Dilla Ghost Doom: Sniperlite

In late 2005 Ghostface Killa and MF DOOM were both recording over tracks from J Dilla's instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface's Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla's passing. Two of these tracks, “Sniper Elite” and “Murder Goons,” are presented here for the first time. The two are taken from two sequential songs off Donuts, meant to mix together. We are presenting the two songs unmixed, plus the two mixed together as a bonus track.
Listen to samples and/or buy individual MP3s (360 kbps, non-DRM): Exclusive digital releases: 99¢ x 3 tracks.


+First time on MP3, vinyl & CD many of the following albums are available:

Madvillain: Bolder Holder

Madvillain: Bolder Holder
Madvillainy 2: The Box (Stones Throw, Sept. 12, 2008) ($125.00 + Shipping)

+Madvillainy 2: The Box | Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix

Stacy Epps: Floatin'

Stacy Epps: Floatin' 12"/The Awakening (JapaNUBIA Musik, Aug. 2008) Beautifully produced, mixed seamlessly with Stacy's ethereal vocals and smooth lyrics, "Floatin" gives a taste of her brand new album. Out now on iTunes and other digital download sites.

Download: MediaFire

Per: newsletter

Cynthia McKinney Accepts the Presidential Nomination of the Green Party of the United States

Per Run Cynthia Run:

Enjoying the support of 313 of the 541 Delegate votes cast, Saturday, July 12th, 2008, Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination in the first round of balloting at the Green Party's Chicago Convention.
In her thirty-five minute acceptance speech, broadcast on CSPAN, she told those assembled:

“But we make history today only because we must. In 2008, after two stolen Presidential elections and eight years of George W. Bush, and at least two years of Democratic Party complicity, the racket is about war crimes, torture, crimes against the peace; the racket is about crimes against the Constitution, crimes against the American people, and crimes against the global community. The racket is even about values that we thought were long settled as reasonable to pursue, like liberty and justice, and economic opportunity, for all. Yes, Sojourner, there's a lot out of kilter now, but these two women, Rosa and me, joined by all the men and women in this room, are going to do our best to turn this country right side up again.

We will never get a United States that is reflective of different values if we continue to do the same thing. Those who delivered us into this mess cannot be trusted to get us out of it.
That's why I signed up to do something I've never done before so I can have something I've never had before: My country, made in the likeness of the values of the Green Party.
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And that's why I know we need an opposition party in this country. With over 200 elected officials already, the Green Party can become this country's premier opposition Party. One thing is clear, Democratic and Republican values are not Green Party values. And honestly, I believe, Green Party values are the values held by the majority in this country. And through our vigorous Power to the People campaign, we will proclaim our presence to every nook and cranny of this country. We are needed now, more than ever…”


+Cynthia's social network:

Bert + Ernie x MOP | Ante Up

Bert and Ernie do M.O.P.'s classic Ante Up for a sold out show on PBS.

*Description plagarized + video f1st spotted: The Full Clip.

Flying Lotus | Roberta Flack f. Dolly

Flying Lotus: Roberta Flack f. Dolly
Los Angeles (Warp, 2008)

GED (see sidebar) put me up on FL a few years back via Myspace friends social-networking. Atlas, he dropping an album this year

FL Folks say sounds like:

"The Tarantino of Beats'' :) "Tomita on Coke","Donkeys drinking", "books falling down stairs on a very windy day","the bleep bleep shit", "Sweaty elephants", "futuristic jungle music" ''some high shit'' "God smashing on stuff with his feet" "Some movie shit" ''The future''..

Mp3 courtesy of Oliver Wang's Soul-Sides & Captain Planet's and Murphy's Law's Captain's Crates collaborative blogging.

Jimmy Klein: HHO Gas

New gas created from water and electricity discovered by Jimmy Klein. Developments include a:

• Torch, cool to touch, but cuts and melts metals expeditiously and
• Automobile which runs on just ounces of water a day.

+Snopes

Want Some Torture With Your Peanuts?

Washington Post l Aviation Security

Posted July 01 2008 2:18 PM by Black & Denning l Jeffrey Denning

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...


A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).

This bracelet would:

• Take the place of an airline boarding pass
• Contain personal information about the traveler
• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage
• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes
  

The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if the passenger got out of line.

Clearly the Electronic ID Bracelet is a euphemism for the EMD Safety Bracelet, or at least it has a nefarious hidden ability (thus the term ID Bracelet is ambiguous at best). EMD stands for Electro-Musclar Disruption. Again, according to the promotional video, the bracelet can completely immobilize the wearer for several minutes.

So is the government really that interested in this bracelet?

Apparently so.

According to this letter from DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development, which was written to the inventor whom he had previously met with, Ruwaldt wrote, “To make it clear, we [the federal government] are interested in . . . the immobilizing security bracelet, and look forward to receiving a written proposal.”

The letterhead, in case you were wondering, is from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office at the William J. Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, or the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters.

In another part of the letter, Mr. Ruwaldt confirmed, “In addition, it is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes.”

Would every paying airline passenger flying on a commercial airplane be mandated to wear one of these devices? I cringe at the thought. Not only could it be used as a physical restraining device, but also as a method of interrogation, according to the same aforementioned letter from Mr. Ruwaldt.

Would you let them put one of those on your wrist? Would you allow the airline employees, which would be mandated by the government, to place such a bracelet on any member of your family?

Why are tax dollars being spent on something like this?

Is this a police state or is this America?


+Videos: YouTube: via CNN l via Fox News

Doctors Pull Screws, Nails From Metal-Eating Man

Reuters l Oddly Enough: Fri Jul 11, 2008: 12:27 PM:

LIMA: Doctors in a coastal town in northwestern Peru have rescued the innards of a 38-year-old man by removing 17 metal objects - among them nails, a watch clasp and a knife - that he ate.

Luis Zarate was taken to the regional hospital of Trujillo earlier this week by his family after complaining of sharp stomach pains. Doctors took X-rays of his chest that showed his insides littered with screws.

"There were 17 strange objects found at the level of his stomach and colon," said Dr. Julio Acevedo, one of the surgeons who operated on Zarate.

The black-and-white scans showed Zarate's skeleton interlaced with things like bolts, barbed-wire and pens.

"The objects had caused the stomach to expand," said Acevedo.

Doctors said Zarate was mentally ill but it was not clear why he ate the metal.

Cagle: Jesse Jackson's Obama Trauma

Cartoon by Pat Bagley - Comment on the cartoon

The Pharcyde: If I Were President
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (Delicious Vinyl, 1992)

Jesse Jackson's Obama Trauma
by Clarence Page - Comment on the column

What did the Rev. Jesse Jackson mean when he accused Barack Obama of "talking down to black people"? That was the second question on my mind in a telephone interview with Jackson. My first was something like this: "Did you really say you wanted to castrate Obama?"

As the world knows by now, Jackson says he didn't know he was wearing a "hot mic," a turned-on microphone, on the set of a Fox News program when he made what one newspaper headline called his "cutting remark."

Remember the old saying about how character is what you do when nobody's looking? Jackson's inflammatory whispers suggest a new twist: Character is what you do when you don't know that the world may be listening.

If so, his whispers about America's first likely black Democratic presidential nominee reveal Jackson at his worst. He sound frustrated, marginalized and left by the side of the road in the rising glow of a younger star.

Jackson did not dispute that he made the vulgar remark in angry whispers to another show guest about Obama's recent call to expand President Bush's faith-based initiatives. Twice he complained that Obama has been "talking down to black people."

That was a reference, Jackson says, to speeches like Obama's Father's Day address at the predominantly black Apostolic Church of God in Chicago.

It was a speech in which Obama revealed his inner Bill Cosby. He called for more parental responsibility, whether it was assisted by government help or not.

"Any fool can have a child," Obama preached. "That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Jackson, too, has called for parental responsibility. I was part of the national media that gave glowing coverage to his PUSH for Excellence drive in the 1970s. Across the country he preached to black youths: READ MORE

Eddie Murphy: Party All The Time (Video)

I trace Eddie Murphy’s alleged yet documented sexual union with Johnny Gill to the Put Your Mouth On Me (Columbia, 1989). With songs such as Boogie In Your Butt (Columbia, 1982) I dare you to contest me. With Eddie double-clapping every several bars I dare you to object.

Party All The Time featuring Rick James (Columbia, 1985) is only tenable, although composed by The King of Funk, once James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. (Rick's birth name) enters the track at 3:27 (per YouTube). Rick bears no formulations (mechanistic strutting) nor metronomic counting to catch the beat as Eddie depositions. Rick is no L7; conversely, Eddie is not Bustin' out of L Seven.

RIP Rick:
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
Robin Williams

The Roots Picnic Webisode: 1 (Video)

Continuing to highlight Philly: plagiarized from 2dopeboyz:

Look out for more webisodes from OKP featuring J*DaVeY, The Cool Kids and more. This is also in conjunction with the Philly edition of iMeem’s Keys to the City series which OKP is apart and will start on July 14th.

Erykah Badu – Live From VH1 Soul Stage (2008)

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If I haven't mentioned the following: I have a new job wherein I cannot post as freely as I once did so please afford me some patience in between my post. My emails even suffer - "straight-up!"
I am still here and will always make my presence felt - "that's my word" and a 5 Percenter's "word is bond".

I missed this performance, yet having seen her before I know this joint was smokin'.
I am listening to the concert as I write this entry - the laptop is bucking in tandem with my head bobbing:

1. Intro
2. The Healer
3. On & On
4. ... & On
5. Me
6. Interlude: Train to Philly
7. Otherside of the Game
8. Honey
9. Interlude: Recording vs. Performing
10. Soldier
11. Didn't Cha Know/ A Brighter Day/ If You Believe in Yourself/ Outro
12. Encore: Annie (Don't Wear No Panties)

48:02 minutes: 66.7mb

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