Archive for November, 2010
New Music: Awkword feat. C-Rayz Walz & Chief Kamachi (AOTP) – Imperialism
“Imperialism”, produced The White Shadow, dropped on Saturday, October 30, 2010, as Track 8 on The White Shadow album Destiny, which also features Kool G Rap, Joell Ortiz, Ras Kass, KRS-One, ILL BILL, Reef the Lost Cauze, Planet Asia, Thirstin Howl III, M-Dot, and more.
The Destiny album can be purchased now on iTunes for $9.99. The song, “Imperialism” can be purchased for 99 cents and will also appear as an internet bonus track on AWKWORD‘s forthcoming 100% for-charity global Hip Hop project, World View. 100% of your $0.99 purchase will be donated to Guns 4 Cameras (a.k.a. Aim to Live), a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to combating gun violence by educating and empowering our inner-city youth. Help us combat street violence and support indie hip hop at the same time!
For more information on this one-of-a-kind philanthropic effort, CLICK HERE.
AP Video: NBC Suspends Countdown Host Keith Olbermann for Undeclared Campaign Donations
As much as I love Keith Olbermann (pause), I can’t say tNBC were really wrong for coming to that decision. Or are they? That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sign the petition asking for his reinstatement though.
Former Toronto Police Officer Claims He’s Not Racist for Wearing Blackface Halloween Costume…
While leashed to a noose held by his friend costumed as a Ku Klux Klansman! Let that sink in a for a minute while you also look at the photo above taken at the Halloween party they attended….
“”I don’t believe in the KKK. It was a Halloween mistake is what it was,” Terry Nunn told Toronto radio station AM640. The former Toronto police officer says people from work are asking him what he was thinking.”
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BTW: Nunn was Toronto’s Police Officer of the Year in 1981.
Read more:
Police Officer Johannes Mehserle Only Receives a 2-Year Sentence for Killing Oscar Grant!
As Shake at 2dopeboyz opined, “So you’re telling me a officer (who is meant to “protect and serve”) who shoots and kills an unarmed man in the back will serve the same amount of time as Tip (who only had guns, but didn’t use them)?”
What else is there to say? Total travesty….
Read more:
– The San Fransisco Chronicle on the post-sentence announcement protests in Oakland.
– The Root
Call to action:
– Sign a petition asking US Attorney General, Eric Holder to Prosecute Mehserle in Federal Court.
Read the background on the murder of Oscar Grant by the BART Police on Different Kitchen 1.0 HERE.
Some Baltimore Club Music by Puk-Yu
More from the bowels of my inbox this Summer…
Puk-Yu is a new B’more Club side project from Mickey from Oh Snap. Apparently the name is a reference to the Summer Heights High TV show (*blank stare….*)
First up, “Shake It Like a White Girl”:
Then hit the jump for “U Ain’t Bulletproof” and the With a “P” DJ Mix: (more…)