R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron

The World of music and Hip Hop has sadly lost a powerful voice and talent in losing the great Gil Scott Heron.

Some may know him best from this funk/soul classic...

 

Gilbert was born in Illinois, Chicago USA in 1949 and passed on May 27th 2011 in New York city.

Gil was an socially conscious poet, singer and spoken word artist and author and was a massive influence on Hip Hop and was (and still is) sampled by everyone from Grand Puba, J-Rawls, Mike Zoot, A Tribe Called Quest to underground Hip Hop artists like MF Doom and Brainsick Mob and he has influenced everyone from Chuck-D, Common to Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli, Black Thought and many others 

Gils' last recorded album was I'm New Here (2010) his first album in over 16 years had Nas feature on a remix of "New York Is Killing Me" and a bootleg version with Mos Def do the rounds...*props to my man Sweet Tooth for the heads up on that info :)

 

Although he was known as the Godfather of Rap, he had some issues with Rap artists and addressed this on "Message To The Messengers" in 1994 where he asked for some MC's to speak for change and to be more articulate and artistic, he also thought to much slang was used in Rap and that you couldn't "see inside the person" and just got "a lot of posturing".

Gil released his first and debut album in 1970...Small Talk At 125th and Lenox (Big L fans will know that address well) which was an album packed with potent messages about mass consumerism and the falsities of the World and also featured the still talked about and often sampled "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (where Gil was rapping) and "Whitey On The Moon".

In 1971 he released perhaps his best known album, Pieces Of A Man which featured Jazz great Ron Carter on bass, legendary drummer Bernard Purdie and Gil's pianist and long time collaborator Brian Jackson.

From 1972 after the Freewill album, Gil had an illustrious career up until the 1980's when his releases were becoming less and less and he eventually got dropped by Arista records in 1985 and in the same year he appeared on the Artists United Against Apartheid-Sun City LP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_United_Against_Apartheid

Because of Gil's loss, I know many that will speculate on his drug habits and problems, but personally I don't see why it is is important, we all have our own demons and he had his, this post is to celebrate the life and music of a great artist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Gil+Scott-Heron

some of the many dope Hip Hop tracks that have sampled Gil Scott Heron...

De La Soul-"Area" (1993)-samples GSH-"The Bottle"  (1974)

KMD ft MF Grimm-"What A Niggy Know (Remix)" (1994) samples "Pieces Of A Man" (1971)

Masta Ace-"Take A Look Around" (1990) samples "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1970)

Professor Griff and L.A.D.-"Real African People Rap Pt 11" samples "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"(1970)

DJ Honda ft Rawcotiks-"For Every Day That Goes By "(1988) samples "Did You Hear What They Say?" (1972)

Brainsick Mob-"I Thank God" (1997) samples "Alluswe" (1974)

Mike Zoot-"Turn" (1997) samples "Alluswe" (1974)

 BDP-"Why Is That?" samples "H20 Gate Blues" (1974)

Miilkbone-"Keep It Real (Remix)" (1995) samples "Peace Go With You, Brother" (1974)

Jazz Liberatorz ft Aloe Blacc-"What's Real?" (2003) samples "Peace Go With You, Brother" (1974)

LOTUG-"Lord Jazz Hit Me One Time" (1993) samples "Peace Go With You Brother" (1974)

Mellow Man Ace-"En La Casa" (1989) samples "The Bottle" (1974)

Blackstar-"Brown Skin Lady" (1998) samples "The Botttle" (1974)

Grand Puba-"Keep On" (1995) samples "We Almost Lost Detroit" (1977)

MF Doom aka Metal Fingers-"Camphor" (2004) samples "We Almost Lost Detroit" (1977)

Hasan Salaam Featuring Lord Jamar-"Angel Dust" (2008) samples "Angel Dust" (1978)

The Coup-"Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night" (1998) samples "Angel Dust" (1978)

2-Pac-"Ready For Whatever" ( 1997) sampled "1980" (1980)

Brother Ali-"Whatcha Got" (2007) samples "B-Movie" (1981)

Phife-"Beats, Rhymes and Phife" (2000) samples "A Legend In His Own Mind" (1980)

Little Brother-"Make Me Hot" (2003) samples "The Klan" (1980)

Stop The Violence Movement-"Self Destruction" (1989) samples "The Bottle" (1974)

and lastly peep my man Funktual discussing the various uses of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" in Hip Hop (amongst many other classics)

Funktual this one is for you fam

Mos Def-Mr N----A (1999) samples "A Legend In His Own Mind" (1980)

R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron, Peace go with you, Brother...

please check my Friend and fellow music fanatic, Simon Sweetman's awesome tribute and retrospective post here...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/5071352/Gil-Scott-Heron-1949-2011

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Bias B - Bias Life.

The 5th solo release to his name, Biaslife solidly exhibits a maturity and discernment only obtainable after time, persistence, and unrequited dedication to one’s art. Bias has come a long way since his pioneering debut album Beezwax in 1998, just like his local scene. Although Aussie Hip Hop is expanding and changing around him, Bias still continues to hold his own as one of the first, and one of the best.
The album credits an array of seasoned artists such as Lazy Grey and Len One, Bigfoot, Ciecmate, Fluent Form, Maundz, and Eloqour. The soothing vocals of Joyride and Tali are featured, as well as production genius from the legendary Lazy Grey, Dj Bonez, Doc Felix, The Statesmen, Aux One, Geko and Discourse.

Tickets for the Melbourne "Bias Life" launch at The Corner Hotel with supports from Brad Strut and Maundz are now on sale.

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Chris Moss Interview with Director of Operations at Mello Music Group...

http://allindstrom.com/2011/05/interview-mellomusicgroup-michael-tolle-director-of-operations

 

Micheal Tolle

Boog Brown

Apollo Brown

The Left

Trek Life

Oddisee

Has-Lo

Slimkat78

Georgia Anne Muldrow

Stik Figa

yU

Diamond District

Mello Music Group is the illest label in True Hip Hop today and MMG is responsible for the 
dopeness that is Oddisee and his groups like Diamond District and it's members (yU and X.O.) as well as dope Detroit producer Apollo Brown (who released the best Hip Hop instrumental album in 2011 with the super Clouds) and also his group The Left who released the fat "Gas Mask" LP in 2010.

Has-Lo (yet another mad talented Philly Producer and MC), Stik Figa, Finale, Boog Brown, Kenn Starr, Declaime, Slimkat78, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Sareem Poems and other dope acts...peep the full roster here.

http://www.mellomusicgroup.com

Buy and download music here

mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com

Thanks to Chris Moss for the heads up and the link to Mello Music Group and it's roster for the kind of Hip Hop that is going to keep the art form alive.

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Evil Mule-Straight Muleing video

 *Pic by Emily Strange

Well it is finally here and we had a dope release party for it last night...massive thanks to SlopperVJ and AVS, EMP, all Da Mules and crew and family, fans and friend that showed up last night and a big thanks and all that worked hard on this video...enjoy.

Evil Mule-Straight Muleing video clip produced, written and directed by Sloppervj and EMP.

Track produced by J-Harvest, mixed by RawDeal cuts by Art Official
Bass by Boltorious

cuts selected by DJ Jaz

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Occult Swim Pt. II

As I have reviewed before (please read Occult Swim Pt. 1 before this), Adult Swim definitely has an agenda bred for the occult programming of late night television.  As much as it can be a guilty pleasure to watch, whether it be to get my daily dosage of "Family Guy" re-runs or to randomly catch an old episode of Boondocks.  I have noticed that they have gotten to a point where you no longer need to watch any of their occult-geared cartoon specials, when they advertise satanism through the entire broadcasting from start to finish.  In this post, I will briefly discuss some of these occurrences and a few new shows that were recently added to their nightly line-up.

Subliminal Commercial "Bumps"

Lately Adult Swim has been confusing (for lack of a better word) many of their viewers with seemingly random short second bumps between nightly programming filled with a lot of strange messages.  The bumps itself are not the confusing part, seeing as how Adult Swim has used bumps since the early creation of the network as a method of advertisement.  There first bumps made a lot more sense in the beginning as they actually made clever references to the network's title.

the good ol' days

Now that Adult Swim has grown to become quite a syndicated cash crop for Illuminati philanthropist Ted Turner (yeah, the guy that owns CNN), the network has started to move more toward a darker theme surrounding their advertising bumps.  Some, easily dismissed as random, while others carry a deeper occult message.

pyramids and the all seeing eye

various occult symbols

remember the unicorn references?

could you possibly get more blatant?

Moloch Worship

As if the above advertising wasn't bad enough, Adult Swim has just recently adopted a new theme for the show, owls.  For those who are unaware of the owl's importance to the occult, I will give you a brief history lesson:

Biblically, Moloch was an ancient pagan god that the Israelites worshipped through human sacrifice of their children (Leviticus 18:21, 2nd Kings 23:10).  It was generally depicted as a bull or in most modern cases, an owl.  The Illuminati has taken this idol and used it for many of their satanic rituals and referenced frequently in occult programming.

1927 occult movie Metropolis, workers being sacrificed in the owl shaped machine

elite society Bohemian Grove uses Moloch for their worship

Even though Adult Swim has yet to give a reason why they have now chosen an owl as their new mascot, I doubt that they would have chosen this demonic bird by chance.  Tell me, do you think this kind of occult advertising is done on accident?

Just recently, Adult Swim hosted a live show in celebration for this years' Upfront,  a showcasing of new upcoming pilots and shows for the network.  The show was held at New York's Roseland Ballroom, where the entire setting filled with owls as the stage was shadowed by two 20 ft. golden owls that shot lasers out of it's eyes!

look familiar at all?

the 40 ft. stone owl worshipped at Bohemian Grove

Now can you take a wild guess as to who Adult Swim booked for the entire evening's entertainment?  Give up?

this guy.

Not only did they choose Hip-Hop's rumored Illuminati elitist, but they also struck a million dollar development deal with the occult-encouraging rapper to produce a new series of original cartoon pilots.  Here is the official report:

"Jay-Z on Wednesday evening will announce a development deal with Adult Swim, one that is likely to involve an original animated series.  Sources at Turner confirmed a partnership, although details remain scant." - Source

Jay-Z with Cartoon Network/Adult Swim president, Stu Snyder

Other Occult References

Aside from the shows I have already revealed in Pt. 1, Adult Swim has managed to pick up a few more shows that delivers the same occult message seen so many times before.

A show that was originally aired in 2000, God, The Devil & Bob was a cartoon surrounding a man chosen by the Devil that has to prove to God that humanity deserves a second chance before it is destroyed.  The cartoon itself, is a complete mockery to Christianity, humanizing God into a cenile drunk and making the Devil seem superior and a more intelligent being.

Last summer, Adult Swim worked with occult artist T-Pain to produce a animated musical called Freaknik.  The show starred T-Pain as a famous musician that captivates his fans globally with his over-using of the robotic auto-tune voice effect while becoming a threat to secret societies.  The hour long cartoon was filled with blasphemous subtly and a lot of occult propaganda.

Lil Wayne playing as Jesus that sold drugs, or more colorfully put "Trap Jesus"

the Ghetto Commandments....*sigh*

a scene showing the occult secret society of the Boule

Aside from the enormous amounts of symbolism within the shows, Adult Swim has taken every meticulous detail to try to push this occult worship upon all of its viewers and fans.  On the Adult Swim website, you can clearly see the Moloch theme all over it:

hypnotizing owl printed wallpaper

Also on the site, Adult Swim is trying to make you spend your money this occult filth:

This is not even marketable, seriously.

you get the point.

Once again, it appears that the more Adult Swim grows as a company, the more they will push the Illuminati's occult agenda.  Remember to always be aware of what is being fed to you through your television and to never accept the occult's product of deception and misguidance.

Open Your Mind,

Justify

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Music - new and restock CD

Cunninlynguists - Oneirology

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