Slicksno Urban Update – RIAA Drama – 2007-01-22
After hearing about the raid on the Aphilliate Music Group and the subsequent arrest of DJ Drama (Tyree Simmons) and DJ Don Cannon (Donald Cannon), I couldn’t help but wonder where all this is going? What is it leading up to? Like the rest of the hip hop community, at first I was shocked and in disbelief. Then came that feeling of “Daaammmnnn, that’s f#@&$d up…” once you really let what happened sink in.
Considering that record labels have quietly supported the mixtape movement helping it grow into the hip hop heavyweight that it is, many people are asking “Where are the labels?”. How come they just kept quiet while all this went down? Seems like a big CYA for them. The RIAA does alot of dirty work for the major labels by enforcing the various copyrights on their CDs and other media. Or maybe a better expression would be “having their cake and eating it too” since they support mixtapes but also are the key members of the RIAA. Maybe that is why this issue is so confusing. The labels are playing both sides of this and scoring a win-win situation for themselves. What do you think about it? Let us know here.
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Rascism, Power & Drama-What’s Really Behind the RIAA Raids
As I noted in my first reports on this incident- The raid on the offices of DJ Drama and the Aphilliates WAS NOT about mixtapes, this is about inserting power. Please bear in mind that over the past year, many deejays from all around the country have been quietly organizing and weighing their options while assessing their collective power. For example, last month several hundred deejays met at a highly publicized West Coast Summit. Already we have TJDJs, The pioneering DJs who are down with Tools of War, The Core DJs, The Heavy Hitters,The Big Dawgs, The Beat Junkies Nasty Nesand the RappattackDJs and The Bum Squad DJS all running profitable businesses and working in a collective fashion. Some of these DJ Collectives have been behind the scenes organizing to demand Health Care and other provisions from the industry. When folks got together in LA, it was to start demanding more work opportunities. In all these DJ collectives, they have been asserting that they ‘run the industry’ because the deejay has the ability to make or break records.
The Orgins Of Rap And Hip Hop Music
The origin of hip-hop can be traced back as far as the ancient tribes in Africa. Rap has been compared with the chants, drumbeats and foot-stomping African tribes performed before wars, the births of babies, and the deaths of kings and elders. Historians have reached further back than the accepted origins of hip-hop. It was born as we know it today in the Bronx, cradled and nurtured by the youth in the low-income areas of New York City.
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Slick Trouble
The government’s determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds
Chances are, if you’re under 35 but old enough to have voted for president a couple of times, you’re still carrying around the mental imprint from the day your adolescent brain was stamped hard by lyrics describing a robbery gone bad.
The words themselves are probably enough to bring up the memory. There was no melody, just the slight British accent in the voice rapping the tale, likely still as familiar as when you first heard it, which was about the time the first George Bush became president on a mandate to read his lips.
Spreading The Word
Sean Price burst onto the rap scene with Boot Camp Clik (BCC) as a part of his famous group Heltah Skeltah (where he went under the name of Ruck). He released two albums with Heltah Skeltah in the mid-90′s, and dropped his solo album entitled Monkey Barz in 2005. Monkey Barz received rave reviews and helped him gain credentials as a solo artist. He has recently worked with BCC and dropped an album with his old crew members, which was entitled The Last Stand. He is preparing to release his sophomore LP, Jesus Price Supastar, and continues to work with Heltah Skeltah.
In this exclusive interview, Sean P reveals the story behind the name Jesus Price, and reacts to the death of one of his concertgoers. Price also makes it clear that he’s not on the whole “bring New York back” movement, but just trying to lay down a blue print for MCs everywhere to follow. Price claims that there might be something to Nas’ statement that “Hip-Hop is Dead,” but is hoping that with the release of his second LP, he can show what real hip-hop is all about.
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