Happy Belated Brother Shabazz

I was playing tetris when i should have been studying and was listening to these in the background. These gotta be sampled and put into an album, hopefully mine, ASAP. Wow how bout the one way back when talking about black people living in a police state and how police are allowed to kill black people…hmmm. way back when is way right now too.

They’ve had their professional liars for so damn long! A whole history of Bill O’Reilly’s!

The criminalization of the black person:

Who Are You? Slavename?

Worldwide Revolution Going On:

Brotha Malcolm got mad funnies man.

Sometimes I forget to think about how got-damn important he was and still is. I never really forget, but then listening to all these clips just reminds me why his life has affected mine so much. These clips are so relevant 45, 50 years later. wow. that’s a long ass time, but then again it’s short in terms of his/her/ourstory. Thanks to whoever put these on youtube.

Slavename.

Cee-Lo Speaks, I Tend To Listen

Man, anybody who appreciates Cee-Lo will love this interview. I just read it the other night and I think it’s the best interview of him I’ve read since they started up the whole Gnarls Barkley phenomenon. Indubitably.

Nas Album Title Changed!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got Damn I hate this fuckin country and it’s corporations! Fuck whoever persuaded this muhfucka to change his album title!

NIGGER was supposed to be the name of the album, and according to allhiphop.com, it aint going to be no more. What the fuck man. Jay Z had called the NIGGER title “misguided”…fuck that. I thought the title was powerful.

I’m sorry, I just had to vent because I was looking forward to the impact of this album and it’s title, and now i feel like it has been lessened.

This is my vent I may return with a longer more intellectually thought out post with pictures and videos and links and shit, but right now I’m just like Fuck this bullshit!

Peace,

Slavename.

While i was procrastinating i found…

Ya’ll heard/saw the footage of Bill o’reily flippin out on inside edition back in the day right. If not, here.

Someone flipped his flipping out and made this shit and i was hella laughin at it. haha. i’ve watched this shit like 10 times already.

shit is funny, aw man.

peace.

End These Wars!

“The Amerikan way of life is simply not sustainable, because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond Amerika.” ~Arundhati Roy

The wars that Amerika has been engaged in have lasted so long that they no longer even make the front pages of newspapers. Media uses these wars and occupations as political rhetoric and analyze (as if they were qualified) and discuss where presidential hopefuls should align themselves in order to obtain popular votes and argue about how they can get the muhfuckin’ “super”delegates on their side. Simultaneously thousands of troops have died, tens of thousands more have suffered injury, thousands of Iraqi civilians have died and been injured, families on both sides destroyed, and our militaries mere presence in Iraq and Afghanistan provide Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups with ever-increasing recruitment numbers. Young Iraqis have grown up and are growing up in an occupied country and live under martial law. They have suffered through bombings, firing squads, air strikes, missile launchings, and a whole lot of other terrible shit that I don’t know enough to speak on.

What War Brings

They grow up on that while our youth grow up playing the video game versions of these wars as if they are not framed within the context of some of the most unjust and unfounded wars in history, and we all are becoming increasingly desensitized to death and dying and killing as we are fed numbers and statistics and lies.

I stayed up until 2 watching C-Span last night because there was a panel of 5 veterans of the war in Iraq reading their testimonials as to why they now actively oppose the war and work to end it and bring the rest of the troops back home. They were all part of the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War. The panel was put together by the Congressional Progressive Caucus to hear the experience of members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Congresswomyn Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey are the co-chairs of the caucus which aims to “give voice to the needs and aspirations of all Americans and to build a more just and humane society.” Watching this panel I could just see how fucked up one of the speakers was with post traumatic stress syndrome, you could see him flashing back while he was reading about what the military was doing when he was in Iraq. It was powerful to see 5 marines who served tours of duty speaking on why they have since become some of the biggest anti-war activists.

At this point the war in Iraq, which so many of us knew was an unjust war to begin with- solely based upon power and control of the worlds oil supply- is nothing more than a farce and disgrace to the global community. Thousands have been killed and Amerikan media has been ordered not to show the people what this war actually looks like: These pictures are INCREDIBLY HORRIFIC, some of the worst I’ve ever seen, but this is what “our” country is doing right now.

End all Amerikan invasions and occupations now!

Peace,

G-Mitch

Black Hole Sun

I had a dream with this song being played in it last night. This song was one of those songs that put me on to rock music when I was younger. Back when rock was still tight. I dare someone to put me up on some good current rock music…

Video is crazy, love that shit.

Police State Status.

Gescard Isnora, Marc Cooper, and Michael Oliver at a press conference last week, some time after hearing their “not guilty” verdict.

So it’s been about a week since the not-guilty verdict came down from the judge in the case of Sean Bell’s murder.

3 police go free for killing an African- American male and seriously wounding two others. Wednesday hundreds of people in New York blocked rush-hour traffic in protest of the police aquittals. There were at least 216 arrests.

Even Al got arrested.

Meanwhile, here is footage of what’s happening in Philly right now. (No wonder these Philly rappers are so heated right now). I’m sure this ain’t the only reason of course. Fuck.

These men have already been characterized as “murderers” by the Philadelphia police Commissioner. So they are made to be guilty already. No proof. Stereotypes, racism, criminalizing the victim(s), this is always how it happens. Police departments and the media have been doing this for centuries now. It’s a science. Making the victim the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim and you have a spun story…

Not to mention the wrongful police killings of Gary King Jr. and Anita Gay by Oakland and Berkeley Police officers in the past 8 months. Nor does it include the beating of Michael Fykes by Cleveland police. No matter where you look it’s happening. Police beating, detaining, killing, unjustifiably justified. Sometimes they have video which makes people appalled so they gasp and say that shouldn’t happen, but it does. And it never stops really. Whether it’s 1 shot or 51 shots. Whether it’s 1 cop or 14 beating three people.

We also currently have over 2 million people incarcerated in the US right now, that figure does not include those under house arrest, on papers, etc. ICE is going crazy arresting, detaining, and deporting (peep the post right before this one). Amerika is a POLICE STATE, don’t get it twisted.

Fed the fuck up.

Signing out From the land of the free to be killed by the Police State and State Institutions,

Slavename.

ICE ICE BABY.

I got a text message last night warning about how there have recently (like the past couple days at least) been Migra sweeps at public schools around the East Bay! “ICE sweeps, public schools, Berkeley High, East Oakland, West Oakland…” The message continued, but i just peeped the Oakland “conservative” Tribune today and there was an article in there today about a few homes in Berkeley and Oakland where ICE came and snatched up families so WATCH OUT for federal agents, cuz they are on a mission right now! So not just schools but errywhere!

This is damn damn troubling, i can only imagine the fear and confusion of the people trying to avoid these raids. ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement formerly known as Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)) is an incredibly destructive and problematic agency of the government. They perform raids all over the country tearing apart thousands of families and deporting and detaining (with an without charges) working people. Here’s just one example in Dallas. This problem is waaay too frequent and waaaay too silent in non-immigrant households and needs to be PUT ON BLAST as loud as possible.

Here’s a mini but potent article you NEED to know about:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/06/18497395.php

Sfgate reporting:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/07/BA8B10HRUS.DTL&feed=rss.news

Know Your Rights! Go to immigrantrights.org:

http://immigrantrights.org/knowrights.asp#toolkit

Peace Duckin’ the Feds,

Slavename.

Hot DAMN!!!

Watch out for these damn Philly cats going CRAZY!

Man, On March 5th 2008 i zoned out for about an hour listening to this track and even wrote a verse to this shit. I’ve hadn’t had a song hit me like that in a minute so i just wanted to post it especially since in the past hour i’ve read this, this, and this about the new Roots album and i’m really juiced to get that ish. The interviewer from Hiphopdx.com asks some stupid questions, but ?uestlove answers them like a vet.

Sonically the beat is INSANE. Edgy, anxious, ready to blow (or in the midst of blowing), and everyone spittin’ is aggressively puttin there shit out there. Black Thought just feels like he blacks out when he spits and just starts going and is unconscious, “Look my squad half Mandrill half Mandela/My band like 70 strong just like Fela,” FIRE. Dice Raw comes off ridiculous, “I’m half dead/never felt more alive,” and Peedi fuckin kills it, “All I listen to is vets/you fresh off the step I come directly at ya OG neck/I’m used to the 1,2 Check not the 1,2 Step…North Philly Get it IN!!”

Man I’ve been liking Peedi’s whole style of rap since:

Philadelphia Freeway’s – “Flipside” man we used to knock that shit stupidly loud on repeat! Misogyny in mind, this shit goes!

Sorry, I got side(tracked), (Colin, completely bitin’ ur whole (cool plays on words in parenthesis style), but back to the point like BD (or more relevantly CP3)…

Honestly, I don’t know a lot of The Roots albums personally, but got damn, if this shit doesn’t make you a fan off top you lightweight, naw, HEAVYWEIGHT suck! For real, bruh.

INDEED!

The Roots – “Get Busy” with Dice Raw and Peedi (Muhfuckin’) Crack!

I wanna write so much more about this shit, but i got so much tarea it’s stunning. I’m trying to graduate so I’m in grrrrrind mode fareal.

“Better dead bolt your door it aint safe no more,”

G-Mitch.

Jigga Gettin’ Hyphy! or How to Make This Year’s NBA Playoffs Interesting When the Warriors Are Kept Out of Them

“Eh nigga, I was in Oakland and Oakland like Brooklyn,” ~Jay-Z

While it has been an all too mediocre series between one average and another one above-average (because of one player) eastern conference teams, I’ve been thoroughly entertained by all of the shit talking and other antics during the Washington Wizards and Cleveland Lebron’s (I honestly couldn’t think of their team name for a few seconds there, haha) series.

It all started when Deshawn Stevenson called Lebron James, the Cavs superstar (who Nike compares to G-d with their whole ‘Witness’ marketing campaign, which is actually pretty offensive to me) “overrated.” Lebron replied saying, ‘That’s like comparing Soulja Boy to Jay-Z.’ Deshawn Stevenson then calls Soulja Boy and tells him that Jay-Z is disrespecting him, and then invites Soulja Boy to sit Courtside at the first Washington home game of the series. Too Much.

Soulja Boy has gotta be one of the funnest characters in hip hop right now.

You can read a lot about the rest of how this series “beef” (haha) has unfolded here, but i wanted to do a post on this because now Jay-Z has gotten involved by making a song to Too Short’s, “Blow the Whistle,” produced by Piur.

Haha, I’m sorry but i’m watching game 6 of the series right now, the game is being played in Washington D.C., and Deshawn just scored and they played part of Souja Boy’s “Crank dat,” this shit is just too hilarious to me.

Here’s the song tho.

Wow. Thank you to the internet for changing how fast information travels, so that i can hear a Jay Z diss of a basketball player during the playoff series that is still being played. It’s the simple things that get me.

Peace.

G.