Obituaries: Julius Carry & Isaac Hayes + Bernie Mac

CLD PRSS
JC: Alternate Name: Julius J Carry III: NYT
IH: The Guardian

+Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes Portray 'Soul Men' In One Of Their Final Films: VH1
+Soul Men Director Remembers Mac and Hayes: E Online
+Soul Men: IMDB

The Eco-Rundown On Alaska Guv Sarah Palin

Subject title article: Grist l Playahata

+Former captor denies account of torture, says McCain made it up for votes: MSNBC

+DNC

+AlterNet: Palin Pick Is GOP Hypocrisy at its Best l Palin's Speech Tactic: Substitute Cultural Symbols for Actual Policies

Mos Def: A Millie Freestyle (Live) (Video)

From 2dopeboyz comes this Mos Def Magic Convention A Millie freestyle wherein MySpace comprised the video quality yet the audio is as live as Mos's lyrics - Whew!!!

Lil' Wayne you're garbage, stick to your career of kissing your Baby "father" and signing yourself.

Common: Announcement Ft. Pharrell (Video)

I'm usually critical of Pharrell genuflecting production credit to Chad (Pharrell + Chad= the Neptunes) but here Pharrell's signature production anchors in nostalgia that made the Clipse: Grindin' a Top 10. 

Common lays concrete with on Announcement with his rhymes and keeps his promise dismissing Yezzy (Kanye) due to his hyper-braggadocio whereby he credits himself for the successes of Common’s last two albums even though much of the production style is in the breathe of J Dilla (James Yancey) and done so in Jay Dee’s honor (on Be half of the album was supposed to be produced by 'Dilla however his hospitalization impeaded that and more notably on Finding Forever posthumously) - effer...

Kanye, the world waits on no one - you pastel-wearing monkey.

The Saturday Knights: Mingle

The Saturday Knights: Mingle
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+The Saturday Knights: MySpace | Light In The Attic Records

Bernie Mac & Isaac Hayes : Dead

BREAKING NEWS: AHH: Comedian Bernie Mac Dies & Isaac Hayes Dead.

I'm speechless, for that I'll let Isaac's music provide the words amiss in this post.
WTF??!!!


Isaac Hayes: Never Can Say Goodbye
Live At The Sahara Tahoe (Stax, 1973/1986)


Isaac Hayes: Someone Will Take The Place Of You
Don't Let Go (Polydor, 1979)


*BONUS:

Isaac Hayes + Dionne Warwick: Can't Hide Love
A Man And A Woman (ABC, 1977)


+Bernie Mac: IMDB
+Isaac Hayes Official Site l IMDB

“Snitchin’ For Dummies”: Prodigy Fingers Jay-Z & Cam’ron

Breaking news: There are different levels (subcategorization dun) of snitching??!!!


+NEGRO PLEASE: Prodigy Fingers Jay-Z & Cam’ron in “Snitchin’ For Dummies”: XXL: Blogger's Note
+For all intents and purposes, the long feud between Mobb Deep and Jay-Z is dead[?]: MTV: Mixtape Monday

Al Green: You Got The Love I Need (Demo)

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Al Green: You Got The Love I Need Ft. The Randy Watson Experience (?uesto +James Poyser) (Demo)
Lay It Down (Blue Note, May 27, 2008)

Below excerpt courtesy of OSN's recount:

The four-piece band, The Randy Watson Experience, was in between songs. ?uestlove sat isolated in a drum room. James Poyser sat comfortably at the same organ Stevie Wonder used on the Music of My Mind album. Adam Blackstone stood across from James with his bass slung over his neck. The late Chalmers “Spanky” Alford sat in a chair near the door leading from the studio to the control room.

I looked around for the Reverend Al Green, but I couldn’t see him. I could hear him talking through the monitors though. I stood up to look over the mixing board and through the window. He was standing in the vocal booth. I think he may have been jotting down some lyric ideas or something.

At this stage in the project, Al’s new album was going to be a duets album, and ?uestlove was just going to produce a song or two. Fortunately, ?uesto had something else in mind.

For the next 3-4 hours, I watched and listened as 8 demos were recorded, mostly with Al freestyling lyrics off of the top of his head. 7 of the songs made it to the album in finished form, including “You Got The Love I Need.”

The above link is exactly what was recorded that night… Compare it to the released version.

Movie: Fear Of A Black Hat

Niggaz With Hats: Booty Juice
Fear Of A Black Hat OST (Avatar, June 3, 1994)

“When is your butt at its most juiciest?”

Fear Of A Black Hat is what CB4 should have been – hip-hop/rap/mockumentary/social-political commentary/hypocrisy.

Below find excerpts of NYT’s: FILM; A Rap Movie Opens, and It's Only A Year Late by Michel Marriott, published: May 29, 1994:

"I always knew I would do something in entertainment," says Mr. Cundieff, a native of Pittsburgh, whose name, he has been told, is "Welsh or English for he who stands by the edge of the cliff and looks into the abyss."

What distinguishes Mr. Cundieff from many of his predecessors, Mr. McHenry said, is the political edge he brings to the work, without diluting its laughs.

"When Rusty does comedy, it's not just a silly, for-fun sort of thing," says Mr. McHenry, who with his partner George Jackson played cameo roles as concert promoters in "Black Hat." "He gives you double-entendres, a layering of messages and social commentary."

Behind a pair of deep-tinted eyeglasses and a curtain of finger-length braids, Mr.

"Fear of a Black Hat" cost less than $1 million to make and was inspired by Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap," a mock documentary released in 1984 about a fictitious heavy-metal rock group. Whereas "This Is Spinal Tap" has as its running joke the difficulty of finding a drummer (for some reason they spontaneously combust), "Fear of a Black Hat" shows the difficulty a rap group has finding a manager (for some reason they keep being shot).

After Mr. Cundieff finished writing the script for "House Party 2," he and Darin Scott, a producer of "Menace II Society," went to Las Vegas to relax. While there, the pair won $800 at the gambling tables.

They used $600 of that money and a borrowed video camera to shoot a 20-minute short film that was the embryonic "Fear of a Black Hat." The short persuaded a small independent movie company, ITC, to back the full-length film, Mr. Cundieff says. (Mr. Scott has the producer's credit on the feature.)

Mr. Cundieff wanted "Fear of a Black Hat" to reveal the petty, violent, misogynist and generally misguided inner workings of a fictitious rap group called N.W.H., short for Niggaz With Hats (a play on the hard-core rap group N.W.A.). Much of the fictional group's identity comes from wearing oversize hats that resemble the headgear in Dr. Seuss.

Audience response was "tremendous" at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, according to Geoffrey Gilmore, the festival's program director, who felt the film had crossover potential. But in the meantime, another film, "CB4," came along. It was also billed as a "rapumentary," and it had a larger budget and an actual star, Chris Rock, who is a regular on "Saturday Night Live." A deal to distribute "Fear of a Black Hat" was put in limbo. And "CB4" was released last spring. It bombed.

While much of the humor of "Fear of a Black Hat" is universal in its portrayal of greed, envy, jealousy, sexual insincerity and fear in a rap subtext, the same cannot be said of the film's colorful language. Here are definitions of some recurring terms and phrases used in the movie.

Audi, Audi 5000: Out of here. Example: "She'll be Audi 5000."

Bet: For sure. Example: "I'll be there. Bet!"

Bittin': Stealing or misappropriating someone else's idea or manner. Example: "Get your own style and stop bittin' mine."

Buggin': Acting out of sorts, agitated. Example: "Why are you buggin'?"

Bust a cap: To shoot someone. Example: "If you don't stop messing with me, I'll have to bust a cap in you."

Doggin': Being disrespectful. Example: "Why you doggin' me?"

Dope: Exceptionally good or fine. Example: "These are dope sneakers."

Fly: Same as above.

G: Short for gangster, used as an honorific. Example: "What's up, G?"

Kick that to the curb: Put something aside or halt a behavior. Example: "Stop asking me a lot of questions; you can kick that to the curb."

Phat: Fine, exceptional. Example: "They were playing a phat beat."

Props: Short for propers, as in giving someone deserved respect. Example: "He's getting his props."

Wack: Square, mundane, silly. Example: "Country music is wack."

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: