- 70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color
- While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned.
- Report: Immigration Status and Race Affect Domestic Workers’ Pay
- Once convicted, black offenders receive longer sentences compared to white offenders. The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes.
- Marijuana Prohibition Turns 75, Blacks Three Times More Likely to be Arrested Than Whites
- According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime.
- A number of states have bans on people with certain convictions working in domestic health-service industries such as nursing, child care, and home health care—areas in which many poor women and women of color are disproportionately concentrated.
- African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
- The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.
- [TW: Rape] Canadian police accused of abusing native women
- CNN breaks down the numbers: > Nearly nine out of 10 people “stopped and frisked” under a controversial New York Police Department policy in 2011 were African-American or Hispanic.
- The War on Drugs Is Really a War on Minorities
- Martin Luther King assassinated by US government: MLK civil trial decision
- George Zimmerman was acquitted
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
RACE in America DOES MATTER!
Saturday, July 13, 2013
TRAYVON TRUTHS pt 3
I
love the whitest white people and the blackest black people. Ya'll know,
we hung out, partied, drank.smoked, talked and helped one another. Some
of the BEST friends I ever had ARE White. The truth is the TRUTH no
matter what! Black people defend everyone and wrong is wrong, since our
ancestors were slaves. White women talked to black housemaids when they
husbands were beating they ass. But I just
feel bad when white people turn they back when something happens to
black people, like we deserve that shit. We don't think white people or
anyone deserves to be Killed, Raped, Abused, Molested. Even if you don't
do if yourself, If you defending Zimmerman, you condone it. I'ma be
done soon. I just saw news reports, comments, and the case itself these
last few days, and I just couldn't take it!
TRAYVON TRUTHS pt 2
TRAYVON!
This is one example of a problem that continues everyday! This is just
one case! There have been 10 or more publicized examples of Black
blatantly murdered by fairer skinned races since Trayvon and nothing
happens. Its just funny that SOME, not ALL, but a large SOME non-blacks
come out and seem to always defend the person who killed a BLACK person.
Like its in they DNA from slavery days. YA'LL KNOW that shit is DEAD
WRONG! Then they try to cite the .0005% example of a Black person who
killed somebody white. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT SHIT! If we
keepin SCORE ya'll DEFINITELY gonna LOSE!
TRAYVONS TRUTHS pt 1. Vick got 18 months for dogs!
Remember!
Vick for 3 to 6 for killing a dog! You can kill a Nigger and Get
famous! Anyone who defends Zimmerman is saying we are still NIGGERS and
anyone with fairer skin can kill us with No consequence! We less than
Dogs! You scared to say it but I ain't. #FUCKIT #WESTILLNIGGERS #BLACKLIFELESSTHANDOGS #REALSHIT
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
BLACK BIKE WEEK 2013/ BIKE RALLY Myrtle Beach, SC: BIKES, CARS, BEAUTIES, and BEACHES
The 2013 Black Bike Week, also known as the Bike Rally, is an annual Memorial Day Weekend event that brings in an estimated 250,000-300,000 participants to the sands of Myrtle Beach, SC. The festival showcases the style, passion, and muscle of Bike and Motor clubs and enthusiasts. Riders come from all over the United States to fellowship together on the beaches Ocean Boulevard Strip.The event has seen its fair share of ups and downs over the years due to differences between the county and its African American population. Fortunately, due to the adjustment of laws and ordinances, the Bike Week has seen consistent growth and is one of the cities largest sources of income.
Check out a few pics.
We are working on the video too:
"Black Bike Week All-stars" will show the highlights of Bikes, Cars, and Beauties of the Bike Rally Memorial Day weekend 2013.
Check out a few pics.
We are working on the video too:
"Black Bike Week All-stars" will show the highlights of Bikes, Cars, and Beauties of the Bike Rally Memorial Day weekend 2013.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
For the Love of Hip Hop Music - MCFC Series 1 pt 1
Can hip hop music include love of oneself, ethnic background, community, family, or education and still thrive in today’s commercial market? Some would say no. Actually most would say no. People today seem to give more thought to what color shoes they would like to wear than who and what they Love. Even in its most popular urban form, Hip Hop, LOVE is as taboo as searching adult sites at work. Both can end your career before it ever even starts. In fact, when asked how they felt about the L word, 4 out of 5 artists said they would love to use “love” in their music but no one would listen if they did. The artist, “Seven da Pantha” stated, “I am what I consider a real emcee. I hold hip hop in the highest regard and give it the utmost respect. Violence, for some reason, is a preferred topic in hip-hop. As a father and leader of a household, I try to be a strong, firm example for my seeds. I always express my love and affection for my wife and children. In my craft though, I rarely feel it appropriate to express my love over a track, although I do proudly. I can talk about self defense with fire-arms and its ok though. The hip hop community as a whole seems to dislike love. Even non hardcore emcees don’t particularly support songs about love. It’s crazy.”
What do you think?
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
FLOW CHAMP on Reverbnation- LISTEN toFREE MUSIC!
Check out the FLOW CHAMP on Reverbnation. Listen to Best Hip Hop Music out today!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
My Definition of Hip Hop
Hip Hop is a movement. A culture so powerful, it has been used, misused, stolen, copied, and reproduced for fame and profit. It's influence stretches over regions, locales, countries, and continents. Although deeply rooted in the southern fight for freedom, it was birthed from the inner city's plight and struggle for a voice. Not only is it an outlet, it is an tool of expression used to exposed what the government and upper-class hide, deny, and ignore. THE PEOPLE.
FLOW CHAMP
Sunday, February 13, 2011
For the Love of Music
Can hip hop music include love of oneself, ethnic background, community, family, or education and still thrive in today’s commercial market? Some would say no. Actually most would say no. The millennium generation seems to give more thought to what color shoes they would like to wear than love. Even in its most popular urban form Hip Hop, love is as taboo as searching adult sites at work. Both can end your career before it starts. In fact, when asked how they felt about the L word, 4 out of 5 artists said they would love to use “love” in their music but no one would listen. The artist “Seven da Pantha” stated, “I am what I consider a real emcee. I hold hip hop in the highest regard and give it the utmost respect. Violence is for some reason a preferred topic in hip-hop. As a father and leader of a household, I try to be a strong, firm example for my seeds. I always express my love and affection for my wife and children. In my craft though, I rarely feel it appropriate to express my love over a track. I can talk about self defense with fire-arms and its ok though. The hip hop community as a whole seems to dislike love. Even non hardcore emcees don’t particularly support songs about love. It’s crazy.”
Long gone are the days of U.N.I.T.Y being chanted in chorus with Queen Latifah. No more chillin out watching LL Cool J proclaim “I need love” to his favorite lady. In today’s Hip Hop world, love has taken a backseat to modernistic ideals. These Ideals are based mostly around materialism, sex, and violence. In the late 70’s pioneer emcees like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five firmly promoted social change through their music. Songs like “The Message” painted pictures of poverty strickened family’s and underprivileged youth. It shined a light on overlooked issues faced in Urban America.
In the book “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip-Hop Generation”, Moletick Asante talks about how Hip-Hop has shifted from social issues and politics to violence and love of money. He discusses the effects of the corporate takeover of Hip-Hop music driving a vehicle of positivity into a negative direction. Control of radio and most major media outlets allow billion dollar companies to market harmful images to youth. These near criminal acts are all done in the name of the corporate dollar. Asante speaks about how today’s mainstream rappers aren’t taking enough responsibility themselves for the portrayal of our generation and its music. He feels,”we must be a part of the generation that rebuilds the city and fights against the officials in this city who try to keep us out. I agree.
In the Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop and Why It Matters,” Tricia Rose discusses the role violence has taken in Hip-Hop. The shift in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s toward a more hardcore rap. The emergence of west coast rap detailing the everyday life in gang and crooked cop infested areas of Los Angeles. Once violence began selling cds and concert tickets, corporations threw more money into artist promoting drugs and violence and little to artist promoting education and prosperity. Artists such as rapper “Common got almost no recognition for his heralded classic album of the era “Like Water for Chocolate”. An album considered conscious for its lack of negative African American stereotypical images.
Although love seems to be lost to a billion dollar corporate structure bent on destroying urban communities and minorities while profiting ten figure salaries, I believe there is hope. Hope exists in the multitude of unheard artists with a voice and a message. Hope in the overshadowed emcees who speak social change and education. Hope for artists who promote honesty and strong moral conviction. Hope in lyricists who promote love of family, community, and self. Rap with a purpose like the pioneer artist of the 80’s such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Hope in artists who provide education and entertainment or “Ed-u-tainment like KRS-ONE, the teacher and educator. He uses the microphone as a platform for the community’s voice. Hope in hungry young visionaries with strength to withstand the temptations of greed and envy and continue to help their fellow artist. The love of money and material objects can never take the place of Real Hip-Hop love.
Long gone are the days of U.N.I.T.Y being chanted in chorus with Queen Latifah. No more chillin out watching LL Cool J proclaim “I need love” to his favorite lady. In today’s Hip Hop world, love has taken a backseat to modernistic ideals. These Ideals are based mostly around materialism, sex, and violence. In the late 70’s pioneer emcees like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five firmly promoted social change through their music. Songs like “The Message” painted pictures of poverty strickened family’s and underprivileged youth. It shined a light on overlooked issues faced in Urban America.
In the book “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip-Hop Generation”, Moletick Asante talks about how Hip-Hop has shifted from social issues and politics to violence and love of money. He discusses the effects of the corporate takeover of Hip-Hop music driving a vehicle of positivity into a negative direction. Control of radio and most major media outlets allow billion dollar companies to market harmful images to youth. These near criminal acts are all done in the name of the corporate dollar. Asante speaks about how today’s mainstream rappers aren’t taking enough responsibility themselves for the portrayal of our generation and its music. He feels,”we must be a part of the generation that rebuilds the city and fights against the officials in this city who try to keep us out. I agree.
In the Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop and Why It Matters,” Tricia Rose discusses the role violence has taken in Hip-Hop. The shift in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s toward a more hardcore rap. The emergence of west coast rap detailing the everyday life in gang and crooked cop infested areas of Los Angeles. Once violence began selling cds and concert tickets, corporations threw more money into artist promoting drugs and violence and little to artist promoting education and prosperity. Artists such as rapper “Common got almost no recognition for his heralded classic album of the era “Like Water for Chocolate”. An album considered conscious for its lack of negative African American stereotypical images.
Although love seems to be lost to a billion dollar corporate structure bent on destroying urban communities and minorities while profiting ten figure salaries, I believe there is hope. Hope exists in the multitude of unheard artists with a voice and a message. Hope in the overshadowed emcees who speak social change and education. Hope for artists who promote honesty and strong moral conviction. Hope in lyricists who promote love of family, community, and self. Rap with a purpose like the pioneer artist of the 80’s such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Hope in artists who provide education and entertainment or “Ed-u-tainment like KRS-ONE, the teacher and educator. He uses the microphone as a platform for the community’s voice. Hope in hungry young visionaries with strength to withstand the temptations of greed and envy and continue to help their fellow artist. The love of money and material objects can never take the place of Real Hip-Hop love.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
What is Life?
What is life? Life is a moving montage of unscripted scenes rotating through our daily memories, written by our daily living. Scenes which we try to duplicate or deny; rewind or revoke; edit or eject; depending on the result of the final climatic ending. Not the grand finale, but the transitional moments between scenes, which lead to the ultimate scroll of the final credits.
The moments where we meet that special someone, in that most unusual place, never realizing that a magnetic attraction drew both together from miles apart. Special moments where eyes connect and words exchange over audio aphrodisiac. Magnetic moments where some life force wakes, beckons, and compels two souls, from two cities, to meet in a quiet jazz club as momentary strangers.
A strange force that pushes pre –presidential candidates to volunteer in community outreach programs; later leading down a yellow bricked road directed at the White House. A constant feeling of mental pushes, with the strength of a Jedi. A jolt of one’s subconscious to make a last minute turn down a side road, unknowingly evading a massive accident.
We are somehow driven by simple twists of fate that lead to discoveries of new restaurants, bags of unclaimed wealth, or secret hideaways reserved for solitude and meditation.
Whether we embrace these compulsions and live sporadically, or calculate each step beyond ones gut feeling, remains the choice. The choice of living to die or dying to live is still a choice.
Although we do not choose to live, we choose our life. We choose to stop or proceed. We choose to give or take. We choose to exist or expire. We choose to film or cut. Erase or edit. We do not choose how it begins but we eventually choose how it ends. Life is a choice. What choice will you make, with your LIFE.
The moments where we meet that special someone, in that most unusual place, never realizing that a magnetic attraction drew both together from miles apart. Special moments where eyes connect and words exchange over audio aphrodisiac. Magnetic moments where some life force wakes, beckons, and compels two souls, from two cities, to meet in a quiet jazz club as momentary strangers.
A strange force that pushes pre –presidential candidates to volunteer in community outreach programs; later leading down a yellow bricked road directed at the White House. A constant feeling of mental pushes, with the strength of a Jedi. A jolt of one’s subconscious to make a last minute turn down a side road, unknowingly evading a massive accident.
We are somehow driven by simple twists of fate that lead to discoveries of new restaurants, bags of unclaimed wealth, or secret hideaways reserved for solitude and meditation.
Whether we embrace these compulsions and live sporadically, or calculate each step beyond ones gut feeling, remains the choice. The choice of living to die or dying to live is still a choice.
Although we do not choose to live, we choose our life. We choose to stop or proceed. We choose to give or take. We choose to exist or expire. We choose to film or cut. Erase or edit. We do not choose how it begins but we eventually choose how it ends. Life is a choice. What choice will you make, with your LIFE.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
School system. Street vs Classroom
Education is relative to ones environment. Books do not dictate intelligence. Everyday we live we are learning no matter what the medium or institution. While one man fumbles through encyclopedias strengthening his brain another swings a pick axe strengthening his biceps. Ask one to do the others job and neither will be as efficient. Both are equally important. Also, just because one does go further in an institution, it does not mean he is of higher intelligence than ones who haven't. Most self made millionaires didn't graduate high school. Most college degree holders don't even work in their field. Now who's smarter? Good question.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Cost of a Dream
Dreams will always be dreams. Dreams of expensive cars. Dreams of big homes. Dreams of better jobs. Life would be worthless without a dream.
But what does a dream cost. One would think nothing. A little time and concentration maybe. Maybe not. It depends on your dream appraisal. It depends on your future plans. It depends on what your happiness is worth to you.
Pursuing a dream can be a major decision. Chasing dreams take time and resources that we work very hard to skim by with. One must consider the what ifs before that leap of faith. What if my car breaks down? What if the economy gets bad? What if I don't get a bonus this year?
What if can turn into financial strain, foreclosure, divorce, bankruptcy, crime, and/or imprisonment. People lose friends and family over dreams. Somewhat costly depending on what you value.
So you tell me, is dreaming free? It depends on the result. If you win, everyone cheers. If you lose, everyone boos. Do you do it for them or for yourself. Do you risk financial peril to reach your star. Is the cost of a dream worth it to you?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Southern Hip Hop has not ruined Hip Hop by Big B Bigga
In my opinion, Southern Hip Hop has not ruined Hip Hop as a whole at all. It has added another branch to the tree of Hip Hop. Truth be told the Southern branch of
Hip Hop has existed for a while. For example, pioneers like Scarface, UGK (Texas), Outkast and Goodie Mobb (Georgia) helped bring the Southern Hip Hop sound to the mainstream audience. They were able to break through with substance, skill, and originality that many of the acts that you hear on the radio and in the clubs simply don't possess.
If you do your research you'll see that in the mid 90's there was balance in Hip Hop. Radio, clubs, and videos gave you a mix of East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South, and Mid-West music. The variety was there. Hip Hop heads had a grab bag of art to choose from. All assorted flavors from all regions around the country. As in any other genre of music of course you had your one hit wonders and you had your mainstays.
The Southern explosion hit a decade ago when New Orleans really took off with artists like Master P (No Limit) and Juvenile (Cash Money) then shortly after that Ludacris (DTP), reppin' for Atlanta, came through. The balance then officially shifted to the south and the south has been dominating ever since.
The problem with Hip Hop currently is that there is a lack of artistry, substance, and skill. There has been garbage ass music to come from the both coasts and the mid-west not just the south. It just so happens to be more trash seeping through from the south because that is what the "Powers That Be" force fed to the listeners right now. Remember the Label execs don't have to sign these artists. If you want to blame anyone for the damage Hip Hop has taken, point fingers at the A & R's. They are the ones who seek out the talent (or lack there of) to push to the labels. They made talented individuals conform there gifts into what they felt would get them heard, which in turn took away the what made Hip Hop great. Once the "Corporate Machine" fully took over the way commercial Hip Hop is presented to the masses the essence of Hip Hop began to wither away. Just because a song or rapper is hot doesn't mean they are making good music. There is still excellent Hip Hop music being created you just have to filter through the bullshit to get to it. So its not Southern Hip Hop that's destroying Hip Hop, it's the Corporate monster that"s devouring the Art of Hip Hop.
-Big B Bigga
myspace.com/bigbbigga
Hip Hop has existed for a while. For example, pioneers like Scarface, UGK (Texas), Outkast and Goodie Mobb (Georgia) helped bring the Southern Hip Hop sound to the mainstream audience. They were able to break through with substance, skill, and originality that many of the acts that you hear on the radio and in the clubs simply don't possess.
If you do your research you'll see that in the mid 90's there was balance in Hip Hop. Radio, clubs, and videos gave you a mix of East Coast, West Coast, Dirty South, and Mid-West music. The variety was there. Hip Hop heads had a grab bag of art to choose from. All assorted flavors from all regions around the country. As in any other genre of music of course you had your one hit wonders and you had your mainstays.
The Southern explosion hit a decade ago when New Orleans really took off with artists like Master P (No Limit) and Juvenile (Cash Money) then shortly after that Ludacris (DTP), reppin' for Atlanta, came through. The balance then officially shifted to the south and the south has been dominating ever since.
The problem with Hip Hop currently is that there is a lack of artistry, substance, and skill. There has been garbage ass music to come from the both coasts and the mid-west not just the south. It just so happens to be more trash seeping through from the south because that is what the "Powers That Be" force fed to the listeners right now. Remember the Label execs don't have to sign these artists. If you want to blame anyone for the damage Hip Hop has taken, point fingers at the A & R's. They are the ones who seek out the talent (or lack there of) to push to the labels. They made talented individuals conform there gifts into what they felt would get them heard, which in turn took away the what made Hip Hop great. Once the "Corporate Machine" fully took over the way commercial Hip Hop is presented to the masses the essence of Hip Hop began to wither away. Just because a song or rapper is hot doesn't mean they are making good music. There is still excellent Hip Hop music being created you just have to filter through the bullshit to get to it. So its not Southern Hip Hop that's destroying Hip Hop, it's the Corporate monster that"s devouring the Art of Hip Hop.
-Big B Bigga
myspace.com/bigbbigga
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