in particular the line of...Noz’s post on the end of KMEL has me thinking about boththe decline of the cities and the record industry in general. In order for any partnership to work, there has to bea meeting of concerned parties, so that everyone witha vested interest has an opportunity vet, discuss, criticizeand new plans or procedures.Functional cities and [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The Demise Music Industry is Like the Demise of Our Cities
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Spitzergate
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Man. Elliot. I liked you dude. You went after the white collar catswith a vengeance. Bill- Clinton. Monica.Kwame- Detroit Mayor. Had an affair with his assistant.Gavin- SF Mayor. Really offended men by sleeping with his bestfriends, wife.Ted Haggert- Republican. Denied having sex with young boys.Antonio- LA Mayor. Had an affair with TV news reporter. Men [...]
Back to the My Life Album
Monday, March 10th, 2008I was suppose to go to Dallas this weekend. I called SJ last Wednesday. The ticket was purchased during the postbreak up “lets see” era. I asked him if I could still come. He repliedneutrally, “ummmm, don’t know if you want to do that.I would love to see you but, it just may not be…” [...]
Black Wonkett on Why You Need to Read "Trapped" by Daniel Brook, Part II.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Now that we have established that $250K is thenew $100K. Let’s revisit why our social workers, teachers, andfilmmakers are choosing to go into finance.Daniel suggests that young peopledon’t want to be investment bankers because theywant to be rich, they want to do it because they wantto live in the city and and they are scared [...]
The Silent Treatment
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Tonight I saw The Savages. Great Movie. Horrible audience.Seeing a neurotic movie about putting your dad in a nursinghome and preparing to, as if YOU CAN prepare to, watchhim die, should be seen in with particular kind of audience. I felt loud in the movie because I laughed. I chuckled at, cheered ondisagreed and identified [...]
From E-40 to the Juice Crew
Friday, March 7th, 2008Apparently the Juice Crew is reuniting & performing. I was just geeked at theyoung Masta Ace flick. courtesy of young Brandon @ Urb “I don’t care who first or who’s last but all I know is that y’all better rock this at the drop of a dime, baby!” It’s been roughly 17 years since the [...]
Black Wonkett on…..Why You Need to Read "The Trap" by Daniel Brook Part I
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Raise your hand if you have college debt. Raise your hand if you can’t buy a housein the neighborhood you were raised in.Raise your hand if you don’t have health care.In his new book, Daniel Brook discusses how all of theseissues are intertwined and are disproportionatelyaffecting young college graduates and the middle class.Daniels general premise [...]
The Clipse Called Me a Tree-Hugging-Ass-B*tch.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I am a really big Clipse fan. Naturally, I have been listeningto We Got it for Cheap Vol 4. Last week, I had a moment where where I asked myself, did Pusha justcall me a “Tree Hugging Assed B-tch”? At 13:58 Pusha says, “Tree Hugging Assed Bitch came up to me the other day on [...]
I Can Only Listen to the New Erykah: Part I
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Time: 3:39 pm.Date: Saturday, March 1st. Spot: Cafe on Valencia in the Mission. SF,CAThe only thing that has my head sane right nowis the new Erykah. Telephone, My People, Me, The Healerhave been on constant repeat. Oh and the jointfrom Mama’s Gun, Green Eye’s.Oh, I got some of that new Pete too. That Jim Jones [...]
72 Hours of New Amerykah: Part II – First I was Malcom, now I’m El Hajj
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Last weekend, in BK, I resided with Mean Sexy‘s sister,Flybug Starski. We had one of those 4am, in the gristleconversations. We discussed our paths in life, whetherwe where we wanted to be and coping and planning for the future. It was awkward, painful and necessary. She demonstratedto me how my people can hold me down [...]
