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25 Joints to get U Through The Day 5
Revolutionary Peace-keep Soldiering On

by Davey D

This week we come correct with music to stimulate your mind and inspire you to go the extra yard. A whole lot of artists have been seriously on their grind and were hard at work in the lab months ago crafting masterpieces that would help get us through these tough economic times that are just now hitting us.
Those who are true to their art, knew that the best way to do things is to become skilled at making a way out of no-way, or as Shock G of Digital Underground famously stated, 'Make a Dollar out of 15 Cents'. Raw, Gritty and Uncompromisingly Intelligent we proudly salute this week's crop of artists for reminding us that Hip Hop Never Died, Never Left and Has Never Been Compromised. Dig deep into your soul and you'll find what your looking for... Don't Believe me .. Check out this week's episode of 25 Joints.


Here you'll here new music from MC Lyte and her new crew Almost September.
I ran into her last week when she and Chuck D touched down in 'Tha Town' (Oakland) and we discussed the increasing popularity of 25 Joints.
She reached into her purse pulled out some CDs and said be sure to rock their song 'Revolution'. Lyte's powerful voice sets the stage for the other women voices you will hear on this show.


That includes Lah Tere of Chicago/Bronx based Rebel Diaz and their cut 'Halfway' off their mixtape 'Outro Geurrillero Mixtape Vol.
2'. Big shout out and congratulations to Rebel Diaz for keeping their shoulder to the grind resulting in them opening up a brand new community center in the heart of the South Bronx. Repeat-they, Rebel Diaz-not some big corporation or anyone like that opened this facility. They got creative and really made this a community center by tapping local unemployed and under employed carpenters and builders to put this place together. The entire hood has a major stake in this new building-talk about community organizing. Hip hop definitely has a heart.


In this week's 25 Joints you will hear new comer J Ross Parrelli an Italian woman from Reno, Nevada who has been rocking mics and recording songs with everyone from Supernatural to Akil of Jurassic 5.
She rolled through the Bay the other week and lit up the stage alongside local artist Eyezon who will be featured on next week's 25 Joints. She was singing and rapping and taking no prisoners.
Her cut 'Outta Time' featuring Ras Tree is dope-In the words of reknowned deejay Clinton Sparks 'Get Familiar'

An overlooked we featured on this week's show is the Public Enemy remake of James Brown classic 'Thank Mama for the Soul Sisters'. Its under the name Peeps of Soul Funk and is an incredible Tribute to the late James Brown. The group dips into their slamjamz record label catalogue and pulls out some very talented musicians who do more than let loose.
Major props to producer Johnny Juice who could've easily been doing his thing right alongside the Godfather of Soul by contributing beats, his ears and immeasurable talent to future musical offerings.
In the cut 'Thank Mama for the Soul Sisters' new comer Ronnique 'MsRo' Hawkins is the featured vocalist letting loose. Go to the SlamJamz website to get this rare hard to find gem of an album. You will not be disappointed.


Proceeding the PE track is singer Alice Russell who gets busy on a James Brown-like cut called 'Pushing On'.
The group is O which is a project from Columbia based dj/producer Will Holland who goes by the name Quantic. Do not sleep on this cat and his works.


We dug into the crates and pulled out a overlooked Da Beatminerz cut from the album 'Fully Loaded w/ Static'.
'Pull Your Card' featuring Bay Area, Grammy nominated rap star Mystic.
Her joint sets the stage for the powerful vocals of Sista Souljah who just came to town to celebrate the release of her new book 'Midnight'.
We took the vocals of Souljah who is speaking about womanhood and matched them up with a slamming beat called 'Oxidentalism' put out by my folks from the Iraq/Candian group Euphrates.
Souljah's words takes that beat to new heights.


Another strong female voice comes from my home girl Anida, who is a poet with the Chicago based I Was Born With Two Tongues.
She drops some heartfelt insight about the challenges Asians and Asian women in particular have faced when dealing with a far too often racist American society.
'Excuse Me America' is a powerful song that when done live usually leaves Anida and many of the audience members in tears.
Her words come after Sista Souljah and Reverend Jeremiah Wright who's words are laced over another Euphrates produced track 'Orientalism'.


We round things off with one of my favorite songs off Del tha Funkee Homaspaien's '11th Hour' album called 'I Got U'.
This is a really nice track featuring Lady Bug Mecca from the group Digable Planets.
Lady Bug leaves you wanting to hear a lot more. It's straight rewind material.


Another stand out cut comes from Breeze Evaflowin and Dirt E Dutch, collectively known as the Troublemakers they put an album with the same name which has a song called 'No Room for Growth'. Here they raise the issue as to why Rock-N-Roll is allowed to mature and be celebrated for years to come while Hip Hop has to suffer the cycle of 'Here today and gone tomorrow'.


Also featured on this week's 25 Joints is new music from San Francisco based artists Sellassie.
This cat has been grinding super hard for the past couple of years and in the true spirit of the Bay Area Independent hustle, dude put out a record 200 songs.
His new album 'I'm Trying to Make a Living Not a Killing' says it all.
The song we feature 'Is It Even Meat' is a revolutionary message designed to reach the streets that talks both about our spiritual and physical. If that's not enough, Sellassie decided not to wait around for others to give him a break, he and his crew started their own Industry networking club night at a local spot in Frisco. The place is rapidly becoming a destination spot as Sellassie reminds us both through his music and actions-Ain't nothing wrong with making a dollar out of 15 cents. It's how we do in the Yah.


Here is this week's 25 Joints

01-Akrobatik 'Hand that Rocks the Cradle' (Boston)
www. myspace. com/therealakrobatik

02-Almost September 'Revolution' (LA)
http://www. myspace. com/almostseptember

03-Sellassie 'Is It Even Meat' (San Francisco)
http://www. myspace. com/sellassie

04-Apakalips 'Peace' (San Jose)
http://www. myspace. com/apakalips1

05-Martin Luther King (Let the Children Lead..)
http://www. mlkonline. net/speeches. html

06-Mr Lif 'Live from the Plantation' (Boston)
http://www. myspace. com/mrlif

07-Move. Meant 'The Scope of Things' (LA)
http://www. myspace. com/movemeant

08-Quantic Soul Orchestra 'Pushing On' (Columbia / Worchister)
http://www. last. fm/music/The+Quantic+Soul+Orchestra

09-Peeps of Soul Funk (Public Enemy) 'Thank Mama for the Soul Sisters' (NY)
http://www. slamjamz. com/music/viewalbum/19

10-Atmosphere 'Wild Wild Horse' (Minneapolis)
http://www. myspace. com/atmosphere

11-Rebel Diaz 'Halfway' (NY)
http://rebeldiaz. com/

12-J Ross Parrelli w/ Ras Tree 'Outta Time' (LA/ Reno, NV)
http://www. myspace. com/msparrelli

13-Mark J 'Right Revolution' (Houston)
http://www. gpraizemusic. com/apps/articles/default. asp?articleid=13602&columnid=2019

14-Immortal Technique w/ Ras Kass & Diabolic 'Payback' (NY/ LA)
http://www. myspace. com/immortaltechnique

15-Zion I 'Luv' (Oakland)
http://www. myspace. com/zioni

16-Ill Bill'Gangsta Rap'(Brooklyn)
http://www. myspace. com/illbill

17-Breeze Evaflowin'No Room for Growth' (NY)
http://www. myspace. com/breezevahflowin

18-Da Beatminerz w/ Mystic 'Pull Your Card' (Brooklyn/ LA)
http://www. myspace. com/dabeatminerz

19-Euphrates 'Oxidentalism'Sista Soulja Remix (Iraq/Montreal/NY)
http://www. myspace. com/euphrates
http://www. sistersouljah. com/

20-Euphrates 'Orientalism' Rev jeremiah Wright remix (Iraq/ Montreal/chicago)
http://www. myspace. com/euphrates
http://hiphopnews. yuku. com/topic/943

21-I Was Born w/ Two Tongues w/ Anida 'Excuse Me Amerikkka' (chicago)
http://www. myspace. com/iwbwtt

22-KRS-One & Marley Marl 'All School' (NY)
http://www. myspace. com/templeofhiphop

23-Paris 'Can't Stop the Movement' (Oakland)
http://www. guerrillafunk. com/

24-J-Live 'Red Light Green Light' (NY)
http://www. myspace. com/jlive


25-Del Tha Funkee Homosapien w/ Lady Bug Mecca 'I Got U' (Oakland/NY)
http://www. myspace. com/delthefunkyhomosapien


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