After a heated argument, a grown woman and her older mother decide to fight some teens. It becomes obvious that this was a bad decision early in the fight. I don’t know what made these old hens think they could keep up with the young birds..
https://youtu.be/035ny35Yn3U
DJG returns from his Paris Beuller collab “Hustla” will the Tarantino themed “Kill Bill”. DJG and his cohort Kash collaborate on an ode to different iterations of greenery with the aid from DJ Cheech’s reworked “Kill Bill” theme. The moody blue visual is the second release from DJ’s forthcoming project “Stuck In My Ways” arriving later this summer.
After a Panera employee quit mid-shift, she got into a verbal altercation with her manager. That soon became physical and when she decided to slap her manager, he laid her out with one punch
https://youtu.be/wBHO9opXkqs
DONALD TRUMP’S BEEN RACE-BAITING SINCE THE ‘80s
History is a hell of an indicator for future behavior. Before Donald Trump spent his days arguing that Mexico was ‘sending people that have lots of problems’ to the United States and that they are ‘bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists’, he was busy taking out full-page ads calling for the death penalty to be brought back to New York so five Black and Latino teenagers could be executed.
The year was 1989; the horrific incident would be known as ‘The Central Park Jogger Case’; and the five boys charged with the brutal rape and attack on a white female investment banker were termed the Central Park Five. For those unfamiliar with the intricate relationship between the police, politicians and the press (especially the NYC press corp), this case is perhaps the perfect example of how the marginalized can be easily demonized, maligned and convicted first in a court of public opinion – and later in criminal court. As for the one and only Donald Trump, he was right in the middle of it all, and had no problem pompously sharing his two cents then, just as he is now.
“BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.
BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”
That was the headline of the full-page, 600 word ad that ran in four major papers – The New York Times, The NY Post, The NY Daily News and NY Newsday. Trump reportedly paid $85,000 for the ads at the time, and while calling for the death penalty to be reinstated, he wrote that the five accused teenagers should “be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.” It’s important to note that while the victim, Trisha Meili, was severely beaten and brutally raped, she thankfully survived. But not only was Trump rushing to have teens (aged 14 to 16) executed, he helped sell the narrative that these kids were guilty without a doubt despite the many inconsistencies present.
When the five – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Kharey Wise and Raymond Santana Jr. – were arrested in 1989, they were held and interrogated for hours and hours by police without the presence of their parents or an attorney. They eventually confessed according to police, but later recanted their confessions and have always maintained that they were coerced into making those statements. Their confessions were inconsistent with one another, as well as inconsistent with the evidence but none of this seemed to matter to the sensationalist press corp and the powers-that-be. As the media firestorm ensued, calling the boys a ‘roving gang’, a ‘wolfpack’, ‘park marauders’, and with front-page stories referring to their actions as ‘wilding’, Trump contributed to the lynch mob mentality with his ads.
In 1990, the five were convicted in two separate trials, and one of the boys, Kharey Wise, was tried as an adult (he was 16), and ended up serving 13 years in jail. The other four served several years each. In 2002, a convicted murderer and rapist, Matias Reyes, confessed to the horrific attack, and DNA evidence backed his confession (for a thorough accounting and analysis of this case, watch the documentary ‘The Central Park Five’ by Ken Burns and Sarah Burns).
The five were eventually exonerated, and they rightfully sued the City of New York. The Bloomberg Administration fought against the suit, and it wasn’t until September of last year that a settlement of $41 million was finally reached with the five men who lost their childhoods and opportunities decades earlier. The $41 million figure came out to roughly $1 million for each year served in prison (their combined time served).
Despite the fact that a man confessed to the crime (which DNA evidence backed), and despite the fact that the City settled with the five (which is in effect an admission of wrongdoing), Trump never once apologized for his rush to judgment, nor his concerted effort to portray Blacks and Latinos as vicious animals who raped and attacked innocent Whites, and deserved to be executed. Instead, in true Donald Trump fashion, he was defiant following last year’s settlement and called it ‘the heist of the century”.
“The recipients must be laughing out loud at the stupidity of the City,” he wrote at the time. “These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”
If we were to look at Trump’s business dealings, his teenage antics, his failed marriages, his baggage and his dirty laundry, it’s safe to bet that he does not have the past of an angel. Nobody does. Only difference is, Trump had a chance to live his life and build his empire, while these five men lost their youth and continue to live with the stigma of that horrendous case all these years later.
As more and more corporations and businesses separate themselves from Trump because of his comments regarding Mexicans and immigrants, the Central Park Five and their families are likely thinking, it’s about time.
Columbus, GA emcees bring back the lyrics on this collaborative mixtape. The project features well known local artists such as Lil 40, Kush Pack, J.Toombs, Greasekydz and many more.
“There are a few reasons why I wanted to put together a mixtape. Many local artists were approaching me to shoot them a music video, but the songs were so cliché. The songs were reference to money they obviously didn’t have, degrading women, ownership of automobiles I never saw them drive and the typical catchy hook with no message in their lyrics. What happened to lyricists? What happened to the art of storytelling? What happened to talking about politics, education and events happening around the world? I felt the culture of hip hop was no longer a culture. Artists complaining about DJ’s but I recall the DJ and the artist went hand in hand. After watching a few local videos one day, I decided enough was enough; I wanted to make a mixtape with the original elements of hip hop. Now when researching the elements, the number of elements seem to always be up for debate. The 5th element is argued in forums, on Wikipedia and hip hop sites. No matter how many elements and what the 5th element is, there are 4 hardcore elements that are not debated and cannot be argued. I was not blessed with the talent to rap, DJ, paint graffiti, or produce beats, well here’s my contribution to hip hop that has been long overdue with the help of many lyrical artists…” – Will Santana
DJ Hustle talk with Audio Push on the BET AWARDS RED CARPET. Audio push is about head out on tour plus a new movie. Audio Push is looking seeing the Janet Jackson tribute, bad boy performance.
Real talk. Real Education. Real Solutions. Rahiem Shabazz has been on the front line in this conversation around the ills within education and has put much of what he has found in “Educational Genocide.” a DVD that chronicles the school to prison pipeline. AllHipHop talked to the ATL rep and got his thoughts on the topic and then some.
Talk about systemic racism.
America began as a settler state with deep roots in white supremacy and evolved into what we call today, a national security state. Our problem in America is a continuum problem; it’s a problem of white racial domination in all sectors of society. We don’t have to look no further than the police force and educational system to see the reality of racism and white supremacy.
Why is it hard for people, Black, white and others, to identify this as fact?
I believe those who live far outside the colonial enclaves can’t identify that systematic racism exist and possess a vastly different view from the rest of the world. In West Baltimore, one in four juveniles is arrested and the unemployment is 58%. In Ferguson, MO last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people — despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites).
Both cities are entrenched in poverty and became the focus of the media attention, due to riots.
What made you create the documentary, “Elementary Genocide”?
For me it’s always very important to find a way to put myself in the struggle and facilitate the use of my knowledge and experience. I took great pleasure in doing so as a hip-hop journalist and now I find it equally rewarding, to do the same as a filmmaker.
After becoming aware that our public education system was suffering from illiteracy, racial discrimination, I knew I had to tell this story. I had to tell it in a way that would resonate with educators, community leaders, stakeholders and concerned parents. Elementary Genocide is more than a documentary; it’s a call to action.
What do you think about what is going on in cities all over the nation, particularly Baltimore and other hotter spots?
We are living in a historical moment and time, where the youth will not allow our elected officials to espouse their neo-liberal economic policies, that is nothing more than plantation politics.
Our struggle today comes out of the struggle to redefine humanity. Whether, it was the movement for independence of Africa, the civil rights or the Black Power movement, all of these struggles were attempting to redefine what it means to be human to the oppressor.
In the 60’s they said, “Black Power” today the youth say, “Black Lives Matter”.
The community of Baltimore and Ferguson lived under a state of Emergency their entire life, it’s just recently the world got a glimpse of what that life is like.
If this generation can’t break and shatter the glass ceilings in the ivory towers of corporate America, so they are afforded equal opportunities, then the glass on the store front windows of corporate entities, will become shattered by bricks and lit ablaze by Molotov cocktails.
Where does education factor in? What about education out of the classroom?
The public education in the United States doesn’t afford black and brown youth the same opportunity as their white counterparts. It’s just as racist as the police force. We see this with the suspension and expulsion rates. Across age groups, black students are three times more likely than white students to be suspended. Students who are suspended or expelled from school are more likely to drop out, and those dropouts are more likely to end up with criminal records. This is what fuels the school to prison pipeline. There is a need for restorative justice and to re-examine the need to suspend students for minor infractions.
We must also look at the teacher force in America, which is 73% white and mostly female. The majority of them are culturally, racially; linguistically different than the students they are entrusted to teach. We are the only group of people who allow those who oppress us to educate our children. The teacher needs to reflect the community they teach in and possess a deep affinity for children.
This is why I support home schooling. I believe, the family is the community’s smallest school and the parent is the first teacher.
Do Black people need white people in this struggle? As you know, historically whites have played a role.
Historically, white played a role in the struggle. Today, I see many of them joining in the protest, seeking to be on the right side of history. However, being black will always separate one from the poor whites, who masquerade as allies of the struggle. They can change into a thousand dollar suit and pretend not to be in our class or belong to our struggle. Our suit is permanent.
White allies want the youth to be more like Martin Luther King Jr., and often times seek to change the narrative from “Black Lives Matter” to “All Lives Matter”. White lives don’t need to be affirmed–a whole society exists where the affirmation of white life is a basic premise.
I think society underestimates the rage blacks have been suppressing since the days of the civil rights movement. The youth today will not compromise their principles or barter away their humanity.
What is next?
Currently, I’m continuing the conscience-raising dialogue generated by “Elementary Genocide: The School To Prison Pipeline” with the equally hard-hitting “Elementary Genocide 2: The Board of Education vs The Board of Incarceration”. The documentary features interviews with noted educator and Black psychologist Dr. Umar Johnson, fearless former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, former political prisoner and Black Liberation Army co-founder Dhoruba bin Wahad, popular social commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins, award-winning education reformer Dr. Steve Perry, White House champion of Change Winner & Author Tracey D. Syphax and more.
The Board of Education vs The Board of Incarceration uncovers the true purpose of today’s educational system and how it’s failing the African child. Going beyond the school-to-prison pipeline headlines and conspiracy theories, The Board of Education Vs. The Board of Incarceration proves that something sinister is afloat by digging deep to explore its origin, its existence and how to plot its destruction to save every Black child.
Twitter: @RahiemShabazz
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www.ElementaryGenocide.com
Elementary Genocide: The School To Prison Pipeline
Elementary Genocide: The Board of Education vs The Board of Incarceration
Quilly, Spadeo & City Rominiecki team up for their On Dek Ent: The Album, which is now available for download on Datpiff.com. See below for the track listing, featuring production from Koach Bubb, Gibbs, JFresh, and more.
When you hear the name Clinton Sparks, a gang of things tend to come to mind. A super exciting IG page packed with celebrities from all over. Production for some of the best, DJ sets in Vegas, albums, EP’s and accolades galore. But who knew that the Boston Native was really one-arrest juvie arrest from being locked up till he was 18? With his new project Iconoclast on deck, Mr. Get Familiar sat with AHH’s MrMecc to reveal everything from his rap sheet to what finally turned him into the all-star we know today.
When you are coming up in the Caribbean, its not easy to get your music stateside. With goals of having their music on MTV and other worldwide televisions shows, R&B/Pop group Regulaz has focused on remaining true to the sound they have been known for in Trinidad and Tobago while also throwing in a modern day twist on the music of their roots.
Its a family affair with the guys as they grew up together running around in the streets as kids and vibing to music. Now the guys are all grown up with a song called “OTL” (On The Low).
Check out how Vince and OG Maco explain the mindset of this new generation of Hip-Hop with XXL’s 2015 roundtable with this year’s Freshman. After taking to Twitter about album sales, Vince has some words for the generation before him. In the eyes of Vince Staples, “music now is better than its been in a long time.” In the hands of a new generation “Urban and Black music is changing.” “We the reason the music still surviving today, its not the people that’s been here because they the ones that messed it up so to say, no disrespect, but thats the truth.” Hip-Hop has been misguided at times – is he wrong? Something up for debate in the barbershops, in the car and with your people in a cypher.
E-A-Ski releases his newest single “Wake’Em Up” featuring Tech N9ne and Too $hort off the soon-to-be-released “Artist/Producer” EP!
Twista & Do or Die – again that’s Twist & Do or Die. The legends new visual is just hitting online today and its dope. This track has a dark sound to it and Twista absolutely rips his verse in between Do or Die singing the hook and spitting on the intro verse. Check it below:
The South Carolina man charged with killing nine people at a historical church is facing three more charges, according to the Associated Press. Besides being charged with nine counts of murder, Dylann Storm Roof will be facing three counts of attempted murder for the three people that survived the massacre. Roof, 21, has been indicted on the three counts plus a weapons charge. His next court date is in September.
It is not clear if Roof will be charged with a hate crime but the Justice Department has made it clear that these murders fit the criteria for a hate crime.
Roof fatally shot nine black people who were attending a bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church on June 17th in Charleston, SC. Roof allegedly shouted racial slurs during the killings and told one survivor that he was letting her live so he can tell people what happened.
A former N.W.A associate has come forward saying he has tracks from N.W.A and Eazy-E that have never been heard before. Krazy Dee called into the Murder Master Music Show of UGS Radio and said he had tracks that were not used for previous projects.
“I want to say less than ten songs total,” Krazy Dee told hosts Prezident Bejda and Mac Jay. “Obviously “Gangsta, Gangsta”, but it wasn’t called that originally, it was called “From Around the Way” and it was supposed to be rapped by Eazy, but Eazy didn’t do the song for what ever reason. Cube wrote it, and changed it to “Gangsta, Gangsta.” I have the demo version to “If It Ain’t Ruff” which I think sounds doper than the actual version. There is another track that Dre did called “Goin’ Off”, it had rock music in it. Cube did some little cut I wanna say called “Dog S###.” In the song he is rappin’ about meeting this girl and going to her house and getting caught by her Dad and he runs out the house and steps in dog s###. The beat is hard and the drums on it are real dope.”
Krazy Dee also said he was once a member of the group and was even on the album cover for the group’s first album NWA and the Posse.” He also appeared on Straight Outta Compton tracks “Dopeman” and “Gangsta Gangsta” and toured with the group as well.
Listen to the full interview below.
Scarface has been released from the hospital after being hospitalized on June 30th in Albuquerque, NM, XXL reports. The Houston rap legend was performing with the Geto Boys the day before for thier month-long tour which has now been put on hold. The reason for his hospitalization has not been disclosed.
Scarface has battled with depression and was also hospitalized for high blood pressure in 2002.
Via the Geto Boys Kickstarter page to fund thier eighth album, Habeas Corpus, group member Willie D released a statement about Scarface’s hospitalization saying that he will not be discussing the details of the matter.
“Today when I woke up, my mobile text messages and social media inboxes were inundated with comments seeking information about Scarface’s medical condition,” he said. “I am not at liberty to speak on his condition, and wouldn’t even if I was, as it is a private matter, but I will say that he is in good spirits, and sends his love to all who have supported him throughout his career, and personal life. Although I’m his bandmate, I’m also a Scarface fan, so I know it’s hard for you guys not having details, but I will try to keep you updated as much as I can without invading his privacy. Thanks and say a prayer for my homey!”
So far, the group has raised over $31,000 to fund Habeas Corpus.
Photo Credit: Instagram
Having earned a trio of collegiate diplomas, Angel Davis, personifies that cultivated intelligence is more disarming than organic beauty. Along with being featured as a cover girl for Black Men magazine, the celebrated Hip-Hop video vixen has also appeared in Robin Thicke’s “Give It 2 U” and Rick Ross’ “Diced Pineapples.” To sustain help sustain her financial stream, the accomplished Davis refuses to rely solely upon her looks; because, Angel works tirelessly as a Registered Nurse.
Perhaps, Angel’s actions will usher in a different caliber of Hip-Hop vixen. Check out the slide for more of her Instagram photos.
A judge recently denied that the murder charges against Suge Knight be dropped and ruled that he should stand trial for murder, Billboard reports.
The former Death Row CEO will be tried despite a key witness refusing to identify Knight as the man who fatally ran over Terry Carter in court at a preliminary hearing.
“I will not be used to send Suge Knight to prison,” Cle “Bone” Sloan said at a preliminary hearing on Apr.13th.
Knight’s lawyer Thomas Mesereau suggested that Sloan’s testimony be thrown out because he showed that he wasn’t credible when he said Knight ran him and another man over in January but refused to point him out in court. The judge, Stephen A. Marcus, rejected this call because Sloan never said it wasn’t Knight.
The 50-year-old is currently being held on $10 million bail.
Photo via The Game’s Instagram
It looks like Keyshia Cole is single and ready to mingle after the rocky relationship and separation from her husband Dainel “Boobie” Gibson. She seems to have her eye on The Game. Now let’s hope this relationship never happens! Could you imagine how toxic it would be? Could you imagine if they had a reality show together? Remember how they said her relationship with Jeezy went. Maybe they can just get in the studio together this year, but wait…. do we want that either?
YG posted a selfie to his Instagram page to show his fans just how ‘krazy’ his life really is. He recently took to his Instagram page to replace the dozens of photos that were already there with one pic where Bompton’s own bares it all. The picture shows YG lying in bed showing the bandages that cover his wounds on his crotch and leg ,with nothing covering him except the towel on his head.
The “Do It To Ya” rapper was shot on June 12th after a recording session in Studio City, CA. The one bullet left the 25-year-old with three wounds.
While healing, YG has been hitting the studio working hard at finishing up his sophomore project, Still Krazy, which he thinks will show his growth as an artist.
“When I drop this new album you aren’t going to feel like I went too left trying to switch it up,” he told Billboard. “It’s still a good follow-up album talking about real situations in my life.”