May 222012
 

If I understood it correctly, they’re recording their new video in the yard of this apartment block right in the middle of São Paulo, occupied by homeless people, who’ve been living there since 2007. Now they want to kick them out. But the law says, if you have occupied a place for five years, you have the legal right to live there, and they’re a few days short of that.

American rappers never do nothing like this, preoccupied with acquiring African blood diamonds and German automobiles, and drinking liquid heroin.

Racionais MC’s is one of the best rap groups in history, like Wu-Tang and Death Row rolled into one. Really, really real reality rap. Their most classic video, embedded below.

May 162012
 

dead presidents remix by Hector Immortal Riley

feeling it freestyle by Hector Immortal Riley

Max B was the last from New York whose music made me feel this way.

Time for the city to bring back that whole aura, that soul rap music. Time for the penal system to free The Wavy One from his shackles. New York needs that. The planet needs that.

Hector Immortal Riley, also from Harlem, and who I know nothing else about, might not belong in that same discussion. But these two freestyles leave me fiending for more.

May 142012
 

Will we achieve our dreams,
Freedom, equality and bread?
And with that said,
Would you follow if I led?

 Posted by at 10:52

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