took the words right out of my mouth!...

if you sick of wack rappers click here

so i know its partly do to over exposure but I rarely listen to the radio and I'm soooooo sick of Lil Wayne and T-Pain and these artist who are spitt'n a lot but ain't talken bout shit. What happened to that good old "quality over quantity"





I'm so sick of hearing the saying "it ain't trick'n if you got it"
Lil Wayne said it back in the day. I didn't like it then
I don't like it now. Makes anyone who says it
all seem like tricks to me.
Maybe that's why they love to call a women a ho or a beezy.
and "make it rain in the club" come on now.
One of my songs says "I'd rather do the rain dance then make it rain..."

I got a song on the mixtape
calling out all these so called hard rappers and singers from
t-pain to lil wayne.

can't yall get a little more creative to talk
about something other then getting girls in clubs. something is
wrong when the way to test out if a song is a hit is to play that
shit in a strip club (a miami producer told me that the way its done
now a days...



he took the words right out of my mouth...
From HellaHappy.com:

i'm going to do a polly radio about this but i wanted to touch on it briefly here. see, back in the mid-to-late 80's and early '90s we had cats like aaron hall and keith sweat who'd croon to the ladies because that was the main demographic buying their records. even now, cats like r.kelly and jon b. will cater more directly to the ladies in their songs--i'm cool with that because that's who the record is aimed at.*

*what i have a prob with is the rapper/ladykillers running around with their hearts on their sleeves proudly displaying their tricking abilities for the world to see...ahem, t-pain, weezy, damn near any new rapper that's out now.*

*not saying that you can't be nice to a woman and show genuine interest, but "making it rain" really don't equate with that patna. all it does is show that you equate money with sexual favor and outside the club, you ain't got nothin' for 'em.*

*a few bandwagons jumped later, it seems that we're becoming more and more dependent on outside influences to aid our social interactions.i like seeing chicks making they booty clap just as much as the next guy but i ain't paying for it.*

*and yes, it is STILL tricking if you got it. Even if you got it like Jay-Z got it.*

If you really wanna do something with that money you throwing up in the air take a look at this:*

*make it rain in the HOOD*

from New Moon daughter:

Heard one song, heard em all.
I don't like Lil Wayne. I don't like what he rhymes about. I don't like his delivery. I don't like his voice. I don't like his look. I don't like his beats.
I grew up in the Bronx and have a respect for the real hip hop. People who have mastered the art. Rhymes that have a purpose. True Storytelling. True Flowing. I have deep regards for: KRS-ONE, RAKIM, EPMD, SLICK RICK, MC LYTE, M.O.P., JAY-Z, NAS, BIGGIE, PAC, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, JUNGLE BROTHERS, DE LA SOUL, MOS DEF, COMMON, TALIB, JEAN GRAE, THE LOX, LITTLE BROTHER, and all the others who are real EMCEES.
Lil Wayne is a faker.
I'm basing my opinion on the fact that he's whack.

Alright well even though I maybe venting I don't want this too come off as just hating and ranting, because there's really no point to that. I guess more what I want to say is that call it what it is, and it's fine too listen to this music too relax from your long day, but that's all it is: music- it doesn't have a point, its pretty much a feel good song that's got a good beat. There's really nothing wrong with that except that it's filling up the radio and in my opinion homies like Do Dat of the Attik crew and EyeASage and Bambu and Ise Lyfe and K-Swift and all the folks that are actually speaken about real shit and have a better flow should be getting more play than these snap ya fingaz club banging rappers, but thats just me, and the rest of the underground hip hop head world.

Just to show that this wasn't a completly anti T-Pain post heres this, I think if your gonna have a career based on bringing back something thats already been done and making club songs that don't say nothing but that you got drunk and tried to get at a girl, at least you can laugh at yourself:






"Im not saying that shit, fuck that" had me rollen

whats with non-bay area rappers thinking they bay, aw it takes way more to change the beat to do it how we do in the bay but nice try:

an artist that I like...

Carpal Tunnel- Ikeepitmoving.com he is one of my favorite artists!

Sade- Paradise from ikeepmoving.com on Vimeo.


Erykah Badu- Amerykahn Promise from ikeepmoving.com on Vimeo.


Chaka Khan- Stay from ikeepmoving.com on Vimeo.

to check out more art click HERE

greeeen light

SATOGOLD- LES ARTISTES

from ill-literacy.com: ILL-EVENT in SF: 10/7 - Santogold @ the Fillmore-You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why: Saaaaaaantogold is coming to town! After touring opening for Bjork and Coldplay, the dopest human chameleon finally headlines a set in the Bay, along with Mates of State, Alice Smith, and Low VS Diamond. Everyone who isn’t allergic to neon sunglasses should be there.))))

SATOGOLD

straight from her myspace page:
Santogold is a survivor of a half century worth of living along musical evolution’s most cutting edges. The only live act that can boast of having out-aged Barbara Bush, having outlived Mr. Miyagi and out styled Liberace, Santogold is here with future flavor.

Already receiving weighty club rotation and airplay in urban Afghanistan and downtown Beirut, Santogold is the first act of the century to boast a post-war following on the International Space Station Mir. Following a live performance broadcast from three thousand miles off the Cape of Good Hope last June, inmates at Leavenworth Penitentiary received Santogold with a celebratory confetti parade. Just another first for the modern super group that knows no bound.

Composed of absolutely no members, Santogold is also the first musical outfit capable of claiming the planet’s broiling collective consciousness as their front woman. Longtime collaborator, singer and songwriter Santi White says of her work with Santogold, “We began trying to write pop songs to sell, which made us depressed, so we started writing songs for ourselves instead.” The results of that self centered conceit is the songwriting work heard for the first time on the full length self-titled Santogold album, released in 2008 on Downtown/Lizard King (US) and Atlantic (UK).

As unmastered tracks leaked over the internet this past November, the request lines of radio stations from Miami to Hanoi began freezing with a flood of calls from listeners eager to hear the new Santogold sound over their frequencies. From his radio show in the United Arab Emirates capital city of Abu Dhabi, Michael Jackson (the King of Pop) played what Santogold snippets he had been able to pirate from a bootleg MySpace page dedicated to the group. Days later, BBC Radio One reported that the unreleased Santogold debut was heard blasting from the iPod shuffle of Libyan ruler Moammar Qaddafi as he entered an international summit in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Recognizing the urgent need to address the uproarious buzz, Santogold released the following statement through their label reps : “The response to our unmastered songs has been both premature and phenomenal! We were happy to hear that the children of Darfur have found hope in our melodic interpretation of life on the battlefield of love! We’re hoping that each and every 20-something from downtown San Francisco to central Mumbai will also learn something from our work! And to the people dropping no-knock fire on old ladies in Atlanta: shame on you! Santogold ain’t with that shit!”

The trajectory of such early successes leading to newfound political clout is nothing new for Santogold, whose debut album, though half a century in the making, is sure to rock glass pipes from the Lincoln Memorial to Buckingham palace. The flavor of the gold is guaranteed: Santogold!

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keeps going and going and going...

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Straight out of Brooklyn!

FRESH KID: NOV GANON

This kid is fresh and are birthdays are a couple of days apart (same year) which had me thinking I need to step up my game and come out with an album already : )

my heart goes to those in New Orleans

First off all the folks that have volunteered or raised money for New Orleans and Katrina relief props to you, and I commend you for spending your money and time. Its been four years a lot must still be done. I am finally taking a trip back to New Orleans in November!!! I can't wait!

When Katrina first happened I was in my first year of college in the dorms and I remember the sad looks on the all the people I knew who were from New Orleans and knew that when they went home they would not have one.

"As soon as Homeland Security took over FEMA, people down here started paying attention. I can't say people in New Orleans were because they never had to deal with FEMA. Down here we flood every three or four years from a storm event. But New Orleans doesn't flood as often, you know, when we hear Homeland Security took over FEMA, it's like "Oh my god-now what?"

"So I really started paying attention to things and how things were run. When Homeland Security is running it, that's a whole different agenda. It has nothing to do with rescuing people. Homeland Security is not a rescue operation.

"I did an interview with more than one person from another country. One in particular was a guy from Canada... we [FEMA] had ordered 20,000 more body bags after Katrina, from Canada. Somebody was investigating. And because they were saying 1300 people died, and we had 20,000 body bags in New Orleans and they ran out, and had to reorder another 20,000 body bags." (2)

Blackwater, Terrorism and Casualty Counts

"They found out that Blackwater was killing people. Blackwater was just in there eradicating. If you didn't make it past the checkpoint and got to the dome or the convention center, or the bridge, or whatever, you were fair game.

"They were claiming that they would deputize to confiscate guns. But they were told to shoot whenever they felt like it." (3)

"Everybody here knows that there are more than 1300 people dead. Everybody that actually got into the city and was trying to help, saw bodies floating, saw bullet wounds. The coroner knows what's going on, and he ain't talking. But he knows. Because I know for a fact from some other sources that he was saying to somebody, probably on a private level, that those bullet wounds were military or highly powerful wounds. [Our investigation noted the same reports from multiple, unrelated sources.]

Those were not 22 caliber pistols. Or 9-millimeter pistols. Let's face it; criminals want to save their lives too, in a situation like that. It's not some free-for-all. People are trying to get the hell out of there."

Mass[ive] Media Cover-Up

"The way it was portrayed [by media] was totally wrong. And from what I hear from outside of this country, which really is embarrassing to me, is that our media doesn't touch the stuff. I did an interview with a guy and he was blown away every time he opens a new door, it's a whole other big story that nobody is covering. He said that this thing is like the ten-headed snake. You grab one head and the other one is ready to bite you.

"There is a story trying to go out on the Associated Press right now about oil and how that is why we're in the situation we're in right now, and the guy has submitted it, ready to go, and it's really a huge step, but it hasn't been out yet. This has been over a month that it's been submitted and it hasn't been out on the wire, so, is he gonna print it? That's a whole different thing. At least someone is willing to listen.

"This Katrina thing was handled as if it would have been Iraq. It was handled in a military way for resources, resources were the main focus, and the only difference is that the hurricane scattered people instead of bombs. There were people getting shot, there were bodies everywhere, there was destruction everywhere, and there's oil coming out of the ground like it never has before. Remind you of something else? The only difference is that we didn't have the equipment and the ability to fight back. We didn't have suicide bombers and the things that other people have.

"You get knocked out, and then you get killed. Look how easy this was to do. All the peoples' records were wiped out. Their city hall, their courthouses, their medical records, and their hospitals-all of that is gone. How easy is it to start taking people out at that point? That's the easiest thing in the world to be able to do.

"You hide it from the media, you keep the media focused on the [super] dome and the convention center, and you keep giving opinionated stories about what this picture is, and then you pull the wool over everybody's eyes. I don't know what we're doing outside of this country, but I know what I saw right here."

NOTES:

(2) Reports of as many as 70,000 body bags have been published, but have since vanished from Internet archives. In September 2005, the Modesto, California Bee and the AP reported, "The federal government is trying to purchase an additional 50,000 body bags for use in the Hurricane Katrina cleanup and in Iraq,” according to John Hassapakis, manager of Central Valley Professional Services in Modesto. "Those were sent directly to New Orleans." Previously, the Federal Emergency Management Administration purchased 25,000 body bags and shipped them to New Orleans.

(3) George W. Bush instituted a “zero tolerance” for looting in the aftermath of the flood, even if someone was “looting” “food or water.” Louisiana’s governor, Kathleen Blanco, added a “shoot to kill” order to Bush’s “zero tolerance” proclamation (see various media reports from BBC, ABC News, CNN et al). When National Guard troops from other states entered New Orleans five days after Katrina, troops aggressively pointed their rifles at black survivors who approached them while seeking aid (see People’s Hurricane Relief Fund www.peopleshurricane.org). The private military company Blackwater issued a press release stating they were in New Orleans: see www.blackwaterusa.com/press/katrina2.asp. Reporters Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo quoted Blackwater operatives in September 2005: “They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force” (www.Truthout.org).

Again, the full article, part of a series, is at http://www.opednews.com/articles/3/opedne_georgian_071203_baghdad_on_the_bayou.htm.

When I was little i wanted to live in a tree house...

...When I was little I wanted a tree house but I never lived in a place that had a tree. That couldn't stop me from building one though I found a friend that had a tree and we built one together. one summer my god mother sent me to a camp in Oakland called Touch the Earth, where we would build forts in trees, i loved it i guess that was the first sign that I would some day want to pursue architecture. I would always come home everyday hella dirty, so my god mom started calling it touch the dirt camp...
Some of us think that our far off ancestors lived in the trees – and during our childhood, when our thoughts and memories are most pure, we yearn to climb trees growing in our gardens, in our parks, in our cities. As we get older, the urge to climb trees subsides as we ride elevators up to our offices in the sky and look out across the cities where we live. Yet occasionally, as we’re sealed up tight in our artificially climatic spaces, we long for a breath of fresh air.
At a German company called baumraum an architect, a landscape architect, an arbologist, and a craftsman design modern, natural and solidly constructed treehouses. Each treehouse project is assessed individually. The team takes into consideration the condition of the environment and of the tree, with the size and features the clients desire. baumraum offers a range of wood-types as well as options for insulated walls. Treespaces can be outfitted with sitting and sleeping benches, storage spaces, a mini-kitchen, heating, glass windows, lighting, as well as a sound system for multimedia. Every piece is prefabricated in a workshop, and then brought together on site. Sound like something you’ve been wanting? The baumraum team offers free consultation where they can talk you through every option available as you put together your dream treehouse. The treehouses can span multiple levels and sit among several trees. Treehouses are mostly secured with ropes, thereby minimizing the impact of stress to the tree or trees on which the house is placed. And if a tree is particularly weak, or even if a treehouse is wanted where there is no suitable tree, stilts are used to guarantee people everywhere can once again climb trees. (from thecoolhunter.net/architecture)

do Tyler Perry's movies have special power?

I think all Tyler Perry movies are powerful. How many times have you heard someone refer to Why did I get Married (the whole 80/20 thing which I recently learned is a theory also applied to beliefs in Feng Shui). I love all his movies so when his movie "the Family that Preys" hit theaters my man and I took our free movies passes and went out to Downtown Disney for a date, thinking we were in for another treat. I'm not saying I didn't like the movie, I did, we both liked it. But we both left the theater in a bad mood. We ended up even getting into a small argument not so much over the movie but the bad feeling it left that we irritated each other. Now after being in a healthy relationship with someone for 7 years its pretty weird to argue over something as petty as a movie. But I talked to two close friends of mine who said they had similar experiences, they left the movie irritated and argued with the person they were with over something petty. Anyway now I'm curious to see if a lot of people had this same experience.

This movie, although completely different, can be compared to a movie like Crash. In Crash people from different walks of life are shown in a way to completely humanize them, and even the characters that seem evil, you end up feeling sympathy for. The family that Preys had the opposite effect because there are some characters in this movie that you thought might be good and they turn out to be pure evil...

artist KODEONE

KODEONE is a graffiti artist with the 187 crew. Here are some samples of his work:

Puffy says Sarah Palin is worse than the boogie man

WTF is Sarah Palin on?
i saw these videos before I had a blog so I thought i'd post em now...
"SARAH PALIN SCARES ME"

and as for Sarah Palin's clip at the end where she claims that Alaska is a microcosm of America, I don't think so, I have family there, who joined the service and were stationed there, my Uncle lives in a small native village, and my aunt lives in Fairbanks, and I think they would both agree that it is the middle of no where, and very disconnected to what goes on throughout the U.S.

"SWAGGER LIKE PUFF"

Besides the fact that he trying to be lil wayne way too much and saying the b-word too damn much this shit had me rolling.

"all the dreams go down the drain"

"DAY DREAMERS PLEASE WAKE UP WE CAN'T SLEEP NO MORE"


JANELLE MONAE is amazing from her style to her music she is fly!

maybe we should move to Canada...

I write this to vent after spending 3 hours in a hospital of Friday and for what?




Does anyone remember that movie Sicko by Micheal Moore which discussed the health care system in this country and compared it to Europe and even the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay? Well I went to that movie and was shocked to see that for the first time in my life I was in a theater with a bunch of old people. I think we were the only people under 45 in the theater.

Anyway that movie was foreshadowing the year me and my partner have had with health insurance. I think its crazy that between us we have 10 nurses in the family but we can't get covered enough to have a freaking MRI. I still have a medical bill that I'm paying off. Anyway I don't want to rant because for the exception of this past year with being on crutches (my knee cap popped off) and some minor health problems I'm blessed to be pretty healthy but for those people in the U.S with major health problems something needs to be done.

I'm not saying that when Barack Obama is elected all this will change, and everyone will have a full service healthcare (with women coming to help you fold your laundry when your prego like in Sicko) but at least Barack gives me some hope that he wants to see people from all backgrounds, young, old, black white and in between, soldiers coming back from war, taken care of like they should. So after I spent 3 hours in the hospital today, to find out they know exactly what's wrong and exactly how to treat it, I have too watch the one I love in pain, because his insurance doesn't cover it. So as we were heading home we both looked at eachother and he said; "Maybe we should move to Canada."

"How can something so wrong make me feel so right"

Alright so Kanye West is one of my favorite M.C's on the radio, and I think he is a genius from the songs he writes, the creativity with the way he visually creates his videos, his style, and his tours, to his design taste. I ran into Kanye West in LA (near UCLA) in 04 and told him how much respect I had for him, for his originality. But I can't get down with the way he likes to post blogs with women wearing (almost) no clothing with a "where are you yeezy" next to their mouth. He has a category on his blog website called girls where its all just photo's like the one shown below and a small caption. This is a quote straight from Kanye himself: "I'm really proud of the composition of this photo. 

Whenever I get a pic with a white background it's fun 2 play with the placement. Ahhhh... the simple joy's of life, like taking hot girls I don't know and putting where are you Yeezy next to them!!!"-KANYE WEST

To all those guys out there that whenever they hear a women objecting to another women getting objectified, and think we're mad because we are not getting enough attention, thats a load of crap, I have no problem if this was one of many photos (maybe with some clothes on in some) and these girls could get some attention on their accomplishments, and this is not a judgement on the girls posing but rather on the industry and the men who buy into it!!

I'm calling out all the intelligent men out there who should know better from M.Cs to authors if you disrespect women you disappoint me, and the rest of my sisters with self respect.

IMAGE FROM KANYEWEST.com:

sarah silverman says "if Barack Obama doesn't become the next president, I blame the jews"

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

दोन'टी वोट=don't vote

"free style'n which I rarely do, this is what I'm telling you.."

Slim's single but I had to do my own twist to it. In honor of *Freestyle Friday* here is Soul Fly (hopefully this will get recorded and be a collab project-Wrenagade & EyeASage production YeeeH): I had to write over Slim's So Fly (and call it Soul Fly)
Cause my soul is fly
I mean I have a fly soul
and I'm an old soul
Listening to funk and soul
Bumping from my trunk
so loud it makes my soul thump
but sometimes I feel my soul is gone
cause we lost to many homies in these streets,
so we be rap'en and singing
pouring our soul over these beats
So that we don't feel like its for nothing
so that we don't feel defeat:

Fresh out the shower
smelling all good
Less than an hour
to get fly
Got things to do
Time is money
(im)Sweet like honey
but ya can't taste (im taken)
it's a new day
Don't waste it
I'm up early
time to meditate
get my sh*t together
by day break
I'm on my way
I am found
Near the sound
of underground Hip Hop
and we won't stop
speak en against hatred
I'm talken to the young folks
Gotta make some change
throughout this nation
and it starts with the next generation
But that's basic
you already know
and like I already said I got soul
so I'm soul flyyyyyyy....

...ya thought that you were soul fly
cause you had lots of kicks with new soles
but what can clothing and shoes really do for you
you might look fly, but you selling dime bags to get by
and up in the club tipsy and high
when some dude named Slim
told you to get with him
you think you have everything
but there's just one thing
deep down in ya soul
you just don't feel whole
your so insecure
you let him hit it and quit it
now you just ain't sure
so gotta take that test
ya whole life's a mess
so focused on the physical
but let that stress rest
and get ya soul right
so you can feel tight
in you own skin
then you will win
I ain't been there
but I been down
but like a bird
now I fly high
with my soul-ful wings
knowing the limits
to how much superficial things bring...


***Note:yes I'm biting off of 106&Park with free style friday but Friday is my free day so at the very least I will post once a week, and I know its Thursday but I just felt like freestyling=typing off the dome****I come even harder when I'm flowen from something pre-written in case you was planning on dissing...

art and design that i like

Kid Robot Print
(if it wasn't hella money
I'd get this for my little brother)

Second Lives (records)
@ the museum of art and design

KAWS

Sam Flores

When white people sometimes need to shut the f*ck up!

Disclaimer: this is me venting but it is all true and based from my experience...

There are some things white people (myself included) have no right to say. This is pretty basic that anyone i respect would already know but ima speak on it:

1. I don't care if you grew up in the hood and ain't never even seen a white person, or you think its ok because you only say it in the privacy of your own home, there is no circumstances where it is ok in my book for a white person to use the n word. as far as white people having an opinion on the words use I don't think its a white persons place to tell a black person they cannot or should not use the word it just comes off as a "if i can't do it you can't do it thing."

2. Don't speak as if you have suffered from racism. Someone getting hated on because there white is not the same thing as the immense amount of racism that is seen around the world against anybody of color. So yes make it your issue just as much as the next person to be against any kind of racism, and yes care that your neighbors don't get treated the same as you, but don't try to act like you know what it is to be non-white in America if you don't. With that said if you are a white person who is actually down enough to want equality to the extent of willingness to give up your privileges, then speak on that, that puts you in a in between category (like myself) your privileged until you open your damn mouth and then your politics change that.

3. Just because there is a back lash from ingrained racism in the country does not give white people the right (even if there repeating it cause they heard a black person say it) to make fun of a darker skinned person or applaud someone for having "good hair". This is just an example of the many systems that are ingrained in black culture due to some racist crackers back in the day so just cause a white person isn't saying it doesn't mean its not from racism.

4. If I ever hear another white person say "why is there no white history month" there's gon be some problems. I was sitting in a movie theater last year and it happened to be black history month and thier was a commercial (i think it was Coca Cola) that was honoring notable African Americans in history by saying different invention and achievements and then showing their name and picture, me and Phil were having fun seeing if we could get them alright (we did) and then I heard it, from two white guys sitting behind us, "What, aw dude why isn't there a white history month?". Phil had to hold me back. First of all k-12 and then some in college we learn about white history month and when its not on white history its white washed so thats why!!! I have also heard a white person say "there should be a WET"... how about FOX or the entire media, white people who complain because they notice systems or programs implemented to make the world a little more equal (affirmative action) need to shut up and stop complaining, or take a walk in someone elses shoes...

5. Just because a person of a "minority" race doesn't want to hang out with you and would rather be around people that they look like, and wouldn't have to worry about representing their whole race, doesn't make them racist. Somebody had the nerve once ( i think he was drunk at the time) to call out a good friend of mine because he thought he enjoyed kick n it with black folk (his same race) more, or that he let his black friends get away with clowning on him but didn't let this white guy do the same. He thought that made my friend racist. that reminds me which goes with #4 with student associations on campus I can't tell you how many times I've heard a white person point out when they see a flier for a club like "Black Engineers Alliance" as if it's ludicrous that at a college where there are seas of white faces at every lecture you wouldn't wanna find some folks that represent you. Come on now foreal put yourself in someone elses shoes and while doing so acknowledge the system.

6. If I hear another white person say "they were trying to act black" first of all what the hell does that mean your going to classify a couple of limited stereotypes to an entire people. Foreal? Whether you think your complementing someone or insulting them by saying that, its still wrong.

7. this has nothing to do with anything but I think its weird when i see white people with fake tans, so they think its cute to be orange???

8. If you are describing people and you are looking for descriptive words can you try to not always put negative comments and black in the same sentence. I guess because i grew up where saying someone was black was describing most of the room but it always burns my ears a little when i hear "the BLACK guy" and then some negative comment, and if your gonna a start a sentence with "Im not racist but..." that sentence should not be continued, and whatever you were going to say is racist you probably just were never called out on it, either because you were sheltered, or the people that had a problem with it were so damn tired of calling people out, cause there seems to be way more ignorant folks out there than racially educated and hungry for equality people.

So this is mostly to let out my frustration being in southern cali around some ignorant ass white folks, who don't realize I don't think like them even tho I kinda look like them. I'll let other people speak on it but I just wanted to put out there that there's a time where every one should speak up and then sometimes white people go too far and that's when they need to stop. And please believe i make it my problem when i hear people talk bad about a race just cause that's not my race doesn't mean it ok, I'm against any type of hatred or discrimination.

(note: the word cracker was used in this document only as a joke i think its funny and honestly I think white folks in general could use a little humbleing when refering to there own race...

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D is for DAD

***D.D.*** ALERT (DOPE DAD)
Dope dad's need to be recognized! am I wrong?
First off I wanna say it's not called DP for dope parent, not because i don't think all the mama's out their don't deserve to be honored (they do, and I plan to) but because so many fathers out there don't step it up, raise ya hand if ya dad wasn't around,OK everyone can put your hands down. I try to always say it in a positive but there's no way to spin it thats the truth, so when dad's are doing right it's something to commend!

And the D.D. award this time goes to Bambu. Bambu is a dope dad because why?

DOPE DAD'S not only are around to help raise their children and treating their FLY MAMAS right, they are setting an example to all men (and boys) to be down, down for seeing women and men treated equally, willing to call out another man if he disrespects a women, and teach the next generation (their children), basically handling his business like a man should, because respecting a women is part of being a good father. And holding their actions accountable and realizing the impact they have on their kids lives, and did I mention their fly. I don't know Bambu very well but I get all that and more from his music, and his work in the community, and his good company.so check out the Homie Bambu's blog for events this weekend and if you haven't already, go get his album EXACT CHANGE (i would not promote it if it wasn't worth buying go cop the album!!!). And with the theme of Dope Dads he got a song on there calles 7 months that goes!!!!!!!


Picture from Guerillabusfare.com
^(if you have noticed a lot of references to
this site its cause I want you to check it out,
it's what inspired me to start a blog and although
I won't always refer to it this much cause I would feel
like im bite'n, i will still be influenced by all the people
who write blogs that I recognized in my first entry...
cause its all love)

With the theme of dad's doing right, heres Bambu's song 7months:

("all my dad's in the place put ya hands up high, I know it's tough my brothers, I don't judge my brothers but ya need to be a father to ya child"!!!!))))

*If you know a fly dad in your area that you would like to nominate please send info*

(NEXT UP *FM* FOR FLY MAMA I HAVE SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM...)
*note: dope in this article is not referencing a drug, for all you square ass suckas (just kidding not really) who don't know its a word to positively applaud someones coolness.

Weekly Recipe Yum Yum

I don't mean to brag but I throw down in the kitchen and so does my man, when I have time I go all out but when I don't I get creative to quickly make some bomb ass food. Most of the food we make is a healthy twist to traditional Filipino dishes, but this right here I got from my god mother and its Portuguese. This one is good cause you can make a lot and then freeze it and it is still delicious. Me and my hubby have both been sick in the last month so I decided to make something that would get our colds away. (when I was little, my mama would make me take cayenne pills whenever I was sick, I hated it but now I add cayenne to soup when ever I'm sick. it works!) for those cold sick days.

*I just made it and this time i used soy chorizo for the first time,it turned out pretty good, I'm not vegetarian but I don't eat pork or beef, if i make posting recipes a regular thang on here I will try to always post a veggie version (shout out to Braia and Laura on a mission to saving the animals).

KALE AND CHORIZO SOUP:

Ingrediants
2 tablespoon	olive oil
1½ pounds	chorizo sausage; sliced 1/2 slices
1 cup	chopped onions
2 tablespoon	minced garlic
2 large	white potatoes; peeled and diced
3 quart	chicken stock
4 cup	rinsed and stemmed kale; cut into 1 strips
(2	bay leaves
¼ teaspoon	dried thyme) or whatever spices ya got in the kitchen
1 pinch	crushed red pepper
¼ cup	finely-chopped parsley or basil
and some	fresh mint

In a large pot, heat the olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the chorizo and onions. Saute the mixture for 2 minutes. Add the garlic and potatoes and cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the stock and kale and bring the liquid up to a boil. Stir in the bay leaves, thyme and crushed red pepper. Season with salt and pepper. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook until the potatoes are tender ( for about 30 minutes). Remove from the heat and skim off any fat. Stir in the parsley or basil. Depending on how sick I am I add a lot of cayenne and pepper to the soup...a little garlic bread on the side is nice with this.

P is for Politicin: VP Debate 2nite

So plan on uploading a series of sketches and ink portraits of Barack but I think its important that to stress that he is so much more than an image of hope so:

First off: I'm tired of hearing Barack supporters doubt him so I had to change this blog and check myself, because I was sounding a little doubtful. The presidential debate showed just how capable Barack is, if anybody had any doubts, and now we will see just how inadequate

Palin is. So even though I want to express how much I beleive in Barack and think that he will win the election, I want to stress and encourage you to get involved. BarackObama.com makes it very easy to volunteer in whatever way works for you. (And I practice what I preach even though I don't sleep, and don't have enough hours in the day like most busy folks, I still volunteer by making phone calls when I can).

When I was a FPAC me and Braia chatted it up with the lovely folks at the Filipinos for Obama booth. For more info check them out at: http://www.filipinosforobama.org/

In these last weeks before the election I would encourage folks that think there is nothing they can do to think a little outside the box. Maybe there is people you know who would vote but think that it will not make a difference, just speaking out about it can make a difference. Everybody knows Ima a "talker" I constantly speak out against wrong doings in the communtiy, the government, and know that it effects us. I've had people tell me that I knew when I was younger that me telling them about what I was involved in politically or artistically had an impact on them. You won't see a immidiate reaction but its there!

Check out the homie Ms. Krish's blog at guerillabusfare.com for a nice write up on the vp debate and be sure to tune in tonight if you can, I will be stuck at work so I'll catch it later tonight.

If you didn't watch

Michele's speech at the convention, nows theres a woman capable and inspiring!

Now the whole world is laughing at Palin and I think it's important to note that this is just another Mccain tactic and a republican tactic we have seen again and again. But it ain't gone work this time so republicans can continue to give

Saturday Night live skits material but just remember it is a plan and the last 8 years of having a "funny president" have cost a lot of lives and a lot of jobs, and don't even get me started on the "governator".

we voten OBAMA and thowing it up

FS= FLY SISTER

F.S.: Siaira Shawn
I would love to one day collaborate musically with her.



here is her bio which you can find on her myspace page:

Siaira Shawn is a 23-year-old singer/songwriter/performer/youth worker born and raised in San Francisco, California. She is also in the process of starting a company called B.G.C. (Black Grrl Crew) with her best friend Belinda Bellinger. B.G.C. seeks to uplift and empower black girls/women and women of color through fashion and art.

She started singing at the ripe old age of three and has continued ever since. Her defining music moment came in elementary school when she played Alice in Alice in Wonderland and her solo received a standing ovation. From then on she knew she wanted to make performing her life. She attended San Francisco School of the Arts with a concentration in theatre. She attended Howard University and recently graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Communication Studies. She has performed and continues to perform all around the Bay Area at movement events, graduations, step shows, open mikes, candlelight vigils, club venues, and several colleges including San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, USF, and Cal State Monterey Bay. She has shared stages with performers such as Goapele, Bilal, Kindred, Dwele, Ise Lyfe, Zion I, The Attik, and Jennifer Johns. She is currently performing as part of local artist Deja B.'s band, she works with the entertainment group Famillite the producer Mezmetic, and with local artist Will Hammond Jr.

...Bay Area Spittas...

...do dat do dat do do dat dat dat ...

DO DAT!

better late than never...

FPAC 2008
I'm hella late

"LADY SNEAKER HEAD"

I am a retired (the hip hop version where you say it to mean something and come back whenever the hell you feel like it) sneaker head. I love kicks but honestly don't spend any money on em currently, based on the college lifestyle (broke as a joke) and also that after much reflection all though I love em- material things are not where i want the biggest percent on my money to go. It wouldn't feel right to me to spend over 100 and wait out in the cold to get the new pair of whatevers (not knocking the sneaker heads out there that do it, its just ain't me). (also I did always have in the back of my mind that my money was going to a corporation which was basically enslaving kids in other countries so I could buy an over priced shoe that they made..ewww before I buy another speaker I want to do more research on companies I'm pretty much ignorant to which brands still abuse third world sweat shops...)

I once collected shoes when I lived in a rent free house and had a full time job and 2 on the side and most of my money went to shoes and bart cards, then I got older and one day I was looking at boxes of boxes of shoes and thinking I want money to pursue music and art so I changed. I went from being a sneaker addicted kid spending all my money on art supplies and books and studio equipment. I also changed up my style and stopped wearing kicks completly ( i wore flats) for about a month but that was too extreme I missed my comfortable dunks). Then I went away to college and decided to give some of my favorite kicks away to my little
sister so she could be the flyest middle schooler in school. That felt good to give, but I realized later that I will always love sneakers but its all about balance, so every once in a while when I have a little extra paper I go buy myself a pair of kicks, only if their on sale and i realllly reallly want 'em.

and a fellow bay area fly kid known as Ge.nius can make some pretty fly custom kicks (in addition to dancing on mtv shows and a clothing line: Since 88)...

so the moral of the story is I love kicks, so with inspiration from above I plan on designing some of my own...

on the low

I am filled with excitement, I really cant say much but that I am in the process of creating a clothing company. Well a company that I am designing the clothes, and it will be the first business venture which will lead to future promotion, interior design projects, club and art events, and basically anything I creatively become apart of. the skies the limit. So in the early stages I am keeping everything on the lo not because I think someone will rip off my ingenious designs (although just wait this shit is fly) but because by agreement-contract I can't say nothing. My partner Phil and I are starting it, so i will reveal more soon.

Anyway I never have time to watch t.v so I haven't seen an episode of Project Runway but no disrespect but they ain't got nothing to what we are bout to give yall...just wait!

...Fly sister...

So i actually didn't post the last blog till yesterday but for some reason I think it goes by when you start it anyway I forgot to link Ruby's blog even tho its easy to copy paste I thought I would post a little more info on the sister.

I've only met her twice and seen her perform at a youth speaks slam and a Ill-literacy/Bambu show at IMIX bookstore a while back, anyway the girl has skills, humbly fly, style'n and she has a book coming out so look out for that.


check her out

the flyest girl I know