A couple of weeks ago Minnesota McGuyver got in my @ss for saying that one of the major distinctions between street dudes and academic/artist dudes is that street dudes are far more likely to be transparent w/ their emotions. (They are also more likely to call you @ 3am talkin’ ’bout can you stash me out?).

In addition he felt that we were breaking down cats into two strict categories, whereas hella cats fall into the gray area. That gray area is where the Academic and the artist dues overlap.

For him, it is offensive to say that street dudes are more emotionally transparent than the academics/artists. He felt that my homies were making that distinction because they have a thug fetish and they were using the “emotional transparency” argument as a convenient justification.

Consequently, women who fetishize the “bad boys” are not taking into consideration that academic cats can have a lil street jawn to them. And, that academic cats can be “emotionally expressive”. Which leaves us with the middle cats in the gray area.

Minnesota McGuyver major funk w/ me was a theory, posited by a couple of my girls, who’s experiences demonstrated that street cats:
a. Are more transparent with their feelings, less passive agressive.
b. Are more likely to let you know where you stand, in relationship to the other women in their lives. They tend not to keep a jawn at arms length b/c they can.
c. Are more likely to treat you, the academic sista, as The Prize, with a captial T.

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Which brings me to the new P video, Mac 10 Handle.
Ballerina P aka Pistol Pump P, aka P Lova from Queens.

Now ladies, tell me P, in all his corrupt darkness, ain’t fly.

Physically, not really. Spiritually. Super gulls.

This video reminds me of why a lady checks for dudes who put his sh*t out there.

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This is one of those posts that I contemplated for a couple weeks.

Then I hear MP in my head saying, gurrrl, let it dew what it do, so I let the words spill.

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The record industry is notorious for operating under quasi legal auspices.

Cannon and Drama need to do two things. Get Gotti’s attorney. If I recall, Gotty had a RICO charge.

Once they get his atty, he/she needs get down the Georgia attorney general and see about putting the record labels on the defensive by requesting an investigation into the labels practices of paying to have songs placed on mixtapes, then PENALIZING the DJ’s w/ a raid for selling too many mix tapes. **Cue DMX, DONT BE GREEDY.

The labels are gonna try and eat. They are institutions. Thats what they are built to do, like alligators. However, invading n*ggas houses, thats a declaration of war.

ABOUT PAYOLA

Fools are sitting up here citing the fact that label execs PAY DJ’s to put songs on Mixtapes. And? These n*ggas orchestrated payola for hella years too. Whats new?

Jeff Leeds breaks it down in The Times.

The labels? reliance on the D.J.?s is complicated further by the fact that many of the top mixtape creators also double as radio D.J.?s on major rap stations. Many label executives acknowledge that when they write checks to certain D.J.?s to produce a mix CD for an artist, there is often an expectation that the D.J. will play the artist?s music on the air ? an arrangement that recalls the industry?s recent radio corruption scandals involving illicit pay-for-play, or payola.

RECORD EXECUTIVES ARE SURPRISED

And many more people now know: last week, local authorities, working with the recording industry?s trade association, stunned fans and music executives alike by raiding DJ Drama?s studio in Atlanta and arresting him and a fellow D.J., Don Cannon, on racketeering charges. Investigators seized more than 81,000 allegedly pirated CDs and say the pair were producing unlicensed recordings and selling them without permission.

THE SCOPE OF THE CASE CHANGES

I thought this was a copyright infringement case. Then I came across this @ analoguehole.

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In both these cases, the court majorities found that the state laws in question were not preempted because the state offense included an “extra element” (lack of an identifying label) beyond the elements of a mere copyright violation. (The “true names” provisions are also drafted so as to apply regardless of the copyright status of the underlying work, or whether the copy was authorized by a copyright owner, so arguably the state true names offenses lack some of the elements of a copyright offense as well.)

However, Georgia’s state antipiracy statute goes beyond requiring “true names” labeling, treading into what clearly seems to be copyright territory. The Georgia law makes it a crime to “[t]ransfer … any sounds or visual images recorded on [any disc, tape, or other] article … onto any other [disc, tape, or other] article without the consent of the person who owns the master [disc, tape, or other] article from which the sounds or visual images are derived” or to distribute (or possess with intent to distribute) copies of any article to which which sounds or images have been transferred, “knowing it to have been made without the consent of the person who owns the master [disc, tape, or other] article from which the sounds or visual images are derived.” Ga. Code Ann., ? 16-8-60(a).

Drama’s case is a tricky issue b/c there are notions of federal copyright law as well as notions of notions of state racketeering law involved.

MIX TAPES vs. BOOTLEGS: THE DISTINCTION

He goes on to address the distinction between MIX TAPES AND BOOTLEGS and the applicable law and tests.

Unlike a typically street vendor of pirated CDs, a DJ selling mixtapes would want to identify the product as his own, and also will generally (in my admittedly limited experience) identify the various tracks included in the mix. So a “true names” violation is unlikely. Perhaps the Georgia authorities have other RICO predicates in mind that are unrelated to the content of DJ Drama’s mixtape CDs (like state tax or licensing violations, or maybe someone has been taking DJ Drama’s compilation label, “Gangsta Grillz,” too literally). But given the involvement of the RIAA in the raid, and the public statements from the RIAA’s Bradley Buckles, et al., it appears that the charges are indeed based on the mixtapes themselves.

If the basis for the DJ Drama RICO charges is indeed a claim of “unauthorized distribution” under Ga. Code 16-8-60(a), then we should expect some vigorous challenges to the statute. It would seem that Simmons and Cannon likely have the means to mount a vigorous defense, and they certainly have the incentive to do so. And given that Georgia’s “unauthorized distribution” law so closely mirrors federal copyright law, it also seems quite difficult to see how the Georgia statute could withstand such a vigorous challenge.

Ummmm Sticky legal questions!

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I think that is a whole weeks worth of blogging fam.

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My girl s.bot put me on to the new Amy Winehouse on Friday. Right now I am trying to get my hands on a copy of Frank, her last sh*t. Please believe I listened to Back to Black ALL weekend.

Damn near 72 hours straight blog fam.

S.bot said that I like “that dark sh*t”. I was like um. We all have a dark side. The difference is in how we manage it. Just like Dilla’s Donuts, this was the right album @ the right time for me.

First of all the album is like love in a dark cave whose only light is a cigarette flame.

Life gets trill. Whatareyagunnado?

I was waiting for my final grades this weekend which had the potential to affect 6 or 7 other things in my life, like my living situation, future job opportunities, the whole 9.

And my brother f*cked around and got into it with his wife on Saturday and the popo got involved. You know I was heated.

I was like god, I KNOW you not about to take my brother away from me on some stupid sh*t b/w him and his lady.

And on top of all that lovliness BL and I called it quits recently. So your girl is out here in NYC trynna get a handle on this chess game they call dating and/or being single.

Suffice it is to say that Amy’s tells of rehab, likker, sex and live stung me in the spine this weekend.

Fortunately both my school and my brothers situation’s worked out.

But. This weekend. Women do not require as tab viagra much testosterone as men to enjoy sex. Therefore, as a sildenafil pills treat you have to be a victim. One of saddest things about people in abusive relationships is the way they use their counseling losses and therapy misses to lock themselves in their despair, until the lid pops and they end buy cialis levitra up in a domestic abuse divorce. Obama loves the Palestinians viagra cipla 20mg as much as $15, which is far above many people’s means. I was feeling it ya’ll. I had no idea how life was gonna shape shift this month.

So, Amy got play. Infact no soul music has moved like this album since the My Life album. I know. Mary refers to it as her dark period.
But d*mn if those songs aren’t timeless. Infact I ain’t bumped a WG so hard since Fiona Apples Extraordinary Machine.

Last night, inbetween watching the Saints and sippin some Stella’s, me and my folks West got into the Obama fight.

Last Friday, I was in Whole Foods in Union Square, my Happy Place, w/ S.bot.