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This was by far the best weather I have seen this summer.
Why does haagen daz cost $2.50/bar?

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Call a Spade a Spade. The Descent of Maurice Clarett.

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I have been following Maurice Claretts situation for a hot minute.

He was arrested earlier this week with hella guns. In a car. Wearing a bp vest. Ouch!
Clarett’s recent arrest reminds me of the greater issue of how institution’s decide how and to what extent they will invest in their members.

His situation reminds me of the fact that Model Minorities HAVE to constantly be aware of the fact that being talented/athletic/brilliant is not enough. They also have to:

  • Have a way of managing stress, anger and depression.
  • Learn how to manage relationships with the institutions that they are a member of.
  • Learn how manage relationships with people whose salaries depend on their success.

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I personally experienced the wrath of tangling with an institution this year. Trust. It’s war.

Now Clarett clearly had a troubled life from jump street, Did anyone intervene? What resources were available to him? On its face, it appears as if Clarett is clearly on the DMX action plan.

However, I think there are some other issues operating here.

Clarett’s situation reflects not only his poor decisions, but also the fact that institutions will only invest in an individual, in the short term, if they are guarenteed, a HUGE return on investment.

If Not. Tough sh*t.

In The Post, Michael Sabon says,

Perhaps football might have saved Clarett at one point. Even as someone who was not in favor of the NFL changing its rules to allow Clarett in early, I sit at the keyboard now wondering what might have become of Clarett had he spent the last three years within the structure of a football team, which is probably the only structure he had ever known — certainly the only one he ever appreciated. It’s impossible to not wonder what might have happened had Clarett been good enough to stick with the Denver Broncos, who brought him to camp last summer.

Don’t ever be desperate. Black. And an aspiring Ball player.


Nothing but poor decisions will come of this.
Desperation compromises ones ability to consider the long term effect of their current actions.
Peep.

Problem was, Clarett played the wrong sport for that kind of individual cash-in. The NBA sells its stars; the NFL sells its teams. Clarett wasn’t sophisticated enough to see the difference. He wanted what he felt was coming to him, so he left Ohio State. He listened to the fools who told him it was his birthright to play in the NFL, even though labor laws and smart labor lawyers knew otherwise. Instead of getting tens of thousands of dollars up front to sign with the Broncos, which at least would have given him a little financial cushion (which more than 99 percent of kids coming out of college get), some knucklehead negotiated a back-loaded deal that presumed Clarett would make the team, which he didn’t.

Clarett is troubled. He has clearly impolded. Every institution he interacted with is contributorily neglegent.

I hold Clarett accountable.

I hold Ohio State and the Broncos accountable too.

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Yall think im wrong. Narrow minded. Cynical. Naive.
Prolly a little bit of all of them. The bottom line is that what went down with this cat is symbolic and it is worthy of being analyzed.

I can hear crickets in this daggone blog. I guess erry body on vacy ‘cept for me.
Thats cool. Imma go to see the penguins tomorrow. So, that kinda, makes it a mini vacay. Right!?!?!?!!?

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Hip Hop Culture is NOT Youth Culture.

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DMX do be putting his heart and soul into his performances. I have long felt that X is one of the dudes I could pretty much take to any hood and feel comfortable. He rocks like that. Kalefa from the Times says,

X has built a hugely successful career (all five of his albums have made their debut at No. 1) by highlighting the kind of turmoil that rappers more often hide. Even more than Eminem (who balances his paranoia with a mischievous sense of humor) or Tupac Shakur (who balanced his laments with smooth, swaggering boasts), DMX makes it impossible for listeners to ignore his suffering and desperation.

X has been charged with possession of crack cocaine pipes and, on another occasion, cocaine. (Plenty of rappers brag about selling it, but smoking it remains absolutely taboo.) He has also been charged with animal cruelty, reckless driving and, strangest of all, impersonating a federal agent


I will co-sign on the fact that X is transparent with his emotions in a ride or die way that is severly endearing.
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A couple weeks ago, in the Sunday Times,
Benjamin Bridwell, of the “Band of Horses”, had an insightful review of Ghostface.
He says,

I am a big fan of all the Wu Tang stuff, so I was anticipating ?Fishscale? (Def Jam) for a while. I bought it the first day, and we?ve been listening to it constantly for the past month. The guy is just murdering the game, in the lingo. The whole album is so hungry, it has some of the best hooks on it. The lyrics are out of control and hilarious. ?Be Easy? is an awesome song: it?s all about New York. There?s also the song ?Kilo? featuring Raekwon, which has great female backing; the lyrics just grab you. I can?t quote the lyrics because it?s a family paper, but on the sixth song he comes out and he says, ?Ya?ll be nice to the crackheads.? You really should be nice to the crackheads, they?re struggling.

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Davey D makes some very important points in his article that ask’s whether hip hops main audience is white.
He points out that:

  • The statistic started in 1991 when Newsweek Magazine did a cover story on Gangsta Rap and in their article they put out an un-researched statistic that said 80% of Hip Hop’s audience is white and that its reflected in record sales.

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  • “Granted if one goes to a Mos Def show or even a Wu-Tang concert you will see a majority white audience in many cities, but does that translate to that 80% white [hip hop] audience?

  • The article is informative in that it offers a chronology of how, when and where Hip Hop was played on the radio.

  • Radio remains segregated, but not nearly was much as it was in the past. Davey points out how Top 20 rock/pop stations started playin Hip Hop. As a result they retained the amenities of being top 20, w/o having the stigma of being a nigga station.

What difference does it make if hip hops major audience is White or Latino or Black?

Historically, a variety of ethnicities have enjoyed Black Music. White folks rocked with Motown. Japanese folks lovingly patronized 1950’s jazz and currently shows mad love to underground AND mainstream hip hop acts.
Hip Hops audience is not the major problem.
The major problem is that Black Culture is Equivicated with Hip Hop Culture. Which is dead wrong.

A people are NOT DEFINED by a music.

Music can be influential.
Music can play a major role in our lives.

Music can motivate you.

But to equivicate a genre of music with the definition of a people. Not cool fam.

We are more than Hip Hop.
That, by and large is the Problem that Bill and O has with Hip hop.
 Where is the self awarness?

Where is the hood accountability?

Why inna f*ck ain’t Damon Dash invested in real estate IN MARCY. IN Harlem. In Bushwick?
Why aren’t their 15 Magic Johnson’s? Its a war out here fam, and trust, between Ratner and Columbia, n*ggas gon’ be in Philly, Maine.

That is For True.

And Trust fam. This housing/education/work situation is Huge. It makes me wanna say that THE situation is bigger than hip hop. What I will say is that Hip Hop’s potential is amazing. Our current situation is BIGGER than Hip Hops current status. I think that is a a more accurate statement.

It is fatal to base ones culture on a movement that is driven by youth. Young people that that are largely hyper-undereducated and are so influenced by the dominant cultures message that they yet spend, spend, spend. They buy Akademics this and BAPE that ’till the cows come home. Hyper consumers and producers of little.

I am not turning on HH. HH was there for me when my family wasn’t. What I am saying is that complex situation, requires a multilayered analysis.

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Wow. That was a late summer rant.

On to more , ahem, lighter topics.
So Gravy really did get shot, AND STILL GO UP to Hot 97. Peep this expose from the New Yorker Magazine by Ben McGrath.

For moral support, Gravy had assembled a sizable entourage?three or four dozen men?and outfitted them with extra-large blue T-shirts that read ?Gravy? on the front and, on the back, ?Brooklyn ?Get Up,? ? a reference to the first single from his forthcoming album. Punctuality is unusual in the rap world, but Gravy and his crew arrived early for his session, and when he presented himself at the Hot 97 studio, on Hudson Street in the West Village, at a quarter to seven, Flex sent him away and told him not to return until ten. Gravy went around the corner to get something to eat.

A couple of hours passed. ?Then, after I got a sandwich and came out of the store?da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! ? Gravy told me later, mimicking the sound of gunfire. ?The only thing I remember is falling, and knowing that I?m shot?just don?t know where. It?s not like, when you get shot, ?Oh, I got shot here.? Nah. You know you hit, so your mind frame is?you pumped, your adrenaline is going. I reach my hand over, and I see I?m bleeding. I didn?t see the hole. I can?t see behind my ass.?

Gravy is an enormous man?well over six feet, and more than three hundred pounds?with a caboose to match. The bullet, it turned out, had struck him in his left buttock. ?Straight clean shot? through the ass, through the thigh,? he said, gently rubbing the front of his pants leg.

I nominate Gravey for the Gully MC of 2006 award.
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That was a big ‘ol August Hip Hop post.
Isn’ this weather lovely?

I “found” that Mary song, Sincerity, I have been on the hunt for it for a hot minute.

All I knew was the beat. But. Sh*t. Sometimes that is all you need.

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I got ‘cho back, You Best Getcha Front!

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I have one of those brains that will think about something. Plan on doing it. Get distracted, file it away. Search for it again when I have more time.

For example a few months ago I remembered seeing someone use Amazon wish lists are used to fetter out ?subversives?.

Peep how Lars Toomre explains how works. He says,

While subconsciously I had been aware of how much personal data is freely distributed as we go about our daily lives, this post was an eye-opener for how ?an individual with access to the internet can still develop a fairly sophisticated profile of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens using free and publicly available resources.? The author, Tom Owad, then develops an example of how possible subversives can be identified using public baby names data, key phrases and books titles/subjects, the Amazon book wish list functionality, and the free Google Maps API. This example is truly impressive just for what Tom created as a demonstration.

Tonight, I found myself blogging and editing my book list so I decided to search the amazon list.

I cannot BELIVE WHAT I FOUND.

This dude searched and downloaded 15 thousand amazon wish lists.

He choose some right leaning books, some left leaning, and the bible.

He then:

-Sorted 10 of them using their ip addresses.

–Located their lat/alt coordinates.

-Then he yahoo mapped him.

The process is called datamining. Which is fitting.

I felt intrusive reading it.

One day you could be reading Orwell, next day you could wind up in Guantanamo.

But the truth is that all this info out and available to the public

Why didn?t I become an computer engineer again?


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See yall didn’t know m.dot could flip it on the techology side. That must be the silicon valley in me coming out, har har har.

This weekend was so dope. BL’s family had a jump off at Bear Mountain, which is about 1 hour from NYC. Then he ran me around like a slave at Ikea and BJ’s.

Long live the weekend warriors right. Oh. Please believe, renting a Ford Exlplorer rental for the weekend, is THAT SH-t. Who KNEW cars/suv’s could be that much fun!?!?!?!

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