It's already been 2 years since Hurricane Katrina. The situation in New Orleans in 2007 is still fugazi, as Amy Goodman exposed on Democracy Now.
Talib Kweli & Bun B made a great song, on Kweli's 2006 Confidential mixtape, about Hurricane Katrina & it's aftermath, "None Of Us Are Free". Kweli's verse (the 1st verse) is more insight contained in 16 bars, than most editorialist writers can write in their opinion articles. It's certainly more insightful than what cable news pundits spew. Check it out.
Also know that hurricanes unfortunately don't stop. The homie Belize had photos showing the damage of Hurricane Dean on his home country Belize. Unfortunately, there's another hurricane heading towards Belize also. You won't prolly hear about it on CNN, since the elite douchebags running the American MSM, don't care anything about the Americas region, unless they have oil (Venezuela).
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Gravy Bread - mp3 blog directory
This site Gravy Bread is a directory of many MP3 blogs, of all types of genres.
Gravy Bread also intellectually ethers the RIAA. If the RIAA has a soul, it's burning slow!
OUR PACT WITH THE RIAA
We agree to the following:
No one visiting the links featured via Mega Super Mammoth has at any time downloaded any music owned by the RIAA-affiliated music industry companies.
If you can believe that, then we in return pledge to believe that the RIAA-affiliated companies have never illegally or unethically paid payola to radio disc jockeys, engaged in monopolistic practices, screwed countless artists out of royalties (including and especially black blues artists), cooked their books with creative accounting to rook artists and avoid taxes, or engaged in any of the other sleaze-bag practices that the RIAA-affiliated companies have been found guilty of in the past or are continually accused of by the artists they claim to be protecting.
No, we will continue to dutifully buy the overpriced, spyware-infected product of the RIAA-affiliated companies so that our favorite Hollywood music tycoons will have the war chest they need to continue filing scattershot extortion lawsuits against defenseless, penniless children and grandmas they randomly find in the phone book and so that they can celebrate by tooling around LA in their Bentleys snorting coke. After all, we would not want to deprive them of that.
Gravy Bread also intellectually ethers the RIAA. If the RIAA has a soul, it's burning slow!
OUR PACT WITH THE RIAA
We agree to the following:
No one visiting the links featured via Mega Super Mammoth has at any time downloaded any music owned by the RIAA-affiliated music industry companies.
If you can believe that, then we in return pledge to believe that the RIAA-affiliated companies have never illegally or unethically paid payola to radio disc jockeys, engaged in monopolistic practices, screwed countless artists out of royalties (including and especially black blues artists), cooked their books with creative accounting to rook artists and avoid taxes, or engaged in any of the other sleaze-bag practices that the RIAA-affiliated companies have been found guilty of in the past or are continually accused of by the artists they claim to be protecting.
No, we will continue to dutifully buy the overpriced, spyware-infected product of the RIAA-affiliated companies so that our favorite Hollywood music tycoons will have the war chest they need to continue filing scattershot extortion lawsuits against defenseless, penniless children and grandmas they randomly find in the phone book and so that they can celebrate by tooling around LA in their Bentleys snorting coke. After all, we would not want to deprive them of that.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Kanye West 2007 Graduation is subject to over-reaction reviews
UPDATE with examples of extreme stannery & haterism on display:
Stannery examples
1 "possibly best album since 1997". WTF?! It ain't even the best Kanye album, which came out in 2004. Dallas, don't take it personal (c) Gang Starr, we agree to disagree here.
Haterism examples
1 the hate is so exaggeratory here, it's hilarious
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1970s hip hop culture: "let the poppers pop, & the breakers break"
2000s internets hip hop culture: "let the stanners stan, & the haters hate"
Kanye West's Graduation seems to be following the reaction of Common's Finding Forever. People over-reacting & saying the album is ass or classic. Too hyperbolic either way IMHO.
It seems that blogger music reviewers are taking their cues from the "shock-posting" steez of folks like mAnn Coulter or Howard Stern. In other words, make exaggerating or shocking statements in order to increase ratings.
SMH at the haters saying Kanye’s rapping sucks. Kanye actually improved since 2004, & Kanye was never a top tier rapper ala Black Thought/Chino XL. These same haters loved College Dropout though. Consistency/logic, not part of haterism.
Here's my review @ RYM.
Stannery examples
1 "possibly best album since 1997". WTF?! It ain't even the best Kanye album, which came out in 2004. Dallas, don't take it personal (c) Gang Starr, we agree to disagree here.
Haterism examples
1 the hate is so exaggeratory here, it's hilarious
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1970s hip hop culture: "let the poppers pop, & the breakers break"
2000s internets hip hop culture: "let the stanners stan, & the haters hate"
Kanye West's Graduation seems to be following the reaction of Common's Finding Forever. People over-reacting & saying the album is ass or classic. Too hyperbolic either way IMHO.
It seems that blogger music reviewers are taking their cues from the "shock-posting" steez of folks like mAnn Coulter or Howard Stern. In other words, make exaggerating or shocking statements in order to increase ratings.
SMH at the haters saying Kanye’s rapping sucks. Kanye actually improved since 2004, & Kanye was never a top tier rapper ala Black Thought/Chino XL. These same haters loved College Dropout though. Consistency/logic, not part of haterism.
Here's my review @ RYM.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wikipedia > Britannica, Case Study 1 John Isner
I have heard a FEW folks complain that Wikipedia hurts the prospects of "real encyclopedias" such as Encyclopedia Britannica, & that Wikipedia has more errors than Britannica.
As a case study, I looked up John Isner on both encyclopedias. Isner is 1 of the biggest stories at the US Open.
1 Isner just graduated in May from U of Georgia, being 1 of the only ATP pros that go to college for 4 years & graduate
2 Isner is quickly showing results in his first few tourneys, making the final of the Washington warm-up tournament & losing a close match to Roddick
3 Isner beat #26th seed Jarkko Nieminen in the 1st Rd of the US Open. Isner's next match is in the 3rd Rd against the possible GOAT Roger Federer
4 Isner is 6 foot 9 inches, & has an awesome serve. Extremely tall players with great serves are very dangerous, because they have a chance to beat anyone. Isner's service games are extremely hard to break, so even if Isner can't break his opponent's serve, there's a chance Isner can still win a match via tie-breakers.
5 Isner might end up being the best American player of his era of mid-1980s born players.
I feel these reasons are strong enough to satisfy the "notability guideline" & have an encyclopedia article. Let's see what the encylopedias think:
Wikipedia
Britannica nothing!
Geez, whose more "ACCURATE" here, a decent article from Wiki, or NOTHING from Britannica.
My conclusion:
1 The Wisdom of Crowds effect > a small group of expert writers
2 Wiki is the truth. Anti-wiki naysayers are elitist, non-democratic haters.
As a case study, I looked up John Isner on both encyclopedias. Isner is 1 of the biggest stories at the US Open.
1 Isner just graduated in May from U of Georgia, being 1 of the only ATP pros that go to college for 4 years & graduate
2 Isner is quickly showing results in his first few tourneys, making the final of the Washington warm-up tournament & losing a close match to Roddick
3 Isner beat #26th seed Jarkko Nieminen in the 1st Rd of the US Open. Isner's next match is in the 3rd Rd against the possible GOAT Roger Federer
4 Isner is 6 foot 9 inches, & has an awesome serve. Extremely tall players with great serves are very dangerous, because they have a chance to beat anyone. Isner's service games are extremely hard to break, so even if Isner can't break his opponent's serve, there's a chance Isner can still win a match via tie-breakers.
5 Isner might end up being the best American player of his era of mid-1980s born players.
I feel these reasons are strong enough to satisfy the "notability guideline" & have an encyclopedia article. Let's see what the encylopedias think:
Wikipedia
Britannica nothing!
Geez, whose more "ACCURATE" here, a decent article from Wiki, or NOTHING from Britannica.
My conclusion:
1 The Wisdom of Crowds effect > a small group of expert writers
2 Wiki is the truth. Anti-wiki naysayers are elitist, non-democratic haters.
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