The Roots – Rising Down

The the 4th leaked track of the The Roots ‘Rising Down’ Album.  RD will be # 10 for legendary foundation, and thus far this album is shaping up to be, as my man ‘Dylan’ would say “Hot Fire!”.

click here to listen to: Rising Down (Hum Drum) feat. Mos Def, Dice Raw, & Styles P

(I’m going Ape Shit over this)

Album Cover:

Overseas!

Well for the past year and half I been boucin back and forth on the crisis that’s been going on in Darfur (Sudan-Africa).  If your not in tune into what’s going I encourange you to school your self on this issue. The topic is pretty hard to swallow, and kinda makes you feel guilty about the day to day shit we bitch and whine about, but its something that needs more attention from the media.

Below is a small excerpt of the most recent article to come from Time Magazine. Make sure you peep the entire article.

Among Darfur’s displaced, Ahmed’s story is a familiar one. Over the past five years, in countless villages across the region, civilians have borne the brunt of a war between government-backed militias known as janjaweed and rebels. Some 200,000 people are dead from violence, hunger and disease, and 2.5 million more are displaced. Although the conflict has no clear ethnic or religious lines, the janjaweed hail from nomadic tribes that identify themselves as Arab, and the rebels represent settled tribes usually labeled African. The plight of the Darfurians has received worldwide attention, with Hollywood stars like George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Don Cheadle taking up cudgels on their behalf. The crisis has also become a campus cause in the West, with students taking up collections, demonstrating and attending benefit concerts. Their cry is as simple as it is poignant: Save the Africans before the Arabs destroy them all.read the entire article here!