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The SLAMjamz Relief Project
Album To Benefit Haiti’s Lambi Fund
CHUCK D ASSEMBLES HIS SLAMjamz ARTISTS FOR KOMBIT pou HAITI
Available January 26 on
iTunes and TuneCore
New York, NY (January 26, 2010) – Hip hop legend Chuck D and the artists on his SLAMjamz digital record label have created a benefit album to raise money for Haiti’s recovery efforts in record-breaking time. KOMBIT pou HAITI (which loosely translates to “coming together for the good of Haiti”) will be released via iTunes and TuneCore on
Tuesday, January 26th. The collection includes a track by MC Hi- Coup, a solo song from Chuck D (featuring Kyle Jason and Public Enemy DJ Johnny Juice Rosado), and Dominican roots band Pa’lo Monte. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of KOMBIT pou HAITI will directly benefit the Lambi Fund of Haiti (www.lambifund.org), an organization dedicated to helping Haitian communities rebuild and recover through building economic community enterprises such as sugar mills, grain mills and small businesses and planting crops to sustain local communities. The organization is coordinating second responder efforts, to begin once emergency rescue and assistance operations have stabilized and was brought to Chuck D’s attention by activists Kevin Powell and April Silver.
In the hours following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Chuck D began contacting the artists on his SLAMjamz label and tapped longtime PE DJ Johnny Juice Rosado to quickly assemble and produce the benefit album. “I think that in this age of technology and communication we can come together with extraordinary urgency to address an emergency like this,” said Chuck D. “Since many cannot be there to physically help, the gift of music is something that realized we can give for fundraising efforts. There are many organizations reaching out to the call - Wyclef Jean and his Yéle Haiti, in particular, have been working tirelessly for the Haitian people for many years - we hope you support any one of these organizations. It will take an infrastructure of many to help bring Haiti back up.” Chuck’s song, “This Bit Of Earth,” can also be found at the following link along with a personal note about his feelings behind it and the lyrics: http://www.slamjamz.com/music/viewdlsingle/465
All of the artists on KOMBIT pou HAITI contributed their songs within 24 hours of being asked, while all mastering costs and studio time were donated (Earle Holder of HDQRTZ) as well as the album artwork (by graphic artist Kelvin Fonville). The powerful liner notes were contributed by Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson, a noted Professor of Chicano and African American Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
About SLAMjamz:
SLAMjamz was founded by Chuck D in 1996 as a highly innovative, digital-only record label, dedicated to discovering and distributing underground hip hop and new urban music to a global audience. SLAMjamz artists uniquely retain the rights to their work, allowing for them to own the master copies of their recordings as well as their own publishing rights, making it truly a 21st Century recording label.
KOMBIT pou HAITI
Tracklisting
1. This Bit of Earth MISTACHUCK featuring KYLE JASON and DJ
JOHNNY JUICE ROSADO
2. Help Is On The Way HEET MOB
3. Knockin' On The Lord's HI-COUP
4. Find My Way Home KYLE JASON
5. Faith DONTIQUE
6. La Misere LOWDOWN
7. Why Y'all Wanna Kill GOD? PROFESSOR GRIFF featuring THE 7TH OCTAVE
8. Raise Up SON OF BAZERK AND THE NO SELF CONTROL BAND
9. Candela PA'LO MONTE
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COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS showcases many of Hip Hop music's legendary figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul and Digital Underground along with emerging artists such as audiovisual remixers Eclectic Method. The film also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been sampled, such as renowned drummer Clyde Stubblefield, the world's most sampled musician, best known for his work with James Brown, as well as commentary by Funk legend George Clinton.
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Flavor Flaaaaav!
Review: The perfect pair — Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Aspen stage
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Stewart Oksenhorn
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Stewart Oksenhorn/The Aspen Times
ASPEN — A few days before Public Enemy's show at Belly Up Aspen, rapper Chuck D expressed some concern about the group's performance. Public Enemy was not on tour, and the baNNed — the live-music component of the group's show for a decade — would not be appearing on the date.
Chuck D need not have worried. For at his side — often draped under his arm, even — was fellow rapper Flavor Flav. Flavor Flav has been a part of Public Enemy since the group's beginnings, in the Long Island of the mid-'80s, and the signature clock around his neck and his gold teeth give the group an instant visual identification. More significant, he and Chuck D are a perfect artistic pair, up there with Lennon/McCartney and Laurel & Hardy, each supplying a necessary quality to the whole.
Sunday night at Belly Up, Chuck D seemed like someone who had comfortably, smartly mellowed into middle age. The anti-authoritarian stance on which Public Enemy built its identity was evident in the words to “911 Is a Joke” and “Fight the Power,” but any anger that drove those songs was replaced, in Chuck D at least, by a calmer wisdom and forbearance. The transition has not sapped him of his stage presence — and certainly not of his skills on the microphone.
Then there is Flavor Flav, who does not seem to have mellowed into anything. The question was once posed, How could anything other than jazz have produced someone like Thelonious Monk?, and the same goes for rap and Flav. He embodies something essential about hip-hop, especially the no-holds-barred emotional rage that gave early hip-hop its credibility. Complementing Chuck D's intellectual vibe, Flav is unhinged, guile-less, a natural comedian and pure performing force. There were even moments Sunday night when Flav's talk — about a crack Chuck D had apparently made regarding Dick (Cheney) and Bush (George W.) — got a bit loose for Chuck's liking. But after a moment, Chuck D just let his partner go, until the joke turned into a pro-Obama rap.
While Public Enemy made a solid connection with the audience — the show ended with Flav onstage alone, delivering an inspirational, off-the-cuff message against racism and about believing in oneself — it didn't rely on the parrot-like crowd response (“Yo, what's up Aaaaspennnn ... ?”) that hip-hop shows often descend into. And while they sang their hits, the energy didn't wane with less-known material. This was a performance built on thought-provoking material, the musical power of old-school rap, and the pitch-perfect chemistry between two charismatic leading men.
Now just imagine throwing a live-music element into the mix. Let's begin the campaign to get that show to Aspen.
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