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Talib was on Colbert last night.  We’re a fan of both of them, but their interaction was kinda weird.  You can watch it here.  Kweli performed “Cold Rain” from Gutter Rainbows.

He also did do a web-only version of “Get By” which was much better, imo.  It’s not letting us embed, so here’s the link.

Free Mix CD, Cookies or Comas out now
The album is hosted by DJ Drama (A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition)
& features Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Styles P & Royce Da 5′ 9″

@JeanGreasy‘s Cake or Death Album Out This Fall

Track Listing:
1) Casebasket
2) R.I.P. (featuring Styles P and Talib Kweli)
3) Imagine
4) I Rock On
5) Uh Oh (from Talib Kweli’s Gutter Rainbows)
6) Live Up (featuring Talib Kweli)
7) Assassins (from Pharoahe Monch’s W.A.R. featuring Royce Da 5’9″)
8) Jeannie Rules
9) Blame Game
10) Killing ‘Em feat. Pharoahe Monch
11) You Don’t Like It (featuring scratches by Boogie Blind)

He says, “I had to put my favorite song from my Favorite Hip-Hop album of all time, Public Enemy’s, It takes a Nation of Millions to hold us Back. I miss the days when songs of substance were the norm in Hip-Hop. Public Enemy single handedly educated an entire Hip-Hop generation. Public Enemy was perfect, Chuck D’s militant lyrics and powerful preacher like voice, Flavor Flav’s hype and comic relief and the Bomb Squad’s manic soundscape of drums and samples. In this song Chuck defiantly states, “to understand my demands, I gave a warning…I wanted the governor ya’ll plus the Warden to know, that I am innocent because I’m militant. Posing a threat, you bet its fucking up the government.”

Gotta wish the dads out there a Happy Father’s Day, esp, Jason (GP & UP fam). He has been schooling his son, Siah, on the hip hop classics. I’m not sure I could say “Afrika Bambaataa” when I was 4, let alone identify something like “Looking for the Perfect Beat”!

Finally got a chance to catch up with Madukes this morning…she is busy as usual. She’s concentrating on a new project called,The Rebirth of Detroit, and very excited about the next round of scholarships for the J Dilla Foundation beginning July 1st.   She also mentioned that she’s going to have to pry Dilla’s MPC away from Illa J because it will hopefully be in the new African American Smithsonian set to open in the next year or so (this may be old news, but I was like, “WHAT?!”)

She’s been trying to get her social media on, so you can follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/officialmadukes or connect with her on Facebook.

Platurn just sent out this message:
Suppers famlay!

Made a video edit to a remix that I made a while back…
It’s funny, summertimey and on some feel good shit for the season.

Fish just added a few more animations from my upcoming “listen and learn” show. He says, “Today’s storytellers are: SNOOP, BRYAN COONS, MIKE GIANT, AND AESOP ROCK. big hugs and thanks to KAMP GRIZZLY for making these.”

Super excited to see this…
An official release date – Sept. 23, 2011 – has been set for the Kashmere Stage Band documentary Thunder Soul, presented by Jamie Foxx. Now-Again Records has had an important role in Kashmere Stage Band’s musical legacy, beginning with Stones Throw’s The Funky 16 Corners, compiling and releasing their anthology Texas Thunder Soul, on up through the promotion of the forthcoming documentary. Linkie to the ST page with some more music clips.

Fish says, “*Please take a minute to watch this teaser video for my upcoming art show “Listen and Learn” at the Joshua Liner Gallery. This is the first of five animations to help explain the concept, and reveal a bit of the content for this upcoming show. Special thanks to my super homies at Kamp Grizzly in Portland for all the hustle.”

See Fish’s complete story this month at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC. ‘Listen and Learn’ opens to the public Tuesday June 21st with an opening reception party on Thursday June 23rd from 6-9pm.