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Dead Singers Get Better Promotion…

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Other than the fact that MICHAEL JACKSON is no longer with us you would have to agree that he had a pretty good weekend.

Michael Jackson’s glove sells for $350,000 at auction

Michael Jackson wins 4 American Music Awards

The Michael Jackson concert documentary ‘This Is It’ nears the $200m mark in domestic and foreign ticket sales

Michael Jackson’s death saved the US economy more than any stimulus package could. MJ’s death created jobs and got people back to work selling posters, calendars and all sorts of MJ memoribilia. It was the equivalent of the WPA from the entertainment industry.

All OBAAMA needs now is for Madonna, Barbara Streisand and Bruce Springsteen to die in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively and he will be re-elected for sure. I wonder if more dead celebrities would be enough incentive to push the healthcare bill through?

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Okay, I’m Reloaded…

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Piecebook: Reloaded continues it’s all-city bombing tour. Tonight the event is gonna be freshly independent as in the IND line. Take the B or the Q train to the Church Ave station and walk up Church two blocks east to Ocean Avenue.

WEALTHY HOSTAGE
1924 Church Avenue

Wealthy Hostage is the host from 6pm to 9pm featuring graff artist KEO signing Piecebooks and putting together a small in-store exhibit. I wonder if my homey RAB CAC will be on hand? RAB used to king hard on the R40 subway cars that were exclusive to the BMT and IND lines back when I was checking for him. How funny do you think it was that when I first went to high school as a freshman at Brooklyn Technical RAB was in his senior year?

I don’t want to tell y’all exactly how long ago that was because RAB has mysteriously gotten younger than me (and I’m the Black Peter Pan). If you ain’t doing anything productive tonight and you want to some legendary art and drink some free beer you might should need to be Parkside Flatbush. And say what up to RAB.

*As a side note: In the early 1980’s Mayor Koch heralded the war on graffiti and the sight of top to bottom burners began to disappear memory. Some new city residents who don’t have a recollection of the good ol’ (read: bad) New York City subway system thought it would be a great idea for advertisements to cover to the outside panels of subway cars – top to bottom.

Graffiti was a nuisance and a crime because it wasn’t an advertisement from a sanctioned corporation. Originally it was just poor working class folks yelling out trying to be heard. Now it’s all about cheap trendy clothes.

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OSIRIS LIVES… (O.D.B. R.I.P. ReMix)

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Editor’s Note: This post was originally issued as an e-mail blast after the tragic death of RUSSELL T. JONES a/k/a OL’ DIRTY BASTARD. The WU-TANG Collective gathers at the Hammerstein Ballroom in N.Y.C. to celebrate the life and legacy of O.D.B. on February 14, 2006. Peace to OL’ DIRTY. Peace to the WU.

I never got a chance to really open up and show my love to BIG BABY JESUS(OL’ DIRTY). Next to GHOSTFACE, I felt the soundtrack to his life the most. There is so much mental energy that we Black men exert on an everyday basis just to keep from going crazy. The socio-political-economic system that we live under acts like water running down a drain and we struggle daily not to go under. Not that anyone out here has it particularly easy(white included) because when your taxes aren’t paid on time, Uncle Sam will come to your door to get his regardless of your last name. Your last name only determines if he will ring the doorbell or kick in the door.

I should pra’li give thanks to the WU real quick also. The WU-TANG clan illustrated the diaspora that is the Black Man. The members were individually talented and collectively invincible. Not since PUBLIC ENEMY has there been a group as diversely and intelligently orchestrated. Each member of the clan used their particular style to imprint and transform rap music. The term ‘ice’ belonged to the WU. If you don’t believe me please go copp RAEKWON’s ultra-classic first album also featuring GHOSTFACE KILLAH.

Without the WU-TANG CLAN who could we look for to express Black male unity? The 1980’s wannabe crack dealing reminscent DIPLOMATS? STATE PROPERTY? Isn’t ‘State Property’ the term used for incarcerated slave labor?!? The Gay Unit, oops, I meant to say G-UNIT.

Well all I got to say is one thing to say. ‘Shimmy Shimmy Y’all’. WU-TANG FOREVER!

Brooklyn Zoo

The Stomp

Baby C’mon

Shimmy Shimmy Ya’

Hippa To Da Hoppa

Rawhide

Brooklyn Zoo II (Tiger Crane)

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Sesame Is What’s Hot In The Streets…

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Rafi Kam was right when he said that the Internets Celebrities owe a debt of respect to Sesame Street (Saturday Night Live as well, but that’s another drop for another day). Without the production of the Children’s Television Workshop this world would be too mean and scary for children. The monsters on Sesame Street were our friends and they looked out for us. They held our hands and they sung to us.

You can’t imagine the transformative power of this programming even today when kids can navigate gaming consoles well before they can speak in complete sentences. Everyone is failing the children from the parents, caregivers, and up to the educators but never Sesame Street. This is still the single place that children can be adults without the burden of paying bills. Children are spoken to with eye contact and love in the center of the message. Thank you Sesame Street, without you this world would be even more fucked the fuck up.

This weekend, my favorite library in the Brooklyn, the central branch at Grand Army Plaza is hosting a 40th anniversary celebration for Children Television Workshop’s Sesame Street. They have so many activities and events scheduled I almost want to rent myself a child. If you are lucky enough to have someone in your life that you would like to introduce to the perfect world of Sesame Street please don’t hesitate to find yourself at the Brooklyn Central Library this Saturday.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard would definitely be there.

But then again, Wu-Tang is for the children.

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Archive for the ‘Social Upheaval’ Category

Dead Singers Get Better Promotion…

Okay, I’m Reloaded…

VitaminWater >>> Moon Water…

OSIRIS LIVES… (O.D.B. R.I.P. ReMix)

Sesame Is What’s Hot In The Streets…