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Following up from last week… I’ve got another couple of mixtapes for you all. Fresh & FREE!
This week it’s:
• TITLE RETRACTED by CAN’T SAY
• Filthy Friends: The Mixtape by Micachu
Enjoy!
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September 8, 2008 at 12:00 am / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
Greetings from the Afro-Triangle!
Just a quick note to let you know what’s going down….
Who: Soul Summit DJs & Afrika Baambaata (The last event saw 1000+ patrons)
What: Brooklyn Urban Arts Market
When: Sunday, September 7th from 12pm – 7pm
Where: On Myrtle Avenue btwn. Grand Avenue & Emerson Place
Come out if you can. This will be the very last chance to get tees at this price!
September 7, 2008 at 12:16 am / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
This friday, my sister and I went to see the Salvador Dali exhibit, which is running at New York’s Museum of Modern Art until Sept 15th.
If you get the chance to see it… you should. Especially if you have a particular interest in either Impressionist art or early Film. It was a really interesting showing. Hella crowded too… but apparently if you show up at the MoMA a fter 4pm on a friday… it’s “Target Free Friday”.
Which means admission is free until closing and your free ticket is also good for free entry to P.S.1 (within 30 days). Not a bad deal if you can function in massive crowds of rude people (many of whom read rather slowly because english is not their primary language, and point their fingers way too close to the paintings.) : /
September 6, 2008 at 11:49 am / 2 comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
West Indian Carnival Parade
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September 5, 2008 at 9:14 pm / No comments / View King Texas's Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
photo by Clay Franks
So today, we’re posted up in Memphis, TN, because back home, shit’s still grimy as hell. Only about 2% of the city has power, so the city is pitch black at night. They put in effect an 8pm curfew, giving them free range to lock anyone they can catch up. Border patrol is everywhere, and it looks like my hood is about to get hit up on that tip.
The city is largely thrashed up. Most of my friends and family have trees down in-front-of or IN their houses. Lots of ripped up roofs, felled traffic signs and power lines and the weirdest thing about it all is how no one across the country knows about how badly the city was hit and how many people were actually affected by it. Georgia Bush stopped through to survey the damage, though. He hopped off the plane at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport and looked around and declared it a disaster area and left without actually making it to any of the sites where evacuees were being housed or where the storm was gnarliest. On second thought, it isn’t the least bit surprising that the rest of the country has no clue what’s going on in one of its largest port cities when the shining Knight of the White Camelia can’t even be bothered to leave the fucking airport to see what’s really up.
Tour of My Nieghborhood from jon rogers on Vimeo.
Also, one of the guys over at TBC (http://www.tbcparty.com) got some pretty telling footage of our city and some of our neighborhoods.
September 5, 2008 at 2:35 pm / One comment / View je's Profile /
Kara Walker, born in 1969, is known for her mansion-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the ongoing racial and gender tensions in America. Her themes include, power, repression, race, sexuality, and history. She was included in the 1997 biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Later that year, she became the youngest receiver of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius’ grant, which is what launched the public controversy around her work. She currently lives in NYC, and is a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University.
Kara Walker is a King.
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
September 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm / No comments / View King Texas's Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
In the spirit of sharing some of our new developments… I wanted to quickly post about some of the work Yego and I have been doing for our new design collaboration studio, 21Trillion. We’ll explain more later, but here’s a peek:
![](http://www.21maroons.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lgtw_12inch.png "Let\'s Go To War 12\\" Jacket")
12″ Vinyl Jacket for Let’s Go to War on Last Gang Records
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Muhsinah album art Photoshoot w/ photobytone.com
Check back soon for more sneak peeks.
September 3, 2008 at 3:08 pm / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
Note: This was a post about Diddy’s dumb ass “buggin’ the f*ck out” rant 207 (or whatever), but I decided to retract that and post this video instead because when I ran across it on youtube I started buggin’ the F*ck out because it’s always inspiring to witness progressive independent culture breakthrough to the mainstream. It’s like virgin love or something. Awwwm!
September 2, 2008 at 1:49 pm / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
[Communicated via iPhone]
Cans of red beans
Cans of black beans
Jugs of water
Plum wine
A pack of beedies
White wine
Smoke
Cheap champagne
Rice
A bottle of makers mark
Pasta
Tomato sauce
Canned tomatoes
Veggie burgers
Beer
White bread (we ate all the wheat)
We’ve been up drinking since about 7am. Other than that, we’re just kickin it, playing guitar. We just lost power here, but the storm hasn’t gotten too too bad yet. Branches are starting to break off of trees as the wind gets more intense. Our buddies at Klsu (http://www.Klsu.fm/) lost power, too, and are flooded in the basement.
There are tornadoes all around. We can hear them. They sound like airplanes going overhead or like a train going by. That’s about the only immediate threat to this parish, as we wait for the eye to get closer.
Shit’s consistently getting slammed into the house, but we boarded up the windows.
Tonight, we’ll probably cook some beans and rice.
Stay up fam!
Je d’Horatio Toussaint-Baptiste
September 1, 2008 at 7:32 pm / No comments / View je's Profile /
Sometime last year, my workmate Trevz, from The New Pop used a dope song in one of his videos. It was by King Britt and the title was, Live Like Jesus. After an hour of searching, I stumbled upon “King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan” and downloaded the whole album. Astonishing, uplifting, ravishing, obscure, and bold are the words I’d use to describe this album. Apparently, King Britt was in a musically rut at the time, and his mother told him that God would show him the way back to music. He later received a call from Andy Hurwitz, who runs Ropeadope Records, and asked King if he would re-interpret her recordings. It was all history from there.
Sister Gertrude Morgan was born in 1900 to farmers and raised in Alabama, and was greatly dedicated to God. She was a missionary, preacher, artist, musician, poet, and writer who lived and worked in New Orleans in the 1960s and ‘70s. In 1939, she arrived in New Orleans and created an orphanage with two other women – she preached, sang, and played her guitar on the streets. Plenty of years later, she moved her missionary to a small white-frame house in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward, right down the river from the French Quarter. She created her art and conducted pray services within this house. She died peacefully in her sleep on July 8th, 1980 and was buried in pauper’s grave in Providence Memorial Park Cemetery.
TOOLS OF HER MINISTRY: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan is a 120-page fully illustrated book published by the American Folk Art Museum, New York, and Rizzoli International Publications. Gertrude Morgan doesn’t preach about religion. She sings about HOPE, FAITH, and PROSPERITY. When I visited New Orleans in March of this year, her whole album was running through my head as we drove through the Ninth Ward. She brings this intense, dominating feeling into my soul whenever I hear her sing, to the point where tears begin to roll down my face. Inspiring.
As people, we’ve been disappointed so much that we forgot how to be hopeful. We forget to dream. We forget to walk forward. We begin to settle down, and marinate in this dangerous negative state of mind this country gives us. I tell you, though. Take a listen to her, and you’ll feel it again. You’ll feel alive. You’ll see your purpose at the horizon. You’ll see “it”. It’s time to go in a new and different direction. It’s time to grow. This is what Sister Gertrude Morgan has offered me: drive, rhythm, and action. She is my past spirit.
King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan – New World In My View
Enjoy
September 1, 2008 at 12:49 pm / No comments / View King Texas's Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
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