I’m playing at the Velvet Lounge on Halloween. Doors at 9 PM  - No cover
915 U Street, Washington, DC
The Gool City Halloween Party Featuring: Flex Mathews, Mr. 40, Doomer, Philyos, Vex Blizzy, Peace Justice Universal (DJ Eurok) and Dj V-Roc , free show, Knee Deep.
Expect to see some new solo material from yours truly. PEACE!

Before UpsetTheSetup became a blog it was a record label. Our first grand idea was to do a compilation album where the artists involved pitched in and covered all the production costs. That was UpsetTheSetup 1.0 and it never happened. New and improved UpsetTheSetup 2.0 is selling t-Shirts to cover printing and hosting costs and [...]

Voodoo Funk is a blog chronicling one digger’s “RECORD DIGGING IN WEST AFRICA SOUNDS AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE MOTHERLAND.” There are a number of mixes posted to the site. I’ve been enjoying “This Hustling World” for the past few days. Check it out. 

This mix by Aaron Sparks is pretty dope. I won’t get into the micro-genre details, but it is a minimal electro groove four to the floor thing…

Three of my favorite DJs are spinning at Science Club on Tuesdays - foday, dan cooper & franc rosario. Real deep crates, soulful styles. Check it!

Pentagon war-fighting doctrine is being reshaped accordingly to support a low-intensity world war of unlimited duration against criminalized segments of the urban poor.” - Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
Now if they could only drop a Whole Foods in Fallujah, build luxury condos and force those damned insurgents out in to the wide open suburbs…
Your neighborhood’s [...]

It took 21 years to reach fruition…

 
“In 2007, Hip Hop is corporate America’s QVC”- DJ Eurok
10/8/07 on The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU 88.5 FM)
Shout out to the pioneers! Thanks Russell!

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, American Indian activists denounce ‘celebration of genocide’ in Denver
Just so you know, we worked today. Fuck a Columbus.

I will be was a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU 88.5 FM Washington DC) on Monday October 8th at 12 PM. Justin Ross (D-PG County), Holly Bass, Kojo and I will be were discussing stereotypes and negative content in Hip Hop using Delegate Ross’ Washington Post editorial and my blog post written in [...]

Security guards do in the high school what the police do locally; what the military does globally.
UPSET THE SETUP

China did $2 billion worth of business with Burma last year alone and is its principal supplier of weapons. China’s ambassador at the United Nations blocked a Security Council resolution condemning the crackdown… Burma’s saffron-robed monks will join Darfur’s refugees in haunting the Beijing Olympics. - Washington Post Editorial 9.29.07
From Human Rights Watch
Burma: [...]

Please join us in our Meditation for Peace and Democracy in Burma on Thursday, from 5 - 8 pm, in front of the Burmese embassy at 2300 S Street, NW, in Washington, DC.
 
The meditation will focus on loving kindness, directed to:
 

Honor the Buddhist monks and nuns who have taken leadership to end oppression and hardship [...]

I’ve been seeing the DC Ballot Box - Your vote goes here stickers on trash cans around NW. I can assure you this is not an Upset The Setup project, but as soon as I get my hands on those stickers it will be! PROPS!
UTS!

This wasn’t exactly Selma and these brothers weren’t exactly the Scottsboro Boys.
Deborah Dickerson has a great post at Mother Jones breaking down the somewhat problematic issues around the Jena 6 movement. I had similar thoughts when I received word of a hastily organized and perhaps ill conceived walk-out scheduled for today. As a blogger who [...]

“Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about,” Hla Win said. “The bodies can be counted in several thousand.”
NY Times | Daily Mail UK
Upset The Setup! Non violence is the answer! The military junta of Myanmar/Burma will have to bear the Karmic costs of their actions, but they must be [...]

 
Daniel Brook’s The Trap explains the dilemma that I quickly observed after spending a weekend with old friends from college:
In today’s hyper-capitalist America, the basic touchstones of a middle-class life—health insurance, a quality education for one’s children, and home ownership, particularly within reasonable commuting distance of a metropolitan center—have become exorbitantly expensive. At the same [...]