Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Folks may wanna look out for new material from Oakland's Zion I. They recently teamed up with West Coast pioneer Too Short to do a slamming song called 'Don't Lose Ya Head'. which is featured on his recently released compilation called 'I Love the Bay'. On that compilation you will hear joints from Bay shot callers like Messy Marv, Mista FAB, Frontline, E-40, Bavgate, Big Rich and fellow Bay pioneer Mike Marshall just to name a few.
Too Short who has been doing some big things community wise as of late including opening up studios for up and coming artists and counseling youngsters at East Oakland's Youth Uprising, has long wanted to put out a compilation album that showcased the vast amounts of talent that exist here in the Bay Area. The compilation was released on his own All Night Music label and no doubt will eliminate some of the politics and frustration Short has experienced in the past.
For example, he and E-40 had collaborated on an album called 'History' that was nixed by Jive Records who didn't want the pair to put it out while they were both signed to the label.
In another incident, last year when BET did a spotlight on the Bay, Too Short took the camera crew around Oakland and had in tow many of the Bay icons who are celebrated here but often overlooked on the national stage. When the piece was finally aired, you saw most of the people he rolled with edited out the piece aside from a couple of shots here and there. That was a big disappointment. Short was able to repair that oversight with this compilation which is pretty good.
As for the cut with Zion I, it represents their commitment to unite the Bay Area rap scene in the three year tradition of their Paid in Full concert series where they bring together groups from the Bay's various rap scenes and clicks. For those who don't know here in the Bay for the longest time, there's been a so called Backpack/Hip Hop scene and a rap/turf scene. Such boundaries have come on behalf of music journalists and Hip Hop purist who have little or no connection to the communities where this music emerges. In their mis-guided wisdom they have somehow deemed that an Oakland artist like Too Short or the Deliquents are 'rap music artists while fellow Oakland artists like Zion I, Hiero or Living Legends are 'Hip Hop'. That has long been a notion completely rejected in these parts and was just recently underscored by Bay artist Del tha Funkee Homosapien in an Hard Knock Radio interview where he explained in great detail how and why all Bay artists are connected.
He noted that for the most part many artists came up together, attended the same schools and even were in the same groups early on. For the most part, you will find Bay artists are born from the same musical seed which is rooted in funk and out of that tradition they express themselves differently. As far as Del is concerned his style of Hip Hop comes from the same funk seed as Too Short
written by Davey D
Too Short who has been doing some big things community wise as of late including opening up studios for up and coming artists and counseling youngsters at East Oakland's Youth Uprising, has long wanted to put out a compilation album that showcased the vast amounts of talent that exist here in the Bay Area. The compilation was released on his own All Night Music label and no doubt will eliminate some of the politics and frustration Short has experienced in the past.
For example, he and E-40 had collaborated on an album called 'History' that was nixed by Jive Records who didn't want the pair to put it out while they were both signed to the label.
In another incident, last year when BET did a spotlight on the Bay, Too Short took the camera crew around Oakland and had in tow many of the Bay icons who are celebrated here but often overlooked on the national stage. When the piece was finally aired, you saw most of the people he rolled with edited out the piece aside from a couple of shots here and there. That was a big disappointment. Short was able to repair that oversight with this compilation which is pretty good.
As for the cut with Zion I, it represents their commitment to unite the Bay Area rap scene in the three year tradition of their Paid in Full concert series where they bring together groups from the Bay's various rap scenes and clicks. For those who don't know here in the Bay for the longest time, there's been a so called Backpack/Hip Hop scene and a rap/turf scene. Such boundaries have come on behalf of music journalists and Hip Hop purist who have little or no connection to the communities where this music emerges. In their mis-guided wisdom they have somehow deemed that an Oakland artist like Too Short or the Deliquents are 'rap music artists while fellow Oakland artists like Zion I, Hiero or Living Legends are 'Hip Hop'. That has long been a notion completely rejected in these parts and was just recently underscored by Bay artist Del tha Funkee Homosapien in an Hard Knock Radio interview where he explained in great detail how and why all Bay artists are connected.He noted that for the most part many artists came up together, attended the same schools and even were in the same groups early on. For the most part, you will find Bay artists are born from the same musical seed which is rooted in funk and out of that tradition they express themselves differently. As far as Del is concerned his style of Hip Hop comes from the same funk seed as Too Short
written by Davey D
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Tasered To Death In Canada!
Caution: This video involves the Tasering death of a human being. If the content is likely to bother you, don't watch.
Paul Pritchard, the bystander who vidoetaped the minutes leading up to the Tasering and eventual death of Robert Dziekanski by RCMP officers at Vancouver airport last month finally has his footage back and released it.
To my mind there is no question that the death of Robert Dziekanski would never have happened if someone had taken the time to do allow this man to speak to an interpreter or let him use their cellphone to reach his mother.
The RCMP story about the events keeps changing from "he was drunk and out of control"(according to the autopsy, he had no alcohol at all in his system. Nor were there drugs), to "he resisted the police" to "the footage doesn't tell the entire story". It certainly tells more than the police bothered to find out before they, within 25 seconds of arriving on the scene, Tasered him.
I think the video speaks very clearly about whether the police acted correctly and with appropriate force or went in half-cocked, Tasered an man who was agitated (twice within a few second and while the man was down), and caused him to lapse into a coma by kneeling on his neck and head (as witnesses and the video show).
Judge for yourself
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Cheaters Beat Down!
JayStats with another winner....Just Dont Cheat , People. You may get knocked the fuck out!!!!
JayStats with another winner....Just Dont Cheat , People. You may get knocked the fuck out!!!!
Friday, November 02, 2007
Oh No! This is a staple of my diet!!!!Totino’s and Jeno’s Frozen Pizzas Recalled Due to Possible E. coli Contamination
Published Nov 2, 2007
Totino’s and Jeno’s today announced a voluntary recall of frozen pizzas with pepperoni toppings because of possible contamination of the pepperoni topping with E. coli O157:H7.
The recall affects approximately 414,000 cases of pizza products currently in stores and all similar pizza products in consumers’ freezers. It includes eight SKUs (stock keeping units or UPC codes) of Totino’s brand frozen pizza and three SKUs of Jeno’s brand frozen pizza with pepperoni topping, or incorporating pepperoni in combination with other toppings.
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