We have seen a lot of slams... no, a LOT of Slams... hundreds and hundreds of 'em. The 2009 Oakland Slam Team Finals show was definitely in the top 1%. Absolutely the best show that we've thrown at The Oasis if not ever. It was so DOPE it was ridiculous! The caliber of the writing was incredible. The passion in the performance was off the scale. ( Read more... )

uh-oh is all i'm sayin.

sweat equity's gettin me down
my people got skin in the game
but while we're interested
the only thing compound
is the fracture between
reality and having the money
it takes to make more

If you didn't come out on Thursday you missed a DOPE show! As always, we start out the evening with the open-mic and it's been heating up. For the third month in a row we had musicians in the house and I'm digging the trend. Especially tight was band Smartmouth & The Knowitalls - they killed it. We also had emcee Shyst flowing over beats and ( Read more... )

Hey folks -
For anyone that's on FaceBook you should join the group "Blackfolk on LiveJournal" - I was gonna set up a little refugee camp over there for us but figured I'd look and see if anyone already had... and that's what I found. It's not the same as LJ I know but it's better than not bumping into y'all at all here on the interwebs.

I don't know what it would look like or where it would be but I've been asked to consider putting something together and just wanted to see if there was any interest in the community... hey community - you interested?

obtuse
-choose to lose sight of what's right
-let loose when tight might incite insight

so last night we watched Rudolph's Shiny New Year and A Year Without Santa Claus. That ish really does have a way of bringing you right back to your youth. With all of the advances in animation it's crazy to see that it hasn't necessarily gotten better... just cheaper (rotoscoping aside). Not until Robot Chicken has there been the kind of genius ( Read more... )

shhh....

I definitely am not.
don't call me for a ride... I will only point you to her.
(if you're married you know how this works. If you're not, just because we are doesn't mean that we share the same mind (hell we don't even share the same thought process (not even close really)))