Denmark Vesey: If It Aint Hip Hop It Aint Relevant • Introduction Mnemonic Memetics 002 • DV University Spring 2011

Saturday, February 26, 2011

If It Aint Hip Hop It Aint Relevant • Introduction Mnemonic Memetics 002 • DV University Spring 2011

Wesley Gibson said...

I'm a huge fan. I can't stop listening.

that dude said...

Finally interesting hip hop, and a truly great video. Haven't had that since Kanye's album.

5 comments:

Wesley Gibson said...: I'm a huge fan. I can't stop listening.; Feb 27, 2011, 2:49:00 AM
that dude said...: Finally interesting hip hop, and a truly great video. Haven't had that since Kanye's album.; Mar 1, 2011, 10:11:00 AM
makheru bradley said...: Watoto From The Nile - Letter to Lil Wayne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gB7kBNI_o&feature=related; Mar 3, 2011, 11:06:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: Saw that little piece Mak.

Remarkable how much those little girls sound just like their grandmothers.

Not calling them parrots.

Just cliched and off point.

Like their grandparents generation.

To reduce the art of Lil Wayne to simply "tawkin' 'bout dwugs and calling women out dey name" ... is as silly as ... reducing the art of Miles Davis to "taking heroin and smacking Cicle Tyson".

If Plantation Negros would bother to look a bit deeper to understand why Hip Hop is relevant and why that "stay in school" nonsense they try to sell to kids isn't relevant ... they may learn something.; Mar 3, 2011, 11:25:00 PM
makheru bradley said...: Maybe their grandmothers are Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, Ruby Doris Robinson, and Kathleen Cleaver, so they’ve been raised to believe that “music is supposed to inspire.” Perhaps their nana’s don’t want Watoto to wind up like Afrika Owes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/02/19/2011-02-19_afrika_owes_star_prepschool_student_in_prison_accused_of_selling_drugs_and_runni.html

I suppose you’re raising your daughter on the lyrics of Wayne and this other fool who just flew over the cuckoo’s nest, but that’s your prerogative.

Watoto has challenged dude on specific points. You obviously feel a need to defend the sum total of his “art.” Carry on.

OBTW, where are those media images of Miles promoting heroin addiction and his abuse of Sister Tyson?; Mar 5, 2011, 12:03:00 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.

Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P

Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).

"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"