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Slingshot Hip Hop Film Screening @ Grandview Park

SLINGSHOT HIP HOP

Free Film Screening
in Grandview Park
William Street & Commercial Drive
(with special short films)

Thursday, September 3rd
At Dusk (8pm)
BYOBlanket

Presented by the
Boycott Israel Apartheid Campaign

Slingshot Hip Hop documentary braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.

Watch the trailer: http://slingshothiphop.com/trailer

In other Grandview Park news...

Aboriginal Man Dies in Busy City Park on Hottest Day in Vancouver History and Not One Person Stopped to Help

In other Native news...

Natives, non-natives clash on Fraser River (CBC News)

On Natives and Palestinians...

Indigenous Intifada: Federal MP Compares Natives to Palestinians (2002)

Jay Electronica coming to Vancouver

JAY ELECTRONICA "EXHIBIT A" LIVE! from sol messiah on Vimeo.

Check the lyrics and more here.

EDGE- Looking For Headspace

New Video “Looking For Headspace” (directed by MykroFilm Productions)
by Vancouver MC and producer, EDGE



Check out his blog and mixtapes here.

Vancouver Hip Hop History

I'm not endorsing or saying I like all these tracks and artists, but at least it gives you all a slice of the history and present. Okay, I like EQ, Rascalz and Jaykin...

EQ - 2 Much 4 Da Mental

1980s/1990s Vancouver hip hop group consisting of Incredible Ease and Quaze(delic)



Terror T - Total Kaos (1992)



Rascalz - Soul Obligation (1997)



Jaykin - So Sincere/Writing On the Wall featuring Edge 1 & Benny Fresh (2006)



Manik - Commercial Drive (2006)



Emotionz - Skytrain (2007?)




Heatwave - Chill From '93 Till (2009?)



As a side note, the videos by Terror T and Heatwave (I'm pretty sure) both feature a foot bridge that was built as a result of mom's taking action, camping out and blockading the railway tracks so that their kids would have a safe way to cross to get to school back in 1971 in Strathcona, East Vancouver.

Slum Village @ Rock The Bells in Vancouver

Slum Village was the main attraction for me at the Rock The Bells hip hop festival in Vancouver's suburb of Burnaby on August 1, 2009.

And they didn't disappoint, although a longer set at an indoor venue would be nice too.

Between sets, the DJ shouted out and played J Dilla's "F___ The Police", which was nice, and funny too since the place was crawling with Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

R.I.P. Baatin and J Dilla!!!

Chronic Vibe No 2010 Olympics Hip Hop Track

Local Vancouver Hip Hop crew Chronic Vibe have released a new single: No 2010! Check it out at their myspace account.

http://www.myspace.com/chronicvibe

Pam the Funkstress and Invincible in Vancouver

The Coup's DJ, Pam the Funkstress, played a great mix of old and new, east and west, as she tore up the turntables with her skills at the Under the Volcano music festival in North Vancouver and invited up Detroit MC Invincible and Seattle MCs Khingz and Gabriel Teodros for some decent to excellent (Khingz) freestyles on August 9, 2009. I especially appreciated hearing the MC Breed joint, "Ain't no future in yo' frontin'" and "Call me D-Nice".



Invincible's own set at Under the Volcano suffered from bad sound, no thanks to the non hip hop fan sound man, I guess. Her DJ seemed like she could use some more confidence too.

The crowd sucked, as always. Hippies and hipsters. Not hip hop. Invincible tried many times to get people to shout back R.I.P. Baatin and J Dilla and Proof, but it seemed like almost nobody knew what was what. So she ended up saying that if you don't know Dilla you should google him. True, but kinda sad too, given the context.

Invincible got the most response when she shouted out some anti-Olympics sentiment. She'd shown some documentary music videos and done a workshop a few days prior at an art gallery in the Downtown Eastside. The highlight for me was the part of the video showing people in Detroit taking direct action to bust back in and reclaim their homes from foreclosures.

http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=1166

Biggie & Pac still livin' large in East Vancouver

Big stencils of The Notorious B.I.G. and 2pac in East Vancouver (photo taken by weareatwar on May 18, 2009)



http://www.flickr.com/photos/weareatwar

"... and f___ trying to get with these crooked ass hypocrites"

"Bust 'em out the park" mix for May Day

Here's the track list of the "Bust 'em out the park" mixtape (an actual tape!) that was played over a decent sound system at the May Day celebration event in Grandview Park in East Vancouver on May 1, 2009. The event was alright and people were feelin' the music but it ended up mostly spoiled by hippies and a confused/selfish woman dominating things and interrupting the tunes. Some leaflets about the history of May Day and other leaflets were grabbed up by the rabble and hotdogs and hippie food were served by separate groups. Hot dogs for the hommies, rabbit food for the hippies.

01 KRS One - Sound Of Da Police
02 J Dilla - F___ The Police
03 Dr Dre & Snoop Dog - Deep Cover
04 Gang Starr - Tha Squeeze
05 Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke
06 Blahzay Blahzay - Good Cop Bad Cop
07 Geto Boys - Crooked Officer
08 Mobb Deep - Cop Hell (DJ Premier Remix)
09 NWA - F___ The Police
10 Jeru The Damaja - Invasion
11 KRS One - Black Cop
12 2Pac - I Don't Give A F___ (Feat. Pogo)
13 Geto Boys - G-Code
14 Ice Cube - We Had To Tear This Mothaf__a Up
15 Willie D - Rodney K
16 Non Phixion - How To Kill A Cop
17 Main Source - Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball
18 Herb McGruff - East And Police
19 Strictly Roots - Duck Da Boyz
20 Hard Knocks - Dirty Cop Named Harry
21 Madvillain - Strange Ways



What the f___ is a May Day?

May Day @ Wikipedia

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

The Dramas of Haymarket

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm

"BC's got the best f___n' weed y'all"

Talib Kweli shouts "BC's got the best f____n' weed y'all" during a surprise guest appearance at the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan's bangin' performance in Vancouver in March of 2009. The fan who posted this video added the comment, "Just say no to 2010 Olympics" to their youtube video.

Beautiful British Columbia is not what it seems

"Beautiful BC" by the Capital G GEO from the Skeetchest'n Reserve of the Secwepemc Nation a few hours drive northeast of Vancouver (added to his myspace account on March 28, 2007)

buitiful b.c.


Secwepemc Resistance at Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake) in 1995



Secwepemc History of Resistance

http://wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/secwepemc-history-of-resistance/