Fatal Lucciauno “Big Bro” video dir. Altrac Productions
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Photo by Charles Mudede, whom I ran into the other day, whom I also took a photo of, and who posted this photo at The Stranger music blog, while the homie Wakx took a photo of us from afar as he waited for the 36, which all happened fortuitously at Dr. Jose Rizal Bridge, the best bridge in all of Seattle.
Slick, Kareem, Donnie
photo by Bob Peterson
Seattle, 1976
La feat. Prometheus Brown & Bambu “Diamonds” - cop the whole SEALAB 2012 album here
Rappers W/ Cameras @ last week’s Artwalk, by Detooz Films. s/o to Gfunkology.
My City’s Filthy! peep my very eloquent cameo in this video.
(via:fuckyeahmacklemore)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “My city’s filthy! SEATTLE” promo video starring a bunch of townfolk, shot by Dan Torok (M.A.D. NW).
Get ready to take a private journey aboard a music fueled spaceship to a place with no borders, rules, or sorrows. Malice and Mario Sweet have chartered a direct flight to a musical celebration for the open-minded lover in all of us.
Several genres are visited throughout this commemorative EP while upbeat, soulful and tangible love rings through each melodic twist and turn. This married duo have no other intention but to channel your inner musician and help you let it all go. Happy 2 Year._________
1. Happy 2 Year - Produced by Jus D’ amato
2. Speed Of Light - Produced by Tall Black Guy
3. DateNite - Produced Kuddie Fresh
4. Malice - Produced by 10.4 Rog
5. Happiness feat. Choklate - Produced by Kuddie Fresh
6. Mario - Produced by Roy Ayers
7. Living Life feat. Geo (Blue Scholars) - Produced by Vitamin D.
FREE DOWNLOAD - http://www.mediafire.com/?1sumx0sjjp42b95
I rap on the last track of this wonderful EP. Get it. Happy V Day people!
NaFFAA Doesn’t Get It
According to this report by the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), one of the main reasons that Filipinos in Seattle Public Schools aren’t academically performing as well as their Asian American counterparts is because:
“Too many of the Filipino kids are involved in hip hop and prefer dancing and singing to studying and earning academic awards.”
… with no actual evidence to back up such a misguided claim. And even if it were true, I doubt that this phenomenon isn’t so much a cause of poor performance by the students than an effect of poor performance by the system itself. And it reeks of the same internalized racism a lot of young Filipinos get from elders who chastise them for “trying to be black” (with nothing to say about those who are “trying to be white,” whatever that means).
It’s claims like these that show how truly out of touch self-proclaimed community spokesperson groups llke NaFFAA are when it comes to addressing our community’s concerns. It would serve us and NaFFAA well if they actually went and talked to the youth and students rather than make erroneous claims based on their own biases and a bunch of dry statistics.
Good thing we have folks in the community like the homie/professor Mark Villegas to analyze these things in-depth. Check this article, which uses some of my lyrics to counter these bourgeois-aspiring Fil-Ams claims with more tact than I ever could: Hip hop over homework: Filipino Americans “failing”?
Wheedle’s Groove (Jennifer Maas, 2010)
I dig how the OG Mr. Supreme, the undisputed DJ with the deepest crates in the whole city, possibly the whole coast, narrates the jump-off point for Wheedle’s Groove (Jennifer Maas, 2010), a documentary about Seattle’s 1960s-70s funk and soul scene.
