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if ya needed a little Michael Jackson today, here ya go! #FreeDL

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#NowPlaying Pharrell Williams - Brand New Ft. Justin Timberlake #DanceFloorBanger!

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Thank you for the birthday love!!

Wanted to say thank you to everyone who took time out if their busy day to wish me a happy birthday! I really really appreciate all of you!! I'm a lucky dude to have so many awesome loving friends!! I would love to see your faces at the echo tomorrow night for the funky sole dance party!! All vinyl and all soul funk all night!! Check your event inboxes for the invite. If you can't make it tomorrow then lets seriously hang for a meal/coffee in the near future!! Life's too short to only see each other on Facebook!!! Love you all! -J

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My birthday party!!

#SaveTheDate Sat. 8/24/13 my b-day jam @Funky_Sole at @TheEchoLA (Spin'n All vinyl soul/funk all night) WEAR DANCING SHOES! FREE B4 10:30pm

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A Race of Angels - Michael & The Force (by AneetaThunderbird)

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Check out my Guru/Gang Starr Tribute set on @KCRW that @GarthTrinidad invited me to do live on air to celebrate the life and music of G.U.R.U. 

Today marks 3 years since we have lost one of the greatest mc's in hip-hop and music history in general. Guru along with the great Dj Premier set the bar really high and incorporated the type of sounds/samples that made you want to go digging for the original vinyl to try and wrap your head around the way Premier flipped and manipulated the sample to create an amazing swinging (cause Primo's beats ALWAYS swing, if you don't know what i mean about "swing" do some jazz history research). Primo (Dj Premier) kept things true as possible and incorporated the original aspects of hip hop on EVERY track they ever touched... from flipping obscure samples to create underground anthems to finding the perfect worded sample to scratch over his track on the breaks and intros, setting up Guru to drop the lyrical hammer of thor! Guru then took to creating a  set of records that the masses that couldn't understand the street level/underground sounds that he and primo were creating to form his "Jazzmatazz" series which might of been on of the 1st hip-hop acts (respected hip-hop acts) ever to grace the stage of the tonight show and he went on to collaborate with a whole slew of artists from many different genre's and create a sound that was both underground and sophisticated enuff for the fly over states pallets. You started hearing the gang starr/jazzmatazz sounds in coffee shops, hip eateries, and even in commercials and tv shows around the world. Jazz heavy and soulful and always aiming for an edge that the underground heads could be proud of but just safe enough for the masses to handle it was the calling card of Guru and Premier. We haven't really seen a group champion jazz/soul like this duo has, and by the looks of heavy sample prices and the lack of jazz education and the fact that most of our jazz legends have passed away we probably won't ever see it again.

I miss my youthful days in the late 80's/90s when hip-hop was an artform that only a select few had access to and could actually grasp it's wisdom and innovation. THose were the days where you really felt like you were creating and were a part of something revolutionary, compared to todays "rap" music. I call it "rap" music because it no longer follows the blueprint of classic and even modern hip-hop being done by the underground, it seems that the trap sounds have trapped peoples minds and no one in the scene wants to take a risk and do something different it's the same ignorant unartistic trap flows over the same bpm and being controlled by in my opinion a bunch of fake mickey mouse rappers who need bodyguards to walk the streets. Basically proving the point of a hook from one of Gang Starr's tracks "fake mc's who always act hard but can't walk the street without a bodyguard".

In conclusion, i was recently at the Public Enemy Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Inductee show and Doug-E-Fresh was hosting and said what i've been thinking for a while... "I miss hip-hop GROUPS!" Me TOO Doug!! I miss the days where you got to see an actual hip hop band get on stage and do things as one unit. I'm tired of this being an individual thing being controlled by corporate marketing (being passed off as underground tastemaker blogs), and the L.C.D. (lowest common denominator) factor meaning that the more ignorant s**t you say the more your record sells or gets illegally downloaded.... and Chuck D mentioned about Hip-Hop NOT being done right and the art of putting on a good show is GONE and it's just one dude on stage sagging in skinny jeans popped up on mollys rapping over a his own backtracked vocals on his song (meaning he can't rock his own track without having the actual vocals played underneath because his performing skills are mad suspect) and on that note I'm calling out ALL THE WOMEN who call themselves hip-hop fans... you know these dudes are ignorant and bash women and talk down to you YET you continue to support these artists?? why?? because the beat sounds good?? See back in the golden age you had to have the hot beat AND smart lyrics and put on a GREAT SHOW!! and most women respond to the lyrical content of the day by saying "he's not talking about me!!" really ladies?? THAT's how you're gonna pass off and justify your terrible taste levels?? it's time for the ladies to step it up and start supporting REAL and TRUE music because being "RATCHET" is NOT a good thing... if it was then The !st Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters would be doing as you call it "Ratchet s**t" Step your music game up ladies and also to all my fellow black folks... START SUPPORTING SMART BLACK MUSIC!!! before hip-hop was invented Soul Train was setting the trends and Don Cornelius ONLY had on smart black music or artists who represented a soulful smart sounds, not dummies in smart jeans and with bad tattoos rapping about stuff THEY'VE NEVER DONE IN THEIR LIVES and how well you fit into a pair of skinny jeans. i need EVERYONE to step it up and start doing/supporting smart black music again I call on the ladies 1st because the fellas go where the ladies go and if the ladies are into smart black music than the fellas will MAKE themselves fans because they wanna be around the ladies.

Also DON'T say "oh you're just getting old and Don't understand" NO because I think that new Tyler The Creator "WOLF" album is AMAZING & that Jay-Z and Kanye stayed true to the blueprint of Hip-Hop on the "Watch The Throne" album & Kendrick lamar is on a good path but needs to stop f**king with drake and a few others who don't hold true to the og blueprint of hip-hop. ALSO all of the tons of other music genre's i listen to DON'T have this issue.... because they "get it" they keep it moving and progressive and forever changing for the better so WHY CAN'T HIP-HOP!!?? 

 okay enough of my ranting, i miss Guru of Gang Starr and i hope he's holding things down in the after world, we need more smart credible acts like Gang Starr and jazzmatazz in music... someone please resurrect the standards of The Golden Age of hip-hip!!! 

enjoy this Guru Tribute Set and feel free to share it with your friends. 

wishing everyone a great day and RIP GURU i miss you man! 

-Mr J-Logic