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I Died and Went to B-Girl Heaven

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Hip Hop Originals are pure Deliciousness.
Ivan @ Hip Hop is Read bringing his “A” game
with the Black on Both Sides Originals, the
DOC originals and most recently the
Midnight Marauders originals(via lyrics to go).

It was like, I died and went to B-Girl Heaven.

Noz has a link up to which has old Source issues.
Reading that sh-t makes me feel simultaneously
nostalgic and old. I listened to Evil D’s pod cast,
every night this week.

SJ and I are in a holding pattern, so what better
than hip hop to act as a momentary salve?

Oh. And you thought I analyzed the music industry
and the plight of the independent artist with zeal?
Justin at Audible Hype puts me to shame. With
articles such as “Want to be Successful, Stop
Studying the Music Business” and
“Music Business 2.0 Without the Bullshit”.

He writes,

We all want to be successful. Nobody who
reads Audible Hype is looking for ways to
continue living in poverty, or working at jobs
they hate. So this article could be the most
crucial piece of advice I give in 2008. It seems
obvious, but given what I read on other sites,
and given the questions I get asked by readers,
it needs to be repeated: the ?music industry? is
a multi-billion dollar total failure. The only
justification for studying how it works is to
get a clear cut example of What Not To Do.

Reading his work is affirming simply because he cares so much.
So often people have soul/spirit/chutzpah beat out of them.
Especially industry folks, so its nice to encounter such
a renegade rebel with something constructive to say
about how an independent artist can manage his/her career.

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N-gga t-shirts during an election year.
Could you imagine cats in the crowd at an Obama
rally wearing them sh*ts. THAT, would be an interesting
moment in history. ( I think my demented side just came
out).

  1. man// Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    nas better stop worryimg about album titles and
    t shirts and start makeing some good music like
    he used to do.alot of nas fan base is white and to
    wear a shirt to try to skare whites that had nothing
    too do with slavery isent gonna work too well.enless
    hes trying to skare the dudes who burnt his car down
    back in 92 in queens after he got sign, or camron .
    unless hes calling blacks niggers .but if he wants
    white people to get upset and think thats some
    type of a reverse ploy to makeing them upset i
    dont think its gonna work .they were laughing
    .but i wish nas luck no matter what hes allways
    one of the best. it just sometimes he does things
    to help bad people.figuar it out

The notion that Nas may offend his white fans with n-gga t-shirts,
while White people listen Jim Jones, 50, Snoop, Game, Fat Joe etc
call each other n-ggas all day long is worthy of a Ph.D level analysis.

While I am not equipped for such analysis, I most certainly
couldn’t miss the opportunity to note the irony.

I have been listening to more hip hop all week. I can’t live
with out my…hard drive? I was so space starved, I couldn’t even
download photos to use for the blog, without deleting songs.

Thank gawd that era is over.

Why don’t I own the new Pete Rock?
I stumbled across a new joint, Half Man Half Amazing
at culture bully, and its the truth.

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What would all these rappers be doing with out Hip Hop?

What would this country be like without Hip Hop?

Hip Hop originals, nice?

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I Got One Question, Is You Happy?

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Remember when T.I. asked, “Is You Happy”
at the end of “Why You Wanna”?

The issue of happiness has been on my
bird recently.

The day Heath Ledger died,
I was talking to Filthy and he said that
anyone who kills himself ain’t fit to live.

***Insert record scratch HERE.

I responded, saying thats that bullsh-t.

First of all, anyone who takes their own life is in pain
and has been in pain for a long time,

Secondly, people who kill themselves more than
likely reach out to someone. Sometimes the response
is inappropriate.

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I was like, Man, Heath was seperated from and
probably missed his family something terrible.

I would imagine that he was just trying to figure
out how to deal with it in the way he knew how.

Losing your family will break ANY man down.

Filthy agreed that mental illness most certainly
plays a role and went on to mention that
we as a generation have to come to understand
that PAIN is a natural part of life.

When people ask me about SJ and whether
he is making me happy, I began answer differently.

It has become less about him making me happy
and more about me having someone I can struggle with.

Happiness is a temporary state. I would rather have my
serenity than have happiness.

Don’t get it twisted, happiness feels great,
but I realize that I have to consciously think about
the desire to be happy.

Especially for someone like me, who is ambitious,
and is always coming up with this, that or the third thing
to be involved in, happiness can’t possibly be the goal.

As of late, the goal has been how to become a more human
human.

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Why do you think we trip so hard on being happy?

When was the last time you were happy?

That new Jay Electronica has me feeling tre Happy.

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The Cuban Secret

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I dead cats in their tracks with one question.

The question is, why is it that Cuba has a 97% literacy rate,
when most of its citizens/residents are cash poor?

A true story: in 1960, less than a year after their victory, Castro’s government decided to wipe out illiteracy. They recruited 120,000 volunteer teachers, most of them young high school students. Armed only with books and Coleman-style gas lanterns, the volunteers entered the most remote areas, teaching peasants of all ages to read. The grim part of the story was that there were still counterrevolutionaries in the hills — and they received support from the CIA. They knew the literacy brigades were helping solidify Castro’s support among the peasantry, so the young volunteers were terrorized and at least one was murdered. But the campaign succeeded anyway. Practically overnight, Cuba’s literacy rate rose to 97%, and it’s now a little higher than that. By the way, the average Cuban’s knowledge of the U.S. and of world events is astonishing.

Just a little something I want you to think about during this election
year.

Something that I want you to think about while you read the newspaper.

Something I want you to think about the next time you read about
colleges with billion dollar endowments, or schools in the hood
that have landed on the No Child Left Behind “closure/failure” list.

I want you to think about the effect that the failure of integration
has had on our current educational system.

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What can a new president do to change the
way our children are educated?

Do we need to send our kids to Cuba?

Our Black boys in particular?

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Jay Electronica is Basquiat on Wax

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I believe in Jay the way ?uestlove belives in Tanya Morgan.

Ever since I read Grace Lee Boggs autobiography I have
been obsessed with the notion of becoming a more human, human.

Jay brings multi-layered samples similar to Doom.

Farrakhan samples.
Muhammad Ali samples.
Tribe-esque licks.

Come to think of it, I don’t think The Nation
has been on a rap song since Death Certificate.

His music is haunted by Jay D.
He brings the hunger of an early Jay Z.
He is comfortable with being weird,
like a sorry Ms. Jackson era Three Stacks.

When you listen to his music, you don’t know where its
going but you know that you want to go there with him.

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It has become painfully clear to me that
being vulnerable is a sign of transformation.
That sense of not being in control,
of going hard in the paint, of giving it your all
and waiting for the chips to fall. It’s like Tupac at his best.

Pac wasn’t always wasn’t right, he wasn’t always wrong,
but he put his heart on it, and at the end of the day
what more can you ask for?

Jay’s music reminds me of this vulnerability.

When was the last time you heard an emcee with something
to say? With each new song, you wanted to hear more?

Electronica is that dude.

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You listen? What do you think of him?

Why is it so hard to be vulnerable?

Why is it so hard for people to accept
being weird?

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Thoughts on Lauryn Hill & Britney Spears

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I have been thinking lately about the similarities
between Britney and Lauryn.

Off the top of the dome, it would appear as if they
have nothing in common, but think again.

They are both single mothers, they both have earned
a ton of money for themselves and their labels, and they
both appear to be having a nervous break down
in front of our eyes.

People love talking about them. Its almost as if
they derive a sense of pleasure out
observing the fact that Britney has lost her children,
has been in a mental facility twice in the last two months
and that her estate is in a conservetorship.

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The public treatment of Lauryn and Britney tell me
something very particular about society.
Their treatment underscores the fact that our culture
doesn’t take mental illness serious.

Its not like it’s a knee injury or a back injury where the scar
and source of the pain is visible. It’s a a little bit more subtle.
The sad thing about it is that if Britney were to pass away
tomorrow, as a result of her destructive behavior,
I seriously doubt that we would be able to see that she was
in a tremendous amount of pain.

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Have you ever had to intervene to help a friend?

Were you successful?

Why don’t people take mental illness seriously?

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