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WELL, WE'VE REACHED THE END OF A GREAT SEASON OF A TRULY FANTASTIC SHOW. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT EVEYTHING FROM THE ELECTION TO THE MADOFF PONSEY SCHEME TO THE INAUGURATION AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, WITH THE MORAL OF EVERY SEGMENT AND EVERY BLOG BEING "TAKE WISDOM THAT YOU CAN USE AND USE IT!...AND THEN LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF!" WE HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU HAD AS MUCH FUN WATCHING US AS WE HAD DOING THE SHOW. SO REMEMBER, THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. KEEP YOUR EYES GLUED TO THE SCREEN AND YOUR EARS TO THE GROUND BECAUSE WE'LL BE BACK BEFORE YOU KNOW IT...BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG, YOU'LL STILL CATCH ME WRITING FOR YOU.
WE WISH YOU ALL PEACE, LOVE AND PROSPERITY...
AG-THE FUNKY BLOGGER AND FRIENDS
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A TALE OF THREE KINGS
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LONG, LONG AGO THERE WAS A RACE OF BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WHO WERE BROUGHT TO AMERICA ON BOATS TO TILL THE SOIL AND WORK THE LAND FOR THEIR CAPTORS. THEY WERE AFRICAN SLAVES WHO WERE ONCE FEARED, LOVED AND RESPECTED UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THEY BECAME MUCH LESS THAN WHAT THEY TRULY WERE. FOUR HUNDRED YEARS THEY TOILED FOR THEIR MASTERS ONLY TO RECEIVE THE POOREST STANDARDS OF SO CALLED LIVING. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THESE PEOPLE SPAWNED THE GREATEST WARRIORS THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN AND DURING THEIR REVOLUTION THEY PROVED THEIR ANCESTRY. FROM THE SLAVE STATES IN AMERICA TO THE TOBACCO FIELDS IN THE WEST INDIES THE SO CALLED MASTERS FELT THE WRATH OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT OF FEARLESS SOULS. THE BATTLES LASTED MERE WEEKS, IN THEMSELVES GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DENIED FOR SO LONG, WHAT THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR...FREEDOM. BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT THE BLOOD PRICE FOR TRUE FREEDOM WOULD BE MORE THAN THEY HAD EVER EXPECTED. JUST AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY CAME THE BIRTH OF SEGREGATION BARRING THE AFRICAN "NEGROES", AS THEY WERE CALLED, FROM LEADING WHAT WOULD HAVE THOUGHT TO BE EVEN RESEMBLING A NORMAL LIFE. "WHITE ONLY" GROCERY STORES, "COLORED" BATHROOMS, "NO NEGROES ALLOWED", ETC., WERE JUST SOME OF THE TERRIBLE PREJUDICES EXPERIENCED BY OUR HEROES. TO EARN A LIVING WAS TO BECOME A SLAVE BY CHOICE. AS SOME DID TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES OTHERS FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE IN THE NEW SOCIETY WHOSE "WELCOME BASKET" WAS FILL WITH THICK BRAIDED ROPE, WHITE HOODS AND A GUN. THOSE THAT LED PERSONAL UPRISINGS LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE STRUGGLE. UNTIL THE ONE THAT CAME WHO WOULD SHOW THEM THE WAY TO FIGHT TO BE TRULY FREE. HIS NAME WAS DOC HOLIDAY. HE SAW THAT HIS PEOPLE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS, WERE IN GREAT NEED SO HE MADE IT HIS MISSION TO "LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND"...A MISSION THAT WOULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. A PRICE HE WAS GLAD TO PAY. LIKE THE WESTERN CHARACTER PERSONIFIED HE BECAME THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HE UTLILIZED NON-VIOLENT WARFARE AND PASSIVE-AGGRESSION TO WIN BATTLES AND ULTIMATELY "THE WAR", ALONG WITH PROFESSOR X, SIR NEWTON AND MR. SEALE. BOYCOTT AFTER MARCH AFTER RALLY BROUGHT REVOLUTION CLOSER TO REALIZING ITS LEADER'S DREAM UNTIL ONE NIGHT DOC HOLIDAY FELL TO THE COWARDICE OF THE IGNORANT. HE DIED THAT NIGHT ON THAT BALCONY AS A KING WHO HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS PEOPLE. HE GAVE THEM HOPE AND A DREAM. A DREAM THAT ONE AMONG THEM WOULD CARRY ON. A LITTLE BOY WHO TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND...BUT NOT BEFORE THE ONE WHO WOULD BRING IT TO THE PEOPLE'S EARS. SOME YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE KING THE BIRTH OF ANOTHER TOOK PLACE IN A LITTLE TOWN CALLED BROOKLYN. GROWING UP HE WAS THE PRIZE OF HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. USING HIS LYRICAL TALENTS TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS PEOPLE AT THAT TIME AND WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO GET BY. HE TOLD OF A NEW STRUGGLE HIS PEOPLE WERE FACING...THE BATTLE WITH POVERTY. HIS MUSIC HAD AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE. HE BECAME THE KING OF RAP. THE FAME OF HIS ARTISRTY BECAME THE CORNERSTONE OF RAP. AND AS SUCH ALL PEOPLE INFLUENCE BY HIM TRIED TO IMMULATE IT. LIKE THE GREAT KING BEFORE HIM BIG GAVE HIS LIFE TO THE BULLET TO PRESERVED HIS LEGACY AND CONTINUE THE TRADITION OF HIS PEOPLE'S MUSIC-POETRY. TOO MANY OF THE PEOPLE'S LEADER'S HAVE DIED FROM IGNORANCE. THE BLOOD LOST EQUALS THE AMOUNT OF TEARS SHED. THE ONE HAS SEEN IT ALL. THE LITTLE BOY WHO WITNESSED THE DEATH OF A KING AND A TITAN HAS RISEN TO CARRY ON THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED VALIENTLY IN THE NAME OF PEACE AND EQUALITY. HE IS THE NEW STANDARD OF EXCELLENC FOR THE PEOPLE. A NEW SYMBOL OF FREEDOM. HE IS THE FIRST OF THEM TO BE GRANTED THE COVETED PRESIDENCY, AND HOPEFULLY NOT THE LAST. THE NEWLY CROWN BARACK OBAMA WILL USHER IN A NEW ERA OF PEACE AND HARMONY IN THE LAND AND RESTORE THE PEOPLE TO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE.
THE...END?
AG-THE FUNKY BLOGGER
LONG, LONG AGO THERE WAS A RACE OF BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WHO WERE BROUGHT TO AMERICA ON BOATS TO TILL THE SOIL AND WORK THE LAND FOR THEIR CAPTORS. THEY WERE AFRICAN SLAVES WHO WERE ONCE FEARED, LOVED AND RESPECTED UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THEY BECAME MUCH LESS THAN WHAT THEY TRULY WERE. FOUR HUNDRED YEARS THEY TOILED FOR THEIR MASTERS ONLY TO RECEIVE THE POOREST STANDARDS OF SO CALLED LIVING. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THESE PEOPLE SPAWNED THE GREATEST WARRIORS THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN AND DURING THEIR REVOLUTION THEY PROVED THEIR ANCESTRY. FROM THE SLAVE STATES IN AMERICA TO THE TOBACCO FIELDS IN THE WEST INDIES THE SO CALLED MASTERS FELT THE WRATH OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT OF FEARLESS SOULS. THE BATTLES LASTED MERE WEEKS, IN THEMSELVES GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DENIED FOR SO LONG, WHAT THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR...FREEDOM. BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT THE BLOOD PRICE FOR TRUE FREEDOM WOULD BE MORE THAN THEY HAD EVER EXPECTED. JUST AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY CAME THE BIRTH OF SEGREGATION BARRING THE AFRICAN "NEGROES", AS THEY WERE CALLED, FROM LEADING WHAT WOULD HAVE THOUGHT TO BE EVEN RESEMBLING A NORMAL LIFE. "WHITE ONLY" GROCERY STORES, "COLORED" BATHROOMS, "NO NEGROES ALLOWED", ETC., WERE JUST SOME OF THE TERRIBLE PREJUDICES EXPERIENCED BY OUR HEROES. TO EARN A LIVING WAS TO BECOME A SLAVE BY CHOICE. AS SOME DID TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES OTHERS FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE IN THE NEW SOCIETY WHOSE "WELCOME BASKET" WAS FILL WITH THICK BRAIDED ROPE, WHITE HOODS AND A GUN. THOSE THAT LED PERSONAL UPRISINGS LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE STRUGGLE. UNTIL THE ONE THAT CAME WHO WOULD SHOW THEM THE WAY TO FIGHT TO BE TRULY FREE. HIS NAME WAS DOC HOLIDAY. HE SAW THAT HIS PEOPLE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS, WERE IN GREAT NEED SO HE MADE IT HIS MISSION TO "LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND"...A MISSION THAT WOULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. A PRICE HE WAS GLAD TO PAY. LIKE THE WESTERN CHARACTER PERSONIFIED HE BECAME THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HE UTLILIZED NON-VIOLENT WARFARE AND PASSIVE-AGGRESSION TO WIN BATTLES AND ULTIMATELY "THE WAR", ALONG WITH PROFESSOR X, SIR NEWTON AND MR. SEALE. BOYCOTT AFTER MARCH AFTER RALLY BROUGHT REVOLUTION CLOSER TO REALIZING ITS LEADER'S DREAM UNTIL ONE NIGHT DOC HOLIDAY FELL TO THE COWARDICE OF THE IGNORANT. HE DIED THAT NIGHT ON THAT BALCONY AS A KING WHO HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS PEOPLE. HE GAVE THEM HOPE AND A DREAM. A DREAM THAT ONE AMONG THEM WOULD CARRY ON. A LITTLE BOY WHO TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND...BUT NOT BEFORE THE ONE WHO WOULD BRING IT TO THE PEOPLE'S EARS. SOME YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE KING THE BIRTH OF ANOTHER TOOK PLACE IN A LITTLE TOWN CALLED BROOKLYN. GROWING UP HE WAS THE PRIZE OF HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. USING HIS LYRICAL TALENTS TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS PEOPLE AT THAT TIME AND WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO GET BY. HE TOLD OF A NEW STRUGGLE HIS PEOPLE WERE FACING...THE BATTLE WITH POVERTY. HIS MUSIC HAD AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE. HE BECAME THE KING OF RAP. THE FAME OF HIS ARTISRTY BECAME THE CORNERSTONE OF RAP. AND AS SUCH ALL PEOPLE INFLUENCE BY HIM TRIED TO IMMULATE IT. LIKE THE GREAT KING BEFORE HIM BIG GAVE HIS LIFE TO THE BULLET TO PRESERVED HIS LEGACY AND CONTINUE THE TRADITION OF HIS PEOPLE'S MUSIC-POETRY. TOO MANY OF THE PEOPLE'S LEADER'S HAVE DIED FROM IGNORANCE. THE BLOOD LOST EQUALS THE AMOUNT OF TEARS SHED. THE ONE HAS SEEN IT ALL. THE LITTLE BOY WHO WITNESSED THE DEATH OF A KING AND A TITAN HAS RISEN TO CARRY ON THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED VALIENTLY IN THE NAME OF PEACE AND EQUALITY. HE IS THE NEW STANDARD OF EXCELLENC FOR THE PEOPLE. A NEW SYMBOL OF FREEDOM. HE IS THE FIRST OF THEM TO BE GRANTED THE COVETED PRESIDENCY, AND HOPEFULLY NOT THE LAST. THE NEWLY CROWN BARACK OBAMA WILL USHER IN A NEW ERA OF PEACE AND HARMONY IN THE LAND AND RESTORE THE PEOPLE TO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE.
THE...END?
AG-THE FUNKY BLOGGER
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
THE VICIOUS AND THE HIPHOP LEGACY
THE EXPRESSION AND RECITATION OF A SET OF MATHEMATICAL ALGORYTHMS TRANSMITTED FROM AIR PARTICLE TO AIR PARTICLE THROUGH AN OXYGENATED MEDIUM...SIMPLY PUT, MUSIC. THE ONLY THING IN THIS WORLD THAT IS MATHEMATICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY, AND LOGICALLY SOUND (NO PUN INTENDED) WHILE EVOKING POWERFUL EMOTIONS EXPRESSED BY BEAUTY AND CREATIVENESS. RELEVANT AS IT IS ANCIENT, MUSIC HAS PLAYED (SERIOUSLY, NO PUN INTENDED) A MAJOR ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD CULTURE, THE ARTS, SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS AND RELIGION AS WELL AS LANGUAGE AND NON-VERBAL EXPRESSION. SO, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT MUSIC IS NOT ONLY THE PRODUCT OF HUMAN EMOTION AND INTERACTION BUT THE BASIS ALSO. THROUGHOUT THE AGES MUSIC HAS GONE THROUGH METAMORPHASIS' AND CHANGES. CONSTANTLY EVOLVING DUE TO OUR OWN EVOLUTION. BECAUSE MOST OF THE ANCIENT GENRES ARE RARELY HEARD, CONTEMPORARY OR MODERN MUSIC HAS GIVEN WAY TO GENRES SUCH AS CLASSICAL, JAZZ, BLUES, ROCK AND...ONE OF MY FAVORITES HIPHOP. HIPHOP CONSISTS OF RHYMING VOCAL RYTHMS WITH MUSICAL ENSEMBLES. THINK OF POETRY SET TO MUSIC. THIS STYLE OF MUSIC EVOVLED FROM BEBOP WHICH WAS POPULAR DURING THE 1940'S AND 50'S, REPECTIVELY. HIPHOP'S MISSION WAS TO EXPRESS THE HARSH REALITIES OF GROWING UP IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS, AND DURING THE 1960'S, RESPECTIVELY, IT WAS USED TO GREAT EFFECT ALLOWING IT TO DEVELOP INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS STRICT ACCENTUATION PLACED ON THE RHYME WHERE IT MATCHED UP WITH THE "BEAT". USING A SIMPLE REPEATING 4/4 TIME SIGNED BEAT AN ARTIST WAS ABLE TO SHOW HIS ANGST THROUGH RHYME AND RYTHM WHILE CAPTURING THE ATTENTION OF THE LISTENER. WHETHER IT WAS A REGULAR PERSON, A FRIEND OR A CITY OFFICIAL "THE MESSAGE" (GREAT SONG) WAS RECIEVED. FROM ABOUT 1987 TO 1997, RESPECTIVELY, WAS KNOWN AS THE "GOLDEN AGE OF HIPHOP" WHERE PREVIOUS IDEALS AND METHODS WERE IMPROVED UPON YIELDING TRULY THOUGHT-PROVOKING LYRICS OVER REMARKABLY UNFORGETTABLE BEATS. PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH, THE JUICE CREW, THE GET FRESH CREW, GANGSTARR, NICE & SMOOTH, EPMD, DE LA SOUL AND MANY OTHERS BROUGHT THE BEST PARTS OF THEMSELVES AND INNOVATIONS TO THE RECIPE, BUT THERE WAS ONE WHO WOULD CHANGE THE FACE OF HIPHOP FOREVER. THE YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS CHRISTOPHER WALLACE WAS A BROOKLYN NATIVE WHOSE DREAMS OF BECOMING THE BEST CAME TRUE...BUT WITH A PRICE. THE SECRET TO THE SUCCESS OF THE NOTORIOUS BIG, AS HE WAS CALLED, WAS HIS ABILITY TO USE VINTAGE HIPHOP LYRICAL METHODS AND USE THEM IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. VARYING THE PRONUNCIATION OF CERTAIN WORDS AND STRETCHING THEM OUT TO CREATE THE "BOMBASTIC EFFECT" WAS HIS "WEAPON OF CHOICE". SHORTLY AFTER GAINING WORLDWIDE POPULARITY IN THE LATE 1990'S BIGGIE SMALL WAS SHOT IN HIS TRUCK WHILE LEAVING A VIBE MAGAZINE PARTY IN CALIFORNIA. IN THE YEARS SINCE THAT TRADGIC DAY, MARCH 9 1997 UP-AND-COMING RAP ARTISTS HAVE EMULATED THE LATE NOTORIOUS BIG'S STYLE AND STAGE PRESENCE.
WITH HIS BIOPIC COMING TO THE SILVER SCREEN ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, AND WITH THE INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAPPENNING JANUARY 20, I CAN'T HELP BUT BE PROUD AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE SEEN TWO MONUMENTAL EVENTS HAPPEN IN MY LIFETIME.
WELL IT'S LIKE HE SAID...IT'S ALL GOOD BABY BAABAAY...UH!
SO AS I CELEBRATE, I TOAST TO MUSIC...TO HIPHOP...TO THE FUTURE...
R.I.P. TO THE LATE, GREAT NOTORIOUS BIG...TRULY UNBELIEVABLE.
AG-THE FUNKY BLOGGER
A STORY OF IGNORANCE
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LONG, LONG AGO IN A COUNTRY FAR, FAR AWAY THERE LIVED A STIGMA. A SITUATION REALLY THAT EXISTED SINCE THE TIME OF COLUMBUS. A RACE OF BEAUTY WHOSE FATE BECAME TWISTED AS THE SHACKLES OF THEIR ORIENTATION FORCED THEM WESTWARD. RIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES. FROM THEIR FAMILIES...FROM THEIR LIVES TO LIVE MUCH LESS THAN WHAT THEY TRULY ARE. LESS THAN HUMAN...AS SLAVES IN THE SERVICE EUROPE. BUT THIS STORY ISN'T NECESSARILY ABOUT THE OPALS WHO BUILT THE STATES AS IT IS THEIR DESCENDANTS WHO ARE NOW LEADING THE PEOPLE TOWARDS THEIR DESTINY. FROM THE MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE THEIR FIRST FOOTPRINT ON THIS NEW LAND HAS BEEN RIFE WITH TORTURE, TERROR, SCANDAL AND MISFORTUNE UNTIL THE ONE DAY WHEN REVOLUTION HAPPENED. FROM THE COTTON FIELDS OF ALABAMA TO THE TOBACCO FARMS OF THE CARIBBEAN, THE SO-CALLED MASTERS FELT THE WRATH OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF SKILLED WARRIORS WHICH FORCED THEM TO BRING ABOUT AN END THE THIS DYNASTY OF OPPRESSION...GIVING BLOOD TO RECIEVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM. BUT BEING ABLE TO SPEND SUCH A GIFT WOULD BE ANOTHER WAR IN ITSELF...DEMANDING MUCH MORE TIME, ENERGY AND BLOOD. THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS SAW NOT ONLY THE KILLING OF THE INNOCENT BUT THE ATTEMPTED MUTILATION OF THE SPIRIT. ENTRAPMENT OF THE MIND IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE CAPTURING OF THE MIND. SEGREGATION WAS THE SUPPOSED MEANS TO THAT END, BUT IT WAS SHORT LIVED. IT WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THE CHAMPIONS OF THE PEOPLE AND SUFFERED GREAT LOSS. THE BREAKING SOUND OF SEGREGATION BROUGHT HAPPINESS TO THE PEOPLE. AND THOUGH THEY STOOD IMPOVERISHED BY ITS WAYS, THERE STANDING AMONG THEM WAS A BOY WHO WOULD RISE AND BECOME THEIR BEACON OF HOPE. HE IS NOW THE MARK TO WHICH THE YOUTH OF THE PEOPLE WILL ASPIRE TO, IF NOT SURPASS. AND AS HE STANDS ON THAT DAY UNDER THE FLAG WHOSE MEANING HAS BEEN REVISED, NEXT TO THE PRIDE OF AN ENTIRE NATION, THERE WILL BE THOSE AMONG THEM WHO VIEW THE CONFIRMATION OF HIS SUCCESS AS SIMPLY..............CONSEGRATION.......?!
MORAL OF THE STORY: THE HISTORY OF OUR PEOPLE IS VAST AND PROUD, EVEN IN THE TIMES OF SHAME. OUR ROOTS STEM NOT FROM OUR PLACE BUT OUR STRENGTH, OUR HONOR, OUR INTEGRITY, OUR PRIDE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OUR VIRTUES AND KNOWLEDGE. THE HISTORY OF OUR JOURNEY THROUGH THIS LAND PROVES THAT. WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO CREATED AND BUILT THE STANDARDS FOR SOCIETY, ACEDEMIA, AND SPIRITUALITY. THE COUNTLESS WONDERS OF OUR HOMELAND PROVE THAT AS WELL. REGARDLESS OF STATION OR SOCIAL CASTE THERIS NO REASON FOR OUR IGNORANCE. WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO OUR ANCESTORS TO CARRY ON THEIR TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE, MATH, RELIGION, PEACE, ETC.
...AFTERALL, IT IS OUR DESTINY...
AG-THE FUNKY BLOGGER
P.S. WEBSTER'S ONLINE DICTIONARY DEFINES "CONSEGRATION" AS "THIS WORD DOES NOT EXIST". IT'S "INAUGURATION"!!! HAIL TO THE CHIEF...
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