[MP3] David Banner’s New Super Bowl Anthem: Super Bowl (I Can’t Wait)

Y’all getting ready for tomorrow? I just came in from copping some supplies (wings, shrimp, veggies and dip) before listening to the final (?) episode of the Mixtape Massacre on CKLN. Toronto heads know: that Saturday 1-4pm slot has been playing underground hip hop since the early-mid 80’s. People who came up on Doug E. Fresh, pre-Def Jam Slick Rick, BDP and the first 12inches on Def Jam as played by Ron Nelson’s pioneering “Fantastic Voyage” show know that this time-slot was essentially the cornerstone of Canadian hip hop – the place where an entire industry was schooled, trained and launched from on the artist & the DJ/executive side.

Before hip-hop became a mainstream radio & TV staple, saturated on a million blogs and basically on-demand on the Internet, listening to CKLN on a Saturday afternoon was de rigeur: virtually the only way to hear the music. Before that, finding hip-hop to hear was unbelievably difficult: you had to have connection to people who had money to buy all the 12″ vinyl singles or lived in the US who could send you tapes of radio shows there. Even though I was away from Toronto for a long period of time, any time I was back in town, I tried to plan my Saturday around hearing the show out of sheer habit of having grown up listening to it every weekend. But more on this later this week. It’s all about football for the next while now so enjoy the Banner Super Bowl joint…



Download: David Banner – “Super Bowl (I Can’t Wait)”: Mediafire (Bart Scott version) | Mediafire (non-Bart Scott version) | Mediafire (instrumental)

[Promo Video] TRD (Tobacco Related Deaths) PSA

“Mo Iqbal, explores the negative practices in the marketing of cigarettes and the depiction of smoking in the media in his film TRD (Tobacco Related Deaths), starring actor, Matt Littler, actress Carly Stenson, as well as singer, Natasha Hamilton.”

[this is a PPC thing courtesy Goviral network and Smoke & Mirrors]

[News] Egyptians Gather in Tahrir Square for the ‘Day of Departure’

On the gathering yesterday (Friday) in Cairo:

“It was billed as the Day of Departure, but tonight, despite the international pressure piling up on Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, he remains in office, and hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters are still in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. They are refusing to leave, while the calls for the president to go are being renewed.”

Related from CNN videos:

– Egypt: What did US intelligence know? Hit the jump to watch it….

[via Euronews.net]

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[News] ‘Government Mobs’ Threaten Journalists in Cairo (video)

Damn, Mubarak must be getting desperate if he’s resorted to not only harassing but actually physically attaching the media and confiscating their cameras to squash media coverage. Even CNN’s Anderson Cooper caught an ass-whooping trying to cover events in Egypt (apparently twice even!) Hit the jump to see that video….

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[News] Mubarak Unleashes his Supporters Goons on the Streets of Cairo

The revolution in Egypt has been an impressive display of grassroots, non-violent protest, with even the army pledging to not turn their arms on their own people to quell the uprising, until a couple days ago when Mubarak I guess had had enough and decided to take matters into his own hands, no matter how it played in the international media. (Actually he had a strategy for dealing with that pesky issue too! Stay tuned for the next post….)

Below: more video of fierce clashes as pro-govt ‘supporters’ attack anti-Mubarak protesters in Egypt: