Bilal on Jay Leno (Video)

Bilal: Take Me Over
Love For Sale (Universal, 2006) (Unreleased)

Bilal, an artist clearly influenced by Prince yet extricated of the vocal limitations suffered by Love Symbol #2, has Take(n) Me Over with his Gatoresque Harlem Shake (1:50: embedded YouTube) and his impassioned (I charge such paralanguage to his penchant for wine and weed) ending (3:20: embedded YouTube).

Albeit, Bilal is dumb-nice and thusly markedly exemplar. An illustration of his faculties comes in the form of the still unreleased Love For Sale via Take Me Over.

Erykah Badu on Making it in the Music Business (Video)

Erykah Badu: Real Thing (Music Is Everything) (Prod. by Madlib)
Single (2007)

Download: Sharebee

Erykah profiles the unprincipled preponderant deviations of the music biz:

• "Do some hoe shit"
  
• “Be buttnaked with glitter on you and a beeper”

Music-fans detoxify your desires - you too are much to blame...

The Word of the Day for April 15, 2008 is:

detoxify • \dee-TAHK-suh-fye\ • verb

1 a : to remove a harmful substance (as a poison or toxin) or the effect of such from

b : to render (a harmful substance) harmless

2 : to free (as a drug user or an alcoholic) from an intoxicating or an addictive substance in the body or from dependence on or addiction to such a substance

3 : neutralize

Example Sentence:

Yi wrote her term paper on the city's efforts to detoxify a contaminated landfill.

Did you know?

These days, "detoxify" can mean "to free (someone) from a substance addiction" (and yes, it's the source of "detox," a more recent word that also refers to getting drugs or alcohol out of a person's system). Originally, however, detoxification was something done to things rather than to people. In its earliest uses -- from about 1905 -- "detoxify" referred to the removal of poison, or of poisonous or damaging properties, from a harmful substance, or to the removal of poisonous or toxic substances from something contaminated (such as the bloodstream).The specific application to removing "poison" from an addict is relatively new, dating to the mid-20th century. Today, "detoxify" is also often used generally in reference to counteracting the activity or effect of anything harmful (such as propaganda).

*Indicates the senses illustrated in the example sentence.

Teeth: Vagina Dentata Myth (Trailer)

Mitchell Lichtenstein directorial debut Teeth tells the story of high school student Dawn (Jess Weixler) who works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad’s (John Hensley) increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

Reviews:

• EW
  
• IMDB
  
• Things They Don’t Teach in Any Dental School: NYT

+Apple: Trailer l For your iPod

Torae on POW! Radio (Video)

"Line after line I'm pre-cise..."
Torae

Torae on POW! Radio (Video) speaks volumes of what one can expect from his Daily Conversation yet I like this freestyle more than half of DC. Albeit, the addition of video makes the song renditions more dynamic.

Not quite Dumb-Nice, Torae, is worth mention.

+Torae: Call’ Me (my favorite track on DC): YouTube

+Skyzoo: Freestyle on POW! Radio: YouTube

Honk for Confederate Pride

CLD
PRSS

From: February 25, 2008: The Buzz:

Rep. Don Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, has filed legislation to create a new license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag.

But the controversial nature of the flag and failure to establish a plate before makes for a difficult road to approval.

The plate, featuring four Confederate-era flags as well as buttons worn by soldiers, was designed by the Florida division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group pitched the idea last year and got nowhere. The plate would cost $25 extra and proceeds would be used for education programs and graveyard restoration.

Florida, like other Southern states, has struggled over the image of the Confederate flag and the plate will surely stir controversy. In 2001, Gov. Jeb Bush discreetly removed the flag from the Capitol. His successor, Gov. Charlie Crist, has made inroads with the African-American community that sees the flag as an enduring symbol of racism.

"A lot of people are making a big issue out of it," Brown said. "But all we're doing is giving individuals the right to choose to make a statement about their heritage." That's no different, he said, than people who want to see Martin Luther King Jr's name grace street signs. Browns says he is one of them and has sponsored a bill to rename part of Highway 90 in Walton County after the slain civil rights leader.

A handful of other states have Confederate heritage plates, including Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina.

+Playahata

DCD'd

SHT
TLKNG

I disappeared (December 5, 2007 - March 28, 2008) and reappeared like:

+Video

The Rick James Sex-Tape

Based on Rumor knowledge-base: Illseed:
The “Habitual Line-Stepper” posthumously is releasing a sex tape. The Rick James sex-tape bidding starts at $999.99 on eBay. Additionally, the sex-tape released by AONE Entertainment has Rick’s last recordings with songs like:
"Good Shit"
"Don’t Forget Me, I’m Rick James B***h" and
"So Blunted, I’m Just Too High".

+Video excerpts: YouTube: 1, 2 & 3

Below find AHH's 5-Part classic interview:

Rick James: Fire And Desire

AllHipHop.com: Where does your money come from?

Rick: Mary J. Blige, had a number one record last year with Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez, Old Dirty Bastard, Will Smith, LL Cool J. That’s where it comes from.

AllHipHop.com: How much money did you get off of Hammer “Can’t Touch This”?

Rick: I don’t know $30-40 million dollars. It was an 80/20 deal; it ‘s the largest selling Rap record of all time. We sold like 100 million records.

Rick James Pt. 2: Fire And Desire

To AllHipHop.com: “Matter of fact a lot of Rap music has taken black people back 900 years. Whenever I hear black people say, “N***er,” it makes me sick to my stomach. Number one, the word has nothing to do with black people, it makes me sick to hear white people scream, “N***er,” because of the derogative term that it has come to be, which it wasn’t originally.”

Rick James Part 3: The Music Industry

AllHipHop.com: Who do you like?

Rick: There are so many people that I like, I am talking now about the esoteric part. I think Eminem is brilliant, I like Dr. Dre; I like Scarface, Tupac, Biggie Smalls. But when I heard the Fugees album, I threw it out the window.

Rick James Pt. 4: Politically Minded

AllHipHop.com: Do you consider the current war, a holy war?

Rick: No, it isn’t a holy war, it is a war based on money. The only reason we went over there was to kill Saddam to get the oil. It’s a shame, ‘cause Bush’s racist rother was stopping Blacks from going to the polls.

Rick James Pt. 5: Farewell Rick

AllHipHop.com: I’ma tell you because it’s true, but it’s not true. I interviewed Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent’s boy, and he had a lot to say…

Rick: All I know about 50 Cent’s is he got more bullets in him than Al Capone. He’s a player hater. He’s the only ni**a I saw sitting down at the fuckin’ [BET] awards show not giving props. To say something, you have to have something to back it up. You better have knowledge. I don’t care what you talk about, whether its politics, theology or whatever. You better have your times and your dates together. When dealing with these fake ass people or these politicians, and I fuckin’ be blowing their minds [and they are like] “So, you never even finished high school?” No, but I did something else, I read and I studied – So lets talk motherfucker!

Freezing with Frost

Leaning on Notes of a Different Kitchen, I‘m running a post which duplicates their Saturday entry, yet expositions Fulsome’s persnickety and other such embellishments:

Below find excerpts from the NYT:

Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze who helped inspire a worldwide break-dancing craze in the early 1980s as a member of the influential group Rock Steady Crew, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 44.
Mr. Frost was known for his acrobatic and daredevil moves. One that he created involved a flip in the air that ended with Mr. Frost flat on his back. He called it the Suicide.
Mr. Frost began attracting wide attention in 1981, when his picture appeared on the cover of The Village Voice with an article by Sally Banes titled “Physical Graffiti: Breaking Is Hard to Do.”

+Playahata

• Frosty Freeze Passes; Crazy Legs Speaks: AHH

My deepest condolences go out to Frosty Freeze and the family.

+Rock Steady Crew

From a Science Purview

Get current with science news and rationale not covered, yet referenced, on Fulsome at these recommended sites:

• Ethics and Science
  
• Bad Astronomy
  
• Neurophilosphy
  
• Technology trends
  
• NASAwatch
  
• Effect measure
  
• Pharyngula
  
• Inkling
  
• Uncertain Principles
  
• Science and Reason

Returner

+Returner: IMDB