I’m still undecided on this girl, beat is cool and the song is definitely better than her older stuff. LA rap dudes making cameos is cool. I’m interested anyways. She’s got a show in SF the 27th, think I’m gonna peep and see whats up.
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Memphis Shit
7 Digit Boyz
going through some youtubes from last year
As a follow-up to recent postings on urban renewal and gentrification, here is a “found” flyer from a Chicago neighborhood I’ve heard described as “the Bushwick of Chicago.” As in: Latino, gentrifying. Pilsen is named for the Czech town of Plzen — Pilsner, a delicious type of lager beer is, too — because it was populated mainly by Czech immigrants in the early part of last century. As Czechs made a better life for themselves and probably moved out of the city to the suburbs, Chicago’s growing Latino population moved in.
I get the idea that “hipster” gentrification has a frontier mentality that can be quasi-racist, or just plain ignorant. But “hipsters” (I apologize for the scare-quotes, but I can’t write that word without them), like Latinos, just want a place to live. Their enemy is not one another, but a system and culture that would pit them against one another in this fashion.
Note: The Fillmore in San Francisco was Japantown before WWII. It was the biggest Japantown in the States, ever, if I’m not mistaken. The WWII war machine turned the Fillmore into the Harlem of the West: the Japanese were interned, Southern blacks came to the West looking for work with the Navy. I wish cities worked differently, but a static city is a dead one.
I don’t know much about Pilsen but this sounds a lot more like the situation in the Mission rather than the Fillmore.
Oh how I wish truckstop was still around. They were a group that rose from the ashes of the almighty New Kingdom. It was Sebastian and Scotty Hard’s project with some other dudes. All that ever came out of it was an EP that I have but man it was some dope shit. Slow banging distortion is my shit.
New Kingdom were so ahead of their time. Dudes where making this crazy shit in 1990, still doing it in early 00’s. I don’t know what they are doing now. last I heard Nosaj was still doing the Nature Boy Jim Kelly stuff in 09 but these days I don’t know. Hope they keep at it though, dudes got that style down so hard.
Mexico Or Bust
