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no this isn't me, but i did just lose my phone and this clip almost distracted me from it in an odd way...

part 2 of Wendy Day and Davey D

Want to know more about how labels rip off artists? Here's some more goodies.

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How to rob an artist

2 of my favorite people in hiphop just sat and chopped it up on some hustles and constructs being run in the music biz... Wendy Day, founder of The Hiphop Coalition and DaveyD, the man himself from the Yay.

Check it out. I just had to spread the word about this one as i chat with these folks on the regular.

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Raise your kids, corporate folks!

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FOR MY SEEDS...
Be a father to your child...
—Edo G. & The Bulldogs

I’ve met plenty of working parents over the years—women, men, single, divorced, execs, secretaries and such, all in the same struggle. And by and large, they always tried to put their families first. But I knew (and still know) entirely too many who are out there stacking 80-hour work weeks trying to make partner, get the corner office, the bigger title, etc. all in the name of “for the kids.” To all of them (and all of you) I say:

QUIT USING YOUR KIDS AS AN EXCUSE FOR YOUR CAREER CHOICES.

Koreans sell hiphop

KOREANS MAKE UNLIKELY PURVEYORS of HIPHOP FASHION
HERALD NEWS
ED BEESON

Yong Suk Kim doesn't know a thing about hip-hop. But she does know something crucial about the direction its fashion is taking.

"It used to be big and baggy," the 50-year-old Korean immigrant recently said. "Now they are getting a little smaller."

Kim is the co-owner of Dr. Sports, a downtown Paterson clothing store that specializes in urban fashion -- the colorful, imaginative and often luxury-priced gear made by street-savvy designers such as ENYCE, Pelle Pelle and Miskeen.

But the clothier does not look the part. Clad in a cardigan sweater and imbued with gentle politeness, Kim possesses a grace that does not mesh with rap's rough edges. The speakers in her store pound hip-hop music from the radio station Power 105.1, but she said that in the 20 years since she and her husband opened this shop, she still does not understand rap, its rambunctious beats or slang-heavy lyrics.

regrets: i'll share mine if you share yours.

It's still early in the year, early enough for reflection. The difference between reflection and living in the past is dwelling---looking back to the point that your feet follow your eyes... I'm trying to do that less and less. But every now and then...

There's a couple things i'd change bout last year.

1)I forgot some important dates to other people.

2) somebody close to me passed away and i wasn't there for her last words.

3) i got into about 4 bad arguments with the one person who i hate arguing with more than anything.

4) i let criticism from people who don't care about me bother me way too much...

5) i sold some stuff i shouldn't have sold...

6) i didn't pray enough--especially when things were going good. (anyone can pray when life sucks. it's when it doesn't that's when god wants to hear from you most.)

Okay, your turn. What's your regrets? And what are you gonna do to keep 'em from happening again this year?

Without Black Folks...

Here is a little something I got from my mom—she’s cool to send me stuff like this. Feel free to check and research the facts yourself—they’re true. A little bit of education to enlighten us all. Stuff you won’t (surprisingly) learn in school…

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Where Would We Be Without Black Folk?
By: Anonymous

This is a story of a little boy name Theo who woke up one morning and asked his mother, Mom, what if there were no Black people in the world?

Well his mother thought about that for a moment, and then said, "Son, follow me around today and lets just see what it would be like if there were no Black people in the world. Now go get dressed and we will get started.

Good & Bad Hair: 2007

Kiri Davis , a 17-year old high school student, produced one of the more stunning docs in my opinion, at least in recent memory. It's based on the 1950s Baby Doll experiment where little black kids were given a choice between a black/african american toy doll and a white/caucasian one and asked to place value judgements on the doll--which is prettier, smarter, more civilized, etc.

Invariably, over 80% of the black kids picked the white doll as being the smartest, prettiest, etc. and went so far as to note that whites were just better.

Kiri Davis did a similar doc a few weeks back. Here's what she found. It's causing a national stir.

HONOR AMONG THIEVES, Part 6

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Like the drug game, fast food’s also a commodity hustle—quality goes out the window when it comes to commodities. It’s about value meals, over a bazillion served, and convenience. If you want cheap food for the masses it’ll be made cheap, sold cheap, and probably taste cheap. When you consider Pizza Hut, Outback, TGI Fridays, KFC, Taco Bell, BK, Wendy’s, and the rest, you’re talking about thousands of outlets serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide each day. The price-points, competition, and barriers of entry alone force them to use cheaper (and consequently less healthy) ingredients just to compete and grow.

Rass Kass: Still A Slave

Here's a little gem... An opened letter from Rass Kass, underground hiphop legends. He of Soul on Ice, RassKassination, etc. He and others have long compared the record insutry to pimps slave system, etc. Truthfully, it's more like sharecropping. All legal. All ethical. Little moral. Very little of it is moral.

What stuns me is how many artists continue to play the game and sign such awfu,l awful contracts. It's like seeing oncoming traffic and then just running out into it, then complaining afterwards about getting hit.

Still, here's Rass and his lawyers take on things, courtesy of my man, Davey D.

Last hired, first fired... Sony axes Blacks

SONY BMG AXES BLACKS ONLY: Label found to have discriminated in layoffs.
(January 10, 2007)

*Sony BMG, which is home to artists like Beyonce and Christina Aguilera, was recently found to have discriminated against its Black employees in its Manhattan office during layoffs in 2004.

The company went through a merger and restructuring in the summer of 2004 and the New York office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found the company guilty of discrimination against its Black employees. The EEOC found that the six Blacks in its Manhattan office were issued pink slips, but none of their white counterparts. The only black worker that remained was a mail clerk. Of the six Blacks fired, three accepted severance packages and three were asked to leave "involuntarily." None of eight whites and one Asian at the office were given the ax.

This ruling gives former field marketing rep Tamieka Blair, 32, the right to sue Sony BMG, saying she "was the victim of race discrimination."

Blair, who introduced new releases to Long Island music stores, told The New York Post she loved her $31,000-a-year job. She went on to explain that she initially accepted her layoff after a boss told her "it was just a numbers game." But once the workers who were fired compared notes with each other, "we realized it was all the black people," she said.

Sony BMG maintains that it based its layoff decisions on job performance, but the EEOC said the company had "no documented procedure for determining who the best players were," and "lacked performance standards."

Ms. Blair, via lawyer Mitchell Carlinsky, will file suit this week in Brooklyn federal court holding the company accountable.

CGM? What consumer-generated media?!

In hilariously bogus ad industry folks fashion, here's yet another self-absorbed fraud being passed off as innovation. The NFL should stand for NOT FRIGGIN' LEGAL for this little hustle. Check it out:

BILLS AN AD WINS SUPEBOWL SLOT
Gino Bona's concept for a humorous Super Bowl ad will be made into a TV commercial.

By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY

A fan has made it into the Super Bowl lineup — of commercials, that is — with his idea for an ad promoting the National Football League.

Gino Bona, 33, was one of 1,700 fans who auditioned concepts at stadiums this fall. Today, the NFL will announce that his is the idea it will make into a 30-second commercial to air during the Feb. 4 Super Bowl telecast.

Bona, director of business development for a Portland, Maine, marketing firm, says he tapped into his own "pathetic emotions" for the idea: a tongue-in-cheek take on the heavy heart fans have when the NFL season ends.

"I think NFL fans are like me," says Bona, a Buffalo native and Bills fan. "We get depressed when we think about what Sundays are going to be like for the next six months."

His ideas for ad images include a foam No. 1 finger slowly being stowed in a closet, a New England Patriots' fan sadly washing off his face paint and a group of game-watchers getting a season-long bar tab of $6,000. He proposed the Boyz II Men song It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday as the soundtrack.

The NFL held ad auditions during the season at the stadiums of the New York Giants, the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos. A jury of NFL executives and players, plus ad professors, picked 12 finalists.

Fans were then invited to view finalists' pitches online and pick a favorite.

"We wanted the fans to be engaged throughout the entire process," says NFL marketing head Lisa Baird.