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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Skull & Blogz v.01 - For Promotional Use Only





On January 16th, a SWAT team from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, backed up by officers from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office and the local police department, along with a few drug-sniffing dogs, burst into a unmarked recording studio on a short, quiet street in an industrial neighborhood near the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The officers entered with their guns drawn; the local police chief said later that they were “prepared for the worst.” They had come to serve a warrant for the arrest of the studio’s owners on the grounds that they had violated the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, a charge often used to lock up people who make a business of selling drugs or breaking people’s arms to extort money. All they found were mix cds and Recording equipment. DJ Drama and DJ Cannon were arrested, while eight employees, mostly interns from local colleges, were briefly detained as well.

The Cops went in wanting to find the BS that pollutes hip hop but all they found were 25,000 mixtapes. I was at a friends house drunk and still laughing at the clowns from American Idol when the report from fox local news sobered me up, the report on the raid from the darkened street in front of the studio. The reporter announced that the owners of the studio, known professionally as DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon, were arrested for making “illegal CDs.” Illegal CD's ?!?!?! what mixtapes have been around forever these weren't bootlegs of the garbage you buy at Target, and other fine music providers these were for promotional use only Mixtapes hosted by the artist himself. You see the Cops thought this was some sort of small time rinky dink organization and not a DJ whose mixtapes are so popular that they actually sell them in Best Buy, but would Best Buy get raided for selling illegals HELL NO! This was not a bootlegging outfit it was a place where successful new hip-hop CDs were regularly produced and distributed. They were part of an alternative distribution system that the mainstream record industry uses to promote and market hip-hop artists. Drama and Cannon have in recent years been paid by the same companies that paid Kilgo to help arrest them. OH the Hypocrisy!!!

It goes back to a blog I wrote about if thug is the new nigger, they assumed that b/c of the music and the style of dress that this guy was a criminal. I often say that hip hop is just like acting if Dinero can play a gangster and still get love from mainstream media why can't a hip hopper do the same? Yes image is everything but in order to be perceived as real you have to play this role whenever your in public. But DJ Drama was not a thug, not saying that he's soft but dude woke up at 8 a.m. to take his oldest daughter to kindergarten at a private school. o0o0o I mean that is pretty gangsta of him b/c most real gangster's children go to private school so i can see how they could get it "mixed" up. Yeah right!

They are aspiring young music executives with a long-term business plan who had figured out a faster and more lucrative way to make it big than an internship at a record label. In my book that is there only crime. I was watching The Departed last night and at the beginning of the movie they say What the Niggers don't understand is that no one is going to give you anything... You have to take it. Apparently if you try to take it they will take your freedom from you. As I sit back and watch the mainstream media cover this story I realize that there is still much about the hip hop culture they still don't understand. Hip Hop is not dead it has just been embraced and taken over by people who have no clue about what hip hop is about. It's movies for the hood, its WWF, It's a bunch of kids who grew up in the streets and were better than avg at English in school. Its poetry, and telling your story whether reporting first hand or just telling the world whats going on in your hood. If your the pusher, the buyer, or just a witness hip hop is the life of people from the gutter, who have been miseducated and are finally getting a piece of the pie and who don't know how to act. I have a whole plan for resurrecting Hip Hop but that's another blog. So I say all of that to say this...

When did you fall in Love with Hip Hop?



Blogxilla [ 8:22 PM ]

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