In my view the universe’s Hip Hop and Rap cultures need more balance as financial and not artistic interests have hijacked the various elements of theses cultures and even marginalized some of the key elements like graffiti and beatboxing…if folks are not ‘gettin paid’ some folks today feel the artists are not relevant.

I don’t see it that way and know that without the motivations bestowed into my consciousness and knowledge shared by a range of artists dating back to Afrika Bambaataa up to A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul and more recently via artists such as Little Brother…I am not sure what type of music I would have clung to and what type of indirect socio-culutral influences I may have gravitated towards in place of the music genre and social culture found in Hip Hop that I will be a part of until my last breath!!!

With that being typed, enjoy the reunion of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) as the legendary group Black Star…I wish I was there last night.

Until later,

Kwame Tumi

Posted in Hip Hop, history, Los Angeles, Music, pan-African, urban
Tagged Black Star, Classic, Hip Hop
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August 2, 2011

Throwback Videos (T.V.): The Home Coast: A Double Dose of Dopeness!!! [20 videos linked featuring Aceyalone, The Coup, Ice Cube, Del T.F.H., The Pharcyde, Hieroglyphics, The Nonce + Gabriel Teodros, Freestyle Fellowship & Loot Pack]

Throwback Videos (T.V.): The Home Coast: A Double Dose of Dopeness!!! [Aceyalone, The Coup, Ice Cube, Del T.F.H., The Pharcyde, Hieroglyphics, The Nonce]

Aceyalone – Human Language (no video, simply mind-blowing lyricism)

Aceyalone – High Lights (It’s worth one more click, parental advisory on this one!!!)

The Coup – Dig It

The Coup – Fat Cats and Bigga Fish

Ice Cube – True To The Game

Ice Cube – Why We Thugs

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – If You Must

Deltron 3030 – Things You Can Do

The Pharcyde – Jigaboo Time (one of the reasons I am into posting is that I learn and see so much that I had not known about prior to posting like the video below…learning on the daily, oh yeah and don’t be a ‘jigaboo’

The Pharcyde – 4 Better Or 4 Worse (the last segment almost made me not post the video yet I am not into censorship…just pro-’post experience’ discussion)

Hieroglyphics – Oakland Blackouts (short live video)

Hieroglyphics – Oakland Blackouts (no video yet full track!!!)

The Nonce – Mix Tapes (worth one more click!)

The Nonce – Bus Stops

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+ A West Coast head (Seattle to be exact) you may have missed, I did until a couple of years ago, no longer shall that be the case, thank me later!!! afrispora@gmail.com or hit me on facebook at Dontraneil and mention this MOVIESPORA.com post…

Gabriel Teodros -No Label (Esma Remix)

Gabriel Teodros ft Moka Only – No Label (Slow Movin’ Trains Remix) ~ No video yet I had to buy this version on iTunes instantly after one listen…silly how fresh this track is TIMELESS MUSIC for sure!!!

Gabriel Teodros – Third World Wide

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+ The Triple Bonus of Tracks below

Freestyle Fellowship – Cornbread/Freestyles @ Yoshi’s SF

Loot Pack – Whenimondamic

Hieroglyphics – At The Helm “…WE ALL AFRICANS…”-Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

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YEAH I KNOW this point is long…could be WAY LONGER!!!

Appreciate you all and I am sure it is mutual…until later,

K Tumi
www.globalspora.com/kwametumi.html

Posted in Aceyalone, Beats, Classics, Ethiopia, Hip Hop, history, Ice Cube, live, Los Angeles, Madlib, Music, Oxnard, pan-African, Politics, Seattle, urban, Videos, west coast
Tagged hip hop west coast
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August 2, 2011

Throwback Videos (T.V.) ~ ‘Gibraltar Stylie’: Lord Finesse, The Wascals, MC Lyte, Yaggfu Front, Common (Sense), LaQuan, Mos Def & Y.Z.!!!

ThrowBack Videos ~ ‘Gibraltar Stylie’:

Lord Finesse, The Wascals, MC Lyte, Yaggfu Front, Common (Sense), LaQuan, Mos Def & Y.Z. !!!

Hip Hop Planet

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“Gibraltar Stylie”: Fists of Gibraltar—reemergence is inevitable…!!!

Lord Finesse – Hip 2Da Game {Yeah I know, you have to watch on Youtube directly but it is worth, ‘just one more click’. I promise you!!!}

The Wascals – The Dips

(Album version)

MC Lyte – Cappucino

Yaggfu Front – Left Field

Common – Take It Easy

Laquan – Now It’s The B Turn

Mos Def – Umi Says

YZ- Thinking Of A Master Plan

Let me know what you all think of this post,

many thanks for connecting,

K Tumi

www.globalspora.com/kwametumi.html

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August 2, 2011

Better Late Than Never (B.L.T.N.) ~ Fi$hscale & Abstract Butta Fingas (A.B.F.) present 2 Tracks to download RIGHT NOW!!! Plus other dopeness but you can find that yourself :-)…you have been lead, now it is up to you to drink or not?!!!

My folks Plan 9 and his lovely spouse together and creative partner Liquyd known collectively as Fi$hscale put their feet in this remix of Drake’s “Say Something”
http://fishscale.bandcamp.com/track/say-something

http://www.myspace.com/fishscalejohnson

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ABF – Un petit Paix [A little Peace-translation by Kwame Tumi]
http://abfmusic.bandcamp.com/track/un-petit-paix

The Rise of the Elephant Kingdom, Abstract Butta Fingas

You may also want to buy some ABF as the album Daddy Daycare makes obvious http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-rise-elephant-kingdom/id367829863

Enjoy the other tracks while you are there and as always feedback is always welcome yet hardly received hahaha , when in your position I have to be ‘MOVED’ and not at work!!!,

Kwame Tumi (K Tumi)

http://www.globalspora.com/kwametumi.html

Posted in Afrobeat, Beats, Cincinnati, Hip Hop, Jazz, Los Angeles, modern, Nigeria, urban
Tagged Africa, beats, electronica, Hip Hop, Los Angeles
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July 23, 2011

‘Straight-Ahead’ Jazz Favorite!!!: Antonio Hart

April 28, 2011

Throw Back Videos: “We are spirits in the material world…”

Thanks for checking us out Kwame Tumi

Posted in Classics, Jazz, Music, Politics, Videos
Tagged Incognito, live, Mile Davis, music, politics, Sting
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April 21, 2011

Sleep On This At Your Own Peril (SOTAYOP): 3 tracks To DOWNLOAD NOW!!!

1) FishScale put their feet in this remix of Drake’s “Say Something”
http://fishscale.bandcamp.com/track/say-something

2) ABF ~ Un petit Paix [A little Peace~translation of title by Kwame Tumi ]
http://abfmusic.bandcamp.com/track/un-petit-paix

3) Verbs ~ Superhero prod . Cloud
http://verbs.bandcamp.com/track/superhero-prod-cloud

Give me some feedback folks and thanks for checking us out!!!

Until later,

Kwame Tumi

Posted in Hip Hop, Los Angeles, pan-African, urban
Tagged ABF, FishScale, salon culture today, Verbs
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March 25, 2011

Faat Kine (classic Ousmane Sembene film) topics: women, Islam, family, Senegal, ‘modernization’, male chauvinism, gender

A CULTURALLY FULFILLING AND EDUCATIONAL FILM!!!

Available in more permant formats here —> http://www.amazon.com/Faat-Kin%C3%A9-Venus-Seye/dp/B002O0LJWC :-)

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In Faat Kine, Ousmane Sembene, the unquestioned father of African cinema, calls his fellow Africans to a reckoning of the post-independence era at the beginning of a new century. At 77, he sums up 40 years of path-breaking filmmaking with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics and power in today’s Africa. Sembene accomplishes all this through the deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator born, significantly, the same year as Senegalese independence, 1960.

Faat Kine is, from its first shot to its surprising last, Sembene’s tribute to what he calls the “everyday heroism of African women.” In the opening frame, a procession of traditionally dressed women wends its way majestically through the hectic heart of modern Dakar. Faat Kine lets them pass and drives on as she carries their story into the present. Sembene has said: “Africa’s society and economy are held together today by women. But how can women have these responsibilities and yet be denied the same privileges as men?”

Although the film covers several days, it feels more like a single day in the life of Faat Kine – from learning of her children’s successful exam results in the morning to their party that night. This apparently uneventful plot is interspersed with brief flashbacks, announced by music cues, as Faat Kine recalls the struggles that made this moment of quiet achievement possible. Sembene dares in this latest film to reduce narrative to a minimum because Faat Kine is not so much a drama of events, as a drama of recognition, a long-overdue accounting which in its last scenes turns into a virtual public trial of a generation of misleaders.

Throughout the film, it becomes clear that traditional roles, between males and females, parents and children, no longer apply and that it is time to start calling things by their real names. For example, Mammy describes herself as the “daughter” of her daughter, Faat Kine; Djib recalls he always thought of his mother as his sister and he denies that his absent father has any right to call him his son; Faat Kine’s father disinherits her and cripples her mother.

Faat Kine joins a number of recent African films which use abusive, patriarchal relationships to symbolize the more general despoiling of Africa by a corrupt and ineffective (male) elite. Sembene may have first suggested this equation when the disgusted wife at the end of Borom Sarret leaves to earn the dinner money, probably by prostitution. By the time of Xala, El Hadji clearly represents a neo-colonialism scorned by his wives and daughter. In Moussa Sene Absa’s Tableau Ferraille Gagnesiri, the faithful, traditional wife sails away from Damm, her vacillating politician husband, representing grassroots Africa finally abandoning its often self-interested leaders to set is own course; one can even imagine her becoming the self-reliant businesswoman, Faat Kine.

During the flashback sequences, we learn that Faat Kine has been betrayed by all the most important men in her life. M. Gaye, her high school teacher, seduces her and then abandons their daughter, Aby, and her. Later a petty conman Boubakar Oumar Payane steals her savings and abandons their son, Djib, and her. The one male who can see clearly through all the hypocrisy is Faat Kine’s son Djib, described as a “lion,” an avatar of a new Africa. In the end, it is left to him to prosecute the men in her life, symbolizing perhaps that the younger generation will redress the injustices of Faat Kine’s. Many of the charges Djib hurls against the patriarchs were used by the opposition in the watershed Senegalese election of 2000 which ousted the post-independence regime for the first time. Djib is accused of being “un-African” because he refuses to show respect to his elders but he makes a crucial distinction by asking: whose Africa should he respect: the Africa of the corrupt patriarchs or of the hard-working common people like Faat Kine?

Posted in gender, Islam, modern, Senegal, urban
Tagged city, Dakar, development, Islam, modern, Senegal, urban
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MOVIESPORA

Connecting Ideas…Via Audiovisuals!!!

A Selection of Film and Documentary Links (Compiled on Behalf of GLOBALSPORA.com)

ThrowBACK Videos ~ Fu-Kurious-MF / Classic Hip Hop (Feb. Edition)

THEY’RE BACK ~ Black Star: And we are/I am so happy about it…

Throwback Videos (T.V.): The Home Coast: A Double Dose of Dopeness!!! [20 videos linked featuring Aceyalone, The Coup, Ice Cube, Del T.F.H., The Pharcyde, Hieroglyphics, The Nonce + Gabriel Teodros, Freestyle Fellowship & Loot Pack]

Throwback Videos (T.V.) ~ ‘Gibraltar Stylie’: Lord Finesse, The Wascals, MC Lyte, Yaggfu Front, Common (Sense), LaQuan, Mos Def & Y.Z.!!!

Better Late Than Never (B.L.T.N.) ~ Fi$hscale & Abstract Butta Fingas (A.B.F.) present 2 Tracks to download RIGHT NOW!!! Plus other dopeness but you can find that yourself :-)…you have been lead, now it is up to you to drink or not?!!!

‘Straight-Ahead’ Jazz Favorite!!!: Antonio Hart

Throw Back Videos: “We are spirits in the material world…”

Sleep On This At Your Own Peril (SOTAYOP): 3 tracks To DOWNLOAD NOW!!!

Faat Kine (classic Ousmane Sembene film) topics: women, Islam, family, Senegal, ‘modernization’, male chauvinism, gender

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