Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Terminology Hot Song
STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT WACK MUSIC UNTIL YOU SUPPORT GOOD MUSIC!
Can Someone Shut Jeezy up about Politics....PLEASE?!?!
I can't do it anymore..... I'm sorry to the other HipHop Fans who think that I'm against FREE SPEECH however this guy is killing me!
Please sir, do not attempt to be super political while still being all about the negative stereotypes of the hood. There is not a balance sir, you cannot talk about selling coke and cooking it up, then have an introspective political view, basically threatening people about Obama. If you want to be part of a change, why not go positive in your raps and say that Obama inspired you to help the kids? Anything along that line.
These are the lyrics to your song Mr. Snowman, do you honestly think linking your career to Obama is helpful to him, or are you now trying to get some personal fame off of the guy?
"Ain't shit shakin but the leaves in the trees
Between me and you I got a deal on the ki's
Six in one run, laid a mil on the trees
Hit the broad every night,
keep a plug on the white
Mr. 17-5, you niggaz know the name
Why y'all playin y'all know it ain't a game
This is me motherfucker, why would I ever change
120 carats, you niggaz see the chain" -Jeezy
This is a clip from a BLOG on xxlmag.com that really points it out...
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=24109
NEGRO PLEASE: Young Jeezy is Barack Obama’s New Apprentice?
[Editor’s Note: “Blogger’s Note” has been taken over by Ron Mexico until further notice.]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled coke rap for this special bulletin.
“I got a new mentor. Barack Obama’s my mentor. Y’all believe that, man. For the first time we ready for change, homie. We gon’ back it. Any you people out there listening, it’s a hands-off policy on Barack Obama, man. Y’all touch him, we touchin’ everything. That’s my word to God. That’s on the hood. Every hood. I’m telling you right now. Y’all touch him, you know what it is… And for the first time in life period–I don’t know if you know about black men, but black men are sincere. They mean what they say. Especially when they have power. And he has power, man. He means what he—I think this the change. This the change we need. Everybody. The whole world. We need somebody that’s just for us. And that’s our country, man. Barack Obama, hats off to you, homie. I’m not on no nothing else. Congratulations. Win, lose or draw, we with you, boy.” –Young Jeezy, Trill TV interview
Completely sandwiched by the usual cocaine propaganda, Young Jeezy gives us a Black History/Vote or Drought moment. Let’s see what Merriam-Webster has to say about such foolhardy Negrospeak.
According to the big book we finally read in prison, a mentor is “a trusted counselor or guide.” There’s no way Faux News and the federales aren’t already just waiting to catch these two partnering up in a game of spades so the onslaught can begin. Barack Obama is not allowed to utter the name “Young Jeezy” in public. I don’t think Barack the Vote is even allowed to use the word “snow” untl after he’s at his podium sworn in.
With that said, I do wonder if John McCain will face the same scrutiny Obama has for bringing Daddy Yankee and his “vile,” misogynistic, highly-inappropriate-for-a-presidential-candidate baggage to the big show. Rappers mention Barack and we have a horror show on our hands. Jawn McCain does “Gasolina” adlibs for The Big Boss of the Booty Cartel and I still hear crickets....... Continue article here
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
GYM CLASS HEROES: Cookie Jar
They also have an upcoming tour with the Roots
October 2008
3 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live!
4 - Norfolk, VA - The Norva
5 - N. Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
6 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
7 - Orlando, FL - House of Blues
8 - Miami, FL - The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason
10 - Houston, TX - Meridian (The Roots do not appear on this date)
11 - Dallas, TX - The Palladium Ballroom
12 - Austin, TX - The Backyard
14 - Phoenix, AZ - The Marquee
19 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
21 - Denver, CO - The Fillmore Auditorium
23 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
24 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre
25 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit
26 - Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy
28 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom
30 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium Downstairs
31 - Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Park Convention Hall
November 2008
1 - Albany, NY - Washington Avenue Armory
Purchase Tickets
Going Back To Cali!
Just wanted to give a heads up that later on this week I will be heading to L.A. with my promotional partner KennyFahim. With that said I'm sure I will be back with plenty of stories and opening up a picture section to the site.
Make sure to check out the youtube clips on the right, as well as the associated blogs listed, as these folk will definitely keep you up to date on whats going on all around.....
Monday, August 25, 2008
Cuz We Said So Radio Returns TONIGHT!
*does the butterfly and the pepper seed*Sooooo - I stalked our Program Director a bit and convinced him to let us start back up Monday. As it goes, we're on the 25th, off Sep 1st, then back Sep 8th.I'm excited, you should be tooooo!AND - today is my last official day at work so no more 9-5'n *cabbage patch*Tune-in Monday. New music, new material, more surprises.Have a great weekend,H.Oh"
Vietnam vets stirring up a McCain mutiny

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/08/25/2008-08-25_vietnam_vets_stirring_up_a_mccain_mutiny.html
Altaffer/AP
John McCain
Sen. John McCain commands support at many VFW halls across the country. But a squadron of Vietnam vets and POW/MIA advocates is strafing him with decidedly unfriendly fire.
Two-tour Green Beret Ted Sampley, who helped "Swift Boat" Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race, is now gunning for the GOP White House hopeful.
The organizer of Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain claims the Purple Heart-winning former POW has "never admitted the full extent to which he cooperated with his captors."
"He wanted to normalize relations with Vietnam," Sampley tells us. "He took away the only leverage we had for getting those soldiers back. Why? He was paying back the Vietnamese for keeping quiet about him."
McCain has called Sampley a profiteering "enemy of the truth" and "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter." (Sampley was jailed after beating up McCain aide Mark Salter outside McCain's Senate office in 1992.)
Though he's no fan of Barack Obama, Sampley says Fox News producers haven't invited him on to bash McCain the way he bashed Kerry. But Sampley is finding other comrades. Former POW Phillip Butler asserts that McCain "allows the media to make him out to be the hero POW, which he knows is absolutely not true."
Former GOP Congressmen Bill Hendon and John LeBoutillier, who both served on the House Task Force on POW/MIA Affairs, write on Sampley's U.S. Veteran Dispatch that McCain "abandoned American POWs."
"He's totally dishonest," says LeBoutillier, who contends that, to win over the religious right, McCain "cribbed" his recent memory of a kindly guard leaving "a cross in the dirt" from Jeremiah Denton, another POW-turned-senator who told a similar story.
Other POWs have backed up McCain's story. And the senator, who refused Vietnamese offers of early prison release, has called the "evidence" of living POWs a "cruel hoax on their families."
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Bill Maher on Larry King
Part 2
Part 3
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Jack Cafferty Asks the Tough Questions?!?!?!
-Jack Cafferty: McCain gives shallow answers at Saddleback forum
Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California. I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn't bother to show up. Now I know why.
It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. "It means I'm saved and forgiven." Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we've all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.
Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?
Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.
He was asked "if evil exists." His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to "the gates of hell." That was it.
He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.
One after another, McCain's answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.
Where are John McCain's writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America's moral responsibility in the world, etc., etc., etc.?
John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the "Straight Talk Express" for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he's reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner -- short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.
I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin's eyes and see into his soul.
George Bush's record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.
He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.
I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Mccain's Cribs
John McCain is soaring to new heights of hypocrisy on his wife's personal jet. He flies around the country bent on duping the public into believing he's "one of them," a regular guy who can empathize with Americans facing an overwhelming economic crush. What's more, he disparages those who oppose his ridiculous policy proposals as "elitist." But who's the real elitist?
The REAL McCain is a multimillionaire who owns ten luxurious homes. The REAL McCain backs President Bush's tax cuts for big corporations. The REAL McCain empathizes only with the interests of our nation's wealthy minority, not its money-strapped majority. But far too many are buying into McCain's deceit because the corporate press won't present the whole picture, so we created this video to educate the public about the REAL McCain.
Together, you have been a force in making sure The REAL McCain videos have been seen by nearly 6.5 million people. But as Frank Rich noted in his NY Times column yesterday, 40% of Americans hear too little about McCain from the mainstream media, meaning "the public doesn't know who on earth John McCain is." That's why it's crucial you ensure this video is seen by as many as possible, and that we use each and every tool at our disposal to get the word out. Send this on to five friends and family members, and tell them to send it to five people they know. Get it to your local news outlets and blogs and networking sites like Digg. Raise hell about McCain's economic duplicity!
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney summed it up best when he said McCain "simply doesn't understand the challenges America's working families are facing because he isn't remotely affected by them." It's up to us to tell people who McCain really is, a personal jet-setting elitist more concerned with corporate lobbyists than hard-working Americans.
Bonus McBushed!
