Archive for June, 2006

FAVELA RISING: THE REAL CITY OF GOD

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

favela rising

If you know anyone that is an aspiring rapper please take them to see this film. I guarantee you will see that the music we listen to has lost all of its validity. There was a time when Hip-Hop music was used to educate, enlighten and empower the youth. All American Hip-Hop seeks to do now is make the youth consumers serving lifetime sentences in poverty and despair. This movie will remind you that there is another way.

‘Favela Rising’ tells the story of ANDERSON SA, a former drug trafficker from Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum, who becomes a social activist and uses music and dance, inspired by the rhythms of his streets, to combat the violence and oppression that have affected generation after generation of impoverished teens. SA’s grassroots Afro-Reggae movement becomes a vital force in unifying a divided city, combating teenage drug armies, and overcoming police corruption.

Then, at the height of his success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever. Filmed over more than two years in the most desperate neighborhoods of Rio, the film illustrates how art and culture can be catalysts for social change, and how even the most unexpected adversity, both personal and societal, can be overcome.

The cinematography rivals that of City of God because it shows the actual poverty that exists in Brazil. This story is real though and it shows the power of a true believer.

BILLY SUNDAY Says Pink Hats Are For Broads

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Summertime almost snuck up on us without me giving you the official dallaspenn.com fitted hat lineup for the season. If you can still afford the prices of these caps then peep some of my choices for the summers’ most ubiquitous B-boy accessory.

Speaking of ubiquitous…
evil empire

Love ‘em or hate ‘em you have to respect the gangsta of the MLB’s evil empire. The only one you should own is the classic though. A pink Yankees fitted should only be worn by members of the camouflage lingerie mafia.

spankees

Otherwise known as DipSet.

The Sneaker Fiends M.V.P. this season will be the all-black Giants chapeau. The 3-D ‘SF’ on the front should become the logo for sneaker fiends across America. No orange button on the crown if you can find one that exclusive.

sneaker fiend

Another classic that stays fresh in the streets is the St.Louis joint. The best part is that you can rock this joint Blood or Crip style too.

redbirds

bluebirds

I am partial to wearing a Tribe hat because I always dug ATCQ’s jazzy sound and I got some in’jun in my family genes. Just think, one day when the African American population is decimated from disease, drugs and alcohol maybe we can get our own hat too.

in'juns

Well what do you know?!? We already got one. Woo hoo! Go Niggros!

chattanooga lookouts

I am in a New York state of mind this summer so I will definitely copp one of these Met I.T.’s. Being the boss of the National League East should have some benefits.

mets

The most important thing to remember about your fitted cap is that it should fit. If you can still shove another skull inside of your cap then your hat isn’t ‘fitted’. It is actually a bonnet.

Attack Of The Clones

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

stormtroopers

I think it was TONY’s KANSAS CITY that predicted the backlash would come when the mainstream media (MSM) would begin to blame the troops for the war in Iraq. What’s interesting to me since I read mostly foreign news feeds is that everyone across the globe is chiming in at the same time. If you ask me, the time to start looking in the opposite direction was on Memorial Day when the President said that the troops should be “honored”.

Here’s a small sampling of the headlines on the internets…

The British Broadcasting Company is leaking a videotape of U.S. Marines peeling TurtleNeck wigs back during an operation in one of those Iraqi ‘hoods. The BBC is calling it the ‘Massacre Musik Mixtape‘ series and the DVD is being hosted by Mobb Deep. Chances are I can go to Canal Street tomorrow and copp it from one of the Africans with the bedsheet spread out on the sidewalk. “I got eet for cheep beeeeches!”

This story here pissed me the fuck off too. Eight soldiers are being brought up on murder charges for merc’king ONE Turtleneck. What kind of peanut butter and jelly racial bullshit is this?!? Eight white for ONE sandnigger? Back in the days of the Constitution a brother was only worth 2/3 of a white. Now they done gone and said a white is only worth 1/8 of an Iraqi. Damn, that crude oil can make a motherfucker valuable like that?!?

I thought all that Abu Garbage shiite was over with, but now I see that they are going to jail the dude that sicked the German Shepherds on the prisoners. So you can call me a cornball, but I guess we all know ‘Who Let The Dogs Out‘.

The last time I checked it we were at war. It wasn’t a war that these soldiers voted on either. I am sure that if people had their choice they would be home with their families instead of in a godforsaken desert guarding oilwells. The Turtlenecks don’t want our brothers and sisters there anyhoo. All the Turtlenecks want to do is return to their way of life which included smelling bad, hating the Jews and beating their wives. Can you imagine the azz kicking some of those broads will be getting when all this shiite is finally over with?

I was too young to understand the politics of Vietnam, but I do remember we had a President back then that had a problem with tapping people’s phones and we called it Watergate. No need for the Deep Throat double-entendre this time around since President BUSH taps phones AND lets the water through the gates.

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