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Archive for April, 2007
A WARRIOR WEED OWNER’s LAST STAND…
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007‘Who Shot Ya’?’ By ERNIE PANICCIOLI
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Editor’s note: The debate for censorship of Hip-Hop music is quickly spinning into a circus for lies and propaganda. While we here at DP Dot Com support the rights of artists to use any means and mediums for their expressions we understand there is a need to temper the images and ideas that proliferate mainstream media with a balanced perspective on life, love and learning. Supporting us and other artists is photographer ERNIE PANICCIOLI who has been a documentarian of Hip-Hop since it’s inception. ERNIE gets it. The war over words has become a distraction from the real noise rumbling under our feet. There are less media outlets available for artisitc expression and because of this cultural norms are being skewed towards the lowest common denominator. Brother ERNIE takes a few minutes to tell us how to direct our energy and focus if we are to ever regain our balance…
A Warning To Hip-Hop
Watch out. Now that the processed haired nasty man has flexed against another paper tiger and the IMUSHARPTON beast is still simmering if you listen to the chatter you will hear two things loudly as background noise.
Censorship and Hip Hop.
Those things cannot co-exist. Even before I was born censorship had a chilling effect on art. In the 30’s and 40’s Hollywood was hit with censorship and had to meet a code to get a movie released. It resulted in the stifling of creativity. Then they went after comic books and that watered down creative output. Then down South the religious right lashed out at Rock and Roll and forced Little Richard underground and left us with Pat Boone.
Calvin Butts, C. Delores Tucker are just a couple of folks that have made moves against Rap artists to no avail. But if you scan thru the talk shows all of the talking heads (Black and White) are all saying Imus was influenced by Rap Music and now once again Rap Music is a big Black Boogieman. Missing in the dialogue (and seemingly in the recent documentary “Beyond Hip Hop by Byron Hurt” also full of talking heads) is the colonization factor in Rap Music. Yes, the artists that promote garbage, hate, and all of the poison they spout are guilty of having no class, self hate, lack of respect for women, life and their people but it is the CORPORATE RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVES AND THEIR CORPORATE DISTRIBUTORS AND VIDEO OUTLETS all figure-headed by Black Women like Sylvia Rhone and Debra Lee that trade, profit and merchandise from this climate of hate.
It is also these same corporate moguls that block any attempt by conscious artists to get signed, widely exposed or get media attention or love by the magazines. We, the Zulu Nation and Federation and Turn Off Channel Zero amongst many other grass root organizations with the help of a few non-cowards in the media like Brother Davey D (www.daveyd.com) and Sister Rosa Clemente (WBAI.org) are pushing and supporting a nationwide Balance Campaign to not censor anyone, but rather to push to allow access to Mos Def, dead prez, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, James Brown, Gil Scott Heron, George Clinton, Prince, Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin and not just have the radio waves blocked, gagged and over exposed with non-talent, payola bought, corporate drivel that plays the same 20 songs and videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week on all music media outlets.
Stay tuned and watch the fallout to see who gets burned and how once again the invisible colonizers who sit in the smoke filled rooms and make decisions that affect our lives, economics and art forms remain hidden and safe from public scrutiny.
Peace, Bro. Ernie
JOELL ORTIZ IS SAVING HIP-HOP…
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
In case you didn’t know, BILLY SUNDAY grinds for the Evil Empire.
The world’s most hardbody Hip-Hop blogger BILLY XAVIER SUNDAY recently sat down with Aftermath and Koch Records artist JOELL ORTIZ and kicked it about everything in and around Hip-Hop. If you still love Hip-Hop that evokes pictures with talented wordplay you will enjoy JOELL ORTIZ’ music. SUNDAY’s interviews ran at XXL Mag Dot Com in two parts…
Here is his new video for the single track ‘Brooklyn Bullshit’…
RAP MUSIC SNITCHES GET THE RICHES…
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
NaS’ baby mama only wishes she had more to sell tell…
I will assume that most of you found the time to see 60 Minutes absurd report of the “Stop Snitching Culture” that seems to be pervasive within the disenfranchised center city communities. I call the report absurd because that is where you should file the information – theater of the absurd. Media outlets, acting like sharks sensing blood, have begun their multi-tiered attack on Hip-Hop by positing that the notion of criminal acceptability begins from the mouths of rappers. There is plenty of nonsence that rappers do perpetuate on a daily basis and the least of which I will consider is the idea that cooperating with police is a crime against the ‘hood.
In fact, that idea begins and ends inside of police precincts that have used tactics such as ‘Hell Night’ to wage a war of terror on poor communities since whenever supremacy wants to. The truth is this… From the time of bootlegging alcohol to illegal numbers up until the narcotics epidemics, the police have been an important conduit to perpetuating and regulating these illicit trades. LARRY DAVIS was almost assassinated when he decided that he would no longer be a street level dealer for the Bronx police precinct that ran his neighborhood. It is a police force that monitors these narcotics traffickers that has the center city residents in fear.
These police were allowed to kick in the door of an elderly women named ELEANOR BUMPURS and shoot her to death all because she filed a telephone complaint against harassing drug dealers in her housing project. This is the reason that the ‘hood has been told to stop snitching. Because nothing, but nothing, is going to be allowed to fuck up the police’s money machine. BTW, you won’t ever see something this real on ‘The Wire’.
Snitching is certainly admonished in rap music today, but is actually practiced quite often by some of the genre’s most prolific personalities.
It looks to me like these artists have been reading this website more than they would like to admit…
*Shouts to BOL for some of the above links
The Association Playoffs 2007 Or MICHAEL JORDAN Finally Divorces MICHAEL JACKSON…
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Memo to JORDAN: Let’s see how much of that $150mil settlement ends up in one of DAVID FALK’s accounts.
It might appear that I don’t like basketball as much as your average jig but that isn’t entirely true. Sure, I like baseball and football more than basketball, but I still represent my Blackness with a familiarity of roundball goings ons. I jacked the pic above from Nerditry. They were the winners of this years inaugural DP Dot Com NCAA FINAL FOUR Pool. I wanted to run another pool for the NBA Playoffs but I didn’t have the time to administer a pool and continue my charge to world domination via the internets.
The Association seemed a bit more compelling last year with RON ARTEST in the mix. The league just looks like its been neutured to the point that I wish there was another cocaine scandal to make these kids look more interesting. If not for GILBERT ARENAS and KOBE BRYANT the NBA would be the perfect cure for insomnia. Thank GOD the playoffs finally arrived. Maybe there will be some drama on TNT this week. In the meantime and in between time leave it up to your boy DP to spice up the post-season.
I’ll use this post to run a contest for the overall Association champs. Whoever picks this years’ NBA Finals winner will get a DP Dot Com prize pack. Make sure that you include the following info…
Out of the sixteen teams that have begun the playoffs I see five or six possibles to own the NBA crown this summer…
DALLAS MAVERICKS
By virtue of their league leading record I have to put them at the top of the heap. This Mavericks team doesn’t seem as explosive to me as last years group and I would never have picked last years bunch to make it to the Finals. So what do I know?
PHOENIX SUNS
Forget all the this and that about KOBE BRYANT being the M.V.P. for the Association this year. STEVE NASH had the hottest NIKE hoe this year and he will get the BOB COUSY trophy or the PETE MARAVICH trophy or whatever trophy is named after that white that kicked ass on the hardwood. Don’t sleep either when Phoenix gets all the lose calls during these playoffs. The league needs for their M.V.P. to at least play in the Finals.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS
TIM DUNCAN has been the best player in the league for the last ten years for being able to make TONY PARKER and MANU GINOBILI All-Stars in the league. Similar to OLAJUWON he just does his thing quietly and efficiently. San Antonio needs another player on their roster for them to be the dominant team in the league again, but they are still good enough to come out of the West if the Suns or the Mavs get caught slipping.
DETROIT PISTONS
The Pistons are one of the few championship caliber teams where the weed carriers might be better than the weed owners. CHRIS WEBBER and RASHEED WALLACE offer glimpse of their former weed owning days, but the Detroit engine is powered by their guard play. RIP HAMILTON and CHAUNCEY BILLUPS are the sparkplugs.
MIAMI HEAT
By virtue of being last years’ champs do the Heat make this list. So much shit would have to happen in order for Miami to make it to the Finals this year we should discount these dudes automatically. They are really an 8-seed playing in the 4-seed slot.
CHICAGO BULLS
The Bulls are my sleeper pick for this years’ Finals trophy. True story, I was at the NIKE I.D. Design Studio working on a pair of Dunks over the summer and SMUSH PARKER and BEN GORDON were up in there chillin’ doing the same. BEN GORDON’s shoes looked better than mine only because NIKE gave him access to their VIP materials like ostrich leather and gold-plated laces, but let’s see BEN create the amount of content that has him working on four websites simultaneously. Yeah, I thought so.