[Music Video] Hoodiez (The Trayvon Martin Justice Song!) feat. Scarface & Willie D of the Geto Boys

As well as Propain and D Boi. CLICK HERE for the lyrics and more details on the song.

Feels good to watch this video the day after it looks like the family of Trayvon Martin will finally get justice for their slain son.

[via Jasiri X]

[News] Toronto Young Jeezy Show at Sound Academy Shot Up!

I should have known how this night was gonna end when I went through the far too shoddy and cursory ‘security check.’ That being said, against my better judgement I proceeded to go in anyway and endured an hour of wack opening acts before 5 shots, which I at first thought were firecrackers, went off, scattering the crowd and shutting down the show before Jeezy ever hit the stage.

F-ck you T.dot knuckleheads for ruining everyone’s night and possibly (but I pray not) worse with this idiocy. Lived 17 years in NYC and never (to the best of my recollection) had the misfortune to experience a shooting in a club (although there was one time in Miami at a Luke party during a How Can I Be Down conference in the late 90s…) but come home to this??! Life’s too short as is, I’m not trying to unnecessarily make it any shorter….

President Obama on the Trayvon Martin Case: ‘If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon’

This case is so mind-numbingly sad if only for being so unsurprising the way it’s turning out when you consider historical context. One particularly outspoken online pundit noted some chilling, even if not necessarily apropos, comparison to facts around this story and was dismissive of today’s call-to-action but I wore my hoodie up all day.

Read more:

– Fla. shooting: Teen’s friends say Trayvon wouldn’t have picked a fight; ‘that’s just not that kid.’ [Washington Post]

– A primer on the so-called Stand Your Ground Florida law that has kept Trayvon murderer, George Zimmerman out of jail. [The Lede Blog, NYT]

– More from The New York Times on the Stand Your Ground law.

– Why Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on his blog for The Atlantic magazine that “the more I see of this, the less I think ‘Stand Your Ground’ will save Zimmerman.”

– Trayvon Martin’s killing prompts parents to have ‘The Talk” with their sons. [Seattle Times]

F-cking tragedy, absolute f-ckery, take your pick….

Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers is Part of the 99%

From Lester Chambers, lead singer of the 60’s soul-rock group, The Chambers Brothers (“Time Has Come Today” which most of you who are even partially well-versed with 60’s/oldies radio have probably heard, even if you didn’t know it by name, a few times in your life)

If you feel moved by this outrage please share this with the world! Its TIME to tell the truth!!! HELP Me make this VIRAL so everyone pays attention to the Artist who bring joy to life… I’m about to be 72… IT’S TIME!!!

Sobering…..

[via Lester Chambers Facebook]

[video] Adele Trashes Newt Gingrich at the Grammys!

I think I just fell in love with Adele!