I clock G's/ While you clock Z's

and I dont smoke crack/ I smoke emcees/.

So I log off for a day and come back and Kobe don' scored 81 points. Is that legal?

I know ya'll musta been praying for me because the CONSTITUTIONAL law professor called on me today. (Peep the link. He is a big dude too.)

Understand blog family. He asks ONE STUDENT questions for the entire duration of the class. YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE PICKED. I REPPED' MODEL MINORITIES TODAY FAM. TRUST.

I was nervous at first, then it just felt like we were having a "conversate"(tion) about the constituional, states rights, contracts and property. Whew. Talk about slaying dragons on a Monday afternoon. All I can say is that I AM GLAD I did today's homework. REAL TALK.

So you mean to tell me you got gully dudes on ships, jackin' fools and firin' at other fools. Sounds like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. First Cam and Jay funkin' and now real life Pirates. Next thing you know Hillary gon' run for president!

The chocolate boy wonder/ makin' heads bop/

So, I went out to Joes Pub last night.

There is nothing like being held at the door at a club and then getting inside and theres only 5 negroes up in there.

I like Joes b/c the lighting is warm and gentle and the couches are soft and cushy.
Pete Rock was spinning those joints. I didn't even know he was gonna be there so it was an added treat. He was on some WU 'ish, w/ Camay and some other Rae jawns ain't heard inna minute. Mainly, Nice and Smooth's "Funky for You". Singing along and dancing has got me feeling tired. But damn if I did not have to get up this morning and take my Model Minority self to Property.

Funny Dudes in Hip Hop

Apparently Cam's panties are inna bundle. He has decided to go at Jay, which is cool for hip hop I guess. He does a have a point about Biggie's Mom's needin' to receive some royalties. But at the end of the day, all of HH is about reusing, other peoples jawns and flipping it into something new and fresh. And how is Cam gonna go at Jay regarding Jays business w/ Dame. They are grown @ss men who are prefectly capable of negotiating with one another. Dave and Benzino have finally got booted from the Source. I wouldn't be surpised if the Feds weren't investigating THEM for money laundering and what not. Yo, that RICO act is real talk.

Why is Paul Wall starting an online gold front store? Cool nigg@s like they fronts. Which is dope. I am all about entrepreneurship in the hood. But fronts. Dude. He could do so much better. He need to call Magic and leverage that 'ish. $hit, if he was smart he would poly his celebrity into chain of stores that sold nothing but gold fronts and rims. Nigg@, what if nigg@'s rims matched their fronts. Okay, I am getting delirious and must stop typing.

Google is a damn fool. Why they just tell the goverment, f*ck yo' couch nigg@, and refused to turn over documents regarding an investigation on internet porn. Doesn't google allready have founk w/ mad publishing companies because they just D-bo'd their way into publishing excerpts from books witout getting permission.

Some Negroes Aint Sh*t

So you mean to tell me, you so cheap and so lousy and so unwilling to be a father that you are going to FAKE YOUR DEATH, to avoid paying child support. *SMH* He either needs to upgrade his brand of crack, stop watching TV or both.

Women are stupid for listening to Hip Hop

I refuse to have a conversation with someone who talk about the mysogony in HH and are unwilling to discuss the how the HATERED/ DISLIKE/OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN hatred in POP culture as a whole.

A rant in the Baltimore Sun, that I have excerpted below, talks about how "WAIT" and GOLD DIGGER are mysogynistic AND are up for grammies. (courtesy of Spine)

See how it sounds, a little unRational. Only a selected few in this country activley cultivate their critical thinking faculties. And unfortunatley, in a Democracy that we live his greatly underutlized because of it, but that is another question. Women, especially, Black women are not honored, VISUALLY and MUSICALLY, in American Pop Culture and American CULTURE in general.

"The industry is so oversaturated with these types of songs," says Nicole Marzan, an industry insider and publicist for the Hyacinth Group, a New York-based public relations firm. "Women's lib — we've taken off our bras already and burned them. Women can wear the pants now in relationships, and they can like these songs without getting so offended."
What in the hell is she talking about women wear the pants in relationships? What relationships is she talking about. Women are disporportionatly everything. Disporportionaly infected with Aids, by heart disease, by diabetes, by breast cancer. Women as a WHOLE, ONLY make 75 cents on the dollar. Speak for yourself. I BEEN offended by the WAIT song. The same way I am offended by Hillary calling the White House a plantation, but thats just me.

Full disclosure: No matter the club I went to last year, an upscale joint or a hole in the wall, women in the place flocked to the floor whenever "Gold Digger" or "Wait" boomed through the speakers.
So. We dance to ignorant sh*t. Miles Davis use to beat the sh*t outta Cicely Tyson and was unapologetic about it. Consequently, I did not listen to ANY Miles until two years ago. I was being hypocritical in listenin' to Snoop's DOPE, anti-female music but, girl-cotting Miles. F.O.H.

"How do you expect the media or anybody else to get upset about these songs when the women don't?" asks Reed Baker, a New York-based hip-hop record producer and chief executive of Sophist Productions. "Women — the women I know — concentrate on the hooks and the beats, anyway. There's a general unawareness of the lyrics."
"The Media" is run by corporations. Corporations only care about the bottom line. People can care, but we would be doing a huge disservice to ourselves to expect the media to care. Its one of the many beauties of capitalism:)

"Hip-hop is all about talking about concepts and content that aren't comfortable," producer Baker says. "It challenges us to contemplate tough issues. The Britney Spears song isn't going to do that. 'Gold Digger' is a deep-song concept, more so than 'Wait.' It challenges some girls to think about situations they put themselves in. It challenges them to think about what they're going after in relationships."
A. I will beat his @ss for saying that WAIT is a high concept song. Right and Ms. Fat Booty is a "High Concept" song. NO dude. "Stakes is High" is a high concept sone. "I Usta Love Her" is a high concept song. "The P is Free" is a high concept song.
B. Ain't nare negro analyzing Brittney Spears nor Gold Digger. Negros don't care. They just wanna dance.

How can a man with a B.A./ make more than me/

/when Rashid got an emceeing degree?/

Something really significant must have happended today politcally, because the STRANGEST post-MLK day news has been coming out. Today sorta reminds me of when I was little I could tell, based on the clouds and the humidity, if an earthquake was coming. Walk with me now.


New Orleans Negroes killing fools in Texas. What would you do if you got evicited from your town and was being treated like the wicked step sister? Okay, prolly not murder people, but you proably would be angry enough to be rather violent.

And about New Orleans. Why is the Mayor walking around talking about Chocolate City. Does he know he will get the "getcho hand outta my pocket" treatment?" You can't walk around talking about your gonna have a "chocolate city" located on PRIME American real estate. I predict he will be resigning soon.

Dude. Methamphetamines is the the NEW CRACK in rural, working poor white America. The fact that it is so pervasive, yet there is NOTHING substancial and significant being done to address it confirms my hypothesis that negroes and poor white are "going to hell in a special little handbasket" together.

Hillary Clinton out there talking about the White House is being ran like a
Plantation. Dude. A plantation. Maybe like a brothel. But a plantation. Does she think we really are that desperate to be liked? Okay, so we are, but it does NOT need to be broadcast on the news.

I didn't even have to use my AK/

/I gotta say it was a good day/.

• Shaq and Kobe Kiss and Make Up.

• New Sista's Getting Real About Aids compaign.
  

• Family Values folks wanna keep a HPV vaccine from women/girls. They think it enourages sex. I thought that was what TV is for?

• Ex Steeler, Lynn Swann is running for Governer off Pennsylvania. Did I mention that he was running as a republican?
  

• Tiombe, Cody Chestnut and Martin Luther are performing at South Paw this friday.
  
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• Bilal, Robbie (Robert Glasper), Roy Hargrove and other jazzy snizzles are gonna be performing at the Blue Note on Jan 25.

• Trader Joes is coming to Union Square. Finally. I have been waiting for what, 15 years. I am going to celebreate with a dinner party, slumber party or something!

• Beautiful Hustle has the NEW E-40 video up, Tell me when to go Dumb.Town bisness fam! By the way, why isn't there a Town/ Bay turf dance documentary. It really IS overdue.

• On the Outs is a new movie that you need to peep. It is the story of three young girls, a drug addict, a drug dealer and a run away. I heard about this film a year ago and I am happy to see that it has gotten distribution. I hope that the young ladies are portrayed as compassionate human beings. After I see It will let you know whussup.

• I ran into Kenji Jasper last week on the train. He has a new book out titled a, "House on Childress Street." He was generous enough to give me an advanced copy. I am up to my eye balls in Con Law and Property reading and have not been able to read it. However,my hat goes off to anyone who is a WORKING ARTIST in NYC.
  

I need a honey to give me the love/

give me the ism/ and put the cash in my hand/.

file this one under

SEX AND MONEY

I was thinking a couple of weeks ago about how sex and money are so pervasive in our lives, especially in the lives of women. However, I could not think of any place where the two issues were analized together. Bada boom bada bing. The sex and money post is born. Tell me what you think blog family.

• Rapid HIV test,is giving some false positives. When it is finally up and running it WILL change how we date. Read here.

• Wouldn't be dope if you get your potential smash buddy to take the rapid HIV test when slip a lil' but of "truth serum" into his taco?......talk about a perfect date. All truth, no lies.

Money

• Swiss dudes are angry. They are going to have to share some of that corporate cream with the sista's. Its about time! (Swiped from Bomani.) Read Here.

• Pension removal countdown. So. You thought you were gonna retire and live cool. Sike. So far, IBM has got the ball rolling in '06 interms of making sure, employees understand that it is not about them, but the bottom line allways. Read Here.
  

Now everyone, including executives, will have their IBM pension plans frozen in January 2008. IBM will thereafter only contribute to their own private 401(K) pension plans.

Oakland, California thats where I'm based/

And brothers out there say this is the place/
You see, the crew gets Stangs, the Zeniths the Daytons/
A Brother like me, man I am just debatin'/ - Richie Rich 415

Yall remember when Oakland AND Frisco was 415. I still remember my phone number from back then, 638-462*. Ha, you thought I was gonna put the whole thing on there hunh?

Blog Family....I found some new treats for you. You can't ever say I never gave ya'll nothing.

• Old School Hip Hip Videos.....The highlights are BDK's Smooth Operator and BDP's Loves Gonna Getcha.

• Spinemag is one of the MOST thorough hip hop news sites that I have come across in a minute. Remember how True magazine usta be like a "hip hop" Vice? Thats what spine reminds me of.
  

• The other jawn that I am obviously late peeping is the Smoking Section. Talk about brilliant minds thinking alike, (ahem, shamless plug). The Smoking Section just posted about Big L too, he must be communicating with heads from the other side.

Smilin' is cheesin', bleedin' is leakin'

Beggin is bummin/ if you nuttin you comin
Big L- RIP

Ohmylanta blog family, I got some treats for you in the 'ox, say '06 real fast, and thas what it sound like, ox.

You see in the Bay We LIVE in our language.
This one is for you Sal.

What do you think all that PIMP talk is about?

Of course on its face, pimpery is about gettin' cash. But I belive that it is also about using your language (albeit on women, just like the rest of American culture) to get what you want.

I be talking to people here, in NYC, and they be like WHAT.....with their faces squinched up. Now that I have had my negro history lecture...here it' tis.

To have your property taken from you
Gaffled- Oakland
Jacked- New York
Dude, I got gaffled for my Pac Cd. Skan'less @ss females came to my house and got me when I went to the bathroom.

The truth, I am serious.(proper english translation)
Dead Ass- NY
Real Deal Holyfield- Oakland
Dave said, "The government is spyin' on fools, without warrants, for real."
Jean responds "Fam, that is real deal holyfield!"

Come back and let me talk to you for a minute.
I'm sayin' though Ma-New York
I'm saying though ma, you look mad good.

In NY dudes don't get at females in the street.
Unless the "SSSSSS", "SSSSSS", snake sounds that are made towards women in the Village or on 2fifth.
But in the town, please believe it goes do like.
You got a man?
You committed?
You in love?
Can you have friends? (assume she says no.)
Oh. Because I let my woman have male friends.
Ya feel me.
Because see in a relationship, I am not trippin' off the next man kickin' it with my lady. On and on on....

Are you serious?
Fa' Real-Oakland
Word?- NY
So, y'all went to dinner AND the movies and she paid for everything? Say word? Word!

Inconspicuous
In the Cut- Oakland
Leaning Back- NY
I been in the cut the last few days working on my con law final.

Dude/Female that gets no respect.
Bootsie- Oakland
Herb- NY
Uuuuuh, he hella bootsie, tryna talk to me when 'errry body know he just broke up with his girlfriend.

Oakland/ Bay Area- gradiants from acquaintance to girl/boyfriend

Gettin' at- verb, someone you speak to when you see them, and let them know that you are interested, but for the most part, they are not reciprocal.
" I been tryna get a Keisha, but she ainn't tryna feel me."

Talking to-verb, someone you are interested in, but you casually speak to on the phone with another a few times a week.
"Yeah, I am talkin' to Dawan, but his cousin look good too."

Do you understand?
Feel me?/Ya da da mean?- verb
Knowhut um sayin? verb
"My baby momma was trippn' off this, that and the third, but I had to tell her, she could not be calling my phone and hanging up like that, feel me?"

Hollern' at- verb, You have kicked it a couple of times, but are not exclusive.
"I was hollern' at Aisha, but she got a man though."

Add on and let me know wha'chu think.

Lovin' ya' hole seed/ and be in there boo'/

7 End the year CD's.

I am cillin' at Cato's Ale House, in a city called Piedmont, a small town that cluster in the north eastern part of Oakland. I am enjoying some wifi and pondering my first post of '06.

Yeah...Imma put my backpack on and talk about my appreciation of CD's that I found my self listening to this year. So, it is not the traditional end of the year list, but it matters to me.

Happy New Year Blog family.

Been up since 4am, took a 7 am flight, and have yet to take a nap. But what would life be like without the grind.

topa' that/ you got the good power u!/.
Word Meth!?!? I didn't know you appreciated it that much.<<<>>>

1. Tical
I found myself listening to Tical right before my first final. It was like my pre-game, locker room, warm up song. Tical is so grimy and war like. Very approriate for helping me get my mind right for exams.

2. Dare is a Darkside
I got the stunt/ inna front/ with a blunt and moet.

Red and 'nem had some of the founkist jawns outside of Memphis and the Bay. And his skits are just as appealing as the damn songs. I listened to this the summer, while putting together some Ikea (those baaastads!), then started bumping it again a couple of months ago.

3. Voodoo

After the final was done, I would take a shower, turn on the the D'Angelo, proofread my answer, send to the registrar. Then just carry D w/me on the 'pod. There was something so sensual about hearing him slowly, Marvin Gaye it out where he was coming from, stating,

I am going to/take you/away from him

At the end of the day a girl, wants to be pursued & loved consistently, right? I guess after sitting down for L-school exams I needed to hear a song that was light and easy and made a sista' feel desireable, ya feel me?

4. Spoon

Who knew White boys could, rock, get founky and be soulful. They have some cool baselines, and some memorable lyrics and That is really the essence of a good song, hip hop or otherwise.

5. Extraordinary Machine.

Fee, fee. All I gotta say is, a white girl, whose major influence is Maya Angelou, and whose lyrics reflect it. And I quote,

If there was a better way to go it would find me,
I can't help it the road, just rolls out, behind me,
be kind to me,
or treat me mean,
I'll make the most of it
I am an extraOrdinarymachine.

6. Goapele

I ain't even GOT the new Gwop yet, but I rep her just on the strenght that she is from Oakland.
Yeah so I know it is about Hip Hop...but, fam...yall need to get up on that Spoon

7. Platinum Pied Piepers (PPP)

Yes, my girl Tiombe did come tight on that album. I can only imagine what wonderful things she will offer us this year. T is a sultry Libra, who has a deft hand a writing songs that are both vulnerable and inspiring. I think '06, no, I know, '06 is going to be a dope year for her.

file this one under

SEX AND MONEY

I was thinking a couple of weeks ago about how sex and money are so pervasive in our lives, especially in the lives of women. However, I could not think of any place where the two issues were analized together. Bada boom bada bing. The sex and money post is born. Tell me what you think blog family.

• Rapid HIV test,is giving some false positives. When it is finally up and running it WILL change how we date. Read here.

• Wouldn't be dope if you get your potential smash buddy to take the rapid HIV test when slip a lil' but of "truth serum" into his taco?......talk about a perfect date. All truth, no lies.

Money

• Swiss dudes are angry. They are going to have to share some of that corporate cream with the sista's. Its about time! (Swiped from Bomani.) Read Here.

• Pension removal countdown. So. You thought you were gonna retire and live cool. Sike. So far, IBM has got the ball rolling in '06 interms of making sure, employees understand that it is not about them, but the bottom line allways. Read Here.
  

Now everyone, including executives, will have their IBM pension plans frozen in January 2008. IBM will thereafter only contribute to their own private 401(K) pension plans.

Cross town beef be like cross town traffic...

file this one under
Why White Kids love/don't love Hip Hop

The love hip hop the same reason America loves negros, its reflexive. Knowwhusayin nahmean, know whamean?

They got this ignant ass article inna Villagevoice about what wp's on facebook listen to. I don't give a flying f*ck about what them nigg*s lissen' to. Somebody did make a valid point about how w collge kids do not "CONNECT" w/ hip hop the way they do with -er, Dave Matthews Band. On one level...it was kinda racist ( you connect to WHAT you connect to), but then again I felt them. It is what it is.

But even to take it one step further, I think that WK's are able to feel some of that ignorant as HH because by and large, it ain't they communities being affected. And before you try and lobb one of them back pack head wrap allegations lissen'!

I peep how when negros come w/ the critical arguments some people who write about hip hop try silence 'em, and undermine 'em, deride 'em with allegations of being a backpacker....But I tell you a$$ quick...being a back packer changed my life fam...and I put that on 83rd and A street. Town business. RIP to Darcell Lewis.

Think about the people who whine about the old heads complainin' about the state of HH. Yeah we mad, man. Looking at HH hurts. Looking at the hood hurts. Of course we are going to complain. We are the first generation to simultaneously benefit from and lose (many of) the sacrifices that the old heads maintained for us in jthe 50's & 60's.

The Privileges of Being a White Hip Hop Fan

I would even argue that one of the privileges of being a w hh fan is that you can love the music but not trip off how destructive it is.

It has NEVER been just music for us. Never. Sam Cooke. James Brown. Dude. Marvin. NWA. . We might have laughed at Pharcyde or the Beatnuts. But trust...we allways knew which side our bread was butter on, which side of the tree we could swing from.

But it was never *just* music because our ability to speak was *never* just speaking. It was our language. One of the only things that could never be taken from us. Show me a nigg@ who been through some sh*t and I will show you someone with some fascinating language.

For the record. I personally believe that the MUSIC should not change. I think that the young bucks abilities analytical faculties should be cultivated. But that is another story.

But then again. Some white kid's in the country just as f*cked off in the game as ours. They are being under or uneducated also, so we are all going to h*ll in a handbasket (as my momma say).


On that Go Ignant Mix type that I bought for ONLY $6...there is a joint w/ Casual...and E-40..when I was lissenin' to it this morning I was like...who as THAT nigg@ rappin'....



Why did one of my finals get postponed 'till January...you know imma have to knuckle up in the next couple of days.... Ohhh wee...New Idea Blog Family...Immm start doing some posts under Sex and Money...'cuz you know sex and money are so pervasive in the lives of WOMEN especially...but if you trip....ain't nobody writin' about that 'ish though....so I introduce to you...

Honey check it you got me mesmirized with your

black hair and ya fat @ss thighs...

This post is dedicated to the brotha's puttin' it down on screen....er---so the fact that Christmas is down the street AND the subways are running got me feelin' friskay...

She Hate Me

Dude...when Anthony Mackie hoisted Kerry up against that walll I did know if I wanted to run out the theater or...lets just say or...That evening...to be Anthony Mackied became a VERB.

Love Jones

I am not gonna front...I do not know how their scene jumped off...but I vaguely remember being moved by that is....

Baby Boy

You ever see the mash going down on the screen and you swallow, and hold your breath at the same time...well when Tyrese got his magnificent self all up in Taraji...post fight...I was like daaaaaaamn ginnaaaaaah!. His Mash is magnificent......


I hear crickets chirpin' blog family...leave a sis' a message...it helps to keep me motivated..that means you Santana...you stay reading but never post up...show me some of that New Years love...-MM

Thinkin of a master plan

...cuz ain't nuthin but sweat inside my hand. -The R.

The post is dedicated to Donnell Alexander and his essay:

"Are Black People Cooler than White People?"

I'm cool like this:

I read fashion magazines like they're warning labels telling me what not to do.
When I was a kid, Arthur Fonzarelli seemed a garden-variety dork.
I got my own speed limit.
I come when I want to.
I maintain like an ice cube in the remote part of the freezer.
Cooler than a polar bear's toenails.
Cooler than the other side of the pillow.
Cool like me.
Know this while understanding that I am in essence a humble guy.

I'm the kinda nigga who's so cool that my neighbor bursts into hysterical tears whenever I ring her doorbell after dark. She is a new immigrant who has chosen to live with her two roomates in our majority-black Los Angeles neighborhood so that, I'm told, she can "learn about all American cultures." But her real experience of us is limited to the space between her Honda and her front gate; thus, much of what she has to go on is the vibe of the surroundings and the images emanating from the television set that gives her living room a minty cathode glow. As such, I'm a cop-show menace and a shoe commercial demi-god--one of the rough boys from our 'hood and the living, breathing embodiment of hip hop flava. And if I can't fulfill the prevailing stereotype, the kids en route to the nearby high school can. The woman is scared in a cool world. She smiles as I pass her way in the light of day, unloading my groceries or shlepping my infant son up the stairs. But at night, when my face is visible through the window of her door lit only by the bulb that brightens the vestibule, I, at once familiar and threatening, am just too much.

Thus being cool has its drawbacks. With cool come assumptions and fears, expectations and intrigue. My neighbor wants to live near cool, but she's not sure about cool walking past her door after dark. During the day, she sees a black man; at night what she sees in the shadow gliding across her patio is a nigga.....

-read the rest here

Imho *he* really needs to have a blog...

Here comes trouble... 

Allways thinkin'.. 

From the womb to the tomb...

People die everyday. You are never prepared for when someone is murdered. I found out this morning that my brothers friend and play brother, Darcel Lewis, was murdered in Oakland on Monday.

Ironically, I called my brother this morning to talk about how fun it is to walk everywhere because of the NYC transit strike...and he tells me that Darcell "got killed".
The next thing he said was that it happened in Broad Daylight.

I INSTANTLY KNEW that it had to do with a woman.

Nigg@'s don't kill other nigg@'s in Broad daylight to settle the score. At least not typically.

And with 17 bullets.

From my limited understanding of only have one semester of Criminal law....17 bullets sounds like depraved heart murder....
Darcell is special to me because he is special to MY brother. Darcell was also helpful in providing me with information two years ago when the Oakland Police CHAINED my brother to a fence and broke a flashlight over his head....That being said...rest in peace family...you are in a better place.

When the slugs penetrate you feel a burning sensation

getting closer to god in a tight situation....

Year End Bloggy Style Round Up

• Fat @ss Americans......you wanna see why negro's be dying..look what they eat...wonder why they so fat....take the hamburger out of your fat ass mouth. Finally somone is going to sue the soda companies for fattening up the kids. If you know like I know....you would be investing your money in companies that make type 2 diabetes related medicines, prostectic arms small caskets....

• There wasn't slavery in New York Right? So Northerner's don't want to aknowledge slavery. Dude. Who would want to? You have slaves. Rape. Little MOO-LATTO babies...

• You know snitches wind up in ditches, right. But my family over at the Start Snitching has successfully taken the idea and ran with it. This fool got post on how W an 'nem gonna use Your cell phone to 1984 that ass....anyone wanna get off the grid with me????

• Girl Genius be cussin', gossping and straight clowin'. Most recently she discussed "men who take care of they kids", and how "negros stay in school" but "they really be at community colleges for 5 and ten years". So make sure your khaki's are creased and pleates are pleated, fam.
  

• Speaking of snitching....Black people are some of the MOST anti-accountability negros on the planet. I could understand not wanted to SNITCH to the PoPo. But if you bring likker to the hood. Thas cool. Allow f*ucked up ass school system, thas' cool. Young bucks grinding like a slave on your block who YOU remember useta be so cute in preschool. Thas cool. As long as you got some twennies thas' spinnin'. Nigg@, they spinnin', they spinnnan nigg@.

• Anybody that can poast about somone calling them a nigg*er cunt is allright in my book. Plus. Imagine one of them hood books, but smarter and w/ the racial awareness of Paul Mooney. That is how the Dragon do the race relations w. We gon' have race relations, relations, relations.

• Some cracka towns in North Carolina are rediscovering their strong tradition of racial harmony.
• Only scant mention is made, however, of the bloody rioting more than a century ago during which black residents were killed and survivors banished by white supremacists, who seized control of the city government in what historians say is the only successful overthrow of a local government in United States history.....
• -John Desantis New York Times

• Reading Trula's blog is like sneaking a peek into the note book of a sista' who is a writer, ...you know nice and sweet....but please believe it, you could tell she will get the @ss wuoppin crackin' on that @ss. The fact that she talks about struggling with being a writer is dope too.

• Sophisticated negros tawkin' about news and making moves. Prometheus is like a Black Anderson Cooper. He/she ain't scared of the tough stories, and he keeps the content coming. A news junkies dream blog.

• Humanity critic does it again with a 6 months to live poast. Why can't I think of topics like that?

• If wasn't allready 'bout to marry and or shack up with 4 other cats....He would be my main squeeze. How you 'gon be introspective, compassionate and a Basquiat fan that prides him self on laying in the cut?

• Why inna' f-ck ain't no body started a blog analyzing nigg@'s lyrics. Yall' think I'm puttin' too much on it? People POST lyrics all the time. I might have to start one dedicated to Doom, Nas and Rae/Ghost. That outta' keep me busy through '06.

• My fam over at the B-Side Wins is hella fresh for posting just that, B-sides. He/she has some treats like a Jungle Bro-Q-Tip promo, (a song with the beat from Cubes, Giving Up the Nappy Dugout). I must say it felt good to listen to some 'ol darkies rappin' happy. They also bumpin' JB's On the Road Again, one of top 10 favorite songs. Peep the french translation. Straight international hip hop blog gullies.
  

No wonder where we live is called the projects....

Peace blog family, I have two finals down and two to go....pray for me ....I need it.....Leave messages...Holler at me....tell me whachu think....

• Lou Rawls is fightin LUNG and brain cancer....damnnnn gina....I hope he has good healthcare....Yall' know I love Lou...sings to my self, "You'll never find...another love like mine...someone that loves you..the way that I do......"
• "Jay-Z can move the cultural needle because they believe his honesty"
  -Steve Stoute in January 2006 Rollingstone
  

• He has allways been panic averse. His personal, in life and on record he is cool and in control- the same even authoritative tone whether the subject is sex, survival, weather or vengance.- Toure on Jay Z in January 2006 Rollingstone
  If Jay is so layed back....then perhaps he should share the benifits of acting that wat with the young buck....cuz from the way they act on the train and what not...they got some anger managment issues...
  

• If I could only get Jay to publicly endorse my READIN' AIN'T WHITE campaign *****puts on evil thinking cap.....
  

Some Hip Hop Collaborations that I would like to see:

• Rakim and Pharrell

• Ghostface and Andre Nickatina

• Keak da Sneak and The Lox

• Missy and E-40

• Outkast and Mc Eight

• Doom and Kanye

Why oh, why did I need cappuccino?

Daily Posts

• So according to an article in a recent New York magazine....Coffee is a half a billion dollar industry in NYC. Half a billion. No wonder I almost be having fights with people on the train all the time. They haven't had their daily crack---er coffee. The article is deep in that it delves into the annals of Dunkin Donuts, whose primary product is ironically is coffee not donuts.
  

• Post thanksgiving/taking I have been on a 2 cap and a tea a day diet and my kidneys can tell you, it is the truth....nothing like a good cappuccino right before a four hour studying period.

• Dave Chappelle is being sued by one of his former managers. Why don't negros understand that you have to keep the Wu money all up in the family? Pay your people.

• Dude. The Hip Hop show of 2006 is coming and I will BE THERE. DOOM. Big Daddy Kane. Little Brother and Pete Rock. Whats good?
  

• Rakim is going to be at BB Kings on Tuesday the 30th of January. That, will depend on how much the tickets cost.
  

Keep still boy, no need for static.......

So In a nod to Hashim and Bol I am going to try posting more frequent news updates in addition to my normal rants. ((((My first final went okay....as soon as I walked out I realized that I was not analyzing the problems in the most effective way....but I did not freeze up and I feel more relaxed going into the next two weeks of exams.)))))

Daily News Links

• There are Race riots in Sydney Australia.....looks like they received some mob-fight-training from the klan.
• Y'all need to rent/view this Sundance award winning movie writen and directed by Brooklyn young bucks about youth gun culture.
• San Francisco police apparently has so much time on their hands that they can create videos mocking women, brown people and the poor. Dude, their noose is showing.
• PSK, what does it mean? Pat Riley is back with the Heat and Artest wants to be traded. Well, we new that Artest was going to want to be out. THAT makes sense. Do you htink Pat and Shaq will mesh?
  
• She just needs to get popped in her face. Whap....Whap....why are going to sky dive while you are pregnant in the first place?
• Fiona performed last night at the Nokia theater....I didn't go but...I was there in spirit.
• Kanye, Kanye Kanye....while I do love your fervor, and your emotion...I don't know spongebob..with your antics as of late...I feel like you are asking your white critics come- music award distributors to humble you. Get at me Ye...we can put some of that energy to good use...ie a Hip Hop Museum in Chicago.....some a national franchise of music studios, a Negro home schooling movement...the sky's is the limit Ye, the sky is the limit.
  

I am I be....I am I be....I am .......

Gon' Till' November sorta...I be back in a week or so..... I am busy trying to be like this guy^^^^^.

Visit these sites in the mean time.

• http://crunktastical.blogspot.com/
• http://jeromebaker.blogspot.com/
• http://sherealcool.blogspot.com/
• http://nappydiatribe.blogspot.com/
• http://www.hiphop-blogs.com/
• http://pacificstandard.typepad.com/why_fuck_around_pacific_s/
• http://emia6.blogspot.com/
• http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/
  

Be easy.

She said, I betcha A$$ is darker than a Mobb Deep Rap....

There once were a people who were Black
Their neighborhoods were ruined by crack
they still rapped and danced
there kids never had a chance
There once were a people who were black.

-MM
(guess I should leave the poetry to the poets ***hunches shoulders****)

You ever have ones of those days that are mad serendipitous????? Errie things happen and other things happen real smooth..... Earlier this morning...I was trying to remember the name of the Black economist who writes papers that examine the ECONOMIC IMPACT of crack on the hood and an Economic Analysis of Acting White. His name is Roland Tyler. Later in the afternoon Santana V. put me on to a quote by Jeffrey Wright on THE BENEFITS OF BEING A BLACK ACTOR in this months Esquire. Then tonight I was at Barnes and Noble looking for Jeffrey Wright quote (posted below) in Esquire, and there was an article on the economist in THERE.. Weird hunh?

ESQ: The difficulties of being a black actor are well chronicled. But are there any advantages?

Jeffrey Wright: No. There are no advantages to being black in America. None. Hollywood is much more resistant to supporting the work of a black actor, particularly now. The types of people that Hollywood has responded to are rappers and others who've made a name doing anything BUT acting. The public couldn't name a black actor under 30 who's not a rapper or a comedian. They're out there, but they wont be supported in the way that folks who lean toward MINSTRELSY will be supported. Its not getting any better. Actors like DON CHEADLE have laid out really impressive careers but i guarantee you that Don didn't get one twentieth of the support that COLIN FARRELL got at the beginning of his career. Its insulting.

In honor of my READING AIN'T WHITE CAMPAIGN I AM GOING TO LINK UP TO THE FOUNDERS OF THE KIPP SCHOOLS. These dudes are DOING truth to power in demonstrating to the YOUNG BUCKS that READIN' AINT WHITE.

The cats who wrote at FREAKANOMICS have a blog too.....When I read their blog, work I can feel my brain expand....I GUESS that is a good thing.

I find myself listening to TICAL lately. I guess it is the proper grimey NYC winter head pod music.

And if you tired.....go take a nap.....

Good Evening Blog Family..... I could not resist posting even though....I know that I need to be working on my Con Law outline....I cannot wait for this semester to be over so that I can reflect on the significance, the pressure and irony of Being A Hip Hop Loving, Oakland Loving,Smack Talking, Model Minority in Law School.....it is one of those situations where I do not even think I can appreciate the significance of this past semester.....in its entirety....until the semester is over..... Blog Highlights....

• Somehow Hashim has managed to find an interview where RAKIM talks about Eminmen's role in Hip Hop....
• Sacha Jennkins, of Ego Trip fame, is coordinating a graffiti art show that just opened. Peep eyjammie.com for more information.
• Jeff Chang posted more information on the status of the investigation of the BURNED LIQUOR STORES in Oakland. Adisa also contributed to the discussion. I find it interesting the no one has raised the parallel to the burning neighborhoods in France.

Until later this week....bundle up BK...its suppose to be a cold one....and Oakland...be easy....I know how 'yall like to do street justice....yet EVERYTHING has long term and short term consequences...Be Good.

Katrina governor Sets the Record Straight

"I believe my biggest mistake was believing FEMA officials who told me that the necessary federal resources would be available in a timely fashion," Blanco wrote in one memo.
---- Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanc

• Read the full article here. Article is excerpted below .
  

Late Friday, Gov. Kathleen Blanco released 100,000 pages of memos, handwritten notes, e-mails, phone logs and other documents requested by congressional committees that are investigating what happened behind the scenes in the frantic days surrounding the deadly Aug. 29 storm.

"I have determined that this incident will be of such severity and magnitude that effective response will be beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and that supplementary federal assistance will be necessary," Blanco wrote.

Three days after the storm, Blanco complained to the White House that FEMA had still failed to fulfill its promises of aid. While cloaked in customary political courtesies, Blanco noted that she had already requested 40,000 more troops; ice, water and food; buses, base camps, staging areas, amphibious vehicles, mobile morgues, rescue teams, housing, airlift and communications systems, according to a press office e-mail of the text of her letter to Bush.

"Even if these initial requests had been fully honored, these assets would not be sufficient," Blanco said. She also asked for the return of the Louisiana Army National Guard's 256th Brigade Combat Team, then deployed to Iraq.

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• Finally some real talk on WHY all of those BLACK people DIED in New Orleans.

• What did Kanye Say?

• I saw Tom Piazza's new book, Why New Orleans Matters,on display at Barnes and Noble last night and thought, what a wonderful book title. I want to write the same thing FOR Oakland. It is the only book that I have seen that offers a critical analysis of what happened in New Orleans and why it is significant to the rest of the world.
  

Soul sista' music round up......

Where inna hot potatoe is ZZ Packer????? She does not need to be writing novels per se...but I do miss her voice and would like to hear from her....interviewing other writers....essays in the Times......the Village Voice...her own Blog!?!?!?!?!?!
On to the soul singa's.........
1. Lizz Wright......I listened to some of her music at Virgin....she has a pretty voice....the songs were melancholy though...which can be dope....but generally I like to be cheered up...unless I am listening to Illmatic;o The other Lizz...I am not sure if I heard her joints before....and I went to amazon to see if I could peep...but Ledisi is officialy Town business....her range....the rhythms....ALL TO THE GOOD! I picked up her album a few years ago....the dopest joint IMHO is the title track...feeling Orange Again...makes me wanna breakdance and SALSA all at once. I learned about Julie around the same time that I learned about Ledisi....In fact I saw her perfom...in 'Frisco a couple summers ago and it was such a pleasant surprise...her music is rich. warm and sultry...