Davey D's Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)

Are Blac Block & Diversity of Tactics Hurting or Helping the Occupy Movement?

Davey D — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:28:59 +0000

Ever since the November 2 Oakland General Strike which brought out tens of thousands of people culminating in the shut down of the Port of Oakland, folks within the Occupy Movement have been talking...

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Newt to Black People: Get off Food stamps Demand a Paycheck

Davey D — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:32:10 +0000

So today many of us woke up to the news of former House Speaker and Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich boldly stating that he was gonna address Black people at the upcoming NAACP Convention and tell...

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Op Ed: Common vs Drake? Hip-Hop beef needs a funeral and a proper burial

Davey D — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:18 +0000

Common vs Drake? Hip-Hop beef needs a funeral and a proper burial by Brother Jesse Muhammad “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our last respects to a ‘friend’that has been...

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Is the Guy Who set the Fires in LA a Terrorist? Imagine if He was Mexican as Opposed to German

Davey D — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:46:38 +0000

Harry Burkhart, a German national upset about the immigration status of him and his mother was said to be in court the other week for his mother’s hearing yelling “F— the United...

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New Years Resolution for 2012: Make Room & Follow the Lead of our Sistas Within Hip Hop

Davey D — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:50:05 +0000

With 2012 upon us, we wanna encourage folks to seriously take some time to invest and make room in the cypher and at the proverbial Hip Hop roundtable table for our sistas who hold it down on the...

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Wrap up 2012.. Skillz Really Delivers on this One..

Davey D — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:51:37 +0000

Skillz really out did himself on this years Wrap Up 2012.. he brought up hella incidents I completely forgot about.. props to him for being the official time keeper for our generation…I forgot...

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A Look back at Some of the Most Dubious & Outlandish Moments of 2011

Davey D — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:24:21 +0000

2011 proved to be a year with some dubious, sometimes humourous, shocking and outlandish moments. For example we had an outrageous moment when Barack Obama wound up showing his birth certificate the...

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Tragedy in Oakland Another Toddler Killed by Senseless Gun Violence-How We Gonna Change in 2012?

Davey D — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:18:29 +0000

Usually this at this time of year, I like to reflect on all that gone down over the past 365 days and figure out what sort of steps to take in order build upon past victories and successes. I also...

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San Francisco is Home to Popping, Low Riders & the Filmore Strut

Davey D — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:03:44 +0000

I’m loving the way the Bay Area gets down on the dance tip..With so much of the music corporatized and dumbed down its refreshing to see true Hip Hop expression manifest itself through the...

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US Tax Dollars at Work: Egyptian Army Viciously Beat Unarmed Girl…

Davey D — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:54:33 +0000

Many of us recall last January when the Arab Spring broke out in Egypt, we cheered as Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted as many talked about how the army was revered. After Mubarak stepped...

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How Will Iraq Vets React to Our Mass Economic Disparities?

Davey D — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:47:18 +0000

Glad to see all the troops coming home, now that the war in Iraq is officially over.. However in a world with No Jobs, Increased Foreclosures & lawmakers pushing to make even more cuts while...

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4 Hip Hop Videos Addressing Key Issues Everyone Must See

Davey D — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:40:43 +0000

This has been a good week for music, especially on the video tip as we’ve had three stellar offerings to raise your awareness and peak your conscience. Two of the videos deal directly with...

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Wise Intelligent Speaks and Kicks a Couple of Ill Freestyles

Davey D — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:36:31 +0000

Hip Hop icon, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers is one of the dopest emcees around.. He’s also one of the most politically astute…. We caught up with him the other day while visiting the...

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Editorial: Should We Occupy or Decolonize?

Davey D — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:51:07 +0000

Here’s some thoughts to the debate around the use of term Occupy vs Decolonize that’s been taking place at some of the Occupy sites Most recently here in Oakland. The term...

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OccupySF Raided by Brutal Police-Connecting the Dots Between Occupy & Fly Benzo

Davey D — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:06:22 +0000

Last night hundreds of San Francisco police showed up at Justin Herman Plaza in riot gear to forcibly remove a hundred or so people at the encampment of OccupySF… Occupiers described it as a...

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