Thank you to all who completed the survey, I have seventeen responses so far and would reallylike twenty. Here is a short summary: 41% of you volunteer in your community58% of you don’t Some of the things that we can do in hip hop to change the music is: community outreach with increased focus on [...]

Yesterday I was in the train station not feeling too hot.The outfit was fly, but I just was not in the mood for thejuvenile attention that the outfit seemed to provoke.As if clothes provoke behavior. These young men allhave home training, whether they choose to use it issomething completely different. As I stood on the [...]

Links make the world go ’round. Anwar has some poetry that I was also pleasantly surprised by. I came across Doorknockers and was surprised to find akindred spirit. B-Girls, check. Bk & The Bay, Check.Boom Bap, Check. Peep this map of humanity. I heart maps. HHIR has just posted samples for both BlackStar and Big [...]

SAY word. WASHINGTON – Alberto Gonzales, the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence. Republicans and Democrats alike had demanded his departure over the botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firings of U.S. attorneys, but President [...]

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. [...]

.cink{font-size:10px;font-family:tahoma;color:a9a9a9;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;} 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chip Johnson wrote an article on crime in Oakland that I have major beef with. He calls himself drawing attention to the lack of police presence in the well heeled neighborhoods and how long it takes for them to respond, in the event that they do. What he failed to do was realize how biased, [...]

My top ten favorite moments in the Documentary: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: 1. Seeing Stephen Hill from BET walk away from Byron when asked how he felt about the Black male images on BET. 2. Hearing dude being interviewed on the street say, I SOLD WATUH last summah. WHAT! 3.Seeing dudes grab girls booties and [...]