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Signs that it is Going to Be a Long Bloody Summer.

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4.17.08 Oakland, CA

Gas riots (these haven’t happened yet, but it’s a matter of time).

The Sean Bell verdict.

The videotape of twelve Philadelphia police beating three black men.

These are all signs that this will be a long, hot,
bloody summer.

The videotaped beatings of three restrained men by several members of the Philadelphia police force were inexcusable but had nothing to do with race, the city’s mayor and police commissioner said Thursday.

The police don’t have an easy job. Infact, I would
imagine they are terrified. The streets are hungry.
Cats ain’t eatin’ and it seems that everyone has a gat.
It’s Combustible.

What an incredible thing to recognize.

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Jay Electronica vs. S.O.U.L Purpose?

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“How can you be nostalgic for something that you
didn’t live through”

What?

According to Webster defines nostalgia as:

1: the state of being homesick : homesickness2: a wistful
sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or
irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia

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While I think it is reasonable to criticize the young bucks for not coming
up with their own thing, no one starts from scratch when making music.

For that matter, sampling is a cornerstone element of HIP HOP. So
why the resentment toward the young bucks?

I must say I liked the video and the song. It seems to be more
of a critique of passive consumption than contempt of ’89 nostalgia.

What struck me about this is that no one can CONTROL culture,
especially when the culture (music, videos, distribution and display
methods) isn’t OWNED by the people that create it.

I have had conversation with countless cats who think that
the teens with the dookie chains, door knockers and name buckles
lack creativity.

But, if you were a young buck NOW wouldn’t you think that
the ’89 style was fly in comparison to now?

What did they say about imitation and flattery?

I LOVE the mentioning of “the Internet Nerds”.

The whole time Q-Tip is talking all I am thinking about,

“Back in the days when I was a teenager/ Before I had status and before I had a pager/ You could find the Abstract listening to hip-hop/ My pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop/ I said, “Well daddy don’t you know that things go in cycles”/ The way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael“ ~ Excursions, Low End Theory

Tip has a point about the fact that during that era CATS were inventing
new steez. BUT. Its important to NOT become dogmatic and insist that
WE never borrowed from other people in order to make our ‘ish.

Hip hop is all about sampling. So in a way that Tip and SOUL Purpose
are making their argument, they sound like our parents generation
who were mad that EPMD, RAKIM, TRIBE, HAMMER were sampling
“their” OLD soul songs.

We turning into our parents? Yikes.

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One of the first things that I noticed when watching this
was a sense of intimacy. I knew, based on the music used
and how it interplayed with the images on the screen, that this
documentary was made by someone is his inner circle.

It soon became clear that it was his brother he made it.

This trailer moved me for several reasons. The first is that I have
been listening to a lot of Ol D B lately. Second, I was surprised by
the production values. Third, given the fact that so many
of us have lost love ones, especially Black men, I began
thinking about ways of using video/documentary to grieve
our losses.

Sidenote. Is it legal for Masta Killa’s & the GZA’s skin to be
so luxurious? Aren’t they like 36 & 38 respectively?

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via Grand Good

Wow. Man. I realized I usta have the horn intro from “Sh*t is Real”
on my answering machine. I know. I know. My backpack is showing.

Benny McIntyre ain’t Voting for No Black Man.

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Class mobility is mind boggling. I remember being in high
school and Jua’s momma told us that once we graduated
from college “that where we come from is going to be irrelevant to
people“. I understood this to mean that people would look at our clothing
and the way that we spoke and come to their own conclusions about which
box to place us in.

Implicit in her moms statement was that school would sanitize us.
On one hand, we would have access to opportunities that our
parents didn’t, on the other hand our backgrounds would become
murkey, and perhaps non existent and that it would be up to us
to reconcile that.

This is a lot to ask a teenager to navigate but young people do it
everyday.

This conversation came to mind while reading about Hillary’s new
working class identity. Jodi Kantor writes in The Times,

Whatever the results of the primaries on Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina, Mrs. Clinton has accomplished the seemingly impossible in those states. Somehow, a woman who has not regularly filled her own gasoline tank in well over a decade, who with her husband made $109 million in the last eight years and who vacations with Oscar de la Renta, has transformed herself into a working-class hero.

In promoting herself as a champion of ordinary Americans in a troubled economy, Mrs. Clinton has also tried to cast her rival, Senator Barack Obama, as an out-of-touch elitist. She has made her case at all the right stops (an auto-racing hall of fame) and used all the right props (lately delivering speeches from pickup beds).

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Read about it here, here and here.

If a $28 an hour job is moved to Mexico, and now pays $3, who is
pocketing the difference? Why do we continue to buy from companies that
move our jobs to other countries, pocket the difference and then
TURN AROUND and STILL attempt to sell us their goods.

This behavior makes the d-boys look like girl scouts.

Never thought I would say that in public.

Paul Rockwell lays out the evidence of Hillary’s dual
positions on outsourcing,

Siddharth Srivastava reported in Asia Times, March 1st, 2005: “Hillary Clinton made it apparent where she stood on outsourcing during her India visit…Hillary has been at the forefront in defending free trade and outsourcing. She faced considerable flak for defending Indian software giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for opening a center in Buffalo, New York.” (TCS provided hundreds of special visas for foreign employees to work in New York for substandard, non-union wages.) She praised Clinton’s “strict adherence to the principles of free trade and outsourcing that affect India directly.”

Outsourcing is inherent to global free trade, the attempt of corporate goliaths to move resources, jobs, money, capital in search of profits anywhere in the world without accountability.

Clinton’s globalization speech in India would hardly be noteworthy today, except that, in her current campaign for the nomination, she is saying exactly the opposite of what she said in India. She was a globalizer in India. Now she’s a protectionist in Pennsylvania, and voters have a right to ask: Which is the real Hillary Clinton?

Not only are Hillary’s working class roots showing, but some
of her supporters are actually speaking honestly about
their unwillingness to vote for Obama, if he is nominated.
In an article in the Christian Science Monitor a voter came RIGHT OUT
and said that if Hillary wasn’t the nominee that he wasn’t going
to vote at all. Talk about party solidarity. Alexandra Marks writes,

Benny McIntyre represents Hillary Rodham Clinton’s strength and Barack Obama’s challenge here in the Tar Heel State.

Sporting a Democratic donkey on his baseball cap and wearing wraparound sunglasses, this white, retired factory worker came to the train depot in Salisbury, N.C., this week to show support for Senator Clinton. As for Senator Obama, Mr. McIntyre says he’s got “nothing against him, he’s a good man.” But if Obama is the Democratic nominee, come November McIntyre may just stay home “for the first time in 40 years” ? even if that means four more years of GOP rule.

“That’s just the way I feel, I guess,” he says.

McIntyre represents a pivotal Southern constituency for Democrats: the white working class.

My question is, if he has nothing against, Obama, then why
not vote for him? What is implicit in that quote is that Obama
is a good man, but McIntyre ain’t voting for a Black man.

As the election gets tighter are folks going to become more
honest about their politics?

Patriarchy & a Tale of Two Rap Videos

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Have you ever read something so potent that you had to stop
put it down, and read something else just to get a sense of what you
were doing?

Thats what happened to me when I started writing a piece
on gender and hip hop.

It stated out as a post on Gender, Hip Hop and Patriarchy
and it has turned into a post on how my insistence on listening
to Mobb Deep is indicative of my willingness to put my interest
in the music above the fact that I know that it harms young people.

Its as if the post is so egregious that I am blogging about it
BEFORE I post it.

I was reminded of the post when I watched the two videos above
by AP and Busta Rhymes respectively.

When I first clicked on it, I hadn’t heard of him. That was a plus.
Of course I liked the stakes is high beat. And it was black and white,
you know, low budget guerrilla style. AP started rapping I was
like word, we on some bragging collar popping type ‘ish.

Then the screen panned to the cats hustling in the video.

Swanging bottles.

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Like that. I was taken back to Boyz in the Hood.

I couldn’t help but think about how this video is
working to NORMALIZE the crazy ‘ish that happens
in the hood.

Let me ask you this.

Do we need that sh-t to be normal?

Now compare this to the Busta Rhymes piece.

Busta sounds like he is on some “it’s only five years left level”.

Classic 1996 “Ya yaaaa yaaa ya yaaaah” Busta.

He’s having fun, changing costumes and being his
normal amped self.

This COMPLETELY contrasts with AP’s video.

I was left thinking. Man. After doing this Patriarchy piece,
I don’t think I will be able to see hip hop the same again.

When was the last time you were listening to Ghost,
Jay or Lil Wayne and just had to turn it off because of
how they were talking about Black people, Black women
or just crazy sh-t in general?

Only Built for Bloggy Links

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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 a
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Boom Bap, Check.

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G has just posted the Parents TV Council Analysis of MTV’s and BET’s
daytime programming.

Specifically, this report provides a detailed analysis of adult content that aired on BET?s Rap City and 106 & Park and on MTV?s Sucker Free on MTV. These shows were chosen due to their daily new and recent video releases as well as the fact that they all aired during afternoon or early evening hours.

Ming-Tzu @ GrandGood has video of the EPMD, Naughty By Nature,
Lords of the Underground, DITC show. Vin is quite the HYPE man.

B-Boy, Morgan Alexander Jones, breaks down how his life is lived
as a working, beat boxing-artist, living in China.

Any funny stories?
A Chinese girl was walking past me and muttered a strangely straightforward phrase in Chinese: ?Wow, there are a lot of black people in this country now.? So I turned around and yelled back to her ?Yeah, there are a lot of black people in this country now … and they speak Chinese, too.?

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