This is dope..Tupac could seriously come back and be his own impersonator as much as people say they see him.

My father would have been 68 today, he past back in 2010. To pay homage to him and other great fathers alike I released a free EP called Fatherhood Dreamlovers Mix. Check out my favorite track from the EP below. Download link after the song…

Happy birthday to the greatest dad, from his only son.

Another legend has left us, may she now find some peace and freedom from her worldly troubles. She will be greatly missed.

1963-2012

CNN has confirmed today that the soul brother Don Cornelius is dead from an apparent suicide. Another black pioneer of music is gone. We thank you for your contributions sir.

Read some history on Don Cornelius at The Washington Post.

Jonesy and I have been building on a new project ever since we completed the Hood Stories remix project last year. Here is the first track that we decided to release from our new EP The Surface Under titled “Stranger.” I dedicate this track and project to my homie David Matthews who was violently shot down on June 18, 2011. Rest in peace homie. I miss you.

David Matthews

No need for a long intro to this – you cant say you love A Tribe Called Quest, Common, The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu and more without loving Dilla.

Watch the actual documentary in its entirey here: “J.Dilla: Still Shining”

Check out this audio of a debate regarding the advancement of the Black man between Malcolm X and James Baldwin back in ’63. In this debate Malcolm stresses the same points that he did when debating Martin Luther King in regards to not “turning the other cheek” but yet responding to the white man with the same force as they showed us at the time. This is the stance of the Malcolm X before he left the teachings of Elijah Muhammed. Baldwin takes a similar stance as King, he believed the world would not improve until all races could integrate and function together. Both men appear to genuniely respect each other’s views.

Quotes:

James Baldwin “We can no longer perish from bitterness and hatred.” “There IS distinction between power and equality. There is no distinction between power and freedom.” “The actual history of Negroes in this country .. is one of the ugliest histories in the west; and one of the most remarkable.”

Malcolm X  “Until the Black man here in America is connected or restablished or given some sort of knowledge of his existence prior to coming here to America, his own appraisal of himself will be so low that he’ll actually think that the white man is doing him a favor by letting him be here in America no matter what his status is.”

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Thanks to Marques for putting me on to this audio.