Gangsta Rap is Black People's and America's Dirty Laundry.

Yesterday I was going at it over at Gotty's site.

And. Someone called me a hypocrite. Nothing new.

As a card carrying, Clipse loving feminist, I have been called worse things.

The argument stemmed from the fact that someone cited Jason Witlock and his argument that Jesse and Al are too scared to go after companies that promote and benefit from Gangsta rap. So I say go ahead and ban/regulate gangsta rap.

But.

Once you ban gangsta rap.
What are you going to put back?



And let me ask you this, is the real issue the music or the lives of of the people that the music represents?

Because banning/regulating g-rap sounds like a cosmetic change to me.
My man Roland Martin at CNN hit the nail on the head when he said,

America, we have a problem with sexism. Don't try to make this whole matter about the ridiculous rants made by rappers. I deplore what's in a lot of their music and videos, but hip-hop is only 30 years old. So you mean to tell me that sexism in America only started in 1977?

Now is the time for this nation to undergo a direct examination of the depths of sexism. My media colleagues shouldn't go just for the easy target ­ rap lyrics. That is no doubt a logical next step, but sexism is so much deeper. It is embedded in our churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, Fortune 500 companies and in the political arena. We should target our resources to this issue and raise the consciousness of people, and expose the reality.

Don Imus should not be the period. He can be the comma. Civil rights organizations, media entities, women's groups and others have an opportunity that they can't pass up. We have the chance to seize the moment to begin a conversation ­-- an in-depth one ­-- that has the opportunity to redefine America along the lines of race and sex.

Thinking about writing this, I pondered, what led to gangsta rap in the first place?

Well.

1.Mix Black Flight + White Flight + The Burning Bronx + Quasi functional public urban education = You get the conditions that percepitated gangsta rap.

Everyone is aware of the education/quality of of life connection. In fact, Imus's audience was highly coveted because they were affluent and highly educated.



And I ask again, once you ban gangsta rap, what are you going to put back.

For these folks who want to ban/regulate gangsta rap, I would like to know whether they live in the hood?

Do they want to live in the hood?

Would they send their kids to schools in the hood. Prolly not.

And Why? Because the schools are horrible.

Now lets assume that we don't have gangsta rap, how would the world even know what was going down in the hood?



Bear in mind that I am aware that this statement presumes that one is even interested in what is going on in the hood. LOL.

So lets imagine a world w/o gangsta rap.

Will dudes still hustle crack?

Will little Black girls still, disporportionality, want to grow up
and be video vixens?

Will dudes still be hustling loosie's on 125th and Lenox?


Will the Rockefeller drug laws still apply?

Will more black fathers pay child support?

Will OPD still conduct unconstitutional stop and searches?

Will Katrina get fixed?

Will cats cease getting murked on the reg in Oakland, New Orleans and Philly?

Will there be more than 3 GOOD high schools in New York City?

Will No Child Left Behind STILL be leaving mad brown/black kids in the dust?

Go head ban it.

Probably will just mean better mix tapes anyway.

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Know I made some ENEMIES w/ this post.

I put zora on mines so I KNOWS Im good.

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IMUS: DEADED Nappy Headed Ho's: 5. OR I LOVE GWEN IFILL.

CBS JUST FIRED YOUR BOY.

Imus called Gwen Ifill, who at the time was covering the White House for the Times, the White House cleaning lady.

Below is a very lightening rod hot editorial she wrote in The Times earlier this week.

LET’S say a word about the girls. The young women with the musical names. Kia and Epiphanny and Matee and Essence. Katie and Dee Dee and Rashidat and Myia and Brittany and Heather.

In the end, they were stopped only by Tennessee’s Lady Vols, who clinched their seventh national championship by ending Rutgers’ Cinderella run last week, 59-46. That’s the kind of story we love, right? A bunch of teenagers from Newark, Cincinnati, Brooklyn and, yes, Ogden, Utah, defying expectations. It’s what explodes so many March Madness office pools.

It is about the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. That game had to be the biggest moment of their lives, and the outcome the biggest disappointment. They are not old enough, or established enough, to have built up the sort of carapace many women I know — black women in particular — develop to guard themselves against casual insult.

Man listen. There needs to be emotional callus building workships offered at the learnin annex.

How many times yall been at work, and you wonderd, "Did this fool just say something racist or am I trippin?"

Or I know this white girl did not just come out her face and say " All Black people are _____?" And then decide, you know what, choose your battles, and today this ain't one worth fighting.

Why do my journalistic colleagues appear on Mr. Imus’s program? That’s for them to defend, and others to argue about. I certainly don’t know any black journalists who will. To his credit, Mr. Imus told the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday he realizes that, this time, he went way too far.

Finally calling fools out. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you Gwen.

Yes, he did. Every time a young black girl shyly approaches me for an autograph or writes or calls or stops me on the street to ask how she can become a journalist, I feel an enormous responsibility. It’s more than simply being a role model. I know I have to be a voice for them as well.

So here’s what this voice has to say for people who cannot grasp the notion of picking on people their own size: This country will only flourish once we consistently learn to applaud and encourage the young people who have to work harder just to achieve balance on the unequal playing field.

Dude this part almost made cry. And yall know there are two things that make me cry. M & A deals and baby pandas. Lol.

The following statement that Gwen makes also touches me b/c as someone who is allways asking people for help, guidance, advice it is so reassuring when someone is receptive and available. It was so wonderful to hear that she HAS my back.

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IMUS UPDATE
NBC Dropped him.
GlaxoSmithKline pulled ads.
Ditech.com
TD Ameritrade said it was evaluating its sponsorship.

Here is a Dope article on how hypocritical it is that business are for advertising on Imus's show in the first place.

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On that note.

My Imus coverage is dead for the week.

LD, MR, Neo, Jason, Stephen, what do you think of Gwens statement.

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Imus: 0. Nappy Headed Hoes: 3.

As the backlash against Don Imus grows, General Motors and American Express said today that they, too, will pull their advertisements from his program. American Express was the fourth largest advertiser on the simulcast of “Imus in the Morning” on MSNBC, spending $1.2 million during the show in 2006, according to estimates from Monitor-Plus, a unit of the Nielsen Company. And the credit card company was also among the top spenders on the radio program aired by CBS Radio.

The company will no longer advertise on Mr. Imus’s show because of his controversial remarks last week, said Judy Tenzer, a spokeswoman for American Express. American Express will continue to advertise on other MSNBC shows, she said.

General Motors was one of the radio program’s top advertisers last year, but the company stopped advertising on it earlier this year in a decision unrelated to Mr. Imus’s racial insults about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, said Ryndee Carney, a spokeswoman for General Motors. On Tuesday, Ms. Carney said the company would continue to advertise on the MSNBC show.

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A friend sent me an e-mail about my posts. Out of deference to their privacy, I post it anonymously.

We haven't really spoke about the whole Imus thing at
all cause I think we both know it's a powder keg. 

Here's the deal, a lot of you black folks are
emotional, irrational, reactionary and sorta annoying.
We act like f-cking savages promoting killing each
other, treating women like shit, degrading men and
acting like animals in general in every channel we can
(movies, TV, radio, Internet). 

Then you we want to cross over (so we can sell more
shit) to a broader audience (mostly whites) and ask
them to buy our self destructive depictions of
ourselves (you can buy ghetto hip-hop in Target stores
in the middle of whitest America).  We cram the
negative bullshit down their throats and when they
throw it back up we get upset.  We are demanding that
Imus get fired but don't chastise our own people to
act accordingly and responsibly.  COME ON!!!   
I am not saying he is right... in fact f-ck him and all
his people.  But the best way to solve a problem
is consider and then work on all the elements/parties
involved.  As a father I can't let my kids listen to
 "our music" cause of the nonsense it pumps into their 
heads, but that's cool and we support that... but this
 one cracker wilds out... and we want blood.  I have a
problem with that.  If sh-t is wrong, then it's wrong
across the board, not just for one person.  What is it
we want here?  Change or momentary emotional satisfaction?  

You can't act like a n*gger, call each other n*gger,
promote n*gger culture and then get upset when the
world treats you like one.  Case and point, a south
Indian man who had no clue what a n*gger was called me
one when I was over there cause he was listening to
Snoop.  If we want the world to see and treat us with
respect and value our place in this shit then we have
to stop acting like spoiled irresponsible children
and present a position of intelligence and maturity.

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While my friend makes some salient points, the comments fails to take into consideration that Black people have been called publicly and privately variations of Nappy Headed Hoes since we landed in this country.

Moreover, we have been called these things PRIOR TO THE EXISTENCE OF HIP HOP.

OJ Murder. Blame Hip Hop.

Kids can't read. Blame Hip Hop.

Sean Bell got Killed Blame Hip Hop.

HELLLL NAAAAW.

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In all honesty Imus's statements and the fact that he thinks that apologizing
will make it better basically says,

" I don't think you are a nappy headed ho".

"I was just kidding".

"Besides what are you going to do about it?"

"People are still going to come on my show".

"Who cares that I called I called a team of Black Athletes Nappy Headed Ho's".

"It was a joke".

I spoke to one of my classmates today after Trademark.
And he said:

"The fact that Imus thinks that he can apologize and get away with it confirms what a lot of black pepole think on the low.

Which is that that inspite of "pc" talk, and diversity jargon, there are white people in very powerful positions that think that Black people have limited analytical faculties. That Black people are closer to animal species than the human species. Then statements like this slip out and the p.c veil hasis removed. We see them for who they really are, bigots. Word is bond."

When he told me this. I was like daaaamn Malcom.
LOL.

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Jesus. Who knew that so much fodder could come of this.

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Imus : 0. Nappy Headed Ho's: 2. Advertisers are Pulling Ad's. NICE!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Companies including Procter & Gamble Co. and Staples Inc. are pulling advertisements from Don Imus' show due to the shock jock's on-air racial slur about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Ummm. Corporate Responsibility is De.Li.Cious.

"Based on recent comments that were made on the show, it prompted us to kind of take a look at our decision to advertise and as a result we decided to stop advertising on that program," said Staples spokesman Paul Capelli said.

Cincinnati, Ohio-based P&G also withdrew its sponsorship.

"Effective Friday, April 6, we pulled all P&G's brand advertising from the MSNBC daytime rotation," said P&G spokeswoman Jeannie Tharrington. P&G would not advertise again "until we can evaluate the Imus situation fully," she said.

Attention Jeff Zucker. Attention Les Moonves.

The Masters are over.

Tiger Lost.

Where are you @ homies?

Imus is having an affect on shareholder value and its only going to get worse.

What it do fanleee?

Imus: 0. Nappy Headed Ho's: 1.

Update. Your boy has been suspended.

The Rutgers team is going to "meet" with him.

Here are some interesting quotes that I have collected around the internet.
The players said today that,

We just hope to come to some type of understanding of what the remarks really entailed," said team captain Essence Carson. "We [would] just like to express our great hurt … the sadness that [this] has brought to us."

Carson, Coach C. Vivian Stringer and other players described how Imus' remarks and the controversy that followed overwhelmed their achievement.

"We were stripped of this moment by the degrading comments made by Mr. Imus last Wednesday," said sophomore Heather Zurich. "We were insulted and, yes, we were angry."

The coach ,

Stringer, the coach, said her team was hurt by the remarks, but that the issue reaches beyond those 10 women. She also called on the nation -- and national media companies -- to reject hateful speech such as Imus'.

"This is not about the Rutgers women's basketball team, it's about women -- are women ho's? Would you want your daughter to be called that?" she asked. "It's not about them as black people ... it's about us as a people. ... I don't know how anybody could have heard this and not been personally offended."

Some New York Times readers respond,

Frankly, I think he should be fired. It won’t happen but it should. Imus’ comments were horrid, hateful, and abusive as well as racist. In most private companies, remarks made like that during the course of business would result with firing and probably a number of sensitivity sessions. What makes me sad is that Imus, CBS, and MSNBC executives believe that a few “mea culpas” are enough to smooth this thing over. I am a black women with 2 children. This is not funny. It is damaging.

— Posted by Selena L. Blackwell

If you think Imus is an insensitive, childish, clod then don’t listen to him for two weeks.

— Posted by aaron edmondson

Mr. Imus has apologized again and again. Let’s forgive and move on.

— Posted by L. Gatewood

Allowing Imus to remain in his job sends a message that racism is acceptable and excusable. Regular people lose their jobs, every day, for less offensive conduct.

— Posted by Paco

Punished? What is this Romper Room? He should be FIRED. I cannot walk into my office and refer to the black women employed there as “nappy headed hos,” without losing my job for being grossly offensive and cruel. Why should Imus get to keep his?

— Posted by Dan

Imus is probably one of the most racially tolerant shock jocks of them all. Although his comments were not politically correct, he’s a funny guy and his program is interesting and oddly enough, informative as well. Firing Don Imus will not advance anyone’s civil rights one iota, it will merely push racism further underground and create a backlash that may hurt those that were supposed to be helped in the first place. Let’s all take a chill pill here and then decide how we want to handle a situation that can escalate into something unintended.

— Posted by Sam Cruz

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My questions are as follows.

Is he going to have to call a jewish women a cheap hot slut in order to get fired?

Or an asian woman a chinky submissive maid?

Really. What does this dude have to do to get fired?

FIRE HIS @SS.

No one else, in ANY WORK PLACE, regardless if talk was apart of their job, would be allowed to make these comments, and keep them. You would be rushed to human resources w/ the quickness, and fired.

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Fire.

Him.

Now.

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Do Fortune 500 Companies believe Black Women are Nappy Headed Ho's?

If fortune 500 companies do not believe that the Black women are "nappy headed hoes", then they must pull advertising from his show.

An entites budget is one of its most vocal tools.

Former New York media critic Philip Nobile has made a crusade of documenting Imus' awful racial remarks, including calling the highly-regarded black journalist Gwen Ifill a "cleaning lady" when she was sent to cover the White House for the New York Times.

Nobile also noted Imus admitted to 60 Minutes that producer Bernard McGurk was brought on "to do nigger jokes," called Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz a "boner-nosed Jewboy," called Patrick Ewing "the missing link," Shaquille O'Neal "a car-jacker in shorts," and the Knicks "chest-bumping
pimps.

It's been easy to ignore his nonsense because I find the show so boring I never watch it. And critics such a Nobile who have taken on Imus have paid a price, as the celebrities and journlists who frequent his show find it easier to disparage the critics than turn away from the book sales and TV ratings Imus fans deliver.

But turning away from this is wrong. Pretending it's all in good fun is wrong. And with Imus show growing in popularity -- the Washington Post noted a 35 percent jump in ratings from last year -- it's time to demand this crusty knucklehead join the 21st century.

How and where and entity spends its money is indicitive of what it supports, tolerates and believes in.

There are a LOT of African American women, men as well as other white folks, asian folks, and latin folks that find Imus's statement offensive.

The National Association of Black Journalists today called on journalists to boycott Imus' show until he sincerely apologizes and cleans up his act.

I wonder if NBC will do the same? Will regular Imus guests like Sen. Joe Lieberman, Meet the Press host Tim Russert and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain do the same?

Hard to believe that, in 2007, you still have to make a case for shunning a guy who slings around slurs about black people and Jews like it's 1957.

We are talking about teachers, police officers, federal and state employees who have have 401k's.

They invest.

And not only do they invest, but they invest in funds that advertise on Imus's show.

Do you see where I am going with this?

Imus Talks.

But Money talks louder.

Here is an excerpt of Imus on Kobe:

Meantime, this morning on Don Imus's morning radio show, which attracts guests the likes of Senator Orrin Hatch, conservative commentator and gadflies Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough, Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain, Imus's producer chimed up with ridicule of the new husband of the woman who accused NBA star Kobe Bryant of raping her. "After Kobe, that's gotta be like putting a golf ball through a basketball hoop."

Radio Personalities get fired all the time.

1. Star, from Hot 97, we all know about that.

2. Dave Lenihan, Called Condelizza Rice a "coon."

3. Trish Maney and Lucas. (A Sacramento area radio station fired employees in reaction to a tragedy in which a woman died Friday after an on-air water-drinking contest at the station's studios.

4. Michael Graham's, called Islam a "Terror organzation".

5. Bob Lonsberry who is white, joked on-air about an orangutan that escaped a zoo, then commented the animal was now running for county executive. The then Mayor of Rochester, William Johnson, Jr, was running for county executive.

Its time for Imus to meet the Pink Slip Guillioutine.

Libertarian Tales.

10 Reasons why I got sprung on TL (The Leo).

1. He grabbed me in public.

2. We had an entire conversation about guns and this.

3. In the first conversation he told Black women,
no matter how mean that are, are little girls at heart and
just want to have that recognized from time
to time.

4. This n*gga was a card carrying member of the NRA.

5. He told me I had a _____ me face. Lol.

6. He read Feds & Don Diva.

7. Taught me the correct pronounciation of Camus. [Kam-OO]. [Not Kam- US].

8. He told me that I was treating the relationship like "work product" and that
work relationships and personal relationships were differnt. (It found it to be a
a nice way to say lighten up).

9. I knew within ten minutes of our first conversation that he was a liberterian.

10. Was full of conviction re his beliefs about justice, the government and the future of this country. Even when I didn't agree, I felt him on the strength of his commitment to his worldview.

Then it all fizzled away. Like dammmn.

But you know me. But there is another Cat, the Pet Dectective (PD), who is creeping on the creep up come up. He likes him some M.Dot, so I will keep yall posted.

I wasn't checkn' for PD that hard @ furst. But, you know how you think somebody is gonna be just a friend, but then the start acting like YOU MIGHT wanna take 'em off the bench.
Calling when he says he would. Making complements @ the right moments. Telling me how he likes lips and legs. LOL.

LOL. We will see more about that in May.


Mean Sexy, the educational jeanius, encpuraged me to continue to have t tunnel vision between now and finals, and I agree.

Im stubborn. But she is right. And honestly, it feels good when I know that I got up, ran, read cooked, blogged and went to sleep, so I could get up and do it again.


I was itchn to go to brunch today yall. Really itchn. Like feenin.

But I told myself, the groceries are here. Cook. At. Home.

Because, brunch was not in the plan.

Innver voice was like: take ya hot @ss to the library and outline the HEARSAY exceptions.

So, I just completed my furst 11:30-8:30 library bid.

I sat there so long my neck hurts.

And on top of that, I left the phone @ home. ON PURPOSE.

Its amazing how distracting it can be.

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Can it be, that it was all so simple?

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Friday Night Fried.

I made this last night.

And this too.

I am so proud of myself.

It has been almost two years since the broken engagement and I am finally cooking again w/ enthusiasm. Not just cooking.

But making shopping list. Building up excitment. Thinking of whats in season so I can incorporate it into the recipes.

Cooking w/ VERVE!

Plus. Well. My money has been funny too, so THAT will make you cook also.

So far, these have been on my mind or on my plate:

Salmon croquettes.

Sesame, Ginger Salmon.

Home squeezed lemonade.

Baked Potatoes w/ fresh parmesean cheese.

Garlic Roasted Potato Wedges.

Double Rainbow Vanilla ice cream w/ fresh strawberries.

Tripple decker fakin' bakin' BLT.



What is it w/ me and cinnamon rolls?

This delicious one is from Whole Foods.

I hate when the bread to frosting ratio is off. I like it when there is juuuuuuuust enough frosting to touch every piece of the roll.

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Ummm food.

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DJ Triple Threat Presents: The Backpacker B-List Single Set

1. Where my homies?, Ill and Al Scratch. Sing-songey rap hooks. In the ninties?!?!?! WHuuuT?
Come around my wayyyyyy/ Come around my wayyyyy.
Prototypical hood homie anthem.

2. Jeru, the water song, Come Clean. On the strength of love I have for yall. Imma post it ALONG with the original. <<****yes my arms are open for all of the e-love!***>>>> Whoops. Couldn't find the orig. And I know ya'll have the Jeru version. At least I dug up the vid. Lol.
Control the Mic/Like Fidel Castro/ Lock Cuba...

3. Van Full of Pakistans, Yall So Stupid. I found this song again almost two years ago. I allways loved it.
"Why do I do drugs/ sh*t/ I lost my record deal."
Cats was bringing it in what. '92-'93. What.

4. Ghetto's been Good to me, YZ.
I don't even remember the beat to this song.
THE GHETTOS BEEN GOOD TO MEEE--EEEE.

The hook was dope though. Old cat saying,

5. They Want Efx, Das Efx. The Baseline on this jawn is nasty. In fact it got stuck in my head in Feb and I had to itunes it.
Bum skipity, bum skipity bum ha....

6. Attitude, Rumpletiskins. If anyone has this, holla at cha' m.dot. I needs to have it in my life.
"My additude is f*cked up/ and real sh*tty".
This hook reminds me of 12 cats, 6 blunts, 4 forties and 2 jeeps, just creeping through flatbush itchin' to get into something.


7. Pistol Grip Pump, Volume 10. Dude had the throaty, LA rap style. Where it seemed like he would start bucking at fools AND keep rapping and not miss a beat. He was the original Super Thug. Awwwwish.
Son of a b*tch Im rich/ that don't mean you can jank me/ All of my peoples are pimps/

I have a space for four more.

And I KNOW YALL got suggestions.

Bring 'em.

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Running is good.

The pain after running hurts.

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I am Not Sure What to Make of Karl Rove Rapping.

Karl Rove.

Darth Vader.

Raps.

And does an old white man dance.

Nice.

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I see this as a thinly veiled attempt to distract us from this:

The former aide, D. Kyle Sampson, who resigned two weeks ago, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mr. Gonzales’s statements about the prosecutors’ dismissals were inaccurate and that the attorney general had been repeatedly advised of the planning for them.

The two men talked about the dismissal plans over a two-year period, Mr. Sampson said, beginning in early 2005 when Mr. Gonzales was still the White House counsel. Mr. Sampson said he had briefed his boss at least five times before December 2006, when seven of the eight prosecutors were ousted.

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The White House Post. Excellent.

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When Is Doom Gonna Guest Star on the Simpsons?

Top Ten Nuances of Prankster Rap Simpson episode.

1. "People stopped saying Keeping it Real three years ago."

2. " Assualt Magazines Man of the Year." Lol.

3. "Just what we need, another lame surburban kid that loves rap."

4. "Rappers stopped saying illin' twelve years ago."

5. "Rap music encourages lawfullness, punching and rudeness to hoes." <

6. 50 cent cameo.

7. Dude w/ a date plate around his neck on stage @ the concert.

8. N*ggas pullin out on Wiggums.

9. "The way I was raised, by MOM, the truth can't be swept under the rug."

10. The sign that says, "Murder for Life Benefit", no gang colors except red.

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The Simpsons and Hip Hop all in one post.

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Redman Earns the 2007 Life Time Achievement Award.

Classic Redman lives.

I was on my way from Trader Joes tonight and I saw the Red Gone Wild bus in front of Virgin, so I took a coupla flicks for the blog.


Reggie deserves a lifetime achievement award. For trill.

He is the only cat from his era making relevent music that reaches the masses.

Whut Thee Album predated Ilmatic by a year.

N*gga been in the game for 15 years. Count them fif-teen.

Think about it.

Throught the ages. Dudes Albums all knock.

Sh*t I listen to Dare iz a Darkside once a week damn near.

So here's to you Redman.


For being gully.

For controlling your career.

For having skits funnier than half the shows on TV. (somebody needs to give this man a reality tv show. Yesterday).

Not becoming embittered and complaining about:
"the game"
"how you can't eat"
"how the fans have changed"

and just continuing to make music that I can listen to while I clean up, get dressed to go out or just eat some cereal and read the Times.


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You all got it?

Wachu think?

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Gotty & NDiamond$. This fa' Yall.

Hearing this song for the first time in hella long, leads me to conclude that King T was really on some West Coast Premier jawn.

Them scratches were nasteeeee.

My King T inspiration is brought to you by the fam over @ SS, which has been kinda fuegocito for the last few days.

Back to King T.
I remember my brother usta STAY playing the King T w/ tht orange casette w/ the stripes.

So.

I figgerd I would show love and add on my two.

Dude.

Cube w/ a curl in music video posing as a judge.

Priceless.


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Ummmm Sunday night blog post.
Delicious!

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Dj Triple Threat Presents: Back Packer B-List Singles.

1. Where my homies?, Ill and Al Scratch. Sing-songey rap hooks. In the ninties?!?!?! WHuuuT?
Come around my wayyyyyy/ Come around my wayyyyy.
Prototypical hood homie anthem.

2. Jeru, the water song, Come Clean. On the strength of love I have for yall. Imma post it ALONG with the original. <<****yes my arms are open for all of the e-love!***>>>> Whoops. Couldn't find the orig. And I know ya'll have the Jeru version. At least I dug up the vid. Lol.
Control the Mic/Like Fidel Castro/ Lock Cuba...

3. Van Full of Pakistans, Yall So Stupid. I found this song again almost two years ago. I allways loved it.
"Why do I do drugs/ sh*t/ I lost my record deal."
Cats was bringing it in what. '92-'93. What.

4. Ghetto's been Good to me, YZ.
I don't even remember the beat to this song.
THE GHETTOS BEEN GOOD TO MEEE--EEEE.

The hook was dope though. Old cat saying,

5. They Want Efx, Das Efx. The Baseline on this jawn is nasty. In fact it got stuck in my head in Feb and I had to itunes it.
Bum skipity, bum skipity bum ha....

6. Attitude, Rumpletiskins. If anyone has this, holla at cha' m.dot. I needs to have it in my life.
"My additude is f*cked up/ and real sh*tty".
This hook reminds me of 12 cats, 6 blunts, 4 forties and 2 jeeps, just creeping through flatbush itchin' to get into something.


7. Pistol Grip Pump, Volume 10.


I have a space for four more.

And I KNOW YALL got suggestions.

Bring 'em.

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Running is good.

The pain after running hurts.

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When the Police Reloads, does that constitute an intent to kill?

Why was the officer who reloaded his gun only charged
with Manslaughter and NOT murder?

I have posted the NY Penal Code Definitions below.

 125.25 Murder in the second degree. A person is guilty
of murder in the second degreewhen: 1. With intent to
cause the death of another person, he causes the death
of such person or of a third person; except that in any
prosecution under this subdivision, it is an affirmative
defense that:

Photos are from a Sean Bell protest in
Union Sq, Sat, March 17th.

125.20 Manslaughter in the first degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the first
degree when:1. With intent to cause serious physical
injury to anotherperson, he causes the death of such
person or of a third person; or
 
125.15 Manslaughter in the second degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree
when: 1. He recklessly 
causes the death of another person;

 

125.10 Criminally negligent homicide. A person is guilty of
criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence,
he causes the death of another person. Criminally
negligent homicide is a class E felony.


Michael Oliver, 35, is the officer that fired his
pistol 31 times. He is the one that reloaded.
Does reloading constitute an intent to kill?  

I.Think.So.

However, I couldn't prove it beyond a
reasonable doubt.

Therefore, I, as the prosecutor, would go
for Man 2 as well. I have found some interesting
deadly force links.

White people, popo and Diallo.
Ed Gordon on deadly force.  
The Washington post on deadly force.  

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Reloading Constitutes an Intent to Kill.

DISCLAIMER::The popo photo above was included
sheerly for irony purposes.
Not for the purposes of encouraging violence against popo.
I took for photo at the Lafayette station C train stop last week.
For the record, I found the ad as pictured.

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"Its Me B*tches" is a mainstream Doom Beat or Smoke Good/Eat Good.

I first heard its me beeches last fall on the radio.

I was like.

Tha hell this xylophone beat.

When was the last time you heard xylophone in hip hop?

Do I hear a summer anthem?

Smoke good/eat good.

This is the perfect song to wake up to.

Think imma parlay that into the CD alarm clock.

Tom Brehain @ Status said,

How does frequent Swizz client and sample-source Jay-Z feel about Swizz constantly repeating that he's sitting in his car and listening to a song that brutally eviscerates Jay?.....
He probably doesn't like being reminded every time he hears "It's Me, Snitches." Also: why does Swizz keep trying to make "Ether" rhyme with "Beamer"? It doesn't.

It does rhyme.

Shush. Tom.

And did Swizz exhaust himself so completely coming up with his two quick little nonsense verses that he just couldn't manage to write any more? Is that why he just repeats those two verses twice? Or is it an aesthetic decision? Is it the old Ramones "third verse, same as the first" thing? If it is an aesthetic decision, why does it work so well? I haven't heard "It's Me, Snitches" in a club yet; when I do, is my face going to explode?

It certainly is fun hearing it while flying on the freeway.

The versus is simple 'cause niggas got add and cain't remember lyrics.

Keep it simple so the quasi literate kids can sing along, and you are more likely to have a hit.

Duh.

Swizz doesn't quite rap on the song; instead, he plays hypeman for his own ridiculously frantic track. When two of his lines rhyme, it almost seems like an accident, and he's definitely not talking about a damn thing. And the track doesn't really leave any room for him to say anything even if he wanted to say something. The churning strings and enormous drums and weird fast-forward noises and siren-howls are so insane and overwhelming that anyone who tried to do any actual rapping would just get trapped in the mix.

Ummmmmm. Trapped in the mix.<<<<

With a track like "This is Why I'm Hot," there's always a vague impression that a real rapper could always come in and steal the song away from Mims with minimal effort;.......That idea doesn't work with "It's Me, Snitches." A remix of the song leaked out to the internet a couple of days ago, and it's even more of a dizzy mess than the original, except this time not in a good way.

I disagree.

Redman would killed this sh*t. For trill.

Redman. Jay. Doom. In fact that beat is a mainstream doom beat, w/ xylophone and staggered arrangement.

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Beans on the radio talking 'bout he a killer for hire.
(Hi Eskay. Thanks for the swipe).

Em. Okay.

First I was like whats the point of saying that?

Then I caught myself, and remembered is that Beans from
Philly which is like a East Coast Oakland. Nuff said.

Beans is kinda gully though.

I have allways been more of a Freeway Fan....Even though what we do is wrong....

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I also say "its me beeches" when I walk into the train/building
and the outfit is cute that day, so I guess I was predisposed to feeling this song.


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Don't Make Friends with Writers or Good Morning Video Vixen!

One of the downsides of being my friend is that I will blog about you. Especially if something funny happens. My girl s.bot (who likes gurrrls), saw, I Think I Love my Wife recently. She cracked me the fuck up w/ her comments.

S: Yo. You seen that new Chris Rock.

TT: Nah. I know you wanna see it. Kerry Washington is Bad. You allready told me you saw it and that you wanna see it again.

S: Dude. That movie is my life.


TT: What?!?!?!?!

S: Dude, Me and *Ayana have been together mad long, its like we are married. I be out, and video vixens role up on me and next thing I know I wake in the morn with a big booty in my bed and I ain't going to work that day.

TT: Whaaaaat!!?!?!?! Gurl. You crazy. When the last time you woke up w/ a big booty next to you? (Hellla loling).

S: Naw. You know. I would have told you.

TT: You this sh*t is mad funny. Imma blog about it. Im surries.

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Up date:

That dude that ain't want me to call him a n*gga. His lil scan'less @ss came back trynna pop up.

LOL.

He had the nerve to try and send me a message as if our prior exchange didn't even occur. Yall know I am not passive agressive in my personal life. I do enough of that professionaly @ school & work. N*ggas. I was like "ain't chu DEAD me" because of my language.

Him: I like you.

Me: You don't know me. You saw a flick and an e-mail exchange.

See. Fellas. I have a real sensitive aspergers antenna.

Why would openly SIGN UP for dealing w/ someone that is slow on the uptake(passive agressive) and trying to dead me b/c of my language when I am fast in the mouth, ass, mind and spirit.

Im mean really.

Its spring agaiiiiiin.

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Dude. I heard a song from Return of the Boom Bap.

I needs to get that sh*t again. Its magically delicious.

How yall doing?

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Who Knew That Rebecca and Alice Walker had So Much Funk?

Rarely do we ever hear about black families, namely mommas and daughters working through the kind of funk that we experience with our mommas.

As someone who has had a tulmultous realtionship with my mother (I love her BUT she crazy 'yall), I felt Rebecca when she was comfortably ambilivent about being on speaking terms w/ her momma.

She was both optimistic and unsure about what she was going to do when her son wanted to meet his grandmother. With Bill Cosby going on all of his Black parenting rants, I realize that there is a lack of public discourse about Black families, and the day to day sh*t that brings cats together and also tears them apart.

What does Jordan's son have to say about him and their relationship?
Magic Johnson's children?
What does Cosby's daughter have to say about theirs?

Maia Cambell, now that her momma just passed?

Danny Glovers Daughter?

Peep what Rebecca has to say in this Times Review of her new book Baby Love,

But it is also unusual in that it is a pregnancy book with a message for women who are not yet pregnant, amplifying a theme Ms. Walker sounds on the undergraduate lecture circuit.

“I keep telling these women in college, ‘You need to plan having a baby like you plan your career if it’s something that you want,’ ” she said. “Because we haven’t been told that, this generation. And they’re shocked when I say that. I’m supposed to be like this feminist telling them, ‘Go achieve, go achieve.’ And I’m sitting there saying, ‘For me, having a baby has been the most transformational experience of my life.’ ”

It seems to me, from Rebecca's comment that historically, having a baby HAS not been seen AS an acheivement. And perhaps that is part of the problem itself.

Perhaps, like to our career goals, it needs to be framed as a something to work towards along with something that sorta just "happens", or someting that we are ambivlent about.

The artiles touches on what happens when your momma is a famous writer.

Ms. Walker’s own evolution, from wounded daughter to earth mother, was perhaps particularly significant because “she was raised in a more radical zone,” Ms. Baumgardner said.

There is a tradition of feminist writing about pregnancy and motherhood, but not everyone had such a complex mother-daughter dynamic to process.

Alice Walker “gave to the world this incredible thing,” Ms. Baumgardner said. “But what you want from your parents is parenting.”

Rebecca and her momma got some of that millenial funk. My sister and my momma funk like that. I think they ain't spoke since was '01. All bad.

Ms. Walker and her mother have a complicated love, according to Rebecca. In high school, Rebecca legally changed her last name from Leventhal to Walker because, as she put it in “Black, White and Jewish,” she wanted to link herself to her mother “tangibly and forever” and to associate herself with blackness because she does not feel “an affinity with whiteness, with what Jewishness has become.” (That last sentiment, which is echoed in other parts of the memoir, led several publications to criticize it for reinforcing stereotypes.)

I am curious as to what sterotype was she reinforcing?

Here is Rebecca's Blog.


In an Essence article from '95 Rebecca discusses the "Pine Box Incident" in a warm, critical and reflective way,

When I was just 8 years old, my mother had me crawl into bed beside her before asking me to take some dictation. "When I die," she said as if she were telling me which clothes to lay out for the next day, "make sure I am buried in a simple pine box. And play lots of Stevie Wonder. My funeral should be a celebration!" Dutifully, I began to write--"P-i-n-e b-o-x, S-t-e-v-i-e W-o-n-d-e-r"--on the yellow legal pad she placed on my lap. I don't remember what I felt then as my mother asked me to prepare for a time when she would no longer be present. Now, after reliving certain childhood moments in an attempt to understand them and myself better, I imagine that I did what I always tried to do for my mama. I tried to be who and what she needed me to be at the time. Instead of asking her all the hideous questions running scared through my child-mind--Mama, are you going to die? Mama, are you leaving me? Mama, who will take care of me? Mama, what about us?--I simply memorized the funeral plan to the letter and cheerfully assured her I would take care of everything.

It reminds me of how OUR stories of pain, love and forgivness are largely missing among the American pop culture canon.

I have heard similar fears from other women whose working mothers had leave them alone for greater parts of the day or night, depending on them to "take care of things"; or who, because of some other circumstance beyond their control, usually abuse or neglect, were unable to get the kind of constant unconditional love that young children crave. Listening to their stories, it becomes clear why individuation is often so difficult for young women. We fear that if we go our own way, off into our destinies outside of our mothers' desires, we will surely perish. We will die of aloneness.

Rebecca ain't never lied on that. Between my money being funny and the ice storm, my plans this last weekend were screwed.

I spent 30 hours by myself this weekend.
That was 6pm Saturday to 10 am Monday morning.

While I did talk to people on the phone, there is something to be said for spending THAT much time by youself.

I spend Sunday reading, making evidence flash cards, teaching myself the doctrine of functionality in trademark law.

I would argue that this weekend was part of the individuation process that Rebecca mentioned above.

My Friday night date w/ TL fell apart. I thought I was gonna go to Boston for the Black Law Student conference. But I didn't register and the ice storm came. I called him on Thursday, he never confirmed w/ me so....that fell apart.

Saturday. No conference.

Sunday. March Madness was poppin and there was a Knicks game, but nobody was trying come outside and play so I kicked it w/ the books.

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Watchall think about this? Ummmmm mommas and daughters.

What ever happend to Lisa Jones, Baraka's daughter?
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