Category: Columns

Feb 11 2010

GRIME DAILY DOT COM AND OTHER BRITISH URBAN MEDIA WEBSITES

When D-raw and Tom Dawkings first embarked upon RAWINKORPZ.COM we looked around on the internet and discovered there was nothing for the young British urban audience. We decided to take matters into our own hands with a fresh interesting daily updated vlog, blog aor whatever you call it. We now have more competition than a fanny in a hoar house, with sites like GRIME DAILY DOT COM and others like SBTV.COM.

At first I was swollen with excitement, happy and a bit cheesed off to say the least, but as time progressed I realised this was what was needed in order for the British urban music scene to emerge into the big bulk of amazing talent that it is emerging into. Our American counterparts are probably shocked that not all of us fit there stereotyped British tea drinking, posh talking, ellegant dressing extrordinaires that we can be if we become extremely wealthy.

MEDIA MASSACRE DOT NET is another medium that is alerting people as to who, what, when, and where these young budding talented artists are popping up.

I am about to emabrk upon a comedy spree/musical genius spree/weirdo pseudo credo muteodom type of thing.

Everbody has been saying I’m so funny I could reserect Richard Pryor with my humour literally.

America must be thanked for bringing the world remarkable entertainment again and again and in some cases using it’s media tool to it’s advantage with propaganda, mind control and ofcourse obscure porn which I can’t stop fighting myself to stop looking at.

BIG UP GRIME DAILY/ MEDIAMASSACRE/SBTV/ AND ANYBODY I FORGOT TO MENTION

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Jul 26 2009

Desi Grime

I always wondered why there was a lack of (south) asian grime MCs. Considering they are generally as ‘inner city’ (for want of a better term) as their white and afro-caribbean counterparts (those that do grime anyway) you’d expect there to be a more representative coverage in the uk rap scene in r, especially since the BBC Asian network provides a platform for this. But the wait is over (I think). 2 guys from East London called Flex and Rydacoo come with their video for ‘Giving me stare’. It’s definitly refreshing to hear but I can’t help but think these guys are clowning themselves with their Ali G-esque clothing and hand waving. Still, you can’t please em all

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May 18 2009

Motown Records

BerryMotown Records is a record label originally based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. on January 12, 1959 as Tamla Records, the company was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau derived from the words motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit.

Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music, as it was the first record label owned by an African American to primarily feature African-American artists who achieved crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its soul-based subsidiaries were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as The Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence.

Motown has owned or distributed releases from more than 45 subsidiaries in varying genres, although it is most famous for its releases in the music genres of rhythm and blues, soul, hip hop and pop. Motown Records left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972, and remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures (which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991), then to PolyGram in 1994. Now headquartered in New York City, Motown Records is a subsidiary of The Universal Motown/Universal Republic Group, itself a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
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May 17 2009

Urban Music

Bikers Feud I asked a question in the Forums a couple days ago… I referenced a question I have been vocal in saying Urban Music has always been scapegoated for nonsense when we have several festivals in the United Kingdom catered to a rock crowd, which for the most part doesn’t seem violent.

I love all rock music as it all originally fits the Urban mould anyway, I mean when rock started in the early Fifties it was regarded as “demon music” and the music which it derived from [Jazz] was refered to as “devil music” also.

Isn’t it crazy how things change? Amy Winehouse doing Jazz, Indie Rock being predominantly referred to as the preferred sound of most older generation [and younger] white people. This ain’t a black & white thing, it’s more of an understanding thing.

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May 16 2009

Knife Crimes

Military Knives HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON? WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE ISSUE? STATISTICS SUGGEST THE LATEST SPATE OF ALL THIS KNIFE CRIME IS NOTHING NEW TO GREAT BRITAIN. IN FACT KNIFE CRIME AND PHYSICAL CRIME IN GENERAL WAS AT IT’S HIGHEST DURING THE THATCHER YEARS OF THE EIGHTIES. THE MEDIA DID REPORTED ON THIS AS A NATIONAL PROBLEM [NOT AN URBAN PROBLEM] UNLIKE THE FAMOUS STATEMENT MADE BY TONY BLAIR WHEN HE WAS STILL IN OFFICE: “THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR THE COUNTRY TO DEAL WITH, RATHER THIS IS A PROBLEM THE INNER CITY COMMUNITIES NEED TO TAKE UP WITH THEIR CHILDREN” [I.E. IT'S A BLACK THING.]

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May 15 2009

Mike GLC

Mike GLC Mike GLC - The Whole Truth

SAY HELLO TO THE “STREET KING” HIMSELF, MIKE GLC. THIS GUY’S TAKEN THE WHOLE DEF JAM/ROCKAFELLA IMPRINT AND COMPLETELY RAN WITH IT.

HE SINGLEHANDEDLY HAD THE WHOLE WESTEND CENTRAL [LONDON] PACKED WITH INNER CITY YOUTHS, WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE SELLING DRUGS OR KICICKING PEOPLES DOORS OFF.

SELLING HIS CDS. FROM BEING ALLOVER THE TELEVISION ON CHANNELS LIKE MTV, U CHANNEL, BBC, AND EVEN CHANNEL 4. THIS GUY IS WHAT SUPERSTARS ARE MADE OF: WIT, CHARISMA, INTELLECT, AND DAMN RIGHT RUTHLESSNESS.

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May 14 2009

Gangster Rap In The UK

HHC - Snoop - Dr Dre - Tupac MUSIC IS ART AND ART IS AN IMITATION OF OUR SURROUNDINGS. WHEN GANGSTER RAP CAME OUT IN AMERICA IT WAS HAILED AS A SOUND THAT WOULD DRIVE SOCIETY INTO THE GROUND AND CAUSE THE YOUTH TO RIOT THROUGH LIFE WITH NO RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY.

THEY WERE SO RIGHT, BUT LETS LOOK AT WHY THIS MUSIC WAS CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE. IN L.A. THEIR WERE SEVERAL REPORTINGS ON POLICE BRUTALITY THAT FELL ON DEAF EARS UNTIL RODNEY KING WAS BATTERED TO NEAR DEATH, WHICH CAUSED THE L.A. RIOTS AND THE RAPPERS REPORTED ON WHAT WAS GOING ON MUCH LIKE GREEK POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF OLD.

THERE WERE GANGS IN THE STREET THAT GROUPED TOGETHER FOR PROTECTION AND IN SOME INSTANCES TO POLICE THEIR OWN AREA. THESE GANGS WERE TIRED OF THE JOBLESS, POLICELESS, DISENFRANCHISED LIFESTYLE THEY LED AND THEY WANTED CHANGE.

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May 14 2009

Grime

Wiley - Grime Wave THESE FACES HAVE LED THE PIONEERING SOUND, THAT IS GRIME, FORWARD IN TODAYS MUSIC GENRES. TAKE ARTISTS LIKE SOUL SOLID WHO EMERGED THROUGH THE PIRATE RADIO SCENE AT A VERY EARLY AGE.

THESE YOUNGSTERS TOOK A CLUB SOUND [HOUSE AND GARAGE] AND CHATTED LYRICS ON TOP OF THE SOUND WITH A COOL TYPE OF PERNAZ THAT LED TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY TAKING NOTE TO WHAT THEY STARTED.

THIS LED TO A RECORD DEAL, WHICH IN TURN LED TO A STRING OF TOP TENS AND A MULTI PLATINUM SELLING ALBUM. THE FUTURE WAS URBAN UK HIP/HOP, GRIME, BASSLINE NICHE, CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL THIS WHOLE MOVEMENT WAS A SHY REFLECTION OF THE EARLY NINETIES WITH A SCENE THAT EMERGED FROM RAGGA, THAT WOULD ONE DAY BE COMMONLY KNOWN AS JUNGLE/DRUM N BASS.

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May 13 2009

Safe Sex

Safe Sex THIS WILL COME AS NO SURPRISE TO YOU, AS YOU WALK AROUND ON THE STREET AND LOOK AT MANY OTHER PEOPLE WONDERING WHAT THEY’RE WONDERING; WHICH IS: HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THIS ROAD HAVE H.I.V.?

I KNOW QUITE EXTREME BUT THE REALITY IS THE REAL STATISTICS ARE NOT BEING SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY. SUPPOSEDLY THERE ARE OVER 73,000 PEOPLE IN THE U.K LIVING WITH H.I.V. AND A THIRD OF THESE PEOPLE DON’T EVEN KNOW THEY’VE GOT IT.

LETS GET REAL, WE’VE ALL HAD THE EMBARRASSING TEST AND BEEN ASKED WHAT NATIONALITY WERE THE PEOPLE WE SLEPT WITH. OK IF TRUTH BE TOLD PERCENTAGES ARE HIGHER IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAN GREAT BRITAIN, SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE ARE ASKED WHICH COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE WE SLEPT WITH ARE FROM, BUT I SAY AGAIN THE STATISTICS ARE NOT CORRECT.

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May 12 2009

Muslims in England

Muslims SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME, BEING BRITISH IS: [THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO OFFEND]

- DRIVING A GERMAN CAR TO AN IRISH PUB.
- DRINKING BELGIAN BEER IN A CHINESE MUG.
- GETTIN’ INDIAN, OR TURKISH GRUBB.
- THEN COMIN HOME TO A JAMAICAN RIDING YA ENGLISH SLUT.

A GROWING CONCERN OF OVERCROWDING IN GREAT BRITAIN HAS BEEN EMPHASISED IN PARLIAMENT. WITH NATIONS FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD RIGHTFULLY WANTING TO BETTER THEMSELVES AND LOOKING FOR A SAFE HAVEN WHICH [MOST] OF THEM CAN WORK IN, WE FACE THE ENEVITABLE PROBLEM OF OVERCROWDING.

A MUSLIM PEER IN PARLIAMENT AND AN EX ARCHBISHOP ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IMMIGRATION IN TH U.K. THEY HAVE TAKEN MEASURES TO CALL FOR A REFORM ON IMMIGRATION, STATING; ONLY 20,000 PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MIGRATE TO BRITAIN EVERY FOUR YEARS, AND ONLY STAY FOR A MAX OF FOUR YEARS [NO ONE WILL LISTEN THOUGH... YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES... EDINBURGH'S EMPTY.]

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May 11 2009

THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA AND DEBT

Africa I WAS WATCHING NEWS AT TEN LAST NIGHT AND TO MY BEWILDERMENT I STARTED LAUGHING OUT ALOUD. ALL MY FRIENDS WERE LOOKING AT ME LIKE I WAS MENTAL.

YOU SEE IT STRUCK ME AS SOMETHING OUT OF A MOVIE OR A PLAY WHEN MORGAN TSVANGARI AND PRESIDENT MUGABE FINALLY PUT THEIR DIFFERENCES BEHIND THEM AND DECIDED TO RULE ZIMBABWE TOGETHER. THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER THOUGH, FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW ZIMBABWE HAS BEEN THE TOPIC OF POLITICAL UNREST FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.

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May 10 2009

POLITOPERA

Politics I WAS READING THE NEWSPAPER THE OTHER DAY AND I SAW DAVID CAMERON KISSING HIS WIFE. THIS REMINDED ME OF WATCHING THE TELEVISION AND SEEING THE AMERICAN CANDIDATES, BARAKA OBAMA AND JOHN MCCAIN BEING FILMED WITH THEIR WIVES, KIDS, AND JUST ABOUT ANOTHER RELATED NON ICONIC-ICONIC FIGURE THEY COULD CONJOUR UP.

FIRST MCCAIN SAYS HE WILL SWEAR CONDELISA RICE IN AS HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, THEN HE CHANGES HIS MIND FOR THE MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE SARAH PALIN. [I WONDER WHY?] THEN BOTH OBAMA AND MCCIN BEGIN TO BIGWIT EACH OTHER SUPPOSEDLY TO ENCOURAGE THE VOTERS TO BE DISCOURAGED UPON VOTING FOR THEIR OPPOSITION.

NOW BRITISH POLITICS SEEMS TO BE ADOPTING THE SAME ‘INTELLECTUAL’ STANCE IN THEIR OWN POLITICAL AGENDA. NONE OF THESE POLITICIANS SEEM TO BE BOTHERED THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS LOOSING THEIR LIVES UNECESSARILY FOR POLITICAL, NOT EVEN ECONOMICAL, BUT POLITICAL GAIN.

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May 09 2009

THE TRUTH ABOUT GANGS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Gangs THE UNHEARD CRITICLE VOICE OF THE YOUTH SCREAMS IN DEPRIVATION, NO ONE HEARS WHAT IS REALLY BEING SAID BY THESE YOUNGSTERS.. DOES ANYBODY CARE?. WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN GANGS?. IS IT AN ETHNIC PROBLEM?. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF NOTHING IS DONE? I AM NOT WRITING THIS PIECE TO FILL THE COLUMNS OF THIS WEBSITE.

I’M WRITING THIS PIECE BECAUSE IF THIS IS NOT THOUGHT ABOUT, SPOKE ABOUT, OR RECTIFIED WE WILL HAVE A CAUSE AND EFFECT PROBLEM THAT NO ONE, NOT EVEN THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY STARTED THIS, WILL BE ABLE TO CONTROL.THERE IS GROWING CONCERN AMONGST THE YOUTH, ESPECIALLY THE BLACK YOUTH TODAY IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Gangs EVERYWHERE YOU WALK YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WEARING GANG AFFILIATED COLOURS AND BECOMING EVER SO TERRITORIAL. IN THE EIGHTIES IT WAS FOOTBALL GANGS, NOW IT’S YOUNG UNORGANISED CRIMINALS, WHOM ARE OBVIOUSLY DEPRIVED OR SHOULD I SAY MENTALLY SELF DEPRIVED DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS THEIR SURROUNDINGS ETC ETC.

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU WALK DOWN THE ROAD AND SEE A YOUNG RUFFIAN WALKING TOWARDS YOU? THESE DAYS PEOPLE FLINCH JUST WALKING DOWN THE HIGHSTREET, WALKING PAST NORMAL PEOPLE.YOU THINK OH SHIT I HOPE I DON’T GET ATTACKED. [UNDERSTANDABLE.]

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May 08 2009

WHAT IS THE DEFINITON OF A BLACK PERSON? IS BARACK OBAMA BLACK?

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WHAT IS THE DEFINITON OF A BLACK PERSONThe evolution of dark skin is intrinsically linked to the loss of body hair in humans. By 1.2 million years ago, all people having descendants today had same the receptor protein of today’s Africans; their skin was dark, and the intense sun killed off the progeny with any lighter skin that resulted from mutational variation in the receptor protein. [4] This is significantly earlier than the speciation of Homo sapiens from Homo erectus some 250,000 years ago.

Dark skin helps protect against skin cancer that develops as a result of ultraviolet light radiation, causing mutations in the skin.[citation needed] Furthermore, dark skin prevents an essential B vitamin, folate, from being destroyed. Therefore, in the absence of modern medicine and diet, a person with dark skin in the tropics would live longer, be healthier and likelier to reproduce than a person with light skin. White Australians have some of the highest rates of skin cancer as evidence of this expectation. [5] Conversely, as dark skin prevents sunlight from penetrating the skin it hinders the production of vitamin D3. Hence when humans migrated to less sun-intensive regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and lighter skin colors started appearing. The people of Europe, who have low levels of melanin, naturally have an almost colorless skin pigmentation, especially when untanned. This low level of pigmentation allows the blood vessels to become visible and gives the characteristic pale pink color of white people. The primary difference in skin color between blacks and whites is however a minor genetic difference accounting for just one letter in 3.1 billion letters of DNA. [6]

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May 07 2009

WHAT IS THE DEFINITON WHITE? IS MARIA CAREY WHITE?

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WHAT IS THE DEFINITON WHITE?The definition of white people has varied in different time periods and locations. Ancient Greece used the term white as one description of skin color. Its light appearance was distinguished, for example, in a comparison of white-skinned Persian soldiers from the sun-tanned skin of Greek troops in Xenophon’s Agesilaus.[6] One early use of the term appears in the Amherst Papyri, which were scrolls written in ancient Ptolemaic Greek. It contained the use of black and white in reference to human skin color.[7] In an analysis of the rise of the term, classicist James Dee found that, “the Greeks do not describe themselves as “white people” —or as anything else because they had no regular word in their color vocabulary for themselves—and we can see that the concept of a distinct ‘white race’ was not present in the ancient world.”[6] Assignment of positive and negative connotations of white and black date to the classical period in a number of European languages, but these differences were not applied to skin color per se. Religious conversion was described figuratively as a change in skin color.[6]

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May 06 2009

WHAT IS THE BNP?

Nick GriffinSource: Wiki

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and whites only political party in the United Kingdom.[11][12][13][14][11][15][16] The BBC estimates the party has about 58 elected councillors in local government in England[17] including parish councillors; the party claims to have 100 councillors.[17] The party holds a London-wide seat on the London Assembly, but is not represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In the 2005 UK general election, the BNP received 0.7% of the popular vote, giving it the eighth largest share of the vote, although it was fifth overall among English seats. In the 2007 Welsh Assembly Election, it came fifth in terms of votes for the regional lists with 4.3% of the vote, winning no seats, also finishing fifth in the 2008 London mayoral election with 5.23% of the popular vote, as well as electing Mayoral candidate Richard Barnbrook to the Greater London Assembly.[18]

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May 05 2009

“WE” ARE NOT WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTANThe collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands ? all but a square mile at the centre of the city – and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Hamid Karzai’s deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad’s “Green Zone”; lorry drivers in the country now carry business permits issued by the Taliban which operate their own courts in remote areas of the country.

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May 04 2009

Why do we get tattoos, why do we wear certain clothes, why do we speak slang?

Ship Ok. Where do I begin? It’s obvious that if you are reading this you are interested in gaining knowledge. Or, you are just interested in having a good read. Why do we get tattoos, why do we wear certain clothes, why do we speak slang? Have you ever looked out of the box and studied your actions?

One day I zoned out and listened to myself as I conversed with my friend the other day. I noticed that I was using Jamaican slang words like TING, BREDRIN, and WAH BLOW. Why was I doing this? With out trying to sound like a nationalist, I am from west Africa, not west India. So why then was I speaking like that?

Most Slang words in modern Britain originate from the west Indian island of Jamaica. This is due to the windrush in 1948. The windrush was a boat that brought several skilled west Indians to Britain to work.

Jamaica’s influence in Britain created new musical genres, dishes, dress codes and the many slang words which we in Britain use, from the impoverished council estates, to the richest and respected of areas.

But I wouldn’t have known this if I never read about it. Same goes to women who wear weaves, make up and women who tan. Do they know why they do it? Have you ever questioned why you do certain things?

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May 03 2009

Bush Flubs it Again

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9-11If we say the CIA was the terrorist who committed the WTC disaster — very likely — then it is also very likely that the CIA would want Bush to have the ‘guilty knowledge’ of seeing the first tower hit … via a private TV link prepared by the CIA …

… here is the confirmation that President George Bush watched the first plane hit the WTC when no televison cameras were trained on the buildings since nothing had happened yet. This is the second time he has stated this clearly and publicly. The only explanation is that he viewed it on closed circuit television from his limo outside the schoolhouse in Florida before going into the class. The conclusion should be obvious to anyone with a clue. We all knew he wasn’t too bright, but to slip up twice on this and for the White House to post it again is almost too much. Maybe they want us to figure it out.

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May 02 2009

AMERIKKKAN HISTORY XXX KONSPIRACEY

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The “New World Order” has been a prominent conspiracy theory for decades[1]. Here and now, as the new millennium dawns, the New World Order has become a globally recognised political concept,[2] and as such it can no longer be regarded simply as a theory.

Mankind is now literally entering a new age, the Age of Aquarius, according to the ancient zodiacal calendar which is as old as human civilisation.[3] Aquarius is associated by astrologers with brotherhood, or fraternity, which is the cornerstone of Freemasonry.

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