Somebody told me that we have a Black President,
just ‘cuz he didn’t want to go to ‘Nam
and ‘cuz he smoked weed,
and ‘cuz he cheated on his old lady,
and ‘cuz he says words like ‘cuz.
But the only Black man that I know,
never smoked a joint,
fought in the war against Black America,
and did two rounds with the VIET CONG,
he was a champion for the foundation of Black culture;
FAMILY.
You won’t agree with everything he says,
but you know he will never lie to you.
That’s the only Black man that I know.
I’ve known Christopher X for a while. I’m talking early-90’s. Before
he had his green dreaded mohawk. Back when he was in the NOI (hence
the name). I’m talking block parties featuring the K.I.N., featuring a
young dancer / axe wielding named Saul Williams.
I’m talking Bad Brains and Parliament, Nirvana and Bambatta, Robert
Crumb and Crack (good old fashioned crack, like the one you got behind
you). It all went in his brain and it’s all out now on his new CD.
His long-awaited debut CD is out NOW, CX Kidtronik’s KRAK ATTACK is
here now. It features High Priest of Antipop, Ram:ell:zee, Angelo
Moore of Fishbone, MF Grimm, and Agallah (of Purple City). I couldn’t
be more proud, come hear it for yourselves, absorb it to your brain.
My boy VIK over at BioChemical Slang wanted me to drop a kite about how everybody that didn’t make it to Radio City Music Hall for the ‘Roots and Friends’ benefit concerts were all humps, but y’all knew that already.
If you had never seen the Roots crew live it would have been an epiphany for you. For those of us that have seen them many, many, many times it was business as usual. I will veer away from all the other internets reviews by just issuing you some bullet points on both shows. OkayPlayer has more details about the evenings if you still feel like you need to read more about it.
1.] When I am in my 60’s the Roots will be performing at Caesar’s in Vegas, still tearing the roof off the motherfucker. Since I prah’lee won’t live that long I will go to see them every chance I get.
2.] ?UESTLOVE = genius, pure musical genius
3.] I don’t give BLACK THOUGHT too much credit because his flow doesn’t really transfer to studio produced LP’s, but this dude has a beautiful flow on stage and a beautiful mind. Your boy NAS forgot his own damn song and tried to tell ?UESTLOVE to bring the beat back to the beginning. ?UESTLOVE kept on time and BLACK THOUGHT started that nigga NAS song for him.
4.] NAS should prah’lee stop smoking weed since he dropped out of his songs so often, Either he was out of breath or he kept forgetting his rhymes. Let’s get it all in perspective lil’ homey…
5.] TALIB KWELI has shades of G-RAP in his delivery. It’s being too good for your own good. Either that or he spits with a lisp.
6.] COM SENSE = G.O.O.D. (no brokeback)
7.] BADU will be my generation’s LaBELLE
8.] Contrary to what some people say, white dudes are the most generous cats with their weed. They will always share a ‘j’ with you and it is usually some good shit. Blacks and Mexicans(Dominicans, P.R.’s, etc.) are the stingiest weed smokers on the planet. If you ask them for a hit they will look at you like you are a crackhead.
9.] DAVE CHAPPELLE is still the man.
10.] No BUSTA and no Q-TIP?!? After all JAY DEE did for A.T.C.Q. that was a stunning and profound silence not to see any of those brothers represent. Turns out that Q-TIP was in a NYC recording studio with black head pea producer WILL.I.AM. So I guess JONATHON goes from DILLA to WILLA.
What it do web cipher? I apologize to some of you if your comments haven’t been posted one hundred. It’s time for us to do some unexpected site maintenance to handle the traffic that is falling thru the seams. We will have our tech staffers like JACQUI HERNANDEZ get right on top of the issue. When she gets on top of something it always gets handled right. Nah’mean?!?
Shouts to everybody that has been effing with us for the second quarter. We ain’t in the lead yet, but our offense is streaky like JOHN STARKS and it hasn’t been shooting its best. Otherwise, everything is still gravy in the Navy and we will be be back on this blog grizzly in a hot one with more of that internets crack that you be fiendin’ for. And don’t forget…
O.K. Let’s keep it real. All of y’all mother’effers don’t have tickets to the ROOTS Crew show this Friday. That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a fun in a positive progressive vibe. This Friday, MALCOLM X Day, my brother in the struggle , KAHLIL ALMUSTAFA will be hosting his album release party. There is NO cover charge and GAME Rebellion will perform as well.
The album project is called ‘CounterIntelligence’ and it promises to change the genre of spoken word. Suspend your notion of what poetry is and free your mind.
Malcolm X Day
Friday, May 19th, 2006
@ Speak
28 East 23rd St.
b/w Madison & Park Ave.
New York, NY
Doors open at 5pm
Click the link to KAHLIL’s MySpace page to hear excerpts of his album ‘CounterIntelligence’.
