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Lately I’ve been having fun typing things into Google’s little search box at the top right of my browser and seeing what comes up as suggestions. Today I was reading about the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation on Wikipedia and there was a mention of Caucasian people, who have a wikipedia entry too. This however lead me to see what google had to say about white people so I tried my friend the search box. Hilariously the first result was ‘white people stole my car’. What? Needless to say I clicked through. Turns out that a while back if you typed ‘white people stole my car’ into Google, the helpful googleoids would ask “did you mean black people stole my car?” Screenshot below. I can’t vouch for the veracity of the screenshot but I did find it very funny.

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[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAdm9gn-w4[/youtube]

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Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)

Chief Boima‘s version is not as funny, but it’s a guaranteed dance floor scorcher.  The Chief is a badman producer from the left coast who recently unleashed a free EP heat up your winter – African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.

African By The Bay
[Artwork/cover design by Lupo Avanti]

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Omzo and Yero of Minen Teye

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Minen Teye feat. Sista Soda – Yero & Omzo (One Love)

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Minen Teye feat. Gaston – Wake Up

Minen Teye is a rap group out of Nouakchott, Mauritania. The group, sometimes referred to as the conscious generation, is a rather loose collective of rappers and singers from the rural parts of the country. The main members Yero and Omzo moved to the capital to pursue higher education at University of Nouakchott.  Other members of the collective moved to the city avoid civil unrest and the border squabbles with neighboring countries Senegal and Mali, which dates back to the late 1980s– but the capital Nouakchott has seen its share of trouble in the last two decades and recently with the military coup in August 2008.  According to my Mauritanian source here in Brooklyn, Yero and Omzo are in the third generation (2003-present) of the rap collective which dates back to the mid-1990s.  Their lyrics are politically charged and critical of the military government which has been brutally suppressing dissent and painting that suppression as fighting terrorism and Islamist militants, drug traffickers and illegal migrants.  Minen Teye members have been harassed by police and government officials several times in the last year.  They are in the process of recording a new album which should be out sometime next year.  In meantime, these two tracks feature outside vocalists, Senegalese songstress Sista Soda and Senegalese rapper Gaston. The tracks are from their recent release, from earlier this year Moro-Itanie.

Here’s a video a Facebook friend posted a few hours ago – Women on the Frontline: Mauritania, a documentary presented by Annie Lennox shining a light on violence against women and girls. Here, they look at the Islamic Republic’s interpretation of the Sharia law Zina. [UNIFEM]

[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdkB_gm_VI[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4KAImORd8[/youtube]

Kreayshawn‘s demo reel Summer 2009

& here’s the future! Lil B’s new video “Like A Martian,” also directed by Kreayshawn.

This is definitely dumbest track I’ve heard from Lil B this year -mind you, I can only listen to his material in tiny doses so I’ve heard less than one tenth of his output this year. Andrew Noz/Cocaine Blunts has the time and patience/attention for this. Grab the mp3/audio dope here if you dare.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHPumshGgA[/youtube]

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Jay Electronica

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Jay Electronica – Exhibit C

I have been waiting for a CDQ/NODJ version of this track for months! Jay Electronica (f*ck that! Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYalmulke…) and The Megatron Don answered the request/prayers of rap nerds and fans of great music the world over when they released Exhibit C this week. While the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen (I hope the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen! All the f*ckery, wrangling, and argument going on there matters to every single one of us on the planet. You might wake up one morning and find there is no Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry, no Dakar, no Lagos, no Accra, no Durban… they’re all cities under sea/saltwater! ahem, Solar Life Raft anyone?) one of my favorite tracks of 2009 was dropped in my mailbox! Finest holiday gift thus far, thanks Mo!

Now, let’s hope we get a full/CDQ version of “Dear Moleskine” by mid-Winter, and I’m quite certain an album in 2010 will set the globe on fire!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cA010JeecE[/youtube]

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2K9_Front Cover

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Karma Atchykah  – Journée de Pluie avec Soke et Wahlee Sparks

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Karma Atchykah – Mains en l’air

The big homie Poirier recommended some nice rappity raps from Quebec.  Karma Atchykah‘s current album with Shash Revolution Culturelle is downloadable here. He is also preparing to drop a new album in the new year, so keep your eyes peeled.

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Meet Cero 39.

The son of a high level intelligence agent for the Colombian government, Cero grew up wanting to be James Bond. He was exposed early to all manor of high-end gadgets and has become a multi-faceted artist that incorporates ambient video edits, live art installation, and lively digi-doombia-passa-passa-champeta-y-mas sets that really create a great atmosphere for what he calls the Tropical Advanced sound in Colombia. Factor in the Max Headroom meets Cocheese fashion sense and Secret Agent Gel is gettin a serious run for his money in 2010.

Uproot Andy and I had a chance to get to know Cero 39 aka Sabrosongo while in Bogota for the Que Bajo?! tour this fall. He invited us to play his Santo Show monthly, a sonic sister party to ZZK, Tormenta Tropical and Que Bajo?! You can catch him playing to underground lockdown clubs full of swanky jetset Telemundo actresses, art galleries and clubs all over his native Colombia. His production incorporates cumbia, champeta, dub and synthy happiness. When last I spoke to him, he was working on a motion-censored cumbia installation for the museum in Medellin. I could explain but it would require diagrams, illustrations and schematics and my security clearance just isn’t that high yet.

Instead, download the brand new 2-sided mixtape below and get to know one of my favorite discoveries of 2009.

Vias Del Caribe Vol 2

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SwarmRmxs2(web)

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Jah Mason – I Told You (Paul Alt Remix)

Belgium producer Paul Alt reheats a 77Klash riddim voiced by Jah Mason. I think it’s safe to say that riddims associated with 77Klash are immune to dying.  Klash City Records released The Swarm Riddim over two years ago, and refixes are still surfacing. Paul Alt whips up a sweet and heavy dance beat guaranteed to scorch dance floors, or just turn your holiday party a bit more nasty.  That artwork is very appropriate for the song’s lyrics. A man expresses an excessive desire for and to a girl he has been watching admiringly for a long time – Girlfriend, I told you,  you’re gonna be fine. Just give me your love & I’ll give you mine… After a few seconds, he tells her to keep it confidential.