I am home right now, sitting in my chair like I always do. I logged on (like I always do) and read a bulletin from Afrika Bambaataa. It's one of maintaining peace and balance by rising up as community that loves (and has been raised on) Hip Hop and it's culture. A message that we should insist that the radio and TV put more realistic depictions of the culture, and not just gangsters, pimps, hoes and the like. It's quite an ironic bulletin to read right now, seeing that I had to cross under yellow police tape in order to walk up my driveway. I had to park a block away because the street is blocked off by cop cars. As I walked closer to my house, it seemed that everyone is out on their front lawn. The older chinese man who spends all day in his garden and gives my neighbor josh his eggplants, The mexican family that has doubled over the holiday weekend with kids skateboarding and uncles laughing, the mongolian-looking guy across the street with the nasty cough that wakes up at dawn every morning to start his old truck... they are all talking amongst themselves, and staring at my yard. The mexican family that has been so joyful all weekend, are all crying and hugging. As I walked past them, slowly towards my place, (directly across the street from the pre-school), I asked them what happened and the oldest woman catches her breathe just enough to tell me "there has been a terrible tragedy". Right now as I write this, there is a dead body in the street, 30 feet away from me, covered in a white sheet next to a pickup truck with one door open. Ghetto birds flying overhead, beaming down on my house like it's opening night of some hollywood nightclub. But these crowds gather for an ending, instead. I feel the need to correlate this reality of death that I am feeling, with the message that Bambaataa has sent out into the Universe. It's time to hold ourselves responsible for the effects of our media. The most shocking thing about my present state, is that I'm not shocked at all. I've seen a million homocide shows... and there's the tall, staunch detective that's in all the movies. This is all too familiar. I only ask you to WANT to help, and with this SINCERE WILLINGNESS will arise the ways and means to do so. Look for ways, and they'll surface. Hold hope and community tight, and solidarity will begin to take shape. Leaders will suddenly realize that they must lead. They will lead by following the will of the masses, like a true and righteous leader should. bleshyall... I will meet you on the front lines, you have my word. (the rest of this blog will be the pure love written by Afrika Bambaataa, of the Universal Zulu Nation) -------------------------------------------------------- This is not just a Zulu thang...its a PEOPLE thing! Lets get control of our music people... IN THE NAME OF AMEN RA THE 5TH ELEMENT OF HIP HOP: KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE, OVERSTANDING TIME TO FIGHT ALL RADIO STATION WHO CLAIM HIP HOP BUT DO NOT PLAY HIP HoP IN A BALANCE. PLAY OLD SCHOOL WITH NEW SCHOOL TO KEEP A BALANCE WITH TRUE SCHOOL.. TIME TO FIGHT ALL THESE DAMN STATIONS WHO ARE JUST PLAYING ONE STYLE OF RAP AND TO FIGHT THESE BS TV VIDEO SHOWS THAT ONLY PLAY RAP VIDEOS OF DISRESPECT TO WOMAN OR JUST SHOW NEGATIVE VIDEOS AND NOT PLAY ALL VIDEOS IN A BALANCE FROM PAST TO THE PRESENT. BRING THE SPIRIT OF MAAT TO HIP HOP RADIO AND TV SHOWS. CONSCIOUSNESS AND FUN IN HIP HOP THE FIGHT FOR 2006 IS ON TO SAVE HIP HOP CULTURE, TIME TO RAISE THE ARMY OF PEOPLE WHO WILL PUT THE POWER OF THE SUPREME FORCE ON THESE SATANIST BASTARDS, WHO ARE TRYING TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF THE HIP HOP WORLD NATION. ALL WHO STAND ON THE SIDE OF THE SUPREME FORCE, WHO IS CALLED BY MANY NAMES, STOP BEING SCARED, STAND UP AND RAISE YOUR VOICE AND THEN GET TO WORK TO EXPOSE THESE DAMN RECORD LABELS, RADIO STATIONS,TV HIP HOP SHOWS OR WHATEVER SHOWS THAT SHOWS US IN A BS VISION OF JUST BEING PIMPS, PLAYAS , GANGSTERS AND HOES, STRAIGHT UP NIGGERS, WIGGERS, OR ANY OTHER DEROGATORY WORDS THAT THEY USE AND WE USE TO CALL OURSELVES. WE ARE ASKING ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ALL SO CALLED RACES (THE HUMAN RACE) ALL OVER THE WORLD,TO JOIN BROTHER AFRIKA BAMBAATAA AND THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION,BROTHER DAVEY D, TOOLS OF WAR,THE R.E.A.C.H. ORGANIZATION, SISTER ROSA CLEMENTE, KEVIN POWELL, SISTER APRIL SILVER, ERNIE PANICCIOLI, CRAZY LEGS, FABEL,TONY TONE, ADISA, NTELEK MARTHA DIAZ, CHUCK D, PROFESSOR X, KRS ONE AND THE TEMPLE OF HIP HOP, THE UNIVERSAL FEDERATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HIP HOP CULTURE AND MANY MORE GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO BRING THE POWER OF GODS AND GODDESSES,THE SUPREME FORCE ON ALL THESE JIVE ASS SO CALLED HIP HOP RADIO STATION TO CHANGE UP OR BACK TO HELL YOU GO . IT IS TIME TO CAUSE A WORLD MOVEMENT. STOP BEING SCARED AND CALL ON THE SPIRITS OF THE ANCESTORS, THE LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS AND GET TO WORK. RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS BACK IN HIP HOP CULTURE. WE ARE NOT SAYING TO STOP PLAYING WHAT YOUR ARE PLAYING ON THE AIR OR SHOWING ON THE TV BUT TO HAVE BALANCE AND PLAY IT ALL, OLD SCHOOL TO NEW SCHOOL TO BE TRUE SCHOOL.. WE NEED THE ARMY OF GODS AND GODDESSES TO LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SPEAK BUT TO LIFT EVERY ARM AND SWING MEANING PUT FIRE TO THESE DEMONS ON THESE STATIONS WHO WILL BRING THE CULTURE OF HIP HOP OVER TO THE DEVIL. IF YOUR ARE WITH SAVING HIP HOP CULTURE THEN FIGHT LIKE GODS OF HEAVEN AND SEND THEM DEMONS BACK TO HELL. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MILLION MORE MARCH, MILLION MAN MARCH, MILLION WOMAN MARCH, MILLION YOUTH MARCH, THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION, THE ROCK STEADY CREW, ALL THE B-BOYS AND GIRLS, TRUE HIP HOP CULTURE HEADS THROUGHOUT PLANET EARTH JOIN AN ORGANIZATION OR GET WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE ABOUT MOVEMENT TO TAKE OUR CULTURE BACK AND SAVE OUR YOUTH ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TO SAVE YOUR MIND AND YOUR SOUL.. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BROTHER AFRIKA BAMBAATAA THE AMEN RA OF UNIVERSAL HIP HOP CULTURE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION