via Illseed Blog
Parts 2 through 4 after the jump.
UPDATE: If listening to over a half an hour's worth of audio via YouTube videos strikes you as asinine, you might wanna try this mp3 (zSHARE), courtesy of hiphopscholar.net.
Er, I'm not gonna lie. I wasn't even aware that there was a plan for next Tuesday. Could it be that this is another one of those cases - like the Jena 6 - where I've just been out of the loop?
Apparently, we're all supposed to take off from work next Tueday to celebrate Obama's inauguration, as if it was the day of the Million Man March, or the day Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie came out. Or the day Wu-Tang Forever came out, if you happened to be in summer school that year. There's a big story by the Associated Press warning white people not to expect us to show up to work that day.
No, really.
And I quote:
People across the country may notice the absence of their black colleagues and classmates on Inauguration Day, as many who won't be traveling to Washington gather at homes, restaurants and churches, huddle around TVs and watch the historic swearing in from afar. And while the ceremony itself will only last a few hours, the entire day offers a chance to reflect and rejoice in the moment.
And it goes on from there, with quotes from people talking about how, for example, they'd go to work, but they wouldn't be able to concentrate anyway, thinking about what's going on in DC. Presumably, there's still some concern that a sniper might take Obama out before he can take office, though that isn't mentioned in this article. I know that occurred to me the other day, when I saw they were conducting a mock inauguration, with some other light skinted fellow standing in for Obama (was that you, Dame?), I guess for security purposes.
Honestly, it hadn't even occurred to me what I might do next Tuesday. I figured I might try to catch the inauguration on TV. But I keep it locked to MSNBC while I work anyway. It makes me feel less alone down here in my mom's basement. And every once a while something interesting will happen - like this plane that crashed into the Hudson River today.
There aren't very many black people who work for the BGM, but the few that there are strike me as the kind of ignorant mofos who would try to ask off next Tuesday. And then of course they would schedule me. I won't know for certain whether or not I'm off until tomorrow, but I know I haven't worked during the day on a Tuesday in ages, maybe years. It would suck if next Tuesday was the first time in a long time.
Like I said, I could give a rat's ass about watching it live, as if they won't be rerunning it ad nauseum. But now that I know that this is like an unofficial black holiday, I'm thinking I might have to get some 40s and some chicken wings and do it right. How often do you get to watch a black guy take office as president?This could be my last chance, especially given my chicken and beer intake.
Checkit: For some, inauguration a time to reflect, not work [Brattleboro Reformer, via Gawker]
In the Smoking Gun's mugshot of the year collection, there's this collage of people who got caught whilst rocking their Obama gear.
For what it's worth, I'll just point out that that guy in the upper left hand corner isn't black. Unless that's Slug from Atmosphere.
via Sandra Rose
An hilariously racist song about Barack Obama, supposedly recorded by Britney Spears' baby daddy K-Fed.
Sample lyrics: "We the afro government, it's the nubian regime. Drinking 40s, smoking weed, and eating collard greens. Showing up to a press conference 40 minutes late. Middle fingers in the air, why you honkies didn't wait?"
Roffle.
On the one hand, I hope this really is K Fed, just for the potential lulz, or whatever it is haX0rs call it. But on the other hand, I'm concerned that, if it really is him, this might cause an issue with the incredible custody and child support arrangement he won from Britney last year, in one of the all time great victories in the fight for a man's rights.
World-renowned public intellectual and anti-pr0n activist Noam Chomsky in his first major address since this year's "historic" presidential election.
Parts 2 and 3 after the jump.
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Watching Barack Obama spend the past few weeks now staffing his administration with the most hawkish members of Congress, people from the Clinton administration, and even some people from the Bush administration, I couldn't help but be reminded of Bill Hicks' classic bit about how, when you're elected president, you're taken into a smoky room and shown a film of the Kennedy assassination from a never before seen angle, suspiciously off the grassy knoll.
Bill Hicks' comedy has had a way of remaining oddly prescient years after the fact. The past eight years in particular, you could listen him talk about President Bush and the Iraq War and think he was talking about the present, despite the fact that he died way the fuck back in 1994. I wonder what he would have thought about America electing its first black-ish president.
After the jump is "American Politics," a video I found on YouTube where some guy has taken audio of Bill Hicks discussing his view of politics in America, and added corresponding images from film, TV commercials and what have you. It's actually kinda brillant, in an extra low budget, half-assed sort of way. Someone should take the entire album, Rant in E-Minor, and give it a similar treatment. If they do, and they make any money from it, I should receive some sort of fee. It's not like Bill needs the money now anyway.
For a little background, you might want to check these posts from XXL about al Qaeda's recruitment attempts in the hip-hop community.
I might have more on this for XXL in a minute, but we'll have to see. Extreme poverty has been causing my fingers to cramp up.
UPDATE: As Run-DMC would say, there it is.
After the jump is the actual al Qaeda broadcast.
I thought the whole point of Prince was that he was a straight guy who would occasionally act like a fudge just to piss people off.
I remember reading that, early on in his career, he would open for the Rolling Stones wearing nothing but his undies, as if he was that fruit from Of Montreal (never look at the Jumbotron during an Of Montreal concert), and people would get all pissed and start throwing things at him.
I know there's that line in "Controversy" that goes, "Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay?" And I do seem to recall him doing that thing where he'd pretend to kiss one of the other guys in his group, though I can't remember any instance in particular.
But for what it's worth, Prince also once had a song about banging his sister, and I'm assuming (praying, actually) he didn't go there. And remember when Kurt Cobain used to kiss Krist Novoselic? I guess that makes him a fudge now, too? (I could see if it was Busta Rhymes...)
jimbrah izrael, in a post on his blog over at The Root, suggests that Prince may have been a fudge all along, and now he might be one of these ex teh ghey types who live to throw their fellow fruits under a bus.
Say it ain't so!
In a story in this week's New Yorker about Prince's new crib out in LA (the fuck?), it sounds like Prince might be espousing the Fred Phelps point of view when it comes to teh homosexuality.
And I quote:
When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”
This story took place "just before" the election, out in California where Prop 8 was a major issue, and you know how fruits out there are up in arms now that Prop 8 passed. Does this mean the teh ghey community is about to turn on Prince? Is Prince really that big amongst fruits anyway?
jimbrah izrael links to a teh ghey guy talking about how Prince inspired him to be more of a fudge or whatever, but I wasn't really sure what to make of it. It sounded like it may have just been a matter of Prince dressing like a fruit, and this guy copying some of his wardrobe.
Also, I'm not sure if I'm buying jimbrah izrael's suggestion that Prince might be a closet case. You would think that, with as much that has been written about Prince over the years, we would know if he's taken it up the coat.
True story: If I had a dollar for every time someone emailed me wanting to know if jimbrah izrael is a closet case, I'd have $3. My response is always that, while he might openly admit to wearing a skirt (my bad, a sarong), if he claims to be a straight, I'm willing to believe he's a straight.
This video was probably put together by some racist sack of shit, but the points remain: a) Obama mobilized a lot of smokin' hot white chicks in this election (what's the secret, bro?), and b) Obama's supporters don't know shit about shit.
"It's an amazing feeling. It's our first colored president. I'm so proud to be a part of this country while that's going on." -- Lindsay Lohan
After the jump is a picture in which LiLoh's cans look especially large.
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