warm blooded beats

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:50:50 GMT

Lauryn Hill "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" (1998)

The first solo album by the Fugees' most distinctive voice quickly wipes away the pretensions of so many current hip-hoppers' discs. It does so by both engaging their widescreen ethos--"To Zion," with its martial drums and gospel choir, is as epic a production as has been heard in 1998's pop music--and speaking the plain truth. Reminiscent in its scope of nothing so much as Aretha's early-'70s Spirit in the Dark and Young, Gifted and Black, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill also easily earns its late-'90s place next to Erykah Badu's Baduizm. Even more personal, if hardly any more political, than cohort Wyclef Jean's Carnival, Miseducation focuses equally on her life (especially the birth of her child) and social concerns about the present and future. Its often quiet surface, if anything, lends intensity. "Everything you drop is so tired," she scolds artistically dead-ended rappers on "Superstar"; if more artists shared her vision, occasional eccentricities and bottom-line talent, she wouldn't have to complain. - Amazon.com

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:43:10 GMT

Yayyyy I am really happy to see this community taking off so quickly and smoothly. More posts on Mammalbeatz in the last few hours than on mammalexchange all day.:)

first a request, then some albums

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:10:40 GMT

can i get some:
Doseone
Cadence Weapon
Rye Rye
or any Crime Mob?

or just your favorite girl MCs

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:13:52 GMT

Deltron - Deltron 3030
(Mp3, Zipped, Mediafire)

"Awesome album. Not particularly socially significant, but if you dig deep enough, some very modern social metaphors will reveal themselves. This is basically a sci-fi themed rap album about a dystopian future. Very comical and wordy on the part of Del Tha Funky Homosapien, and Dan The Automator does some of his very best work here. A classic in underground hip hop." - Me

1 State of the Nation (:25)
2 3030 (7:29)
3 TheFantabulous Rap Extravaganza(:21)
4 Things You Can Do (4:59)
5 Positive Contact (4:42)
6 St. Catherine St. (:43)
7 Virus (4:26)
8 Upgrade (A Brymar College Course) (4:10)
9 New Coke (:41)
10 Mastermind (3:34)
11 National Movie Review (:53)
12 Madness (4:38)
13 Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch (4:59)
14 Time Keeps on Slipping (:49)
15 TheNews (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.) (3:33)
16 Turbulence (Remix) (:36)
17 TheFantabulous Rap Extravanganza, Pt. 2 (:37)
18 Battlesong (4:07)
19 Love Story (:31)
20 Memory Loss (3:26)
21 TheAssmann 640 Speaks

Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:17:15 GMT

Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
1. The Buzz Kill
2. Sea Lion
3. Gunz Yo
4. Excape Artist
5. Product Placement
6. Voice Mail Bomb Threat
7. Dance Monkey
8. Sun vs Moon
9. Agony In Her Body
10. Crumble
11. Ground Control
12. Lie Detector Test
13. Bridle
14. Slow Down Ghandi
15. Jah Didn't Kill Johnny

For Fans of: Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali

"Music that makes your booty shake!"

response

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:18:28 GMT

i have responded personally to the last post, but i would also like to post (publicly) my feelings on the subject matter:

i truly and deeply apologize if you have been offended by the layout, quotes, etc. but i feel that you have made some rash and hurtful judgements about us as individuals. i obviously have a very different viewpoint of hip hop as music than you do. that doesn't mean i am lower or lesser, it simply means i am different from you. i am not going to claim to know anything at all about hip hop culture, lifestyle, etc. anything i do know has been learned by simply observing, studying. i did not create this community to represent hip hop lifestyle, or to try to appear like i'm ghetto or thug or anything else. i simply created a place for music to be posted. i enjoy and respect hip hop music as purely beats and rhythm and words, on a human and primal level. i put a "z" in the name because i like using z's in words, the name of my business is "houndztooth" for christ's sake, i didn't mean anything by it. it has nothing to do with hip hop or anything else. also, the background of boomboxes is music related. i would have made it the background of my music community regardless of genre. in fact, i probably would have used it for mammalexchange had i not needed a background image for this community. once again, this was not meant as anything disrespectful. i also didn't mean anything bad by the "music that makes your booty shake" i just thought it was funny. not "funny" as in i'm making fun of anyone, but funny like...i sound like a dork, let's all laugh. i enjoy kitsch, humor, and taking things lightly in every area of my life - i did not mean to be disrespectful, i was just saying LET'S DANCE. LET'S SHAKE OUR ASSES. why not? i don't know, i guess i just feel like this is all so silly. i - we - were trying to do a good thing, to make a new community for a specific purpose. we didn't force anyone to join. if you don't like it, or are offended by it, you are absolutely welcome to leave.

we didn't create this community because we wanted to separate the music genres - we created it because have a genuine interest in hip hop music and wanted to create a place where that could be fostered.

i may not necessarily know a lot about the hip hop culture, history, etc. but i definitely do not look at it as something ironic. i respect it as an art form, a music form, and a culture, and wanted to create a place where those who maybe understand better than i do can come, share, and educate each other.

lastly, a question - do you feel we should delete the community? i'm just exhausted and overwhelmed by the negative feedback and i'd like to know if it would be beneficial to just delete the account.

Immortal Technique: Revolutionary, Vol. 2

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:21:53 GMT

In lieu of my comment in the previous post, here's something that might be of interest..

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary, Vol. 1

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary, Vol. 2

Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.

Nigga talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you. There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.

I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.

You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.

As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.

But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.

I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-Fuckers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know shit about the way things are set up.

In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-Fuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.

In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-Fucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.

You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil. I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros.

But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor. That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.

So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat.

Viva la revolution!

-Immortal Technique