Last night, BET premiered a new documentary called My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women & Hip Hop, the feature goes in-depth about the history of the Female MC and talks about the void that’s currently present in rap music. The documentary features Eve, MC Lyte, Jean Grae, Eve, Yo Yo, Salt ‘N Pepa, Missy Elliott, Trina, Roxane Shante, Rah Digga, Lady Of Rage and more
"Just over a month since undergoing surgery following a heart attack, Gang Starr MC Guru (born Keith Elam) has died at age 43. According to a statement, Guru died of cancer-related causes on Monday after a long fight with the disease."
"Born on July 17, 1966, near Boston, Guru rose to fame in the late 1980s as part of the duo Gang Starr with partner DJ Premier. The pair helped define the New York underground rap sound in the 1990s. Their unique sound combined Premier's production palette, which leaned heavily on sampled jazz records and scratched vocals on the choruses, with Guru's uncompromising rhymes. Although the pair would work separately as often as they did together — Guru's Jazzmatazzseries of albums and Premier's work with Nas, Jay-Z, and underground act Group Home — Gang Starr continued to release critically acclaimed material throughout the late '90s and early 2000s." To Read More
"they still teach in school in 2010 that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, and that Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Thats way more controversial then somebody taking they clothes off in a video."
Why every Indian wanna be the chief?/ Feed a man 'til he full and he still want beef/ Give me grief, try to tief off my piece/ Why for you to increase, I must decrease?/ If I treat you kindly, does it mean that I'm weak?/ You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets/ I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek/ But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik/ and other African czars, observing stars with war scars/ Get yours in this capitalistic system/ So many caught or got bought you can't list them/ How you gonna idolize the missing?/ To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition/ even when they comin, gunnin I stand position/ L's known the mission since conception/ Let's free the people from deception/ If you looking for the answers then you gotta ask the questions/ And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto/ Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto/ Why black people always be the ones to settle?/ March through these streets like Soweto, uhh//