These people in the corporate drivers’ seats of RADIO, TV, and RECORD COMPANIES, those in charge of distributing music and visual culture, neither care about THE PEOPLE or THE MUSIC over which they have control. And so my response has been to build some supersites and internetwork niches to filter out the nonsense and spread the best of what I feel is news and factual information. I truly don't know if you know that I’m writing much more than ever before. This past October marked the first month I didn't write a piece but I was in fact writing my Black ass off. Especially after accepting and taking on the new radio show on WBAI and the Pacifica network. ANDYOUDONTSTOP! Heard every Monday night EST 9p-11p on 99.5 in NYC and world web wise on www.wbai.org. At the same time I have expanded my ON THE REAL talk show usually heard on Sunday nights 11p-1a on www.AIRAMERICA.com. DOCTOR DRE of YOmTv, Who’s The Man and NYC HOT 97-POWER 105 fame will be splitting duties there with me as well as Janol MECCA Holmes and Cee Cee doing once every 6 weeks from Atlanta. So coupled with my writing piece with the new revamped SOURCE magazine, we are doing service to build better infrastructure on the HIPHOP and RAP planet.

Also, writings are now being projected from the new Supersite Internetwork www.HIPHOPGODS.com. It’s where CLASSIC rap music LIVES ON. Created by GARY G WIZ, building this engine was necessary. The inclusion of Artist profiles and information, the ability for them to add their music and video, and the connection to social networks like Facebook and Twitter make it an essential niche area within a galaxy of sites and portals on the Internet. The official launch is December 1 2009, 10 years after the ground breaking 'THERES A POISON GOIN ON' digital Internet first album by PUBLIC Enemy in 1999. The very same history makers were again making noise that will corral the demographic of people who need to get the detail on the first half of artists 1979-1994 recording wise. Eligibility for a HIPHOPGOD must be 15 years, and 2010 means 1995 and back. Also the other elemental contributors that have involved themselves in to Turntabilism, Graff, Breaking and Emceeing (which has been mainly the documenting and archiving through records, cassettes, and CDS). Fans can sign up and be a part of www.HIPHOPGODS.com and get a bead on a situation that has been less than properly known. The area I feel is most important is NEW songs and videos by 'CLASSIC "artists, these will be respectively projected on HIPHOPGODStv and HIPHOPGODSradio soon to join the great commentary written and managed by Baird FLATLINE Warnick, and contributed by OLD SCHOOL 76.

Also to emerge in MARCH 2010 -- Women’s History Month -- will be the amazing Supersite Internetwork www.SHEmovement.com. SHE stands for 'Sisters In Hip Hop Everywhere'. MC LYTE will be involved with this essential site that will niche the efforts of women in hip hop and rap music across the world to be heard AND seen. Again from the creator GARY G WIZ www.SHEmovement.com will host SHEtv and SHEradio. It will be incredible

UNDERGROUND? OR LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND?

This past September-October 2009 had been a packed yet hectic time for me and PUBLIC ENEMY in general. I have a myriad of thoughts based on what I see and hear. Yes I am sounding more like the cranky age of the half a century I nearly am, but I'd be foolish to be silent at this crucial time. I have written about the silencing of intelligence, which has much of society today saluting nonsense. We can talk about that BS all year long and I will always plan and attempt to keep on talking and calling when I see it. But most recently when keeping my focus on just talking about rap and rapping itself, I ran into some typed ignorance I couldn't ignore. I am a fan of all rap music. Even beyond the borders that are superficially endorsed. I understand SOULJAH Boy, but gonna state that he is not for me. Same thing for GUCCI MANE. Understand him but he ain't necessarily my cup of JAVA. I dig ALLHIPHOP.com and everything they do. Ran into Chuck Creekmur on the Red Carpet at the BET HIPHOP Awards SHOW in ATLANTA top of October. I told him that I had never seen so much Black media and Online Media in my life. I was really happy that these people were taking the technological first steps into creating their own internetworks. But Chuck and ALLHIPHOP.com blasted into the forefront and has held it down as a network head and shoulders above the many. Back to this scene in the ATL: it was out of the blizzard whirl of 'fake it till you make it politics. The blessing and the curse of the undertapped power of BET. I had only considered participating because I was chosen to give ICE CUBE his lifetime Achievement Award. So I decided to put my beatdown BET stick for a minute and participate. That night in ATLANTA was like visiting another planet, although I'd lived there the past 20 years as well. I really tried to understand how so many mid 20s to late 30 year olds were steering their entire thing into the viewpoints of young Black America. If I was out of touch my judgment was not upon the youth, but those adults that program them like robotic dogs. Backstage... it was a gang of silent older folks I thought were silenced by the check and the maintenance of their respective lifestyles that turned me off. Backstage I had solid conversation with BUSTA RHYMES, PLAY from KID and PLAY, FARNSWORTH BENTLEY, and for a quick minute YOUNG JEEZY. JEEZY and I were giving CUBE his award. I was given the chance to write what I had to say on my own; instead I suggested BET write it and I would repair and edit. My baddd: I should've known better. Upon getting their written idea, it was laced with a little too much heaping on NWA Gangster and not enough on how CUBE eventually made many see his ultimate vision. I read the tele-prompter without any rehearsal (because they couldn’t squeeze it in), and I had to kind of rush read a script beforehand. When it came time for me to read my part, looking into the audience actually startled me. It looked like a trillion dollars on the outside. But I could see that the insides were as plastic as the show itself. Being that they didn't change the reading, I damn sure felt I should say something but didn't want to have that KANYE WEST moment of hijacking TV. I stayed with the point at hand. So I edited as I read through a blizzard of terms I had already rejected in the script, terms such as ‘gangster’ (because I don't believe in such fairy tale). Anyway, O SHEA JACKSON grew up and away from those exact beginnings. That impromptu editing and the realization that I needed to be saying something entirely different all made me come across like a wooden hologram. I could've done better ad-libbing, looking ICE CUBE in the eye and telling him how I really thought. But I was thinking TV, when I should’ve addressed the live audience and 'damn the TV cast'. Watched some even further twisted footage with a voiceover by DRE. Afterwards when CUBE came onstage, and said what he said about me, it was appreciated but this was about his greatness. We spoke a sec. I told him I wished I could've seen him in the front row but I couldn’t spot him amidst all the fake ass blinging lights. CUBE is a dude where we catch up and pick up where we left off. Just like SPIKE LEE or BILL STEPHNEY. There are things to be done in this life. He continues to move forward.

THE MONIQUE SHOW

I was definitely pleased to be invited on THE MONIQUE SHOW by Monique and her producers who gave me the floor to speak right after the BET HIPHOP AWARDS. The awards were taped weeks before. I personally think that Monique will be on further fire in 2010 with her incredible part in the film PRECIOUS. Which by the way floored me with emotion a few times. On the show, Monique was very supportive as were her other guests. One shaky moment was when Ms. Monique asked me to get up and dance. I got up and kinda head-nodded (flashing back to the beatdown she gave Martin Lawrence in WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS). MONIQUE is 1505 real. She gives 3 shows in one taping. She's non-stop. Off camera is even more entertaining than on. And that's saying a whole lot. Her show is filmed in ATLANTA. I can't believe she and CHARLES BARKLEY are working down the hall from each other.

HIPHOPHONORS

Earlier in the month of October, NELSON GEORGE and FAB FIVE FREDDY did their annual VH1 HIP HOP HONORS. PUBLIC ENEMY was honored to be chosen to honor DEF JAM although RUSSELL, RICK RUBIN, LYOR COHEN we're in the shadows of LA REID, who I really think is part of the big record company illuminati. ... HIPHOPHONORS held at Brooklyn Academy of Music, this seemed to be a right venue for such an event. This year seemed right but I knew there were gonna be a lot of beef on the sides. I mean who wasn't appearing, who wasn't invited etc. Marketing producer Marjorie Clarke, publicist Leyla Turkkan, Tanisha Michelle of BWP I was able to get on my list. The building was large enough to handle the chaos. A dry salute to that. Tried to get my man Doctor (YO Raps) Dre on the bill. He helped build DEF JAM from the floor up. Promoting as DJ on WBAU college radio. A DJ for the Beastie Boys. Writing for RUN DMC’s Proud To Be Black. Discovering BASS music with his groundbreaking group ORIGINAL CONCEPT. Host of the seminal YO MTV RAPS. A founding host of 2 NYC radio stations. And a character in the movie WHO’S THE MAN. Aren't those enough credentials? I think so.

NOTHING LIKE HIM

SIR LEBRON JAMES giving up the number 23, and wanting the NBA to follow. More young superstars with less ability need to take note. It’s the connected interest of Lebron James that makes him very unique and special. Making a parallel comparison to HIPHOP, there's quite a few out there that want to pay homage to the foundation, but there are limited platforms to do it. www.HIPHOPGODS.com hopefully will be the site arena where the banners hang and the throwback means something.

GO WEST....

I use to say I had to go to IQ REHAB every time I left Hollywood. Now it seems the entire country has gone Hollywood. I have to leave the country sometimes to get my mind back. Seriously. I'm wondering in this age of technological opinion increasingly how much I say matters. Sht, there's a lot of voices out there colliding in many directions. I often don't want to add to the blizzard. Message boards have allowed the average person to be heard somewhere outside their own head. I knew this was coming and I braced myself for it. There are situations that are publicized that I fail to understand how it happened. I know I've promised to write shorter and more frequent T-Domes, but often my mouth is open in shock. And I chose not to say or write a damn thing. Listen and watch what I do instead.

There's this scene in a recent episode of my favorite (I don't watch much) TV show ENTOURAGE, where this woman runs into actor ZAC EFRON in a store with her daughter. She approaches him while he's on the phone and asks for an autograph. Come to find out that she tells him that the autograph is for herself not her 10-year-old daughter, who ends up telling her hot mom that it's enough and drags her away. This celebrity culture is the strongest drug yet without a rehab in sight. While I have benefitted from this culture, I have chosen to steer it into reality, respect, and reverence. Relevance is relative. I'll never play the fool to stand on the virtual roof of fame listing to the crowd of industry and public telling me to jump strictly for their entertainment. Nah. My daughter is a psych major in college; knowing what I know, I’m encouraging someone open up a chain of psychological rehab centers for weaning off the glow of fame, or lessening the quest of it. I think that it will be as big a treatment center as Botox and tanning, etc. The 15 minutes of fame thing is 60 seconds for everybody at any cost. People are not only losing their minds but also giving them away much less selling them. Negative news is the only news about anything here in the states. A bunch of mid generation wrekkked folk running the generation under it into the ground. I think that the 12-25 year olds have done well collectively considering the circumstances they're within. 28-50 done lost their minds. And so it seems. It took that generation to green-light a Flavor TV series, thus Flavor entertained for it. That generation had individualized itself and everything around it into a serious structural, financial, even need I say it moral hole, that the next generation can't build off of, unless they think the same selfish way with less on the table. Finally about the entertainment ...everybody's talking about how Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift. He was the talk of everybody the next day, invited on Jay Leno, and probably had a record sales boost. (Can't break or burn an MP3). Ok, the corralled public had a beef, but what power in the minds of these corps, do they really have? Hearing Donald Trunk put his hairpiece into this situation is a bigger joke. Enough of that world because I refuse to be a part of it. I dug the way the President made a comment, and moved on telling his surroundings that he has a lot of things on his plate and told paparazzi press to cut some slack. That was real: it shows he is in-tune to the madness. Gotta be in tune to fix it. Many grown folk in 2009 have been sucking their virtual thumbs waiting for things to just happen. Blogs and boards are stunning me with the amount of stupidity I sometimes read. All Hip Hop posted that Gladys Knight accused Hip Hop of not being responsible like it should. There's a blog-Thread a block long in response. Struck a nerve: a country nerve at that. I don't really buy that constitutional fact that everyone has a right to his or her opinion and voice. I would think you would have to have a brain first though. When I hear the music of Ms Knight I hear talent, skill and perfection. Something most people don't have. When she talks about entertaining she's talking about either the voice, dance, or musicianship used in a showmanship way all of the above. She a'int talking about the easy way out that many artists have taken based on their problems, issues, press releases, beefs, etc. Contrary ...the world is not a stage. The stage is. Cats doing more performance off it than on it. That’s a problem. Big problem. In the South Bronx back in the beginning of hip hop KRS ONE rhymed that if you was wack as a dj and MC, your equipment was taken and you might've gotten shot. While that's to the extreme as a outlaw shooting bullets at the floor for somebody to dance for his entertainment back in the wild wild west of the 1880s not 1980s, there's something wack about wasting peoples time and money in lieu of them getting entertained.

THE BEST RAP PERFORMANCE I’VE EVER SEEN

I saw the greatest performance in hip hop ever in JULY 09 at the Apollo at the Trecherous 3’s 30th year anniversary. Also with BIG DADDY KANE, THE FURIOUS 5, THE FEARLESS FOUR on the bill ripping it, DOUG E FRESH and the GET FRESH CREW did a show that left me in pieces unable to comprehend what I really saw. I cannot really describe it. Perfection it was though. Separated the crowd from the stage in the best way. Made you respond to the call cause you wanted to. Simple as that...perfection.

JAY Z

Irrelevance to hip hop may be many things, some idiot might consider that of me but I definitely know what I’m talking about regarding the art form. When I heard the GUCCI MANE comment about JAY Z not being the hottest rapper, my competitive fan nerve bomb jumped off and I made a comment on ERIC B’s new Radio show. I said if he's gonna compare himself to JAY Z, “he'd be better off jumping into a swimming pool with a plugged in toaster.” He'd be burnt by the skills. I couldn't believe some of the ignorant responses on ALLHIPHOP.com. One of them said I was encouraging a Black young man to kill himself. That was stupid. I also feel in hindsight that the young rapper regardless of what I thought about him didn't deserve those comments on radio blast. And on the top of it, there’s the swirling controversy stopping his shows in the south and his heading to the prison industrial complex for a year. He needs a hug from somebody if anything. I think that was his Grandma in one of his videos. GLADYS KNIGHT VS HIP HOP

I saw a blog that tried to dis Gladys Knight after she put HipHop on blast. Some people tried to say Gladys and Ray Charles had drama going on in their lives as well, and she had little right to criticize what she sees today. They tried to simply say she was back in the day and wasn't in touch and was a hypocrite. Wow.... My answer started with this: that I think that the main difference in the 'Ray Charles' days was that there was never so many grownfolk issues in the street for all to consume.

Blaxploitation flicks never let kids in the theater the way that they’re allowed to see things now, and those things weren't meant to make it to TV. Also they were made 15 years before VHS, 20 before DVD, 35 before online, Netflix and so on....

The club ended at the curb with usually a cop telling all to 'take it home behind closed doors. Its a process of technology too, as with these boards 'everybody is exercising their US so called freedom of speech rights of voicing their opinion albeit electronically of course.

Back in the day (oboy) it took some effort, a mind, and some good penmanship to even get your letter opened much less read. Now the computer gives all access and does half the work. But the behavior and mindsets don't match in many cases, with the same effort that makes your projected voice possible in the first place.

Enough said, Hip Hop must always pay attention to it's past present and future for it's existence. BTW...Gladys Knight wasn't the writer nor publisher or master owner on many of her songs. Therefore it's not up to her really on the sample tip, unless she really wanted to sue for defamation.

HIP HOP LIVES worldwide but the USA intelligence can't get the GOLD, SILVER, BRASS OR WOOD if it was an Olympics. It has fell more than the dollar itself, in respect, revenue, and regard as far as the USA is concerned. But it can be rebalanced like old rims. You need old heads to tell it like it is, but be thoroughly informed.

On the planet Hip Hop Has never fell off, the classics have never fell on the planet. There is a balance of rebellion AND respect, that's all. It has to pay attention to what’s surrounding it.

Enough of me and my one opinion amongst 47,987,4873 heads, but 'As an old head if I couldn’t teach, I wouldn't dare open my mouth or pen to speak'.

Ima Go listen to some Gladys...musicwise ...she's perfection.

COLLEGE AND TOUR TREKING

Big Ups to University Of North Carolina at Pembroke and Chapel Hill respectively after speaking there. The beautiful travel from Nashville to Murray State Land Between The Lakes in northwest Kentucky. A rare unique high school and lecture at St Genevieve High School of Character in Southern California where my wife DR GAYE THERESA JOHNSON and I were homecoming people of honor, motorcade and all. Performances for the SLAMjamz label publishing extension KILLER TRACKS with DJ JOHNNY JUICE and PROFESSOR GRIFF at the VIPER ROOM in North Hollywood. Performances also in BANFF Canada with the baNNed, KENDO THE ALMOST FAMOUS and KYLE JASON.

ONE YEAR IN

This November 2009 marks the full year since President OBAMA was elected. I am disappointed hip hop and rap music has a hard time catching UP. Have some damn opinion at least. As usual the veterans have something to say like PROFESSOR GRIFF and KRS ONE. In a nutshell they are telling all to pay a very close attention to the world surrounding us. I'd like to hear some of the pro voices looking to sort our realities back on a right path. On a recent radio show on WBAI, in fact ROSA CLEMENTEs debut show HIP HOP State OF MIND, a caller asked a question of who did I vote for in the presidential election. I admitted yes I voted for BARACK OBAMA, but supported CYNTHIA McKINNEY and ROSA CLEMENTE for President and Vice President respectively. Two historical situations colliding made me vote for the situation that didn't run the vehicle off the road, which was McCAIN-PALIN. While it looked inevitable that the system was crumbling, I am also wise to guess that blackfolk and people of color could not defend against a barrage of western world overt racism. BOMBIN THE RADIO So again you can check the radio show ...ANDYOUDONTSTOP! on ...ANDYOUDONTSTOP! and on www.WBAI.org and 99.5 in the New York City area. 9p -11p Monday night Also the talk show extravaganza ON THE REAL The Socio Cultural often Political Talk Show with Doctor Dre and periodically with SLAMradio with Mecca and Cee Cee

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