[Video] All of Blake Griffin’s NBA All-Star Dunk Contest Dunks

Opening 360 Dunk:

Windmill Alley-Oop:

Forearm hang dunk:

Dunks over a car while a choir sings “I Believe I Can Fly”:

Lot of chatter around that final dunk but Charles Barkley was right: it wasn’t really all that. Many have groused that he didn’t deserve to win the contest either but with the buzz around this kid coming into the contest because of high-flying antics, I’m not surprised that he did. I don’t keep up with the NBA as much as I’d like to, but they gotta be grooming this kid to be one of the future faces of the league. He’s even made the Clippers relevant! Speaking of which I am going to see the Raps play the Bulls next week thanks to a Christmas gift of tickets form my cuz (thanks, Drew!) which leads me to…

For those of you who think I’m riding Griffin’s nuts a little too hard with this post though, hit the jump for videos of dunks by Javale McGee, Serge Ibaka and the Raptor’s Demar DeRozan :

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[Video] Arkansas School Teacher Busted For Prostitution

“When school teacher Solona Islam got caught in a financial bind she turned to the world’s oldest profession, hoping it could bail her out. Instead she lost her dream job as a teacher and needed to be bailed out of jail after being arrested for prostitution.”

[via Thisis50.com]

[Music Video] Jasiri X feat. M1 (of dead prez) – We All Shall Be Free!

This seems apropos to post after my posts on Libya, Yemen and Bahrain this morning:

LYRICS
Jasiri X
Revolution’s not an act it’s an actual fact
an idea that burns until it turns blacker than black
the truth bearer new era like the back of ya hat
the true terror who’ll scare ya without packing a gat
through the barrier one carrier then it spreads like malaria
bury us with no fear of oppression every tear is a weapon
When God hears it a blessin
Every tyrant is destined to die that’s connected to violent aggression
if arrested remain silent when questioned the wisest lesson
Freedom’s the highest expression of life in the present
that’s why worldwide the riots are spreading
A righteous message like God set the fires from heaven
Uprising we done crying the young riding
when people get the power dictators go run hiding
we just trying to live like human beings
when we protest in peace police shoot up the scene
look at your computer screen you can see it right through the stream
Let our forming be a warning to every brutal regime

M-1
It’s a simple math equation it’s scientific OK
you put the power in the hands of the people its liberation
and even if you take it away its multiplication
repression breeds resistance and this is our situation
I’m an expert on exploitation mater of ghetto misery
a miracle of modern enslavement given our history
the fire through the wire bullets bombs and the liars
the snitches he counterinsurgency mad vicious
they kill us the freedom fighters but can’t kill the revolution
they put crack in our community laughing like it’s amusing
but I don’t see nothing funny the crackers that’s on the money
they only wanna keep us mis-educated like Sonny
They see how we never give up and wonder just how we do it
f#ck a roach we’re the scarabs the beetle up out the ruins
you can hear it in our music is resilience part of our experience
you can call it the freedom experiment
you hear it but do you feel it
either join with it or fear it
but I want it in my lifetime period.

“The Revolution you’re watching on your computer you’ll soon be watching through your window!” – Amir Sulaiman

Peace, success and God’s blessing to all those in the Middle East and around the world who seek freedom, democracy, equality and justice….

Related:

Watch the very first installment of Pound Magazine‘s projected-to-be-monthly ‘Revolutionary Wrap-Up’ hosted and created by M1 of dead prez in which he discusses Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ongoing imprisonment, Buju Banton‘s legal troubles and a case of police brutality against a student in a wheelchair that took place in the UK:

And even more! M1 is a Sunday news type of rapper, right? Hit the jump for the “Malcolm Garvey Huey” video by his group dead prez featuring Divine. [via Grandgood]

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[Video] Did George W. Bush Inadvertently Accuse the Tea Party of ‘Nativism’?

Or was it inadvertent? Either way, Tea Party sympathizer and Right Wing pundit, Laura Ingraham is MAD!

[via Hip Hop is Read]

[Video] Reforms Protests Also Erupt in Bahrain

It’s a good sign though that the government ordered the army off the street yesterday after reports they had fired on peacfeul protesters on Friday, no?



Read more:

– Egypt, Bahrain protests differ in key ways – Shiite-Sunni gulf in Bahrain, army’s role suggest conflict there unlikely to follow Cairo script. [MSNBC]

– Is the Bahrain Grand Prix canceled due to the unrest?

– Jittery authorities in China try to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’ – activists detained, number of police increased, text messaging services suspended, Internet postings censored. [MSNBC]