Rising Up, The Best Song of '08. (so far)

I just finished reading Robert McKees book Story yesterday.

The major take away is that when people sit down for a movie,
that they don't want necessarily want a happy ending, they
want to be emotionally satiated.

Man listen. Thats how I felt when I saw the new Roots video.

First of all. The hook. "Yesterday I Saw a B-Girl Crying". Man,
for every moment in the last twenty four hours where I felt, pity,
pressure, anger, rejection, that song just made it moot. It was like a
facial and a good sermon. Feel me?

Second. The Drums. They sound like Elvin Jones meets Go Go.
That break beat is like water splashed into hot Friday night fish
grease. You can hear how much of visionary ?uesto is on this one.
You know how when you listen to a Doom song, and you hear and
appreciate the individual elements that went into the composition.
Thats what this song reminds me of. Its melodic, boom bappy and catchy.

Third. Chrisette Michelle. I want her to win. She is beautiful.
She is atypical of what the music industry says is An
acceptable Black woman. In the video, she is in her element.
Shining. This video and song is evidence that a win
and happen.

Fourth. Rik Cordero is a beast. The color saturation,
the jam session feel, the tight shots all come together
to make us feel like we are in the room with The Roots & Crew.

If there is ANYONE with an mp3, please send it. I will stream it
if I have too. Seriously.


Call jet blue. Get me to bk'lyn.

I Died and Went to B-Girl Heaven

Hip Hop Originals are pure Deliciousness.
Ivan @ Hip Hop is Read bringing his "A" game
with the Black on Both Sides Originals, the
DOC originals and most recently the
Midnight Marauders originals(via lyrics to go).

It was like, I died and went to B-Girl Heaven.

Noz has a link up to which has old Source issues.
Reading that sh-t makes me feel simultaneously
nostalgic and old. I listened to Evil D's pod cast,
every night this week.

SJ and I are in a holding pattern, so what better
than hip hop to act as a momentary salve?

Oh. And you thought I analyzed the music industry
and the plight of the independent artist with zeal?
Justin at Audible Hype puts me to shame. With
articles such as "Want to be Successful, Stop
Studying the Music Business" and
"Music Business 2.0 Without the Bullshit".

He writes,

We all want to be successful. Nobody who
reads Audible Hype is looking for ways to
continue living in poverty, or working at jobs
they hate. So this article could be the most
crucial piece of advice I give in 2008. It seems
obvious, but given what I read on other sites,
and given the questions I get asked by readers,
it needs to be repeated: the “music industry” is
a multi-billion dollar total failure. The only
justification for studying how it works is to
get a clear cut example of What Not To Do.

Reading his work is affirming simply because he cares so much.
So often people have soul/spirit/chutzpah beat out of them.
Especially industry folks, so its nice to encounter such
a renegade rebel with something constructive to say
about how an independent artist can manage his/her career.

Nas gave Ms. Info a n-gga t-shirt. Dude is bugged.
N-gga t-shirts during an election year.
Could you imagine cats in the crowd at an Obama
rally wearing them sh*ts. THAT, would be an interesting
moment in history. ( I think my demented side just came
out).

1. man// Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am

   nas better stop worryimg about album titles and
   t shirts and start makeing some good music like
   he used to do.alot of nas fan base is white and to
   wear a shirt to try to skare whites that had nothing
   too do with slavery isent gonna work too well.enless
   hes trying to skare the dudes who burnt his car down
   back in 92 in queens after he got sign, or camron .
   unless hes calling blacks niggers .but if he wants
   white people to get upset and think thats some
   type of a reverse ploy to makeing them upset i
   dont think its gonna work .they were laughing
   .but i wish nas luck no matter what hes allways
   one of the best. it just sometimes he does things
   to help bad people.figuar it out

The notion that Nas may offend his white fans with n-gga t-shirts,
while White people listen Jim Jones, 50, Snoop, Game, Fat Joe etc
call each other n-ggas all day long is worthy of a Ph.D level analysis.

While I am not equipped for such analysis, I most certainly
couldn't miss the opportunity to note the irony.

I have been listening to more hip hop all week. I can't live
with out my...hard drive? I was so space starved, I couldn't even
download photos to use for the blog, without deleting songs.

Thank gawd that era is over.

Why don't I own the new Pete Rock?
I stumbled across a new joint, Half Man Half Amazing
at culture bully, and its the truth.

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What would all these rappers be doing with out Hip Hop?

What would this country be like without Hip Hop?

Hip Hop originals, nice?

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