NOLA: The EVERYDAY Struggle
April 29th, 2007
What's Goin' On? - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (feat Chuck D)
What's Goin' On? - Donny Hathaway
The truth is out there. You just have to look for it. Opening a newspaper or turning on the news, it's easy to forget that New Orleans is still in the "rebuilding" phase. Eff that. They haven't even crossed the bureacratic red-tape line.
All the while, the folks of New Orleans are just trying to get by. Grocery stores. Hospitals. Schools with teachers. Streets without guns. They're just trying to get by.
The truth is out there. We'll just help you look. Biochemical Slang presents: News you can USE (NOLA EDITION):
- You don’t have to go to Baghdad to see what happens when government loses its monopoly on force; just visit New Orleans. The title "BAGHDAD ON THE BAYOU" says it all.
- The PROJECTS: The slums or the best buildings in flooded New Orleans? I've never been a betting man, but...we all know what's gonna happen to the projects.
- Cam'Ron sure didn't help NOLA with his latest publicity stunt: Scared Silent: Fear of deadly retaliation mutes many NO witnesses.
- Teachers may soon be the next to flee NOLA.
- Not only did FEMA eff up its handling of Katrina, they couldn't even correctly count the number of meals they were forced to throw away after not even delivering them to the Katrina refugees.
- Foreign allies offered more than 854 million dollars in aid and oil to help those in need after Hurricane Katrina hit our shores. So far, only 40 million has been used and only 400 million has been collected. YOU do the math.
Good night and good luck.
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Heavy Medal & Billy Danz - 7:30
April 28th, 2007
Aight..this is on some different shit... What do ya'll headz think of the video above? Im actually LOVING this shit! M.O.P. & Hevi Medal= Greatness. The video is Hevi Medal & Billy Danz from M.O.P. - 7:30 ....and they STR8 gettin it ON!!!!Filed under: General | No Comments »
G DUBBZ is for the CHILDREN
April 27th, 2007
Nas - I CAN (Bob James remix)
Blind Melon - Three is a Magic Number (Schoolhouse Rocks!)
Biz Markie - Energy Blues (Schoolhouse Rocks!)
Skee-Lo - The Tale of Mr. Morton (Schoolhouse Rocks!)
G DUBBZ recently visited a Harlem charter school to push for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind act. Like our man Jay, DUBBZ knows that numbers don't lie:
" It's amazing what happens, though, when you measure. The percentage of New York City 4th graders meeting state standards in reading has increased by more than 12 percent over five years. The percentage of 4th graders doing math at grade level has increased by 19 points."
Biochemical Slang decided to dig up some of its own numbers:
- The New York City graduation rate is at an all time high, 50% (that's 1 out of every 2 kids, for the math-phobic folks). AND, people are overjoyed: "I think New York City is a very positive story," Commissioner of Education Richard Mills said. "There's just a very determined effort." Chancellor Joel Klein, ever the mathematician, added, "But 50% is a lot better than 44%."
- The rate of NYC students who drop out before completing four years of high school is 20%, up from last year's 15%.
- There are approximately 70,000 NYC high school students who are either over-age or under-credited. There are only 13,000 seats in programs designed to help these kids graduate. YOU do the math.
- Theodore Roosevelt HS, in the Bronx, boasts a 3% graduation rate. Yeah. Three percent.
- 57% of the freshmen class of 2001 graduated in five years. Bloomberg's response: "If kids graduate in four years, three months, if they graduate in five years, if they graduate in six years, more power to them."
Biochemical Slang to G DUBBZ: We don't believe you. You need more NUMBERS.
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Zebra Head: Soundtrack
April 27th, 2007
This Soundtrack is one of those fogotten gems of 1992. Serch of 3rd Bass was the soundtrack's executive producer...Serch approached Nasty Nas about contributing a track to the the soundtrack. and, like much of New York, had been impressed by "Live at the Barbeque." Nas submitted "Halftime," and the song so stunned Serch that he made it the soundtrack's lead-off track. The rest of the soundtrackFiled under: General | No Comments »
Tony D
April 27th, 2007
Too Kool Posse - Give ‘Em A Sample 1988
Tony D - Adams Nightmare 1989
Tony D - Back To The Lab 1989
Tony D - Buggin’ On The Line 1991
Tony D - Trenton Skit/He’s The Boss 2001
If every great hip-hop producer has a defining album, Tony D’s is without a doubt Poor Righteous Teachers’ “Holy Intellect” (1990). During sampling’s heydays, he managed to present a unique, fresh sound, supporting Wise Intelligent’s Five Percenter teachings with a playful, upbeat backing. Representing Trenton, NJ, Tony Depula, of Italian heritage himself, saw no problem in working with radically pro-black rappers, early on teaming up with YZ, whose “Sons Of The Father” (1990) debut they co-produced. (In fact, his production company Two-Tone Productions might originally have been called such because Tony D and YZ are both named Anthony.) An early display of Tony D’s mastership is Too Kool Posse’s “Give ‘Em A Sample” (1988), a dense uptempo stormer that serves, in the words of rapper Marquis, “to prove the point that Tone is on the uprise.”
While Diamond D still backed Master Rob in Ultimate Force, Tony D already had a solo cut on Jazzy Jay’s compilation “Cold Chillin’ in the Studio Live” (1989). “Back To The Lab” has that typical Tony D compressed sound to it, still resulting in a colorful appropriation of the “Microphone Fiend” theme. Tone may have been rapping even before, perhaps on the ‘87 single “It’s My Day” by Grand Poobah Tony D & Cool Gino G, but he seemed to get really serious about a rap career with the album “Droppin’ Funky Verses” (1991), which contained the extremely funky “Buggin’ On The Line.” The same year he saw a local Jersey crew take one of his creations to international fame. Naughty By Nature’s “O.P.P.” only slightly reconfigurated his distinct take on the Jackson 5’s “ABC” and Delegation’s “Oh Honey,” “Adams Nightmare” from his instrumental album “Music Makes You Move” (1989).
Keeping busy, Tone was involved in two more PRT albums, “Pure Poverty” (1991) and “Black Business” (1993), between which he helmed the group Crusaders For Real Hip-Hop, on whose album “Déjà-Vu - It’s ‘82″ (1992), he adopted the moniker Don Nots. In the mid-’90s he made somewhat of a comeback, partially producing Wise Intelligent’s solo “Killin’ U… For Fun” (1996), yet was absent from the PRT album “The New World Order” from the same year. Releasing two EP’s and one LP on Rae & Christian’s Grand Central label, his work seemed to be more valued overseas. Having hung the mic up, he now explored the possibilities of hip-hop independent from MC’s, switching between vocal tracks and instrumentals, and rappers and singers. The largely instrumental album “Master Of The Moaning Beats” (2001) took him back to Jersey with contributions from the Outsidaz and long-time collaborator Rahzii.
Lately, Tony has been spotted selling rare and unreleased material from his vaults as well as collections of ‘random rap’ such as “The Indy Years” and “Da Philly Throwback.” Juding from his MySpace page, Tony D is still active, so if you like what you’re hearing, check him out.
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101 Summer Jams
April 26th, 2007
Yea..i know it's not even May yet, but it finally stoped snowing in NY. How great does it make you feel when you here D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "Summertime" for the first time of the season on the radio. The sun is out, I just cracked a cold Heineken & I got the grill on the front porch..."and as I think back makes me wonder how the smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia". I canFiled under: General | No Comments »
G DUBBZ is Blacker than Obama *UPDATE*
April 25th, 2007
"Look at me Laura! I'm doing the African!"
"This is as close to Darfur as I'm gonna get."
"Eff Karl Rove's dance."
"Move aside Nee-grow. I have 26 million dollars of the white man's money to spend."
YOU caption the above pictures. (Obama pics courtesy of CRUNK & DISORDERLY)
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Joell Ortiz - The Brick
April 24th, 2007
It took me a few days to get around to listening to this album. I have to say i should have been up on this the second i was blessed with the link. I was so impressed that i actually droped the $17.98 to get the original album into my collection today. Peep one of Brooklyns finest new cats Joell Ortiz!!! Joell Ortiz - The Brick [Download] 1. 125, Pt. 1 (The Bio) 2. Brooklyn Remix - Joell Ortiz,Filed under: General | No Comments »
Nature
April 23rd, 2007
Nature is a unique breed of emcee, with a very special delivery (no pun intended). He's actually one of my favorites. His debut album, was somewhat genius to my hip-hop ears. I feel For All Seasons was pushed, and because of Nature's quarrel with The Firm, this album was probably altered from the original. In other words, Nature was forced to release an album he wasn't that much in control over.Filed under: General | No Comments »
“We Got Gunz” Mixtape
April 20th, 2007
America is mutha f''in "GUN CRAZY"....in last week this so called "great nation" of ours has been has been plagued by gun violence. V-Tech & NASA have made world headlines,our inner cities have been closing schools left & right due to threats of copy cat Columbine High School violence. Just last week in Rochester NY(my hometown)a 14 year old boy was shot in the head walking home from hisFiled under: General | No Comments »