"If you really like this funky beat, let's everybody say "hell Yeaaaaahhhh"!" so I put a link for my homie Smooth Operator who's got a radio broadcast called "Smoothshit" dealing with West side/ Dirty South http://www.rfpp.net and I also say hello to Metal Force crews (they know what it's all about)

A public announcement for a kind of "VIP" party, presented by CLOCHARD INTERNATIONAL (no kidding?! only French readers could understand) with FATBEATS records amidst the sponsors, it's about LEE QUINONES limited edition vintage collection(records between 1974 and 1984), in New York, on November 4th. Dress code please , guesting this are D-Stroy (former Arsonist) MCing, Grand Master Flash, Tony Touch, Eleven DJing. Where does it happen exactly? Pressure, 110 University Place (between East 12/13th streets) from 9pm to midnight. For more info email at this address events@clochard-international.com

Some news about "Le Monde Panafricain" & Afrique Promo Culture at Nantes, they organise a meeting/ lecture about the late Mongo Beti (Cameroonese writer, his books are strongly advised for people who want to understand what's happening in Cameroon and Africa in general, "after the independences"),when, Saturday, the 23rd of October, 2 pm, where, Nantes, Manufacture des Tabacs, for more info call 02.51.72.06.70. What else, 37 years ago Huey and Bobby founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and we should remember the fallen, Ernesto Che Guevara (October 9th, 1967) & Thomas Sankara (October 15th, 1987)

Salutations to Idriss Kameni who stopped a penalty shot by Ronaldo, congratulations to Sammy who plays with FC Barcelona, and big F*** YOU to Winfried Schaeffer & friends, what else Rick James passed away, the creator of "Superfreak" & "Give It To Me", the punk funk icon (I would better say glam funk rocker) and I also heard Russ Meyer died but it's another story hahahaha!

There will be a festival in the Bahama Islands featuring Confunkshun, Rene (of Rene & Angela), SOS Band, Midnight Star, Lakeside and Robert Downey (comedian),from August 5th to 9th. Prices are high ($250 for the 4 days) but you can ply golf and spend time as you want there

Well sad news as Ray Charles died, and fortunately this bastard of Ronald Reagan also went to another world maybe he rejoices with Ian Stuart of Skrewdriver and other KKK/ nazi cronies, the real meaning of "dead pres"

Some stuff from the FMSILIC, an organisation born to support and help Cameroonese soccer team well seems I cannot "cut & paste" so I sum up, FMSILIC is of course against FIFA decision about the famous Cameroon Puma wear (UniQit). For more about this I suggest you to go to their website below...

FMSILIC

Some news from the Eazy E camp, Lil E his son and one of the women Mr Eric Wright Sr used to live with started a foundation

This is something from Davey D's website, just read:

Gangstaz, Gunz and Half Naked Girlz

Min. Paul Scott


Baby Got back, but Baby needs backbone/Get off the
video screen and put some clothes on…
Brother Khamisi (Revolutionary Son)


Back in tha day, a radio program director told me
that heavy metal was marketed to 16 year old white
boys who were mad because they couldn’t get a
girlfriend.
Fifteen years later, we must ask what is the marketing
scheme behind Sex Guns and Hip Hop.

I ’m not saying that some Brotha with a bad rap is
somewhere sitting alone in his bedroom pumpin’ G-Unit
while throwing darts at a picture of his ex
girlfriend screamin’ ‘Take that you
slut…Westside!!!!!’ But we do have to look at the way
sista’s are portrayed in videos today through the eyes
of marketing executives who spend millions of dollars
psychoanalyzing Brotha’s in order to pinpoint our
weaknesses and find ways to exploit us.

Now be honest, Brothers, if you had to choose between
looking at a centerfold of the sista from the Outkast
video and reading this article, which one would you
choose? (That’s what I thought) So they are experts at
appealing to our attraction to our Nubian Queens.
Instead of denying our attraction to beautiful black
women we must learn to discipline our natural urges.
In other words we can’t let the size of the booty
blind us to the beauty of Afrikan Brothers and Sisters
working together to ensure the future of little Black
children.

Also, we can never look at any issue concerning Black
folks without putting the discussion in the context of
the battle of Afrikan people against the agents of
white supremacy. Since the Hip Hop Nation has all but
called a truce with the white power structure, this
issue will not be raised from those who view reality
from a purely 'hip hop-centric' point of view.

Many of the videos today feature a beautiful black
woman prancing around while 20 Brotha’s are rapping,
‘Get off my block before I shoot, you , fool !‘ Those
of us who are not sleeping while standing up must pose
the question’ what in the world does a half naked
sista have to do with drug dealin’ and Brotha’s
blastin’ Brotha’s?’ This is an obvious attempt to kill
two birds with one stone; a case of cross promotion of
negative stereotypes.

Historically , it has always been a goal of white
America to portray the sons and daughters of Africa as
animals lacking souls, culture and moral character.
So Black women have been portrayed as disparate over
sexed, Ho’s and Black men have been portrayed as blood
thirsty rapists and sexual predators.

So when a diabolical tool of oppression meets with a
billion dollar marketing scheme the result is what you
get gyrating across your favorite music video channel
24 hours a day.

Back in the day when the 2 Live Crew had Sista’s
'movin’ sometin’' to the sound of 'Me So Horny' the
excuse was 'Well. What about them white girls that be
all up in tha videos, HUH?' But in 2004, the white
video vixen is more or less, a thing of the pass.
While Heather White has long since traded in her
G-string for a government job, Shorty Doo Wop is still
holding down her 9 (PM) to 5 at tha strip joint.

The reason being that the entertainment industry has
found their niche market and will exploit it until the
well runs dry, until there is no such thing as a
normal relationship between a Black man and a Black
woman.

With thousands of Black men in jail , the future of
the Black family is in danger. Most black men live
everyday of their lives with the fear of winding up in
jail before night fall, whether guilty or innocent.
The music industry has capitalized off of this fear by
manufacturing the 'we don’t love them Ho’s mentality.'
For the Brotha who is looking at twenty years in the
slamma a Sista becomes nothing but a quick hit while
he is out on bail. Why market a video concept about
long lasting caring relationships when you have
created an environment where most of your market will
be spending 20 years of quality time with Big Bubba in
cell block D ?

Where the saying that made a Sista’s blood boil back
in tha day was ‘women are only good for two places;
the kitchen and the bedroom;' in Hip Hop, for the ride
or die chick, they are also good for hiding a crack
stash and working the strip club. (How many children
out there who have to visit their incarcerated mother
once a week because she caught a conspiracy charge for
being in the car with drug Dealin’ Darrell?)

What would happen if we turned this Mother’s Day into
Black Queen Restoration Day ? What if Afrikan
Brothers and Sisters across the country joined with
sisters like those of Spelman College or LaFonda Jones
(Operation ’hood Freedom, Durham NC) and demanded more
positive images in videos.

What if an army of Angela Davis/Assata Shakur, kente
cloth head wrap wearing Sisters rolled up on rappers
like Trina and 'made' them understand the damage done
to the self esteem of young Black girls through songs
such as 'Big Ole D@### ?'

As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step. Isn’t it time that we started
steppin’ in the name of love for Black women?

Minister Paul Scott represents the Messianic Afrikan
Nation in Durham NC. To join the Messianic Afrikan
Nation contact (919) 949-4352 email
minpaulscott@ yahoo.com
Web site: members.blackplanet.com/THE-MYD

For the last "Maggot Brains" radio show as co host DJ Juan Velez Alvarez Pablo Don De La Vega is held hostage at the Celebrity Farm, we may be alone "as one" for an exclusive non interview with the "notorious Black President " of Just Justice association back from the States and a report about independant American rap featuring Vice Prez Remi, always into something with my trombipulated genetically unorganized twisted mind of yours. More seriously, Paris' Guerillafunk label is on a mission, "resurrecting" true conscious old school Golden Era rap, after Public Enemy, it will be up to the mighty MC Ren of NWA fame to get an album released. Damn, Paris, you also should work with my homie Spice 1, and Digital Underground, and...It also seems there's a new AWOL issue ready, remember AWOL is a rap pro zine dealing with militant music and related to MOVE organisation. Uncle Jam wants you for some action, and Aunt Assata gets a big salute. Remember also that for Mumia Abu Jamal it's not 17 but 22 years of Hell ( this line is for fans of the Partisans, related to their song "17 years of hell") and I must thank and greet DAL BASSO organisation

Well it seems it's not enough, Winfried Schaeffer, Rigobert Song and former Bidoung co workers must get out the way too, judging by the shameful defeat against Bulgaria. Something far more serious, I put a link about Iraqi situation Iraqi stories

BIG BIG BIG NEWS, the biggest corruptor of Cameroon team (soccer) is out, sacked, Mr Bidoung Mkpatt got ousted by President Biya, hopefully it will restart a declining team, and people like Rigobert Song must also leave the national team!

It seems another incident happened with Dead Prez (arrested again); here is a link for you about Cool Freddy Jay (where are the pictures with Julia Chanel? just joking) Cool Freddy Jay

The info came too late but DJ Vic & DJ PF Cuttin' (from rap act Blahzay Blahzay, yes those who stole a Drixxé(from Triptik) beat) were spinnin' on Fatbeats store yesterday, it's in Holland (Amsterdam) FATBEATS

Yesterday at evening there was an interesting lecture about the weird and "naughty" relations between France and Africa (no it's not about sex you pervert, hahahaha!), here is a link conclusions de la commission d'enquête citoyenne de l'association "Survie" this is about Rwanda genocide

Dead Prez news, just read below....

CONCERT & CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON THE PLIGHT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

Boston, Massachusetts (April 2, 2004) -- A concert and conference on political prisoners called SET THE CAPTIVES’S FREE will take place on April 16 and 17 at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in the Lipke Auditorium, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester, Massachusetts.

A powerful concert, featuring Dead Prez, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, FTP, Blackout Boston, The Foundation, Curtis King, Simon & Wagner, Reflect & Strengthen, VCR, and PRESENTE!, will kick-off the UMass/Boston conference on Friday, April 16, 7-11P.M.

Focussing on political prisoners, prisoners of war, and racially profiled detainees in the United States, the conference will take place on Saturday, April 17, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and it will feature workshops and presentations by:

Pam Africa (MOVE)
Fred Hampton, Jr.
Linda Evans Russell Shoates, III,
Netdahe Williams
Rod Coronado
Rakhshanda Saleem
Rawan Barakat
New England Committee to Defend Palestine
Kamel Bell
Michelle Morales
Soffiyah Elijah
Nancy Murray (Patriot Act & Homeland Security)
Prof. Robert Hall
Nalda Vigezzi (The Cuban 5)
Jean Day (Leonard Peltier Defense)

The concert costs $15, the conference costs $10 or you can attend both days for $20. Those 15 & under can attend for FREE. For further information, call (617) 288-1433 or email: freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com The concert and conference are sponsored by The William Joiner Center/UMASS Boston, The Jericho Movement, Boston Political Prisoner Defense Committee, Mobarezeh Collective, Int’l Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal, American Friends Service Committee, and PRESENTE!

Some news from the GuerillaFunk camp, Conscious Daughters album as well as T-Kash's one and the PE stuff are about to get released this year, and the Hard Truth Soldiers comp' either. And Guerilla funk recs considers the release of a dvd featuring among other things Paris video clips

Some news in French and about France, especially Arabian people with too much hope in "french socialism", just read it...

La preuve par Mouloud : « Sois Beur et tais-toi ! »
> LES SOCIALISTES « INDIGÈNOCRATES » BARRENT LA ROUTE À MOULOUD AOUNIT AU
> CONSEIL RÉGIONAL
> par Vincent Geisser
> jeudi 1er avril 2004
>
> Ceux qui ne croient pas au « miracle républicain » en sont pour leurs frais.
> Au premier tour des élections régionales, Mouloud Aounit, secrétaire général
> du MRAP et tête de liste « Gauche populaire et citoyenne » (PCF et société
> civile) en Seine-Saint-Denis a réussi à rassembler 14,3 % des suffrages (50
> 000 voix) dans le département, faisant le meilleur score du Parti à
> l'échelon national et se payant même le luxe de devancer le candidat de
> l'UDF, « ô combien médiatique », André Santini (11,6 %). Pourtant, au-delà
> des apparences du « miracle électoral », c'est bien le travail de terrain
> qui a payé. Rompant avec la logique du « Beur exotique » et de l' « Arabe de
> service », héritée de l'indigénat, le succès de la liste conduite par
> Mouloud Aounit repose sur une véritable campagne de proximité auprès des
> électeurs de toutes origines sociales et culturelles. Car, précisément,
> Mouloud Aounit, refuse de s'enfermer dans une logique néo-coloniale de type
> « les Arabes parlent aux Arabes », préférant développer un message citoyen
> et social, loin de toute tentative d'instrumentalisation communautaire. On
> connaît, par ailleurs, les positions courageuses que M. Aounit a exprimé,
> ces derniers temps, sur des questions aussi diverses que la dénonciation de
> l'islamophobie ambiante, la critique de l'exclusion des jeunes filles
> voilées des établissements scolaires publics et la remise en cause des
> dérives sécuritaires à l'encontre des jeunes des cités. Et c'est
> probablement, cette démarche résolument universaliste et non clientéliste
> qui a mobilisé de nombreux électeurs de Seine-Saint-Denis en « rupture »
> avec le système politique traditionnel. Dans plusieurs communes populaires,
> caractérisées habituellement par une très forte abstention électorale, la
> liste de Mouloud Aounit a, en effet, crevé les plafonds : 24,7 % à Bagnolet,
> 28,8 % au Blanc-Mesnil, 34,3 % à Stains.., des scores rêvés que le PCF
> n'avait plus obtenu depuis très longtemps, pouvant faire croire à certains
> que les banlieues parisiennes sont redevenues « les banlieues rouges »
> d'antan. Des anciens OS des usines Renault aux diplômés victimes de
> discrimination à l'emploi, en passant par les cadres associatifs et les
> jeunes frappés par l'exclusion sociale, Mouloud Aounit a suscité un
> véritable phénomène d'identification positive : de nombreux électeurs fâchés
> depuis de longues années avec la « politique des partis » se sont reconnus
> en lui, créant ainsi une occasion unique pour la gauche d'Ile-de-France de
> se réconcilier définitivement avec les cités populaires.
> Mais c'est bien là que réside le problème majeur : une certaine gauche
> socialiste, nostalgique de la gestion coloniale, héritière du «
> national-molletisme » (l'affaire de Suez en 1956, la défense de l'Algérie
> française.), semble davantage soucieuse de « mater » les cités peuplées de
> « sauvageons » que de se réconcilier avec elles. Il est vrai, qu'un Malek
> Boutih (ancien président de SOS-Racisme) ou qu'une Fadela Amara (présidente
> de « Ni putes, ni soumises »), tenant le discours que veulent entendre leurs
> « maîtres politiques » apparaissent plus rassurants pour les états-majors
> partisans qu'un Mouloud Aounit, connu pour son franc-parler et sa critique
> du « politiquement correct ». Résultat des courses électorales : sous la
> pression de certains potentats du Parti socialiste, nostalgiques de
> l'indigénocratie, Mouloud Aounit a du renoncer à la tête de liste au
> deuxième tour des élections et, malgré son score exceptionnel, ne se verra
> probablement attribuer aucune responsabilité de poids au sein du Conseil
> régional.
> L'Arabe a voulu s'émanciper sans la caution d'un « parrain républicain » :
> il a été puni !
> Cédant aux exigences particularistes de certains « groupes » et « leaders »
> de son parti (le PS), Jean-Paul Huchon, président sortant du Conseil
> régional d'Ile-de-France, a clairement signifié à Mouloud Aounit, qu'en
> raison de ses positions trop dérangeantes (islamophobie, Palestine et
> foulard islamique), il ne se verrait confier aucune responsabilité dans la
> future assemblée régionale. A ce niveau, l'on peut légitimement se demander
> : qui dans notre « belle République laïque » fait du communautarisme ?
> La morale de cette histoire électorale : « Quand on est un Arabe et que l'on
> veut faire de la politique en France, l'on doit se comporter comme une
> créature exotique ou fermer sa gueule ! »
> Vincent Geisser
>
> Vincent Geisser est chercheur à l'Institut de recherches et d'études sur le
> monde arabe et musulman (CNRS) et enseigne à l'Institut d'études politiques
> D'Aix-en-Provence. Il est également l'auteur de :
>
> a.. La nouvelle islamophobie, Editions la Découverte, 2003
> b.. Ethnicité républicaine (Presse de Sciences-Po, 1997),
> c.. Diplômes maghrébins d'ici et d'ailleurs (CNRS Editions, 2000)
> d.. Le Syndrome autoritaire. Sociologie de la Tunisie de Bourguiba à Ben
> Ali (en collaboration , Presse de Sciences po, 2003)

For all you readers, first of all check the PE website "Bring The Noize" there are several radio shows, great stuff, then Dead Prez "Revolutionary But Gangsta" will be released at the end of March (30th) on Sony/ Columbia, then another thing, I've my own radio show in my hometown, it's called "Maggot Brains" of course I pay tribute to George Clinton & Funkadelic but also to Bad Brains this huge, marvelous (at least from 79 to 84) punk act. I played both, you guess, "Maggot Brain" & "Icka Prick" for Parliamentfunkadelic thang and 2 whole shows devoted to Bad Brains

To end it, there was a great reggae show Saturday night, featuring Strate 4 Ward as backing band and several D jays or Sing Jays (I mean ragamuffin style) like Brahim (remember "Dans Quel Monde On Vit" , and he prepares his second album) Asha B, Hamine, Jornick, Nassadjah(from Comores Islands) and Mighty Kila (before you had 2 hours of African Heritage sound system, performed by the owners of the shop African Heritage, it was mostly old school reggae, and I recognized the original version of a Daddy Nuttea hit single, which is of course way better than DN one. The Nuttea song is called "Elle Vit Sa Vie" for those who want to know