December 2009
36 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
14KT (85)
Gist The Essence (76)
DJ Spinna (74)
The Roots (58)
Blakroc (53)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Pete Rock (135)
J.Period & Nneka (60)
The Roots (21)
Elzhi (15)
D’Angelo (13)
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Intellectual Property Enforcement
Here’s most of the article, for the rest go here:
http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/12/15/holder-at-white-house-summit-with-entertainment-executives/
Holder announced that the Justice Department would be setting up an intellectual property enforcement training and technical assistance program to provide resources to train state and local officials on how to investigate and prevent...
“Back in the days when I was young I’m not a kid anymore but somedays, I sit and...”
– Pharcyde Ahmad - Back in the day (via marzgotsoul)
Fixed that for ya homey haha, dope track though indeed
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Clipse (44)
Gist The Essence (37)
Madlib (25)
Lupe Fiasco (15)
Pill (14)
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See what I did there? Now y’all post up some tracks/music that have connections
“‘cause girls look so good but their brain is not ready, I dont...”
– KRS-1
Does Death Exist? New Theory Says 'No'
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Gist The Essence (55)
Clipse (23)
De La Soul (19)
Blakroc (19)
Portishead (18)
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“We’ve heard many heads equate hip-hop with producing something out of...”
– Saheen Ariefdien and Nazli Abrahams, pp. 262 in Jeff Chang’s “Total Chaos”
Untitled
by Walidah Imarisha
“came out sticky
with rage rebellion
riot-flames
our history the immediacy
of a break beat.
Afrika/The Republic of New Afrika
The Deep South/the South Bronx
our will to survive
playful and mischievous
kinky and freaky
raw and angry.
we could move mountains
and nations
and asses
You don’t know us
You don’t want to know us
“they...
Currently Reading
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, which is compiled and edited by Jeff Chang (who also wrote “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, of which I highly recommend as well). About 60 pages away from finishing it…despite my starting it damn near a half year ago, but I blame school for stopping my leisure reading. Next book on my list is the...
America’s Obsession with Extramarital Affairs Are...
Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods-What have you done? Word of his sordid affairs is all anyone can talk about. From coast to coast on every single local and national newscast, squeaky clean Tiger Woods cheating on his wife is the lead story. Sadly,we’ve seen this film way too many times. Whether it’s South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, basketball great Kobe Bryant, former president Bill...
