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Politics / Re: Understanding the Libyan Uprisings

« on: May 16, 2011, 01:35:50 PM »

The sad thing though is that one has to wonder if all these uprisings in the Arab world will lead to democracy. 

This provides some insight into that: http://www.thelager.co.za/2011/02/07/is-the-turmoil-in-egypt-a-cry-for-democracy/

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General Discussion / Re: Holidays or Ho-lidays

« on: June 24, 2009, 10:35:31 AM »

Well, actually Christmas is just a dressed up version of a Roman Pagan festivel dedicated to the Sun God. After the Christian church was established they thought it would be easier to convert people if they were allowed to still celebrate their pagan holidays while pretending that they are Christian festivals.

Hence, the drinking and orgies that were commonplace on the day carried on and were just renamed. So don''t feel too bad. You are actually celebrating christmas in its truest form by getting drunk and having unprotected sex with a random person.

as for Women's day and the rest, these are just days that some fool felt was a good way to get time off and also make money by hosting various events and selling overpriced goods to the sheeple who buy these kind of things. Example: Valentine's day.

How does standing in a packed stadium next to some dude who hasn't washed in days and still smells like last night's booze and vomit, while listening to some overpaid, fatnecked, politician rant about poverty before climbing back into his R900 000 Benz do anything to improve our conditions or bring back those who died in the struggle?  I think those people would rather you be happy and having fun.


So, instead of writing long articles criticising those who choose to have fun and enjoy their day off, try joining them and you will be a much happier person.

I in fact also engage in 'unfiltered' activity on holidays, Im not an innocent in this.   My question was rather on why should we even bother put a label on these days ... we can just call them days-off .. at least that will make some of us feel less guilty when we guzzle beer on the day (June 16) on which so many of our compatriots lost their lifes, for instance ...

If we didnt call the 25th of December x-mas, mothefukkers wouldnt expect gifts and sh*t, no one would expect large scale-a** family dinners (that leave us broke), and my mother wouldnt expect that I visit home .. if we just called it a day-off, we would be free to drink in peace ...

..and as for Valentines: the male species wouldnt fear that day so much if it was just another day ... I would just buy my chick TV Bar as usual, not that sh*t I cant even pronounce - Ferreira Rouche? (I cant even spell it)..

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General Discussion / Holidays or Ho-lidays

« on: June 23, 2009, 01:41:01 PM »

Do you guys feel that as RSA peeps, especially the youth, we understand the meaning of our Holidays?  Even how we celebrate them!?  I personally dont think that we understand what we are supposed to do on holidays - maybe the only holiday that people (some) do understand and celebrate accordingly is Easter.  Every other holiday is just really a day-off, nothing more.  Even Xmas.  In the 'hood x-mas is really a serious drinking day for adults, and dress-up day for kids.  In the 'burbs x-mas is a serious drinking day for the adults, and Santa day for the kids. I doubt that anyone remembers that its supposed to be Jesus' birthday.

What are we supposed to do exactly on Human Rights Day? Women's Day? Except of cause going to a bash - I've started to see announcements of Women's Day bashes all over the place already...    For some days - June 16, April 27,etc, the government seems to lead the way in properly celebrating them - as ordinary peeps we hardly give a damn, except of cause drinking.. 


I've written a whole treatise on this holiday dilemma, if you are interested:
http://www.streetsheet.co.za/views/2009/06/14/holidays-and-ho-lidays/

Phil O'Good

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General Discussion / Re: Your Ideal Job

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:29:18 PM »

professional weed farmer in Switzerland or Canada ... winning the world's weed farmer of the year award .. and then giving back to the community by starting action committees for, amongst other things, pushing for the prize of Rizzla to go down ... starting a bail fund for people caught in possession of weed ... starting a bursary scheme for taking weed sellers in SA to business school (they can do with improved business acumen)...

damn muf***er! is u on some marxisim or leninism shit?  shit nigger u caught up on them cornmaize and sorghum shit, u wanna be a farmer?? nigga out of al these lucrative jobs and commercial succesful jobs u wanna be a god damn farmer?this is the reason why god rejected earth focused on other planets, some muf***ers are just preocupied with nonsense

you better off jobless nigger, how u gon want to become a seed farmer, take your moralities and good values and get the f*** out of africasgateway.com my ninja!!!! 

Your lack of sense of homour is shocking!!!!  

by the way, farming can be very lucrative ...  do you know that we are experiencing a shortage of food in the whole wide world??  since you mentioned commercial - - in commercial terms, activity is driven by supply and demand ...  where these two meet, a price is set for a specific product or service ..  if there is more demand then there is supply, as is currently the case with food, the price can be very high - ie, whatever it is that you are selling in such a situation can be very lucrative... hence my choice of career..

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General Discussion / Re: Did you know???

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:21:32 PM »

Did you know how much guess work you have to do when you are trying to tell people what they dont know..??  Its a lot ... its hard to know what people know and what they dont know .. first you have to guess their level of ignorance, and maybe intelligence too ... and then guess which story or fact is so obscure enough that motherfukkers would not be aware of it ... Im getting tired just trying to do that ..

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General Discussion / Re: BLACKOUT! 2 MEF and RED

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:16:59 PM »

Meth and Red cant make a cla**ic with Dre, Premier, Ninth Wonder and Pete Rock producing their album ...  These guys have been making shitty solo albums for the past 8 years or so ... thats a fricking long time to be dropping wack ish ... 

How on earth do you guys expect these two to make a cla**ic together ... last I checked shit + shit = double the shit..

Meth has only one wack solo album,just forgot it's name. Tical 2000 was banging too.

Meth has never made a tight solo album ... even the first Tical had like 3 nice songs .. the Prequel was shitty ... Judgement Day (Tical 200) was wack - the lyrics were nice though....

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General Discussion / Re: Your Ideal Job

« on: May 22, 2009, 11:03:39 AM »

 professional weed farmer in Switzerland or Canada ... winning the world's weed farmer of the year award .. and then giving back to the community by starting action committees for, amongst other things, pushing for the prize of Rizzla to go down ... starting a bail fund for people caught in possession of weed ... starting a bursary scheme for taking weed sellers in SA to business school (they can do with improved business acumen)...

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General Discussion / Re: BLACKOUT! 2 MEF and RED

« on: May 22, 2009, 10:57:06 AM »

 
Meth and Red cant make a cla**ic with Dre, Premier, Ninth Wonder and Pete Rock producing their album ...  These guys have been making shitty solo albums for the past 8 years or so ... thats a fricking long time to be dropping wack ish ... 

How on earth do you guys expect these two to make a cla**ic together ... last I checked shit + shit = double the shit..

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General Discussion / Re: The Recession

« on: May 18, 2009, 10:02:18 AM »

I see no one has mentioned any SA artists that were living large and are now broke!!  Our artists live near the poverty line .. so recession or no recession, we stay struggling..

PS:we must remember that some of these overseas artists have been getting bankrupt and having their ish repossed without there being a recession ... remember Toni Braxton?..Scott Scorch also got broke when there was no recession ... I guess he happy now that many people have joined the disgraced crowd - he can hide behind the economy now... ... one advantage of this whole debacle is that we might see a drop on BALLIN' songs ... dudes might even go back to wearing one chain at a time again! and on grills, one gold tooth will do, South African style!

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General Discussion / Re: Lack of Professionalism in Hip Hop

« on: April 21, 2009, 09:46:28 AM »

i just shake my head when i hear such complaints, if u talking about the proffessionalism and genuity of the rap game then u have to be talking about the ninenties, other than that, there aint no other.

the fact that no one cares about rap is because rap fans demean the music themselves, u go around saying these discouraging things about hip hop and the end of the day you expect people to positively repsond to it, u must f***ing kidding me, i may be out of the thread topic but i just think that this is the right thread for to post this, i needed to say this, f*** if u think im being paranoid, just let alone rap music as it, im out of its lack of proffessionalism something good will come out of it and at the end of the day well be celebrating.

Dude, are you saying we are demeaning Hip Hop by raising pertinent issues that need to be resolved!?  Sounds like Zimbabweans in the late 1990s when they felt they couldnt raise issues about Mugabe coz it would give their country a bad name .... and look what happened there eventually ....   you cant expect to keep a lid on bad things, and then, boom, somehow out of the blue good things will come out of them...

I dont remember that SA Hip Hop was so professional back in the 90s ... professionalism has nothing to do with ingenuity, even a talentless person can have act professionally .. its just courtesy and carrying yourself in such a way that other people dont get inconvinienced by your behaviour..

O

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General Discussion / Re: Lack of Professionalism in Hip Hop

« on: April 16, 2009, 01:13:09 PM »

yo mr c or philospher...if you asked me to do an interview and i pitched up late....would you want to continue?..cause thats disregard for you and your times and efforts to make the ish happen...

It would be easy to tell the dude who pitched late to stuff it ....  But in most cases its a bit complicated when you are still coming up ... say you got this little website thing going and you post new artist interviews weekly or so ..  firstly, you need the interview badly and getting another one will mess with your deadline ... secondly, the artist in question might be a bit biggish, and you know were have very few of those in SA Hip Hop, so you kinda have no choice coz you know MC Such and Such will attract readership to your site and you have little in the form of alternative..

I actually think the fact that there are very few big stars in the game makes some of them kind big-headed..  Coz if it were house and DJ X is frontin', you would get DJ Y instead ... but in Hip Hop if HHP is frontin', how many other crowd-getters are you left with?  **No diss on HHP, just making the point practical**

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General Discussion / Lack of Professionalism in Hip Hop

« on: April 16, 2009, 11:17:22 AM »

Pls don’t take this to be a generalisation.  But damn, there is a serious lack of professionalism in how some people conduct themselves in the game. 

From shows that start 3 hours late, and to make it worse, without any explanation being given.  Dudes that give out demos in CDs that have no cover, no labelling, nothing.  Engineers that mix your song for so long you don’t even remember what the song was about.  Emcees that show up 2 days late for an interview, without bothering with an explanation.  What about when an artist is on a bill to perform on a show, but he/she never performs, and no one bothers to explain? 

Has anyone come across any annoying instance of a lack of professionalism?

I wrote a whole angry essay about this, check: http://www.streetsheet.co.za/views/2009/04/06/for-the-sake-of-hip-hop-lets-be-professional/

Peace

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General Discussion / Re: TIP

« on: April 14, 2009, 09:48:05 AM »

With few days to go before T.I going to prison. Do you think he would have gone to prison if it was here and was a South African with them Weapons charges.Im saying this cause some people i know in our communities are getting away with murder,Lost dockets,the Justice System being manipulated and shit.

I think he would definately go to prison if his docket didnt get lost .. in fact in SA you are more screwed if you are a showbiz personality ... remember Mzwakhe Mbuli?  In SA we believe in show trails - I guess its coz we dont arrest enough of the ordinary criminals, so when we get a celebrity on the dock we make sure his behind gets fried and make an example out of him

 .. for political celebrities, depending on who they roll with, its a bit complicated .. but they would never loose a docket for a high profile person - that would be a high profile screw-up..

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General Discussion / Re: Weezy F Baby

« on: April 14, 2009, 09:38:18 AM »

I dont think any artist should just be measured on the amount of stuff they've put out, but rather on the quality - and of coz, on how the ppl receive it...

Wayne has had 2 albums that meet the above criteria ... and none on them have had the type of impact that All Eyes on Me, for instance, has had on the people.  Weezy still doesnt have his equivalent of monster album like Doggystyle, Ready to Die, Illmatic or even a Reasonable Doubt ... the Carter 2 might reach that status, but that is yet to be seen..

I'm sure he does, I just haven't heard it. We can't expect every artist to be the same, how old is this cat anyway?

With him being this famous right now if has ever released any dope album it would be known... the Carter 2 is his best in my opinion..

Age doesnt matter if you have been in the game as long as Wayne has been .. this guy is 26 or so, and he has been from when he was 15 or some ish like that ..    Nas made Illmatic when he was still a teenager, same as Biggie when he made Ready to Die ...  remember that those were they first albums also...

What has been interesting about Wayne is his hunger and ambition ... I mean dude was wack when he first came out, he pulled himself together and now he is where he is at ... his work ethic is nothing to be messed with..

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General Discussion / Re: Weezy F Baby

« on: April 07, 2009, 10:05:22 AM »

I dont think any artist should just be measured on the amount of stuff they've put out, but rather on the quality - and of coz, on how the ppl receive it...

Wayne has had 2 albums that meet the above criteria ... and none on them have had the type of impact that All Eyes on Me, for instance, has had on the people.  Weezy still doesnt have his equivalent of monster album like Doggystyle, Ready to Die, Illmatic or even a Reasonable Doubt ... the Carter 2 might reach that status, but that is yet to be seen..