āI can help you with the brand new technology / You can help me with the age-old philosophy.ā āBetter People, India Arie It repeatedly comes to my attention that many adults of our society suffer from an ironic form of cognitive dissonance when it comes to their politics on aiding youth. Many hasten to advocate […]
In a recent interview, NY emcee Saigon said he’d like to punch rappers like 2 Chainz and Rick Ross for hurting young people with the messages in their music. What are your thoughts on the state of Hip Hop music? How can we bring some much-needed balance to the genre?
How has Hip-Hop Ā lost its course in this world? There is too much of a musical backbone to inspire and work from. Now a days the dumber the song the better the song. The “main stream” industry has trampled our freedom. You constantly hear artist complain of how they can’t make music like they want.Ā […]
In the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, an incredible amount of petitions from a variety of states calling for secession have flooded the internet; and their getting more and more signatures every hour. Will anything come of these petitions? What does this say about the state of our union?
Remember a few months back when Lupe Fiasco dropped “Bitch Bad” and magazine andĀ scholarsĀ came out of theĀ woodworkĀ to diss Lupe for “mansplaining”? SpinĀ MagazineĀ took it the farthest calling it “reckless social commentary” and asking, “why must we continually endure Lupe Fiasco’s half-baked conscious hip-pop?” A few weeks later 2 Chainz and Kanye dropped the video for “Birthday […]
Dr. Cornell West and Tavis Smiley recently sat down for an interview with Democracy Now. And Dr. West pulled no punches; calling Obama a “A Rockefeller Republican in Blackface;” and essentially calling Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson sellouts. Thoughts?
Today, BYP releases its latest memo: “The Political Impact of Young People of Color in the 2012 Election.” This new analysis shows that youth again increased their presence at the voting booth, and this increase was driven largely by high levels of turnout among young Blacks and Latinos.
California voters approved a ballot measure that would amend the state’s highly controversial Three Strikes law, requiring that the third offense be of a serious and/or violent nature.
When I DJ I catch the unholy ghost. An electric shock flows through my arms; and when the record hits my finger tips, the funkadelic movement shimmy towards my wrist. Blended music surrounds my ear drums as I begin birthing new born tracks with the umbilical cord still attached. A slight cut from the mixer […]
Just like last month, when The White House was congratulating itself a lower employment rate, not much has been said about the fact that unemployment for blacks and youth remain high. In fact, it actually rose:
For weeks I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not to say what I’m about to. There are several reasons for this. First, I didn’t want to be repetitive, and what I’m going to say is in some ways an updated version of a couple of blogs I wrote on my old personal site […]
