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Feb 17-March 3 – DLabrie on the road in Asia (South Korea,Japan) – Get Free Download of Japanese Dance Club Remix of "Maniac" by Mr Cruzeo here – For all inquires Text 5102569863 or email@example.com
FREE Download – Japanese Dance Club Maniac Remix by Mr Cruzeo – https://soundcloud.com/mrcruzeo/dlabrie-maniac-mr-cruzeo-remix-radio
DLabrie after show near Hongik University
DLabrie rocking in Gangnam style!! Seoul, South Korea
This Video by Snoop & Psy explains the life DLabrie is living in Korea when on the road!! Snoop was in Korea filming this Video last time DLabrie was in korea in 2014
DLabrie in Insadong in Seoul, South Korea
DLabrie in Tokyo, Japan selling his 1st album "The Little Malcolm EP" before it came out in the U.S
DLabrie Flavor Flavin in Osaka, Japan with these girls gone wild!!
DLabrie , Stay Black & Die Video ft The Jacka RIP, M1 of dead prez, Shamako Noble of Hip Hop Congress, Adisa Banjoko of Hip Hop Chess Federation & saikoDelic Video will drop this month as a Tribute to The Jacka. We tryed to Track him down to film his scenes. Life is Short!!
Hear DLabrie Album MR NETW3RK
RONDAVOUX RECORDS 1st Whole Crew Album will Drop August 21st, 2015
1/19 Berkeley – Aplus of Souls of Mischief/Hiero , Knobody, DLabrie
1/25 – SF – Rahman Jamaal of RDV & Risk aka StreetPoetryMusic.com
1/29 San Jose – Good Vibes Concert
1/31 SanJose "Whose Constitution is it?" People's Movement Assembly at SEIU,10am-4, FREE Lunch, by RonDavoux Records/RDV, Hip Hop Congress, , Rap Force Academy, Move To Amend, US Social Forum – Another World is Possible & many more Organizations & leaders
Donate to US Social Forum >>> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/us-social-forum-building-momentum
June 24-28 in San Jose, Philadelphia, Jackson- Hip Hop Congress & RDV are a part of the Planning Committee bringing the US Social Forum (World Social forum) 1 of the largest International Social Justice Gatherings on the planet. If you would like to be involved as an activist, artist, organizaer or Volunteer contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Please Donate to US Social forum Here >>> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/us-social-forum-building-momentum
Hip Hop Congress president & RDV artist , Shamako Noble is leader of the NPC for the US Social Forum
2 DLabrie shows kicking off 2015; January 15 in Redwood City #RockDaMic & Janauary 17 Oakland #Exotic #ClubLex
1/15 Redwood City
1/17 Oakland
Article in San Jose Metro on RDV http://www.sanjose.com/rondavoux-records-showcase-e2197962
Dec 13 – Merced – BobcatWild Winter Wonderland Party ft. DLabrie w/ Mystick Journeymen,Sunspot Jonz,LuckyIam of Living Legends,Luck & Lana,DJ Nykon,Task1ne,Maq Steez,Madman of RDV & more
Get Tickets Here- Enter DLabrie for discount code on ticket site & get 15% off entry http://www.eventbee.com/v/bobcatwildwinter
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Dec 13 San Jose – Jacka, Husalah, YDMC, Different Dope Music
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Dec 6 – Redwood City
Ladies FREE All Night, Everyone FREE before 10pm
O2 – Cadi Lean feat. Erk tha Jerk featured on 106 & Park (BET)
Halloween Night at 7:30 DLabrie Scary Video Debuts in LA on Hustle Tv (Time Warner) Channel 36 (Millions of Viewers)
Read tell All intreview w The illuminati on the Making of the New Horror Video Project http://www.illuminati2g.com/untouchable/2014/10/31/maniac-depth-dlabrie-interview/
Halloween Night 7:30pm – DLabrie New Horror Video airs in LA area on Hustle Tv (Times Warner Cable)Check flyer for days, times, & networks in New york, Atlanta, San Diego, etc Millions of viewerss
Sat 11/1 Maniac Debut in the Bronx, NY at 1130pm on Bcat Ch. 68
DLabrie & KDoe (RIP) in the Bronx, NY partying w/ NY Hip Hop Congress rep Viktory
DLabrie Maniac Video debuts on Hustle TV in 4 major markets: clockwise – Queens,NY… Long Island,NY (Pix with chuck D of public enemy & member of the Living Legnds)…Manhatten,NY…Atlanta.GA and next Brooklyn and MT Vernon
Sun 11/2 & Mon – 11/3 QUEENS,NY – 11pm on QPTV Ch. 56
Sun night – 11/2 MANHATTEN,NY – 12:30am on MNN Ch. 57
Sun night – 11/2 LONG ISLAND,NY – 12am on Cablevision Ch. 20
Sun 11/2 – ATLANTA,GA 11 30pm – on PeopleTV Ch. 24
ALSO Tues night 11/4 – BROOKLYN,NY – 12:30am on BCAT Ch. 35/68
and Tues 11/4 – MT VERNON,NY – 8pm on Times Warner Ch. 18
Hustle Tv has even interviewed Manny Pacquiao. Look for dlabrie New video Halloween Night at 7:30
Hustle TV Interview with DJ Quik
#RonDaVOODOO Every Oct. See New Spooky RDV Film http://www.thizzler.com/blog/2014/10/19/dlabrie-ft-fabian-leo-maniac-music-video.html#gHc0lo8avJGMedzM.01
Nov 13 – San Jose – Hip Hop Congress/Move to Amend/RDV present #WHATtheBLEEP happened to Hip Hop Artist Showcase NOV 15-16 & 2-DAY Conference & Educational Forum,PMA at DEBUG
Donate to What the Bleep http://www.gofundme.com/whatthebleephhc
Nov 13 #WhattheBleep Artist Showcase fb event – https://www.facebook.com/events/150861205100200/
Nov 15-16 #WhattheBleep Forum & Workshops fb event – https://www.facebook.com/events/620891818028789/
What The Bleep Happened to Hip Hop: San Jose Artist Showcase brought to you by Hella Famous, Hip Hop Congress, Move to Amend, RonDavoux Records, Multi Media Center
LIVE CONCERT featuring:
SQUINKLA AKA KALIZAY from the RADIO HITS "CHOCOMIL" & "IN THE CLUB"
SHAMAKO NOBLE founder and President of Hip Hop Congress & National Coordinator of U.S Social Forum
RAHMAN JAMAAL star of Movie "THE BEAT" ( ft. Chino XL, Brian McKnight, Coolio)
DLABRIE aka Oakland's Own MR NETW3RK with New hit "Maniac"
YDMC – Most booked artist in South Bay
MADMAN OF RDV & MAQ STEEZ (Different Dope Music)
ANDREW BIGS (formerly known as Society) – San Jose based artist
CLIFF THE GIFT & MCTATE (Hella Famous Crew)
NOTE OPEN MIC WILL ONLY BE THIRTY MINUTES!!! Only TAKING FIRST FIVE SIGN UPS!!!!!!!!!!! List opens at 8:30pm and closes after we reach the first five……
like us/follow our fame @ https://www.facebook.com/hellafamous
Also in Connection with the Nov 13th Showcase…
SAN JOSE :#WhattheBleep] HAPPENED TO HIP HOP NATIONAL FORUM & PMA (PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY)
To RSVP for the Educational Forum or the PMA please contact Shamako Noble at email@example.com RonDavoux Records firstname.lastname@example.com or Jessica Munger at email@example.com
What The Bleep Happened to Hip Hop: ALL DAYS FREE
Thursday, November 13th
(Iguana's 330 S 3rd St, San Jose, CA)
8:30pm – Midnight
Saturday November 15th
FORUM & PMA(Peoples Movement Assembly) DAY 1 (DEBUG 701 Lenzen, San Jose,CA) FREE
10:00 am – 6:00pm
Sunday November 16th
FORUM & PMA (Peoples Movement Assembly) DAY 2
(DEBUG 701 Lenzen, San Jose,CA) FREE
"They mine metals for the phones killing trees for the loose leaf/
I write raps on both to tell you what it do, g/"
-Mike Wird, Soul Pros, Regenerative Lifestyles and Hip Hop Congress
Do you know what the 1996 Telecommunications Act and how has it influenced culture in the United States?
Have you ever heard of Lyric Committees, and the story of of how record labels try to control artists money?
Why haven't artists truly been successful in organizing as a labor force when so many of them are working in our schools, youth centers, prisons and organizations?
And most importantly, what the (bleep) happened to Hip Hop
Nov 8-9 – Oakland – Hip Hop Congress/Move to Amend present #WhattheBleep happened to Hip Hop Artist Showcase (Sat 8pm) ft. DLabrie, Shamako Noble & more + ALL DAY Conference, Forum, PMA at Qilomba
Donate to What the Bleep >>> http://www.gofundme.com/whatthebleephhc
11/8 – Oakland – Hip Hop Congress – Move to Amend #WhattheBleep Artist Showcase
Hit us for Discount Tix – Text 5102569863
It's Back!! OCTOBER 2014 RONDAVOODOO TOUR EVENTS
DLabrie Video – Maniac
10/25 – San Leandro – Screening for Celebrity Crimes Files for TV one about DLabrie cousin & legenday music mogul "Shakir Stewart" former VP of Def Jam with Jay-Z
Oct 24-26 – Shamako Noble, Hip Hop Congress, What the Bleep in Denver
10/28 in San Jose – DLabrie Celebrity Host at Rick Lee Rap Contest feat Headliners DBoy the Mack, Jah Vanni
10/29 in Santa Cruz – Brotha Lynch, YDMC, DLabrie,Maq Steez, Different Dope Music –
Hit us for Discount Tix 5102569863 or email@example.com
10/30 San Jose
Debut DLabrie – Away We Go – Official Short Film(shot mostly in L.A) produced by Sean T./InfiNate(MTV)
Get the song and original version that was on MTV here
Buy "Away we Go" Clean Version & other singles on I-Tunes here http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=804742288
New DLabrie "Away we Go" Video filmed in LA /strong>
Check out Exclusive Interview Now. This week National Campaign begins on this Video.
Check out I2G (Illuminati2g.com)In depth Sit down with DLabrie about his latest Video filmed in LA http://www.illuminati2g.com/untouchable/2014/09/19/dlabrie-interview-depth-sit-video/
New Video – Miles Away by Wasaname ft, DLabrie
2nite 9/30 – Santa Cruz- YDMC
10/4 – Richmond – The Get Down (Hip Hop House Party) ft. Maq Steez, YDMC & more. Private Location call 9258959408
10/5 San Jose- Shamako Noble & John De Graff – Intro to US Social Forum: Vision for Better Tomorrow 2-6pm, All Invited Workshop/Meeting 2400 Moorpark
10/7 – San Jose – Trap Shop; RonDaVOODOO Tour, Different Dope Music 8
10/8 – San Jose- Fightin Words Tour – YDMC, Maq Steez, Joe Cutter
10/9 – San Jose- Midnight Riders Tour – Wildcard, YDMC, Lifted Souls
10/10 Redwood City – Megabusive , YDMC, One Werd
10/11 – SF – YDMC Live
10/14 – San Jose – Grindtime Now – Rahman Jamaal , Maq Steez, Lifted Souls
10/16 Redwood City – RonDaVOODOO Tour ft. RDV Crew and Joe Cutter
10/16 – #RonDaVOODOO Tour – DLabrie, Rahman Jamaal, Joe Cutter, RDV crew
New Track by YDMC w/ Madchild (Swollen Members), Playz and more, Get it now http://ydmc.bandcamp.com/track/my-reality-cypher
B-Jada of RDV New Album #ElNegro Get it here http://jadasnax.bandcamp.com
B-Jada New Video from #ElNegro – Ghettos of Amerikkka
New Mixtape by Rahman Jamaal & Risk (Brazil) http://www.streetpoetrymusic.com/
New Rahman Jamaal Video – SuperKnowVacaine
Happy Bday to MR NETW3RK!!
Happy BDay DLabrie!! As a gift Add him & send special SNAPCHATS, Buy an "I Create 25/8" shirt or Share his new Exclusive Interview before the National Campaign starts this week
DLabrie celebrating Backstage with Raekwon the Chef at Wu Tang/Souls of Mischief show
9/13 Mountain View
9/18 San Jose
New B-Jada & Lo Video – 9 Milli
New summer Anthem by YDMC & KnoJuan https://soundcloud.com/only1ydmc/lay-back-ft-knojuan-produced-by-paul-cabbin
New Track by YDMC & Fort Knocks http://ydmc.bandcamp.com/track/modern-decay
DJ Drama & YDMC of RDV host Indie vs Major Mixtape ft. The Jacka, DLabrie, Madman, Maq Steez & more – Available Now FREE on Dat Piff Click Here http://www.datpiff.com/Tru-Go-Getta-Mixtapes-Indies-Vs-Majors-Vol-4-mixtape.612363.html
New Madman of RDV Album Sampler, get it now http://madmanofrdv.bandcamp.com/releases
Upcoming RDV Events
8/30 Madman of RDV battles
Thurs 8/21 Rock Da Mic in Redwood City – Happy BDay to my son Davoux (co founder of RonDavoux Records) , feat. DLabrie, YDMC, Maq Steez, Madman, Rahman Jamaal, Risk, James tha Spitta, Ape City, Kno'Juan, DJ Abraham and more RDV every 3rd Thursday!!
Check out Davoux's short film here
DLabrie will be back in Columbia for his Bday August 23-24
Upcoming DLabrie Events
Sat 8/29 at Monterey County Fair classic band WAR (Low rider, Why can't we be friends) + DLabrie, Hippie Hop, All Ages, Military FREE,open 3-11pm , be there by 7pm for show
Sat 8/16 in Fremont – Hip Hop Chess Federation Grand Opening of Community Education Center w/ DLabrie & Shamako Noble performing & filming final scenes for Video for song ft. Adisa Banjoko,M1 of dead prez, Jacka
Check out NBC News Article feat. DLabrie about the HIp Hop Chess Federation Community Center Grand opening 8/16 http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Hip-Hop-Chess-Facility-Opens-In-Fremont-271406561.html
FREE Download HHCF Mixtape Ft. DLabrie & more http://www.datpiff.com/DJ-ROB-FLOW-Hip-Hop-Chess-Federation-HHCF-Presents-Street-G-mixtape.552859.html
Very happy for my fam Adisa Banjoko having the Grand Opening for his Hip-Hop Chess Federation Community Education Center This Sat 8/16, Me and Shamako Noble will be performing & shooting some final scenes for our song with The Bishop, M-1 of Dead Prez, Jacka Mob Figaz, SaikoDelic.The event will also showcase Dem one Carter, Future Arts Now, DJ Don Don Mega Ortiz of Universal Zulu Nation, Arash Daneshzadeh of course the #HHCF always brings you Open gaming, Informative Panels, Chess showdowns, Martial Arts demonstrations & lots of Family Friendly All Ages fun, music, food, and surprises. See you there 1-6pm in Fremont here's the info & 1 of the press releases
Here's the song we're performing and filming Video for >>>http://dlabrie.bandcamp.com/track/stay-black-die-ft-m1-of-dead-prez-jacka-shamako-noble-adisa-banjoko-saikodelic\
Aug 5 in San Jose – RDV at Trap Shop – Different Dope Music 6 ft. Shamako, Will see, Rahman Jamaal, Risk, DLabrie, YDMC, Madman, Maq Steez, Fonzo (Hippie Hop) and more
RDV presents: GRIND & RELAX TOUR 2014 feat. YDMC, DLabrie, Madman, Maq Steez #GRGTour
July 8 – Grind & Relax Tour /Trap Shop – Different Dope Music 5 – YDMC, DLabrie, Maq Steez, Madman of RDV, Diamond the Solid one & more #GRGTour
July 18 – Turlock – Grind & Relax Tour- DLabrie,YDMC,Hippie Hop Live at Stanislaus County Fair #GRGTour
July 22 – San Jose – Grind & Relax Tour/ Trap Shop Freestyle Battle -Shamamko Noble & Madman Live (No Writtens) Judges Skrilla sam, Bleev, Joe Cutter #GRGTour
July 24 Redwood City- Grind & Relax /Rock Da Mic-Rahman Jamaal,Risk,Ape City,James tha Spitta,YDMC,DLabrie,Madman,Maq steez – RDV Every 3rd Thursdays, #GRGTour
July 25 in LA – Urban Underground 8 year Anniversary (Airliner) ft Crooked-I of Slaughter House,YDMC,Maq Steez,DLabrie,Madman- Grind & Relax tour #GRGTour
Vote for YDMC & Maq Steez for Urban Underground – 8 year Anniversary Awards Best Performance , 7/25 at Airliner, Grind & Relax tour w/ Crooked-I + DLabrie & Madman https://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/fwpvbn
Past RDV EVENTS
Sat 7/5 in San Jose at Gift 2 Gab Gallery – Villians & Vandals – YDMC, Madman, Force 129, Maq Steez
June 19 – Redwood City – Rock da Mic
June 20 in San Jose- YDMC on California Odyssey Tour
June 21 in Santa Cruz- YDMC on California Odyssey Tour
June 13-29 – DLabrie Set to hit the Road w/ Casual of Hieroglyphics "Fear Itself" Tour ft. Quanstar,Mr Franklin ( formerly Kamikaze of Crooked Lettaz w/ David Banner) (South,SouthEast & SouthWest)
6/13 – Nevada City,CA w/ Kurt Kain & Rage Life
6/19 – Greensville, South Carolina
6/20 – Charleston, South Carolina w/ Zulu Nation
6/21 – Atlanta, Georgia w/ Sthhr, Methuzulah
6/22 – Raleigh, North Carolina w/ Building Bridges Tour
6/25 – San Antonio, Texas
6/26 – Austin, Texas w Knuckle Rumbler
6/27 – Dallas, Texas w/ Right Round Productions
6/28 – Jackson, Mississippi
Want to Book Casual of Hieroglyphics 20 Year Anniversary "Fear Itself" Tour also feat. DLabrie and more Contact email@example.com
Full schedule RDV/1st Team presented Casual "Fear Itself" Tour dates feat. DLabrie, Quanstar & more at http://dlabrie.fanbridge.com/tourdates/
6/13 – Nevada City,CA
6/19 – Greenville, South Carolina
6/20 – Charleston, South Carolina
6/21 – Atlanta. GA
6/22 – Raleigh, NC
6/25 – San Antonio, TX
6/26 – Austin, TX
6/27 – Dallas, TX
6/28 – Jackson, MS
FRI 6/6 in Union City – Keepin It Live – feat RDV crew ( DLabrie , YDMC , Rahman Jamaal , Shamako Noble, Madman of RDV, MaQ SteeZ and more) at Menconi's Lounge, Dress Code Strictly Enforced
6/12 in San Jose – Battle of the Zae hosted by Dirtbag Dan – Madman of RDV will battle
6/14 DLabrie & YDMC added to San Jose Juneteenth in the Park with Kenny Lattimore & Jazmine Sullivan
5/29 in Redwood City – RDV Rock Da Mic 1 Year Anniversary
5/30 – DLabrie Live in Las Vegas at Hip Hop Roots
5/30 in San Jose – YDMC Live
6/3 in San Jose – Trap Shop Different Dope Music 4 – YDMC, Maq Steez, Madman, Sean Blak
Sat 5/10 in Merced – Opio(Souls of Mischief/Hiero), Equipto, Aesop(Living Legends) , 8pm, 18 and up, Get tickets now
Get Tickets Here – http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bobcatwild-spring-festival-tickets-11443334321
5/6 in San Jose Different dope Music – Trap Shop ft. YDMC, Madman, Maq Steez, James tha Spitta, Scribe Sayar & GrooveYard Shift
5/4 Jackson Mississippi – Shamako Noble Live w/ Truth Universal, Skipp Coon, Will See & more at Jackson Rising Conference
RonDavoux Records presents: Casual "Fear Itself" 20 Year Anniversary Tour ft. DLabrie 5/2 Santa Rosa w/ Locksmith, 5/3 San Jose w/ Knobody , 5/4 Santa Cruz 16+ w Gza(Wu Tang),YDMC
5/4 in Santa Cruz – Gza (Wu Tang), Casual (Hieroglyphics), DLabrie, YDMC, Different Dope Music Crew – 16 and up- For Cheaper Tix 4088768403
Santa Cruz – Wu Tang, Hiero, RDV, Diff Dope all in the building – 16 and up Get Tickets – http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/504237?wrKey=E232EBBFD0EE32BE13827DC4EBCF4269
5/3 in San Jose – RonDavoux Records/RDV promo presnts: Casual(Hieroglyphics), Knobody, DLabrie, YDMC, G7 & Dean Martin DO YOU WANT TO BOOK THIS TOUR? Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
5/2 in Santa Rosa – Casual(Hieroglyphics), Locksmith, DLabrie, G7 & Dean Martin
Get Tickets for Santa Rosa Here – http://www.eventbrite.com/e/casual-of-hieroglyphics-locksmith-pure-powers-at-chrome-lotus-5-2-14-tickets-11228788609?aff=zvents
5/1 in Redwood City – Twerk Thursdays ft. RDV crew and more
5/8 in San Jose – YDMC w LA artists
5/9 – 5/17 – YDMC continues on the ILAM 6 degrees of Separation Tour
5/9 – Seattle, Washington
5/10- Vancouver, Washington
5/15- Denver, Colorado
5/16- Salt Lake City,Utah
5/17- Rock Springs, Wyoming
RONDAVOUX RECORDS 1st Whole Crew Album will Drop August 21st, 2014
New Track – Big Murph aka Bennett Roth-Newell of RDV/ Soulful Obsession & Maya Victoria Listen Here https://soundcloud.com/mayavictoria/maya-victoria-from-time-ft
Tru Go Getta Mixtape feat. Taylor Gang, Wiz Khalifa, Amber Rose, YDMC, Madman and more – FREE Download
6 Year Anniversary of KDoe's Death – Listen to KDoe's music here https://myspace.com/kdoe
KDoe project w/ Hot Box Ent. Free Download – https://hotboxent.bandcamp.com/album/remember-k-doe
Past RDV Events:4/17 YDMC pre BDay
4/19 in Santa Cruz – Kung Fu Vampire , YDMC BDay party
Support Now Get Hip Hop Congress apparel, Only 2 weeks left http://www.HipHopCongress.com
4/1 in San Jose at Trap Shop – YDMC, DLabrie, Madman, Maq Steez, Sean Blak &more
4/2 in San Jose at The Cypher – Percee P(Stones Throw), DLabrie, Madman, Luicidal, Audio Dru &more
4/3 in Oakland – Zulu Nation Thursdays – DLabrie , Ras Ceylon and more
4/5 in Tracy,CA – DLabrie & Hippie Hop at Spring Clean Easter Donation Drive(Clothes,Blankets,Towels,Food,Toys,) sponsored by Hip HopCongress /RDV
DONATE INFO HERE – 4/5 in Tracy,CA – DLabrie & Hippie Hop at Spring Clean Easter Donation Drive(Clothes,Blankets,Towels,Food,Toys,) sponsored by Hip Hop Congress /RDV
4/12 – DLabrie to speak at 2nd Annual Education Gala for his cousin Shakir Stewart (Def Jam, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Young Jeezy) event features Richie Rich, Phesto(Souls of Mischief/Hiero), Lyrics Born, Ryan Coogler(Fruitvale Station), Chris Hicks(Luniz, Dru Down),Thomas Mcelroy, Rodney Franklin, Russell Hornby and more
Past events
March 5, Madman BDay show in San Jose (Real BDay 3/8) Tweet him @MadmanofRDV
March 22 in San Jose – Gift of Gab of Blackalicious, YDMC and more at Back Bar
FREE RDV Oscar Grant Tribute Playlist http://dlabrie.fanbridge.com/campaigns/show.php?id=1054093&src=facebook
RIP Oscar Grant – FREE Download – http://dlabrie.bandcamp.com/album/the-verdict-oscar-grant-single
Now on Wild 94.9 & Distributed Worldwide "Minimum" New song & Video by RDV/ SF State Hip Hop Congress affiliate "M.Payton" ft. CLOUD 9, Prince of The Yike & a special cameo by DLabrie
also by M.Payton – DLabrie Video- IT AINT EZ ft San Quinn
B-Jada & Lo Video – Drunk
Rahman Jamaal feat. Big Murph aka Bennett Roth-Newell WEEK 17 – Cal Hi Sports "Players of the Week" Watch on KOFY TV 20
YDMC New EP "1st Gift" ft. Madman – Get it Here – http://ydmc.bandcamp.com/album/ydmc-x-1st-gift-deep-ties-ydmc-producer-collabs-1
DLabrie, Rahman Jamaal, Shamako feat. on World Wide Hip Hop Chess Federation "Street Games Vol 1" Mixtape also features Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples, Asheru (Boondocks Theme song), Aplus & Tajai of Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics, Jasiri X, Sunspot Jonz of Living Legends, Zumbi of Zion-I, Shamako Noble (Hip Hop Congress, DJ Rob Flowz FREE Download http://www.datpiff.com/DJ-ROB-FLOW-Hip-Hop-Chess-Federation-HHCF-Presents-Street-G-mixtape.552859.html
Please Read article about Kanetic Source's son Noah Stout Family Turns to Controversial Doctor after Brain Cancer Diagnosis http://www.metroactive.com/features/Dr-Burzynski-alternative-cancer-treatment.html
2/20- Grammy Award Winning "Kanetic source" of "Ozomatli", Rahman Jamaal, DLabrie, You tube Challenge Artist w/ most fan support gets 30,000 views http://www.metroactive.com/features/Dr-Burzynski-alternative-cancer-treatment.html
2/21 in Monterey -Jacka, JBlaze, Nok Ent, Umpa, DLabrie, Got Slapz and more @ Planet Gemini GET TICKETS HERE http://www.flavorus.com/event/The-Jacka-Live-in-MONTEREY/225708
2/26 in Santa Cruz, 18 and up – YDMC, Madman , DLabrie, Sean Blak, Chris Majic, Maq Steez and more GET TICKETS NOW http://tinyurl.com/theravecave
2/28 in Nevada City,CA – Aplus (Souls of Mischief/Hiero), DLabrie, Kurt Kain, Task 1ne. J Ross Parrelli, Golden Gloves & more
2/28 in L.A – Keith Murray, YDMC, Maq Steez
1/1 YDMC in San Jose
1/1 in Pasadena – Madman of RDV at the Rose Bowl
1/16-1/30 – DLabrie on tour in Asia
FREE Mixtape blowing up in Japan – feat. Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, DLabrie, Rihanna, JCole, Asap Rocky and more Click here https://soundcloud.com/stfupart1/stfu2-1
1/17 in Tucson,Arizona See Rahman Jamaal of RDV live w/ Global Change band Vansguard & DJ's kIRKoUT & Humblelianess AT GRAND OPENING for The Sea of Glass – Center for the Arts + FREE Rap Workshop 1/18
1/18 in Tucson, Arizona Rahman Jamaal FREE Rap Force Academy Workshop (2-4pm) & screening of movie The beat (4:30)
1/23 in Redwood City- RDV KMEL Challenge hosted by YDMC & Madman, Enter contest asap by texting 4088768403
1/30 in San Jose – D-Lo, YDMC live at Studio 8 for presale tickets RDVbiz1@gmail
2/1 in San Jose #DayJam feat. Dave Dub, Sean Blak, YDMC, Madman, Skrilla Sam, Joe Cutter & more
2/5 in Santa Cruz – DLabrie,YDMC,Madman,Chris Majic & more
2/7 in Oakland – DLabrie speaking on panel at Mills College – RIP KDoe
2/13 in San Jose – YDMC, DLabrie, Madman at Valentine Party
2/18 – San Jose – Trap shop – YDMC & Sean Blak host Different Dope music edition
2 RDV founders DLabrie & Davoux
RonDaVoux Records= Record Label
RDV = Crew
RDV promo = Business
RonDavoux Records aka RDV's Motto is simple GRG "Grind, Relax & Give Back"! "RDV" was Founded in 2004 by Oakland rapper/Hip Hop Congress Deputy Director "DLabrie" & son Davoux. RonDavoux Records is not just a Label it's a Family and Crew + promo entity. No Auditions, or Recruitment Tactics. We're not the future. We are Right Now. Welcome to the Next Groovement!!!
"RonDavoux Records as a record company is an independent phenomenon selling over 100,000 album/mixtapes and counting +generating nearly double that in online downloads before even dropping the 1st official full length project. In addition to being a record label, RDV is also a world renown rap crew with an eclectic group of some of the sharpest, most unique underground artists in California …. akin to a Wu Tang , Hieroglyphics, Rhyme Sayers or Odd Future with various members, various business deals, partnerships, projects and roles. Lastly RDV promo serves as an internal and external promotion company for RonDavoux Records"
Look out for the "Ron-Da-VOODOO" tour every October in a city near you!!
Contact "Yvonne B." Head RDV Operations Manager for Business Inquiries at email@example.com
DLabrie's Operation Upgrade Vol 2 release party
1. Bay United
2. Bay Uni-Verse-ALL
3. Bay Unlimited
More Info:
CONTACT: firstname.lastname@example.com
RDV IS LOOKING FOR INTERNS (STREET PROMO, ONLINE PROMO & ADMINSTRATIVE BUSINESS)!! IF YOU ARE SERIOUS CONTACT US at email@example.com . WE CAN PROVIDE COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS & SCHOOL CREDIT with the possibility of future Employment!!
DLabrie baby daughter Delta on Raiders website modeling already
Extended RonDavoux Records Roster:
KDoe aka North Kali (RIP)
DLabrie aka MR NETW3RK
Davoux Labrie aka DLabrie the 6th
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The viewing services for Donae Johnican (nephew of Shamako Noble founder of Hip Hop Congress) will be held Wednesday 03/27/13 AT Lima Erickson Memorial Chapel. The address is 710 Willow St. Family Services (private) will be held from 3-5. General (public) services will be held from 5-9.
The Passing Party (memorial service) will be held on Friday 03/29/13 from 4-6 at the Rose Garden near Lincoln High School in San Jose. We are still working out the details. For more info Please call Shamako Noble at 408-624-2999 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.Thank you for all of your love and support.
Documentary on Donae Johnican after winning huge music contest at Silicon Valley Debug
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As John Mayer said, "Keep me where the LIGHT is!"
So, let's see… In a span of two weeks we have a congressman heckling the President in hallowed halls, Serena Williams gets all un-Jehovah's Witness on a line judge, and Kanye interrupts a live broadcast to demand a recount.
And now everyone's lamenting the loss of "civility." As if it only JUST broke the surface! I was angry at Joe Wilson, ashamed at Serena, and ready to re-break Kanye's jaw. But these latest incidents are not what we should be decrying. We lost our minds a lonnnnnng time ago! These people are just ratifying what this society has been lobbying for for years.
We wanted fewer restrictions on what was considered "normal" behavior. We wanted to be free to say whatever and hear whatever we wanted on the airwaves. (Remember when, "Frankly, my dear…" was controversial?) Now, you can see a naked butt and have it accurately described at 7 PM. No biggie. In fact, no sexual organ is off limits as to the basest description of it. I've heard pretty much all of them. Every few years another of those forbidden words — thirteen of them, I believe — is knocked off the list and available for my three-year-old to perfect. Yeah, I can turn the channel and turn the other cheek, but after a while there will be no channels left, and I'm out of cheeks! And I can't disappear.
We wanted to be like France, Amsterdam, and other progressive European countries. We got it. We are in the process of being given over to our collective desires. They have legalized drug use and whorehouses set up like Macy's (I've seen them). They have affairs like we have lunch in the afternoon. They have no sexual hang-ups. They have soap commercials with lathered up boobs floating on the water and no one gets uptight.
"If France jumped off a bridge, would YOU?!?"
We're on our way, though! We have daycares in schools for all the students' babies, we throw them baby showers rather than counsel kids on the seriousness of the problem they've created. Little girls dance like strippers, and every month another leader has to drag his haggard-looking wife in front of a phalanx of cameras to apologize for hooking up with a co-worker!
And rather than deal honestly with the growing issue, we laugh at Christians and call them sexually repressed. The deck is stacked.
When I was a kid, if we accidentally cursed in front of an adult somewhere, we could expect to get snatched up quicker than the Rapture! Now, kids cuss in front of me and anyone else with impunity. They know their little butts are made of gold. Thanks, Oprah! Your work here is done!
Marijuana and ordinary cigarettes have switched places. Weed is cool, but if you smoke nicotine, folk look at you like you're fondling a kid!
You can't tell a child in school his answer is wrong anymore. You can't even frown at them. You surely can't spank them! When I was a kid — we used to call them that. Kids — we didn't have car seats. You put the baby up in the back window, the middle one in the front between Ma and Pa, and the other four or five were in the back somewhere. We could even ride in the back of pick-up trucks (I loved sitting on the hump or the toolbox!)! Now, if you have to get gas and you have more than two children and no debit card, be prepared to haul all those suckers into the Mapco! If Li'l Johnny's nose starts to run, we rush him to the doctor. They can't ride bikes in the street or play out of our line of sight.
My point is that we enact surface rules to seem as though we care so much more nowadays, but we poison their minds and make them weak and soft. We give them everything they think they MUST have, but we let them talk to us any way they see fit. (not MY kids!!)
We deify celebrities. They know they are unassailable. They can be on camera in a hot tub screwing around with the wife and the nanny, and it is all good! Cover of "People" magazine the next week! They can leave a heartbroken spouse, shack up with the co-star, adopt a couple of Cambodian babies and be labeled "Humanitarian Power Couple." We are SO stupid!! They can get married and divorced like we change pants, and we rush to be just like them.
Things which used to be hands-down egregious wrongs, which were debatably errors recently, are now just fine — in fact — laudable! The only sin nowadays is to notice one. We're eVOLving!
Don't get me started on that! As if, just because a monkey has thumbs, we used to BE monkeys! Chairs have legs, too! Was my great-grandmama a Queen Anne?!?
The word "Stigma" has been stigmatized. We are ashamed of the word "Ashamed." It's wrong to say, "Wrong." Saying "No" is a no-no.
But we want to have conferences and panel discussions because Serena cussed a heffa out in the heat of battle and denied saying what she said thirty seconds later!
Why should she edit herself (like I do!)? We gave her the license to do it. She re-invented the booty.
Why should we scold Kanye West for running up in an awards show choking a bottle of Hennessey like it was a lifeline and snatching a little girl's moment away forever? He's Kanye, fool! He makes the heads nod!
"Don't judge me!" you all said. And NOW, you wanna judge what these folk did?!? On what basis do YOU judge? Your own sense of right from wrong? Your own standard? But don't you remember, you've spent the last few decades stripping away at that standard so you can say a$$ on teevee! Don't start trying to make judgements now!!
These folk — and Joe, and Roger Federer, and the town hall criers and the sexual lobbyists and the teenyboppers on stripper poles and the rest — are but acorns on a giant oak tree of iniquity that threatens to darken us all with its shadow.
Prince pushed the envelope back in the eighties, but now the IS no envelope. We got e-mail… And one heckuva virus!
What's so Amazing about "Amazing?"
Why do some people use that word so much? Especially in reality shows like "The Real World," "The Bachelor," "Rock of Love," and any other show where people who don't know each other and are thrust together for the sole purpose of hooking up while we voyeuristically watch? Celebrities wear it out, too! "The director was amazing." "This movie was an amazing experience!" "Angelina was just so amazing that I just had to leave my first wife — who used to be amazing. Not so much now…
Overkill indeed! And it's always spoken with three "a's" in the middle of it for emphasis and extra amaaazingness. "I had an amaaazing time." "You're an amaaazing woman." "Your body is amaaazing!" You would think they were juggling chainsaws and baking a cake while breastfeeding twins and bathing a cocker spaniel while looking super-hot! Now THAT would be amaaazing!
It is so awkwardly obvious what is going on. It is the verbal equivalent of buying a woman a drink in a club. As subtle as renting a porno movie.
They can't ALL be amaaazing, can they? If they are, why are they lined up to do reality shows? If they are all amaaazing, where are the regular people? If every thing, situation, and blonde, and brunette is so amaaazing, why is the world so jacked up? If every parent, every child (mine are!) and every relationship is amaaazing, what do we say when we see a nine-month-old who can read, or a savant who can't speak but can play Chopin, or Stevie Wonder, or Ben Carson, or that father who pushed his paraplegic son through an entire marathon because of a prior wish? Nope. Can't call it amaaazing because you guys totally, literally diluted the uniquity — if you will — of that term to make some floozy think you were intense!
Save the superfluous superlatives for superlative situations. (I had to sit back and admire that one! Sorry.)
That goes for "miracle," and "genius," too!
Death Wears Three Shoes. Two Have Fallen…
"Hey, Derrick, we got a possible session comin' up, and it's BIG. I don't wanna say anything yet, 'cause I might jinx it," my trumpet player friend, Marc Franklin, told me a couple of months ago.
I didn't press the issue because I've had a number of false alarms in the past.
It turns out that it IS happening. Tomorrow, August 11, we are (were) scheduled to play behind Anthony Hamilton and other notables on the soundtrack of the upcoming movie, "Soul Men" directed by Malcolm D. Lee, Spike's cousin, starring Samuel L. Jackson, the late Bernie Mac, and the — Lord, help us — late Isaac Hayes! I didn't even have a chance to be happy about the whole thing because Marc had played everything so close to his vest that I didn't even know that I was to be part of the music to the movie. I was fired up about the chance to shoot my shot with r&b artist Hamilton.
It hurt to hear about Bernie Mac simply because he was so genuine and funny. I always loved that dude. I didn't even know I was working on his LAST FILM!
And then today, as I was at my folks' house trying to get my usual Sunday afternoon nap (since I don't ever go to sleep on Saturday nights anymore), I heard Kathy screaming from the distance and getting ever closer to where I was. "Isaac Hayes just died!" I sat up.
"They killin' all the black people!!" she lamented. "First Bernie, now this! I can't take it! Who next?!?" She was pretty upset.
You know they always say these things come in threes.
So, needless to say, tomorrow's session is cancelled. See, Isaac is in the movie, too (unbeknownst to me), and the guys who played on the "Shaft" score with him, Skip Pitts (wa wa guitar) and Willie Hall (all those drums), are in the group that I often play with, and they are doing this project. They were at the studio when they got the news, and it was, I'm told, not pretty.
Isaac is the icon of Memphis music. He was one of the pioneers who got out and did it BIG. I can say with honor that I have played with him a few times and have spoken with him. Cool dude! Truck Turner in the flesh! And, as I found out, he was a real musician who knew the music.
I was playing in the horn section at a NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) event a couple of years ago (nearly eerily where I met Morgan Freeman). We were honoring hometown Stax Records and Memphis musicians, among them William Bell, Justin Timberlake (when he was still with Cameron Diaz), and Isaac Hayes.
At a rehearsal, he came in to check out the band. We were working on a song of his, and one of the charts had some funny voicings for the horns. Isaac came over with a smile and asked us to play what was on the paper. I was like, "Man! Isaac Hayes is right in front of me listening to me play! Don't mess up!"
We got into it, and I thought I was killin' it when he stopped us…
"Play that again. Just the horns," he baritoned. ("Wow! Sounds jus' like hisself! I kin dig it!")
We played the section again, and he looked at me and stopped us again. "Gimme your chart." Cool as butter.
"See this 'B' right here? Play a 'B' flat. " He basically re-voiced the whole chord. But I thought, "Naw. That ain't right. He must have mis-read it. This is like major, and that note ain't even in the key. It's gonna clash, and everbody is gonna think it was me. He IS kinda old. I'm 'on play a 'B' natural."
So we played it again. See, I'm trying to impress Isaac Hayes with my abilities.
"Stop. Did you play that 'B' flat like I told you?"
My black face turned red. On the inside. "Aw. My bad. I musta missed it."
He was still smiling at me.
So we hit it again, and I played the 'B' flat. Man, that chord rang out as pretty and altered as some Miles or some Monk or something!!
I looked up at Isaac and he had a grin on his face wider than an Atlanta expressway! I couldn't do anything but laugh! We spoke no words, but here is what we said:
"Isaac! Maaaannn, you know yo' stuff!"
"Yeahhh, young buck, they ain't just invent music five years ago. I'm thru wit' stuff you ain't even heard of yet!"
"I'm impressed! My daddy got your records, but that whuppin' you just gave me raises you waaay up in my book! I ain' gone never forget this lesson! (I break verbs an assault adjectives and murder modifiers in my thoughts.)"
"You keep on playin'. You gone be all right. Just listen to the old heads."
All that with a glance and two smiles. Isaac Hayes is — was — thorough! And now, he's in the hands of the Lord.
Death hurts. The living as well as the departed, maybe the living hurt more. It is cool to have a few memories, but the pain of all this is a memory, too, and they kind of all go together. Otherwise, it would be like watching the first thirty minutes of a movie and leaving before the end.
I never got the chance to even wonder what it would be like to talk to Bernie Mac at the premiere. And the fact that I have interacted with Hayes makes his passing even more poignant.
It's just not right to be speaking of these men in the past tense.
A Few Words About the WORD…
Last week, on that feminist staple, "The View," a big dust-up broke out about the use of THE "N" WORD. The thick-tongued titan of civil rights, Jesse Jackson was caught saying it in an off-air moment. The black cast members of the show were trying to explain to the white ones why there is an acceptable double standard in the usage of that fully loaded word.
Off the subject, are we still looking to Jesse for guidance? For what to do or NOT to do? That's like me trying to get my butter from the milkman. I was through with him when he went on Bill Maher's show and talked about "the mythology" of the Genesis account of creation!
I have a few hairs I have to wax off my chest…
Who is really surprised that some — many — most — black folk use it in their speech? Is it really that , "OMG! I can't believe the Right Reverend would stoop to say such a vile thing!"? Or is it that, "If HE says it, why does the world stop when someone white says it?"
I posit that it is the latter. By a landslide.
The truth — that only God (and I) know — is that many white folk use the word, too. At the very least all those white kids who buy up all the hip-hop can't help but use it! More on that later. White folk, represented here by Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters, imply, "If YOU use it, why can't I?"
I will tell you why, and in the foregone words of my parents, "Don' asss me no moe!" I'm tired of this!:
The reason you can't say that word is the same reason you can't come into MY house and call My kid ugly. (My kids ain't ugly!) The reason is that there are certain things that can be said in certain environments by certain people at certain times that are unacceptable for others to say. That's the way it is, and you know it! There are certain things I would say to my own that YOU had better not say. They are the benefits of having a shared experience. People who have been through the same stuff have a fraternal bond that anyone outside that group cannot share. Football players, holocaust survivors, Italians… That is life.
Listen, people are crude. All of us. That's why we need a Jesus. We do and say rough things. Two old friends greeting each other after a long separation; "Hey! Howya doin, ya tub a' lard?!? Who's ya' barber? God?" Guys talk to each other like that when they are close and are sure of the affection of the other guy. That is key!
Women regularly use the infamous "B" word, a word almost as loaded as that other one. I used to work for the blues singer, Denise LaSalle. She used the word in reference to her self on her album cover. But had I called her that (I love her, but she used to make me really angry when we would stop for her to eat an hour away from home on a twelve hour trip!), I'd have been fired like a Saturday Night Special! Like a cop's gun in the ghetto. Too rough? I haven't been what she is, and I haven't suffered what she has. And I don't sit and freekin' long for the right to call her a female dog!
Women can call each other, "girl," "honey," and "sweetie" without issue. A man can't. I'm cool with that.
There are disparaging terms for every racial group. Who sat and thought up these words? The popular ones? Ask yourself that one… And every racial group has within it people who regularly employ those terms in reference to each other. To NO offense! I have heard it, and so have you. I don't cry about why I can't use them.
It is funny that the most innocuous racial terms are the ones used in reference to white folk. Shoot, you can still hear them clear as day on Nick at Nite, for goodness sake! "The Jeffersons," "All in the Family"… Incidentally, the word, "cracker" is NOT a reference to white folks' skin color. It refers to the fact that in slavery, the white man was the "whip cracker." Dig that! That makes it a whole 'nother kind of slur.
When I hear Barbara Walters ask why she can't say the word, I ask myself why she would want to.
This is what black people have to do; When we meet white people, we have to figure out whether they are genuine or not. When we get overlooked in a store, the added element of, "I wonder if it is 'cause I'm black, or are they just absent-minded" always factors in. We have to add an extra step to most of our inter-racial interminglings. That's the way it is. And when white folk whine about why "the blacks get to say it and we can't," it makes our Spidey Sense tingle. It makes us wonder "You mean, 'the blacks get to say it, and we can't in public', right?"
And when I hear Mrs. Hasselbeck suggest that no one be allowed to use it, I say that if you are saying that on the basis that all crude speech is wrong on a Christian level, I agree. But if you are saying that I cannot, by your edict, refer to myself or a member of my "family" in a certain way, you are out of your yard and need to hit the brakes. Black folk didn't invent the word anyway. I submit that it is not wise to go around trying to tell those at the bottom of the pile what they can and cannot say.
To be honest, that word is a rope that pulls every bit of centuries of shed blood, broken families, hacked-off limbs, raped women, forced labor, disconnected heritage, "Christian" hypocrisy, castrated bucks, burned and lynched bodies, subjugation, segregation, disenfranchisement, misrepresentation, beating, terrorism, third class education, and intimidation with it, and rather than deal with it, many would simply wish it away than hear it.
White people, in spite of the rantings of The Angry White Man, have all power — Obama notwithstanding. And just as television makes the daddy the buffoon and comedians make endless jokes about politcians, the person on top has — or should have — thicker skin due to having all the control and all the privilege. Black folk have pig knuckles and chitlins 'cause that was all that was left. All the little people have is a joke or two. Do you have to say the word, too?
It is the same reason that it is more acceptable to mock a white person's vocal inflection than a black, asian, or Mexican's way of speaking. They have more likely had the benefit of a high-caliber education. It is hard to slur someone who has all the stuff!
And all that stuff about "we took the pain out of the word" is a bunch of Bug Snot! (Can we still say bug snot? ) That word still has pain. Black folk never had a meeting and said, "How can we take the pain out of that word? I know! Let's take it from white folks and use it among ourselves all the time and on records and in various media, and soon it won't hurt no more and white folks will have no power!" The fact is that people often say rough things. That is why folks aways want to learn the curse words when visiting a foreign-language-speaking country. The "N" word is no different. There was no conscious effort to take the sting from the word.
The entertainers and rappers I her parroting this nonsense make me as angry as the folk who want to say it do! It is a cop- out. A one-legged rationalization! (No offense to all the one-legged folk out there…) You say it because it is fun to cuss, and that is all. There is no artistic, scientific reason behind it. Quit trying to be DEEP! (Richard Pryor was a genius, I think. He took authentic black life, language and all, and made it political satire)
I am ashamed when I hear the word used around white folk. And with the devolution of hip-hop, we have critically injured ourselves artistically and are probably being laughed at by many of those who hear it. I am a musician, and I think that hip-hop is very close to being the black face, Jim Crow minstrelry of the new millennium! Being a musician, I can say this without repercussion. I'm in the group…
A lot of times when black folk see other black folk engaging in embarrassing behavior (house shoes and rollers in the grocery store) that word is uttered in shame. "They makin' it hard on the rest of us!"
A lot of the white folk who use it in secret will say that they only use it in reference to those who make trouble, King, Malcolm, Sharpton, Jackson, Ali, etc. In other words, those who holler when they get hit! In still other words, black folk they see!
Interesting dichotomy.
My kids will be taught not to use that word. But on the basis that God doesn't accept crude speech. Not because it offends white people.
I wish the word didn't exist. I wish rappers would stop using it. I wish that I didn't KNOW that some of my neighbors mutter it when they see me outside. But I also wish that leaves wouldn't die and that milk didn't turn sour.
"What about if…if ya FAMOUS???"
…Uttered that well-known bigamist songster, Dewey Cox, in "Walk Hard."
Those words must have been also said by R. Kelly upon being charged with videotaping sex acts with a minor child. We are a culture which deifies our celebrities.
"You can't pee on a fourteen-year-old child, Mr. Kelly."
"You can't have sex with young girls, Mr. Kelly."
"You can't marry them either."
"What about if… if ya famous? What if you write songs that make people think they can fly? What if we did it for love, with a Chicago two-step groove? What if… if you write bumpin' tracks that make booties shake? Ain't nuthin' wrong wit a little bump and grind! Even if the grindee is fifteen. Age ain't nothin but a number. They be feelin' me in tha hood, feel me? I re-invented Ronnie Isley, n'umsayin'?! I created the twelve part song/video! I got a movie deal for the idea now.
"Ain't nobody gone convict me! I'm gifted! My lawyers will delay this thang so long that all the witnesses will be in the AARP by the time we go to trial! And those who do talk won't have nothing to say. A little Velveeta goes a long way! Besides, that wasn't me! I don't care if the cops came in and caught me in mid-stream… Deny deny deny! Nope! Wuddn' me! That was my brother or somebody… I got a mole. He don't. He ball headed, I got a afro. You can't grow moles and afros in eight years. What? My history of having 'relations' wit all them other minors is immaterial! (Learned that one from my counselors) The wheels of Justice turn slow enough for me to get out the way first, playa.
"I'm famous. We get off. On tape and on trial. Where my parade at?"
I guess it's NOT illegal, then. I tell you what… Bett' not be MY daughter!
Let Me Vent For A Moment.
What defines a worthy expense of a life? Do you have to cure a disease, or feed an entire nation? Do you have to build a corporation from scratch, or save lives weekly? I don't know that we have to succeed to that degree, but what I do know is that, Nicold Richie, Perish Hilton, Lindsey Lowhand, Brittly Spears and their entire ilk define the WASTE of life!They are no different than skid row, train-hopping, M.D. 20/20* drinking, trashcan burning, spare change begging CRACKheads! Only, the crackhead peddlers are at least TALENTED enough to create some of the most astoundingly convincing lies ever uttered.The fact that these "ladies" have money makes it worse.
More can be accomplished with such resources. More than endless, mindless parties, wrecked Bentleys, rehab stints, and sex videos. More than shopping sprees, license suspensions, photo ops with "dogs" that make rats look adorable, and tv shows that make me feel worse for watching than if I licked the floor of a biker bar at closing time!
It's WAY bad enough that "woman of the eeevening," Li'l Kim**, and other "tough" hip-hop performers gain acclaim after run-ins with the law, and after doing time, but now we have socialites, rich, spoiled little divas, sparking world-wide frenzies doing the Perp Walk!! There is an entire segment of the cream of society that spend their whole lives doing heroin, doing cocaine, doing the club circuit, doing multiple partners, and doing nothing!
I see their disciples all the time at the frat parties I occasionally work. I hate it! These kids are catatonically drunk, often racist, and sadly, soon to be the pillars upon which our shriveling hopes rest.
Their conversations are frustratingly vacuous ("That pink blouse is HOT!"), their interests are superficial ("Oh, my God!, is that a Fendi bag?!") and their thoughts don't appear to be deep enough to douse a match! ("Yeah…, someday I wanna, like, feed all the hungry babies in Africa, end all the wars, and, like, such as, save the Arizonian rain forests!"). And these are adults!
Yet we immortalize them, we "celebretize" them in tabloids and on gossip tv shows. We follow their every action, we appropriate their standard of beauty, we adopt their attitudes and their speech patterns, we ape their hairstyles, and we buy their "products." (Why does every celebrity inevitably, boringly, launch a line of clothes, or some acrid fragrance? Or model? Or try to sing!?)
If these people are the "cream," I'll be content down here at the bottom of the glass with the seeds and pulp! They have so much influence, and all they use it for is to help drag down the standard of behavior for our entire population.
On the other hand, now that I think about it, they DO serve a purpose! They exist to make me feel better about myself. Thanks, Paris!
*A cheap, potent potable, if you will, liberally imbibed by the more darkly-hued discriminating inner-city drunk.
stripper, prostit, rapper.
I'll Love You Forever. Right Now…*
A Married couple cannot "drift apart" if they are in the same boat!
Derrick L. Williams
*Or: "For Richer or For… WHAT?!?!"
Everybody has a forum today, and many of them don't deserve it. And, yes, I DO taste the irony in my mouth… Everybody has a mic in his mouth and a camera in his face speaking his opinions and attitudes and predilections to the world, changing the idea of what is acceptable.
We — Blacks– are marketing a version of ourselves to the world that is distorted and degraded. We aren't ALL about sangin and daincin and runnin and jumpin, which IS beautiful. We have surgeons and mechanics and pilots and programmers. But prison, gang life, and "skrip clubs"* are the prevailing images we present. We appear to be childishly materialistic and distressingly carnal.
We, like all cultures, have a well-rounded array of attributes to offer the world. Sadly, though, our entertainment-obsessed society refuses to be distracted long enough to notice anything except all the "Mantanning." Just as the internet was immediately commandeered by porn-peddlers and identity thieves, hip-hop, once upbeat and promising, has been given over to the basest of human behavior in a relatively short time. As the beats got better, the content got darker. And I don't want to hear that, "lt's no different than 'The Godfather' " argument! Marlon Brando never got into a fight with Robert DeNiro at the Academy Awards. John Wayne's security never shot Kirk Douglas' "manager" over some beef about who was the baddest fake gunslinger. Theirs was truly just MAKE BELIEVE!
Okay, you have a forum, now. Don't use it to glorify the aspects of ghetto life that everyone generally wants to escape. Why is that not a fair request? Drug infestation, sexual irresponsibility, high crime, illiteracy…. What is good about any of this?
"If I wasn't rappin', I'll probly be in jail."
Nowadays, with the glorification of prison life I don't see where that would be seen as a bad thing! Why not be in the midst of that which you glorify? Sagging pants, tattoos, untied shoes, "down-low" brothahood, all these trends are said to come from jail. Prison chic. Whoda thunk it? What do you expect, though, with more brothers in jail or on probation than in college?
Let's just get this straight: Ain't NUTHIN cool about jail. If you wanna do something that proves how hard you are, join the Marines or go to Africa and kill a lion with a knife. Or marry the girl you impregnated, and stay there and raise freekin' citizens! At least then, you wouldn't have to worry about getting shanked in the throat or being raped or being forced to braid hair in a halter-top!
Another thing, everybody "on lock" ain't a political doggone prisoner! Some people in jail actually did it! They ain't all heroes or victims of racism (some are, to be sure). Let's worry about rehabbing and returning to society with a positive story to tell. Prove to your people that you didn't deserve to go, or that you regret what you did. Then you would be truly respected. As it is now, I don't want my kids being role-modeled by some cat with a prison mentality.
"lf l wasn't rappin', l'll probly be climbing through your window."
And if l heard you, you'd probably be getting shot! Just kidding. No, l ain't. So, your point is…? That if it weren't for us giving you platinum chains, 22 inch rims, and a boat, you would just take what WE have? What makes that a cool thing to say? How does that make me wanna say, "Ooh, l gotta go get that 'Gangstafied' cd, cuz he so HORD! I gotta keep him paid so he don't jack nobody." So, you get it from us one way or another… l admire strength and power, too, but l want to know that a person has some artistic integrity before l go out and spend what l earned on him. People spend their food money on a lot of this trash, and all they get in return is a mind full of rotten potatoes and used baby diapers masquerading as art.
Kids who can barely speak (toddlers AND teens) quote this musical iodine like Scripture, talking about pimpin' and stripping techniques and drug transactions and prison sentences.
But they can't write a sentence!
The videos are so explicit, that I feel I need to put a trench coat on before I watch them. I'm not a Puritan, or a prude, but sex belongs in a context – a category – and a music video is not it. I don't go to "skrip" clubs, or solicit prostitutes, or violate my marriage vows. Not because I'm so good and pure, but because I'm tethered to a Standard way higher than my own ability keep from to slipping and falling prey to my weaknesses. Stop pouring grease on a wet floor!
"If I wasn't rappin', I'll probly still be sellin' drugs. Thass how I paid f' my firss album."
Well. That's cool to know. Selling drugs. At least you're not perpetuating any STEREOTYPES and making it hard for me to, say, drive my nice car through a White neighborhood! Matter of fact, l can't even BUY the car l like because that's the one the 'dope boys' drive. What you do now is no different than selling drugs, anyway. The wanton, glorified violence and irresponsible sexuality you peddle is probably more insidious. And it is just as addictive and generally devoid of hope and purpose.
The "Not My Problem" rationale you employ so lamely is the same as the dealer's:
"Iss the parent's responsibility." lt's so obvious you heard somebody else say that.
"If you got a prahlem wit it, turn the channel." To what? it's everywhere! I can't even watch a sitcom without hearing cursing! And every month, a new word gets admitted. Pretty soon, the only reason to watch pay TV will be to see snuff films and executions. Am I to be expected to walk through life blindfolded to keep from being offended? Is it now MY responsibility to sidestep your un-scooped poop?
"If l wasn't givin' it to 'em, SOMEbody would."
But, why does it have to be YOU?
Well, take your ample share of the responsibility and wear it proudly. Wear proudly the fact that in so short a time, we have gone from martyrs in a righteous cause to the office joke. From glowing accomplishments to debauchery, from jazz to sequenced ignorance, from scatting to Ebonics. Be proud that in a community on the precipice of collapse, where practically NO one has a father, where children learn nothing in the way of discipline and order, where all they learn from the outside world is of the excess and permissiveness of the majority, where their souls are hemorrhaging at the brink of extinction, be proud that rather than help stop the bleeding, you instead rummage through their pockets taking what little hope they have left. The lessons they learn, YOU teach them, for you are all they hear. Your foul lyrics are the words to their too short life stories. "Selfish" is way too soft a word for what you do to your own people, your FAMILY, in a sense. And don't bother thanking God for your "Shake it Like it's Hot Up in Here" award, unless you mean to thank Him for not smiting you for producing so much gabbage! Don't say you love Jesus for your material blessings, because HE said that,"What you do to the least of these, you do to ME." Marinate on THAT!
And now ain't the time to talk about what the White Man did. The White Man didn't cause the over 70% out of wedlock birth rate or the outrageous murder rate. The White man didn't tell you to drop out, or to not read a BOOK! He didn't force the production of gangsta rap or the glorification of thug life. Nope, the Blame the White Man peg, sometimes justified, won't fit in THIS hole. We did this one to ourselves. Deal with it. Change it. And GIVE that durn microphone to somebody who has something to SAY!
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Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler are just one duo releasing Christmas albums this year.
They release 'This Is Christmas' on December 12, and join the likes of She And Him and Smith And Burrows, as well as Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, in putting out festive music.
Emmy, who released her own album 'Virtue' in June, says she knows why there is so much seasonal music on offer this year.
She said: "I have two theories. It's either a sign of the Mayan apocalypse coming next year or it's to do with record sales.
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I think artists are forced to be more creative now. You can't just sit back and wait for the money to roll in any more. You have to keep busy.
'This Is Christmas' was recorded while Emmy and Tim were snowed in together last Christmas.
The Ash frontman said: "We did three or four songs then and the rest in May and August. It was a bit weird at first, but we got into it after listening to Phil Spector's Christmas album 'A Christmas Gift For You'.
"That helped. Christmas is a state of mind."
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A few new images have been released for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The film stars Josh Brolin as the physically-altered Dwight (played by Clive Owen in the first film), who is "hunted down by the only woman he ever loved, Ava Lord (Eva Green), and then watches his life go straight to hell." These images highlight previously-introduced characters Marv (Mickey Rourke) and Nancy (Jessica Alba). Miller tells EW that while Nancy is still dancing at Kadie's, she's been changed by Hartigan's (Bruce Willis) death. She's out for revenge and "is sick of being treated—as she puts it—'a piece of ass'." If that's the case, she may want to change professions. The images also give us a first look at new character Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a "hard-luck gambler".
Hit the jump to check out the images. The film also stars Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson, Dennis Haysbert, Stacy Keach, Jamie King, Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For opens August 22nd.
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For more on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For:
- Robert Rodriguez Talks FROM DUSK TILL DAWN TV Series, Which of His other Movies He'd Like to See as TV Series, SIN CITY 2, Future Projects, and More
- Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Finish SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR and Look ahead to SIN CITY 3


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With barely three days to this year's Valentine's Day (chocolate day), the Kumasi branch of the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC), Ghana's chocolate producer has revealed it has run out of supply of the product.
According to Ashanti Regional Representative of the Company, Mr Augustine Apom, the company's factory was experiencing some technical challenges, and that had affected the production.
A sample of an interview from the Kumasi market indicate the shortage was going to badly affect her business.
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Mrs Philomena Osei (trader) said: "Chocolate and other related products including pebbles produced by the CPC tend to be in high demand during the month of February, and that was when they got good sales."
February 14, every year, Saint Valentine's Day, has been declared a "national chocolate day" by the Ghana government, to highlight the nutritional benefits of cocoa, an important cash crop, and to encourage people to consume more of cocoa products locally.


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Geography Public Transit Trek
A full day of urban exploration
In December, the Grade 9 Geography classes left Hamilton District Christian High at 9 AM in the morning on foot to begin their public transit trek to our provincial capital, Toronto. The entire trek totalled just under 170 kms.
Boarding a Hamilton city bus on Glancaster Drive, Ancaster, the classes travelled to downtown Hamilton. From here they boarded a GoBus to Union Station and from Union took the subway up to Queen's Park. From Queen's Park the classes walked to Kensington Market to complete an urban focused digital challenge.
Together the classes walked towards Nathan's Phillip Square observing the unique architecture until they reached Old and New City Hall as well as into the central business district.
Along the way, lunches were handed out to those in need and through the Eaton's Centre. Students could take the underground PATH back down to Union Station where they boarded the GOTrain home. It was a full day of urban exploration on so many different types of public transportation and the chance to walk together too.


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First, a bit of business. I wanted to let those of you who subscribe to the blog by email or RSS reader know that we have a very active and interesting commenting community. You may want to come have a look, either to leave comments of your own or simply to read the informative comments of others. Today might be a good day to start because we'd love ideas on how to save gas and auto-related carbon emissions. All you have to do is click on the title of the post.
The way I see it, the answer to living the $4 a gallon life when gas hits $5 a gallon is to get--one way or another--the equivalent of five days of commuting for the price of only four. That's like paying only $4 per gallon when it's $5 at the pump. Meanwhile, you cut your gas costs and driving-related carbon emissions by 20%.
Some of these tips give you 20%, some a little less, and some a little--or a lot--more if you take better advantage of them:
- Work four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour days and commute 20% less. Plus, you get a three-day weekend. Read about the benefits on Oil Drum, how Kent University offered its custodial staff a four-day work week on Yahoo, or a round-up on USA Today.
- Work from home one day (or more). Read about how to convince your boss to let you telecommute at Productivity 501 or at CNN. According to the Telework Coalition companies benefit from telecommuting by increased productivity, reduced staff turnover, and the fact only salaries have a higher effect on attracting top talent.
- Try mass transit one day a week (or more, when you find you like it). In addition to the money and gas you'll save, you'll lose weight and become more fit, not to mention other personal benefits (you could meet the man/woman of your dreams!). Hopstop gives subway and bus directions for eight major American cities. Calculate what you'll save from using public transportation here.
- Give carpooling a chance. Look for rides at Ride Amigos. Calculate what you'll save by carpooling here. Read about the benefits here.
- Quit commuting and live near your work. Read about the suburban exodus at the Wall Street Journal. Search "live near your work" alongside the name of your state on Google to find grant programs that will help pay the costs of your relocating.
- Best of all, there's walking and biking, if your commute will allow it. Even if you can't get all the way to work, you can still bike or walk to your transit stop. There's great primer on bike commuting here.
Got other ideas and links? Please leave them in the comments.
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Discount Security Cameras is pleased to make available to its customers a complete weatherproof digital video recorder (DVR) solution. The weatherproof DVR package includes everything you need for outdoor security recording. It starts with a lockable NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) rated outdoor box with fan. Inside the weatherproof box is a state-of-the-art 4 camera input DVR, a power supply to power cameras and microphones, and two power outlets for additional requirements such as heated housings and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. Additional options include an internal monitor for on-site viewing and searching as well as a 2.4 Gig wireless bridge for transmitting distances up to 3 miles over wireless LAN.
The product provides an affordable solution to those tough remote applications where previous solutions have proven to be very costly. In the past, this type of application would require extensive trenching of cable back to a secure, climate-controlled location where the DVR was located, or a combination of network cameras and wireless technology which can be very expensive.
With the WDVR4 solution you can use standard analog cameras and there's no need to trench cable back to the DVR. A person simply plugs in a monitor to the DVR or uses the optional built-in monitor. Then they can view the cameras live or search the recorded video. If they need a permanent copy of a certain event they insert a USB flash drive into the DVR and export the video clip. You can still use wireless technology to transmit the video back to a LAN but it's optional, and if the wireless goes down you are still recording the cameras locally onto the DVR so no video is lost.
"The WDVR4 is perfect for large outside areas like parking lots, marinas, airports, and residential and office complexes." says Gary Bibeau, Sales Director of Discount Security Cameras. "One of our biggest challenges in marketing the product is letting people know that the technology is available in a convenient and affordable package."
The DVR included in the package is top of the line with all of the features you would expect from a modern DVR including real-time recording, H.264 compression, mobile phone support for viewing the cameras remotely and a fully functional central management software system (CMS) for networking, managing, and viewing multiple systems together. For example, "…one municipality has three units installed around their city park. City officials can manage and view all of the cameras from all of the units together using the CMS software.", says Bibeau.
"Our customers are using this product in lots of different ways" says Bibeau. "Gated communities use the WDVR4 to monitor common outdoor space and storage lots. The FBI is using the product for neighborhood watch programs, moving the unit around to different neighborhoods, and it's very popular with construction companies as well". The system can endure sun, rain, snow and very extreme temperatures. "We have one customer who is using the product at a construction site in the Arizona desert with temperatures up to 115 degrees without any problem", says Bibeau.
The product is available immediately from Discount Security Cameras and costs $1,999.
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The first is a literacy station that my kids love. All you need is a few cheap plastic jack-o-lantern pails and some dry erase markers. Using the recording sheet, the kids practice forming upper and lowercase letters on their pumpkins, then check them off on the sheet. When they're finished, they simply erase their writing and the pumpkin is ready for the next group. How's that for some festive handwriting practice? You can grab the recording sheet under the picture.
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I also wanted to share the calendar cards I made for November. The pattern that the cards create is a little more complex than October's ABAB pattern, as their are three different pictures that make an ABC pattern. I also included special cards for Election Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. If you'd like a fresh set of cards for your calendar, you can grab a set below the picture,
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Well, that's it for now. I'd love a comment if you grab one of the freebies (especially the calendar cards - let me know if you're using them so I can know if I should keep posting them!)
Have a great night and stay safe if Hurricane Sandy is heading your way!


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Sumner woman scoops two major awards at Coastguard National Awards of Excellence
Heather McDonald from Coastguard's Sumner Lifeboat has received top honours for 23 years of dedication and unwavering support to saving New Zealanders' lives on the water.
The Sumner woman's commitment was acknowledged when she received the Hutchwilco Coastguard Volunteer of the Year Award and Century Yuasa Coastguard Rescue Vessel Volunteer of the Year Award at the National Coastguard Awards of Excellence Gala Evening, held in Auckland on Saturday.
Ms McDonald has been a valued member of Coastguard's Sumner Lifeboat since 1991 and over the last year participated in 13 Search and Rescue and Coastguard operations, and given up weekends to travel to other units to train volunteers.
Coastguard New Zealand CEO, Patrick Holmes, says the annual awards honour the brave individuals and units who provide a crucial life-saving service to Kiwis using New Zealand waterways, "These awards celebrate excellence in achievement by Coastguard volunteers across the many roles they undertake in serving both their community and the organisation as a whole. In addition the awards allow us to recognize their dedication and provide an opportunity for acknowledgement at a regional and national level as well as amongst their peers.
"Heather has made an outstanding contribution to Coastguard's Sumner Lifeboat and is not only adept in her own roles but also helps aspiring senior masters prepare for their practical evaluation, training and coaching them as they work towards the certification. She is very professional in her attitude to all her Coastguard volunteering and actively encourages co-operation between units."
Laura Harry, Southern Region Vice Chairperson says, "Heather is a valued member of the Southern Region board. She has taken on the role of Chairperson and makes a valuable contribution to the board deliberations and decisions. Her experience as a volunteer crewperson, unit board member and trainer give her valuable insights into how the region can best build capacity in our units."
Hutchwilco Sales and Marketing Manager, Tim Ritchie says they are proud to be associated with the Coastguard Volunteer of the Year Award, "We are told by Heather's peers that she respects the different approaches units take to their operations whilst encouraging them to maintain a safety first culture, which is to be commended. At Hutchwilco, marine safety is top of mind as a proudly New Zealand owned and operated manufacturer and distributor of marine safety equipment, water sport and boat accessories."
Century Yuasa is a new sponsor of the Coastguard Rescue Vessel Volunteer of the Year award and Ward Lye, Century Yuasa Sales and Marketing Manager says the bravery and selflessness displayed by Heather should be applauded, "One of our core values at Century Yuasa is to lead by example and this is what every member of Coastguard, including the exceptional Heather, displays every day they save lives."
Coastguard keeps people safe on the sea, coastal waters and lakes of New Zealand. It is made up of over 2,300 highly-trained volunteers who put themselves in harm's way on a regular basis to ensure the safety of New Zealanders nationwide. This year Coastguard's courageous volunteers brought over 7,300 people safely back home and devoted over 315,000 hours to saving New Zealanders lives on the water.
About Coastguard New Zealand:
Coastguard is the charity that provides New Zealand's primary maritime search and rescue service. The organisation operates from a network of four regions and 70 affiliated units, located around the coastline and major lakes of New Zealand. Coastguard New Zealand is a volunteer organisation with a charitable status. It has more than 2,300 active search and rescue Volunteers who provide over 315,000 hours of their time each year to educate, protect and help save lives at sea. Coastguard performs over 2,800 rescues each year assisting more than 7,000 New Zealanders. There are currently 78 dedicated rescue vessels in Coastguard's fleet, 9 air patrol units and one dedicated communications unit. All crew members on board Coastguard vessels and air patrol craft are trained search and rescue personnel working to enhance the safety of all New Zealanders when they participate in boating and water activities.


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Long Island 82 kms. from Port Blair Connected by boat four times a week from Phoenix Bay Jetty, Long island offers an excellent sandy beach at Lalaji Bay, unpolluted environment and evergreen forests.
The sea around the island is frequented by dolphin convoys. Lalaji bay, 6 kms. away from the boat jetty, is accessible by 15 minutes journey in dinghies or trekking through the forest. Directorate of Tourism offers island camping during season.


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Long Beach Harbor Commission OKs Hanjin Terminal Sale
The Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission signed off Wednesday on the sale of the port's largest terminal operator by bankrupt Hanjin Shipping Co. to a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Co.
The commission voted 3-1 to allow Hanjin to sell its 54 percent stake in Total Terminals International, which operates the 385-acre Pier T that handles about a third of the port's cargo.
The deal between Geneva-based MSC and Hanjin was announced Tuesday by a South Korean court, but U.S. governmental agencies, including the port, must approve the acquisition for it to go forward. MSC, whose subsidiary Terminal Investment Ltd. already owns 46 percent of TTI and would take full ownership under the agreement, said it expected the transaction to be complete by early January.
While the sale amount hasn't been disclosed, according to the contracts approved by the Harbor Commission, Terminal Investment is to deposit $10 million into TTI's account representing its investment in the company.
The contracts require several other things of the new owner as well. In addition to continuing to provide the port with a guaranteed annual minimum payment that for this lease year is $83.5 million, TTI must raise six existing cargo container cranes by April 8, 2018, instead of the previously negotiated 10, and build two new cranes by 2020 that can handle larger, 20,000-container vessels.
Commissioner Rich Dines, who called Hanjin an "old friend" of the port, voted against the deal.
Hanjin has operated in Long Beach since 1979 and took over operations at the then-newly built Pier T in 2002. The company was the largest cargo container carrier in South Korea and the seventh-largest in the world until its Aug. 31 bankruptcy filing.
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