[Video] The Ferris Documentary featuring Com Truise – 5891

I wouldn’t normally post a fashion brand EPK like this but I did happen to watch it and I respect where they’re coming from aesthetic and business-wise (all American-made!). Plus I really dug the last track they used, “5891” by Com Truise so I figured, “WTF?” and decided to post both here since I missed posting anything yesterday (Thursday) due to work commitments. Enjoy and good night!

[Video] Watch the classic 1978 reggae movie, Rockers on YouTube in FULL!

Film directed by Theodoros Bafaloukos, courtesy of Noisey. This is a must-view. If you haven’t ever watched this before, consider this the one post from the Kitchen you pay attention to in 2013. Seriously!

[via the DK FB page]

[Video] The Tenor Saw Story (Documentary Short)

Essential! Not knowing? “Ring the Alarm” ring a bell?

[Paul E. Lopes via DK Tumblr]

[Video] VH1 rockDocs pres. Planet Rock: The Story Of Hip Hop And The Crack Generation (FULL Film)

This came out last Fall but I just spotted it on producer, Easy Mo Bee‘s Facebook page this morning. Narrated by Ice-T and featuring RZA, Raekwon the Chef, Snoop Dogg, Questlove, B-Real, Chuck D, Too $hort and Freeway Ricky Ross, the Johnny Appleseed of the crack era, this documentary is amazing. The story about George H.W. Bush’s crack cocaine television address (starts at 47:24) is (sadly) hilarious. Mo Bee breaks it down as a whole:

It’s been established that music is almost always indicative of the impact that it’s social surrounding provides. So when you fast forward from 1977 to almost 10 years ahead in a slightly more mature period of ’86 in Hip Hop music, we get a firsthand lyrical account (and even glorification at times) of all the damage and destruction that crack’s toll took on the surface of an average family or individual and their choice to get “paid in full” or not. On the even more losing end of this product is the customer or “victim”, so to speak. Also at this point (circa1986), Hip Hop is mightily influenced by the flash of materialism, better living and even powerful drug films like Scarface, New Jack City & Menace ll Society, etc. Could the plague of crack have all been a setup or did a lot of us just make some bad choices in our lives? Was Hip Hop ever used a pawn in the game to help spread the epidemic. So many questions, so many different answers. From the drug riddled hot summers of the mid-Eighties to present day, have we learned anything from the entire period of the past? Or is it just the case of one generations imitating another? The music has always said it all. “And you don’t stop” is right. “It goes on and on and on and on, the beat don’t stop til the break o’ dawn”. Some things never change. They remain the same. True dat. Just look around.

CLICK HERE to learn more.

Related:

How Hip-Hop Lost the War on Drugs by Touré [note: this is the original title of the article as seen on the mobile version, it has subsequently been retitled, ‘How America and hip-hop failed each other’]

[Video] Windfall Documentary (Trailer)

When I went to see the Marley doc on Wednesday, they showed this trailer during the previews. Ironically, just a few days before that I had been deriding people who complained about wind turbines because they “spoiled their view” but this trailer made me re-think that comment and how wind power is implemented in general.

Learn more…

Follow Windfall online – twitter | facebook | website