May
Watch Queens rhymesayer Action Bronson team up again with recent Mad Decent signee RiFF RaFF and Dana Coppafeel for “Hot Shots Part Deux”. Production by The WhiteRussian.
Watch out for Bronson in 2012, and don’t miss his previous collaboration with RiFF RaFF, Bird On A Wire here.
May
Jersey’s very own Hoddy, The Young Jedi, from baseville dropped his second mix tape “Organized Bullshit”. With the “fake rapper” Hoddy on the rise this mix tape is definitely putting him on the map with genuine tracks such as “Mustard” and “Fake Rapper Music”. Shout out to the production on this tape, they definitely gave the tape a prominent soulful feel. Keep an eye and an ear out for upcoming events, shows, and music being dropped by Hoddy and his collective FANBASE. You definitely do not want to sleep on them as they are constantly working and making moves.
Download: http://www.datpiff.com/Hoddy-Organized-Bullshit-mixtape.353493.html
Connect with Hoddy:
Twitter: @hoddyBASE
Facebook: Jahad ‘Hoddy’ Carter
Tracklist:
1. Another Fake Intro
2. boxHot
3. 5AM
4. Tissue
5. Fuck Hot Pockets
6. AATS
7. BaseTrain
8. FAKE RAPPER MUSIC
9. Number 9
10. Blud
11. Heaven Or Hell
12. Samwitch Maker
13. Mustard
May
Ab-Soul released his anticipated mixtape Control System—his first release in the midst of Top Dawg Entertainment’s quickly growing stock in the hip-hop world. Features include TDE members Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, & ScHoolboy Q, TDE frequent Jhené Aiko, rap star rising Danny Brown, and more.
Check out Ab-Soul- Pineal Gland above for a taste.
May
The French chose a new President.
Paris
The choice during the French Presidential elections opposed Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP:Right wing) to François Hollande (Socialists:left wing).
Considering how unpopular Sarkozy was, according to polls, the final vote of 51.6% for Hollande to 48.4% for Sarkozy which was close.
Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades, promising change in Europe after dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
The positive emotion was the link among the French population who welcomed the new president in his office today in Paris.
According to the White House spokesman Jay Carney, President Barack Obama invited Hollande for talks before the G8 summit.
As well as discussing Europe’s economy, Obama is also likely to raise Hollande’s pledge to pledge to start bringing 3,300 French soldiers home this year, ending his country’s combat role two years earlier than NATO.
2017 seems to be the final meeting for French people and their new President in order to analyze the results of Mr. Hollande’s domestic and international policies.
May
You waited.
You begged.
You complained to your State Representative.
And so it’s finally here.
DC Cab Session #1- Hoddy, The Young Jedi
We had laughs, tears, and a couple photos here and there. Watch and be amazed, this is Cab Session #1.
Intro Music // Hoddy, The Young Jedi ft. MoRuf- Blakchip
May
SPACEGHOSTPURRP-The Black God. 2012 bravado dreaming of 1994 stilo. One seriously talented man. We’re about that wave.
Stay up for Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp In Stores June 12th.
May
Art Exhibition: “Waiting for the Queen”
Part of Dance Africa: May 18 - June 3rd.
This exhibition features a selection of works on paper by two emerging Nigerian artists working in the US: Njideka Akunyili and Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. These distinctive, beautiful works blend various media, modes of representation, and images.
Njideka Akunyili was born in Enugu, Nigeria. She is a 2011 MFA graduate of Yale University and received a BA from Swarthmore College in 2004 and a post-baccalaureate certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2006. Her paintings, characterized by rigorous figuration, explore Akunyili’s complex relationship to both Nigerian and Western culture. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California and is in the collections of the Community College of Philadelphia, Swarthmore College, and the PAFA print department archives. She is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze is an artist of Nigerian birth and British upbringing. Her drawings are greatly influenced by textile processes, printmaking, architecture, and the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which emphasizes the beauty in that which is transient. Amanze received an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006 and a BFA from Temple University in 2004. She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows at Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia, Causey Contemporary Gallery and the Front Gallery in Brooklyn, and Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier in the Netherlands. She is currently the director of education at MoCADA in Brooklyn. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Lecturing/Research award for 2012—13.
Diker Gallery Café
Free
Artists: Njideka Akunyili and Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
Producer: Dexter Wimberly
May
DANCE AFRICA 2012.
This year will be the 35 years of Dance Africa, featuring worldwide dancers to celebrate the “cultural vitality of Africa and its diaspora.”
DanceAfrica 2012 will feature an expanded lineup of African and American companies, including Ammamere Mma Dance Theatre from Ghana and the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, plus a different roster of dance companies for each performance—in a program that promises to inspire.
Fri, May 25 at 7:30pm
Ammamere Mma Dance Theater (Ghana)
Farafina Kan: The Sound of Africa (Washington, DC)
United African Dance Troupe (Queens)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble (Brooklyn)
Sat, May 26 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Ammamere Mma Dance Theater (Ghana)
Forces of Nature Dance Theatre (Manhattan)
Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance Company (Manhattan)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble (Brooklyn)
Sun, May 27 at 3pm
Ammamere Mma Dance Theater (Ghana)
Illstyle Peace Productions (Philadelphia)
Creative Outlet (Brooklyn)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble (Brooklyn)
Mon, May 28 at 3pm
Ammamere Mma Dance Theater (Ghana)
Hamalali Wayunagu Garifuna (Bronx)
Asase Yaa (Brooklyn)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble (Brooklyn)
Artistic Director: Chuck Davis
Producer: BAM
For More Information, please visit BAM
May
Growing Pains: The World struggles to outgrow ‘Capital Punishment’
“The death penalty is a shameful legacy of colonialism – now British lawyers are fighting to abolish it around the world by representing condemned prisoners in court”
Highlights:
- The fate of those on death row [in Jamaica + 26 other countries] is currently decided more than 4,000 miles away, in Westminster, at the judicial committee of the privy council (JCPC).
- A recent survey by the DPP showed that 91% of Trinidad and Tobago’s population support capital punishment.
- Kenya, Malawi and Uganda have taken almost 5,000 people off death row as a consequence of a ruling that mandatory death sentences for all murders are unconstitutional
- One of the most prominent defenders of capital punishment is Singapore…the state imposes a mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking
- The greatest challenge for abolitionists is China…some estimate, around 4,000 executions are carried out each year
- Iraq, which has reinstated capital punishment, has put more than 60 people to death since November
- In the US, there were 43 executions
May
Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, died after a long battle with cancer on May 4, 2012, Rolling Stone confirmed. The Brooklyn-born rapper, 47, had been battling the late stages of his untreatable case at a New York hospital, sources told the Daily News.
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