What's up everybody? This is me, I've been really busy on the AllHipHop.com side, but I wanted to let you know that I recently launched a new blog over at http://illseed.wordpress.com/. This is just to get things moving for what will eventually turn into illseed.com. Clearly, it is little crude, but I have fun.

I used to talk to a lot of people 'round this parts regularly. So, hit me up at http://illseed.wordpress.com/ or ahhrumor@gmail.com or here or at AllHipHop.com. I might miss some things, but I'm generally on point.

Anyway, check the blog out. I'm having fun.

i know everybody here doesnt celebrate xmas but i do.

why? i want gifts! well, isn't that the focus? are you doing anything diff this year? last year, i got into online shopping and i am gonna do it again this year. BUT this year, i am going out a lil more, because i am trying to stay in tune with the "essence" of the holiday. I'm just being a lil' more strategic. like going to the mall early in the morning on a sunday.

What do I want for Xmas? I'm asking you to tell me what i want. i DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT. Tell me some cool stuff i should have. I DO kinda want this Wii thing. i see you can get some exercise out of it. After i watched the hatton / Mayweather fight i was sore! i though i beat up hatton myself. the point? they have boxing on the Wii.

So, whats to get. What do you want this year?

Also, ladies...HELP. i dont know what yall want. i get a gift and its always wrong!!!!! Yall need some universal gift guides. SHESSSSH!

Holla BIZACK!

And YES, Floyd Mayweather TAXED Ricky hatton...there is only one Hitman in boxing and his last name is HEARNS.

YOOOOOO!!!

What up everybody!?! I been on my GRIZZLE so its been a minute! Plus why should myspace get all the traffic? You gotta join AHH's community where we go back and forth all day!

So, i am looking at the Discovery Channel's show about stalkers...and guess what..I fit the description of a stalker!

1) I obsess about people i never met
2) self centered
3) I dominate and try to conquer people
4) socially inept (jeez!)
5) i used the TV/internet to escape reality

Now, the one thing i dont do is the violence part...Lil Wayne has no need to worry about him dating lauren london. I don't approve but...what can i do? Sheeeesh! Never been to a mental hospital yet though...shout out! I lost all year this year....lol.

Now that thats out the way, WHAT'S UP?

What is the consensus on the year 2007?
I'm thinking is a pretty decent year. There has been a good amount of music this year, under and over ground. i'm not mad at the 4th quarter or the summer. Jayz, Ghost, talib...

Was it me or did the South lose a little steam this year?

Nobody stepped in to replace the South or nothing. IT seems the West is quieter than ever this year. The mid-West is doing OK...you know Kanye, Lupe..some others.

Shout out to Kanye on a great, tragic year. Sometimes i question these things. i remember when Bill Cosby's son was murdered. Mike Jordan's dad....i wonder.

Anyway, on the year....i think its a good year, hip-hop got back to the essence a little bit. the political rappers are really sleeping at the wheel though. i am very interested in getting some political hip hop. if we can have soulja boy and these other guys, why not.

Shout out to KATE! she got me to do this. I tried to leave a comment on some of your pages and myspace was buggin saying we werent friends. I'm like, i KNOW i'm friends with Kate. Thats wack!


What else is good? Shout out to Jason Whitlock. that dude is a self hating turncoat. I just wanted to say that. Hip-Hop didnt create anything. Hip-Hop ain't perfect, but whats going on in america as been a long time coming. you gotta do people right and the people will do you right. Do them wrong and you will have a mess. I think "chickens roosting" applies here.

Shout out to barack! Shout out to hillary. Rudy Guiliani sucks (you cant have a president that wears dresses!) I mean, Hoover did, but thats another story.

anyway, i am all over the place.

CHUCK D FOR PRESIDENT!


illseed.com is coming in 2008.

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In case you didn't know, AllHipHop has relaunched. We are still working on some things, but of course i wanted to get the opinion of the Fam-lee.

Tell me ya thoughts!

also, i've been behind on a lot of my emails and whatever else because of that damn relaunch...but anyway...hit me up!

check out the new song called "he's a perv" in my media/music player. im not that savvy with myspace so i dont know how to embedd it. this girl named molly dare did it...is that hating or real talk?

LOL...

I would be talking to you more here...but i been freaking busy!!!!!

HAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! DIE SNITCHES!!!!!!


Don't ask why I was watching...CHarles manson...it beez like that when you are the illseed!

OH YEA!!!! ILLSEED IS ON YOUTUBE, NAPPY HEADED ONES!!!!

check out this interview with Al Sharpton...

Reverend Al Sharpton: Checkers To Chess
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1808

By Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur


Much of the Hip-Hop community feels like the recent wave of condemnation are aggressive maneuvers to starve a younger generation out of creative existence. Rev. Al Sharpton doesn't want to dictate expression, but he does want to obliterate certain terms from our collective. Some agree, and many sharply disagree. A small group of rappers like Snoop Dogg have already petitioned against the efforts of Sharpton, considering them antiquated relics. Either way, Sharpton feels that he's got the power and the will to stop the negative elements of rap that he deems undesirable. His plan will test the fortitude of companies and expects that the affects will trickle into results through the artists.

Sharpton isn't a new critic to Hip-Hop, however the 52-year-old once saw promise in the sounds of the young. An excerpt of his book, Al on America, the civic leader offered a slightly different view on the culture that seemed optimistic. (The following passage was published on AllHipHop in 2002) "When I look at the Hip-Hop generation I am disappointed, but I also see promise. I see potential unrealized. I see tremendous power," he wrote. "These young people have created a culture." Now, in the ashes of the Don Imus fiasco, his goal is focused. Now, Sharpton, his National Action Network and others in the Black Community join the likes of Bill O'Reilly in an offensive against the seedier aspects of the music.

From a historical point of view, Al Sharpton's contribution to society should paint him as an individual that has dedicated his life to helping the Black Community and others as well. Sharpton, a tireless activist, has been a foot solider for change even though his own past has been peppered with its share of controversy along the way. Some have regarded him a racial "ambulance chaser" while others a Civil Rights champion. What will he be perceived as by Hip-Hop? Read on.

AllHipHop.com: Your march for decency, what affect will this have since these things have gone on before with the likes of Calvin Butts and C. Delores Tucker. For the labels it has been business as usual.

Al Sharpton: I commend C. Delores Tucker and Calvin Butts for warning that this was going to happen. I was one that didn't know that it would get this bad, but it did. I think the times have changed. First of all, this isn't all of the Hip-Hop community [we are marching against], it is just an element that does this. What they don't realize is that the corporate entertainment industry has become corporate and what they could stand up to 10 years ago, they can't now. That's what happened with Imus. By going after the advertisers, and not the producers of Imus' show of the head of the [Don Imus show], but by going to the owners of the [network] - those corporate guys have to deal differently.

Let me give you an example. Time Warner owns a piece of Warner Music. Time Warner also has a cable franchise in New York that has a contract with the city of New York. Councilwoman Darlene Mealy (D-Brooklyn) is going to the city council saying, "We are going to pass a resolution against the N-Word." If Time Warner wants to continue investing in Warner Music, using the N-Word, then I want to move that we cancel their contract [with the city]. These companies are owned by major publicly traded companies that cannot afford this. Ten years ago, a lot of these companies were independent. [Hip-Hop] is only a fraction of the business they do and they could lose much larger chunks of the business, which is why NBC and CBS dropped Imus. Rappers cannot distribute without [the companies'] big money.

Then people say, "Well, it will just go underground." Fine, well it won't be mainstream.

AllHipHop.com: Once it goes underground, do you feel it will only continue to fester? I mean, you are trying to eradicate real social problems, not only clean up corporately funded rap.

Al Sharpton: I think we have to deal with that and there has to be a strategy for that. First, you gotta get it out of the mainstream. As long as it's mainstream, it's not even accepted. When it's underground, it was like listening to "light bulb" music when I was a kid. You didn't have those guys doing Chrysler commercials and Pepsi commercials and going to the White House representing voters. It has gotten so bad now that these guys are the symbol of Black culture.

AllHipHop.com: When is somebody going to address the social problems? To me, rappers actually do represent the really the ugliest parts of life that society wants to ignore.

Al Sharpton: And my answer to that is, I do not accept that at all. When are the rappers going to address it? The [protesters] attacking them are the ones out here every day. I am one of the guys out here every day fighting police brutality, poverty every day. They have never showed up. That's a pimp excuse they use. When Sean Bell got shot in New York, one rapper didn't show up. [Sharpton would later correct himself and say that New York rapper Papoose did protest the shooting.] When we fought about poverty, when we fought about saving affirmative action, one rapper didn't show up. They exploit our pain, they're not expressing our pain. They are calling the people in pain with them "hoes" and "b****es." If they were expressing our pain, they would be rapping about the people causing the pain. If they were guys that were involved in the struggle every day like we are, they could say that. Why are you calling the "pain" hoes and b****es. That ain't nothing, but a bunch of hog wash.

AllHipHop.com: A lot of people feel they are being attacked. A lot of the younger generation sees this as a direct assault on their way of life and their generation. Across the board, there appears to be a concerted attack on Hip-Hop. In fact, Hip-Hop is a full culture and a lifestyle.

Al Sharpton: First of all, the ones that are being attacked are Black people, when we are being called n***ers and women, who they call hoes and b****es. People can't turn around to me, brother, and say, "I feel like I am being attacked," and I want the right to call you a hoe and a b***h. We're reacting to an attack. Two, you have people like Papoose and others that stood up for Sean Bell, who clearly have said this is now what we're about. The reason I did the march is because it was James Brown's birthday. James Brown, who is more sampled than any other artist, said to me in our last conversation, "I don't want my music used to be degrading our people. I tired to make our people Black and proud."

Those that are not doing that in Hip-Hop of that should [not be included in those] painted with a broad stoke, but they should stand up and say this isn't representing us. Say, "That's what we're not about."

AllHipHop.com: I happen to know a certain artist and he has a positive song on his album. Well, his manager told me, before Imus, the rapper wanted to release this as his next single, but the label shot it down and gave him his next single. A lot of artists feel compelled to do certain things to sell or get paid or even to just get a deal.

Al Sharpton: You are absolutely right and that's why we are marching on the record companies and not the rappers. I'm going to the companies that make [rappers] do this. One of the reasons I don't think it's fair for the artists to say, "Why is Sharpton jumping on me?"...I'm jumping on the companies that are making them do this, won't sign positive artists - they are the source of this. It's not up to the artists in these cases. I'm not marching on the artists, because it's not up to the artists in most cases – it's up to these companies. I know when the artists' release dates are, I know where their parties are, I know where their clubs are, I know where they live. If they are smart, they will say, "This will help me get some of the things I really want. This might put me in a position to be more creative."

AllHipHop.com: How does this relate to what you did to Michael Jackson?

Al Sharpton: I have seen these record labels operate in what is almost a plantation psychology - trying to take all the money and uses these guys as pawns. The Michael Jackson struggle was about whether or not Sony and them were misusing him, trying to take his catalog, trying to take his money. They are using the artists as the pawns and desecrating the women in our community. Again, you are not allowed to do that with them. [The label heads] know they would not allow them to do that to their families and all we're saying is you're not allowed to do it to ours.

AllHipHop.com: Do you actually talk to any of the rappers?

Al Sharpton: Look, this is not anything easy for me. Some of them like me and I like them. I have to speak out on what the general community needs. I mean, because of Universal's association with ["negative rap"], we didn't give L.A. Reid his award. L.A. Reid is good brother, a good friend; I love L.A. Reid. We just didn't want to confuse the issue. Sometimes you have to be committed to an issue even of some of your friends can't get down with you. You friends - you respect them, they respect you. Sometimes you have to make choices in life.

AllHipHop.com: Some people that I have talked to have said that you are somewhat of a hypocrite, because they feel your past isn't so squeaky clean.

Al Sharpton: What is it? Tell them, what is it? That's all a cop out. Anything I've done is fight for the community. Tell them to name what I have done that has disparaged and discredited our community.

AllHipHop.com: One person who is a Back Republican wanted to point out your association with Roger Stone.

Al Sharpton: What about him?

AllHipHop.com: Your association with him.

Al Sharpton: What about him? Roger Stone donated to my [2004 presidential] campaign. What is that supposed to mean? That is the most insane thing I have ever heard. So, if a Black Republican or a White Republican contributes to a campaign, that's supposed to equate to somebody calling somebody a hoe or b***h?

AllHipHop.com: It's not related in an overt manner, but...

Al Sharpton: When you are dealing in politics, people can give to whatever reason. Roger Stone was doing business in New York against the Rockefeller Drug Laws with Russell Simmons and all of us and gave some money. if he wanted to give some more, I'd take that too as long as I ain't gotta change what I'm saying. What's that mean? What they are saying is a bunch of crap. If somebody could say Roger Stone gave some money and therefore I took a different position, then that's a charge. If somebody gave somebody some money to help them do what they were already doing in the community, my answer is, "So what." Unless you are saying people should only take money from saints, then nobody would have any money.

AllHipHop.com: [Laughs] I don't know that the association with him is something people would be comfortable with. I mean, he's even been accused of helping stop the Florida recount in the Bush/Gore election.

Al Sharpton: He donated to my campaign; I didn't donate to him. He supported what I was doing; I didn't support him. My position is that anybody that wants to give when I was running, as long as they didn't feel like they were going to get something for it, let them come on and get it. For a Black Republican [to call me out], who probably supported Bush - you talk about hypocritical - that's crazy. A lot of Democrats supported the War in Iraq that donated to my campaign and I was against that. But, again, that has absolutely nothing [to do] with me standing up against desecrating people. That is insane.

AllHipHop.com: Positive rap is something that people want to hear more of. We are putting a lot of energy in one sort of rapper, but maybe we should take that and uplift the positive rappers too.

Al Sharpton: I think we should do both. It's directed at the record labels, the cable/TV stations and the radio stations. You create more space for [the positive rappers] when you let these companies know you aren't going to take up all this space with the negative. And I think part of the problem is there are only 24 hours in the day, you have to take some of that down to create the space that you need to force a positive, energetic campaign behind it.

AllHipHop.com: Are the any rappers you like?

Al Sharpton: Common, I love. But, I don't even want to put people on the spot like that. I don't want it to seem that the rappers I like are against the rappers I don't like. There are a lot of positive rappers and I wish they had more opportunity. Let me just put it that way.

AllHipHop.com: How long will you continue this?

Al Sharpton: Until we get some answers. It took us a long time to deal with the Sean Bell indictment [of three NYPD officers accused of killing the unarmed Black man]. With Don Imus, it took eight days. I went to jail for three months to close a navy base in Vieques, Puerto Rico, but it's closed. [In 2001, Sharpton and many others protested Naval bombing exercises.] They need to know, what ever I'm gonna say I'm gonna do it. If I gotta pay a price [like] go to jail, I'm gonna do that. We stay on it till we win. I'm in it to win it. They got a problem with me.

21 Questions for Cam'ron and His 'No Snitching' Ethos
By illseed



You have to love the code of ethics that some rappers abide by. If you don't, you are subject to go batty. Cam'ron is of the streets in a way that I clearly cannot relate to. When he informed 60 Minutes that he adheres to a strict diet of no snitching, I knew a new level of ignorance was about to be displayed. And Killa Cam did not disappoint.

He told 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper that even if he discovered that he had a serial killer for a neighbor, he would not tell the fuzz that a ravenous murderer lived in his midst. At worst, he'd relocate.

But Cam isn't just somebody that talks the talk, he lives it. When he was in Washington, D.C., he was shot several times while cruising in his Lamborghini. He frustrated the hell out of area police by refusing to help them arrest the assailant. On other occasions, Cam's refusal of police cooperation creed has been muddier. At a basketball event at Harlem's Rucker Park New York, Cam met with police, but his level of cooperation is mostly unknown.

These days, aiding police in ANY crime (rape, murder, maiming, killing newborns) is the moral equivalent to snitching, says the 60 Minutes report. Since Cam'ron has been beefing with 50 Cent, I decided to write "21 Questions" and situations in order to test the strength of the Harlemite's "No snitching" policy.

1. Would you talk to the police if somebody in the hood killed your one of your immediate family members (mother, father)?

2. Would the cops get a call from one Cameron Giles if his son was threatened?

3. If you knew of a plot to destroy the entire planet Earth by space aliens, would there be a call placed from a certain leader of Dipset to President Obama?

4. Captain America was recently killed off...couldn't Cam have given him a warning before the sniper bullet hit?

5. Speaking of snipers, if Cam'ron was reared in the '60s and knew of the COINTELPRO plot to destroy Black leaders...couldn't the Nation get some "snitchy" love?

6. James Earl Ray's spilling his guts? No action? You know the killers of Biggie, Pac, Big L, Jam Master Jay, Scott La Rock, Jimmy Hoffa, Ren, Stimpy and others...can you speak up?

7. Capo Jim Jones gets all of the master's of his new album stolen, which contains a hit bigger than "We Fly High (Ballllllin!)" and you know the only way to get it back is through the cops...?

8. Okay, let's try this a bit differently. If you knew a band of diseased monkeys were hiding out, would you tell authorities where they were so they couldn't spread their infectious disease to more humans?

9. Would you use a snitch to find information on a crime against you even though you hate snitches? Police do this a lot!

10. If a female bit off your Johnson and hid it, would you tell the cops who did it to get it back? (No homo x 1,000, pause and all that.)

11. Your son has been kidnapped and the kidnappers have a special request in order for him to be returned safely. They simply want you to "tell" on them. What do you do, even though they refuse money?

12. You catch Jeffery Dahmer with a human hand in his hand...911 on the sneak tip?

13. If a man raped his daughter, wife or mother on 125th in Harlem and was going to go on vacation, because nobody would ID'd him... would you "snitch" then?

14. If you could anonymously snitch on the world's biggest drug dealer for $1 billion dollars, would you?

15. Would you snitch on Osama Bin Laden if he lived in Apt. 4E with his dialysis machine?

16. A doctor is performing surgery while drunk and causes somebody to have permanent watermelon-sized head, and you know he had a 40 ounce before cutting. What?

17. You know of a filthy, low down snitch that is going to snitch on you for a murder you didn't commit. Do you snitch on the snitch to clear your name?

18. The Ku Klux Klan decide it's time to reinstate slavery and they start with whipping you like a slave, Roots-style, do you just take it or take it to the police?

19. You can become a national hero if you reveal _______ orchestrated the September 11th terror attacks if you just drop a big dime. Can the government get change?

20. Would you tell if somebody stole every dollar you owned and swiped your pricey Lambos too?

21. If 50 Cent had a plot to destroy your illustrious, highly profitable and successful recording career, would you...nevermind!

Illseed is AllHipHop.com's resident cultural critic even though nobody on staff will co-sign him. Write him 21 questions at ahhrumors@gmail.com.

I would tell on him faster than my niece tells on my nephew.