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***SiLVa*** · 06-02-2010, 07:20 PM

DJ Craze is that dude...I used to watch dude win all those Turtablist Championships back in the day. Dude had some real creative skills on the 1s n 2s. Totally inspired me to be a more hands on DJ when I used to rock parties back in the 90s. I could out scratch anyone in my area back then cuz of guys like him and Qbert(I used to think that dude was an alien,lol he was just so freaky good)

mastermg · (This post was last modified: 06-02-2010 10:14 PM by mastermg.)

This one is great!

Nokturnal · (This post was last modified: 06-04-2010 01:28 AM by Nokturnal.)

h3rm35 · (This post was last modified: 06-05-2010 03:54 AM by h3rm35.)

awwwwww shit!

***April*** · 06-05-2010, 07:08 AM

(06-05-2010 03:50 AM)h3rm35 Wrote: awwwwww shit!

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!! Crazy

Edan's fantastic!! My vehicle has been loaded with plenty of Edan for YEARS! Grin

one more real quick. Smile

h3rm35 · (This post was last modified: 06-05-2010 08:16 AM by h3rm35.)

No, I didn't... what the hell are you talking about? You must be hallucinating...
(did I say that "shit" thing out loud?)

I have this tendency to float between genres for months at a time, sometimes years, so I might put some stuff out there that's been around a while... sometimes I'll search to make sure it's not here, but mostly I just go with what I feel.

I'm a bigger fan of Gillespe than Mingus, but a bigger fan of Mingus than I am of Armstrong, and a bigger fan of Hancock than Mingus...

but nina did her own thing and I love that too...

And I'd rather listen to a high-quality boot of Sly and the Family stone than any of the above.

The fusion of beat, + unique rhythmic elements and melody light me up... especially under syncopation.

...so that leaves me in a strange light to appreciate hip-hop... I yearn for more levels in the sound-wall most of the time.

y'all have great taste... I'm glad I found this place.

***TriWooOx*** · 06-07-2010, 05:34 PM

***TriWooOx*** · 06-13-2010, 08:54 PM

***Easy Skanking*** · 06-15-2010, 11:34 PM

From the new KRS-One disc:

"TEK-NOLOGY"

"Never Afraid"

h3rm35 · (This post was last modified: 06-19-2010 01:36 AM by h3rm35.)

I have a hard time believing that KRS one will sell as an optimist. Cool track though.

edit: the second track is more what I've come to expect.

h3rm35 · (This post was last modified: 06-19-2010 01:35 AM by h3rm35.)

Quote:(whispered) "From the left shoulder of a nation;
from skies lacking the mechanisms of death;
from the burdened bellies of wrought iron angels we come, we drop;
we're bombs."

And we're in...hordes of us, scraping over the walls...

There is no darkness so deep that we cannot paint it present.
There is no cause so bleak that we will bail in vain.
We are the brain's army, dispatched in vein and we c-c-course...
Dead eyes run through. Ink and pigment splattered on barren ground.
Ssswords aloft. Screaming battle cries in all tongues lost.
The old blood boiling over timeless ideals.
We are staining every soul present enough to look up.
Go home scarred and tattoo the sound all over your body,
for these sun-dipped blades herald brighter spirits coming and that gray
lump you call a head is sliced clean off...

Once a benevolent president tears open your cheek a tongue will come
flopping out. It will lay on the ground licking slush off our frozen streets.
Then it will die. Your love curdled already besides. I'll kiss your head.
You won't see the smirk beneath my lowered eyes. Nothing can get wise.
All of my children are carrying knives.

Chorus:
More pressure more fire more peace more vibe.
More people more freedom more heat more live.
More voice more feet more song more rise.
More echo more cloud more test more sky.
No quarter no vote no power no vice.
No king no vision no womb no right.
More signal more move more center more light.
More pressure more fire more peace more vibe.

How 'bout a little warhead in your abdomen? Ooo, how about a stain?
How about armada is to javelin what battle is to game? Oh inverted world
I'm thinking Nobel Prize, because the marriage of pre-emption and
commerce, that was mine. I prefer a phallus to a circle every time.
I prefer to make a beat that wipes a village from the map.
I prefer a falling payload when it's dancing on your lap.
Are you perverts having fun yet?
It all comes out grey and matters less with each sunset.

Here come a bomb. The sound above language.
The sound off-kilter with casualties pending. The patented death.
The action-packed ending. It's not sarcasm. We're training eyes.
Hands were we can see them. Ass in the sky.
Asinine lies for assassins in need of motives for making that human ink bleed.
Champions, fly.

Calling all living. Affirming all dreams. Screaming all hell. As real as it seems.
Rescind those explosions. Get up off toes.
Kids are at attention tending towards prose.
Smolder at shows, shoulder all comers.
Dirty old bushmen your season is waning.
Sorry about peace, big fucking bummer.
Ignite a new kind of soul fusing father and mother.
Here come the heat...nuclear summer

More pressure more fire more peace more vibe.
More people more freedom more heat more live.
More voice more feet more song more rise.
More echo more cloud more test more sky.
No quarter no vote no power no vice.
No king no vision no womb no right.
More signal more move more center more light.
More pressure more fire more peace more vibe.
More pressure more fire more peace more vibe.
More.

Quote:Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Count your dead
Kill your poor

What are you looking to find here?

Absolution, attainment
Atonement, justification

All priced to move you
(standing like it's action)
Bide time with brought rhymes
High five to nine for naught
Joke with misdirected lies

Who the fuck aren't you kidding

I knew you back in school when there
Were less actores to look up to
Studying simplicity
We still meant the laughter

If you could love yourself
The way you do them
There'd be life after
The playwrights lowered their guns
There's peace pieces to up again
You used to build
Mind your pen
Remind your pen

I'm sick of the video you've
Rewound us in
The headaches:
Still shots taken in sequence
Hung over old dreams to dry and
Develop moldy cultures
Still;
All this sun and you're sleeping
In the dark room
Waiting on a film caked thick within
Cleaning stained windowsills
Instead of taking panes
Out of eyes
(I'm out of rhymes)

Colourless you hid behind heavy lids
Eating surface shit
Somewhere deep you swear
Respect exists
(exits upstage right)

Tradegy:
Indefinitely more down than a kiss

The assumed and the actual
Are both a sad performane
An audience will answer
If you question them correct
You don't see the bloody entertainers
You're trying to resurrect
Not knowing you're looking
Is atonement cash or check?
Absolved and justified
Create an ego to protect

Center level center roar
Center level center roar
Center level center roar
Is an army is a form

Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Count your blessings
Kill your poor

Culture envy world over
Respect drunk war sober
I'll fight for no flag
And battle all devices
Old men divide soil spoils
For us to toil indecisive
Over whose music's origins
Are righteous or damned
Or if one is the same can both be
Wrought with your hands

We've wroung out all lands and brought
Bought life
Back to life
Only this time we'll go ahead and say the
Origins were white
Heads in the sand that kept us warm from
The rhythms of the night

You'd think history
Would give fair warning

But it doesn't make for good
Sales or stories
And don't think we're done
Stealing the past
Or telling it to you second-hand
While tipping the hour glass
And tilting our hats
One-third
Cock
Eyed
Now dance.

I remember when the beat moved itself
Through sacred trees and ceremonies
A hapless hieroglyph soul-branded on the
Open spaces of consciousness
And we are all con-script scrawled across
The middle canvas

Draw fast - answer nothing

There's no question they've been here
Glyph lock pick pockets
Patrolling the selling block
For cheap/easy targets
The dueling heretics of a new religion
Doodling death wish on a
Fluttery paper soul
Draw fast

Black canvas impervious
To shades' shame
Paint the world lovely
With indecipherable song
Plant the flag of the insane
In land unsold
Forego the envious and warring
To play the unknown
What is culture but the gift of dream
What is life but to sing
Sleep unseen

Center level center roar
Center level center roar
Center level center roar
In an end many more

Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Count your dead
Kill your poor

By now you should've died twice
We're not communicating
One line at a time or
A version of a dying woman
On my doorstep
Fading fast the second time around

What's inside these sounds you mouth
Did you hear the call
From across the ages

The sea takes us back too quickly
And I'm far from grounded

Now's the time to sail
Before the last tree falls

I'm seeing my mentors sage-less
Casting outside their realm
Ex-spelling p.g. concepts
To conjure self

I'm seeing priests
Prostrate to prophecy
Praying in the wrong room
Count your blessings
And sell the difference

I'm seeing indifferent sould
In different cells
Spilling blood like wine
Just to know they've been here

Hold your pitcher
Kill your pour

Try to clip these wings
Still we soar

Frantically flapping the faces
Of (not) our kids
Heading south to sea too soon to say
'Stay - I've seen'

Nothing but envy for the green
War for the greed
Innumerable dead blessings
And your poor peaceful resting

Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Culture envy culture war
Count your blessings
Kill your poor

19thetruth84 · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2010 08:02 AM by 19thetruth84.)

***SiLVa*** · 07-09-2010, 05:10 PM

Cant wait...goin to see The Roots and Talib this weekend at a free show in NYC.
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/okay...alib-kweli

h3rm35 · 07-09-2010, 09:11 PM

I really miss summers @ prospect park - they have great shows all the time. Enjoy yourself!
(I though Kweli was part of the Roots... Why is he getting separate billing?)

19thetruth84 · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2010 09:54 PM by 19thetruth84.)

That's sick SiLVa. Unfortunately where I love in Canada, big hip-hop concerts are few and far between. Kweli and The Roots are two of my favourites. Enjoy man!

And as far as I know h3rm35 Kweli is not part of The Roots, but he is part of Black Star with Mos Def, and of course Reflection Eternal with DJ Hi-Tek. Here's another one from the latest Reflection Eternal album...

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