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The Experiment: A Brief History of Willful Ignorance

The Experiment: A Brief History of Willful Ignorance

Backstory:

Growing up, I always liked horror, sci-fi, comic books and computers. And whether it was because I was actually good at math and science and wore glasses, or something else… for whatever reason, people always considered me sort of a mad scientist.

It helps that in the 80’s and 90’s I was also into Hip Hop and video production and like others, referred to my home studio as “the lab” (or…

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Japanese Funk Edition Funk U Cafe Ep. 9 - Funky Samurai Did you know there was a thing called Japanese Funk?

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Funk U Cafe 3

Funk U Cafe 3

Episode #3 – Kurt Nice Bornday Show

featuring

Black Moon, Artifacts, Noreaga, Slum Village and Common.

Funk U Cafe is a Show With DJ SonSu and Kurt Nice. Rare Grooves, Break Beats, Classic Rhythm and Blues ,Hip Hop , Disco, Jazz, and coffee talk!

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Creating the Message – an interview with Duke Bootee

One of the many things I agree wholeheartedly with KRS about, is the importance of self-creation to the foundation of Hip Hop Kulture. The idea of self-creation is, at least in part, a product of the concept of “knowledge of self”, from the 5% ideology. The search for knowledge of self is a continual process as you grow into a better human being and so is the continued desire to self-create or…

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The Birth of Hip Hop Music

The Birth of Hip Hop Music

On August 11, 1973, Clive Campbell aka Kool DJ Herc told me that his sister, Cindy aka Queen Pep, asked him to deejay a party for their apartment building on Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx. This jam came to be known as the galvanizing event that led to the Hip-Hop Music genre. One year later, in November of 1974, the Universal Zulu Nation would take it one step further and begin to organize Hip Hop…

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Thanks President Obama!

No longer will we have a classy, intelligent, articulate mature adult in the White House because President Barack Obama’s second term is over. History will smile on his legacy unlike many who don’t see it now. Here are the numbers.

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What's the Best Cypher in Hip Hop History?

What’s the Best Cypher in Hip Hop History?

It’s funny that now, I can, sort of, take pride in being a Hip Hop nerd in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Back in the day, the strange tech guys that were into video and Hip Hop, like myself, were an eclectic bunch. Some of us wore glasses, dressed weird, traded obscure Hip Hop facts and all shared a love of documenting the culture. Recording everyday street life or better yet, ‘all down’, candid moments…

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The Media Meltdown of 2016

The Media Meltdown of 2016

In no uncertain terms, we will long suffer the consequences of 2016. The decisions made on a global and national scale will come to affect us in the months and years to come. What we’ve realized this year is that the system is broken. That system is our system of generating progress and maintaining it. Whatever system is supposed to exist that’s tasked with ensuring that society and culture moves…

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