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THE LAST POETS: Made in Amerikkka
Total Reading/Viewing Time: 9 minutes
In a previous blog post I mentioned that my dad, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, is a founding member of THE LAST POETS. For the first time in almost 40 years THE LAST POETS come together to claim their legacy - the founding fathers of hip hop - as their story is captured on film:
Harlem 1968, a group of young poets get together and found THE LAST POETS. With jazz or funk as a backdrop, percussions rolling and words shooting out like bursts of machine gun fire, the group denounces the oppression of African Americans, while painting a devastating yet humorous picture of life in the ghetto.<< MORE >>
In a previous blog post I mentioned that my dad, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, is a founding member of THE LAST POETS. For the first time in almost 40 years THE LAST POETS come together to claim their legacy - the founding fathers of hip hop - as their story is captured on film:
Harlem 1968, a group of young poets get together and found THE LAST POETS. With jazz or funk as a backdrop, percussions rolling and words shooting out like bursts of machine gun fire, the group denounces the oppression of African Americans, while painting a devastating yet humorous picture of life in the ghetto.<< MORE >>
CARTOON: Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
by Buk, Esq.
Total Reading/Viewing Time: 5 minutes
I was going to call it quits with my blog for the week until I saw this hard hitting and thought provoking explanation as to Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance, animated by Andy Lubershane. If you haven't been paying attention to the health care debate in America or if you find the arguments on both side to be too complex, I can think of no better way to describe it than with this video. Cartoons are indeed a great reflection of our society. Thanks to my colleague Myrialis Moran-Nieves for sharing. << MORE >>
Total Reading/Viewing Time: 5 minutes
I was going to call it quits with my blog for the week until I saw this hard hitting and thought provoking explanation as to Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance, animated by Andy Lubershane. If you haven't been paying attention to the health care debate in America or if you find the arguments on both side to be too complex, I can think of no better way to describe it than with this video. Cartoons are indeed a great reflection of our society. Thanks to my colleague Myrialis Moran-Nieves for sharing. << MORE >>
A Hughesian Warning to the Contemporary Nordicized Negro Intelligencia: Be Honest or Perish
Total Reading Time: 15 minutes
When Twitter chatter over the last several days regarding Jay-Z's forthcoming "Blueprint 3" album and the overall level of creative dialogue with the so-called cultural critics caused the Langston Hughes' coined term "nordicized negro intelligencia" to pop into my head, a bit of research revealed this article, published in 2007 by Pauliina Piitulainen, an American Literature academic. I reproduce it here as a reminder to those who are the future of creativity within our culture to remain steadfast in your authenticity in the midst of the self-aggrandizement and crass materialism working its way, like an infection, through our system. It cannot last forever.<< MORE >>
When Twitter chatter over the last several days regarding Jay-Z's forthcoming "Blueprint 3" album and the overall level of creative dialogue with the so-called cultural critics caused the Langston Hughes' coined term "nordicized negro intelligencia" to pop into my head, a bit of research revealed this article, published in 2007 by Pauliina Piitulainen, an American Literature academic. I reproduce it here as a reminder to those who are the future of creativity within our culture to remain steadfast in your authenticity in the midst of the self-aggrandizement and crass materialism working its way, like an infection, through our system. It cannot last forever.<< MORE >>
Got Misdemeanors?
by Buk, Esq.
Total Reading Time: 3 minutes
Have you or a family member had a hard time getting a job because you have been arrested?
Was the case dismissed but the charges are still on your record?
In this economy, if the answer is yes, you can't afford to let a stale charge prevent you from obtaining employment.
The Law Office of Bukhari Nuriddin may be able to help you get your case expunged.<< MORE >>
Total Reading Time: 3 minutes
Have you or a family member had a hard time getting a job because you have been arrested?
Was the case dismissed but the charges are still on your record?
In this economy, if the answer is yes, you can't afford to let a stale charge prevent you from obtaining employment.
The Law Office of Bukhari Nuriddin may be able to help you get your case expunged.<< MORE >>
Show-No-Business: Lightnin' Rod's 'Hustlers Convention' is Hip-Hop's Rosetta Stone
by Buk, Esq.
Total Reading/Listening Time: 6 minutes
Lightnin' Rod aka Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, my first entertainment industry client, is a founding member of the legendary rap group, The Last Poets. Historically, The Last Poets, and Jalal in particular, served as the artistic bridge between "toasting," the oral tradition of the streets and precursor to rap, and the later broad commercialization of the hip-hop genre beginning with The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers Delight." In 1973, under the pen name Lightnin' Rod, Jalal recorded a true concept album called Hustlers Convention and later published a book by the same name. The album features Lightnin' Rod, rhyming non-stop and providing the voices for every character, telling the story of a literal Hustlers Convention in the style of an old radio show complete with sound effects and backed by absolutely perfect Kool and The Gang music. Gunshots interrupt phased out wah-funk jams mixed to the back as Lightnin' Rod tells the story of the arrival at the convention, the hustlers interaction, car chase, shootout and "the shit hitting the fan"...twice.<< MORE >>
Total Reading/Listening Time: 6 minutes
Lightnin' Rod aka Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, my first entertainment industry client, is a founding member of the legendary rap group, The Last Poets. Historically, The Last Poets, and Jalal in particular, served as the artistic bridge between "toasting," the oral tradition of the streets and precursor to rap, and the later broad commercialization of the hip-hop genre beginning with The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers Delight." In 1973, under the pen name Lightnin' Rod, Jalal recorded a true concept album called Hustlers Convention and later published a book by the same name. The album features Lightnin' Rod, rhyming non-stop and providing the voices for every character, telling the story of a literal Hustlers Convention in the style of an old radio show complete with sound effects and backed by absolutely perfect Kool and The Gang music. Gunshots interrupt phased out wah-funk jams mixed to the back as Lightnin' Rod tells the story of the arrival at the convention, the hustlers interaction, car chase, shootout and "the shit hitting the fan"...twice.<< MORE >>
An A & B Conversation on "Why People are Twits"
Total Reading Time: 7 minutes
Recently I sat down for a conversation with A & B, who have diametrically opposing views on the utility of Twitter, to get their thoughts on the microblogging platform that's taking the world by storm (except for when it's down because of hackers who have beef with one bloggers' opinion on the conflict between Georgia and Russia). C your way out of it.
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Recently I sat down for a conversation with A & B, who have diametrically opposing views on the utility of Twitter, to get their thoughts on the microblogging platform that's taking the world by storm (except for when it's down because of hackers who have beef with one bloggers' opinion on the conflict between Georgia and Russia). C your way out of it.
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
That is the question. Assuming the premise that no one does something for nothing, why do people tweet and/or blog?<< MORE >>
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