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Dope Atlanta Music and the great ghosts of comedy past. Just press play guys

dominickbrady:

Since folks always ask what I’m listening to and I don’t always scrobble to Last.fm:

 Grits ‘n Gravy #19: Dead Funny.

I started on this mix about a month ago as an homage to the defunct Hip Hop group The Fundamentalz (MC JMil aka Millionaire of Collective Efforts and J Brew aka DJ Unknown). They used to use comedy clips as interludes from past comedy greats in their projects.

With the passing of so many of my favorite comics over the past few years I decided to make this mix. I also promised a mix when my documentary series Headland & Delowe found a new distributor.

 I renewed with Brooklyn Radio earlier this month and a new episode will air 3.15.11

I still trashed the mix. Then yesterday I heard Mike DeStefano died.

So here we are.

Grits ‘n Gravy, as always, is a mix of  some of my favorite music from previous months, a few from the less recent past. It mostly consists of Atlanta artists. As always there are a few themes involved.  This one is about heartbreak and…#swag. Blah Blah Blah…

Tracks by, featuring or produced by an ATLanta based or born artist will have an asterisk by their name in the track listing. I’m no DJ and no individual tracks will be provided upon request.  

Grits ‘n Gravy #19 - Dead Funny

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  1. Bobby Creekwater - Home of the Brave *
  2. Kid Sister feat. Gucci Mane - Gucci Rag Top *
  3. I-20 - 100%  (I had no clue he was african. Who knew?) *
  4. Balmorhea - Clamour (Prefuse 73 Mix) / Rahseed - on Jamaicans *
  5. Big Rec feat. Tom P & Playboy Tre - SUMTHIN 2 SAY *
  6. Waka Flocka ft Jarvis -  ? *
  7. Frank Ocean - Love Crimes
  8. Danny Brown - Radiohead
  9. Jai Paul - BTSTU
  10. Chromeo - 100% (Treasure Fingers Mix) / Richard Pryor - on Heartbreak *
  11. Collie Buddz - Playback
  12. Graham Knox - Dollar *
  13. Illastrate - 1ne 4 You / Bill Hicks - on “Exploring Inner and Outer Space” *
  14. Melo X feat. Theophilus London & Jesse Boykins III - She is Forever
  15. STANZA - The First Move *
  16. RittZ - Smash Potatoes (Prod. Burn one) *
  17. Maluca - Hector
  18. Rye Rye - Chase Money
  19. Rusko - Feel So Good (Dubble Dutch Remix) / Robert Schimmel on Dr. Questions
  20. Stalley feat Rashad - Slapp
  21. L.A.U.S.D feat. Blu & J*Davey - iFeel 
  22. Miguel feat. J Cole - All I Want is You
  23. Freddie Gibbs - It’s all Cognac
  24. Aleon Craft - Time Machine (prod. SMKA) *
  25. Random Rabbit - Gasping for Air / Mike Destafano on Fake Cheerfulness. *
  26. Consequence - Screenshot
  27. James Blake - Limit to your Love
  28. Dillon Maurer feat Paten Locke - Love Died (prod Supa Dave West) *
  29. ScHoolboy Q feat. Punch & BJ The Chicago Kid - I’m Good 
  30. Phaseone -  All to herself / George Carlin on Earth 
  31. Smutlee - Body Language /Look Pon Me
  32. Natee - Back 2 Da Block
  33. REESE - Stone Cold Steve Austin *
  34. Kid Cudi - Trapped in My Mind
  35. Jay Electronica feat. JFK - The Announcement
  36. Quadron - Baby Be Mine
  37. Gorillaz - Aspen Forest / Greg Giraldo on  Jesus, Dessert and Gas guzzlers.
  38. Will - Almost Famous *
  39. Bilal - Levels (Flying Lotus Edit)
  40. Akua Naru - The Backflip (Inst)  / Bernie Mac on The taste of Pumpkin Pie
  41. Green Tea - Who Woulda Thought (prod. AppleJac) *
  42. Ceelo Green feat. Lauren Bennett - Love Gun *
  43. Bobby Creekwater feat. Big K.R.I.T & Killer Mike - Airborne *
  44. Pastor Troy - Dirty Atlanta *

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dominickbrady:

Mos Def Ft Talib Kweli- History

dominickbrady:

how i got over

Posted the trailer 2 wks ago, here’s the full vid from the Roots crew.

dominickbrady:

The State of Georgia needs to stop treating Atlanta like a wicked stepchild.  She’s one of the jewels of this state and brings commerce to outlying regions within the state.  The city deserves respect. FUND MARTA.  Stop being dumb.

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thomaswheatley:

adrifting:

Atlanta & Transit: Once a Leader, Now Lagging

wow.

via joeventures

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This might be perfection. via AllHipHop.com

dominickbrady:

An excerpt of an editorial by someone with unimpeachable taste in Hip Hop: Hexmurda (manager for Black Milk, Elzhi & Guilty Simpson and the funniest guy on twitter)

Click the link for the entire piece written on 9/2/09

By hexmurda

I don’t hate Drake.

There, I said it. Don’t know the dude, never met him. I think he’s a talented cat, rappin’ and actin’ and sangin’ and all that. He’s even got the only record spinnin’ on urban radio that I don’t hate more than the KKK hates Obama. But that doesn’t make him the savior of Hip-Hop. Not by a longshot. However, apparently some real CEO’s (not the n****as in your hood with business cards for their record label and their car wash, with numbers scratched out) these n****as inhabit whole floors of skyscrapers and have anointed Drake “NEXT.” I can see it now, intra-office memos written in invisible ink, phone calls where coded phrases like “bury the sun” are uttered, secret communiques transported by carrier pigeon. Clandestine meetings on park benches where identical briefcases are exchanged. Limos pulling up to a rinky dink bodega in Brooklyn, with the shrouded occupants going through a hidden door behind the counter, down a secret passageway lined with platinum plaques. The passage leading to an underground fortress, that either looks like a witches’ coven or the f***ing NORAD bunker. They’re all here. All of them. Morris. Bronfman. Cohen. Rhone. Liles. Reid. Greenwald. Iovine. All of them. Sitting in thrones at a huge table carved out of an ancient oak tree, drinking from golden goblets filled with a substance that bears an uncanny resemblance to blood. These are the people who make the decisions. They decide whose careers thrive and who ends up on a f***ing milk carton in XXL. These are the folks who operate the proverbial “MACHINE,” and they can George Bush the button whenever they feel like it. And they have convened for one reason, and one reason only. DRAKE…

dominickbrady:

Southern Justice.  This is why I always say that the history of the Confederacy is more complicated than we’d oft like to think.

Interesting.  Think I might actually try and get that book. The confederacy and surrounding talk of ‘heritage’ it automatically conjures up has always intrigued me. Though ths prob has lil to do w/ the ‘heritage’ most folks I talk to are speaking of, haha

dominickbrady:

A group that does work with school systems but is diverse and believes in diversity as well as in celebrating ethnic cultures and their history is Projectsouth.  Project South is based right here in Atlanta and they work more from the scope of social awareness and as advocates for disenfranchised groups like those with disabilities, illness, victims of gender/race/sexuality based marginalization, etc:

Founded in 1986, Project South acts as a regional hub for leadership development, movement-building, and long-term strategy development within community-based organizing for racial and economic justice. By creating collective spaces for communities and organizations to develop bottom-up grassroots organizing models, Project South shifts Southern-based organizing from reactive battles to visionary and strategic movement building on local, regional, and national levels.
Project South works directly with young people, intergenerational collaborations, Southern-based organizations, communities affected by social control and violence, cross-regional alliances, and our Atlanta and Southeastmembership base. Our three primary strategies to increase the viability of community-based efforts to shift resources and power

nakaonwood

dominickbrady:

There are MANY of these here in Atlanta.  They do a good job with teaching kids material that is waaaaaay ahead of the curriculum in the Public school system here in the city, BUT…the few I’ve been to are racially and gender/sexuality biased as hell.  They might have a few whites and latinos in them, but some of what they teach goes a bit too far for ME.

I have a problem with that.  I went to a Private school in Brookyln that was West-Indian centric.  We learned a lot about Island and African culture and THEY were a bit out there for me, too.

A happy medium is best.  There are schools here that give that like the Nsoromma school

Some of the others? I don’t know. I asked one of their administrators if there was such a thing as a good white person and he laughed at me.  I walked away.

nakaonwood:

Independent African Centered Education.

Great idea, long time coming but how feasible is it?

I know of a couple of places around Atlanta that seem to have that vibe, The Shrine of the Black Madonna in the West End, a lil elementary school (@ least I think it is) off Campbelton but can this really spread on a larger scale?  Maybe it’s not meant to. Maybe not yet.

Maybe we’ll just keep having these little enclaves of schools that cater specifically to our culture in tiny niches until one day people see learning our true great history as not only legitimate but as a vital pursuit.

Man I feel you on that biased tip.  I’m starting to work with a few groups around the City that want me to film promo’s for their org’s and they’re pretty much on the same empowerment tip.  They have a great message to share with the people but they seem to feel white people can’t be trusted and that is a big problem with me.  Where is the balance?  I understand many powerful white people in the past have caused a lot of horrible problems for millions of people (and many people of all races are still doing it).  But singling out the whole race is just repeating the other side of the problems that got us here.  Sigh. What is it about cats that preach knowledge of black history and hating white people…must these two things really go hand in hand?

Thanks for droppin some knowledge, man.  Every effort is a step in the right direction in my book.  Even if there are flaws.

nakaonwood