Hip Hop Joe Budden vs...Who?

I don't know who Random is, but i'm feeling the way Joe Budden handled this hip hop beef. This is another beautiful snatch from www.illdoctrine.com. Rappers KNOW they're getting old, its time to act like it.

( Go to the site to view the clip)

Long Distance Tagging- Get Yours! Palestine

RAMALLAH, West Bank – This is so damn cool -- The newest and most politically charged Graffiti space-the massive concrete barrier separating Israel from the Palestinians.
Over the Internet, a group of Palestinian graf artists ( members of the Palestinian Peace and Freedon Youth Forum) are offering to spray-paint your personal message on Israel's towering security wall in the occupied West Bank.
It costs $40 a message and you can say whatever....just don't get too crazy
I'm doing it...I'm thinking " The World Is Ours!" in all caps...its a chance to be a little part of the hope-making process. And your message will stand until peace reigns... Knowing Israel and Palestine thats gonna be a minute.

www.sendamessage.nl

"It is a new way to speak with the people, that we the Palestinians exist," says graffiti artist Yusef Njm।

Shepard Fairey fighting Associated Press for his Obama Image

Are they serious? The now famous "Obey" style Image of Obama was based on a photograph taken by Associated Press's freelance photographer Manny Garcia...So now they want a cut of the tens of thousands of dollars that has swirled around the image. Fortunately it seems that Shepard Fairey didn't make more than a little added fame off of it-(well that's his story for the moment anyway). It took the photographer two seconds to snap that photo and prob took Fairey hours to repaint it. The photograph isn't what excited the globe and it couldnt have, it is one of millions and easily replaceable, Fairey's hard work made it gold.

I don't think they deserve a cut ( especially off of a photo they never even used), but that's me.

( Video Chat Coming to the Iphone?) Meet George Jetson...

his boy Elroy....

Apple filed a massive patent that includes a gang of services that are needed for video chat:
"video conferencing", "Optical Sensor" aka video cam, "digital videoing

...Daughter Judy

Of course this doesnt' mean its set in stone. Apple patents a lot of nonsense just on principle. But i'm getting excited... I may have to (gulp) switch to AT&T.


Jane his wife!

This is a Graduated Human Being

Shawn Crawford gave up his Olympic silver medal to Churandy Martina, the sprinter who originally finished second in the 200 meters but was later disqualified for running out of his lane.
“It wasn’t about doing the right thing. It’s just me as an athlete—I feel like we all compete and train for four years to get to the Olympic Games,” Crawford said. “We got there, he was told he finished second after all that, he took a victory lap. I can understand his humiliation and embarrassment and all that."

Nicely Put...

"Gaza" From Artist Carlos Latuff.  This just about says it all...The year has just begun. Thnx to atlanta artist Will-Kem for sending this to me. Keep the city warm for me, i'll be there in a few days.

Gold Plated Turntable

Solid Gold Turntables...for my Mix-masters out there...  Unlike the fat cars below, I believe this works. Half a years salary just to get on it:

This thing goes for $38,790. By Transrotor . If i were a d.j. i'd buy it and charge people extra just to watch me use it...then i'd be too scared to mix...i'd just let the track run. lol!

Damn that's a Fat-Azz Ride!

The "Fat Cars"  are created by Viennese ( sp) artist Erwin Wurm...you'll definitely catch people's eye if they ran. It would almost work as a getaway car because the license is covered...but then as soon as you type in the make and model it's all over

Fellas...

Would it be okay if we ALL didn't look like Barbie's, huh?

This photo montage started with a convo with my homegirl about the new NOTORIOUS film that i'm excited to see this weekend. It moved over to Little Kim and of course plastic surgery. Little tiny nosejobs, eye-rounding, skin lightening and whatever else by our celebrities are telling little girls ( and boys) all over the world its not okay for women to be themselves. So this is not a new convo, i just decided to be sick of it all over again tonight. By the way the picture of the cute little fat faced asian woman in green...yeeeah, that would be our Lil Kim. Freakish, well at least her arm is still black?

Kim Kardashian, Janice Dickinsen, Beyonce, Tyra, Latoya Jackson( can she breathe??), and of course the timeless lil kim....

...And a Happy New Year.

I am inspired to say something with a Holiday Spirit by the head of one of the companies I do business. I stood in the crowd as he gathered all of his employees around him and talked about how hard he has been fighting to keep them with him. I was touched. 2008 was a tough year for so many of you guys. I mean really-Artists got hammered this year. ( many many )Lost jobs, lost homes, cars and credit debt. For some I know it was literally hard to eat this year, but the fact is that we're all still standing, and in some of the toughest cities in the world. we're still eating and making it.

We made it through the Bush regime and if this the best they can do to take us to rock bottom, I think this year is going to be lovely. The world is yours to do with what you will. And the way the world looks is the way you've decided it looks to you. So look up, I see big things in the year(s) to come. As I go into the new year i'm saying " 2009 I'm About To Get Mine."

I want you all there by my side.


Always

Khia.

Merry Xmas

I want someone to buy me these books and put a ribbon on it. And i live in queens. I'm just sayin'

I Like How Gaudi Gets Down

Just back from Barcelona and thanks to Lion I've learned about Spain's pride and joy: Spanish Architech Antoni Gaudi.

His work is something else...its kind of wild. His buildings make him look like a hardworking maniac. There is something haphazard about the way he does his thing that I like. For instance all of this totally different stuff comes off of the same building. For his buildings he designed everthing down to the light fixtures and the gates and the doors and the keyholes in his signature look
(he died having only one girlfriend on record never married-who'd have guessed). And he seemed to have more unfinished projects than finished. He walks off a project when the heads involved cramp his style.

As a designer he's my new hero. To refuse to bend to anyone's will and create these crazy pieces in the early 1900s...crazy.

EPMD-Back in Business

Privileged to see the album release party for EPMD new album " We Mean Business". Album out now. They're back in business and Judging by Parish Smith's big smiles, they were happy to be there. I can't recommend the album yet, but I can recommend the group!

Coup D'Etat ( Clothing Line Brother Omi will LOVE)

I bought a black and metallic " Teach the Babies" t-shirt in Harlem and then Rocked it to EPMDeee's album release last night.  Eric Sermon and Parish Smith are making dollars again. Peace to D.J. K-Salaam for putting me on the list and spinning a great show..and to Bouncer Mike for making me tell him jokes to actually get inside. 

I bought this shirt because Dan Tres (aka Brother Omi) is always talking about the babies and what they learn.  Now this is when the post gets messed up....Danny ( mi maestro) I ALMOST bought you a tee and mailed it to you.Almost.

...but yeeaah bruh its a recession. So just so you know that I thought about you I'm telling you about Coup D'Etat. Click the Link and Go cop somethin'

Was Juno ( the Movie) A Ripoff?

People love to hawk movies in this country from Asia as tho there is no internet.  I recently worked a gig here in NY with a korean woman named Juna Lee...so her name started this conversation. Apparently there is a Korean comedy movie called Jenny, Juno written and directed by Kim-Jo Hoon. It's about a middle school girl and her boyfriend who gets pregnant and then delivers. Sounds a little familiar but even though the Korean and American versions are dead on screen writter Diablo Cody says she never knew it existed. I guess that's possible...

Naaah Kehinde Wiley this doesn't sit well

I've been off my blogging game lately. My bad. But Yashua Klos told me to tell it like it is so... 

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to go up to harlem and check out Kehinde Wiley as he spoke about his latest exhibition " The World Stage:Africa".  I've had convos with friends about Kehinde's artwork. Originally my reaction to his work was total awe and in time it turned to " what on earth?".  

Kehinde has become famous for painting image after image of gigantic black men in traditional european poses. They are gorgeous and technically sick.  But there are so MANY of them after awhile I began to question his message? I guess it was supposed to be ironic, but It began to seem like he wanted to make black men dignified by making them act non-black. One friend defended him saying that Kehinde's idea was that because we (blacks) are not repped in history he was "painting us in". I said " really, well that's cool". So when the opportunity presented itself I had to ask Kehinde what the real deal was ( turns out btw I wasnt the only audience member disturbed). 

He fumbled a little as he said he was fascinated by european art and he found it the utmost in dignity and wanted to depict the men this way (paraphrasing). It kind of makes me sad. With the many many gigantic and time consuming paintings he did this is the best way he found to make that point. And then he turned it into a gimmick. I've seen at least 17 of them 6 ft tall a piece. Well, we all have to eat and Kehinde is eating well.

Kehinde, babes. This is OUR world every last one of us. White-Black-Yellow-Beige.  There is no longer one standard. Pretty paintings tho, but I'm glad you've moved on. :)

I like what I see in this Video- Somethin' for the Ladies

Can I get a "Whoo-sah" for the real ladies tired of getting misrepped in the video.

Around the Way Girls Dot Net Snatch from newcomer Wesida. Get it girl! Welcome to the crew, you're on your second post and it's the jam...I'm loving how Keri has all her clothes on ( and half the guys naked ).

But for real someone needs to get it right-it's OUR world ( the ladies) I'm tired of the videos getting it twisted:

(ahhh)
you ever try to get that close to me
you better come correct how you
'proachin me
dime divas give it to me
(ahhh)

I gotta be feelin your energy
i gotta be for sure that you're into me
recogize a real woman

now wait a minute lil busta
now you dont even know me
but you wanna take me
shoppin
you a lame, i cant tell it ain't big
shit poppin
you turnin me off x3

Keri Hilson Feat Lil Wayne You Turnin' Me On

A Cure for AIDS????!!

Cough it the hell up! Big businesses make me ill. People have been thinking cures have existed for decades...and me being the little conspiracy theorist I am...well, you can only imagine whats going thru my head.

A 42 year old American in Berlin has gotten a bone marrow transplant that is usually used for leukemia that has pretty much cured his AIDS symptoms and all sign of the disease. Scratching my head as to why this isn;t front page news. Oh yeah, the republicans are still in office.
(Check out my images-of course these ads come from the French. Smile- I like to keep you folks on your toes.)
See more of the story (here)

RIP MAMA AFRICA...

10th November 2008
Johannesburg

The world was dealt a blow early this morning, in a small town outside Naples, Italy when Zenzile Miriam Makeba..Mama Afrika to the world, passed away.. and left this earth, aged 76 years. She was born on 4th March 1932.

The Money Shot!

Three of us had the same good idea but of course photographer Myron Christian had the best one. These get saved for the grandkids.

Curtains for Caribou Barbie

In a long drawn out email with friends the topic came up as to whether we should tear Palin down after the fact. My vote is " yes". I was accused of not following the "Obama way". Whatever.

I think the woman is dangerous and the policies that put her into office are dangerous. I think a message should be put out that it's no longer acceptable for people to this country based off of shiny smiles and good looks. So when you find out " Palin doesnt' know Africa is a continent not a country" or " she throws temper tantrums and makes her interns cry" or that 'her spending at Saks was abusive and shocking to the donor whose pocket it raped'. Its important to talk about it and bury her with it, so we never see such an arrogant, careless, and ridiculous candidate in our midst again.

They needed to stop comparing her to Hillary and start comparing her to George Bush.

Bye-bye Barbie.

Lyrics on Hope(lessness)-One Loaf of Bread ( Damian Marley)

Yeah!! Christ feed the multitude wid only one loaf a bread

Christ feed the multitude wid only one loaf a bread! Poor people
There is something for you dont let the pressures of the system
Get upon ya head, Poor people there is something for you

Mankind cares not for his sisters anymore, still there is something for you
Writen in the the book of life we shall live forever more,
There will be something for...

Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, One Loaf of BreadGang War

{Notice that Stephen had a hand in all of Damian's Dopest Songs}

Jay Smooth's Rap for Young Voters

I love him. I'm going to meet Jay Smooth and make him my pocket boyfriend. ( Khia loves the brainy boys!). The pocket boyfriend is the smaller size version, you pull him out when the real one is acting crazy.

Anyway Jay love the lyrics, you need to work on that beat bruh. Yeeeah, its wack.

Enjoy the video { for the slow people, you need to go to the SITE to see the videos} I'm tired of telling you this.


(Happy B-lated birthday daddy!)

www.theworld-isours.blogspot.com

Your Presidential Candidates Position on the Arts

Just a little something more to think about on Tues. Thanks to designer Derilyn Chambers for the info:
http://www.artsactionfund.org/pdf/press/McCain_Obama_record_final.pdf
Click the link to download the actual pdf.

Diddy Buys Enyce

Damn...another urban line where the girls are wearing nothing but fur and lipgloss. Oh well, diversity is overrated. I wanna give a shout out to all my homies that got laid off back in the day. And a Rest in Peace to some of my Enyce graphics. I'll see you on the other side Mayne!