The videos for the poems "Dream" and "Word," [Niels Shoe] Meulman uses a broom to paint the words in calligraphy-style letters on a boxing-ring floor. Bey recites some of the famed boxer's greatest words while jabbing the air around him. The soon-to-be-released videos for other poems -- "Float," "Life" and a special "Ali" -- will be in a similar form.
The Making of A Love Supreme: Part 1 + Part 2
2(t)wo days ago WEAA 88.9 FM, Morgan State University's radio station, aired The Making of A Love Supreme hosted by Mos Def. Within a 5(f)ive minute car ride the documentary bewitched me to archive and blog the audio.
A Love Supreme is undoubtedly one of the most influential, spiritual and important jazz albums ever recorded. And the inside story on just how this album came into being, as told by many of those who were there, is a story that makes for two great hours of radio.
The Making of A Love Supreme is a 2(t)wo-hour exploration of Coltrane's 1964 masterpiece that aired on WNYC 93.9 FM via WBGO (public radio stations had between Nov. 1, 2002 and Oct. 31, 2003 to broadcast TMOALS) answers, among other inquiries:
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.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter has established an educational trust for the for the children of Sean Bell.
Sources have confirmed with AllHipHop that Jay-Z is working closely with Nicole Paultre Bell, Sean Bell's widow, to institute the trust funds for both of their children.
Nicole Bell appeared prominently in Jay-Z’s Rocawear I Will Not Lose advertising campaign with images that caused indignation within the NYPD's Benevolent Association.
A well-informed source close to the matter told AllHipHop that Nicole Bell’s lawyers didn’t want to initiate any activity during the trial.
Typically, a trust fund is regarded as a long-term, profitable program that can provide significant monies that vest when a child becomes an adult or graduates from college.
They can also become available at a designated point in the future. Trusts, educational or otherwise, are generally set up in the child's name, by their parents or others close to the child.
Now that the trial is over, Jay-Z will resume his efforts for the children of Sean Bell in the form of a stock-based trust fund.
Artist that disagree with the verdict include: The Game, David Banner, Swizz Beatz, Talib Kweli, Styles P, Jadakiss and Mos Def.
From: Gin and Orange (Cadet, 1969)
From: Sophisticated Funk (Chess, 1976)
White man Ric Silver threatens to sue instructional videos of the electric slide dance courtesy of his copyright which charges the arrangement consist of 22 steps and not the 18 habitually flitted convention:
+Mos Def: MTV l Rolling Stone
+It’s Electic
See YouTube where Bill Maher welcomes scholar Cornel West and rapper/actor Mos Def. Plus via satellite, activist Ralph Nader and Colonel Larry Wilkerson.
Lastly, Mos Def commonly uses my favorite catchphrase of over a decade: "Eff That!!!"
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Little Brother the duo (rappers only), a refashioned version of Little Brother the trio (rappers + 9th Wonder = rapper’s delight) is not “evolution” as Phonte Coleman asserted. I suggest that the duo is delving into a hurried lollipop (radio-ready) banality. I salute to their group death that their trio catalog is invaluable and their dissolution has not been idle.
During the rap battle with MC Keyshawn the topic switches to: "If I Was a Penis" and
"You don’t understand my onomatopoeia/ If I was a dick/ I’d squirt in your face/ and give you gonorrhea."
…Phonte got his money.
Relative Phonte’s A-Ha's pop classic Take On Me with help from Carlitta Durand courtesy of Spine Magazine when asked: “Who influences your music?” Mr. Coleman answered:
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Since Earth Day: 2008/04/22
guilelessly oblique & erudite in PJs.
