If anyone would be swimming with the lions it would be OKayPlayer. It’s not enough to bring in talented people from all across America to close out the festivities at the 2009 College Music Journal, OKayPlayer is putting together a showcase with the best talent from across the globe. Specifically Africa.
From the DuckDown showcase up to this OKayAfrica concert you will experience all the myriad elements of Hip-Hop. Bajah and the Dry Eye Crew along with Blitz the Ambassador is the best way to close down the festival. Live music and positive vibes from the new Knitting Factory space in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
If you haven’t seen Blitz the Ambassador yet you haven’t seen what the spirit of live instrumentation and horns does within Hip-Hop. Blitz along with the Embassy Ensemble are like listening to James Brown and Fela Kuti put their bands behind an emcee. I fux with this dude’s show. Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew are OKayPlayer favorites that keep the party bouncing. Speaking of Fela Kuti, there will also be an afrobeat dance party after the concert. This event will officially shut down the CMJ.
OKayAfrica
341 Metropolitan Ave, BK
Doors open @ 11pm
HOF from OnSmash hit me up on the jack and asked me if I would do some hosting for this event. Hell’s Chea! was my answer. Only $10 for ALL of these acts? You better recognize…
There is definitely some shit I laughed at in this movie that God will be sending me to hell for. Even OG blaxploitation flicks weren’t this exploitative of the Blacks. This may be the reason I haven’t called this movie a classic. There are tons of laugh out loud moments throughout the movie and the themes they address are highlighted with humor, but in the end I was missing the big payback (no Richard Roundtree).
It’s not easy to parody stereotype without becoming that which you are mocking. ‘Black Dynamite’ reflects the cinema aesthetic for the 1970’s era so accurately that it almost becomes that itself. The problem with that is the fact that we are living in 2009 and the reality of those that view the film today will not be consistent with the people that watched a film like this in 1975. I like to laugh as much as anyone else, but I also need to be engaged with my eyes on the prize.
Doing parody is one of the most difficult tricks in the business of making comedy. You have to constantly remind the viewer that you are actively crafting the joke. Black Dynamite is a parody not just of the blaxploitation genre of movies but of the gangsta rap lifestyle and mindset that is now indelibly attached to Black culture. One of my favorite scenes is where the ensemble cast of actors and comedians does a rambling bit on African American numerical mysticism all the while inspiring Roscoe to sell chicken and waffles in his restaurant.
Black Dynamite is filled with wild action and homemade special effects all of which adds to the comedy. It felt like all the kung fu and crazy pimp flicks I had watched long ago. The movie’s writers and producers were definitely fans of the genre as well. You have to be an O.G. to catch some of their references. To a kid those will just be funny scenes but to some of us older fans we will remember the movie where we first saw that scene. Like I said earlier, parody is hard as hell especially with Black films because if you slip from the fine line you become baseless coonery.
Black Dynamite is a cross between I’m Gonna Git’ You Sucka and Original Gangstas. The laughs come fast and furious and sometimes at the expense of the storyline. I was hoping that Black Dynamite would be more like Bamboozled or the classic Black Hollywood experience parody film – Hollywood Shuffle. The fact that Black Dynamite falls short of the distinction of ‘classic’ doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth seeing, especially if you got a blunt of that good good beforehand.
Black Dynamite will tell you that even though drugs are fun they don’t belong in the hands of children.
I co-sign that message to the fullest.
Out of a 4 retahd rating sytem I give ‘Black Dynamite’ 3 retahds.
These are pics from the Timeless Truth x Sean Price = Priceless video shoot. It was a musical massacre x lyrical lynching with everyone rocking their freshest lifestyle. Shouts also to PF Cuttin, Meyhem Lauren, Thistin’ Howl 3rd, Roc Marciano, Bags-Lo and all the other heads in the building. Well, outside on the Brooklyn Bridge, but you know what the fux I am talking about.
In a week DuckDown Reords will release a mixtape from their underground smashmouf superstar Sean Price. The project is called ‘Kimbo Price’ and it will segue you into his next solo album project ‘Mic Tyson’. You can catch Sean P and the entire DuckDown Records roster at the Blender Theatre on Saturday October 24th. In the meantime and in between time fux with this Sean Price music.
Sean Price featuring Agallah – ‘Zeppelin Fuel’
Randon Axe (Sean Price, Guilty Simpson and Black Milk) – ‘Monster Babies’
Sean Price – ‘Top Rank’
“Poetry in motion, Miriam Makeba”
Who else in the rap game namedrops Miriam Makeba? Fux with Sean Price. Better still fux with real rap music.
Heineken has a space in Black people lore similar to Hennessy. Neither of these products are the best at what they do, but Black folks can’t do without them (for the record: Heineken Dark >>> Modelo Negro). Therefore the Heineken Red Star Soul party was as bananas to get into as the Hennessy Artistry joint. Let’s also agree that a free concert with free Heineken on a Friday is as good as it gets.
The event was filled with celebrities who mixed things up with regular folks. That made the party real fun for me to watch because most Hip-Hop celebs occupy a weird space in stardom. Everyone loves to be acknowledged for creating content or art except when it comes to being recognized in a Hip-Hop setting you usually have to deal with people that are jealous of the success of your art and efforts. Some of the fans think that THEY should be in your shoes.
This is why I love being an internets celebrity. There isn’t anyone that knows me. And the folks that recognize me for my online efforts have a highspeed internets connection so they aren’t even the losers using dial-up. No wonder so many rappers are becoming internets celebrities. It’s way better than real world celebrity foe the simple fact that you save a grip on personal security expenses. Unfortunately, there is no red carpet for internets celebrities.
I did a Sneaker Fiends Unite! inspection on Wale and the boy checks out as always. I can’t even front like I have been fuxing with his music lately. After the ‘Mixtape About Nothing’ I have become lukewarm to him. He a cool dude tho’.
It’s the Cons. G.O.O.D. Music in the building. Consequence be in the streets more than any rapper I can think of. ‘Don’t Quit Your Day Job‘ was tragically slept on. Don’t sleep on that next joint.
Is this chick from 3LW? And who the fux cares?!?
Why is this man smiling? Have the Knicks traded him to Cleveland?
His name is D-Nice. Taking out you suckas and you don’t know how he did it. Salute this man for being a creative force in Hip-Hop for over twenty years.
Clue Money > CLAW Money
Got milk?
Tyson still spending that Ralph Lauren money.
Slim what up?
Suicide it’s a suicide. Timm is trying to battle me on the lifestyle tip. Would someone please tell this man he does not want to test the champion.
