I was blessed to connect with Brother Ali for “The Pilars” first official single of my upcoming album, “Ascension”. Ascension is available everywhere on March 26th.
Also check the interview I did with my label Wandering Worx about how and why I make the type of music I do
And if you haven’t heard my new mixtape “Rappers on X” featuring Mac Miller, Rhymefest, Ras Kass, Invincible, Planet Asia, Sadat X and others, listen now and download it for free
Mistah Fab
Definitely digging the new video from Oakland’s own Mistah Fab This is Cool / Is a great song w/ a powerful message that challenges is and is coming from someone who has been through a lot.. Gotta applaud more songs like this.. Keep it coming such messages are needed..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1RZJkYmz0
Another dope song that’s coming from the Bay Area and shot in San Francisco is Razor Sharp Thoughts featuring Shamako Noble and Pasha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zp2otvscEE&
We gonna repost this joint from Oakland rapper AshEL who teams up with Sticman from dead prez to do battle with Monsanto and the food industry.. The song has a great concept and nice wordplay.. Food is a drug.. It can help you or hurt you.. I like the way these cats break it down..
” LIL CAM ” HITS THE STREETS HARD WITH VS13 , NEW MIXTAPE HOSTED BY : DJ SMALLZ, DJ LIGHTA ,DJ ROCKSTEDDY ….. #SPECIAL #FSK
In order to hear some of the music from this mixtape.. Bounce on over to…
http://www.dirtysouthhiphop.com/news.php?id=6297
Today is International Women’s Day and and we wanna celebrate with Beats for the Revolution. Hopefully all of us take time out to not only reflect on the challenges facing our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, aunties and grandmas on the daily. Ideally we take time out to reflect on the constant war that’s being waged on them.
Sadly that war manifests itself in the form of sexist and over the top abusive remarks to physical assaults and rapes. It manifests itself institutionally as predominantly male law makers stand in the way of ensuring women get equal pay, equal protection, have full control and say so of their bodies or have opportunities to escape rampant poverty.
Hopefully all of us take time out to not only reflect, but take bold decisive steps to help eradicate the conditions that cause the women such hardships…A society is judged by the way it treats its women and children and right now as advanced as America likes to think she is, we are seriously lacking in the way we engage our sisters.. If you don’t believe me, take some time out and do something really revolutionary-Try listening to what our mothers, sisters, daughters aunties and grandmas have to say..That’s right Listen.. Don’t talk. Don’t object. Don’t make excuses.. Listen, Learn, Embrace their words and Step Up…
We did our thing the other day on All Day Play radio with our show Breakdown FM. We call its Beats for the Revolution and we dedicated it women rocking the mic..The point we wanted to get across was there is lots of good music out hence it’s unbelievable..There’s no excuses for those who say its lacking. With all the new technology, good music is there for the embracing..
Hundreds of female emcees are out there.. no excuse to say they are not.. From Dessa Darling to Kellee Maize to Vanessa German to Raw G to Aima the Dreamer to Devynity there’s a lot of sisters catching wreck.. One of the things we in Hip Hop must do is see our music as timeless and without limits..The music industry wants us to retire artists and dope jams from 5 or 10 years ago and act like they never existed.. That’s done so that we can develop the mindset of a consumer vs having the mindset of a cultural preserver..The saying Old is New and New is Old applies here.. As we continue celebrating Women’s History Month, enjoy this mix.. Its a gem among gems and our second offering in a 4 part series..
Special shout out to Aisha the Raptivist who gave me some killer drops in the form of speeches and sayings..
Playlist Part 1
Mixes to celebrate Women’s History Month
01-Sweet Honey & the Rock ‘I’m a Woman’
02-Shirley Chisolm and Aisha the Raptivist ‘Speaking Truth to Power (Menahan Band remix)
03-Kofy Brown ‘Playing Fields’ (rmx)
04-Roxanne Shante Independent Woman
05-Monie Love ‘Detrimentally Stable”
06-Monie Love ‘Swiney Swiney
07-LA Star ‘Fade to Black’
08-Sonya Blade ‘ Blade is the Name’
09-Bahamadia “spontaneity’
10-Mystic ‘Ghetto Bird’
11-Lauryn Hill ‘Lost ones’
12-Hurricane G ‘Whateva’
13-Poetess ‘Simply Poetry’
14-Heather B ‘Glocks Down’
15-Conscious Daughters ‘Come Smooth Come Rude’
16-Queen Latifah ‘Wrath of My Madness’
17-Sweet Tee ‘Its My Beat’
18-Lady of Rage ‘Sure Shot
19-Medusa ‘Fix is the Fiend’
20-Da Brat ‘Give it 2 You’
21-Queen Latifah ‘Just Around the Way’
22-Queen Mother Rage ‘Slipping Into Darkness’
23-Sista Souljah Speaking Truth
24-Aima the Dreamer ‘All you Need’
25-Dessa ‘The Crow’
26-Godesa ‘Social Ills’
27-Vanesa German ‘Two Wings’ (Zion I remix)
28-Jezzy P Ecatapec ‘La Formula’
29-Melina Jones ‘Rock w/ Fire’
Beats for the Revolution Women’s Day Mix pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWUj_ZXNvU
Part 2
01-Angela Davis ‘Incarceration’
02-Lauryn Hill ‘Killing Me Softley’
03-Angela Davis ‘Women Are Targets’
04-Aisha the Raptivist ‘Who Wants Freedom’
05-Poetic Pilgrimage ‘Freedom’
06-Rosa Clemente w/ Aisha the Raptivist ‘Rosa Meets Schoolly D at Hot 97’
07-Eternia ‘Spring Fever’
08-Brand New Heavies ‘I Don’t Know Why I Love You’
09-Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings ‘Somethings Change’
10-Kellee Maize ‘Mad Human’
11-Maria Isa ‘Die Not Kill w/ Lolita’
12-Aya De Leon ‘My name is Viegues’
13-I Was Born w/ Two Tongues ‘Excuse Me Amerikka’
14-Jennifer Johns w/ Mystic ‘Ghetto Tales’
15-Kellee Maize ‘Third Eye’
16-Jezzi P Ecatapec ‘Entre Ximbo’
17-Invincible ‘People Not Places’
18-Maria Isa ‘Esto Suena’
19-Nah-ee-lah ‘Jehrico Wall’
Beats for the Revolution Women’s Day Mix pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9IB5FdI8g
Part 3
01-Laura ‘Piece’ Kelly ‘Sound Awake’
02-Mystic ‘Fatherless Child’
03-Kellee Maize ‘Story of Me’
04-J Ross Parelli ‘Home is Where’
05-Dessa ‘Children’s Work’
06-Desmonda ‘Faulty Fuses’
07-Queen Latifah ‘Nature of a Sister’
08-Devynity ‘Heard em Say’
09-Brigette Gray ‘Shades of Gray’
10-YoYo ‘ Don’t Be No Fool’
11-Medusa ‘Mine to Give’
12-T-Love ‘When You’re Older-Ode to the Picanniny’
13-Kofy Brown ‘Turned Out’
14-Raw G w/ Aima the Dreamer ‘Connexiones Subterraneas’
15-Kemelo ‘Audry Funk
16-Cihualtl Ce ‘Rise Above’
17-Cihualtl Ce ‘Dreamah’
18- Women’s Roundtable’
Beats for the Revolution Women Day Mix pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlq1n19r2dE
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Today is International Women’s Day and so we went digging to pull out a few Hip Hop videos that speak to empowerment and social justice.. Many of them are all but forgotten so we thought we’d revise some fond memories.. First up is Queen Latifah and Monie Love their classic song Ladies First…
Queen Latifah and Monie Love Ladies First
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLB5bUNAesc
Many forgot about this jam by Salt-N- Pepa which reminds everyone that women are quite capable of doing any and everything under the sun.. We should not place limits on people..
Salt-N-Pepa Ain’t Nothing But a She Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3u8S9tF9o
Many forgot that author / activist Sista Souljah teamed up with Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad to do an album.. Her first single Slavery is Back in Effect warned us to be careful with the way society was moving in terms of harsh legilsation being passed. If we’re not careful we may wake up and find that slavery had returned. In this song The Hate That hate Produced, Souljah’s flows over a slamming beat and reminds us that she is not here to make white folks feel comfortable. She’s here to challenge the system. I wish they had a video of the song she did with ice Cube..
Sista Souljah The Hate that hate Produced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neNboHZ3paQ
This is a more recent offering from MC Lyte who has always delivered gems. It features her and DJ Premier. here Lyte is reflective as she speaks to her being more responsible as she gets older and challenging us to set good examples for those who come behind us
MC Lyte The Wonder Years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMhRtxjFY0k
Many of us know X-Clan via Brother J, Paradise and the late Sugar Shaft and Professor X. We forget that they had two dope female emcees who did full length albums.. Isis now known as Linque and Queen Mother Rage were absolutely dope and sadly overshadowed by label politics which led to lousy promotion. The imagery X-Clan put forth was always uplifting, reminding us we are descendents of Kings and Queens.
Isis The Power of Myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz9sSzt4yvI
Queen Mother Rage Slipping Into Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85S90nrIH8
Maria Isa out of Minneapolis aka Soto Rico is dope and one of the best around.. I wish she had did a video for this song which pays tribute to Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebron who fought for Puerto Rican independence
Maria Isa Die Not kill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zScRfVWzXk
Poetic Pilgrimage is a group everyone needs to know.. talk about having dope flows.. My favorite song from them is Freedom.. definition of a Pilgrim is also nice.. I went with this video because of the subject matter, oppression in Palestine, but to be honest damn near anything by them hits..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1orCqZg4SA
This Posse cut called Freedom is from the movie Panther and features everyone from Queen Latifah to Yo Yo to Salt-N-Pepa to patra and many more is classic.. we featured during Black History month and had to revise it again for Women’s History Month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxyxqVDjSzs
Can you really go wrong with Lauryn Hill, especially when she dropped the landmark album Mis Education of Lauryn Hill? This is a classic jam
Lauryn Hill Doo-Wop That Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QKqFPRZSA
No list would be complete without Missy Elliot... We Run This is one of my favorite joints.. It features Missy dancing while gymnastic champ Dominique Dawson watches.. Missy is always fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2oIhJG7rXA
Lastly X-Clan’s Paradise Gray turned me on to this new joint by Narubi Selah Hookless2 … This is pretty dope..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxUGjuPQ4A8&feature=youtu.be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxUGjuPQ4A8&feature=youtu.be
As we celebrate International Women’s Day we should note that the war on women continues in a very real way…Whether its one out of three women globally being sexually assaulted, an uptick in human trafficking, or sitting senators and congressmen resolute in their opposition to the Violence Against Women Act or locally where we see a brutish private security guard tossing an 82 year old Black woman off a train because she was singing gospel hymns ‘too loud’..
The video of Emma Anderson being dragged off a train last month to say the least is shocking and just a glaring reminder that none of our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters and wives are safe from men who have a disdain and little respect for them..
The video below shows it all as the 82-year-old woman is seen singing. and slapping her thigh with rolled-up paper.
A security guard is then seen asking Anderson to stop. When Anderson refused, the guard grabbed her rolling luggage cart.
“You’re getting off here,” he can be heard telling Anderson. “Let’s go.” A struggle between the guard and Anderson ensued, and Anderson was pulled off the train, falling onto the platform at the downtown stop, about six miles from her intended destination of North Miami.
“It was not right for them to drag her off the train,” Donal Anderson, the woman’s son, told Miami’s WSVN-TV.
A spokeswoman for Miami-Dade Transit told the network that Anderson violated its noise policy, which prohibits commuters from singing, dancing and playing instruments.
“We regret that Ms. Anderson had to eventually be escorted out,” the spokeswoman said in a statement, “but regardless of age, all passengers need to abide by rules associated with using transit.”
“Well, y’all may call it ‘noise,'” the elderly South Floridian scoffed, “but wait till Jesus comes. It’s going to be more noise in there!”
One would think that the train authorities in Miami would have another more gentle way to remove a passenger from a train if in fact it was even necessary. many of our elders don’t always have full control of their faculties, some have demntia or just plain eccentric in their ways.. Regardless if she was loud, one must take a different more, gentle approach toward an unarmed, frail elder.. One might ask would this guard have been so violent if this was a group of guys ready and willing to fight back, would this transit security have been so bold?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FlY2rrP7EA
Eric Holder
“I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy,” he said. “And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.”
Those are the words of Attorney General Eric Holder..I want you to read that.. stop, reflect and read that again.. I don’t want any of you to dismiss it and say ‘Well that’s just the way it is..’ or ‘What else is new, government has always been like this..there’s nothing we can do about it..’
Holder uttered these words in response to Republican Senator Charles Grassley about why the Justice Department brought no criminal charges against HSBC, one of Great Britain’s largest banks after it admitted laundering money for parties in Iran, Libya and Mexican drug lords.
Again I ask you to stop think and reflect on this..
While its understandable that smashing back on the banks or Eric Holder will not be an overnight endeavor, we can not act like this is a problem to ignore. It should be an issue we raise up at every turn and push to demand accountability. We should demand it on the national level and we should demand it locally. We should be pushing for our local governments to sever ties with criminal institutions and we should be demanding that hard questions be asked of Attorney general and the our President who appointed him.. If you haven’t been touched by the nefarious activities of big banks in the form of foreclosures, downsizing increased banking fees, higher interest rates or the inability to get a loan, you will soon will be..For example, this is the same Eric Holder who’s Feds have been raiding and shutting down medical marijuana clubs all over the country in spite of overwhelming state approval both from voters and elected officials.. They’ll raid a pot club but will leave the fraudulent money laundering bank next door alone.. Go figure..
Today our friends over at Alternet dropped a good article on this… where they note as follows;
Holder’s outrageous admission means that bankers operate – and know they operate – above the law. That renders all the argument about regulations and legal limits risible. Bankers spend tens of millions lobbying to weaken regulations and starve regulators of authority and resources. But when the action gets hot, the bubble starts to build, the music keeps playing, they can trample the laws, mislead the regulators and defraud their customers, bolstered by the confidence that the laws will not apply to them.
Holder’s argument, however, is indefensible. There is no reason a bank with billions of assets could not survive the indictment of its CEO or CFO. If the Fed and Treasury can “foam the runway” to protect otherwise insolvent banks from collapse, they surely could insure that a bank survives while its executives are held personally responsible for their crimes. Putting a few bankers in jail and holding them personally accountable for their frauds would do much to bring sobriety back to Wall Street.
You can read the entire article Here.. http://www.alternet.org/outrage-some-banks-are-too-big-prosecute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zwhp5-jXAEric Holder
This is a pretty good interview w/ Snoop Dogg done by the homie DJ Skee.. Here snoop talks about his transition from Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion.. He talks about the life circumstances that led to him digging reggae. Snoop explains he’s long wanted to express himself in a variety of ways including wanting to sing..He also notes that he’s become more spiritually grounded..He now puts family first and music second.. It took a while for him to evolve to that mindset..
In this interview speaks about the new album he’s working on and the folks he has involved..He explains why he made the assertion about being Bob Marley incarnate..
Many were curious as to how and why Snoop was willing to reconcile with former Death Row CEO Suge Knight.. He says that Suge gave him a voice early on in his career and no matter what their differences , that fact can’t be changed or overlooked. He said it was important to be the bigger man and spark peace.. A lot of ground gets covered in this interview. The only question missing was why Snoop who is a die-hard Steelers fam was in the Ice Cube 30 /30 documentary on the Raiders sporting a silver and black jersey..
Hugo Chavez
There’s a lot to be said about Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela who passed away yesterday from complications due to cancer.. For many he was considered a friend and a champion of the poor. He was seen as a hero who was willing to stand up to the United States and other western powers who have an egregious record in South America of undermining democratically elected leaders..
Two movies.. Harvest of Empire and South of the Border bring US policies out in painful detail.. They show how private companies and media outlets including our own CNN worked overtime to try and overthrow governments throughout Latin America. You can see in the clip that starts off South of the Border the round the clock demonization of South American leaders by our so-called esteemed media..
It’s important to understand our policies and what doesn’t get reported here in the states when viewing Hugo Chavez. A lot of what he did and didn’t do centers around the desire to see him removed from office by our own government..
It’s also important to understand that while Chavez was a charismatic singular face attached to Venezuela in terms of how he’s depicted here, in Latin America, he was part of a large movement. In short , he didn’t obtain his position in a vacuum. Nor can you explain Chavez or Venezuela in a 30 second sound bite..
Shortly after getting the news that he passed we broke into regular programming on KPFA and gathered up some folks to speak to Chavez and his legacy.. Our roundtable of guest are movers and shakers in a variety of circles and knew Chavez or did lots of ground work in the country over the years..
Our first guest was former Green Party Presidential candidate and congresswoman Cynthia McKinney..She set the tone by breaking down US foreign policy in Latin America and the great lengths our government has gone to try and undermine leaders they didn’t like. McKinney talked at length about Cointel-pro and what has happened to leaders domestically, hence we should not be shocked at the type of hostilities shown internationally..She also talked about Chavez and what he meant to his people as well as sharing her own stories about him…Here’s our interview..
We spoke with author and Professor Sujatha Fernandes who wrote the ground breaking book ‘Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela‘ .. Here Professor Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the neoliberal reforms that followed, to the Chávez period.
During our interview with myself and fellow KPFA host Mitch Jeserich, Fernandes provides additional keen insights around what life on the ground was like for the average Venezuelan and the impact Chavez’s policies had on folks..She also speaks to why Chavez had been and will continue to be demonized here in the US..
Also on the line with us and Fernandes was Carlos Martinez who lived in Venezuela and is the co-editor of the book Venezuela Speaks; Voices from the Grassroots. Here Martinez and his co-editors gathered a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. From community media to land reform; cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network, Venezuela Speaks! sheds light on the complex realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. These interviews offer a compelling oral history of Venezuela’s democratic revolution, from the bottom up.
During our interview, Martinez put the work he’s done into context and further expounded upon why Hugo Chavez was important and his overall impact on the region..
You can peep their interview here…
Immortal Technique
We spoke with activist and popular Hip Hop artist Immortal Technique who talked about his trips to Venezuela and what he learned from traveling extensively around the country. He said he learned a lot and it was clear that Chavez meant a lot to the poor folks and poor communities. He noted that Chavez was not very well liked within the circles of the elite and they were constantly working to get at him.. Immortal talked at lengths some of the key strengths of Chavez as well as some of his actions and policies that were problematic.. Tech also noted that one can not sum up Chavez in a quick sentence, his presidency was much more complex..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LzOth38jxtM
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Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin‘ competitor Daniel James III has come a long way from doing fishing with his feet, because the reality competition star, who knew nothing about sticking his foot in fish holes to lure a fish to bite his foot and pull them out of the water has landed himself a new series.
The funeral home owner and mortician has parlayed his craft into a reality series spin-off that takes you into the world of the dead and what happens behind the scene in a Mortuary.
Sounds dark yet interesting right?
Well Daniel is a very interesting man to speak with. Daniel recently sat down with CelebNMusic247 to talk about the ins and outs of Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin’.
He tells us how Animal Planet flew him out to a remote location and just told him to go for it! He had no background in Handfishin, but he was interested in going for it. However, Daniel is most known for being the loudest screamer when fishing on the show. The clip has become an Internet sensation which landed him his own reality series.
Are you ready to get in the water and do some Hillbilly Handfishin’?
Check Animal Planet for details how to get involved…
Get more details and listen to the interview HERE:
http://celebnmusic247.com/hillbilly-handfishin-daniel-james-iii-gets-reality-show/
Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin‘ competitor Daniel James III has come a long way from doing fishing with his feet, because the reality competition star, who knew nothing about sticking his foot in fish holes to lure a fish to bite his foot and pull them out of the water has landed himself a new series.
The funeral home owner and mortician has parlayed his craft into a reality series spin-off that takes you into the world of the dead and what happens behind the scene in a Mortuary.
Sounds dark yet interesting right?
Well Daniel is a very interesting man to speak with. Daniel recently sat down with CelebNMusic247 to talk about the ins and outs of Animal Planet’s Hillbilly Handfishin’.
He tells us how Animal Planet flew him out to a remote location and just told him to go for it! He had no background in Handfishin, but he was interested in going for it. However, Daniel is most known for being the loudest screamer when fishing on the show. The clip has become an Internet sensation which landed him his own reality series.
Are you ready to get in the water and do some Hillbilly Handfishin’?
Check Animal Planet for details how to get involved…
Get more details and listen to the interview above:
