Okayplayer just posted, “Rottweiler Choir” a poem by the great poet Saul Williams, written for Amiri Baraka’s funeral. Williams performed it at the funeral in honor of a soldier that remains unbreakable, not passed, but transformed…in a perpetual state of forever. Read below. This NGH died for something.i I don’t go for old age. I don’t go for disease. I say murder. Which poets die of natural causes? Which poems kill? I saw the rifles pointed. Jesse Jackson with that blood on …
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Shawn Huckins‘ acrylic paintings illustrate the past and present status of the American technological revolution in shorthand; intricately replicated 18th century portraits superimposed with an abbreviated text message. The result spawns a Pandora’s box of philosophical questions and meanings that have neither easy answers nor simple explanations. The paintings are humorous antidotes doused in a seriousness that speaks to the deterioration of human interaction and community. Would Ulysses S. Grant update his Facebook status after gauging a Confederate soldier’s eye …
Phife Dawg of the legendary Hip-Hop group A Tribe Called Quest just released a new single called “#DearDilla.” A tribute to the legendary Detroit Hip-Hop producer J Dilla, who passed on 8 years ago, February 7th, 2006. Dilla and Phife shared a kindred spirit, in their musicianship, and dealings with health issues. Dilla suffered from a rare blood disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic pura, and Phife is diabetic (he calls himself the “the funky diabetic” in ATCQ’s “Oh My God”). Phife reminisced about interactions …
Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to the latest issue of Hi-Fructose. I was a fan long before I got involved with them. Although I did a feature on painter Jon Fox, there’s a plethora of goodies in those pages. San Francisco based artist David Choong Lee is repping pretty hard in there too. The magazine’s statement is below. We’re pleased to show you a preview for our next volume of Hi-Fructose New Contemporary Art Magazine! Our first issue of 2014, …
The super duo Step Brothers (Alchemist and Evidence) just released their debut album Lord Steppington, a project that’s been in the making since 2008. Alchemist and Evidence have worked together in the past on various projects, including Evidence’s solo material, and with Evidence’s group Dilated Peoples. The name of the album Lord Steppington comes from a lyric in Alchemist’s other project with rapper/producer Oh No called Gangrene in the track “Dark Shades” from Vodka and Ayahuasca (2012). Lord Steppington is produced by the Step Brother …
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