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80’s Soul Robotica Music: Santogold, M.I.A and Amanda Blank

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I don’t know if MIA or Santogold are emcees
in the rigid sense of the word.
However, I am warm to the idea of them getting
love and being able to live as artists.

You all know how I feel about having more than the
Rhianna prototype represent who women are in pop music.

We are thick, petit, dark, light, nappy, curly,
bone straight, angry AND content.
Our music should reflect this.

There was an article in The Times this Sunday
about women in hip hop which mentioned
M.I.A, Santogold, Kid Sister and Amanda Blank.

I have a hard time placing them square into
the throws of hip hop. I think they are doing
something a little different.

But this is Post Party like a Rock Star,
Post Yeye + Daft Punk. So it makes sense.

In a way, I feel the more weird and boundary
pusing the music is, the more license I have to
be weird and push the boundaries.

Its a vicious, vicious cycle.

Perhaps they are part of their own genre
of 80’s-Soul-Robotica. But then that phrase
doesn’t even capture M.I.A’s global tension.

Even thought the article mention’s most of
the women discussed in this post I couldn’t help
but feel that the article was missing something,

?There is a reason why these artists are having so much early traction online,? said Josh Deutsch, chief executive of Downtown Records, which will release albums by Amanda Blank and Santogold this spring. ?And it?s because they have such strong voices and strong points of view. Therefore, this process continues in the bile ducts, liver, sphincter of Oddi djpaulkom.tv purchase cheap levitra causing the stones’ formation, blockages, and inflammation. Some are actual rings as their identify company counterparts, and perform just as correctly, but price significantly a lesser amount of. samples viagra It originates best buy for viagra in the dental pulp and/or in the peri-radicular tissues. Side effects are common to develop with the anti-impotence cialis price canada drug. There?s nothing remotely manufactured about them.?

How many times do I have have to hear
“These girls have something to offer” or
“they are saying something different”?



Perhaps we can talk about what it means to
be outside the boundaries and what it means to
be a female in POP music and go against the grain.

What’s really going on?

Which reminds me that I need to netlfix that Dixie Chick
documentary.

The notion of making different music reminds me
of Gregs Tate’s latest rumination on Black
Rockers in this year Pazz and Jopp Poll. He writes,

That said, Black Rockers (or Negroes Who Rock) need our own Pazz & Jop, and really our own Village Voice and our own Grammies, and of course our own extraterrestrial galaxy far, far away. If only because I’d love to show and tell the good news to all those other Black people who don’t rock, but are maybe open to hearing something musical from American-raised coloured folk other than Beyonce, Rihanna, Jay-Z, or Soulja Boy. Because such folk need?nay, deserve?to know how stupendously, consistently genius MeShell Ndegeocello’s The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams is….


Every since my “I Can’t Listen to Nas” post,
I have been trying to figure out what I am going to run to.

As of late, it seems like the Stars are lining up.
I just discovered Ken Starr, NERD is coming out
with a new album and M.I.A. is showing some
running potential.

So, I think I will start with M.I.A.

Tomorrow.

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Listened to any new genre pushing
music lately?

Is the Black Rop-Rock recognition a
long time coming? Where Kelis at?

She the main one in all this.

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Martini Moratorium

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This weekend I had a martini moratorium.

I mentioned in the Credit is the Devil post that
my two favorite hot momma items are dirty martini’s
and vintage dresses.

I like the martini’s with four or five olives.
I like the dresses sheer.

The Saturday of MLK weekend, I had too many ‘tini’s
and it was all Ghostface’s fault.

See, earlier in the day I was talking to our dear friend Sweet Jesus
and it was one of those intractable conversations, where
I just wanna be like love me or leave me alone.

Don’t get me wrong. I go hard for dude.
He has taught me about humility, he appreciates
the fact that I am a dreamer and he has never hated on my
greasiness.

But, the conversation was beginning to make
me wonder if he would just prefer to be my
friend instead. Would that actually be better for us?

Why did I say that?

It was one of those moments where you say
something, and you don’t realize the gravity of it.

We decided to think about it and talk about it
later.

That evening I was listening to my pod. It was the new
Ghostface in fact. The more I listened to it, the more
“ignorant” encouragement I received, the more
I was willing to “to go hard in the paint”.
It accelerated my anger. Eventually,
I got to the point where “I didn’t need a date,
I got Ghost face”.

I mumbled to myself, forget that fool if he just
wanna be friends.

I know, it looks pitiful reading it, but those thoughts
actually ran through my head.

Suffice it is to say I went out, ran into a new lounge owner
who saw my ID said Brooklyn and we wound up
chatting about Smith Street and Bedstuy and
the Martini’s kept coming.

Here is the rub, the next morning I woke up feeling like
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am a light weight now. So, I thought was just paying the price.

The following day I felt worse, like runny eggs in a cold iron skillet.
It finally dawned on me on Monday afternoon that
I had caught Strep.

ALL bad. There is nothing more humbling then getting sick.

I was calling the doctors, trying to get an appointment.
They were not trying to see me.

Dr. Lopez is not accepting new clients.
Dr. Greenberg can see you in March.

What. But I’m SICK TODAY!

Hence the moratorium.

To top it all off. On Sunday, my favorite,
vintage store, which is open every other Wednesday
from 1:00-1:30pm was open.
So I bought a new dress.
At least it will last longer than the olives in a dirty-flirty.



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When was the last time you told someone
that you wanted to be just friends?

Or for that matter someone told you?

Why do we underestimate the emotional impact
of some of the things we say?

Do you think hip hop has the capacity to accelerate our
ignorance?

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Sometimes the House Game Remind Me of the Crack Game

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Once upon a time there were low interest rates.
Because of this, banks decided to make loans to people.
These people turned around and bought $400K houses
when they could only afford $200K houses.

The banks major justification for signing off on these loans,
“everyone else was doing it.”

Did I mention that they did not check pay stubs on
those stated income loans?

Now the government is set to give folks a “stimulus

Wasn’t the government complicit in these loans being
made in the first place?

Isn’t it fraud to benefit from folks being confused by exactly
Is this class action worthy seeing as the predominant
number of people who lost were Black and Latino?

I don’t know. That’s a question for the government,
the US Attorneys office and the NAACP.

Now I just found an article discussing how a
disproportionate number of people who are losing their
homes to foreclosure are Black and Latino, and in Baltimore
they are Black, single mommas.

At Vixxen Hair Salon, the main topic of conversation has always been money. But since last August, Anjanette Booker, the owner, has noticed a new focus. ?Now it?s money and foreclosures,? Miss Booker said.

For each of the last four years, more than half of the foreclosures in this neighborhood have been homes owned primarily by women, according to an analysis of public records by the Reinvestment Fund, a nonprofit community development organization.

The foreclosures threaten the neighborhood?s fragile stability. And they highlight a broader dimension of the housing meltdown: subprime mortgages, which are driving the foreclosure rate, have gone disproportionately to women.

Single women have been among the fastest-growing groups of homeowners in recent years, and in Baltimore they accounted for 40 percent of home sales in 2006, twice the national average, according to the National Association of Realtors. Nearly half of these mortgages were subprime, National Community Reinvestment Coalition found.

On one hand I feel that you know that when you borrow
from the Dope Man/Banks you have to pay him back.
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Remember my credit is the devil post. We talk about
credit and its perils here all the time at Model Minority.

On another level, I know that there is a connection between
the home ownership gap, the achievement gap, the savings gap
and ultimately the wealth gap.

Add this to what we all know about 40 acres and a mule,
Katrina and Urban Renewal and completely I get what
would compel someone to buy a house with an ARM loan.

Houses involve the law, emotion, family and identity.

?When I bought my house, it was the American Dream,? said Kue McIntyre, 33, a single mother of three who is scrambling to avoid losing her row house, on which she defaulted after losing her job. ?Now I need to save it for my boys. If it was just me, O.K., I?d have to give up my first home. But it?s different when you have it for the kids. When they turn 18, I want this to be theirs.?

She hit the nail on the head when she said, I just wanted to have
something to leave to her sons, who can blame her?

Owning property is significant, in a way that I can’t describe,
to people who have once BEEN property.

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What would you do if your house was being foreclosed?

Are the mommas wrong?

The banks?

All of us for not anticipating it?

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Prisons are the New Steel Mills

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I am obsessed with poverty pimps.
Once Filithy told me that Prisons are the new Steel Mills, I folded prisons into my poverty pimp theory.

Remember in American Gangster when Russel Crowe mentioned
that many people would be out of work if the drug war
was ended and implicitly that was a major incentive to keep
it going.

I had this in mind when I read an article last night in the Times
about how impact that the closing of prisons in upstate NY is
having on rural communities.

As rural economies across the country crumbled in the 1980s and the population of prison inmates swelled, largely because of tougher drug laws, states pushed prison construction as an economic escape route of sorts. Throughout the 1960s and ?70s, an average of four prisons were built each year in rural America; the rate quadrupled in the 1980s and reached 24 a year in the 1990s, according to the federal Agriculture Department?s economic research service.

The boom, experts say, provided employment, but it also fostered a cycle of dependency. Depressed rural communities came to rely on the prisons as a source of jobs, economic sustenance and services, with little effort devoted to attracting other viable businesses.

?What we?ve seen in New York and other states is that one prison led to another prison and led to another prison, creating the notion that there?s no other economic development option than to build prisons to foster stability in rural areas,? said Tracy Huling, an independent consultant in New York who has done extensive research on the role of prisons in rural economies.

Cycle of dependence is an understatement.

The article is out of pocket because it lacks in its criticism an economy
that depends on one group of desperate people going to jail to provide jobs
to another desperate group of people.

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Sean Bells daughter, Jada.

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Detectives in the Sean Bell case will waive a jury trial.

The move comes a day after a setback to the detectives, when an appeals court denied their request to move the trial out of New York City. If granted, the move promises to cool the tenor of the proceedings.

Defense lawyers have long seen bench trials as a means of removing emotion from the trial, with the hope of an analysis of the testimony steeped more in a professional?s legal training than a peer?s judgment.

Last week the word was that they were trying to get a change of
venue, this week, they are waiving their right to a jury trial.

Interesting.

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Police officers killed a 23 Black Off duty plain clothes officer
in White Plains.

Race may or may not be a factor.

The off-duty Mount Vernon police officer who was shot and killed by Westchester County police officers on Friday tried to break up a fight between two men and was trying to arrest one of them when he was fatally wounded, the authorities and two witnesses said on Saturday.

The officer who was killed, Christopher A. Ridley, 23, was off duty and not in uniform when he witnessed a ?violent, aggravated assault? shortly before 5 p.m. near Court Street and Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains, outside the district offices of the Westchester County Department of Social Services, said Frank G. Straub, the commissioner of public safety in White Plains.

Wow.

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Have you visited a jail lately?

Do you know anyone who works in corrections?
Are you ever worry about them not coming home at night?

My brother in law is a cop and my cousin
works at juvey.

Let me tell you. People treat you different when they know you
have a cop in the family. It’s weird tho, because even tho’ he fam,
“he still po-po” as Dig Dug says.

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Model Minority LOVES GOOGLE READER.

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Thanks to Rafi, my google reader game is
bananas. I have always had a knack for finding news links,
but scrolling through google reader gives me the
same feeling I had in that dream where everything
 in the March Jacobs store was $3.99.

Ok. Not quite. But similar.

Peep the range of articles, yet how snugly they fit
into our corner of the internet.

I found a blog about working girls.

I became a “working girl” because an odd confluence of events in my life. First, my fiance left me, quite abruptly, for a stripper. I was, of course, traumatized. I needed to get my mind off him, and entering a series of forbidden encounters with relatively anonymous men seemed like the only thing immersing enough to do the job. It was perhaps a way to punish him (he knew what I was doing, and felt awful about it), and was also a strange way to remain attached to him. Additionally, I was fascinated by the stripper he’d left me for. We’d had lunch. By Western Beauty Standards, she was much less beautiful than I (although her body was pretty fucking fantastic). But there was this certain way that she was sexual: she felt powerful, in control, confidant, like she knew every crevice of her sexual being. She was, quite obviously, a professional. I was an amateur then. I didn’t know a thing. I wanted to be a professional too.


While reading this I couldn’t help but think,
isn’t this why cats love the Vixens or at least the IDEA
of the vixens. The notion of a woman knowing every crevice
must be appealing.

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Top 5 Folkey Covers of Rap Songs. I have seen the other videos
but this one is new, to me.

That’s actually NOT that bad. In a laid back, sedated
almost depressed way.

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These fools have analyzed Rappers reading levels based
on song lyrics. Somehow, I feel like there is a better
use for this tool.

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And Finally the 9 most Racist Disney characters.

I am so glad they mentioned the crows from Dumbo.
Even as a little kid I knew something was hella outta pocket
about them.

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LA is opening weed vending machines.
I am going to have to see that to believe it.

Holy crap, what country is LA in? I mean, last time I was there I was surprised enough at the billboards offering medicinal marijuana cards, but this is insane. Starting on Monday, people who have medical conditions such as glaucoma, cancer, and the deadly not-stoned-enough virus can start getting their fat buds from special “AVMs.” These electronic drug dealers won’t be out on the street next to a Pepsi machine, of course. No, they’ll be “housed in standalone rooms, abutting two dispensaries and protected by round-the-clock security guards.

I imagine that they will be in The Bay by next Tuesday.

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Your favorite rappers government name is up at Whudat.com

Clipse Malice– ——Gene Thornton Jr.
Clipse Pusha T—–Terrence Thorton
Flavor Flav———–William Jonathan Drayton, Jr
Freeway————— Leslie Pridgen
Killah Priest———- Walter Reed
KRS One————– Lawrence Krisna Parker
Masta Ace———— Duval Clear

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Elliott Spiter is trying to TAX COCAINE. He is a fool.
Guess the subprime fall out has folks looking into
some creative revenue streams.

Among the hundreds of proposals contained in Gov. Eliot Spitzer?s second executive budget, which he unveiled on Tuesday in Albany, is a provision that would impose a $3.50-a-gram tax on marijuana and a $200-a-gram tax on other illegal drugs, like cocaine.

We took a look at the fine print to better understand the details of this legislative proposal ? which, incidentally, is very similar to a proposal that Mayor Edward I. Koch put forward in 1988. (That proposal, to tax illegal drugs in New York City, also at a rate of $200 a gram, did not come to fruition.)

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Internet links are such a time suck.

When was the last time you got online “just to check your
e-mail” and you looked up and an hour and a half went by?

What are your favorite sites to peruse? Post links por favor.

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