February 2012
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Man, I love this city, but every day I’m reading about or seeing something so fucked up. And still, I wouldn’t trade it for any other place in the world.
Feb 25th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 8th
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K'Naan Discusses Nas' Comments About Africa And... →
Yeah, man. I mean, I got a history that is a lot more – to put it mildly – directly impacted [by violence] than a lot of rappers. A lot of rappers that talk all that street talk can’t really hold a candle to the kind of experiences I’m talking about. And so, why then should I have been all these years kind of in the back, just watching it all unfold? And nobody really gives the kind of credit and...
Feb 4th
January 2012
7 posts
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Jan 19th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 9th
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Favorite Albums of 2011
The Greatest Story Never Told - Saigon Random Axe - Random Axe R.E.K.S. (Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme) - Reks The Dreamer/The Believer - Common W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) - Pharoahe Monch Soul Is Heavy - Nneka The Martyr - Immortal Technique Undun - The Roots Hell: The Sequel - Bad Meets Evil Elmatic - eLZhi I’d been waiting for Saigon’s LP since ‘05 and it was even...
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-1-1) →
Lowkey (26) Rapsody (20) Saigon (18) Black Rob (17) Money Making Jam Boys (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 4th
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Common (28) Sam Cooke (18) The Roots (18) Nina Simone (15) Phonte (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Immortal Technique (22) Capone-N-Noreaga (16) The Roots (14) Sam Cooke (8) Mobb Deep (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Scarface (3) Sizzla (3) Sam Cooke (3) Nina Simone (3) KRS-One (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Statik Selektah (19) Nina Simone (14) Sam Cooke (13) Bob Marley (10) Mobb Deep (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 5th
November 2011
12 posts
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Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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Eles […] são um reflexo das UPPs. Sem o tráfico e sem fuzil, quem quis continuar no crime teve que usar pistola e roubar pedestres e carros. —O Dia, 11/23/11 [They are a reflection of the UPPs (police pacification units). Without traffic and without a rifle, those who wanted to continue in crime had to use a pistol and rob pedestrians and cars.] Something that I’ve often...
Nov 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Childish Gambino (13) Scarface (13) Ludacris (12) Bob Marley (11) Nneka (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 23rd
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Brazil troops and police raid Rio shantytown in... →
I just hope they seriously care about this and it won’t be neglected after the World Cup and Olympics. I know that the traffickers have their evils, but you could still go to Rocinha, Vidigal, and other favelas for parties or whatever and not have problems. But who knows what’s going to happen now when the police take these communities. I feel more comfortable around gangsters with...
Nov 14th
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Nov 10th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Immortal Technique (20) Nina Simone (19) Sam Cooke (15) Nas (13) Bob Dylan (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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Nov 7th
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Nov 7th
23 notes
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Nov 7th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Nneka (40) Immortal Technique (23) Styles P (21) Neil Young (19) Sizzla (18) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 1st
October 2011
11 posts
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Oct 27th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 22nd
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Bun B Interviews Fishbone About Rock, Hip-Hop, &... →
Both of them [Hip-Hop and punk rock] were started by the kids that were told, “You’re never gonna be anybody.” Both of them, the general theme was “You can’t tell me who to be. You can’t tell me what to do. I’m gonna do me regardless.” To me, that’s what I get from punk rock. And both genres were geared to giving the oppressor the finger. You feel me?
Oct 22nd
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Oct 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Ice Cube (36) Styles P (21) Royce da 5’9” (17) Fela Kuti (12) Bob Marley (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Nina Simone (22) Sam Cooke (21) 50 Cent (18) Bob Marley (10) M.I.A. (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 14th
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critical race theorist Derrick Bell dies
latinosexuality: read full obituary from NY Times here.  Faces at the Bottom of the Well is one of my favorite books. R.I.P.
Oct 6th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Nneka (49) Otis Redding (30) Skyzoo (18) Sizzla (18) Joell Ortiz (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 3rd
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Collapse Rant
That collapse was not Francona’s fault. I understand the way he stuck too long with guys that where clearly over the hill. Wasting all that time waiting for Wake to win his 200th while he pitched ineffectively hurt the team in the long run. But this choke was not his fault. Yes, he probably would’ve let Mike Timlin pitch the 8th inning of game 162, but still, he was the best manager...
Oct 1st
September 2011
16 posts
4 tags
Sep 27th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Sam Cooke (24) Nina Simone (19) Mos Def (19) 9th Wonder (14) Papoose (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 26th
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K'naan - Returning to Somalia After 20 Years -... →
I hoped that my presence would let me shine a light into this darkness. Maybe spare even one life, a life equal to mine, from indifferently wasting away. But I am no statesman, nor a soldier. Just a man made fortunate by the power of the spotlight. And to save someone’s life I am willing to spend some of that capricious currency called celebrity.
Sep 26th
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s...”
– Albert Camus, “Reflections on the Guillotine” (via ifeltyourshape)
Sep 22nd
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SLAM ONLINE | » The Real Mr. West →
Says Delonte: “Parents come to me and say, ‘Thank you. My son’s bipolar and nobody understands him, and it just means so much for you to speak on it.’ I hear that so much from people, it’s unreal.”
Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Styles P (20) 2Pac (17) Nina Simone (16) Sam Cooke (11) Billie Holiday (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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The Shame of College Sports | Taylor Branch | The... →
“Scholarship athletes are already paid,” declared the Knight Commission members, “in the most meaningful way poss-ible: with a free education.” This evasion by prominent educators severed my last reluctant, emotional tie with imposed amateurism. I found it worse than self-serving. It echoes masters who once claimed that heavenly salvation would outweigh earthly injustice to slaves. In the era when...
Sep 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Danny Brown (27) Sam Cooke (24) Nina Simone (20) Random Axe (18) Jon Connor (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 12th