Jay Z’s engineer Young Guru breaks down how artists sign up to be slaves by singing record deals with major labels. In the words of Cleveland “That’s what I was telling you before!” Maybe you all will listen now hearing it from somebody that’s more established in the industry.
The music industry is a well calculated, political industry. Slap anybody who tells you otherwise.
I’m extremely proud to be apart of this project that was released on Fathers Day. The homie AJ reached out and told me he was putting together a project for the youth to listen too. Full of daily affirmations and positive messages for the kids to hear. He said if you have to leave the kids with a message, and only had a minute or so to do it, what would you say? I was totally down soon as I heard the idea, and I had no idea this would blossom into a project with over 70 features.
Father’s Day is a day for reverence for our father figures, and Hip-Hop, as a whole does not pay its respects to all of the good fathers in our community. Producers and Fathers Metaphysic and Amond Jackson have put together a hip-hop tribute to all Fathers and the relationship they share with their children. The project entitled “Soil: The Warrior Lessons” pulls together uncompromising people from the hip-hop community sharing wisdom for our kids over Amond’s and Metaphysic’s beats with special guests producers. Hip Hop notables like J-Live, DJ Applejack, Floyd the Locsmif, Illastrate, M1 of Dead Prez, Homeboy Sandman, Supa Dave West, John Robinson, DJ Amdex and many others will speak to their seeds and share the feelings and information they need to know. This project should be the soundtrack to your Father’s Day and provide encouragement for you and your young ones.
“Soil” is everything a parent provides for their children or “seeds.” Metaphysic describes the project’s title in this way: “Just like in nature our children, our “seeds” can’t grow alone once planted. They need the proper care in order to flourish. The soil is the nourishment parents must provide in order for our youth to grow strong roots and flourish. With the right soil our youth can properly develop into productive, self reliant and creative contributors to the human family.” Amond and Meta intend for this project to be a gift for Fathers to share with their children to provide alternative perspectives from mainstream music and media. This project also serves as a time capsule that generations in the future can listen to and see what these group of fathers and fathers-to-be had on their minds.
The sense of community among fathers is a major theme for this project. Amond and Meta have brought together many different voices in hip-hop; DJs, MCs, B-Boys, Producers, Writers, Videographers, and Freedom Fighters have all contributed to this inspirational instrumental project. The music will be free, so listeners can expect to hear a wide range of vibes and sounds. “Soil: The Warrior Lessons” will be a free download available Father’s Day June 20, 2010.
Facebook: Our Soil
Twitter: OurSoil_
Free Download: June 20, 2010 www.oursoil.bandcamp.com
This album is brought to you by:
Amond Jackson (contact)
salempsalms@gmail.com
&
Metaphysic
metaphysicbeats@gmail.com
credits
released 20 June 2010
Brought to you by Producers and Fathers, Amond Jackson and Metaphysic
Special thanks to the folk who made this possible. Your sacrifice will multiply your intention as we are all speaking in unison. The evidence is the seedz.
Click the link below for more info and the official tracklist
(more…)
Listen Up!!! Goodie Mob jumps on the Marta to let the citizens of Atlanta know, they need to “Roll With Respect”
Goodie Mob Marta PSA from Motion Family on Vimeo.
Aight… So the first installment of Swerve Methods covered the easiest and most universal method for mobile device backup. If you weren’t scared to take your tech game beyond madden football, you found out that Dashwire is the jumpoff. Now that we’ve got you’re phone backing 24/7 we’re going to take the backup a little further with cloud sharing. With Windows SkyDrive and ADrive on deck you’ll never have to worry about loosing your itunes playlist or photo collections again. The ART of BACKING UP PART2 after the jump. (more…)
Matt Mason’s keynote on The Pirate’s Dilemma, his book on how to compete with piracy, filmed at The Medici Summit, March 3rd 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona. Mason discusses why piracy can be an opportunity as well as a threat, how pirates innovate outside of the marketplace and how legitimate businesses can respond. Using examples from music, fashion, software and the video game industry (to name just a few of the topics covered), Mason makes the case that it is possible to beat pirates offering the same products for free, and that when pirates are adding value to society in some way, society will get behind them, at which point the only way companies can beat them is by compete with them in the marketplace.
More on the book here:
If your in ATL and have kids, def check out the Health Fair tomorrow presented by Rolling Out. It’s going down at South Dekalb Mall on the eastside.
If you get a chance, get yaself checked out. It’s Muy Importante.
If any of you all are working out make sure you give your entire body the same amount attention. You should only do total body workouts after two days of rest. If you don’t you will have a horrible body/muscle inbalnce. Take a look at the video courtesy of menshealth. Also check rapper Gorilla Zoe trying to get his workout on.
(more…)
This is just a piece of the I Do Music event that went down on Jan 1st, 2009. The next one is going down Feb 5th. Same bat channel, same bat time @ Apache Cafe.
Shout out to Oz Banga.
1. What are you really thinking about today? – “As you think, so shall you become.”
2. Simplify. – “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” and “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
3. Learn about yourself in interactions. – “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
4. Do not divide. – “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
5. Avoid a dependency on validation from others. – “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” and “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
6. Be proactive. – “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
7. Be you. – “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
Wise words indeed.
An article by 