Burn banned

The event surrounding Grant’s killing — along with the current political, social and economical circumstances — served as an inspiration for the concept of this song and, eventually, the video. The family of Oscar Grant is featured in the clip, along with a fleet of artists that joined Killer Mike in his effort to deliver a strong and powerful message to his audience, including Diddy, Curren$y, The Cool Kids, Mistah Fab, and Filthy Rich who all make cameos.

PL3DGE is out now.

“BURN” Banned on BET I am so proud to be Black right now. - @Mike_Bigga

Black & White & Red All Over (1997)

I have no idea why my mother and aunt allowed me to watch this movie with them, but that openness is the type of stuff that I am grateful for.



"No, the six black friends hanging out together in a Boston apartment over a Thanksgiving weekend, watching television, drinking beer and smoking "blunts", are not waiting for Godot, although it sometimes feels that way. The characters in their 20's who inhabit ''Black and White and Red All Over'' are caught up in a wave of black-on-black violence that is receiving sporadic coverage on a local television station. Exactly how they are connected to these events is revealed only in bits and pieces as the story unfolds. Even by the end of the movie, much is still unexplained.

Set in the near future, the film, directed and written by DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy and Khari Streeter, has the style of a semi-improvised docudrama. Drenched in a mood of ominous claustrophobia, it evokes a black urban society so caught up in lethal turf wars that at times the apartment seems like a bunker. Most of the crucial events in the drama take place offscreen.


The movie has flashes of grim humor. One scene is photographed from the point of view of a "blunt" that the characters are passing around. When they talk back to the continuously playing television, their banter about the programming, particularly on the Black Entertainment Network, has a bitterly funny edge." Read More

NY Oil

Truth.

"TRENCHTOWN ROCK"

R.I.P. Teena Marie

Teena Marie GONE! Our nigga dead :'(
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Busta in Africa

that African guy isnt paying him no attention. Hes jus dick riding...

but i love Busta.

He Shall Overcome...

"There were far too many sequins to say that it looked regal, and it would be cheap and inaccurate to compare the scene to the Kennedys' Camelot. Besides, this was hip-hop, not politics. No, not politics but definitely imbued with the same trappings: the guards and cars as calculated and as choreographed. Because far more than a rapper, more than a former drug dealer, Jay-Z fashions himself as a mogul. Which makes Jay-Z something that America never produced before: the experience of a rapper-turned-magnate is totally new, and this is what that scene on the balcony was, the cousins, and the attendants, the Queen B. It was the high-powered court of a man who, now 40 years old, is quickly on the way to becoming not just the King of New York but also one of his generation's greatest capitalists." - Read More

Freekey Zekey promotes Bone Marrow registration, donation, and awareness

"Recently, Shannon Tavarez, one of the young stars of The Lion King on Broadway, passed away after a battle with leukemia. She was 11-years-old. It was another example of a tragedy that is likely happening all the time, every day. But the struggle to find Shannon a bone marrow match again brought to light the under-representation of people of color in bone marrow registries, like DKMS. And it was inspiring to see folks like Tony Yayo, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys and others take up that cause. (Just as Nelly did before his sister succumbed to leukemia in 2005)

Now Freekey Zekey is acting as the hip hop spokesman for bone marrow organization Preserving Our Legacy and addressing the NYC Council -Committee on Health today. And in this video, he also helps debunk the process of joining a bone marrow registry. While anything bone marrow-related makes my spine tingle, I didn’t know that registering only involves a painless mouth swab. Now if you’re a match and agree to donate, then the process does involve an out-patient procedure, that can be done with general anesthesia (aka: lights out), no stitches, no immune-system weakness, and, yes, soreness that may last a few weeks. Big up to Zekey for helping us learn about the need and the process." -MissInfo


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Lion King star dies

Somebody, Anybody but Tyler Perry Sing a Black Girl's Song

"I'm not a Tyler Perry fan. I think his films lack nuance and subtlety and reinforce stereotypes in order to deliver specific messages. I stated in the original post that Tyler Perry never gives his audience a chance to "get" the message. He wants to deliver it, wrapped in a cannon ball and shot across the room. The poems in For Colored Girls need to breathe on their own. They don't need back story or a narrative; they need to be heard and felt by black women who have lived those lives and loved those men." Read More

rent too damn high!

extra

Your Black is Beautiful

"What is beauty? who determines what attractive looks like? these are questions that have plagued society (primarily women) for ages. For as long as I could remember being considered beautiful held almost as much importance as breathing. Some may say that is an exaggeration but given all the things women do to be considered beautiful I would say that it’s an understatement. Women of all racial backgrounds go to the most ridiculous lengths to meet a standard of beauty that is virtually unattainable. Growing up being pretty was at the forefront of everything, the pretty girls got all the attention the pretty girls appeared to have the most fun…this has not changed and if anything it has gotten worse. Every race has their own standard beauty, physical qualities that some races treasure others discard as natural deformities that have to be fixed." - READ MORE

72 year old woman looks AMAZING!

Boons-DAY!

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Music Friday's

SPK's Playlist

"Hip Hop" - Dead Prez
"Heartbeat" - Nneka
"The Healer - Erykah Badu
"Wolves (Intro)" - Dead Prez
"Sly Fox" - Nas
"Hello/Goodbye" - Lupe
"Poison" - Nas
"'They' Schools" - Dead Prez
"Radio Freq." - Dead Prez
"Streets on Fire" - Lupe
"The Grind" - Erykah Badu (feat. Dead Prez)
"Be Healthy" - Dead Prez
"I'm a African" - Dead Prez
"We Want Free" - Dead Prez
"Assassination" - Dead Prez (i love the little kid in the beginning)
"Changes" - TuPac
"If I Ruled The World" - Nas (feat. Lauryn Hill)
"One Mic" - Nas
"Freedom" - Lauryn Hill
"Road to Zion" - Damian Marley & Nas
"Still Dreaming" - Nas
"The World is Yours" - Nas
"Express Yourself" - N.W.A.
"Amerykahn Promise" - Amerykahn Primise
"I Know I Can" - Nas
"Be A Nigger Too" - Nas
"Fight The Power" - Public Enemy
"Fuck Tha Police" - N.W.A.
"Can't Truss It" - Public Enemy
"N.I.G.G.E.R." - Nas
"Redemption Song" - Bob Marley
"American Terriorist" - Lupe
"Heard 'Em Say" - Kanye West
"Locked and Loaded" - Deftones & Dead Prez


"Come On, Get U Some Free!"


EXTRAS

Quote of the Day

"Uh, who shot Biggie Smalls/ If we don't get them/ They gonna get us all/ I'm down for runnin' up on them/ Crackers in they city hall/ We ride for y'all/ All my dogs stay real/ Nigga don't think these record deals/ Gonna feed your seeds/ And pay your bills because they not/ MC's get a little bit of love and think they hot/ Talkin' 'bout how much money they got/ Nigga all y'all records sound the same/ I sick of that fake thug, R & B/ Rap scenario all day on the radio/ Same scenes in the video, monotonous material/ Y'all don't here me though/ These record labels slang our tapes like dope/ You can be next in line, and signed/ And still be writing rhymes and broke/ You would rather have a Lexus or justice/ A dream or some substance/A Beamer, a necklace or freedom/ Still a nigga like me don't playa' hate/ I just stay awake/ This real hip-hop, and it don't stop/ 'Til we get the po-po off the block/ They call it...

Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip
It's bigger than hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip"
- Dead Prez (stic.man)

Panther

well i guess it Movie Friday...





Panther is a 1995 film directed by Mario Van Peebles, from a screenplay adapted by his father, Melvin Van Peebles, based on his book. The film dramatizes the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. Read More

All the Power to the People!

Dumhi – No Redemption f. Elucid (Lessondary)

No Redemption w/ Elucid from dumhi on Vimeo.

this is dope, son!

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Song of teh Day: Window Seat - Badu

despite the hype this has been my shit since i first heard it, and it describes how ive been feeling these past few days.

i chose not to use the real video becuz like i said im posting it for the emotion and not the hype. Happy Ankh Day tho!

"some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice/ i say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots"

one of my most fav. songs of ALLTIME[.]

Apple cares, if dont nobody else cares...


One of the songs that will be apart of Marlee2Fresh's life's score.

"im tryna make a dollar outta 15cents/ its hard to be legit, and still pay the rent//"

"You know it's funny when it rains it pours/They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor/Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is/it ain't no hope for the future/and then they wonder why we crazy..." <3

Extras

...and for the ignorant nigga in me...my 2nd fav. Pac song ;)

"the underground just dont stop for hoes!"

William De Vaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got (Diamond in the Back)

"diggin' the scene wit a gangster lean. wooo wooooooo"