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DC Militia Volume 1 - mixed by DJ Eurok, Featuring Head-Roc, Oddisee, Kokayi, The Package, Peace Justice, Wes Felton and more…

Throw your arms up!

Killer Mike sets it off. Pressure is high.

“Save the planet? Fuck that, save us damn it”

The part of me that likes iced green tea and egg sandwiches at all hours of the morning is elated. The part of me that hates crowds and yuppies making me wait in line for those things taking up tables to go on dates with their laptops is fired up.

Via Washington City Paper City Desk Blog: A Diner/Tryst Yoga Comedy: Plans for 14th and T Revealed

This is the building where that dope mural we blogged about months back is.

You ain’t gotta go to Baltimore…

Capitol Hemp
1802 Adams Mill Road, NW
Washington DC

Thats DC hip hop legend Head-Roc for the uninitiated.

Just got word of the debut record from DJ I-Dee - this should be really dope, I-Dee is hella skilled on the turntables. (If you need a late pass, I-Dee is a DMC-winning DJ from VA)

Glad to see TAMU on there, I was reading the features list all salty, like where’s the DMV represented? Its nice to see one of the DC scene’s finest on there. You know, the scene where people meet each other and build. You know, reality. DC HIP HOP.

Stone at The Couch Sessions has a great series of posts on his recent trip to peep the Montreal Jazz Fest. Definately check them out - the Public Enemy and De La Soul show reviews are great, and as always, he’s got an eye out for up and coming talent.

Keso’s always advocating Montreal for the breeze out - I may have to check it.

Stone - you need to pitch a hip hop traveler’s guide series!

I guess it is time to put this in the canon: Company Flow “Patriotism” 1999

“A proletariat crushing state of the union between serpentine words and mass confusion of media controlled blurb advertising disillusionment”

Superman that ho

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DC Hip Hop “Theater” Festival is back for 2008. Brought to you by AT&T (No Telco Immunity!) Full schedule here.

Oh, it must be the DC theater community’s alternative week. Capital Fringe Festival starts on Wednesday. Are they going to have all the performances by artists of color on the same night again this year?

Look, all these fire crackers got me worked up. We don’t celebrate this shit - we resist.

Leonard Peltier statement on the 2008 Ogala Commemoration. Via VoxUnion

We know the first concentration camps America ever had held Indian prisoners. The first biological warfare was used on our people with poisonous blankets. The first atomic bomb dropped was dropped on Indian land in Nevada. Today there are abandoned uranium quarries in Navajo country that cause genetic defects on a lot of their people. When you look into the past, America has used us Indians as their social experiment. They tried to destroy us with boarding schools, relocation, and even the first slavery practice was with American people. However Indian people would fight or commit suicide than to become slaves, and so they imported Africans.

In the spirit of crazy horse. UPSET THE SETUP.

I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!

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