People are being distracted by this other stuff that’s put in front of them. There strategic censorship of good music taking place…” ~ Homeboy Sandman on NYC Hip Hop, Underground Railroad, WBAI First time I heard this dude I found him really refreshing and he’s doing it again with his new album The Good Sun. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In one of my first posts I put up a pic of artist Shepard Fairey’s clean energy poster. He’s the guy responsible for making the now iconic propaganda picture of Barack Obama. You can pretend to be Shepard Fairey and Obamanicon yourself at obamiconme.pastemagazine.com. You need a clear decent pic of yourself to do it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Hip Hop legend Guru, born Keith Elam. DJ C-Reality and DJ3D of WBAI’s Underground Railroad with Jay Smooth put together this heartfelt, soulful tribute with 2 DJs and 4 turntables at once to say Rest In Power to the legend. RIP Guru Tribute Mix from DJ […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: “A Mutual Endorsement? by Madam Toussaint Recent assessments of President Obama’s first year in office have left the right still harshly critical and pretending they’re being thrown off a cliff every time they see him on TV. While the left is pissed because of some of the moves he could have made but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Still, as a lifelong representative of hip-hop, I really am bothered whenever the drum gets treated like melody’s stepchild. My major beef is that when this anti-drum bigotry rears its ugly head…it usually stems from an assumption that melody is the prime determinant of musicality, the core element of music to which rhythm is always […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Madam Toussaint It’s like when I was a kid, I once bought 50 caramels from the store and tried to eat all of them at once. At first it seemed like a dream come true, but when I got halfway through they started to taste like peanut butter and I didn’t want to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Bo, the Obama’s family pet, plays in the snow during a blizzard on the south grounds of the White House, Feb. 10, 2010. In case you’re wondering Silent Jay is one of my fellow bloggers. Not to be confused with Jay Smooth or Jay Electronica, this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hip-Hop will never be what it once was, there’s no getting around that. It began as a form of expression that was of us, for us, and by us in many ways that it will never be again. In today’s world the ideal hip-hop product is not one that rings true for those who shares […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here on sofreshansogreen.com we’re in the middle of Black History Month Quotes and Jay Smooth Quotes Week. I’m interrupting the latter to bring you the words of Harry Allen as part of my response to comments on my post about Tavis Smiley ending his State of the Black Union address. I made some glowing remarks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you haven’t heard by now, a white musician named John Mayer made some stupid comments in an interview with Playboy magazine regarding race, Black women, white women and his private parts. Mayer’s comments were like a stupid comment farm. Stupidity grew everywhere. With so many opinions from those in the media who talk about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
