The Longer March is underway. Pain indeed aint nothin but change, right fam? Cats whose rookie baseball cards I used to collect done passed away and I'm having conversations about hip-hop with kids who were born after Pac and Biggie passed ( Read more... )

February 24, 1986 Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos is ousted by the "EDSA Revolution," or People Power movement

February 24, 2006 Phillippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issues Proclamation 1017, thus declaring the nation in a "state of emergency," essentially ushering a new era of martial lawEither a dictatorship is just beginning, or ( Read more... )

bump donuts all weekend

track 10 hits hard

rest in peace, dilla

patience is a virtue, but waiting is an excuse. i remember. something about subverting cultural genocide. writing in lower-case to resist the oppressive nature of CAPITAL LETTERS! in retrospect, there never really was a safe space, except the one we collectively imagined. instead, all we had was 1. each other, and 2. the feeling that it wasn't ( Read more... )

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left side of my face moist with the champ's tears. like his father, he fights bedtime, only his battle cries are audible. like his father, he never sleeps supine, and perhaps we're both guarding our grills from something. when the words arrive, i'll miss playing this one-sided game of charades ( Read more... )

"A"

who leaked the EP?

"check yourself, q." - bishop ( Read more... )

Live from upstate new york. It's snowing and 25 degrees in Syracuse, NY. The DJs are wide asleep, crashed out after the 5 hour drive from Boston from 5am-10am EST. Every building on the Boston College campus looks like a cathedral. A DJ was hired to spin in the student union building food court at dinnertime. The wooden crucified Jesus at the ( Read more... )