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"THREE PIECE" FREE DOWNLOAD
"HIGH SOCIETY" FREE DOWNLOAD
May
7
Three Piece
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Available Now HERE!
The Physics present Three Piece: a three-track release that takes listeners deeper into the world of the trio from distinctly different angles:
Coronas on Madrona is a classic in-the-wind anthem featuring Maniac B of The Stay Hi Brothers with production from DJ Nphared. My Place is a slow jam turned on its head, a departure from rap altogether. The track represents the group’s evolution to a more soulful sound. Finally, Jet Set is a day in the life of the workingman Monk Wordsmith. Over Justo’s pristine production, Monk captures what a white-collar hustle means to the hip-hop generation.
With the Physics’ next LP, Love is a Business, nearing completion, Three-Piece is just a glimpse of what’s to come from one of Seattle’s most versatile groups in 2010.
Oct
5
Songs For Eating and Drinking…
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so here it is.
Nov
24
Seattle Streets in Crisis: 11 shot, 1 stabbed and 4 dead in spree of weekend violence
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SEATTLE —It was a violent weekend in the Seattle area with five shootings that left four people dead and six wounded.
Police are looking into the possibility that a Sunday night shooting that wounded two teens in a south Seattle parking lot was a gang retaliation for Saturday’s shooting that killed one teen and wounded another at the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila.
One man was killed early Sunday outside a nightclub, Vito’s Madison Grill, in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood.
One man who was found shot to death in a parked car Sunday on Pacific Highway South in Kent.
One man was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting early Saturday outside a restaurant, Afriq African Cuisine, in the Skyway area south of Seattle. (Seattle Times)
This weekend was crazy. Seattle experienced a rash of gun violence unlike any we’ve seen in quite a long time. As of Sunday night 4 people were killed and a dozen seriously wounded in violent incidents over 3 days. All of the murders involved young people of color in the South-end or South King County……The shooting at Southcenter Mall was the most heinous act bringing about the most media attention as the violence that has been plauging the hood suddenly became a problem for suburban holiday shoppers……I was most disturbed by the shooting which happened right around my way in Skyway. It happened at a spot I’ve frequented more than a few times and it underscores what has been goin on way to often in the South-end since the late spring, youth violence. By the time I heard about the final shooting at ”Rainey” on Sunday I was trippin……
The city has been ignoring the persistence of youth violence in the South-End for way too long. 2009 has seen gun violence take the lives of Seattle’s black and brown youth over and over again and nobody in a position of power seems to care. All they no how to do is pass more generic, counterproductive ‘gang laws’. Crime is reaching historic lows on one side of the tracks and epidemic highs on the other…..It’s obvious that there are two Seattles here…….and the Seattle that city hall and suburbia don’t want to see is making its presence felt as its violence boils over. It’s up to those of us who care to do someting about the violence and to force the politicians to act or send them packing. This is a problem which was born in the community and must be solved by it. To be continued…………..
Nov
20
Now That’s Gangsta News: Somali pirates hijack Saudi tanker loaded with $100 million in oil!
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Gunmen from the chaotic Horn of Africa country of Somalia grabbed world headlines with Saturday’s spectacular capture of a huge Saudi Arabian supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of oil, the biggest ship hijacking in history. The huge ship was carrying as much as 2 million barrels of oil, more than a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s daily exports….Full story
This is definitely nothing new to the East African coast, as Robin hood style Somali pirates have attacked over 50 shipsthis year and highjacked 30, 15 of which are currently still being held for ransom!
So now the whole world has taken notice like WTF?? But these guys (mostly former fishermen) did not just wake up one day and say “hey let’s start hijacking ships for kicks” there are 15 years of war torn history which have brought a once glorious nation to this point. Most recently there was the US supported (some say US engineered) Ethiopian invasion of 2006 which destroyed Somalia’s budding stability in the name of the ‘War on Terror’. (For more insight on the root causes of the current piracy spree click this link)
In order to provide an authentic African Hip-hop perspective on 3rd world realities and Somalia in particular I got to shout out my man K’naan, one of the most powerful wordsmiths on the globe. Since releasing his world renowned debut album The Dusty Foot Philosopher in 2006 he has been acting as a voice for his people bringing their stories to the ears of Western hip-hop heads. Hardcore is one of my favorite songs on the LP and it vivdly describes the harsh reality of Somalia as experienced by this young poet and too many others. Check out the video below. If you don’t know about him please get up to speed before his new album arrives in Jan ’09!! East Africa Stand up!
Nov
15
Tacoma boy who talked his way aboard a flight now an 11-year old felon
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Troubled Tacoma runaway Semaj Booker who made headlines by talking his way onto airplane flights as a 9-year-old has run out of chances..
By The Seattle Times
TACOMA - A boy who ran away at age 9 and talked his way onto airplane flights to Texas has blown too many chances to clean up his act and must live with a felony record for a prior car theft, a judge has decided.
Since his headline-making escapade in January 2007, Semaj Booker, now 11, has attempted to repeat his airline runaway act, broken curfew, lied to police, burglarized an apartment and destroyed a mattress in juvenile detention, Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Fred C. Wist said Thursday….. full story…
This is sad ya’ll….an 11 year-old boy is now a convicted felon with a record that spans two years!! I remember when this kid hustled his way onto a few airplanes at Sea-Tac a while back…..at the time it seemed amusing but little did we know that, the initial episode was only the begining of lil Semaj Booker’s 15-minutes of infant infamy……Now he’s a felon and it’s not funny anymore…….
In communities of color and the nation as a whole we have some serious work to do in order to improve the lives and futures of our youth. The same forces that made Semaj a convicted felon are destroying tens of thousands of our best and brightest each year through death and incarceration. We all need to do our part to make positive change a reality for young people like Samaj .
On that note…… I’ve recently become interested in doing more volunteer work with the youth and as a result was introduced to The ROYAL Project. ROYAL stands for Raising Our Youth As Leaders.”It is a detention alternative for African-American youth in King County Washington. This program exists because of the problem of the disproportionate number of black youth incarcerated in the criminal justice system.” They provide critical services to youth who are entangled in the criminal justice system in order to help them break free. Check them out and help them help our youth if you can at www.theroyalproject.com
Let’s Get it Together!!
The ROYAL Project Promo Film from Paul Campillo on Vimeo.
