music/videos we love :: mos def ft. talib kweli – history
It’s been really inspiring to watch Mos Def grow as an artist, performer, actor and force of nature. The man exudes all the characteristics of someone doing exactly what’s he’s been put on this earth to do- Create. Progress. Challenge. This beautiful video reunites Mos with fellow Black Star, Talib Kweli. Can’t lie, we just love seeing these two at it again.
K’Naan, MC + Musician :: 120 Seconds
Somali MC & musician Knaan shares his views on language as not only a tool for communication but also as a cultural carrier and its influence in the way we view ourselves and our surrounding environment.
tricks we love :: motorcross double backflip
Cameron Sinclair pulls the first double backflip during a freestyle competition run at the Red Bull X-Fighters Texas 2009 in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards.
videos we love :: the 6-sec drum loop that changed the world
“Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video
Books We Love :: Naomi Klein / The Shock Doctrine
With banks falling like dominoes and our elected officials indebting us blind under false pretenses, The Shock Doctrine should be required reading for us all. Naomi Klein takes us on a historical journey exposing how Milton Friedman’s “free market” policies have been implemented in countries around the world – by creating panic and passing legislation during a ‘crisis actual or perceived.’ From the Patriot Act passed after 9/11 which privatized most of our military to the vast re-appropriation of the Gulf Coast, its hospitals and schools after Katrina, Klein systematically takes us through a history that dates back to the ’50s and makes rounds in just about every continent. Unfortunately most economics courses and our mainstream media leave these details out, making it seem that globalization and these free market policies have been implemented under transparent circumstances. This is far from the truth.
- by Moni Pineda
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