Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Jay Electronica: Dear Moleskine. (prod. by Just Bla
Jay E. is definitely in a class by himself.. and i respect him so much for that shit. Gotta find the full length for this if there is one...
Friday, July 24, 2009
No I.D. Speaks On Drake
No I.D. Speaks On Drake from zachwolfe.com/live on Vimeo.
had a brief discussion with my dude the other day about the same thing.......
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY? MEET THE GUY WHO DOES
Night falls, the stars wink, and after an hour, Suelo tramps up the cliff, mimicking a raven's call—his salutation—a guttural, high-pitched caw. He's lanky and tan; yesterday he rebuilt the entrance to his cave, hauling huge rocks to make a staircase. His hands are black with dirt, and his hair, which is going gray, looks like a bird's nest, full of dust and twigs from scrambling in the underbrush on the canyon floor. Grinning, he presents the booty from one of his weekly rituals, scavenging on the streets of Moab: a wool hat and gloves, a winter jacket, and a white nylon belt, still wrapped in plastic, along with Carhartt pants and sandals, which he's wearing. He's also scrounged cans of tuna and turkey Spam and a honeycomb candle. All in all, a nice haul from the waste product of America. "You made it," he says. I hand him a bag of apples and a block of cheese I bought at the supermarket, but the gift suddenly seems meager.
Suelo lights the candle and stokes a fire in the stove, which is an old blackened tin, the kind that Christmas cookies might come in. It's hooked to a chain of soup cans segmented like a caterpillar and fitted to a hole in the rock. Soon smoke billows into the night and the cave is warm. I think of how John the Baptist survived on honey and locusts in the desert. Suelo, who keeps a copy of the Bible for bedtime reading, is satisfied with a few grasshoppers fried in his skillet.
HE WASN'T ALWAYS THIS WAY. SUELO graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in anthropology, he thought about becoming a doctor, he held jobs, he had cash and a bank account. In 1987, after several years as an assistant lab technician in Colorado hospitals, he joined the Peace Corps and was posted to an Ecuadoran village high in the Andes. He was charged with monitoring the health of tribespeople in the area, teaching first aid and nutrition, and handing out medicine where needed; his proudest achievement was delivering three babies. The tribe had been getting richer for a decade, and during the two years he was there he watched as the villagers began to adopt the economics of modernity. They sold the food from their fields—quinoa, potatoes, corn, lentils—for cash, which they used to purchase things they didn't need, as Suelo describes it. They bought soda and white flour and refined sugar and noodles and big bags of MSG to flavor the starchy meals. They bought TVs. The more they spent, says Suelo, the more their health declined. He could measure the deterioration on his charts. "It looked," he says, "like money was impoverishing them."
The experience was transformative, but Suelo needed another decade to fashion his response. He moved to Moab and worked at a women's shelter for five years. He wanted to help people, but getting paid for it seemed dishonest—how real was help that demanded recompense? The answer lay, in part, in the Christianity of his childhood. In Suelo's nascent philosophy, following Jesus meant adopting the hard life prescribed in the Sermon on the Mount. "Giving up possessions, living beyond credit and debt," Suelo explains on his blog, "freely giving and freely taking, forgiving all debts, owing nobody a thing, living and walking without guilt . . . grudge [or] judgment." If grace was the goal, Suelo told himself, then it had to be grace in the classical sense, from the Latin gratia, meaning favor—and also, free.
By 1999, he was living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand—he had saved just enough money for the flight. From there, he made his way to India, where he found himself in good company among the sadhus, the revered ascetics who go penniless for their gods. Numbering as many as 5 million, the sadhus can be found wandering roads and forests across the subcontinent, seeking enlightenment in self-abnegation. "I wanted to be a sadhu," Suelo says. "But what good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A true test of faith would be to return to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping nations on earth and be a sadhu there. To be a vagabond in America, a bum, and make an art of it—the idea enchanted me."
THERE ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE IN SUELO'S cave for two, so I sleep in the open, at the edge of a hundred-foot cliff. No worries about animals, he says. Though mountain lions drink from the stream, and bobcats hunt rabbits under the cottonwoods, the worst he's experienced was a skunk that sprayed him in the face. Mice scurry over his body in the cave, and kissing bugs sometimes suck the blood from under his fingernails while he sleeps. He shrugs off these indignities. "After all, it's their cave too," he says. I hunker down near a nest of scorpions, which crawl up the canyon walls, ignoring me.
read the rest here
http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_9817&pageNum=2
OB4CL2, Tracklist + Production Credits
01. Return To The North Star (Feat. Papu Wu) (Interlude)
(Prod. Bt)
02. House of Flying Daggers (Feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man)
(Prod. J-Dilla)
03. Sonny’s Missing
(Prod. Pete Rock)
04. Pyrex Vision
(Prod. Marley Marl)
05. Cold Outside (Feat. Suga Bang & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Atl)
06. Godfather (Feat. Inspectah Deck)
(Prod. Rza)
07. New Wu (Feat. Method Man & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Rza)
08. Penitentiary (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Bt)
09. Criminology 09 (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Bt & Rza)
10. Fat Lady Sings
(Prod. Rza)
11. Canal Street
12. 10 Bricks (Feat. Cappadonna & Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. J-Dilla)
13. G-hide (Feat. Ghostface Killah)
(Prod. Negro)
14. Rockstar (Feat. Inspectah Deck & Gza)
(Prod. Rza)
15. Catalina (Feat. Busta Ryhmes)
(Prod. Dr. Dre)
16. 40 Deuce (Feat. Jadakiss & Styles P)
(Prod. Scram Jones)
17. Walk Wit Me
(Prod. Scram Jones)
18. We Will Rob You (Feat. Slick Rick, Gza & Masta Killah)
(Prod. Allah Justice)
19. Have Mercy (Feat. Beanie Sigel)
20. Surgical Gloves
(Prod. The Alchemist)
21. Nigga Me
(Prod. Dr. Dre)
22. Mean Streets (Feat. Inspectah Deck)
(Prod. Allah Mathematics)
23. Kiss The Ring (Feat. Inspectah Deck & Masta Killah)
(Prod. Scram Jones)
24. Ason Jones
(Prod. J-Dilla)
will not believe it until that shit FINALLY drops........
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Game - Im So Wavy (Jay-Z Diss) (NODJ)
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Game Apologizes to 50 Cent
i respect his intentions... but dude always goes back on what he says so i can only take anything he says only with a grain of salt......
Saturday, July 04, 2009
50 Cent - Forever King Mixtape
Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 Intro Live (Video)
still not to fond of D.O.A. lyric wise but my man gets it in regardless...
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