Thursday, August 16, 2007

Hip Hop, Black Skateboarders, The Malcolm X Games, the History and Still Flippin'

From "Kick Push" by Lupe Fiasco, to "Vans" from the Pack, to video games, to the X games, thought it was about time to do some video diggin and lets give some luv to some Living Color in the Skateboard Scene. WE present you the first annual Malcolm X Games.. Starting off with the late Harold Hunter RIP, who was in the film Kids. Off course these are to some great hip-hop.

Harold Hunter











Kareem Campbell









Lavar Mcbride









Marcus McBride







Stevie williams











The Pack and Vans





Lupe Fiasco





Bonus Videos



Friday, August 10, 2007

Bay History



my response to this posted by Davey D, featuring an interview with Kayhree in Muderdog. Here is the article
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hotep.

this aint nothing new around the bay. in the 90s old heads will remember Daundaground and the other powerful folks in the BAY AREA HIP-HOP COALITION
aka: BAHHC . Formed to have a movement in bay area radio. The bay needs this kind of organizing back, and then some. Hate to put it out there but we were the revolutionaires of this time... fighting against a university, letters from the government, and we played BAY music... in fact we were the only station doing so.... just like today you heard a lot of east coast and other.

KMEL has never been for the community, never. You may have had some people who were there who were trying to make change but the station the establishment, never. We were the anti-kmel.
You young cats dont remember how they did the Godfather Too Short?! He even had to make a song about them. Ive been waiting for years for the bay to get it together, build a station, build a real bay label with everybody, really show our power. Part of the added problem the real Djs from the community dont get shine, they prop up these folks who wouldnt ever be down with these artists, and put them on radio, and now they down and a celebrity. With they fake antics, they adopted slang.. and all that... i dont listen to the radio and you shouldnt either, unless its college radio, who attempts to keep the music relative. And yes a large portion of you youngstas, and KMEL was never down with Mac Dre... i remember when a lot of the bay was serious hating on Dre while he was locked up....! Now they got him on a shirt like he latest fashion.

Yes the bay needs to take it back to the MOBB. Where we didnt make music for the radio. When the Hyphy youngstas start learning their history, and start listening to the game from the MOBB artists.... VWhite, Richie Rich, Deliquents, Askari X, Keak... etc. may be we can form a real movement. Can u dig dat?

Dj Ragesouljah
Daundaground.com