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Tone Trump [BGA] “Shot Kaller Freestyle”

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze)Category: Breeding Ground

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Breeding Ground: South Central’s Latest – Bad Lucc

By: timsanchez818Category: Breeding Ground

The neighborhood of Watts in the city of Los Angeles has long stood in the shadows of neighboring communities such as Compton or even South Los Angeles when it comes to the West Coast Hip-Hop scene. However, in the last few years there has been a lot of rap talent emerging from the small area known for its dangerous element. One of those artists is a young man named Terence Harden better known as Bad Lucc.

With a powerful style that takes one back to the days of authoritive rappers, Bad Lucc has built a reputation as a fierce lyricist respected by both new school and older rap heads. With the help of West Coast and Hip-Hop legend Snoop Dogg, Bad Lucc is steadily rising through the ranks and has become a sought-out writer for hire, although now it seems he’s ready to step to the limelight as an artist in his own right.

AllHipHop.com: You are from Watts, California. What was growing up there like from your perspective?

Bad Lucc: It’s the same ol’ story that you’ve heard except for the fact that I didn’t go through what a lot of others have. My life wasn’t really that hard? I have seen a lot of negative stuff but personally I haven’t gone through any of that. I’ve never been to jail. I’ve never sold dope. On the real, I represent the majority – the average cat growing up in a poverty restricted neighborhood who has decided not to gangbang or sell drugs. That’s my life growing up in Watts.

AllHipHop.com: Why is it that the average person’s story isn’t heard as much as the bad or sad cases?

Bad Lucc: Pride and ego. I joke on Twitter about rappers that make this image of themselves and make it hard to revert back to being just themselves. I don’t mean a gangster rapper not doing what they rap about but I’m talking about how some pretend to not have any feelings – when they probably are really a nice guy. It’s a pride thing and people don’t want to keep it real with themselves. Instead of just selling how they really are, they want to sell what everybody else is trying to sell. I believe they should just be who they are because there are more people like yourself than the gangsters. You will have more people identifying with yourself.

AllHipHop.com: What’s the story on your name?

Bad Lucc: That’s from some battle sh*t. In 1995 my name was Kid Capone. It’s kind of wack now but back in 95 it wasn’t. I started battling guys and I wanted a more creative name. Capone is associated with gangbanging and I didn’t want to tie in to that. I tried to come up with something clever where if you battled me, then it was bad luck to go against me. It stuck with me. I put the “two C’s” at the end and I get a lot of flack for that as far as the streets go because the “two C’s” at the end can signify gangbanging. I literally did that just to be creative because spelling it with “CK” at the end is not original. Having just one “C” looks wack, and at the end of the day, I know a lot of Crips although I’ve never banged.

AllHipHop.com: I imagine that you’ve run in to other artists with the same name.

Bad Lucc: Not physically, but yes on MySpace I came across some rapper from New York and some other dude from the West Coast. I’m not going to change it. If anything, they should change theirs. I’m with Snoop Dogg, and I’ve come out with him on magazines, videos and radio. I’m sure they get asked if that was them [laughter]. It’s not them, so they can change their names.

AllHipHop.com: Did you have a lot of competition to battle rap against out where you’re from?

Bad Lucc: In 1995, there was. I thought I was getting in to rap late back in ’95 when I went to Hamilton High. There were rap crews all around the school. Murs went to Hamilton High, and that’s how he came up. They had clubs like Project Blowed and Unity. You saw battles and ciphers all day long. It wasn’t rare to see out here but you know how money changes the game. It was at its height back then and you could catch a battle anywhere.

AllHipHop.com: Tell us how you developed your unique style and sound.

Bad Lucc: If I had to pick two styles that mix together to make my styles, it would be Ice Cube and Beanie Sigel. I’ve always looked up to them. Ice Cube was the Hood dude who never g######### – the same type as myself. He wrote the illest rhymes and told the illest stories. He didn’t just rap about waking up in the morning and shooting dudes. If he shot someone there was a story behind it. Beanie Sigel has that raw style and he’s from Philly so there weren’t big words and he didn’t try to be too deep but there was a witty style behind it. I kind of adopted those two styles and mixed them together.

AllHipHop.com: You use a lot of energy and like to emphasize certain words with power in your songs, whereas a lot of today’s rappers are more laid back.

Bad Lucc: There is a lane for everybody. A lot of today’s rap is what I call “mood music.” It’s not bad, it’s just moody. For instance you’ve got an artist like Drake. He’s an incredible artist hands down, but his album is more like a mood. My music is aggressive and in-your-face. I go big and emphasize words that I want to stand out. It’s a feeling and I want you to feel it. Sometimes making the fan feel an emotion is more important than what you are actually saying. Don’t get me wrong because you’ve got to be saying something. I’m just saying that it’s also important to rile up an emotion.

AllHipHop.com: So where do you fit in with today’s hip-hop climate?

Bad Lucc: I feel like I don’t fit in but yet I feel like I do. I don’t because the majority is not doing what I’m doing. I’m going back to the raw hard beats that can bang in your car and the club. Then I feel like I do fit in because there is a need for that. I have yet to put out a solo album and dudes see me everywhere I go and tell me that they’re waiting on my album to come out – whether its on the East Coast, West or overseas. I had some dude from Zimbabwe hit me up on Facebook telling me that he digs my music. There is a lane and a need for my style of music – I just need to provide them with it.

AllHipHop.com: Tell us about your association with Snoop Dogg. I know that he’s gotten behind your career in the past few years.

Bad Lucc: It happened because of the group that I was in called The Western Union also known as Dubb Union with my boy Damani. Later on we added Soopafly to the group. Snoop Dogg heard our songs and liked what he heard. He got down with us and put our album out. I’ve been working with him ever since. I guess he saw something in me and he kept me busy with work.

AllHipHop.com: Is the Dubb Union still a group?

Bad Lucc: Me and Damani still talk about it. I haven’t talked to Soopafly in a while. Damani still talks to Soopafly from time to time. It’s not over – I will say that.

AllHipHop.com: You’ve been primarily a writer for other artists at this point. Why?

Bad Lucc: I’ve been writing, working behind the scenes and trying to get that cash. I really love writing and enjoying this time working. I am now working on my own project called Meet The Writer.

AllHipHop.com: Isn’t that hard dealing with someone else getting the props for a verse that you wrote?

Bad Lucc: Yes and no. I know that I did it. The artist knows that I did it. The check damn sure knows that I did it [laughter]. It’s one of those things where you have to do what you have to do. I’ve got a family to take care of. I’ve got bills and I’ve got to live. At a time it did bother me a little though. I would be in the club and the one I worked on is the biggest song being played that night and nobody knows that the dude who wrote it is right with them. It used to bother me but the check is nice. However, Snoop Dogg just recently came out and spoke about my work on the songs “I Wanna Rock” and “Gangsta Love.”

Me and Snoop have a good working relationship. We’ll get together and hear different melodies and bring it all together. I respect him as an artist and he respects my pen.

AllHipHop.com: Tell us about your project, Meet The Writer.

Bad Lucc: That’s everything to me right now. It’s my first “real” project. There is no set date on it but it will be in 2012. I have some surprise features and producers but I don’t want to speak on that yet. I’m very happy about the features and producers though. I’m not doing a feature for the sake of a feature. I really am a fan of who I am featuring. I want to go deep with it because it’s about me. The title is Meet The Writer because I’ve been writing for so long. I also want to say that Diamond Lane Music Group will be the next big thing. Me and Compton rapper Problem are making great incredible music together and we will not be stopped.

Juicy J. Explains Signing With Taylor Gang; New Three Six LP In The Works

By: Jake CratesCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Three Six Mafia’s Juicy J. caught up with AllHipHop.com in an exclusive interview to discuss his signing with Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang imprint, in addition to his latest projects, which includes his recent mixtape Blue Dream and Lean hosted by DJ Scream.

The mixtape, which features production from the likes of Lex Luger, Sonny Digital, Drumma Boy, ID Labs & Big Jerm and Harry Fraud, features fellow Talyor Gang rapper Wiz Khalifa, up and comers A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, Kreayshawn, The Joker, Casey Veggies, Alley Boy and Project Pat.

“It’s unexpected for me, I didn’t know it was going to be like this, but I put a lot of hard work into this project,” Juicy J. told AllHipHop.com about the outpouring of support for Blue Dream and Lean.

“It’s just a blessing, I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and people still embracing me and like my music and listen to me like I’m a brand new artist, so its amazing for me man,” Juicy J. told AllHipHop.com.

The Memphis bred/LA based rapper told AllHipHop.com that the Taylor Gang signing is real and that they are planning a tour compromised of select dates across the country.

“Yea man it’s going down, that’s it, it’s real, it’s done, I’m in. That’s my brother, we going on the road and we gonna impact,” the new Taylor Gang signee explained.

Juicy also gave fans an update on the possibility of a new Three Six Mafia album, which should be released in 2012.

“He’s [DJ Paul] working on some stuff, we still got Three Six Mafia, we still working, you know we got a new album,” Juicy J. revealed. “I got a meeting with Sony tomorrow to see what’s up with that, I got multiple hustles. I got ‘Trippy t-shirts’, hoodies, and DVD’s man. We trippy mane.”

Check out Juicy J’s popular video for “A Zip and a Double Cup” ft. 2Chainz and Joker, which has received over 500,000 views in less than a month.

The Umpteenth Coming of Busta Rhymes – Part 2

By: seandrasimsCategory: Features

“Back in the days/ A n*gga used to be a*s out/ Now a n*gga holdin/ Several money market accounts…” – Busta Rhymes, “Dangerous” (1997)

Even with all of his years in the game, 2011 may have been Busta Rhymes’ best 365 days yet. On Chris Brown’s monster track of the year, “Look At Me Now,” Bussa Buss taught these rap kiddies some valuable lessons about the lungs-to-lyrics ratio between his skills and their amateur showings. It’s not that everyone had forgotten him until now – he rarely takes a more than two- or three-year break from the game. It’s just that everyone from cover duo Karmin to businessman Birdman himself can’t get enough of the fact that Busta is still around – and still this good.

AllHipHop.com reported the latest Busta Rhymes news early on, and in Part 1 of this interview, we asked him about the details behind his bonanza of a business deal – signing with Cash Money and getting backing from Google Music. In Part 2, we hear about his growth as a person, his respect for the elders, and why these young cats need to learn how to earn nine lives of their own:

AllHipHop.com: So, I witnessed a Busta Rhymes growth moment of at the BET Hip Hop Awards in October. I wasn’t sitting far from you, and there was a point when the audience stood up – I believe it was when we were clapping for LL, and everybody didn’t get up. And you turned around and like sonned the sh*t out of all of them! [laughter] You were like, ‘Y’all better get up!’ And I was like, ‘oh sh*t, I’m glad I’m standing already!’ That moment said, ‘he’s an O.G. now – everybody respects Busta!’ So, I do see growth. What do you think prompted that?

Busta Rhymes: I think just being a genuine fan of the music, that’s the seed of it all. I love my job, like, I love the fact that I was blessed with this ability, and I think that the highest way of showing my appreciation is by busting my *ss and never stopping, you know what I’m saying? I think it would be blasphemous to have the ability to do what I do and not maximize it in every way possible.

But that’s just speaking about me. Now, me speaking about being a fan of the music, I love LL Cool J, I love Run DMC, I love Beastie Boys, I love Jay-Z, I love Nas, I love DMX, I love Drake, I love Nicki Minaj, I love Kanye, I love Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, I love De La Soul, I love Kool G Rap, I love Kane, I love N.W.A., I love Ice Cube, I love Too Short, I love, I could go on forever. But because of the love I have for all of these different artists, and just because I didn’t mention certain names don’t mean I don’t love them, because there’s just too many to keep that going in this interview…but my whole point in what I’m trying to say is, because of my love, is why I’ll turn around and tell people to stand up who ain’t standing up.

Do you know what LL means to Hip-Hop? F*ck what he means to me, I could talk about what he means to me all day, but that’s a little selfish, you know what I’m saying? And I’m only speaking about what he has done for me, and for what all of those artists have done for me – the inspiration they give me, and the drive to do the sh*t that I do, and to keep doing it. Them dudes had moments, and I wanted to have moments like them. I wanted to be like them. I want them to be like me. I want them to see moments that I’ve had and feel like, ‘damn, boy, I wish I did it like Busta Rhymes.’ There’s records that they made that I wish was my records, you know what I’m saying?

I want to be able to give other artists that same feeling an those artists did that for me. And when I know that there’s certain people – it ain’t necessarily their fault that they don’t value L. the same way that I might have valued him. It’s probably because they ain’t from that time where they can understand and appreciate his value and his worth the same way that I can, because they’re younger or because he hasn’t prioritized music as his primary source of revenue, so he ain’t putting out a sh*tload of music like he used to. So, there’s generation that might miss or might have missed what his significant value.

And it’s artists like me, it’s our job to me, and it’s our responsibility to me, to make sure that dudes don’t forget, and that dudes understand, and that artists and people in general understand the value of people like LL, and the value in people like a Queen Latifah. We’re all going to have to be given that accolade someday for our lifetime achievements.

AllHipHop.com: But, let me ask you this, though. Last year, I asked a lot of the Old School rappers and others about creating a new lane called Adult Contempo Hip-Hop. Because, let’s say that 10 more of your peers get these monster deals and suddenly we have a bunch of 40-year-old rappers who are doing their thing again real heavy. Do you think there needs to be another lane, or did you think it’s all rap, and we shouldn’t segment it by age?

Busta Rhymes: You can’t put a timeframe on greatness! You just can’t. So, I don’t think nothing, I think segregation is gonna weaken the whole sh*t, and it compromises the respect level, and you start creating these gaps that need bridges that we don’t need to have to struggle to find a bridge to bridge those gaps. I don’t want to do that. There’s no reason that there should be another lane for the artists that are a little older than the younger dudes, because once y’all separate yourselves, and once there’s a separation, there’s a respect level that’s compromised.

Older dudes need to respect younger dudes, because we needed to command that respect when we was the younger dudes, and we wanted that respect from the older artists that was looking at us like we wasn’t credible at the time, until we proved that we were. Sometimes I think it’s important that, well, it’s even more important that we embrace each other, because some of these younger dudes need help…

AllHipHop.com: For sure! [laughter]

Busta Rhymes: …in knowing what it is to become well-rounded artists, and not just be dudes that make one or two hot records and their career life is shorter than motherf*ckin’ [laughter]… I can’t even describe. Because I don’t understand short career lives. I wanna see dudes come up that can have careers, because ultimately, if the new dudes don’t have careers like me and Jay-Z and Nas and, you know, the dudes like us, the life of our genre is going to continue to dwindle, and it’s gonna die.

AllHipHop.com: Absolutely…there has to be some continuity. And I was thinking the exact opposite of your opinion, but you signing to Cash Money changed my mind. I said, ‘we don’t need a new lane. If Busta can get a crazy, monster deal like that, then the lane is open for anybody who wants to come back and is powerful and talented, you know?’ So, I give you kudos for that. You have the potential to change a lot of minds about whether the older generation of rappers who are still out here can actually continue to get their life in the industry.

Busta Rhymes: You know what? I thank you, and I really, genuinely appreciate that. I just want to point out something. The only thing that makes me an older artist is the time that I’ve put in. But my music…nothing about what I do, what Jay-Z does, what Nas does, there’s nothing about what we do that’s older, because if it was older, it wouldn’t be the sh*t! If it was older, these kids that you see, the millions of kids that you see go on YouTube to try and say my “Look At Me Now” verse, you wouldn’t see that if my contribution was old to them. You get what I’m saying?

Ultimately, if that’s the facts, then I don’t even see where the “older artist” category…how or where that fits in. The only thing that I see the “older artist” category or title or whatever we want to describe that to be being something that is of significance or value is what the people after us can learn from us, the “older artists.” With that being said, as long as the new dude is willing to embrace this new “older artist swag,” they’re going to have that to use to their advantage in addition to what they already are doing as their new sh*t.

But, the problem is, new dudes are gonna always have to compete with the one thing that they don’t have – that’s the new swag that the current and the timeless and the great older artists still can deliver. Not only are we delivering the new and setting the standard for what’s the next, but we’re doing it with the experience of a thing that we’ve lived that they haven’t. It would be to their advantage to pay attention and listen and, you know, embrace the veterans that much more gracefully.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, I saw an example of that in the Tribe [Called Quest] documentary when you were in the scene with Q-Tip and Ali, and you were telling Tip that there was this song of theirs that you listened to that brought tears to your eyes. I think that experience is something that the new guys can’t ever get, especially from that era. So, what’s your single biggest piece of advice to these young guys who want to have a 20-year career?

Busta Rhymes: My biggest single piece of advice to them would be the one thing that I know hasn’t failed any artist that has actually lived through this…one thing, and that is DO NOT COMPROMISE facilitating and executing what your feelings dictate before anything. Like, don’t let nothing come before that. Whatever your feelings are, whatever your ideas are, you gotta facilitate and execute them sh*ts before you start letting people come in and mix and dilute and start tampering with it.

Ultimately, that thing is the driving force behind what is going to make people make you into who they know and grow to love. You know what I’m saying? We fail to realize – when we first got put on, or when we first get our record deals and are exposed in a major way – those first moments of exposure…they all came from you just trusting your extinct. You was just following your gut. It was no record labels involved, telling you what to do and how to do it. There was no bunch of people that was around you just being critics, because this Internet sh*t provides a platform for the most irrelevant opinions that f*cks with you and can discourage you as the newer artist. Because, all of these people got some sh*t to say!

Before you put your music out, you wasn’t paying attention to none of that sh*t, so don’t pay attention to it after the fact. Like, you can bear witness to what they’re saying, but don’t pay attention to the point where it starts compromising the way you go about doing the things, that ends up putting you in a position to where people want to start critiquing you in the first place. You wouldn’t have been in that position if you would have followed your own gut. So just do you, follow you, and don’t let nobody tell you nothing. After you share your music with other people and hear what they got to say, and you honestly feel like you need to go and make a change, or you need to make an adjustment, then and only then you do that. Outside of that, just do what you love, and it will allow you to sleep better at night. [laughter]

AllHipHop.com: Yo, the Internet is the devil! As much as I run a website everyday, I know that the ‘Net is good for doing that to people. Like, I was thinking about this being the 20th anniversary of you and Leaders of the New School on “The Arsenio Hall Show” – that was the only time we got to see you guys, other than the music videos. There wasn’t all this access and all these websites where you could say whatever nasty things you wanted to say. We just saw you on TV and we were like, ‘wow.’

But let me ask you about that – 20 years since Arsenio Hall! Did you have any inkling back then that you’d still be around?

Busta Rhymes: I mean, ummm, obviously you never know that you’re going to be around as long as you’re gonna be around, because you don’t even know if you’re gonna live that long! You know what I’m saying? [laughter] But, the fact that I’ve been blessed to wake up everyday, have my health and strength, that’s number one, and then to be able to go and do the sh*t that I love everyday, it’s an inbelievable blessing in itself.

And the fact that I’m able to hear you ask me about a 20-year Arsenio Hall appearance anniversary is crazy in itself. I definitely didn’t foresee none of this sh*t, you know what I’m saying? My father, my mother, they wasn’t…they respected what I did, and my mother was way more supportive than my pop. My pop was on some, ‘Yo, you gon’ come and learn this trade and be a licensed electrical contractor, and have that sh*t as a backup plan in case this little rap sh*t that you trying to do don’t work.’ Obviously, they didn’t foresee it neither.

I don’t think you can ever foresee – we’re not fortune tellers – but one thing that I can say is that my determination, my desire to want to do this for the rest of my life has only grown, and I think that’s a testament to what I’ve been able to display through my work and my career landscape. I can tell you, I’m not finishing with what I have to do no time soon, because there’s a lot of sh*t that I gotta do, and there’s a lot of great things that I have planned that I wish and hope that I’ll be able to successfully get off so that the world can experience the things that I got in mind.

So, I’ma be around for a while, and I hope, God willing, that everything plays out in a way so that I can even be around beyond those things that I have planned in the immediate and the long-term future. And I hope that another 20 years from now, when I’m like 57, 58, 60 years old, you know, you still doing ya journalism, and we can sit back and talk about the 20-year anniversary of this interview! [laughter]

AllHipHop.com: [laughter] Ha ha!!! That would be SO dope! And I want you to know you have some oldheads at AllHipHop, including me, who have followed you since the very beginning, so this is one of the cool moments of the year for us…to see this happen for you, Busta.

Busta Rhymes: Awww, wow. Thank you, Seandra. I’m at about 85 percent with finishing up this album, and then I’m gonna have some listening sessions. They’re gonna be real unconventional and intimate and everything, so I look forward to having you and the AllHipHop crew come out. Happy holidays and love to you, baby girl.

 

 

 

A “Luda-Crisis”: Does Hip Hop Hate Women?

By: seandrasimsCategory: Uncategorized

“Every woman in America/ Especially Black/ Bear with me/ Can’t you see/ We’re under attack?”

-“White Man’s World” – Makaveli (Pac)

Tyanna Johnson wasn’t sure how she got there. Three months ago, she moved from Mississippi to Atlanta for a better way of life. But when the crappy economy forced her company to shut down, she found herself standing at the intersection everyday holding a cardboard sign that read, “Please Help Me!” Every day, she just stood there trying to hold on to her last piece of dignity. Then, one day, a gold-toothed rapper rolled up in a new Maybach and asked her to “do sumthin’ strange for a little piece of change…”

Last week, Hip-Hop superstar, Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges released the 1.21 Gigawatts mixtape. While much of the Hip-Hop buzz has centered around his disses of rival rappers, little attention has been paid to the disrespect of his primary target – Black women.

A few years ago, the song “Do Sumthin,” where Luda and Rick Ross trade verses about the freaky stuff that they would make a starvin’ sista do for a Klondike Bar, would have just been written off as another strip club anthem. But with people facing dire economic situations, the song takes on added socio-economic significance. With single mothers in the real world strugglin’ to feed their kids, millionaire rappers promoting ho’in as a viable option is done in extremely bad taste.

Do rappers hate women that much?

While the disrespect of all women is a problem for all cultures, the disproportionate economic suffering of Black women plus the fact that they own most of the booties that are seen shakin’ in Hip-Hop videos makes this issue more race specific. This is compounded by the jacked up relationship between Black men and Black women that has been promoted by the entertainment industry for the last couple of decades.

Black men dissin’ Black women is nothing new, as its roots can be traced back to antiquity. Chancellor Williams in his classic work, “The Destruction of Black Civilization” wrote that the problem goes back thousands of years in Africa when foreign invaders raped Black, Egyptian women, causing the sons to hate their mothers and identify with the nationality of their fathers, the conquerors.

So the seed with which we are dealing today was planted eons ago.

Of course, this is not to say that White men have not exploited Black women, as this has been well documented for centuries. South African, Saartjie Baartman, was paraded across Europe as a freak show attraction because of the size of her badunkadunk almost two centuries before Nicki Minaj appeared on the MTV Music Awards.

Nor can the disrespect of Black women be totally blamed on Hip-Hop, as Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were singing  “Brown Sugar,” a song glorifying the rape of a “slave girl,” and “Some Girls” a decade before The Bad Boys dissed “Veronica” and Slick Rick “treated ’em like a prostitute.”

But that does not give Black men of today a pass. Especially grown men with young daughters.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing gave a psychological reason for rap’s virtual rape of sistas in The Isis Papers, when she wrote that, “Black males engage in this activity out of their imposed frustration and sense of political powerlessness and inadequacy.”

However, some have pointed to a more insidious reason; a conspiracy to turn Black men against Black women and initiate them into a secret society known as the “Hip Hop He-Man Woman Haters Club.”

If what Immortal Technique alleges in his song , “Natural Beauty” is true – that “men who don’t even like women control the business.” This is not only possible but probable, as they take enjoyment from the gender war between Black men and Black women.

As noted historian J.A. Rogers wrote in his book, Sex and Race Vol. III, the deadliest form of the conflict and process of extermination within a civilization lies in the conflict between the two creative forces – Sex (woman) and Intellect (man).

Now some may argue that Luda is telling a true story and there are really women who act like that. But there are also women who act like Ida B. Wells, Assata Shakur and Kathleen Cleaver. Why are these stories not being told? Not to mention the story of the OG ride-or-die chick, Mary Turner, who, in 1918, along with her unborn child, was murdered and mutilated by a lynch mob in Valdosta, Georgia, for reppin’ her husband who had been murdered by the same mob.

Some may consider the actual details of the horrific event, like how one of the members of the mob removed the fetus from Turner’s belly and pounded it into the ground, too graphic. However, they are no more graphic then the acts rapped about on Luda’s CD or in songs being played on the radio about Black men riding around with “choppers” in their cars hunting other Black men like prey.

Perhaps, if rappers were taught this history, they would be less likely to make misogynistic songs.

Personally, I think that a group of brothers should find Luda and kindly “escort” Mr. Bridges to the Folsom Bridge, the spot where Turner was lynched, and leave him there until he reconsiders his position on Black women.

Either way, this madness has got to stop.

Like Nas said in “Black Girl Lost,” “Say men are all the same?/ What we need to do/ Is break this chain.”

TRUTH Minista Paul Scott represents The Militant Mind Militia. He can be reached at [email protected], on his website at http://www.militantmindmilitia.com, or on Twitter at @truthminista.

Daily Word: Speak Differently (You are What You Say You Are)

By: seandrasimsCategory: Lifestyle 
Happy Wins-Day, my creatures of Excellence! 

Today's Daily Word is dedicated to speaking differently! Words have power! People often make a big deal about what others are saying about them but think nothing of what they say to themselves! Other people's words have a
significantly lower affect on you then what you are saying to yourself! 

Make sure that you are not falling into the habit of negative self-talk! Change your conversations with yourself, and I guarantee that you will immediately begin to move your life in the right direction! Instead of telling yourself what you can't do, tell
yourself how talented you are for what you CAN do! Instead of complaining of what you don't have, be grateful for what you do have and speak ONLY in abundance! The words that you utter, whether loudly or quietly eventually become your reality! 

Speak ONLY on what you want! Everything else is a waste of time and a waste of life!!
-Ash'Cash

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." -Pearl Strachan

"Words are our wands. They have the power to get you on the fast track to manifesting your dreams." -Unknown

“Your own words are the bricks and mortar of dreams you want to realize." -Sonia Choquette

“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” -Brian Tracy

"Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is." -Publilius Syrus

“You can create the energy to turn your dreams into reality by knowing what to say when you talk to yourself.” -Shad Helmstetter

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character, Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." -Unknown

“Quite simply, what you say is the single biggest factor that determines your happiness.” -Irwin Katsof

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Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com.

Assistant Police Commissioner Denies Vybz Kartel Escape Reports

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Police in Jamaica have shot down reports that artist Vybz Kartel has escaped from a prison, where he is being held for two murders.

Reports hit the Internet yesterday, claiming that Vybz, born Adijah Palmer, had made a daring escape from the New Verizon Adult Remand Centre.

According to the rumor, Vybz and seven other inmates held guards hostages, stole their uniforms, fled in a vehicle belonging to police and left one dead and 12 injured in the prison break.

Jamaica’s Assistant Police Commissioner denied the reports.

“I know nothing about that. If that had taken place I would would certainly have known,” Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green told the Jamaica Observer.

Police told the paper that the rumor may have been the work of Vybz’ cronies, who could be attempting to keep his name in the headlines.

Vybz Kartel is being without bail, for his role in at least two murders.

He is also charged with conspiracy to murder, illegal possession of a firearm and possession of ganja charges.

Russell Simmons Gets His Own Postage Stamp

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons is the first hip-hop artist to receive his own stamp, via a new campaign with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Russell Simmons’ mug will appear on one of 20 stamps dedicated to the most famous vegetarians of all time, in an effort to stamp out animal abuse.

Other celebrities that are featured in PETA’s latest campaign include Woody Harrelson, Cesar Chevez, Gandhi, Bob Barker of “The Price is Right,” Gandhi, Paul McCartney, Ellen DeGeneres and others.

During the campaign, the celebrities will offer tips on healthy living, in addition to doling out wisdom on the importance of being a vegetarian.

“The consumption of animals causes more harm to the environment than all the forms of transportation put together,” Russell Simmons told CNN in 2008, while discussing why he chose to be a vegan.

“When they said dominion over the animals, I don’t think they meant the abusive 10 billion farm animals every year, which is what we do here in America,” Simmons continued. “I feel better, I look better, so it’s a big change for me. You have more clarity and I think that all of us want to be more clear. I wanted to look younger and feel better and wanted to be a greater contributor to the good on the planet.”

The limited edition stamps are on sale from December until January, depending on the demand.

Signs The World Is Coming To An End: Lil Boy Shot In Head At Rap Vid

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur)Category: Rumors

BABY SHOT IN THE HEAD AT RAP VIDEO SHOOT!

I’m telling you, people…we have to do better! These damn people are bringing guns and little kids to video shoots! And a kid got shot! The 1-year old boy, Hiram Lawrence, was shot when about six men ran up on a rapper set and just started firing rounds. Other people – eight – were shot and sent to the hospital. As for lil Hiram, he is in critical condition from his injuries. Apparently, the boy was shot as his dad ran for cover, but he wasn’t actually on the set of the video like I thought. Like, I totally could have changed the headline and edited the story, but I think he was close enough to say he was on the scene. Stop the violence people.