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General Discussion / Re: Jay-Lee VS Wildcandy

« on: September 16, 2008, 05:09:10 PM »

^neither did you.

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Hot Traxxx / Re: B Sharpa - Ben Sharpa - The Official Thread

« on: September 16, 2008, 02:45:44 PM »

Kap has been concentrating on writing recently,,, and he trusted me to lace him with that robot army shit

ha ha. no doubt  .

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Hot Traxxx / Re: Bread and Butter - Rattex - The Official Thread

« on: September 16, 2008, 02:39:55 PM »

word. but surely there's a better a hook up for cape town peeps?   mabu vinyl, maybe?

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Hot Traxxx / Re: Bread and Butter - Rattex - The Official Thread

« on: September 16, 2008, 02:25:44 PM »

D, are you gonna host launches for these joints or are they going straight to the shelves? if so, where?

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Hot Traxxx / Re: B Sharpa - Ben Sharpa - The Official Thread

« on: September 16, 2008, 02:07:01 PM »

ill! looking forward to this. yo D, how come Kaptin ended up lacing the production on only two full-length joints? not disapproving, just asking.

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General Discussion / Re: Meaning of black consciousness for today's youth

« on: September 16, 2008, 12:47:17 PM »

you have to be careful not to fall into the anachronistic pitfalls of these things. contextualise your arguement within the present. black consciousness was a movement which gained its ground predominately in the '60s and '70s. by the '80s it was already under attack by some of our most revered intellectuals and writers (see: Njabulo S. Ndebele). these criticisms were not completely unwarranted and should be looked in to. anyway, it is now 2008. should the youth not draw from black consciousness and create something new instead of attempting to emulate it in a completely different circumstance? while i see the validity of your sentiments, your approach strikes me as somewhat counter-productive to what i think you're trying to achieve. taken to its extreme it's elitist, snobbish, and ageist. it suggests an all-knowing presence that should slap the wrists of the youth and put them in order, while not evaluating the situation holistically. counter-culture no longer exists without relation to the mainstream. so instead of attempting to extract the youth from participating in it (unlikely) it's better to encourage them to work within the mainstream and then, ultimately, traverse beyond it. what i mean is why not integrate intelligence within revolutionary chic? make reading texts as fashionable as printed t-shirts and dreadlocks. maintream culture offers a plethora of other 'sub-cultures'; you need to ask yourself the following: why of all of them, does a part of the youth fall into this "pseudo-revolutionary infatuation"? is there not smoke there which could, some day, and with the right nurtuting, lead to fire? the youth will always be captivated with the current (by the way, revolutionary chic has been on its way out for a while now) and the cool. otherwise the advertising industry would fall and even toddlers would stop wailing for sweets at supermarkets. there would be no short-hand national consciousness as we're seeing and hearing now on our tv's and radio's: a conglomeration of black colloquial: "yebo", "eish", "jozi", "kwetsa", "ma ten ten", "makoya" etc. lulling us into countless aisles to buy shit we don't need because it re-inforces our indentities as "south african". what i'm saying is that the advertising industry, especially for the youth, is more of a formidable and influential force than our government. you or i cannot do anything about that at the present moment. so instead of wagging fingers at the consequences, let us evaluate the cause and seek out ways to work within its confines. let us allow the youth to dabble on the surface of things, on the commodities. it is up to those who know to surreptiously plant things that will lead to illumination beneath the accessories.

on a side note, even you do not provide a full enough account of black consciouness to spur off your arguement. you present it as a ready-made, self-evident, ahistoric thing, supported by two quotes in sound-bite format. you are able to do this only because of commodification, and as a result you end up coming across like the very people you're putting under fire.


sorry if this sounds a bit glib. i'm mad tired, yo.

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Movie Talk / watchmen, anyone?

« on: September 15, 2008, 06:47:41 PM »

hands down the dopest graphic novel i've ever read. some kid put me onto this shit a while back, but i been fast asleep till now. the format this is in is jpeg. it might seem a bit tedious - you, know, e-reading - but it's well worth it. especially if you've never heard of this shit. Alan Moore (The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, Lost Girls) is one of the most insightful and creative anarchist writers working today. and he downright f***s with the form of the graphic novel. don't believe it? then peep this shit:

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Politics / Re: Zuma Case

« on: September 12, 2008, 12:32:54 PM »

take care of yourself and those you love; let the rest of the fools fill themselves up with hollow tips. they'll learn soon enough. today, the weather's dope. ima 'bout to toke something, grab a brew, and head off to the Pan African Space Station. lose myself in the swirl of some seriously pounding shit!

p.s.

wonder what the next Zapiro's gonna be.

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Politics / Re: Zuma Case

« on: September 12, 2008, 11:52:29 AM »

^this is true, but i think at this point it's gone beyond just being a socio-political issue. something is brewing in the national consciousness. something unsightly, of which Zuma is being consolidated as the symbol. think about it, people generally harbour a deep-seated mistrust for politicians. if it's not that then its indifference or conscious self-delusion (due to experience: they never deliver). he is rich; they are poor; and yet they would kill for him? they lament the incompetence of his party, and yet they tear shit apart in his name. what's really going on here? what is the link, the point of relation, between  Zuma and his supporters? what does he really mean to them; what does he really stand for?

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General Discussion / Re: steve biko memorial lecture

« on: September 12, 2008, 09:45:38 AM »

^yeah Trevor's a straight shooter and i admire that. always got a practical objective: always raring to go. but they really need to stop talking over bantu's grave. this fetishization, above all else, is what repels me from these gigs. his name mostly gets used as a footnote to spur off some shit that's completely divergent (not opposite) to what he was on. anyway, i digress.

BHLAKHROZE, are the Blk Jks going to be playing at Mowbray Hall or is it just Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band? heard whispers...

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General Discussion / Re: Shocking stuff

« on: September 11, 2008, 07:19:56 PM »

once took a seminar on HIV journalism and media. the gig was to basically a**es why the efforts to desseminate (no pun intended) awareness had thus far been so ineffective. of course, the usual target, LoveLife, was the first to be taken down on the basic pricinciple of its lethargy. we started seeing that the information was out there, and not only that, it was f***ing drowning us. and still, after extensive research, we reached the conclusion that absolutely f*** all helped. not the inane TV ads, not the billboards, not the journal entries, not your parents, not your friends, not whomever you're f***ing: nothing. you see, the attitude of 'aware' young people is, at most, a very hypocritical one. they still individualize themselves and live in their own little universes where a falt in judgement can always be met with a second chance and a justification: 'they look clean', 'i'll wait for three months but i'm sure i'm cool', 'not in my age range', 'it's been a year and she still walkin'', and -my personal favourite - f*** it who wants to live for that long anyway. the thing is, every note of warning, shock or whatever expressed in this thread is bullshit. we've been knowing what you're saying. you've been knowing what you're saying. 'guys watch out' 'use condoms' 'it's shocking', stats, blah blah blah bullshit. say something else. get involved with what you're saying. make it stick. don't recite a f***ing pamphlet. throw up some cadavers: how did your uncle look when he begged the family to commit suicide because he couldn't live with shitting himself at the dinner table? your athletic father when he shrunk to half your size and had to look up to face you? mother locking herself up and hiding from the neighbours' remarks only to get wheeled out into full view as a corpse. playing with your baby cousin who laughs as if the shit isn't gonna cull her before her 10th birthday. say some shit. make us feel something. other than that it's just another addition to AIDS fatigue: in the one ear, out the a**hole.

and by the way, as enlightened as we were at the end of the seminar, the instructor asked us to tear off a piece of paper and answer Yes or No to the question of ever having had unprotected sex. the pieces of paper were all put in a hat and shaken to ensure complete anonymity. she read them out on our final day. i wasn't surprised to find out everyone had answered Yes, and how it was okay because we all knew shit, and walked around saying everything that's been said in this thread.

i know ya'll are more complex than this.


p.s.

the following statement and those who express it are exempt from what i just said:



[ra** ka**]best believe it's man made[/ra** ka**]

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Humour / Jokes / shocking?

« on: September 11, 2008, 07:17:23 PM »

yo sorry about this. refer to page three of "Shocking stuff" by that Bobby dude.
  

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General Discussion / Re: steve biko memorial lecture

« on: September 11, 2008, 06:16:19 PM »

^pretty much the reason im pa**ing on this right now. dope signature pic by the way, man. i dig it. and yo Naturelle! thanks for the heads up. definitely making my way over there. who knows, i might even get to meet Stacy Hardy.

in person. 

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General Discussion / Re: Hate That

« on: September 07, 2008, 01:39:03 PM »

anyone else finding it hard to get into the new bloc party?

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General Discussion / Re: tiny things i hate

« on: August 06, 2008, 10:38:08 AM »

Nope, the girls are materialistic and the guys are full of crap. Must say though they are very driven but they have really bad attitudes. Yes I'm generalising but I'm fine with that.

ha ha! this bullshit is so contrived it's actually true! i'd extend it to bitches and black people in general though. damn bantu education and rubber-a**ed ad execs! you're ruining my people!