You think you know about roots of hip hop? Get correct.
Thanks to Nah Right for the link.
Indigenous people’s day juxtaposition
Thanks to Vintage Ads for the image.
Filed under colonialism, cultural appropriation, human rights, juxtaposition, learning, Native, race, representation, slavery
Who won the BET beef battles?
Photo from Missinfo.tv
The other night Rick Ross and Young Jeezy bumped into each other at the BET hip hop awards and had a scrap. Who won? Gunplay.
Wait, what? Oh yeah, that was the other ruckus where Rick Ross’s rising MMG star Gunplay apparently fist fought most of G-Unit until pepper sprayed. The couple of days after the awards show we are seeing Gunplay everywhere.
Who else won? Gucci Mane.
The battling of Jeezy and Ross might bring Ross and Gucci become more closely aligned.
Today we get the visuals for Gucci’s forthcoming Trap God mixtape. Featuring Ross. Yowzas. Bland beat and recycled rhymes. C’mon Gucci!
For those who want a better video featuring Ross and Gucci, you gotta go back to the Burrprint 2 (completed while Gucci was in jail): “Do that shit again.”
Filed under hip hop, propaganda
Andrew W.K. parties with the My Little Pony crew
I’m thinking about Iris Young and her notion of the city.
“What ever you want to play with, it’s okay. It’s more than okay. It’s good.”
‘It was only released in Japan. But you can get it on illegal downloading. Please do.’
50 minutes and the party cannon emerges.
‘I would tell them. It’s totally fine to be in the corner.’
Dude sounds wicked Canadian.
Previously, I wrote about Andrew W.K performing in a wheelchair.
Filed under health, juxtaposition, learning, music, representation
Two takes on bath salts
Thanks for retronaut for the image
When bath salts first appeared in 2010, the products were crudely packaged — a label from an ink-jet printer slapped onto a plastic container, Ryan said. But over time, they began to look increasingly more professional and often specifically tailored to the place. Products in Louisiana donned names like Hurricane Charlie, NOLA Diamond, Bayou Ivory Flower. Bath salts had also surfaced in Illinois, Kentucky and Florida, but Louisiana was hit especially hard.
The product that Sanders snorted was called Cloud 9. At the time of his death, he was in a drug program for marijuana abuse, actively attending group meetings and undergoing frequent drug tests. He was told that the drug was legal, a great high and wouldn’t show up on a drug test.
via The Drug That Never Lets Go.
This contrast came about organically. My RSS feed contained this lengthy essay on the chemical make up of bath salts and the erotic towel advertisement about three hours apart from each other. It was ordained.
Filed under art, colonialism, drugs, health, juxtaposition, representation
Earl Warren and Japanese internment
Thanks to Mother Jones for the image of George Takei.
In the Mother Jones interview with George Takei he gives a fascinating insight into the role of future-Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren in Japanese Internment and the strategic historical silencing of the internments.
GT: Yes, for America it’s a shameful experience—embarrassing—and for some non-Japanese Americans, it’s something they don’t like to talk about. For example the attorney general of California at that time was very ambitious, he wanted to become governor. He saw that the single most popular issue was “getting rid of the Japs,” and he used this to get elected. After two terms he went on to become Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His name was Earl Warren—a so-called liberal justice. He was prodded and challenged by Japanese Americans throughout his career. He only spoke about it when he was near the end of his life. That’s one reason why our history books are rather mute.
via George Takei, the Best Driver in the Galaxy | Mother Jones.
Filed under human rights, learning, propaganda, race, representation
Caine’s Arcade going global!
A few months ago I posted the kick-ass video of nine year old Caine, who made a cardboard arcade.
Here is the update.
It looks pretty sick!
Filed under art, documentary, learning, media
Elvis Costello: waiting for the end of the world
Elvis Costello rocking with the Attractions. Enjoy friday. Give your best and hustle to make this planet a better place.
Stay free humanity, stay free.
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Curren$y – Leaving the dock
Curren$y Spitta aka Spitta Andretti is a good rapper to watch for if you are patient. Just hang out a little bit and he’ll drop a mixtape or a ridiculously good video or song. This one ain’t bad.
Filed under hip hop
Obama on keeping it together
I was not impressed with the rest of this essay, but the paragraph about the President keeping his shit together seems relevant to my life right now.
“You have to exercise,” he said, for instance. “Or at some point you’ll just break down.” You also need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.” The self-discipline he believes is required to do the job well comes at a high price. “You can’t wander around,” he said. “It’s much harder to be surprised. You don’t have those moments of serendipity. You don’t bump into a friend in a restaurant you haven’t seen in years. The loss of anonymity and the loss of surprise is an unnatural state. You adapt to it, but you don’t get used to it—at least I don’t.”
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Life of refinement 