NBA 2K10 DRAFT COMBINE

GO COP THAT!

D.ROSE -Ready 4 Season "Home Opener" @ United Center

Hometown Fav Derrick Rose is ready 2 put the "Baby Bulls" on his back and light up San Antonio 2nite in the United Center.... "SCREAM @ ME CHI-TOWN!"

Retrospective: Vintage Adidas

They tha new BULLS!

So Bust it, I am "super happy" that the 09-10 Hoop Season is finally here and even though there are exceptional squads out there like San Antonio in tha West, Boston, Orlando, even Cleveland in the East- None are a match for the WORLD CHAMPS! I can't help but to see the resemblance or rather similarity of the newly forged Lakers-even better than last year's squad- to the 1 and only -(Owners of tha 90's) "Chicago Bulls."

"They tha New Bulls!" -

Starring: Ron Artest as Dennis "tha Worm" Rodman,
also starring - Kobe Bryant as tha "2nd coming of Air Jordan",
Lamar Odom as Scottie "I get tha job done" Pippen
and listen man... u can even throw Pau Gasol in here as
Tony "now I got Post moves" Kukoc

Well... yall get the picture -tha point is these katz is "UNSTOPPABLE!" ..period (.) point blank!

-Dero
ENJOY YOUR SEASON!!!!

CHAMPS: "2 tha Winners Goes tha Spoils"

Serious ICE ROCKIN' here... CONGRATS! -2 KOBE & the rest of the WORLD CHAMPION LAKERS!

How Fresh is She? Daniella Alonso

My Sneaks 4 tha Week

Bally Sneaks!

President Barack Obama Weekly Address October 24, 2009

Dates For Chris Brown’s Fan Appreciation Tour Announced — Proceeds Going To Charity

11/14 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues
11/15 - Dallas, TX @ Palladium
11/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon
11/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/22 - Richmond, VA @ Landmark
11/25 - Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak
11/26 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
11/29 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
12/1 - Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
12/2 - Atlanta, GA @ CenterStage
12/4 - Washington, D.C. @ Warner Theater
12/5 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's
12/6 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues
12/11 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
12/12 - Wallingford, CT @ Chevrolet Theater
12/13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory

President Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

Retrospective: Spike Bracelet

How Fresh is She? Shanti Lowry

Pine Tree Leniency???

A Nicca need a med card for these headaches & Glaucoma bad as tha mufucka!

Public Option?

57 Percent support Public Option...

My Sneaks 4 tha Week

-Colors may be to "nuvo"... but they still fresh and they still Forums!

Classic Kanye West and Bernie Mac: Graduation Day Lyrics

What in the fuck was that Kanye?
I told you to do some shit for the kids!
You can give me your muthafuckin' graduation ticket right now!
You can give me this motherfucking robe, what your catching SENIORidist?
You will not walk across that stage, you won't slide across that stage
A muthafucka can't pull you across that muthafuckin' stage Kanye.....
Who told you see, I told you to do something up lifting
I'm tryin' get you out here with these white people and this how you gone do me?
You know what? Yous a nigga....
And I don't mean that in no nice way....
Had little kids sing about the shit, the jokes on you!
You throw your mutha hands in the air, and wave good-bye to everybody,
Cause you getting the fuck out of this campus.... Mutha what you gone do now?

I'm no longer confused....don't tell anybody.
I'm about to break the rules.....don't tell anybody.
I got something better than school...don't tell anybody.
My momma would kill me...don't anybody.
she wants me to get a good ass job...... just like everybody.
She ain't walked in my shoes........I'm just not everybody.

Reminding Me Of Self : This is so Chicago!

Lupe's annual Halloween Show on October 29th at the Congress Theater in Chicago

Retrospective: Triple Fat Goose

How Fresh Is She? K.D. Aubert

It Was All Good Just A Week Ago... Life will throw u a loop

So there u are.... casting off and setting sail into the clearest of nights on your very first voyage into what is now a brand new life of copulance. You knew that it would come one day! With the right work ethic, focus, determination, belief and a whole lot of faith ...boom! You've finally done it.

Your lifestyle is now very extravagant.. a far cry from crying and being broke. Even further from feeling sick and tired of being sick and tired. You have now arrived! Just look at the endless amounts of options you have to do whatever it is your little hearts desire. Not knowing what may lie up ahead you spend frivously like "shit.. I got so much money now- I can wipe my ass w/ it." So you go out and buy the homes and the cars, diamonds & jewels, expensive designer clothes etc. Your thought is I'm living for today... and guess what today -I'm living really good so fuck it!

No real consideration of what's instore for you and your bank accounts in the near future and totally oblivious to investing properly.... then it happens! In the blink of an eye BOOM! You just lost everything- houses foreclosed, cars seized, jewels pawned, credit card accounts frozen. As quickly as it came is as quick as it is leaving and to think you felt as though your were "Recession Proof!" Well now, look how quickly the tides can change. One minute you're crusin in tha big boy Benz not a care in the world, the next thing you know you're scroungin to have enough 4 car fare ..all the while wondering how this all got to this perdictiment.

A few words of wisdom.... Have a plan of action financially, learn more about investing your money properly, easy on the spending sprees and make sound decisions. I definitely feel as though you only have one life 2 live so live it up, but we must not go "over-board" and get carried away w/ the spending. I'll leave u w/ a lil' FYI- Did u know that ealrier this month, the labor department reported that the unemployment rate had reached 9.8% , the highest in 26 years. Lets try not 2 forget that we are in a "recession"/ ooops I mean depression!"

-EZ,

-Adero

A Shout Out to Senor Kaos

I would like to send a special strong shout out on behalf of the 48Bars staff to a personal affiliate of ours & the entire hip hop scene hear in Atlanta- tha hip hop multiplex that is "Senor Kaos."

Okay, so boom -I remember when I 1st came across dude on the hip hop circuit here in ATL many moons ago. We were making our weekly rounds as tha "Central Division" to a well known hip hop strong-hold known as Apache' Cafe (may have been as far back when it was still Yin Yan club). During the show there were these 2 kats who performed a set and they went by the name of "Vintage Imperial." What I noticed almost immediately was that the light-skinned kat who went by Kaos was a lil' bit more lyrical than his counterpart. Now me being the hip hop purist and lyrical maniac that I myself have been noted for- was definitely engaged by dude's skill level. Anyone who knows me knows that it takes more than your average rhymin so-called MC to move ya boy so son had 2 have come w/ it.

I followed Kaos' career moves musically as well as from a business standpoint 4 like tha next several years. It seemed like this kid had his hand in a lil' bit of everything -from touring w/ notable hip hop acts 2 marketing & promoting several different major brand names. Aside from his ever busy calendar this young diligent brother always seems 2 find the time 2 drop multiple album/mixtape projects, film videos in and out of state and maintains the day 2 day on his own company "VINTAGE IMPERIAL LIFESTYLE MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS" and has his popular web blog known as http://www.thekaoseffect.com/. Talk about putting in work and stayin on tha grind!

Big ups to tha bull Senor Kaos 4 doing his thang and 4 always offering something new and playing a continual role in the Atlanta hip hop scene overall! Yall go out and support Kaos as he has just recently dropped his latest project -The Smoking Section Presents Senor Kaos "Walk Softly & Carry A Big Brick". Its been out only a few weeks and already has a considerable Internet buzz... he got some big names on his joint too so yall check in on this one!
-Easy,

Adero D.

My Sneaks 4 Tha Week

OOOWEEE... Classic shit -Reebok Pumps w/ NYK colors... Serious!

MULLAH OMAR

SPECIAL Edition of RELAPSE @ Mist Lounge| Dedication to Hip Hop| Monday 10/12/09

Dedication to Hip Hop and Celebration of Def Jams 25th Anniversary!
Monday, Oct 12, 2009

Live performance by

'IL'
At MIST Lounge 2211 Savoy Drive
Atlanta, Ga. 30341

Obama humbled to win Nobel

The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent in September: What's Next?

“For the first time, the average amount of time it takes fired employees to find a new job exceeds the length of their standard unemployment benefits. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the average duration of unemployment is now 26.2 weeks, longer than the 26 weeks of state benefits normally provided to workers who lose their jobs. It’s the first time that has occurred since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records in 1948. “

The only thing I can say is WOW! The only question I have is what's next? Don't you miss the 1990's when individuals were eating right? Let me answer my own question- We as Americans need to change our mindset, to quote myself... “U gotta do what U gotta do when U gotta”. No I'm not insinuating that you go out there and do something illegal to get yours, but like Banks told 50... go 'head switch the style up!

Let's have a little history lesson. I don't know if segregation helped or hindered Black America, back in the day we were forced to support each other. The Civil Rights Movement knocked down some doors for Blacks (i.e. job opportunities, education, etc.) Many of our parents stayed on one job for years, some even retired. "Retired"... is that even possible in these days? Remember in the 90's when everyone was into the mutual funds? How many people were millionaires on paper? Then the market crashed...oh shit now what? It amazed me...you got people going to jail for traffic tickets..and corporate execs making off like Maddoff.... even when convicted are still living better then most! Don't you just love capitalism?

Damn, what was my question??? Oh! What's next? Do something that you enjoy doing to get the dough!!! Sometimes the all mighty gives us hidden blessings. I know when you got that pink slip you got that lump in your throat... but two tears in a bucket, now your freed up. The bottom line is that you still gotta eat! You got two choices, either give up or keep it moving. We need to get back to basics -being creative, supportive of one another, courteous, and staying on the grind. Let's keep it one hundred...knowing that we were gonna get that check every two weeks made us a little laxed, but when you know your dough depends on your hustle it keeps you motivated...but hey...what do I know...it's only what I was thinking at the time.

-Rollie

How Fresh is She? Leilani Marie

Retrospective: Schoolhouse Rock- How a Bill Becomes a Law

What do U think the BILL was, a light or a dark drinker.........

My Sneaks 4 tha Week

B-Boy Status!

9th Wonder wrote an open letter to address Gladys Knight’s statements on the negative effects of hip hop

Gladys Knight’s statements

Famed producer 9th Wonder, who aids in the positive real roots of hip hop music, recently wrote an open letter to address Gladys Knight’s statements on the negative effects of hip hop.

Last week, soul and R&B legend Gladys Knight publicly criticized rap music, addressing the genre with a rather broad stroke. Professor Patrick Douthit, aka 9th Wonder, who has made music with Jay-Z, Beyonce, Jean Grae, Torae and others, has responded in this editorial:

Dear Editor,

I recently read the legendary Gladys Knight’s comments about Hip-Hop and the culture thereof as it pertains to hindering the growth of black music. In a lot of ways, present day black music in a general sense is in a very bad state. From Hip-Hop to the level of R&B and Soul or the lack of in mainstream media, we are seemingly suffering across the board. However, my concerns are focused on the comments about Hip-Hop.

Once AGAIN, the attempt to separate the generations amongst us as black Americans is having much success. In dealing with the older generation of our people, our elders refuse to see or seek the GOOD facets of Hip-Hop, or even the cultural aspects of Hip-Hop when it comes to improvisation, creativity, research, and skill. The fact that TRUE Hip-Hoppers respect, glorify, and honor the great ones who came before us in our records, and the use of what we call “samples” speaks volumes. A lot of musicians I’ve spoken with such as Michael Henderson, Gamble and Huff, Robert Allred from the Dynamic Five, and Leon Sylvers understand the BRIDGE we are building between generations. The reason I now listen to Bobby Bland, Mandrill, Billy Paul, The Dells, The Drells, Choice Four, The Undisputed Truth and countless other 60’s and 70’s greats, and why my 60 yr old brothers and sisters listen to it have two totally different paths.

Looking at my life as a 34 year-old and being from the South, my parents believed that anything outside of James Cleveland was secular. So an abundance of 70’s soul, even Gladys Knight and the Pips, was not played in my house. Hip-Hop was the way that I found all of these artists, traveling the world and collecting records. I learned my history

of black music through a vessel that a lot of my elders see as vulgar and offensive in a GENERAL sense. Hip-Hop was not always that way. In 1976, Afrika Bambaataa started the Universal Zulu Nation in the Bronx, New York, to give a creative outlet to rival gangs. However, today our law enforcement believes that hip-hop incites gang violence.

It was because of artists like Public Enemy, KRS-One, Brand Nubian, and A Tribe Called Quest that I heard names such as Carter G. Woodson, Medgar Evers, Steve Biko, Kwame Toure’, Marcus Garvey, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, or ANYBODY outside of Martin Luther King and Harriet Tubman in public schools. These artists spoke about our elders in song, whether using the funk and soul records, or telling stories and mentioning names. From 1988 to 1993, black teens’ enrollment in college, especially HBCUs, rose to 45% because of the nature of the arts; from the African Medallions, to the Malcolm X t-shirts, the African-American College Alliance shirts Martin Lawrence wore on Def Comedy Jam, to School Daze, to the most powerful hour in black TV, The Cosby Show and A Different World. “Droppin’ Knowledge” if you will was made to be a “cool” or “in-crowd” thing. Unfortunately, the powers that be were against Hip-Hop being used as a NEW vessel to open the eyes of black kids and remind them to honor the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s. It is very odd that around the same time, a more negative form of hip-hop was being PUSHED to the forefront, so our elders could turn their heads away from what we were REALLY trying to say, and divide us as ALWAYS.

Our elders turned away from our younger generation, which resulted in a lack of understanding of the TRUE essence of the Hip Hop art form. Subsequently, this led to resentment amongst the younger generation. The younger generation speaks- if there is no patience to understand our voice, then why should we try to learn where we came from? This only widens the divide.

HOWEVER, the true essence of what hip-hop was built on was and STILL is the tie that binds. We must learn and understand that the true version of ANY art form is not and will NEVER BE displayed in the mass media. As a result, it will stay “underground,” or stolen from us. Do we actually believe that those same powers that control radio stations want our children educated through an emcee or an R&B singer who could inspire social change amongst the youth?

Do we actually think that those powers want the two, now three generations to be united and have a full understanding of each other’s side of the story? I agree that YES the present state of hip-hop on THESE SAME AIRWAYS are less desirable; the same way the blacks who survived the Ragtime, Great Depression and Big Band Jazz looked down upon the black exploitation films of the 70’s, your Fred Williamson movies, Ohio Players Album Covers, or the language on Millie Jackson records.

Let’s pray that my generation loses the feeling of resentment, and at the same time, my elders take the time and patience to seek the GOOD messages and highlight the BEAUTIFUL things about Hip-Hop that mass media WILL NOT show you. Otherwise, we as a race will always be divided, and once again, they will have succeeded in their mission.

Here is a verse from the Hip-Hop song entitled “You Must Learn” as performed by Boogie Down Productions (KRS-One), from the album “The BluePrint” released in 1989. This verse was one of the key reasons why I went to college:

“I believe that if you’re teaching history
Filled with straight-up facts, no mystery
Teach the student what needs to be taught
‘Cause black and white kids both take shots
When one doesn’t know about the other one’s culture
Ignorance swoops down like a vulture
‘Cause you don’t know that you ain’t just a janitor
No one told you about Benjamin Banneker
A brilliant black man that invented the almanac
Can’t you see where KRS is coming at
With Eli Whitney, Haile Selassie
Grandville Woods made the walkie-talkie
Lewis Latterman improved on Edison
Charles Drew did a lot for medicine
Garrett Morgan made the traffic lights
Harriet Tubman freed the slaves at night
Madame CJ Walker made a straightenin’ comb
But you won’t know this if you weren’t shown
The point I’m gettin’ at, it might be harsh
‘Cause we’re just walkin’ around brainwashed
So what I’m sayin’ is not to diss a man
We need the 89 school system
One that caters to a black return
Because you must learn.”

Today, ANY type of revolution, even in SONG…will never by televised…..

Peace, Love, Soul, and Hip-Hop,
Professor Patrick Douthit, aka 9th Wonder
Grammy Award Winning Producer/DJ/Lecturer
National Ambassador for Hip-Hop Relations and Popular Culture-NAACP

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EMPIRE STATE OF MIND MUSIC: Jay Z & A. Keys

President Obama's Olympic Bid 4 Chi-Town 2016

This would be fresh 4 tha crib!

Retrospective: Cazal Frames

"Golden Age" hip hoppers couldn't get it poppin w/out a pair of these classic "DMC" joints right here!

How Fresh Is She? Jaime Pressly