Just like Wu, I’ll listen to Mannie Fresh fo’ev-eeeer! Rap from the South (Memphis, ATL, NOLA…) is my guiltiest pleasure…

Mannie Fresh hasn’t exactly been blowing our minds recently, but that doesn’t mean we won’t keep a vigilant ear on everything he does just in case. Now he’s back with “Like a Boss,” which, based on name alone, you’d expect to be another version of “Real Big,” (also known as one of the most fun songs ever in the history of recorded music), but is instead an occasionally self-deprecating career retrospective for Fresh.

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Oakland Underground Film Festival presents ‘Black Dynamite’.

BLACK DYNAMITE is destined for cult film status. This action-packed comedy is meticulously and lovingly rooted in the great traditions of American Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films. A fresh and outrageous remix of films like “Shaft” (1971), “Super Fly” (1972), and “The Mack” (1974), BLACK DYNAMITE is wrapped in a delicious and funky original soundtrack. Directed by Scott Sanders, BLACK DYNAMITE is “…a neck-snapping orgy of martial-arts mayhem…” (Film Threat) and “…sustains the comedy while taking a nice big sucker punch at the underlying politics of our time.” (Sundance Film Festival) Don’t miss your chance to see this soon-to-be classic film that “…leaves its predecessors in the dust, largely thanks to its filmmakers’ genre expertise, zany plot/sharp comedy writing, and of course, the physical prowess and deadpan hilarity of its co-writer/star Michael Jai White, who is one bad, righteous mothaf*cka.” (Marlow Stern) Presented by The Oakland Underground Film Festival.

Bay Area Premiers

Grand Lake Theater
Saturday November 21st

The Castro Theatre

Friday November 20th

(I’ll be going to this ^ one!)

Matthew Larkin Cassell - Heaven (via zoodden)

Matthew Larkin Cassell’s song Heaven from the album Pieces. Privatly pressed in 1977. It will be reissued soon on a Japanese label.

‘Pieces’ coming together 30 years later

Great article about a how Matthew Larkin Cassell’s self-made ’70s album “Pieces” caught the eye of Thes One, Kon & Amir, Madlib…and more…

Flyer I made for an event going down this Friday with selectors B.Cause (my favorite Bay DJ), Sake One, Umami &, shooting ‘The Peace Project,’ Azul 213.

The Soul Seven

The Dallas funk stalwarts The Soul Seven released two singles in a brief, but productive career. One of those 7s was recorded with the late, great Ike Turner and has yet to be officially re-relased. The other was recorded for Dallas-based label owner and musician Roger Boykin’s Soultex label, and is compiled here from the original analog tapes alongside the band’s awesome “Southside Funk,” a vicious rip of the Mar Key’s “Grab That Thang.” This EP is rounded out by live selections of the band recorded at The South Dallas Pop Festival 1970. (via The Soul Seven | Everything is Everything with the Soul Seven | Stones Throw Records)

the soul seven - mr chicken shit (via novaklem)

Groovin’…

Stanley Kubrick by RA The Rugged Man

“…all the starvin’ artists…all the starvin’ artists…”

Just finished this Kubrick. The imagery doesn’t really mean anything. It was more of a “freestyle” piece of stuff in my ‘October 2009 Inspiration’ folder :)

Hope you dig it!

I made the art above a few days ago. Inspired by the 4OneFunk cats.

SIPPIN’ A CUP OF COFFEE (via MANZIG13878)

Perfection…

My brother Luis (Sylvester) & me (I’m not wearing a mask. My cheeks were really that big)…first time I ever went ‘trick-or-treating’…Halloween in Oceano, CA circa ‘84.

I’m feeling this line-up. Been a Jneiro Jarel/Who Dat? fan for a while. You will most definitely see me there!

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: all sons of Sun Ra trumpeter & songwriter Phil Cohran.

Peep the doc trailer…