Jacob Miller - Jamaica 1978 - You cannot more serious dub than this...

Public Enemy - The Greatest Hip Hop group of All Time...

Here's the proof

Agnostic Front, the inner-city summer anthem...

This should be the summer anthem of the city streets! Agnostic Front's first two albums should be blasting from the iPod of every pissed off kid walking down the street who feels a sense of indignation towards social injustice. It's funny saying this because AF were sometimes considered a right-wing band in the 80s, a rather dumb assumption in retrospect.

Too bad most "kids" now listen to pure shit like Wiz Khalifa or screamo. The only thing worse is the permament damage the oversized plugs in their earlobes will leave. 

3 Knights: Jarobi, Dres, and Sadat X have made the best hip hop single so far this year...

And the video is tight just like the classic videos that were playing on YoMtv raps and VideoBox between 91' and 93'.

All three of these men had something to do with the best hip hop record records that came out in the early 90s. Hearing Jarobi show his talents with evitAN is a testament that if he didn't leave Tribe Called Quest to become a chef as documented in Michael Rappaport's Tribe Called Quest documentary, then Tip and Phife wouldn't have ended everything so uninspired.

evitaN's single shares something Johan Santana pitching the Mets first no-hitter two weeks back. They both represent the ability to transcend mediocity and be as good as you were in your prime. And that's how you know you're relevant. Dres proves he still got that smooth and all over the place flow that made the first Black Sheep record such a classic. And Jarobi's verse is a chill down the spine of the listener who wondered what Jarobi would have been like on all those early Tribe Called Quest records. Needless to say, he could have easily spit rhymes just as good as any guest who appeared on The Low End Theory or the Midnight Marauder record. It's a shame, at least to a young man in his early thirties whose devotion to hip hop was solidified by in part to Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory back in his junior high days, that Jarobi split. And that's why evitaN, when they put out something like "3 Kings" or their other video that dealt with the Occupy Wall Street movement, show us hip hop veterans can still make relavent music, reflecting why the hip hop being made now that gets downloaded or bought by kids now is shallow, corporate crap.

brooklyn is in the house, so muthafuck rico sauve

Das Efx - East Coast

Chomsky Comes to Harlem

Chomsky discusses the corporate attack on education, a pertinent subject for Harlem, as it becomes another urban laborotory for non-unionized charter schools that share the unspoken desire to dismantle traditional public education and replace it with a corporate model.

President Three Day Weekend

When you don't have to go work in the morning, Sunday night can be pretty sweet. If I was running for president I would have one platform, but a platform so near and dear to the American laborer's overworked inner-being that it naturally transcends rhetoric about saving the economy and national security. I'm talking about making into law three day weekend for everyone. Think of it, one more day of weekend boozing, catching up on sitcoms, laying on the beach, and not having to get the kids to the factory they call a school. 


I'm finally bringing a platform that can unite all Americans, the Three Day Weekend platform! The only political issue most people actually care about.


What we have now with the two day weekend has been a disaster for centuries. It's resulted in a workforce that is exhausted and cannot enjoy an evening PBS special past 10PM without worrying about not being able to get up in the morning. Sticking to Saturday and Sundays as the only two days of leisure isn't good for the soul. And it's not going to improve the economy. The three day weekend will...So turn on the public television, make a donation that costs you the same as it does buying chai lattes during the week. The tote bag you get in return will look pretty sharp when you use it to tote a few essentials at the beach this summer. It lets the world know you're an enlightened member of society who doesn't necessarily believe the hype of FOX or CNN. 



Why let France and Greece corner the market on leisure and time off from work?