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How the Dayton Police Tried to Silence My Voice [VIDEO] | Davey D's Hip Hop Corner

This weekend, I had an opportunity to speak and perform in Dayton, OH, with the legendary MC Lyte at an event called, “Dear Dr. Hip-Hop: Speak, Be Heard, Be Considered.” A few days before arriving, I got a call from one of the organizers telling me that the Dayton Police Department had a “problem” with some of my lyrics and demanded to know what songs I was going to perform before they would secure the venue.

Being that this wasn’t the first time a group tried to censor me, I immediately got on the phone with my lawyer who advised me on what action I needed to take.  I sent this email as my response:

How the Dayton Police Tried to Silence My Voice [VIDEO] | Davey D's Hip Hop Corner

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GoldenUndergroundTV recently released an interview I did with them late last year. I got a bit animated at the end. Only so many interviews in a row I could handle being asked aboutChief Keef.

My tirade wasn’t really about Chief Keef. It wasn’t about Gucci Mane or Wocka Flocka or any of the acts spontaneously catapulted into stardom by synchronized mass media coverage despite seemingly universal indifference (at the very best) regarding their talent. Whose arrests, involvement in underaged pregnancies, concert shootouts, and facial tattoos, dominate conversation for weeks at a time, with their actual music a mere afterthought, if thought of at all.

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Lauryn Hill Postpones Prison Sentence & Signs $1 Million Sony Deal

Things seem to be looking up for Ms. Hill. 

Lauryn Hill made headlines lately for owing the IRS upwards of $1.8 million in back taxes. 

After pleading guilty to tax evasion for the years between 2005 and 2007, Lauryn Hill has worked out a deal with the judge, and surprisingly, a new deal with record label Sony. 

Lauryn's presiding judge scolded the "When It Hurts So Bad" singer for making "no effort" to pay her taxes back, but showed some leniency by postponing her sentencing until May 6. 

In return, the judge has now given Lauryn Hill a May 3rd restitution date, where she is expected to pay back $650,000 in owed taxes by using some of her Sony advance money. 

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The first solo album by the Fugees' most distinctive voice quickly wipes away the pretensions of so many current hip-hoppers' discs. It does so by both engaging their widescreen ethos--"To Zion," with its martial drums and gospel choir, is as epic a production as has been heard in 1998's pop music--and speaking the plain truth. Reminiscent in its scope of nothing so much as Aretha's early-'70s Spirit in the Dark and Young, Gifted and Black, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill also easily earns its late-'90s place next to Erykah Badu's Baduizm. Even more personal, if hardly any more political, than cohort Wyclef Jean's Carnival, Miseducation focuses equally on her life (especially the birth of her child) and social concerns about the present and future. Its often quiet surface, if anything, lends intensity. "Everything you drop is so tired," she scolds artistically dead-ended rappers on "Superstar"; if more artists shared her vision, occasional eccentricities and bottom-line talent, she wouldn't have to complain. --Rickey Wright


Their remake of "Killing Me Softly" was the hit, but that's only the beginning of the story. A hip-hop trio whose talents reach out into the world of the pop song (Wyclef Jean is a fine guitar player, and Lauryn Hill's a heck of a singer), the Fugees are also all distinctive, inventive rappers--you find yourself waiting for each of them to take the next verse in turn. The beats are the familiar crossed-armed boom-bip, but the group's understated grooves and subtle effects lie low in the mix. Aside from two kicky covers of classics (the other is Marley's "No Woman, No Cry"), The Score's focus is on the stars' rhyming with the free-form grace of performance poets and showing that they've thought deeply about the issues they raise. --Douglas Wolk

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The Combat Jack Show With Styles P

The Ghost came in and rocked through his most of his storied history with the Lox, Diddy, DMX, Tupac, Mary J. Blige, the East West Coast beef, how D Block’s legendary lyrical beef with Roc-a-fella almost spilled out into the streets and more. P also shed some real grown man tears reminiscing about the Notorious B.I.G. as he rolled that real pungent. Tune in and get all this work. His latest album ‘Float’ is available for sale now.

 Styles P, a member of The LOX and the larger D-Block Hip-Hop collective, grew up in Yonkers, New York rapping alongside Jadakiss (Jason Phillips) and Sheek Louch (Shawn Jacobs). In their late teens the trio met Mary J. Blige who was so impressed with their tough street east coast lyrics, she gave them a big break by putting their demo in the hands of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Diddy immediately hired the trio to write for Bad Boy Records. With the label, The LOX quickly started collaborating on hits with Diddy, the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Mariah Carey which gave them instant notoriety and status within the hip-hop and mainstream charts. Read more
   

Jay-Z Sells Nets Stake, Earns Warren Buffett-Like Return

Jay-Z and Buffett on the cover of Forbes in 2010. Jay-Z is retiring again–this time not as a musician, but as a co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets.

 The hip-hop mogul officially announced the news via his Web site, Life + Times:

" Being a member of the Nets organization surpassed some of my greatest ambitions. It was never about an investment; it was about the NETS and Brooklyn. My job as an owner is over but as a fan it has just begun. I’m a Brooklyn Net forever."

 This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. FORBES reported that Jay-Z would have to sell his stake in the team nearly three weeks ago, after he announced his intention to start representing professional athletes through his Roc Nation Sports. Given the new business venture, the NBA’s rules required him to relinquish his stake, as Jay-Z confirmed in his statement.

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Snoop Lion is a new moniker of multi-platinum artist and entertainment icon, Snoop Dogg, whose ability to stay at the forefront of popular culture and new technology has resulted in unwavering relevance. Snoop Lion, in conjunction with VICE Media and Stampede Management, are set to release REINCARNATED, the multi-media project capturing Snoop s exploration of reggae music and spiritual growth. The project includes a reggae-influenced album executive produced by Diplo and Major Lazer, a feature-length documentary of Snoop's journey and career which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, a photo book, and a self-sustainable gardening initiative named Mind Gardens.

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DJ Absurd - Ear 2 The Streets Radio Episode 72 (4/15/13)

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Quentin Tarantino presents The Man With the Iron Fists, an action-adventure inspired by kung-fu classics as interpreted by his longtime collaborators RZA and Eli Roth. Making his debut as a big-screen director, co-writer and leading man, RZA alongside an exciting international cast led by Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu tells the epic story of warriors, assassins and a lone outsider hero who all descend on one fabled village in China for a winner- takes-all battle for a fortune in gold. Blending astonishing martial-arts sequences from some of the masters of this world with the signature vision he brings as the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and as one of hip-hop's most dominant figures of the past two decades, RZA embarks upon his most ambitious, stylized and thrilling project to date. Joining Crowe, RZA and Liu in the cast are Rick Yune, Jamie Chung, Cung Le, Dave Bautista, Byron Mann, Daniel Wu and Pam Grier. The Soundtrack features original songs created for the film by artists including The Black Keys, Kanye West, the Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah, Wiz Khalifa, Talib Kweli, Pusha T, Raekwon, Method Man and RZA who collaborates with Flatbush Zombies as well as The Black Keys.

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The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop - Professor Griff

This book was not what I had expected; though still an excellent and informative read. I expected the book to be about witnessing this corruption from the perspective of an artist in the hip hop game. I expected it to be about the motives and conduct of music executives and their methods of propagating negative Hip-Hop to brainwash the masses as we clearly see happening in the mainstream. The book was indeed about all of that, but not to the extent that I had expected. The book instead lead up to the topic of Hip-Hop by first telling the reader about declassified operations such as MK-ULTRA to convince the reader that conspiracies/mind control experiments do and have undeniably occurred. As an alternative media/political analyst of 5 years now, I had already known of and verified the many cases the book presented. So to the skeptic reading it I say, everything within is verifiable, most of which declassified government operations I had already read about. However, never just blindly believe something that sounds doubtful to you, but more importantly never dismiss anything, you owe it to yourself to research and verify everything personally. Before reading any book like this, I urge you familiarizing yourself with a psychological concept called "confirmation bias" and then be open minded, but never blindly accepting. I myself had already validated mostly everything before reading the book so I was able to read it with confidence. So instead of being skeptical as someone new to the information may be, I was impressed with so many topics being covered in one book. Many important cases even just broken into a single paragraph prompting the reader to research further. I would recommend this book for anyone, not just Hiphoppas because the collection of declassified conspiracies within the book do not all pertain to Hip-Hop, they are mostly all topics that are often mentioned in the "truth movement" and should become common knowledge. The book also suggests several other books and briefly explains the relevance of them. To paraphrase I would describe "The Psychological Covert War of Hip Hop" like this. The book simply paraphrases several crucial topics that all should be made aware of. Instead of going into great detail about each topic, it simply explains what it is and urges the reader to research further. The book is full of pictures and also promotes other books that have relevance. The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop is a genuine and effective attempt to awaken "sheeple" more than it is about Hip Hop individuals, Hip-Hop products or the Hiphop culture itself. It is all relevant and I, a Hip Hop Artist myself recommend this book especially for a person not well versed in conspiracies because the book gives the reader a variety of undeniable cases, and sources, enough to familiarize one new to this type of information with everything they need to know for a base knowledge to get started on their own path of research as I did years ago. The book is basically about researching further yourself, but provides a ground to get started. To know how this all relates to Hiphop, read the book for yourself, it is all relevant.

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Asante (b. 1982) decries the negativity of much of mainstream hip-hop. Though people his age “were born into the hip-hop generation, they feel misrepresented by it and . . . see the dangers and limitations of being collectively identified by a genre of music they don’t even own.” Their “lack of ownership . . . has allowed corporate forces to overrun hip-hop with a level of misogyny and black-on-black violence” that has led “some young folks to disown the label ‘hip-hop generation.’” A similar argument could be made about nearly every underground movement that achieves pop-music supremacy, but Asante feels mainstream marketing of hip-hop has robbed his generation of a valuable voice for enunciating social and political criticism and made the music “a conservative instrument, promoting nothing new or remotely challenging to mainstream cultural ideology.” He declares that “post-hip-hop,” rather than marking the death of rap, represents a shift to a more inclusive movement incorporating culturally significant subject matter. Weighty, probably vital reading for keeping up with youth culture and pop music. --Mike Tribby 

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