Posts with the tag hip-hop

Ghent Film Festival, IEBA Honors Chubby Checker, Content and Communications World, Viennale 2009, ShowEast, Highlight October Media and Entertainment Industry Networking Events

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:41:50 EDT

MIPCOM, in Cannes through October 9, is the global content event for creating, co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms, that provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with a market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level. The New School Office of Career Development in conjunction with The Office of Alumni Relations, New School for Drama, New School for Jazz and Contemporary Studies, Mannes College and others, presents "Careers in Performing Arts," an Alumni Panel and networking event, at its campus in Greenwich Village, on October 6. The Ghent Film Festival (Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent) in Ghent, first established in 1974 as a student's festival, is now recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (IFFPA) as a competitive festival primarily geared towards the "impact of music on film". The festival organizes film music concerts, giving composers of film scores a platform to showcase from. The official CD Release Party for Kyoko Oyobe (www.myspace.com/kyokooyobe) Jazz Trio, recorded live at Smalls Jazz Club, happens October 8 in New York, and features Kyoko Oyobe, piano Michael O'Brien, bass Clifford Barbaro, drums, Saul Rubin, guitar. A subsequent jazz recital happens at Fat Cat Jazz Club, in Greenwich Village, on October 15.

The Chicago International Film Festival, October 8-21, will have an opening night cocktail reception with hors d'oeuvres, and after the festival starts you can listen to experienced film composers, musicians, and directors break down the process of finding collaborators, sourcing new and existing music, and producing the perfect harmony between sound and image at the panel "Score! Music on Film". ` International Entertainment Buyers Association, founded in 1970 as a non-profit trade organization for talent buyers, concert promoters, agents, managers, artists and other related entertainment professionals, starts its 2009 conference in Downtown Nashville, October 11-13. Among slated events IEBA will honor the iconic Chubby Checker who had the number 1 song of the sixties, “The Twist,” which topped the charts at number1 twice. Content and Communications World is the fall conference and exhibition for media and communications technology, opening in New York for two days on October 14. CCW features three events in one location – HD World, SATCON, and IP Media Expo. The Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) was started with a mandate for the advancement of understanding and cultural exchange among the peoples of Asia, the Pacific and North America through the medium of film, and at this year's event in Honolulu will host an all day event to honor award winning TV program LOST, which is shot on the island of Oahu with the Vision in Film Award. BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2009, October 15-17 in Las Vegas, is for any Blogger, Podcaster, Vlogger, Internet TV or Radio Broadcaster, Social Media expert or producer of any other form of new media content to attend and extend their expertise with strategies, tools and techniques.

Film, Stage and ShowBiz Expo happens this year in Los Angeles for one day, on October 17. On site at the Expo, Disney Theatrical Group and Telsey + Company will be holding casting calls for major Broadway musical productions. During this year's 2009 Digital Hollywood Fall, October 19-22 in Santa Monica, some special events will include: Executive Round Table and Cocktail Event; VIP Content Rights Dinner; Digital Hollywood Finance Dinner; a VIP Breakfast Briefing; and End-of-Day Poolside Reception. During Vienna based Viennale 2009, running October 22 through November 4, directors and actors will join the celebratory opening in the Gartenbaukino, with a number of other film guests, such as Tilda Swinton, to whom the Viennale dedicates a Tribute this year. The festival will close with the Austrian premier of the latest film of the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen: A Serious Man. Cinema exhibition professionals come to Nielsen Film Group's ShowEast in Orlando, October 26-29, for film screenings of major studio and independent feature films slated for holiday release, as well as product reel presentations, special events with Hollywood actors, educational seminars and to find the latest products, services and technologies at the trade show. The Urban Individualists (www.theurbanindividualists.org) close out their year of art showcases with two shows in the month, first with a Brooklyn opening October 23 of 'Heaven and Hell', showing works exploring theological themes by male members of the collective, including Paul Deo (www.myspace.com/pauldeo). They open again on October 31 in Manhattan's upper west side with 'Masquerade - False Faces' a multimedia exhibition which includes masks and other art works. Both events feature live music, poetry readings, refreshments, and are free and open to the public.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page at actorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog at actorschecklist.com/loudblog. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actorschecklist. This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array of artists in performance of film and music. Last month featured German pop (with a little hip hop) performer, Lando van Herzog (www.lando-van-herzog.com); Urban Rap artist Guerilla X (www.guerrillax.exploretalent.com) in his new film, 'Kiss of a Bullet'; comedy in the form of parody rap skits from Filmhawk (www.myspace.com/filmhawkcomedy). These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase at http://www.actorschecklist.com/video which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration. The Actor's Checklist is proud announce the return of the photo gallery which you can visit at http://actorschecklist.com/coppermine to upload valuable head shots or other photos of your choice, create profiles, and use your pictures or others found on the gallery as ecards which you can email to friends and associates with messages.

Our Defining Moment

Hiphop4Barack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:35:19 EST

Jasiri X is a Dope M.C.!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czDcBivYkH8

The Season Finale of This Week With Jasiri X, Season 2

Each Episode Of "This Week With Jasiri X" features Your Hip-hop News Anchor Jasiri X reporting the National news over the hottest beats.

For weeks Jasiri X has provided a rapidly growing internet audience with a most creative and interesting delivery of the weekly news. Using lyrical skills, controversial subject matter, and phat beats, Jasiri X shows and proves that real Hip-hop is not in the least bit dead.

Chuck D of Public Enemy once boldly declared that "Hip-hop was the CNN of the ghetto", no artist has better embraced and embodied that concept than Jasiri X.

Obama is Hip-Hop

Nia "Hussein" J. — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:23:03 EDT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-michael-cooper/when-politics-became-the_b_134733.html

The definition of Hip Hop has always been a political one: at the heart of democracy lies the aorta of free speech. Be it George Orwell, V.I. Lenin, Karl Marx, or Donald Oliver Soper shooting the gift (of gab) in London at Speaker's Corner of Hyde Park, or KRS-One and Chuck D voicing their opposition to Reaganomics and a Dickensian New York in the late '80s, or Jay-Z, Puff, and Kanye describing theirBrave Rich World from Gulfstream-V windows 40,000 feet above Monaco in rhythmic iambic pentameter, Hip Hop is the vox of the common man speaking to power.

FDR was Hip Hop: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

MLK was Hip Hop: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

JFK was Hip Hop: "And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

RWR was Hip Hop: "The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill"....And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago."

Bill Clinton is Hip Hop, too, but George Walker Bush embodies the flatline of Gangsta Rap: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised...Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing."

Barack Obama is the greatest MC of all time. The DNC's Master of Ceremony's skills of Moving the Crowd have never been more evident than on the night of August 28th, 2008 in Denver's Invesco Stadium. It was the night Barack Obama fulfilled Martin Luther King's dream, and accepted the Democratic National Party's nomination for President. I wonder what went through his mind before he took the stage that night. Was it Jigga, as Obama mentally scrolled through his list of detractors in the media and politics, who tried to clown him by deifying him?: "I never claimed to have wings on/I get my/by any means on/when there's a drought/get your umbrellas out/that's when I brainstorm."

Maybe it was Rakim in the earbuds of Obama's iPod: "I'm not a regular competitor/ first rhyme editor/ Melody arranger, poet, etcetera/ Extra events, the grand finale like bonus/I am the man they call the microphonist."

Or maybe it was just Barack Obama being Barack Obama on this most historic night, transforming rap into epos: "We cannot turn back. America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate. And so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix. And cities to rebuild, and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect, and so many lives to mend. America we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone...in America, our destiny is inextricably linked."

I don't know if John McCain is Hip Hop. I don't know if he or the Republican Party understands that it is the culture of Hip Hop that has directly -- and indirectly -- fueled the youth movement behind Barack Obama. Many have made this connection between Obama and Hip Hop, including the great New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, to a young Baltimore, Md. journalist by the name of Timothy Cooper.

Even Robin Williams said on Letterman a few weeks ago:

Obama running is wonderful. It's-initially it was very interesting with people being kind of afraid of going, 'You know, he's a very eloquent black man'. And some folks in Conneticut going, 'Well, he's a tan Kennedy'. But...what was their fear, though? Are they afraid that this very eloquent man will be elected President, and all of a sudden he takes the oath of office and goes, 'Yo what's up?!! (Williams grabbing his crotch in the b-boy style) Yo-yo-yo! Yo gonna keep it real! I'ma bring it home right now, no more of that Urkel stuff! I wanna introduce some members of my cabinet: this is Lil' Ray-Ray, Skinny G, Colin Powell, because he's bad! Keepin' it real!

The Gen-Y'ers have truly made the connection between Barack Obama and Hip Hop. They are his advance team on Facebook, My Space, and Friendster, an army of Millennials that has assisted the Obama campaign in raising hundreds of millions of dollars online. For this new paradigm--young white kids (and Asian, Latino, African-American, and multi-racial kids, too)--the culture of Hip Hop allowed them to embrace a black man without fear, suspicion, or loathing. These same Gen-Y'ers will go to a Jay-Z concert and know all the words to "Regrets" or "Lost Ones." Michael Phelps motored Beijing's Olympic blue cube -- stoked by the fires of Lil' Wayne lyrics playing in his head -- en route to a record eight gold medals. These same Millennials are also educating their parents around the breakfast and dinner table, letting them know that the Baby Boomer version of the American Dream, the Woodstock, flower power, peace, love, and Haight-Ashbury, has grown up in Eminem's 8 Mile of Detroit, Snoop Dogg's Long Beach, and Common's South Side of Chicago. Their world may not be a ghetto, but the Millennials have broadbanded it into their very own 3-G global 'hood. Which, incidentally, is Obama's hood, too.

So I don't know if John McCain is Hip Hop. Last week, with McCain and Sarah Palin -- the Charli Baltimore of the G.O.P. -- and their operatives flashing the political gang signs to their conservative base ("Terrorist", "Ayers", "Who is the real Barack Obama"?), The Straight Talk Express derailed into lyrics of David Bowie's "Candidate": "I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate/we'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake...I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people/ spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up."

John McCain may be more Rock and Roll than Hip Hop, which --along with R&B-- was the Hip Hop of the '60s and '70s. The raison d'etre of John McCain seems to trapped between a pair of Bowie bookends: The Man Who Fell To Earth who joins forces with The Man Who Sold The World. No matter how much distance this heroic fighter pilot and former POW tries to put between George W. Bush -- who is on an unswerving, abominable path towards presiding over the most calamitous administration in American history -- McCain cannot escape the connection nor the facts. Wall Street continues to collapse. The ranks of the unemployed swell to hundreds of thousands every month. The war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and an increasingly unstable Pakistan seem to have no end in sight. Those are the facts, and so is this: life as we know it in this country is slowly rotting away. And that's not Hip Hop. That's the discord of an apocalypse. And -- quite possibly -- as Sen. John S. McCain may find out at the end of the last and final debate with Barack Obama on Wednesday at Hofstra University, his campaign's swan song.

We Were Robbed in '00 and '04. Don't let it happen in '08

Uncle Nate — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:36:02 EDT

This video that I compiled to accompany my original song chronicles what happens when voters are defrauded and votes are left on the table.

The title of the song is 'We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)'. It can be found here: We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)

We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)

The video for We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.) serves as a reminder that the last 8 years have been run by an illegitimate administration that was thrust into power on the backs of 19000 eligible voters in Florida that were illegally removed from the voter rolls. This was conspired by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Clayton Roberts, Karl Rove, and Database Technologies.

People, you have to get out and vote on November 4 en masse and don't let it be close this time.

The Bush Legacy:
Disenfranchisement, 9/11, Enron, Worldcom, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG Restructuring, An Iraq War that still has not been Justified after 5+ years, $4 gasoline, Patriot Act, Record Foreclosures, Rising Unemployment, Illegal Surveillance, Tax Payer funded bailouts for Mortgage Companies, Patriot Act. By the way, I have not heard of any bailouts for taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages.

It's time to say Eight is Enough!
We Were Robbed!

If you dig the video, please feel free to distribute freely to anyone you feel needs to get the message or post it to own your websites, emails, and blogs supporting Senator (and Future President) Obama. At the conclusion of this post I will post the embed code and URL for your personal websites, blogs and emails.

Please distribute freely if you believe in the message. I welcome your feedback.

Respectfully,

Uncle Nate
Obama/Biden '08

Here is the embed code for your personal websites/blogs:

Here is the link for your email:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFerpq2VApg

We Were Robbed! (The G.O.P.)

Barack Obama on Hip-Hop: VOTE FOR CHANGE

Benjamin from New Orleans, LA — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:46:16 EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSVG7jRp_g

Open Letter To Obama

Charlie from Arlington, VA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:20:36 EDT

Here is a letter to the Senator from one of our contributors.

Barack Obama is bringing us as a people together with his historical Presidential campaign. Despite numerous trials, he has maintained his composure and dignity. No matter how many slanderous commercials John McCain airs, it does not take away from the fact that Barack Obama is making history and setting the stage for African-American men and women that have always dreamt of calling the White House home.

We've got work to do

Nia "Hussein" J. — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:00:36 EDT

This blog is short and sweet just click on the link to the video and enjoy. I hope this will motivate us to get out there and and do all the hard work it is going to take to get Obama elected into the White House:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPfv8JEEj8A

The Audacity of Hip-Hop

Juwan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:28:18 EDT

The Audacity of Hip-Hop: The Obama Mix
http://jayteedee.mypodcast.com/2008/04/The_Audacity_of_HipHop-99445.html

"They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, to disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose... We are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come."

This is dedicated to everybody everywhere who believes in freedom, and change, and unity, and hope.

Tracklist

Barack Obama Speaks on Hip-Hop
Jay-Z - American Dreamin'
Black Spade - Revolutionary Bullsh*t
The Roots - Rising Up featuring Wale and Chrisette Michelle
The Roots - Rising Down featuring Mos Def and Styles P
J. Kwest - I Am Obama
Hi-Tek - Tekzilla featuring Common
Barack Obama Speaks on Fatherhood
Common - Black Maybe featuring Bilal
Blackstar - Respiration (Remix) featuring Black Thought
Michelle Obama Interlude
Kaleber - Dope
Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It (Remix) featuring Scarface and Nas
Pharoahe Monch - Never Walk Together
FMB - Vote Obama featuring Taz-Ra
Barack Obama Speaks on America

Download and Enjoy
Juwan

Check out the other mixes: http://jayteedee.mypodcast.com/

"Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!"

Manish Jagdishchandra Shah — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:22:34 EDT

Dear Friend,

I have composed song album, "Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!"

a very catchy song, which will make the whole America rock. The beauty of the song is that it brings the fulfillment of every American to become Obama..........and displays pity on Clinton..! thus posing how generous our Barack Obama is, we donot retaliate against Clinton on her attacks, we simply ignore and pity on her on doing so, as she has no other chance to win...........she is desparate and she can do anything, she may be preparing for more attacks, before she can even launch any of her attacks lets suppress her attacks by showcasing pity on her, and make the whole America realize the attacks are the outcome of Clinton's losing ground, and she is left with nothing more but lost nomiation, still she wanna WIN ? yes she can....Obama's winning is her winning...! America's winning and the World's winning...!

you can make this song reach every corner of America by helping to promote the song album.

Please check out the song album link as below,

http://www.songcastmusic.com/profiles/mypoojan

please forward it to as many people as possible and ask your friends also to forward. With your and your friends little support we can built the wave of "Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!

http://www.songcastmusic.com/profiles/mypoojan

Forward to all your friends, and as many people as you can.

"Obama...! I wanna be Obama..!"

Thank you,
Warm Regards,
Manish Shah
mony_shah@hotmail.com

For experienced chanters only!

DaveNY1979 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:43 EST

Learned this one this past weekend:

(fast, hip-hop rhythm)

B (to the) A (to the) R-A-C, K-O! (to the) B (to the) A-M-A

ba-RACK! Obama, BA-rack O-bama!

Critically Acclaimed Hip-Hop Act Records Obama Song

Alan from Washington, DC — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:06:38 EST

http://nahright.com/news/2007/12/11/video-kidz-in-the-hall-work-to-do-obama-08/

Chicago-based critically acclaimed hip-hop duo Kidz N The Hall (whose producer Double O just produced the title track for Rocafella artist Freeway's new album, "Free At Last") just produced a Youtube video featuring clips of Sen. Obama for their song "Work To Do", going so far as to subtitle the song (Obama '08). This should be a great look for getting cutting edge hip-hop fans "fired up" about the campaign!

Check out the video in the link above and spread it around!

Kidz N The Hall were formerly on Rawkus Records but recently signed with indie powerhouse Duck Down Records, home of Black Moon, Sean Price, Smif-n-Wesson and numerous other acclaimed hip-hop acts.

Common ignites the people like Obama...

Marc R. Peters — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:46:54 EDT

"If you're really supporting somebody, you're not looking for something back all the time," said Common. "He'd do best just getting elected and going in there and doing well, that's the best way he can give back to us. We don't need him to be at the concerts."

Real hip-hop is an art form and real hip-hop tracks have a message. That's why I was inspired by the fact that Common gives Senator Obama a shout-out on one of the tracks off of his new album, Finding Forever. In "The People" Common rhymes:

"I see the I in we, yours in my drama/Standin in front of the judge with no honor/my raps ignite the people like Obama"

In addition to being well on his way to being a hip-hop legend, Common is a "Chi-town legend" and his support shows that Obama hasn't forgotten his ties to the Southside of Chicago.

"He's fresh, you know, he's got good style," Common told CNN. "As far as people in my age group and people that love hip-hop, there's a love for Obama. He represents progress. He represents what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about progress, the struggle."

To view the music video for Common's song "The People" click on the YouTube screenshot above...

Good vibes

Marc R. Peters — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:47:04 EDT

Many members of our generation, Generation Next (or whatever you choose to call it) are also members of a hip-hop generation. From Maine to South Central, Los Angeles young students are listening to hip-hop and responding. It is a widespread medium that has the power to affect the way we dress, the way we dance, and the issues we discuss. Senator Obama recognizes this and hopes that the culture that is promoted is one of civil responsibility.

"There's no doubt that hip-hop culture moves our young people powerfully. And some of it is not just a reflection of reality," Obama said in an interview with VIBE magazine. "It also creates reality. I think that if all our kids see is a glorification of materialism and bling and casual sex and kids are never seeing themselves reflected as hitting the books and being responsible and delaying gratification, then they are getting an unrealistic picture of what the world is like."

Obama knows that the best way to help the hip-hop community is to help the American community. He knows that his focus has to be on issues of poverty, K-12 education and universal healthcare:

“If I'm ignoring those issues and spending all my time worrying about rap lyrics, then I'm wasting my time," he said.

Some people may find it odd for VIBE magazine to put a politician on their cover, but they have their reasons:

"Because for the first time since VIBE was launched in 1993, a political figure has burst on the scene and fired up young people in a major way," VIBE editor-in-chief Danyel Smith said by e-mail (to the Associated Press). "Because regardless of who wins the election, the Senator will have inspired many new voters to the polls. Because Obama is frank, brilliant, vibrant, and not cynical--all things that make him a perfect VIBE cover."