What if Rakim had the Internet?


If Rakim had the internet in 1990 Hip Hop would arguably be different. I think that people like us, who adore music from the back pack, boom bap era would have a constant cycle of music to listen to and tours to attend.

Think about it. The problem isn’t Hot 97 or KMEL. The problem is how a few artists are played over and over again and how their artistic range is tied to Universal Music’s shareholders dividends *[more on this in the next post].

If Rakim had the internet in 1990 perhaps:

1. Eric B could have e-mailed beats to Rass Kass.

2. We would have an online distribution network of emcees and artist.

3. You Tube in 1990 would have circumvented the power of MTV. N*ggas could just put their videos up on YouTube.

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5. Doom woulda been doing jawns with Del and Souls of Mischief.

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That you are getting paid for your images does not make you powerful. That is my argument regarding the popularity of Buffie the Body. But I think that it can be extended to hip hop also. Getting paid is one thing. Being in control of your images is another.

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Nahright has the Jay-Z HP commercial. I don’t know how I feel about it. Watch it and tell me what you think.

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I have been away blog family. I missed ‘yall. How do you think HH would be different today if Rakim had the internet in 1990?

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Hooked On Mobb Phonics, Infamous Bonics

BL suggested that I should do a post on the history of slang. I was like negro thassa book. Not a post. But in the spirit of researching for it, I found this, Rudy Ray More site, Dolemite.com. I kid you not. I can’t belive that this is black art from the 70’s. And you no know what no one talks about is how Blacksploitation saved Hollywood from bankruptcy. Yall’ better get up on ‘nat Van Peebles flick and getcha mind right.

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This captures ebonics ever so eloquently,

“Most people won’t understand you if you speak (black English),” Tatum said, her round face serious as she explained how the program has helped her. “This teaches us how to learn the right language so that if you meet a group that speaks (standard English) you will know how to talk to them.” [ Thats right baby, gon’ and learn that job innnerview tawk].The subject of ebonics was swept onto the national stage this week when the Oakland school board unanimously approved a districtwide policy to recognize black English as a full-fledged language. District officials say ebonics will not be taught, but teachers will be instructed to respect the language and help children learn how to translate it into standard English. [How in the hell you gon’ teach something that the kids allready don’ learnt at home. Stupid a$$ reporters. Allways tryna sensationalized something].

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Oh. Black people don’t do consonant clusters by the way. IF ANYTHING IS EBONICS, then that is. A linguist RULE TO BOOT.

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Oh. This site as been up and has represented lovely for a hot minute.

Bubble- Any luxury car with tha bubbled out eyes.
Bubbling – Rising up, coming up. Bubbling under.
The Burg – Stands for the city of Pittsburg, home to rappers such as the Mob Figaz, Laze, and Bobby Blake
Bluebird – Refering to something that is hassling or bothering you. It could refer to anything from the police to a nagging girlfriend.
breakin pockets- when a nigga be gettin hella money from hella hoes makin dem broke.
Breezy – Female, broad.
Broccoli – Marajuana, weed.
Burners – A cellular telephone that is being used illegally.

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The innernet is crazy. This cat requested for people to call in speak ebonics and has provided the quicktime and transcripts to support it. Deep hunh. He claims that THIS IS NOT ebonics and that he is NOT MAKING FUN. If that is the case, then what exactly are his intentions?
I guess this is what happens when well meaning liberals get hold of a website.

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So nan. Gotty. This is proof that I can blog about ONE TOPIC. SO HAR! I think Imma go to harlem and get me veggie jawns and take care of the financial aid papers I have been procrastinating on.

I know. I am a MM and I should know better.

Sh*t just gets complicated sometimes blog family. Whats complicated in your life? What have you procrastinated on? I know I am not alone on this. [ Sits patiently and waits for replies].[Gets angry two minutes later b/c I am notoriously impatient.].

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Oakland/ Brooklyn Intuition

At the end of the DAY, the only thing that you have is yo heart, spirit, and your intuition.

Sista’s we gotta use it. Real talk.

My intuition is teaching me to talk about the founk I have directly with the person I have it with and NOT tha’ homies.

When that voice in your chest and in your head is telling, PLEASE BELIVE something, then gon’ ahead and do it. God have you that gift for a reason. Use it.

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Ms. Ahmad said something in the comments section that was SUPER real talk. In the movie Keeping Up With the Steins, they have a bar mitzfah. And she commented that Model Minorities need one too so we CAN END THE EXTENDED CHILDHOOD for NUCCA’S who aint tryna group up. But you don’t hear me though.

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Two 14 year olds. got killed. in the town last week. Did I. MENTION. That both incidents happened in Broad Daylight?

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More East Oakland Murder gulliness. We gon’ have a hundred murders by Labor Day if they keep acting up like this.
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Talk about getting MAD MONEY OF THE BOOKS THIS YEAR.

LEGALLY. UM. GO CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

James Simons, a math whiz who founded Renaissance Technologies, made $1.5 billion in 2005, according to the survey by Alpha, a magazine published by Institutional Investor. That trumps the more than $1 billion that Edward S. Lampert, known for last year’s acquisition of Sears, Roebuck, took home in 2004. Remember, http://downtownsault.org/downtown/shopping/boondocks-portrait-studio-hat-shop/ viagra uk people love to know that they’re being thought of. However, if levitra generika these treatments don’t work, you can be honest about him lacking enthusiasm. A compound PDE-5 is the primary driver of the low blood inflow task performed by PDE5 and replaces this viagra genérico 25mg problem by triggering the blood inflow and obstructing its outflow for longer duration. In some cases due to number of reasons the spongy tissues are not increased such situation is efficiently and effectively treated with the help of a doctor, can help you understand the severity of erectile dysfunction or click here now cialis sale impotence. (Don’t fret for Mr. Lampert; he earned $425 million in 2005.) Mr. Simons’s $5.3 billion flagship Medallion fund returned 29.5 percent, net of fees.

No. 2 on Alpha’s list is T. Boone Pickens Jr., 78, the oilman who gained attention in the 1980’s going after Gulf Oil, among other companies. He earned $1.4 billion in 2005, largely from startling returns on his two energy-focused hedge funds: 650 percent on the BP Capital Commodity Fund and 89 percent on the BP Capital Energy Equity Fund.

Mean Sexy. We need to start that list of billionaires to invite to the fund raiser for our school and put these negros at the top of the list.

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At least you are not in her shoes. How you ‘gone MAKE somebody be your maid.
They need to go to jail for 19 years.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — A federal jury found a wealthy suburban couple guilty Friday of harboring an illegal immigrant and forcing her to work as their maid for 19 years.

The Filipino national testified during the eight-day trial that she felt like a prisoner in Jefferson and Elnora Calimlim’s home.

The couple was found guilty of harboring an illegal immigrant for financial gain, conspiracy to harbor an illegal immigrant for financial gain, forced labor and attempted forced labor.

I would suggest as punishment, that they work for someone for the same amount of time. Poetic justice of the best sort right.

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ATTENTION: The bi-weekly meeting of Republicans for Affrimative Action group will meet at Union Square on Saturday at 3 pm. This guy is going to be there.

The nation’s most prestigious business school has accepted Blake Gottesman, a college drop-out whose whopping resume includes having dated Jenna Bush and supplying the President with breath mints.

Gottleman, who dropped out of Claremont-McKenna College in California after one year, landed a sweet job as Bush’s personal assistant thanks to his long ties to the Bush family.

According to the Harvard Crimson:

Gottesman performs a wide range of duties, from dog-sitting the president’s Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, to carrying the president’s speeches and giving him the “two-minute warning” before a speech begins.

He need to get on his knees and thank Martin Luther King jr. Every. Night. For real though.

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So life is about to become real hectic for a sista. Pray for me. I don’t do change very well. Um. I think I am gonna blog till the wheels fall off this week and take a break and get acclimated to the new jobs next week. How are you all handling the heat?

Grown Folks Bin’ess right huuuure.

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One of the things that I don’t like about not posting, is that I get backed up.
Thats why I am not a represser. Gotta constantly let of that steam.

I have been around. Um. Lets see. So many ideas flowing. I don’t know where to begin. On, Saturday, we went to the BAM African Street Festival. Had my first funnel cake. Tasty yet messy. 2 fer uno frozen rita’s w/ BL and Mean Sexy at Moes afterwards. Some clean Bkl’yn fun. That is was life is about.

Chilled w/ BL and his peeples in Flatbush yestuhday. Why one of his homies is like
the crazy chef and roasted a WHOLE PIG. I would have taken a picture of
it IF I could have looked at it long enough to do so. It freaked me out. Snout and Alll blog family.

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Happy Born Day Chidi. Gemini’s stand up. When we getting those mo-jitas?

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I might go to Joes Pub tonight. Or I might lamp here. I have not decided.
When that first hot weekend happen, you be feeling like you gotta take advantage
‘cuz it might be leaving you soon.

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Looks like Danyel was right about Dallas. Har!
Lebron -a-be-back. He just need him a Pippin is all.

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Its warm across the country. Wach’all do this weekend? Potato salad, ribs and veggie chicken hunh? I know. I be knowin’.

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Revenge of the Hip Hop Nerds.


Another beautiful jawn from the folks at digital gravel. It looks all scientific and NASA like right!?!?!

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I think I saw John McWhorter on the train yesterday which made me think about the way that he feels about our slum beautiful children. Brown and black children can read, write and are fully capable of meeting any challenge you put in front of them.


However, THEY have to make a conscious choice of WHAT kind of life they wanna lead. They know that this is a world that is indifferent to their existence. In fact, one of the reasons I think I have enjoyed being around young bucks so much recently is because they are so perceptive about humans.

Which is the exact opposite of being around wanna be attorneys who want to argue to see who can out-obnoxious one another. For example, even with all the education and opportunites I have had [and happily took advantage of], at the end of the day, I had to make a choice that I was going to move forward, and be responsible for my life.

I remember after graduating, and I knew that I wanted to publish a book about natural hair. What I did not understand was THAT BOOK publishing is a side hussle. That I needed to work and pay bills but continue to work on my side hussle. What I did not understand then, that I get NOW is that working for your self is a PRIVILAGE, not a right.

At that time I did not see myself working everyday for someone else. I think I just went wonder years on yall. Walk with me now. However if you wanna EAT in NYC, you learn to do jobs that YOU NEVER thought you would do, and you do them sh*ts WITH a smile.

I saw Keeping up with the Steins with Bronx Logic, I loved it, he tolerated it. The movie touched me because it was about class, growing up, forgiveness between a father and a son and familial rituals. I sat there wishing that negroes had something similar to a bar/bat mitzah.


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How come no one has said anything about the Common and Rakim show. Lupe ‘gon be there too. I learned about it of all places, Fat Beats.

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You think po po can’t run up into your spot and seize evidence. Well, the court is getting ready to flip the script. What ever happened to Due Process? No taking of property with out proper procedure being followed? Who needs a constitution anyways?

The case tests previous Supreme Court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and
announce themselves or they
run afoul of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches. The court has said that police can enter after giving people 15 seconds to 20 seconds to get to the door.

In this case, officers called out their presence at Hudson‘s door then went inside three seconds to five seconds later.

The ruling will be announced next month, and liberal justices declared that the stakes are high.

Justice Stephen Breyer said if the court rules against Hudson “we’d let a computer virus loose in the Fourth Amendment. ... It strikes me as risky and unprecedented”.

Justice David H. Souter said that the court has said “there is enough respect for a person’s home. … The police should not barge in like an invading army.”

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Nagin won. Surprise, surprise. Seriously. With the wealth transfer and land grab that is gonna take place down there, I figured BIG REAL ESTATE would ensure that he was removed.

Nagin won back some of the conservative white voters who supported him four years ago but abandoned him during the primary.

Many had sought new leadership after complaining of the slow rate of rebuilding and Nagin’s tearful plea for the federal government to “get off their (behinds) and do something” in the aftermath of Katrina. His remark on Martin Luther King Day that God intended New Orleans to be a “chocolate” city sparked outrage ? and then an apology from Nagin.

But during the run-off campaign, Nagin actively courted conservative white voters by emphasizing his business background in contrast to Landrieu, a longtime politician and a member of Louisiana‘s equivalent to the Kennedy family. To fulfill his purpose, he too a disguise of white bull. viagra generic uk If levitra professional canada we compare, men are likely to have more sexual problems than women. The most appropriate of the male cialis line prescription impotence remedies is not permanent and only works for some time. Before being familiar with some extremely important battling attributes of kamagra, you should have a look on the short description provided here- The medicinal care of cost levitra Kamagra- Kamagra, the brand relates to Ajanta Pharma. He would have been the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father, Moon, in the 1970s.

“After the Martin Luther King comments and his post-Katrina comments, his political obituary had been written,” Lee said. But Nagin won with “an unusual political shotgun marriage between conservative whites and progressive African-Americans,” he said.

Speaking of Nagin. Corey Booker won in Newark home of corrupt cops and and mad block huggers. These two new black mayors need to be easy and not oversate exactly what they will be able to accomplish. There is a reason why Detroit mayors, Oakland Oakland mayors and LA Mayors have never been able to return their cities to previous
glory.


Their motivation is admirable. But, I will tell you, I had to learn the hard way, watching Mayorga lose to De La Hoya a few weeks ago that Heart w/o fundementals is a recipe for failure.

Newark nor New Orleans has the infrastructure that necessary to sustain a town. Booker is in a better position because is town wasn’t demolished by an act of nature. However, I fear, that in setting their goals too high, that they will not meet them and thus be considered failures. I will keep and eye on them in the up coming months to see how they progress.

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1/136 Americans in Jail. Hmm. Who is going to do something about it? I wonder how many of them have felonies, and consequently CAN’T VOTE nor qualify for government benefits.

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You thought the LA police was gully. These fools have ’em beat. New York City Cop was real serious about keeping it all up in the family.
She helped her UNCLE ROB D-BOYS. Hard out here for
a cop-pimp hunh?!?!

A former New York City police officer was indicted on charges of helping her uncle rob drug dealers while she was still on the force, the authorities said yesterday. She got involved in the plot, they said, after she borrowed money from her uncle to pay for a class to prepare for a sergeant’s test.

The officer, Kirsix De La Cruz, accepted the loan from her uncle last July, the authorities said. Soon after, he asked her if she could help him find someone to help him rob drug dealers, and she introduced him to Luis German, a drug dealer known as Pedro, they said.

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So the New York Times thinks that Italian teenagers in Howard Beach are tolerant [read not racist] because they listen to 50 cent and wear “baggy clothing”. I would have been more interested in hearing what the kids parents had to say about the way their children dressed.

It has been two decades since a gang of whites here chased a black man to his death, and about a year since Nicholas Minucci was accused of fracturing the skull of a black man with a baseball bat. [Just a friendly game of baseball hunh?!?!?] Howard Beach is still a mostly white, mostly Italian neighborhood, with a lingering ? and, people there insist, unfair ? reputation for prejudice.

But it is now also a neighborhood where the mostly white, mostly Italian kids favor the same style and music as their peers over in East New York and New Lots.

There may still be a few people around here “who have a problem,” Mr. Rea allows. “But if they don’t like black people,” he said, “they’re still dressing in the clothes, listening to the music.”

Whether such emulation is heartfelt or superficial is always up for debate, and it is in the hate-crime trial of Mr. Minucci, who admitted to investigators that he called out a too-familiar word beginning with the letter “n” to the man said to be his victim, preceded by the greeting “What up?”[ Gotty I know you gone have something to say about this and I am not trying to fight wichu about it. I like sayin it niggie, niggie, niggie, niggie].

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Dude. They had me at “Digital Chocolate”. That is pure marketing genius.

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So blog family. It has warmed up a bit here. But it’s mad windy. Im still bumping that Lupe the killer and OH Word got some “Stop Shootin” tee-shirts they selling, so gon’ head and spend some money with tha folks.

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