Yes the CD is dark. Drug Laced. Affair ladened. And down right depressing @ times.

But sh*t. Who sings up tempo ballads w/ lyrics that you can f*ckin identify w/ when you are feeling blue?

Sometimes, out of the darkest periods come the hottest music/art.
Think Pac, Basquiat, Fridah, Coltrane.
They ALL had issues and their art was BANANAS.

I wish Amy all the best in O7.

Here is a link to her You Tube Jawn.

This fool started calling Obama RFK. Being Catholic AIN’T like Being Black fam.

First of all, his name sound like Osama.

Secondly, charisma & “vision” does not make a president. While it is refreshing.

Thirdly, Middle America is the truth, they vote like they love Jesus, and until the COASTAL cats and the Democrats realize this, will be permanant losers.

Forthly, Black people only been able to vote for like 10 minutes.

Just like the Virginia Legislator who said N*ggas need to forget slavery. There are Americans that feel that way. In fact I woke up to Chris Matthews and them talking bout how Obama transcends race because he isn’t angry and doesn’t harp on slavery or other racial injustices. His mom is white, and the inference is that he is half white, and consequently has managed to curtail his Black Male Racialized Anger.

However, you have your folks talking about how n*ggas need to get over slavery. My only question for them is would they be willing to forget, Abraham Lincon, George Washington, The Boston Tea Party, Christopher Columbus, Strom Thermond, The Civil War, The Vietnam war. Prolly not. Oh. When disturbed they many have paranoid delusions, delusion of grandeur or can become wholesale cialis price psychotic. c. However, the cheap viagra without prescription number and quality of the cells is highly variable. Many major issues and viagra cialis generic sources of dependency are sorted out with these therapy sessions. The trusted suppliers also keep your information and identity confidential and at the same time provides you with an authentic canadian viagra pharmacy mouthsofthesouth.com medication. The beauty of being white.

On last Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Frank D. Hargrove, a Republican lawmaker in Virginia’s House of Delegates, said that instead of seeking a formal apology from the commonwealth for slavery, “black citizens should get over it.” Hargrove also reportedly wondered how far such apologies should go. “Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?”

Frank Hargrove is one reason that young African Americans should never take their hard-won rights for granted. His outlook is also a wake-up call to some of my Jewish friends who think they have it made.

He has nothing I want, including an apology. But I’m not getting over slavery.

There’s nothing quite like going to a county office building down in Culpeper County, Va., and finding evidence of your family’s enslavement. I did that several years ago.

Pages of land records confirmed the story I had heard since I was a young boy: that my late mother’s maiden name, Colbert (my first name), was taken from a white Culpeper County family that had the last name Colbert and that owned my great-grandfather and his siblings before the Civil War.

However. Hillary for Prez and Osama for VP, you couldn’t beat that sh*t w/ a bat ock. You gotchur negro and your woman. It would certainly be an exciting time to be a Black Female, I tells ya.

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I saw this cat go down the stairs w/ a SB RIP hoodie.

I grabbed my camera and raced down the stairs, no jacket, no nothing, to catch this cat and take a flick.

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I tapped him, and look at me like he had just looked death in the nose and was cool with what he saw, for trill.

I asked him to take the flick, he took the phillie out his mouth and pulled the hood up and lowered his head.

I took the image and thanked him and ran inside to escape the 20 degree chill.

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NYC nights are the craziest.

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There is nothing like waking up and arguing over who is the better emcee.

Trite as the debate sounds, passion is hot, ock.

I spent the weekend in Minnesota and got put on, by my folks JT. His theory is that Jay only went hard and started braggin after Biggie/Pac died.

In the meantime Nas was still that dude that was holding it down.

So when J went at Nas, he got ethered, and that was all she wrote.

His theory is that, you can’t call ya’self the best, if you ain’t the best in your own region.

And that it appears suspect that the Hova talk began post Pac/Big. Consequently, Jay could never be “hov” b/c he didn’t go for the crown when there was super comp. And when he went for it, he got ethered.

Interesting 9am talk, right ?!?!??!?!

F*cking Minnessota has a 3 story Target.

It was all clean and uncrowded, unlike that lil sh*t they have @ the Atlantic Mall. Which I like but, it was just a whole new browsing experience.

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I saw Pursuit of Happyness. And unlike myfriend Drew Ricketts, the film resonated with me on two levels. The first level pertained to what a parent goes through in order to ensure a stable future for their children.

The second level is Wills ability to demonstrate his hunger for the stockbroker job, while simulltaneously being humiliated. Thats deep. Because being humilated tends to make people feel like victims, give up and get angry at the world for their situation.

Whereas w/ Will it fueled his determination and that was hot.

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Obama has taken a substantial step towards running. I am interested in seeing who aligns themselves w/ him vs. Hillary and what the consequences will be for their choices.

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Young women in Oakland are using Craiglist as a tool for prostitution.

Along San Pablo Avenue, International and MacArthur boulevards, underage women hang out talking on cell phones.

The calls they take are in response to Craigslist sex ads they’ve posted, said Jim Saleda of the Oakland Police Department’s Child Exploitation Unit.

Over the years, police and local agencies have seen the phenomenon of child sex trafficking increase tenfold, officials said Thursday.

To combat the complex problem, county and city officials and service agencies have launched a public awareness campaign that includes two one-minute public service video announcements created by the Youth Uprising staff.

“What we found as prosecutors is that a great number who are abused as children … end up being very vulnerable to predators we know as ‘pimps,'” said San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, who helped write a recently enacted state Senate Bill (SB 3042) that allows pimps and Johns to be prosecuted more harshly.

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Jerry Browns Legacy for Oakland: Some really beautiful Condos and 148 murders. Thats hot.

Oakland isn’t a city ? it’s a nightclub. It’s the seedy dive that languishes near the waterfront for years, then somehow, for fifteen minutes, becomes the Place to Be Seen. The proprietor may be in hock, the sewage lines may be about to burst, and next week, someone here will probably get shot. But for one glorious Friday night, bottle-blond pop stars show up in black Escalades and look fabulous for the paparazzi while the bartenders trade their authenticity for a few fat tips and the breathless exhilaration of finally being noticed.

At least, that’s how Mayor Jerry Brown treated Oakland for the last eight years. Watching Hizzoner exploit this desperate city to reinvent his public image and glide back into national prominence has been an exercise in endurance, to say the least.

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I was reading the newspaper in the airport yesterday, and remember gasping outloud that “Alice Coltrane is dead?”.

I love Alice.

I was in San Jose w/ my auntie and I came across these hood @ss, ^^^, Mac Dre T-Shirts.

Then there was also the typical hood death t-shirts.

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David Bell from Sony BMG sent me a link to the new Pack video.

I like the spirit they rep, but the song is okay.

I think its dope that they are fusing the skateboard world with the scraper world.

Next thing yo know, n*ggas will be trynna ghost ride the whip and skate board at the same time, lol.

My homie Dekka was suppose to direct that jawn, but I guess they will get up w/ him on the next project. (Dear Sony, Dekka is NICE w/ the visuals in addition to being both business and artistically inclined).

Lupe the Pack and NERD need to go on tour together.

They rep the same stee, plus it would be fun to see them cats perform together.

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Only in the town will you get Cajun Prawn Buritto. Mexico meets New Orleans, hunh!?!?!?!

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I went to my neice’s Xmas pagent at Maxwell Park school in East Oakland. While sitting in the Cafeteria/auditorium I noticed that there were pen and paper dispenser machines w/ big @ssed locks on them. Here is a photo below.

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Too Short was in the Tribune because he is “giving back” to Oakland.
He feels that w/ all the murders going on, he should do something constructive to help the young bucks.

The startling jump in Oakland homicides, which has attracted national attention, has compelled Too to return home and find out just what was going on.

“I was a young adult in the early ’90s, the last time the murder rate was this high,” the rapper told me in an interview. “In my day, people were dying behind drug wars, and there were lots of spots where people were making a lot of money. Now, it’s more of a war over attitude: ‘You piss me off and I’ll kill you.’

“That’s a new element, and it’s combined with the old feuds over family, neighborhood and longtime grudges.”

The growing carnage on Oakland’s streets has prompted a response from Too — the adult. These days he is more likely to run into the children of his contemporaries, including one brief encounter that really stuck with him.

A young man in his late teens whose father had grown up with Too introduced himself at a video shoot a few months back. When the young man told Too his father’s name, it rang a bell, “but I couldn’t put a face with the name,” the rapper said.

“Can you tell me what he was like?” the young man asked. “I never met him. He was killed.”

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Apparently Oakland has one of the best emergency rooms in the country because of the number of shooting victims that they treat.

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Hospital officials, citing patient confidentiality law, declined to comment. The emergency room there is widely considered one of the best in the nation in part because the medical staff has so much experience with shooting victims.

Jones, who investigated nonfatal shootings before joining the homicide team, said Oakland police are often in awe of how the staff at Highland Hospital saves lives.

“They perform miracles at Highland,” Jones said. ”There was a case where a guy was shot right in the middle of his forehead – I looked at him and thought, ‘He’s dead, that’s homicide,’ but they brought him back. I’ve interviewed the victim several times. He still suffers from his injury – how can you not? – but he walks and talks like nothing happened.”

Why go to Iraq, when you can go to Highland?

On June 6, Anderson was walking into a hair salon at 45th and Market streets when a gunman surprised him from behind and demanded his gold chain necklace.

“When I turned, he shot me once in the chest,” Anderson said. “He stood over me and tried to shoot me again, but the gun jammed. He grabbed my necklace and ran away.”

Anderson couldn’t move his legs or stand. But he didn’t wait for an ambulance – a friend drove him to Highland Hospital in Oakland. The bullet cut an artery and damaged nerves along his spine, he said.

“I flatlined – I was dead for five minutes, but the doctors brought me back,” Anderson said. “The bullet went through my stomach, tore up my liver, went through the main artery that pumps blood to my heart, and then it got my spine. I was unconscious for eight days.”

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Someone needs to do an economic analysis of the impact of the number of murders has on Oakland’s budget for public spending.

Perhaps the murders can be framed as a public finance issue.

For example, I wonder if the argument can be made that the murders in Oakland are sufficient to constitute a fiscal crisis because of the amount of money that tax payers spend on subsidizing the costs of having bullets removed from n*ggas backs.

Hear Toni Cook, Keith Williams and Olis Simmons talk about violence in Oakland.

Here is a CSI style map of all the murders in the town in 2006.

Even more interesting. Peep the overlap of the murders and the likker stores.

Which leads me to wonder if the people of Oakland can sue the City in a class action for allowing these stores to operate and create and sustain an environment that is conducive to crack and murder.
Peace to Gus D’Angelo for an amazing piece of graphic work.

This is one of the most powerful images that I have seen in a while.

Other than this one below from the SF ZOO.

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Wow. I just feel like I left a piece of my soul on the page.

How yall doing?

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