Jew Rock Producer Shoots a Woman In the Mouth. If It Was Lil John Could You Imagine What They Would Be Saying About Hip Hop?

Where's the OJ outrage?

Phil Spector was accused in court of carrying out a sexually motivated murder yesterday (06.06.07).

Los Angeles Sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld testified that when he first arrived at the music producer's Los Angeles mansion on February 3, 2003, to investigate Lana Clarkson's death he immediately thought her killing "had sexual overtones to it".

"And I don't know if you know it or not ..."

"We look to rappers, athletes and stars to raise our children instead of ourselves. To blame hip-hop when they should be looking in the mirror and blaming themselves," T.I. continued. "The things I say come from the life that I used to live and this is a harsh reality. Now, maybe most of you were fortunate enough to not have ever dealt with that. Most of you all don't know what it's like to have to sell some dope or you aren't going to have nothing to eat for the next three days. Most of you all don't know what that life is like. I know the B-word, the H-word and the N-word are the words under attack right now. And I don't know if you know it or not, people, but there are bitches, niggas and hos who live in America. And as long as that fact exists, I think rappers deserve the right to talk about it."

Hip-hop mogul gets 44 years in drug case

A travesty of justice.
The corporate plantation sends a clear message: "You Negros can dance, sing, throw a football, work in our firms. Hell you can even run for president. But leave the drug dealing to us!"

June 4, 2007

BY ANNIE SWEENEY
Chicago Sun Times
By many accounts, Charles Patton ran a tight, sharp business in the hip-hop world, negotiating music deals with executives in Los Angeles and New York, all the while mentoring friend and business partner Lupe Fiasco toward an impressive breakout album.

According to investigators, Patton also had worked his way to the top of Chicago's drug-dealing world, negotiating with Nigerians, allegedly using profits from record deals to buy heroin and turning it around for street sales in Chicago.

Both worlds skidded to a halt in a Cook County courtroom last month when Judge Dennis Porter sentenced Patton to 44 years on drug charges. It was a long prison sentence -- rare in a state case, some observers said.

Investigators caught Patton with 6 kilos of heroin -- worth about $1 million on the street -- that he had stored in a suburban storage locker.

While prosecutors did not present evidence of a link between Patton's drug dealing and the recording company he owned with Fiasco -- whose legal name is Wasalu Jaco -- the connection was implied, authorities said. Patton is thought to have been dealing since the late 1980s, years before he and Fiasco launched their music careers.

"There is a large amount of money that he received from the sales of heroin,'' Assistant State's Attorney Patrick Coughlin said. "And he was able to start up a record company.''

Coughlin also said it's rare -- if not a first -- to have a nationally recognized recording executive caught up in a major drug investigation here.

Fiasco, who has carved out a national name for himself as a Muslim rapper who doesn't drink or dwell on rap's negative themes, was never charged. But he was at Patton's home when Patton was arrested in 2003 -- and he testified at trial about several phone conversations with Patton.


What were they talking about?
In the recorded conversations, Patton and Fiasco discuss splitting up "whole yellow'' and "whole red'' ones.
A prosecution witness directly involved in Patton's drug operation testified the colors referred to the mixing and prepping of $10 heroin packets. Fiasco, testifying for the defense, said they referred to mixing and prepping of music tracks. He denied any involvement in drugs.

Patton and Fiasco met at Thornton Township High School in suburban Harvey and started their company around 2000. Fiasco's "Food & Liquor'' was nominated for three Grammys in 2006.

At his sentencing, Patton, a Gulf War veteran, was described as a devoted husband and father. Several recording executives wrote to Judge Porter on his behalf.

"Mr. Patton has played a crucial role in the development of Lupe's career,'' wrote Craig Kallman, the chairman/CEO of Atlantic Records Group. "Through his invaluable knowledge, advice, and guidance, Lupe has developed into one of the most refreshing artists in hip-hop music.''

Requests for a comment from Fiasco were not answered. But he vouched for Patton in a letter to the court.

"I love Charles . . . I am deeply saddened by his circumstances and will stand by him and his family no matter what occurs," Fiasco wrote.

Poet Of The Week

Emancipate Me


Emancipate me,
not some, but all of me
Empower me to soar,
to reach higher and then again for more

Is there nothing worse than, no will to explore
Often in my place of employment
Searching for a sense of enjoyment
A voice echoes and says enter here
A sign “at your own risk” does appear

Deep in the region of reason, emotion does say Right now, elect to come this way
But I’m entangled in explanations and accounts
So the promise of ecstasy and euphoria amounts To nothing

Under embers of frustration and pain
Heart, mind and soul struggle to remain, connected

With each passing day my essence dies
These peaceful eyes do indeed belie; a war

One between emperors evil and good
Elaborate schemes of shouldn’t and should, to stifle
But I embrace an enlarged existence
Not one met with your walls of resistance, to be
Emboldened with Godly edict,

right on the verge
Of eliminating elements sent here to purge
The true me, from me,
I entrust Divine discernment
of what I should and must Alas,

exuberance fills the land
From even those who called me extreme
It seems they’ve been given keys to dream,
impossible dreams

So step one on the expedition to seize the enigmatic key
Stand up and explode

Emancipate me

- Godfrey Gill

9 out of 10 Black Americans Don't Know Who This Man Is ...

It's a set-up.

He's being "Saddam Husseined".

If You Don't Feel This ...

It's because you are an old lame ass square. Hang up all the psychobabble, save-the-hood, rap causes global warming yada yada yawn

NeoCon Gets 2 1/2 years

"Skooter" Libby, 56
3,500 dead Americans • 650,000 dead Iraqis • 1 Million + Maimed • Fabricated Intelligence • Tailored Evidence • 1 Trillion Dollars wasted so far

30 Months

Issac Belt, 26

of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pled guilty to narcotics charges.

151 months

The Young And The Arrested

Will Shemar be the
Negro Flogging of The Week?

Or do non-threatening Negros get a pass?

According to the CHP arrest report the former "Young and the Restless" star was pulled over after officers noticed the actor speeding near Santa Monica Blvd. at 1:30 AM. After he was stopped, cops reported that Moore "displayed signs of alcohol impairment and a DUI investigation was conducted." Moore was then arrested and transported to a nearby station, where he took a breath test and was later booked.

Moore, who currently stars in "Criminal Minds," was released a few hours later on $5000 bail.

Hip Hop Affirmative Action

Fighting Fire With Fire

The State Of . . . said...
Kanye is doing it for attention. Other than that, it's fine with me.

Big J.

Man, I can't believe you said that.

White men have been posing as Jesus for 2,000 years. A Black artist has the imagination, the audacity and the heart to present an image of Jesus Christ, closer to the truth in body and in spirit, yet you reduce that to a childish ploy for attention?

Damn. You hard J.

Did Miles blow Kind of Blue "for attention"?

Did Picasso paint Blue Nude "for attention"?

Did Jordan go baseline and dunk on Niggas "for attention"?

Did Mohammad Ali predict the round he was going to win, in iambic pentameter, "for attention"?

Please explain what it is about our people that compels us to resent our brothers who refuse to conform?

"We can't be psuedo-revolutionaries, driving Benzes and Lexus, but steady talkin' about saving Black America from the neocons. The Revolution will not be televised." Big J

WTF. What you got against a Beemer, a Benz, or a Lexus? I love riding in my Lex. And I greatly enjoyed my Benzes and my Beemers. I wish some African mofos made cars like that. I'd buy it.

What are you makin' revolution for, Big J? To spread mofo POVERTY? Are you outta your mind? Ain't nobody in the hood that respects a revolutionary who wants to set an example by being poor as f**k. Well, maybe y'all LA Negroes, but not my Harlem folk.
__________________________________________

Mike Fisher even starting to sound like Fiddy. Just with less game and no flow.

Big J. The Revolution WILL be televised. Accept that nobody is trying to watch the Huxtables.

The Shibumi Award

jasai said...

we can all be like jesus. even kanye. even you robyn. even you.

INTELLECTUALLY AGRESSIVE THOUGHT OF THE DAY

skip sievert said... This one will fall on deaf ears. America is controlled by Globalism special interests. There is a fraternity of thugs that have as their basis Political and Religious bullshit that is designed to maintain the status quo.

Money controls these thugs. As long as America has the current price system method of ordering our dysfunctional society, it is not expected that Americans will know or hear the 'truth' Our news is propaganda, and that is all it is.

The person in question here is a good example.I will give another... How about Andrea Mitchell of N.B.C. The 'chief white house correspondent' for many years, and rabid pro-Israel person. Married to another scam artist by the name of Greenspan, who is a thinly disguised Neo-con in the guise of an Ayn Rand libertarian flunky.

Jun 4, 2007 2:17:00 PM

The So-Called "Debate"

Fuck Wolf Blitzer

How a former Israeli Lobbyist becomes a CNN anchor and an "unbiased" moderator for a Presidential debate is further proof of the virtual Coup d'état the lobby has executed on the government of this nation.

There is an online petition to remove Blitzer from CNN:

To: CNN
As a free and unbiased press is of vital interest to the peace and progress of the world, we demand that CNN remove Wolf Blitzer from his influential position in its corporation.

Mr. Blitzer cannot be expected to report the news as it pertains to Jews, Israel, and the Middle East in an unbiased and honest way. As a former writer for the extreme pro-Israel organization and lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and as a former employee of the Israeli
newspaper the Jerusalem Post, Blitzer’s biases are obvious. Would CNN hire a Palestinian with these same strong connections to Palestinian causes?

In the interest of a truly free unbiased press, we petition CNN to remove Wolf Blitzer from his position as a CNN anchor.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned
http://www.petitiononline.com/wolfgone/petition.html

Young Lion

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
- Khalil Girbran

JFK PLOT YET ANOTHER MEDIA HOAX?

Doubts raised about JFK plot
The Canadian Press
Toronto (Jun 4, 2007)
Two terrorism experts in Canada are casting doubt on whether a group of alleged terrorists had the means or know-how to carry out a devastating attack on a U.S. airport.

Three men -- two from Guyana and one from Trinidad -- are in custody while a fourth is being sought. Russell Defreitas, above, a 63-year-old Guyanese native and naturalized American citizen who lives in Brooklyn, is described as the ringleader.

U.S. authorities say the group was planning to destroy New York's JFK airport and kill thousands of people by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through residential neighbourhoods.

Anti-Plantation Negro

Let's go deep inside
the solitary mind of a madman who screams in the dark
Evil lurks, enemies, see me flee
Activate my hate, let it break, to the flame
Set trip, empty out my clip, never stop to aim
Some say the game is all corrupted, fucked in this shit
Stuck, niggaz is lucky if we bust out this shit, plus
mama told me never stop until I bust a nut
Fuck the world if they can't adjust
It's just as well, Hail Mary

WOMEN

"Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Remember the Liberty!

The average American knows more about Lindsey Lohan than the USS Liberty

When Israel attacks, the Pentagon retreats

It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedoes. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed, and 172 were wounded. The Liberty limped back to Malta. A U.S. Navy court of inquiry was on board investigating the damage, but – for some reason – the investigators were not allowed to proceed to Israel to find out what really went on. Orders from the top echelons of the Pentagon nixed the inquiry, and today, the families of the fallen still haven't gotten any answers as to why Israel was allowed to get away with it without even so much as a slap on the wrist – nor even any public acknowledgment that it was a deliberate attack.

"The evidence was clear. Both Admiral [Isaac C.] Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack … was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew. It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received firsthand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate."

AntiWar.Com http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11042

POST OF THE MONTH

KP said ...

Wayne - I'm torn as well b/c i've done a poor job of removing it from my vocab, so i can't throw stones. conditioning from using the word comfortably for decades is not so easy to shake. it takes work even for the best of us who know better.

In the documentary Bastards of the Party, Cle Sloan examines the rise of the bloods and crips from black migration west from the south to the Panthers vs the US organization and my favorite point was (paraphrasing) 'getting black folks to call each other brother and sister is the first step toward improving self image and reducing black on black crime.' he said "its easy to kill a nigga and hard to kill your brother." couldn't agree more.

I didn't say it was ok for a conscious rapper to use the word. Its his/her decision, and I don't feel comfortable typing on a blog how Common is the same as 50 and snoop when he has the guts to talk about love, being faithful, honor, common respect, family, the light that shines within etc. he's a cat born and bred on the gang infested streets of Chi and like many of you (I assume) hearing the N word does not sting me the way it ought (sp?) to. if one should be the change they want to see in the world they resist finding fault and show the way instead. I struggle with that too btw.

my issue with rap is balance. the n word is a societal issue not a rap issue.
KP

Posted on Common thread over on TheStateOf.com

Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell
at the request of Her Majesty Jasai

Jordan Who?

Who's going to be the first to say it?

The boy has already surpassed Jordan in pure athletic ability. Stronger. Faster. Next Generation. New and Improved.

Kobe is next.

Athletic Darwinism.