The upcoming issue of The New Yorker features a profile of Gil Scott-Heron [abstract, sub required] that reveals his surprisingly open use of crack. It makes me want to f*cking cry. This man is an American treasure and we've lost so much by not giving him the support he needed whenever he first … [Read more...]
Gil Scott-Heron in The New Yorker & the False Claims of his Role as an Inventor of Hip Hop
August 2, 2010 By
Wyclef Jean for President of Haiti?
July 29, 2010 By
As 26 year-old Haitian Marie Lacrete told the Christian Science Monitor: "I don't have a problem with Wyclef, but he's not the right person to be president. He's a musician, not a politician," says Ms. Lacrete, adding that the singer didn't graduate from college. Lacrete, who has a degree in … [Read more...]
Why I Hate Facebook: Sunday School Soundbites
July 23, 2010 By
Maybe it's just my circle of friends, cause I see some pretty harsh stuff on my network of Facebook hip hip contacts, but much of what I experience on my personal Facebook account has led me to feel that Facebook's semipublic nature has caused a lot of folks to default to Sunday School … [Read more...]
ProHipHop & Hip Hop Press End Banned Spammers List Experiment
July 19, 2010 By
I've been posting the names and email addresses of folks who have been spamming me at email addresses other than the official hip hop pr address for ProHipHop, Hip Hop Press and netweed, which is:hiphoppress(at)netweed(dot)comWhen folks have emailed me at other addresses, I sent them two … [Read more...]
I’m Loving Hip Hop Right Now
July 17, 2010 By
Since stepping back from the cesspool of hip hop web publishing, though it did mean losing track of a handful of really awesome bloggers, my love of hip hop has returned with a vengeance. And while I lost some interesting commenters, I've gained a great deal of psychic freedom from the riff raff … [Read more...]
