Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

Damn! Christopher Porter with Sizzla and Backyard! Go deh…

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Monday, May 10th, 2004

Realpolitik for that ass.

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Monday, May 10th, 2004

Dan Carol on voting and the hip-hop generation.

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Monday, May 10th, 2004

U.S. bombs the fuck out of Al-Sadr’s compound. Amidst headlines about Abu Ghraib? Predictable.

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Friday, May 7th, 2004

Here’s me, down with the Freelance Mentalists, talking about Steve Barrow’s great new comp, Mento Madness. Thanks to Haibun for putting me down.

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Friday, May 7th, 2004

This Week on My iPod

Seems like everyone else is doing this so what the hell. Sidenote: I have it on shuffle probably 95% of the time, but this list feels right.

1) Ghetto Brothers Power-Ghetto Brothers

2) There Is Something In My Heart-Ghetto Brothers

3) Peace Treaty-Jacob Miller

4) Esta Navidad-Willie Colón

5) Carry Go Bring Come-Justin Hines & The Dominoes

6) The Train Is Coming-Ken Boothe

7) Tempo-Anthony Red Rose

8) One Dance-Beres Hammond

9) S.90 Skank-Big Youth (Keith Hudson production!)

10) Nu Baya Roots-Build An Ark (Carlos Nino production!)

11) Always There-Build An Ark (ditto)

12) Crystal Ball-David Axelrod

13) (Letter from Home) -DJ Shadow

14) I Saw A Tear (album)-Ghetto Brothers

15) All falls Down-Kanye West (Featuring Syleena Johnson)

16) I Broke The Comb-Keith Hudson

17) Bogus Badge-Louie Culture

18) Nada Será Como Antes-Milton Nascimento

19) Across the Universe-Rufus Wainright, Moby, Sean Lennon

20) Unknown-Tortoise

21) La Descarga Del Bobo-Willie Bobo

22) Recomendacion-Willie Colón

23) El Malo-Willie Colón

24) Mabrak-Abyssinians

25) Uptown Top Ranking-Althea & Donna

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Friday, May 7th, 2004

GOOD THINGS IN THE WORLD

Yes, this is my non-ironic week.

I fuckin love this. The memories, the memories. I’m weeping tears of joy right now.

Thanks O-dub, now officially The Man Behind TheBest Hip-Hop Book Collection of deep thoughts about hip-hop.

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Thursday, May 6th, 2004

More new photos from Abu Ghraib in today’s Washington Post.

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

GOOD MORNING ABU GHRAIB

Was I the only one who got shivers hearing George Huff’s strangely reaffirming rendition of “What A Wonderful World” last night, a scene that ended in a group hug?

Here’s a competition where smiles and tears seem sincere. Where families cheer their sons and daughters in defeat. Where the winners always cry over the losers. This American Idol thing is throwing out the script every day. It can’t be scripted. It’s become realer than reality.

The song, popularized first by Louis Armstrong, revived in the 80s by a movie about Vietnam, and sung now by another poor black New Orleans boy who came to the pop stage entirely by accident, seems particularly poignant at this moment in American history, where pictures of very different kinds of smiles cannot be separated from horrifying scenes of debasement. Where the defeated–whether Iraqi, Afghani, or American–are treated with low regard and grotesque inhumanity. Where the winners care nothing for the losers.

In more ways than I thought last night, the outcome of American Idol now matters little.

The show is cornball. Absolutely. It’s lowest common denominator stuff. But look how low we’re at right now, in the world and in our own estimation of ourselves.

At the risk of sounding crazy or duped, it feels like American Idol gives all of us what we need. No matter how we feel politically in this polarized time, it goes a little way toward restoring what Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld have torn away from us in their plunge toward Middle East destabilization since January of 2001–the impulse toward connection and community, away from the gruesome crimes of competition and avarice, and the need to know that there is in fact good, genuine feeling in the world between people.

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

Love how Jasmine has grown and proud of how she’s repped. George is a nice dude and deserves an audience somewhere. Diana ain’t that bad after all. But they all can’t hold a candle, not even a match to Fantasia and Latoya. Let’s just end this now.

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