Other Music From A Different Kitchen

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to the Muhsinah Show at Revival Bar in Toronto on May 22

Ian — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:18:36 +0000

The Kitchen does it again, ANOTHER FREE ticket giveaway. This time for The Main Ingredient ORGANICS present DC-based soul singer and Grammy nominee, MUHSINAH. Peep the event details:

Deejays:
DJ SEAN SAX & DJ MENSA

Hosted by:
WAN LUV

Tuesday, May 22
REVIVAL
783 College St.
Doors 8:30pm
19+ event
Info: themainingred@gmail.com

TICKETS (online only):
$10 early bird (extended to Mon, May 7 @ noon)
$15 regular advance
BUY them via Eventbrite

or….

To WIN a FREE pair of tickets to the show, tweet to @Stellaskid the following message: ‘I want the tickets to see @Muhsinah live at @RevivalBarTO on May 22 pres. by The Main Ingredient’ and I will select a winner at random at 12 noon on May 22.

About the ORGANICS Series
The Main Ingredient crew have an abundance of amazing music we want to present to Toronto music lovers. An array of soulful goodness where each artist brings elements that represent the ORGANICS of the music we embrace. A series that’s based less on hype, and more on substance. Grown without synthetic additives…dig in!

See the flyer above for more details or CLICK HERE for the Facebook event page.

Thanks to Jesse Ohtake [@AskJesseO] and The Main Ingredient for graciously offering us the tickets to run this contest. Join The Main Ingredient on Facebook.

[MP3] T.I. – Like That

Ian — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:44:39 +0000

Yeah, I like that!!!! Guess Tip had to take it back to the gutter after the initial single “Love This Life” (which I didn’t think was so bad, tbh) apparently bricked.

[h/t: Hip Hop Weekly]

[MP3] D-Sisive – Adam [MCA Tribute 1964 - 2012]

Ian — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:39:17 +0000

D-sisive drops a very cool tribute to the late Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Peep the science:

‘parents saw the devil when their children saw god’

The Beastie Boys were my Beatles. My father would preach the gospel of the Fab 5 while me, too young to give a shit, wanted to wear baggy clothing and be MCA. You’d think I wanted to be Mike D due to the ’4th letter in the alphabet’ connection, but nope. Yauch was cooler to me.

MCA was no bullshit. The only one of the three that I would be afraid of. Yauch was my Lennon. Leave the bubblegum to McCartney. Here’s the real shit.

“I can blow you away or you could ride with me.” -MCA, Paul Revere

My world stopped when a friend of mine sent me a text, telling me MCA passed away. I’ve lost people. It’s always a different reaction based on the closeness of the relationship. I’ve never met Adam Yauch, but it felt like I lost a family member. We never shook hands, or greeted each other, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours, over the course of 20 plus years, with him and the Beastie Boys in my headphones.

No offense to, but I wasn’t one of those tweeting how they were going to spend their entire weekend listening to the Beastie Boys, in memory of MCA. I’ve been listening to them consistently since the late eighties. Not a week goes by that I don’t have one craving to listen to a Beastie Boys song.

I knew I had to create something for him. I didn’t want to record the typical tribute song. MCA wasn’t typical and deserves better. I wanted to take it back to my childhood. The childhood they had impacted so heavily. I wanted to take it back to me, rapping Pass The Mic in a comb in front of a mirror in my bedroom, hat backwards, in my father’s work jacket. These were the moments that drove me to become an artist. And MCA helped me steer.

Thank you, Adam.

Derek

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[News] The Marissa Alexander Case Proves Florida’s So-Called Stand Your Ground Law is Bullsh-t!

Ian — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:53:55 +0000

To refresh your memory, the Stand Your Ground law is the law and justification that kept George Zimmerman out of jail for so long after he gunned down Trayvon Marin in cold blood. Here’s the background on this story where, surprise, surprise, Stand Your Ground supposedly did not apply:

Marissa Alexander, the 31-year-old Florida woman who fired what her family calls a warning shot at her abusive husband, was sentenced Friday morning to 20 years in prison.

Alexander was convicted of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing into a wall near her husband and his two young children at their Jacksonville home in 2010. Alexander has maintained that she wasn’t trying to hurt anyone and that she was standing her ground against a man who had over the course of nearly a year punched and choked her on several different occasions. Alexander says that she believed she was protected that day under the state’s Stand Your Ground Law, which gives people wide discretion in using deadly force to defend themselves.

A judge and a jury disagreed.

The State Attorney’s Office offered a plea bargain that would have sent Alexander to prison for three years, but she rejected it, hoping to convince a jury that she had been defending herself when she fired the weapon.

Alexander’s case has become the latest battleground in a fight against what Alexander’s supporters call the misapplication of the Stand Your Ground Law and Florida’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which offer stiff sentences for crimes involving guns.

According to Florida’s 10-20-Life statutes, anyone who pulls a gun during a crime receives a mandatory 10-year sentence. Firing a gun during the commission of a crime equals a mandatory 20-year sentence. Anyone convicted of shooting and killing another person during a crime is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Alexander, who did not have a criminal record before the shooting, was convicted of felony assault with a gun.

Hmm, now I wonder what the difference is here?? F-cking travesty. Florida might be an even crazier and more racist state than Arizona! CLICK HERE to read more on MArissa Alexander’s case.

[News] George W. Bush & Tony Blair Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia in Malaysia!

Ian — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:39:18 +0000

This is basically meaningless but I kinda felt like I needed to post it anyway!

In Malaysia a mock tribunal has found former President George W Bush and Former Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes. Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal which was formed at the request of former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, says the two leaders are guilty of crimes against peace, referring to their invasion of Iraq back in 2003.

CLICK HERE for more via Foreign Policy Journal.

[Audio] a praise song for mamas – Jalylah’s Mother’s Day Mixtape

Ian — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:22:42 +0000

PLAYLIST:
“Jalylah’s Theme” Hezekiah & Muhsinah
“Momma” Hodges, James & Smith
“The Sweetest Song” Stu Gardner
“Blessed” The Emotions
“Echoes Of Love” Black Magic
“Mama Used To Say” Junior
“I Wish” Stevie Wonder/ “Hamburger” Eddie Murphy
“I’ll Always Love My Mama” The Intruders
“Mama Says” Black Magic
“Mama Prayed For Me” The Williams Brothers
“Do You Know Where Your Children Are” Birthright /“Mothers and Fathers” Bill Cosby
“Don’t Cry Mommy” Phylicia Allen
“My Love Is Your Love” Whitney Houston
“All I Can Become” Emily King
“The Sweetest Song (Part II)” Stu Gardner

CLICK HERE for the inspiration behind this mixtape.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and all the other mothers out there. Don’t let today be the only day you acknowledge or remember your mother though.

[via]

[Video] Trayvon Martin’s Mom, Sybrina Fulton’s Mother’s Day Message

Ian — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:50:06 +0000

Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mom, released a video asking parents nationwide to support the Second Chance campaign, a new national campaign working to reform, repeal and prevent passage of new Florida-style “Shoot First” laws around the country.

The Second Chance campaign launched after Martin’s death with the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Action Network, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, VoteVets and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to oppose reckless Shoot First laws that are on the books of 26 states and pending in 10 more. To learn more visit secondchanceonshootfirst.org for more info.

[MP3] Tasha the Amazon – Scallywags ft. Cola of Wifetaker (Prod. Bass & Bakery)

Ian — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:57:31 +0000

This record is straight FIYA!

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[via TOgether]

[MP3] Azealia Banks – Jumanji (prod. Hudson Mohawke & Nick Hook)

Ian — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:47:00 +0000

Homegirl can really spit!

Previously:

Azealia Banks – “212″ | “Liquorice”

[via Nah Right]

[MP3] Zeds Dead feat. Omar Linx – No Prayers (Keys N Krates Remix)

Ian — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:20:39 +0000

You’re loving that tour poster, right??! CLICK HERE for more details and enjoy the latest Key N Krates remix of T.dot dubsteppers, Zeds Dead: