That’s right it’s a triple in-store at FatBeats LA! Sunday November 2nd at 4PM we’re celebrating the release of 3 amazing albums with in-store appearances from Dj Babu, Black Milk, and Jake One! Black Milk’s “Tronic”, Jake One’s “White Van Music”, as well as Babu’s “Duck Season 3″ is available now @ Fatbeats.com and Fatbeats retailers.
NOT THAT EASY Ft. Ethel Cee
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Not That Easy Featuring Ethel Cee
Underground graffiti artists Retna and Saber teach the Chicas the finer points of tagging. With help from the experts, Yasmin and Crash each create their mural-sized pieces of artwork.
A call to our politicians to dig deeper past the black/white binary when discussing race in America.
"This hour long mixtape honors CMJ's year round commitment to supporting authentic hip-hop music. This project contains current singles and exclusives by artists that are relevant to the college market and beyond, such as Slug, Dilated Peoples, Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, Diamond D, Torae, Mobb Deep, U-N-I, Royce Da 5'9", Heltah Skeltah, A. Pinks, Sha Stimuli,The KnuX, Pharoahe Monch, Wale & More. Producers featured include DJ Premier, The Alchemist, DJ Scratch, 9th Wonder, Jake One, Illmind, Black Milk, M-Phazes, Khrysis, Analgoic & more."
Official Site: CMJ Music Marathon
Multi-Platinum Producer Kevin "Khao" Cates and Civil Rights Leader Dr. Charles Steele, Jr. will lead a march and rally Sunday, November 2nd in Atlanta, Ga. The march and rally is the culmination of the Million March 2 Vote Campaign, a non-partisan nationwide effort that calls on civic minded organizations to encourage their members and constituents to vote.
The campaign targets people that in the past may have never voted or been unaware of the steps to take to register to vote. The March will begin at 2:00pm and the Rally at 3:00pm. Participants will assemble at Morris Brown Herndon Stadium at 12:30pm and march down Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd to the Georgia State Capitol.
"It appears that the younger generations have lost sight of the struggles and obstacles that preceded them," said Dr. Steele. "We want to rekindle that spirit in our youth and encourage everyone to use the right that so many have died for."
"Our generation takes a lot for granted," Khao said. "There is so much to learn from one another and it's way overdue. There is lack of participation from us. I asked myself: who will be our leaders of tomorrow if we don't make a stand and vote?"
Dr. Steele and Khao will continue working together after the election with the Bridging da Gap Movement. Bridging da Gap is an International project meant to bring generations together to share information and create a society conducive to progress and awareness. Dr. Steele and Khao see the need to create a platform for the unification of youth and great leaders of the older generation. The project includes various recording artists joining together to record an entire album with proceeds going to benefit Youth Programs and development of educational programs that promote such growth. The first single launching this collaborative movement is titled "Bridging da Gap" featuring Khao and Dr. Steele. Bridging da Gap will include curriculum that address the problems faced by today's youth, with solutions that spark discussions between the generations to permit an exchange of information.
Dr. Steele and Khao will perform this riveting and powerful song at the Rally on Sunday. Celebrity guests will also be in attendance and perform. Community leaders, politicians, hip-hop artists, professional athletes and music executives will join Dr. Steele and Khao in the march.
From the POCC Minister of Information, JR:
The Black New World will be having a rent party this Friday at 8pm. The address is 836 Pine in West Oakland. The Black New World has hosted a number of events for the Black community over the years. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr, the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, Ramona and Pam Africa, Julia Wright, Yuri Kochiyama, former Black Panther Emory Douglas, former political prisoner Robert King Wilkerson, the movies "Wattstax" and "Banished", the performers Queen Deelah and the Welfare Poets have all been a part of events at this community anchor. We urge everybody to support the Black New World in its time of need. [blacknewworld.com]
The brand new video for "Leave It All Behind"'s first single, "Daykeeper" feat. Mushinah. Directed by Salih Abdul-Karim and Dana Kinlaw. Edited by Salih Abdul-Karim.
via:http://www.newsday.com
Q-Tip threw down the gauntlet early at this year's CMJ Music Marathon, repeating his controversial complaint from years ago, saying, "Hip-hop is dead."
"The appetite for music is bigger than it ever has been," Q-Tip said at the "Hip-Hop Renaissance" panel yesterday at NYU. "But hip-hop will never go back to the way it was. Maybe it'll morph into something else."
Vibe Editor Danyel Smith said that may not necessarily be a bad thing, since the Internet allows music lovers to hunt down new artists in ways that didn't exist before.
"There is an underground again," Smith said. "We might be at the start of something new."
And finding something new is the center of the 28th CMJ Music Marathon, a five-day convention that started yesterday that will bring more than 1,000 acts and 100,000 music fans into venues of all sorts throughout New York.
"It's the new version of crate-digging," said Chris Inglish of the hip-hop group Cool Kids, adding that on the Internet, "if you suck, then you know it that day."
Q-Tip says that kind of discovery is what made hip-hop so successful early on. "More people were doing it for fun," he said. "There was a naiveté that people attached to it."
He said that hip-hop was co-opted "when the corporations came in and people started seeing it was making money."
But that has started to change. "I know it sounds hokey," Q-Tip said. "You have to love what you do."
Community leaders, educators and a hip-hop artist M-1, one half of the political hip-hop duo dead prez, discussed hip-hop, the presidential election and the youth vote at The Commons Center Sept. 25.
The panelists included Maya Rockeymoore, chief executive officer of Global Policy Solutions and author of The Political Action Handbook – A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation; Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.; Angela Woodson, director of faith-based and community outreach for the Ohio Governor’s Office and co-founder of Blacks United in Local Democracy (BUILD); Adam Mansbach, instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute and author of the novels Angry Black White Boy, Shackling Water and The End of Jews, andBakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation and co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention
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