological tests on these kids like they do the mass shooting terror.
Oh I forgot, these kids are just everything that’s wrong with America.
We don’t make excuses for the black kids that are violent as hell.
We just lock them up and pray to God they can’t post bail.
But the kid in court with ‘killer’ written on his chest.
Something must be disturbing him so we take the time to test.
But I don’t necessarily blame the city.
I’m just saying, what a pity.
And to the ones shooting and killing.
If you are so willing.
To prove that you are tough.
Let me tell you what’s rough.
Living up to your potential when even your own city doesn’t have your back.
And changing the world for the better before you’re no longer young, gifted and black.
Somewhere a Native American laughs at the ignorant.
Wish I could tell the cops that these kids aren’t monsters they are just petulant.
But he probably won’t know the meaning and ask: you trying to sass me boy?
Naw, I’m trying to tell you that these kids’ lives are as fragile as a toy.
I heard in Chattanooga they killing over gang affiliation.
A shootout emerges from something that started as a celebration.
A concert turns into a funeral where someone mimics Mahalia Jackson.
My city is dying, but what’s really happening.
Society doesn’t look at these kids as human; they look at them as lower than pets.
Maybe some of you righteous do-gooders can start a march at Olivet.
But how can you offer peace to a child that’s at war with themselves.
When by the age of 15 their own dreams have been placed on the shelves.
Amazing that these young cats could even conjure dreams in the first place.
With how we all have been taught to not include the brilliance of their race.
Knowing I was a king before a slave did wonders for my self-esteem.
But we ain’t teaching that in school, we just teaching America’s cliff noted dream.
I was barely taught about my history and I went to the most progressive school in the state.
So just imagine how these kids are getting mentally raped.
But alas, they supposed to master the mastery of good and bad.
When most of them are poor and probably missing dad.
So they find Pop in a street and the street becomes their solace.
Only things they keep clean are them J’s and the hand gun they polish.
It’s disgusting. While downtown looking like they kingdom come.
We can’t get a plan together for the lost soldiers on the Southside, it’s dumb.
Let one of them soldiers accidently hit a McCallie kid in the dark.
We’ll have the National Guard roaming f*cking Highland Park.
But as long as they killing each other we’ll just report a line or two in the Times Free Press.
No rush if they not rushing to save themselves.
Let one of these kids get loose on a gal at GPS.
Next day an hour long feature on PBS.
NBC, CNN, pick up the paper it’s in the USA TODAY.
But let a poor black kid die over and over and no one cares in the USA today.
It’s the American way.
Equality, we haven’t seen the day.
They need to understand the education system doesn’t give a f*ck about you.
That’s why the books you learning from in 2013 were published in 1982.
You just a modern day Django and the bullsh*t is silent.
Yet you continue to live up to the hype of being violent.
Cause ultimately it’s on you because you are the one that pulls the trigger.
And best believe the word thug they use to describe you is a synonym for n*gger.
In Chicago they have been getting murdered for years with no talk of a resolution.
Then some white kids get killed in Newton and American wants to rewrite the Constitution.
And you want me to look up to Lincoln?
What you thinking?
I grew up in every neighborhood in Chatt and was taught to ignore fear.
Sh*t, I feel like my city needs a 33-year-old Mr. Sabir.
I remember the impact Pep had on Howard.
Now in my city, Kings are growing up Cowards.
I bet you’d want to help if a stray bullet happened to hit you.
Need to stop teaching these kids that their ancestors were ‘freed’ and teach them about Timbuktu.
But you don’t get it.
You just wanna hit up the lake.
It’ll take care of itself, there’s not much at stake.
Last time I checked a young black male made this country what it is today.
Before him it was a bigoted country with hypocritical morality…but hey.
I’m just some dude rhyming some words.
But I’ve taken more time to do this than politicians have acted, that’s what’s absurd.
I want to come home but I’m more Toussaint than Malcolm.
I’ll let you Google that name to understand the outcome.
Maybe we should do some psychological tests on these kids like they do the mass shooting terror.
Oh I forgot, these kids are just everything that’s wrong with America.
We don’t make excuses for the black kids that are violent as hell.
We just lock them up and pray to God they can’t post bail.
But the kid in court with ‘killer’ written on his chest.
Something must be disturbing him so we take the time to test.
But I don’t necessarily blame the city.
I’m just saying, what a pity.
And to the ones shooting and killing.
If you are so willing.
To prove that you are tough.
Let me tell you what’s rough.
Living up to your potential when even your own city doesn’t have your back.
And changing the world for the better before you’re no longer young, gifted and black.
Monday, April 15, 2013
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