ARABIC RAP IS THE NEW JUMP OFF!

MAYNE IT WENT DOWN! We also just moved into our Austin house, and are in the process of moving in and such, so I can't write now. Must sort things and sit in my new garage and wonder why I have so many cdrs with one rap song on them and somehow they followed me, they wouldn't just stay behind, or leave, or throw themselves out, no they ended up in boxes in my garage, along with every magazine I have read in the past ten years, also not sure why they made it. Also records. And VHS tapes. And such.

So yeah, full review forthcoming but suffice it to say, ARABIC RAP IS THE NEW JUMP OFF! At least the way Dam and Mohammad Al Farra do it. Word to them.


You don't understand the realness of the situation at hand.


Dred Skott are very important. Austin, get ready for the revolution.


Like I said, I PROMISE to write more.




Southbound is also the TRUTH! Very important to the Austin landscape and such.








Mohammad Al Farra live in Austin!


Joined on stage by Tamer of DAM to do a song about "Smoking Hookah." Which I am all in favor of.




Me doing the host thang thang. Photo courtesy of D tha Sandman


These boys WRECK!




Flows for days. You don't have to understand it, but you gotta respect it.






DJ RHYME!




Also courtesy of D tha Sandman. BUSTED!


Melissa and Richard Henry




D and James Dean


DRED SKOTT!


DRED SKOTT!


Rapid Ric wreckin'...


Richard Henry Drinking


Southbound and Dred Skott are the future.

On to Houston


Savvi of HISD hath crafted something wonderful in this HISD thang thang.




Equality is one of the best MC's in Houston. And I don't even know if he'd call himself an MC. He's the poet laureate of the whole region. Keep your eyes and ears opened and such. Mind too. All that.






BOY WRECKIN'!




I should have taken more pics of the ladies in the place at both events. But I was working and such. But Dam attracts an attractive crowd. There is no doubt about that shit right thurr real talk know'm sayin'.




WRECKIN'!


Trish aka Crooked Cricket done went and got the HD Footage. IMPORTANT!


BOYS KILLED IT TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW!


You really need to see these dudes.


Especially if you are a rapper. They can teach you a thing or two about flows, showmanship, respect, many things.


Me and my cousin Kassandra




Tish getting footage too! SEND ME PLEASE!


Monique and Friends




Hadeeel was the brains behind this entire operation! THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF THIS HADEEL!


KB DA KIDNAPPA THE LEGEND PLUS THE PALESTINIAN LEGENDS! OMG OMG OMG!


I get real geeked out. Excuse me. But here's Jackie Salloum and Hadeel. Jackie made the film Slingshot Hip Hop which is also EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!










Wrecked.


The end of the night dance and such. Also very important.




IMPORTANT PEOPLE!

Serious I will write more later, must prepare house. IT'S GOIN' DOWN! Thanks to all who supported and more to come.

DAM on Radio in Houston NOW!

Check it y'all, it's about to go down. The boys from DAM and PR have made it through customs and they are currently in Houston on the way to KPFT to do an interview on SOS Radio with ZIN (Original Damage Control).

Tune into www.kpft.org NOW to hear them between 4 and 5 p.m. Sometime. They will also be on Damage Control TONIGHT! So tune in there as well.

Then tomorrow night AUSTIN May 8th COME DOWN TO THE SCOOT INN on 4th and Navasota to see them Live!



Show will end at 11 p.m. and the party will move inside with DJ's Rapid Ric and Rhyme till 2 a.m. It's only $10 and you will see something you have never seen before in your life. Arabic hip hop from Palestine along with Austin's own Southbound and Dred Scott!

Please come down and tune into KPFT NOW!

Also read this interview with Mohammad Al-Farar of PR HERE

Devin the Dude and Matt SoReal On A Seaplane in Bergen, NorwaySEE DEVIN LIVE IN AUSTIN SATURDAY NIGHT!

Just tryin; to live as they say.

But yeah man last year our dudes Lars and Leca of the now defunkt Montana Bar took us on a Sea Plane over the fjords of Bergen to a really incredible hotel for dinner in a wine cellar that seemed more like a Dungeon than a wine cellar, but whatever. It was an experience I'll never forget and wanted to share it with you. I had grand plans of making HoustonSoReal DVD's and such, but whatever, this is free and easy. i have so much dope footage, just have to find the rest of the tapes once our move hath completed.

Coming soon tho, WILLIE D ON A BICYCLE IN OSLO WITH MIRA CRAIG! Also live in concert. It is about to go down. I'ma go add VLOGGER to my resume. I mean my CV.

Devin Sea Plane Part 1



Part 2



The Hotel Tour before Dinner



MORE COMING SOON!

Also I may repost these with better quality. This is my first time ever doing such a thing and I realize that they could look way better than they do.

AND SATURDAY NIGHT DO NOT MISS DEVIN THE DUDE LIVE AT RUTA MAYAS WITH BAVU BLAKES, A LIVE BAND, AND MORE!!!!

THIS WEEK! LIVE HIP HOP IN AUSTIN & HOUSTON!DAM and Mohammad Al-Farra from PRPalestinian Hip Hop for the First Time in Texas!

And it's serious. Check out these videos, and seriously, I don't normally beg people to come out to my shows, but this one means a lot to me. I need each one to teach one and spread the word about this magnanimous event. Austin on Thursday and Houston on Friday.

People keep talking about the resurgence of "conscious" hip hop, well, come get conscious. Party, learn something, support these brilliant artists / activists / humanitarians.

Show begins promptly at 8 p.m. on the outdoor stage at The Scoot Inn and goes till 11 p.m. After 11 p.m. DJ Rhyme and Rapid Ric will spin inside the Scoot Inn for an after party / meet and greet with the artists from Palestine.

Those of y'all who want to see Z-Ro on Thursday night can easily see both shows. You already know Z-Ro won't be on stage before 1 a.m. (I assume) soooooooo, you could presumably see two of the greatest rap shows you'll see all year, in one night, in one city. Seriously, if you are reading this and are in Austin or Houston or maybe within driving distance of either city, I really need you to come out and support.


Free Palestine: Born Here


Slingshot Hip Hop Trailer


Who's The Terrorist?





And for more background, I grabbed this from The Guardian:

We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary...

The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008

This article appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday April 30 2008 on p33 of the Leaders & reply section. It was last updated at 12:44 on April 30 2008...

In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasised, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Naqba is to the Palestinians.

In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.

In July 1948, 70,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in Lydda and Ramleh in the heat of the summer with no food or water. Hundreds died. It was known as the Death March. We will not be celebrating.

In all, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. Some 400 villages were wiped off the map. That did not end the ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinians (Israeli citizens) were expelled from the Galilee in 1956. Many thousands more when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Under international law and sanctioned by UN resolution 194, refugees from war have a right to return or compensation. Israel has never accepted that right. We will not be celebrating.

We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.

We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.

Seymour Alexander
Ruth Appleton
Steve Arloff
Rica Bird
Jo Bird
Cllr Jonathan Bloch
Ilse Boas
Prof. Haim Bresheeth
Tanya Bronstein
Sheila Colman
Ruth Clark
Sylvia Cohen
Judith Cravitz
Mike Cushman
Angela Dale
Ivor Dembina
Dr. Linda Edmondson
Nancy Elan
Liz Elkind
Pia Feig
Colin Fine
Deborah Fink
Sylvia Finzi
Brian Fisher MBE
Frank Fisher
Bella Freud
Catherine Fried
Uri Fruchtmann
Stephen Fry
David Garfinkel
Carolyn Gelenter
Claire Glasman
Tony Greenstein
Heinz Grunewald
Michael Halpern
Abe Hayeem
Rosamine Hayeem
Anna Hellman
Amy Hordes
Joan Horrocks
Deborah Hyams
Selma James
Riva Joffe
Yael Oren Kahn
Michael Kalmanovitz
Paul Kaufman
Prof. Adah Kay
Yehudit Keshet
Prof. Eleonore Kofman
Rene Krayer
Stevie Krayer
Berry Kreel
Leah Levane
Les Levidow
Peter Levin
Louis Levy
Ros Levy
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky
Catherine Lyons
Deborah Maccoby
Daniel Machover
Prof. Emeritus Moshe Machover
Miriam Margolyes OBE
Mike Marqusee
Laura Miller
Simon Natas
Hilda Meers
Martine Miel
Laura Miller
Arthur Neslen
Diana Neslen
Orna Neumann
Harold Pinter
Roland Rance
Frances Rivkin
Sheila Robin
Dr. Brian Robinson
Neil Rogall
Prof. Steven Rose
Mike Rosen
Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead
Leon Rosselson
Michael Sackin
Sabby Sagall
Ian Saville
Alexei Sayle
Anna Schuman
Sidney Schuman
Monika Schwartz
Amanda Sebestyen
Sam Semoff
Linda Shampan
Sybil Shine
Prof. Frances Stewart
Inbar Tamari
Ruth Tenne
Martin Toch
Tirza Waisel
Stanley Walinets
Martin White
Ruth Williams
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
Devra Wiseman
Gerry Wolff
Sherry Yanowitz

David Banner Live at SXSW 2008!Photos of Han Bennink and Peter Brotzmann Live in Houston!

COURTESY OF LUXURY MINDZ!!!!





THANKS TO OG!!!

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Sitting on the bench outside diverse works.
Smoking a joint.
Watching some banners blowing in the wind.
About to drink wine and see Han Bennink and Peter Brotzmann again.
Theres no humidity whatsoever.
Houston feels strange.
It looks strange.
The sunset fading through the haze and the sky is literally purple like how they say in the rap songs.

Last night they tore the roof off the oversold Victory Grill in Austin. Tonight they upped the ante tenfold and played with more fervor and intense love for the art than I've ever seen either play before in any combination.

Han on the floor with that long 2x4 and a cymbal, Peter in the back, blowing his soul straight into the sky.

Two different worlds, two completely different nights in two completely different cities, and I thank God that I was able to bear witness.

Utter brilliance.

Han Bennink & Peter Brotzmann Live in Austin

Suffice it to say it went down. I gotta get in the car and drive to Houston for the show tonight, so I'll write more about it later. But yeah man, these dudes are a powerhouse.


Peter Brotzmann in der spiegel.


Han Bennink in action. Camera can't catch him.




Brotzmann.


See you in that H-Tizzle.

There is no justice

But we already knew that shit.



Rest in Peace Sean Bell, and to his family, we will keep you in our prayers.

Seriously though, WTF???

From the New York Times: "The detectives were found not guilty on all felony and misdemeanor charges in the November 2006 death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Queens."

If the dude wasn't committing a rape or murder at that very moment, then I don't see why he needed to be shot. And I definitely don't see why he had to go down in a hail of 50 bullets????

Come on now man. If I wasn't so fat and lazy I'd start a motherfucking riot in this hoe. Also I'm in Austin. But shit man, shit like this reminds me that I was supposed to be born in Amsterdam. Or Mars. Or not at all. This world makes me cry.

Working on that podcast

Just need to get up in them Dew Music Studios, and I will, I PROMISE. If it rains in Austin today, it's goin' down. If not, I'm gonna go drink beer in the grass. We shall see.

May 8 - AustinMay 9 - HoustonHIP HOP FROM PALESTINE!!!DAM & PR + Southbound and Dred Scott & MORE!

Do not miss this. Cuz it's goin' down. This is really special to me and I pray we will see each and every one of you out there. Dam and Mohammed Al Farar of PR are available for interviews. If you are a member of the press HOLLER!

This is a site I fuckin' fuck with...

Seriously, I fuckin' fuck with this site, seriously.

Keak da Sneak has a Trout Mask Replicator!