ELECTRO HOP -SOUTHERN HIP HOPS ORIGINS

FROM TIME TO TIME I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO MUSIC AND WONDERING HOW I VEERED THAT WAY. IT USUALLY TAKES ME A WHILE TO GET IT BUT THEN THE LIGHTBUB ALWAYS COMES. SEE I USED TO BE A BUYER AT AN INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE IN LOUIVILLE
www.earxtacy.com AND AT THAT JOB I WAS EXPOSED TO A MINT OF MUSIC I WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN DREAMED OF LISTENING TO OR EVEN SPENDING MY CABBAGE TO SEE WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. THERE WAS ONE GUY THAT ALWAYS WOULD PLAY OLD 1930'S GOSPEL AND JAZZ DRUMING CD'S NOW I HAD SEVERAL JAZZ CDS IN MY COLLECTION BUT ONLY ONE JAZZ DRUMMER CD BY ART BLAKEY. SEE IT HIT ME WHY EVER NOW AND THEN I LIKE A SOUTHERN RAP RECORD PURELY THE BEAT WHICH IS CREATED ON BORROWED BEAT PATTERNS FROM VINTAGE JAZZ RECORDS HENCE ITS NOT EVEN NEW AND MY MIND PICKS UP ON THE FAMILARITY NOT KNOWING WHY I DID SOME OF THE BEATS.. STILL DON’T GET INTO IT ALL THE WAY TO THE POINT WHERE I PITCH MY DESIRE FOR SUBJECT MATTER BUT WHEN ITS KIND OF PARTY MUSIC I CAN DIG IT SOME.. IM MORE OPEN MINDED THEN I EVEN APPEAR TO MYSELF.. WAIT TIL YOU HEAR MY MIX CD BLING PACK MUSIC !! YOU WILL SEE HOW I BASTARDIZED THE STYLE COHESIVELY BUT WHEN I THINK OF IT , IT GOES BACK TO WHEN I WAS LITTLE AND MY BIG BROTHER WOULD PLAY kRAFTWERK

WHICH IS WHAT CROSSED OVER INTO THE WHOLE B-BOY BREAKDANCE MOVEMENT. I DISCOVERED AN ARTIST PRODUCED BY KANYE'S DJ (A-TRAK) AND IT BLEW ME AWAY CAUSE IT REMINDED ME OF THAT MUSIC BUT WITH ALOT OF OTHER THINGS MIXED IN LIKE A FEMALE KANYE MIXED WITH TWISTA AND MUSICALLY SOUNDING LIKE THE 80'S AND NOW. HER NAME IS "KID SISTER"WHEN I USED TO BE IN CHICAGO IN THE EARLY 90'S I WOULD HEAR MUSIC SO SEGREGATED AND THATS ALSO WHY THIS NEW ARTIST SURPRISED ME. THE CURENT SINGLE IS CALLED "PRO NAILS"FT. KANYE WEST I CAN FIND NASTALGIA SO EASILY WITH MY LOW ATTENTION SPAN FOR WHATS OUT NOW.

WHICH IS AN ODE TO THE FEMALE HOOD PAST TIME OF GETTING YOUR NAILS DONE WHICH MADE IT EVEN ALL THE MORE REMINICENT. I CAN REMEMBER MY PEOPLES SISTERS HAVING ALL THE HOT COLORS TO MATCH THE WORKOUT SOFT REEBOK'S ITS WEIRD HOW A TOPIC CAN MAKE YOUR MIND SPIN BACK TO A SPECIFIC TIME .COPY THE LINK BELOW TO LISTEN http://www.boomkat.com/artist.cfm?a=13855

LOVE POEM - DNA

I MISS THE FEEL OF YOUR SKIN....

LAST NIGHT I SWORE I FELT IT AGAINST MY BACK

THE WIND BLEW AND I THOUGHT I HEARD YOUR VOICE

WHY DID YOU LEAVE??

MY SOUL ONCE STRUGGLED TO GRASP THE APPEARANCE OF YOUR FACE

YOUR IMAGE HAUNTS MY SOUL AND MY MIND TRYS TO CON ITS POWER

"IT WILL GO AWAY" SHHH REST - BUT YOU DECEND WITH THE POWER OF AMUN

YOUR LOVE IS THE PUREST ENERGY JOLTING MY DNA

I TOSS AS THAT ENERGY DEMANDS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

"WAKE UP" YOU CANT IGNORE THIS ! HOLDING MY MIND AT ITS NECK SPEAKING,

LOOKING IT IN ITS THIRD EYE.... BLOODSHOT FROM MOURNING

I WAS A GHOST PASIFYING YOUR ABUSED HEART

I INJECTED HOLY WATER TO MAKE YOU WHOLE ..SHHH WHAT IS THAT?

WHY DID YOU GO ?

A KNOCK PRESENTS ITSELF IN THE FORM OF NAIL THAT HAMMERED YOUR HEARTS BOX

I WAS THE BAR THAT OPENED IT AND LET THE DOVES FLY.....BUT NOW ITS DARK

THE DOVES WINGS ARE DIRTY FROM THE NOW TAINTED HOLY WATER

AND THERE IS NO LIGHT FOR THEM TO FLY RIGHT, THE NAIL IS WICKED

... I MISS YOU

WHERE DID YOU GO ?

-SAFARI-BLACK (COPYRIGHT) 2007

J-DILLA TRIBUTE PARTY

J-DILLA PENNED THE TERM "TURN IT UP" FROM HIS RERELEASE RUFF DRAFT EP RERELEASE www.stonesthrow.com IF YOU WERE NOT IN THE NEW YORK AREA YOU MISSED SOME OF THE BEST MUSIC FROM THE MIDWEST LEDGENDARY BEATSMITH J-DILLA ! HIS MOTHER WAS A GUEST HONAREE


MIDWEST STAND UP !!

CUTFAMILY FOUNDATION X SAFARI-BLACK @ THE GOODLIFE-PINK DOOR SHOW 9/1/07

RECENTLY I HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH A FUNK BAND OUT FIT CALLED "THE CUT FAMILY FOUNDATION " ( http//www.myspace.com/thecutfamilyfoundation )(http://www.thecutfamilyfoundation.com/). THE DECIDED TO DO A 26 MINUTE SHOW BLENDING SOME OF THERE NEWER AND OLDER WORK. WE COLLABORATED ON A SONG CALLED LUST CONSUMED. IT WAS A SONG THAT REAL KIND OF SPLITS INTO TWO SONGS. ITS A STORY I WROTE ABOUT A DELUSIONAL MAN THAT MEETS A LADY THAT IS SPOKEN FOR THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WAS TAKEN ALREADY. IT JOLTS INTO THE MIND OF IRRATIONAL LUST FOR SOMETHING AT ALL RISK. I DONT WONT TO GIVE TOO MUCH OUT AS IT WILL BE LINKED SOON FOR THE FULL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I AM DESCRIBING. KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS PEELED ENJOY THE SHOW PICS....

"THE PINK DOOR" THE VENUE
http://pinkdoorlouisville.com/Welcome.html

CANDLE ALTER IN THE ENTRANCE WAY

SECURTIY SYSTEM ( LEO THE PROTECTOR LION )

ROCK FOUNTAIN

PRE SHOW...

DJ DWIGHT JOHNSON DROPPING SOME SOULFUL HIP HOP GROOVES...

CUT FAMILY FOUNDATION SETTING UP... BREW AND HENNY ON THE ROCKS (LOL) - HE HAS A MEAN SOUL CLAP BY THE WAY

THERE IS AN ANGEL ON MY SHIRT BUT THERE IS NOTHING ANGELIC ABOUT GIVING DIRECTIONS...

PRE SHOW CROWD SIPPIN ON SPIRITS....

KARMA 7TH (globalthredz recordings AFFILIATE) STARTING THE SHOW

SCION/TOYOTTA SPONSERED THE EVENT...

ME PERFORMING "LUST CONSUMED" BEATING MY CHEST FOR EMPHASIS lol

GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS.....

SKULLS - SKULLS -SKULLS ..............

I BET MANY OF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY I AM WRITING ABOUT SKULLS. ??? MAN THEY ARE EVERYWHERE , ON SHOES, ICED OUT (THAT MEANS REAL DIAMONDS OR CUBIC ZIRCONIA) BELT BUCKLES, CANDLES AND YES EVEN PLATES LIKE BELOW.



WHERE DID THIS POP CULTURE INFATUATION COME FROM. IN RAP MUSIC YOU HAVE ALOT OF 80'S ROCK INFLUENCE UPON THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY. AND IT SEEMS TO NOT EVEN BE CENTERED IN ONE MOVEMENT. YOU SEE IT ON MOTORCYCLIST , SKATEBOARDERS, RAPPPERS , AND HOUSE WARE DESIGNERS DEAN AND DELUCA http://www.deandeluca.com/skull_plates.aspx . EVEN THE IMPERIALIST FOUNDERS OF THIS COUNTRY BELONG TO SECRET SOCIETIES THAT USE THE SKULL AND BONES AS THERE INSIGNIA. http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones.html YEAH THE SAME PEOPLE THAT FUNDED ADOLF HITLER. HOW THINGS OF THIS NATURE BECOME INOCCENT FASION PARAFANALIA IS BEYOND ME (SHOULDER SHRUG). EVEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE CLOTHING COMPANIES L-R-G LIFTED RESEARCH GROUP DESIGHNED THE DEAD SERIOUS HOODY PICTURED ON KANYE WEST


IF your lights go out you can allways rely on your.. skull candle ! i dont get the big deal if you get it let me know...(shrug)

FITTED CAP INFATUATION..OR LOVE??

I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED HATS . EVERY SINCE I WAS LITTLE I HAVE LOVED THEM , BUT IN THE LAST 3 TO 4 YEARS I HAVE FALLEN DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH FITTED NEW ERAS IN PARTICULAR. YOU HAVE REALLY TWO TYPES REGULAR NEW ERAS THEN YOU HAVE NEW ERA COLLABORATIONS WITH VARIOUS COMPANIES LIKE THE ONE I AM WEARING ABOVE NEW ERA X 10 DEEP - pharoah/KIng Tut .THE COLLAB SERIES ALWAYS HAVE A SERIOUS HIGH QUALITY CRAFTMANSHIP THAT IS A STEP ABOVE THE MALL BOUGHT NEW ERAS.THE NEW ERA X 10 DEEP I HUNTED IT DOWN AS IT WAS SOLD OUT AND LIMITED EDITION. I TEND TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND WHEN I WANT ONE SPECIFIC THING AND DONT NOT SETTLE WELL FOR ALTERNATES BUT I AM DIGRESSING A LITTLE SO LET ME HOP BACK IN. I THINK I OWN CLOSE TO 20 RIGHT NOW WHICH IN SOME RESPECTS MAY SEEM EXCESSIVE. SOME TIMES ITS THE COLOR , SOME TIMES ITS THE DETAIL , SOME TIMES ITS THE ECENTRICNESS OF THE PIECE. REALLY FOR ME SOMETIMES THE CRAZIER THE BETTER .

VACATION YEAR ROUND WITH THIS LEROY JENKINS ( PIECE. HE IS STRAIGHT CUTTING EDGE STEPPING AWAY FROM ALL THE OTHER DESIGNERS . HE WAS A FORMER DESIGNER FOR ECKO UNLIMITED AND AKADEMICS..

I COULD NOT GET THIS AFRICAN FABRIC INSPIRED JOINT HERE DUE TO THE ER UMM.. size of my HEAD (SMILE)


PHARRELS' COMPANY JUMPED IN AS WELL BBC(BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB) X NEW ERA DENIM? YES DENIM AND ITS BANNANAS ( THAT MEANS GOOD FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT BE UP TO CUFF WITH HIP HOP SLANG..SEE YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING BY READING MY BLOGS

WK INTERACT -BRING ME BACK ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGN

FOR THE LONGEST I HAVE ARGUED THE POINTLESSNESS OF THE WAR IN IRAQ. THE PRESENT PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION HAS NEVER HAD A PLAN FOR THAT WAR. THEY ONLY HAD AN AGENDA UNRELATED TO THE FALSE CLAIMS THAT WERE COOKED UP TO SELL THE WAR .


THE USE OF PROPAGANDA , RACISM , AND STEREO-TYPES WERE AND ARE USED TO MOLD IDEAS AND OPINIONS, AND BETTER YET THE CRAZIEST PROPAGANDA THAT SEEMS TO BE ALL OVER THE MEDIA FROM TELE-JOURNALIST IS THAT IF YOU OPPOSE THE WAR YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF TERRORISM OR TERRORIST. HELLO THAT JUST MEANS I AM AGAINST KILLING . TO CHRISTIANS (WHICH THEY ALL CLAIMED TO BE STAUNCH HISTORIANS DURING THE PAST ELECTION ) ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HANDED TO MOSES SAYS "THOU SHALL NOT KILL" .


TERRORIST DO EXIST (EVERYWHERE) , THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED THROUGH TERRRORISM , (THE INDIAN MASSACRES, AND THE AFRICAN PEOPLE KIDNAPPINGS) SO FOR THOSE PEOPLE TO KEEP DYING FOR CAPITOLISTIC AND ILLUMANATI GOALS IS GROTESQUE TO SAY THE LEAST . THE ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING A STRONG LEAN TOWARDS COMMUNISM BY NOT ALLOWINg AMERICAS CITIZENS FREEDOM OF SPEECH, TO SPEAK THERE OPINION. ANYONE IN OPPOSITION IS QUICKLY THROWN INTO BEING A SUPPORTER OF OSAMA BIN LADEN OR AL QUEADA.

NEW YORK GRAFFITI ARTIST WK-INTERACT HAS LAUNCHED A PROVOKING CAMPAIGN TITLED "BRING ME BACK" THE SIGHT OF EACH IMAGE ARE URGENT, COMPELING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING. AND JUST THE WHOLE IDEA OF THAT OCCURING ON US SOIL IS EVEN DEEPER AND RARELY EVEN CONSIDERED. SEE PICS....




LAWS WILL NEVER LEGISLATE LOVE, ONLY THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE ...-SAFARI-BLACK

Yoko Ono's "IMAGINE PEACE TOWER"

GROWING UP IN THE 80'S I WAS EXPOSED TO A VERY DIVERSE POOL OF MUSIC SOME EXPECTED AND SOME NOT SO EXPECTED. MY OLDEST SISTER USED TO LISTEN TO DAVID BOWIE (LETS DANCE PUT ON YOUR RED SHOES AND DANCE) OKAY I AM BACK THAT BEAT WAS CRAZY AND STILL IS BUT ANYWAYS . MUSIC WAS LESS SEGREGATED IN THOSE SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS TO GET TO THE ONE YOU WERE WAITING ON . IN MY CASE IT WAS THE NEW RUN DMC OR LL COOL J VIDEO. I WATCHED TEARS FOR FEARS , SIMPLY RED , MADONNA , PETER GABRIEL, DURAN DURAN, AND JOHN LENNON WOULD ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE ON A RADIO STATION AT NIGHT WHEN MY BIG BROTHER WOULD TURN ON THE RADIO...THINKING ABOUT THOSE DAYS I DID NOT KNOW HOW MUSIC BRIDGED PEOPLE THAT WOULD NEVER INTERACT . AS A MEMORIAL TO HER LATE HUSBAND JOHN LENNON SHE HAD THE "

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER

"CREATED THE PICTURE ABOVE IS IN INCREDIBLE I WISH I HAD ONE IN MY FRONT YARD TO TICK MY NEIGHBORS OFF ( MY NEIGHBORS ARE REAL UPTIGHT BY THE WAY ) . THE TOWER IS LIGHT IS LOCATED IN ICELAND. MODERN AVANT SCI FI FOR SURE...Few figures in the art world are as polarizing as YOKO ONO, but her most ambitious project to date, the “IMAGINE PEACE TOWER” which was unveiled in the presence of Sean Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison’s widow Olivia in Iceland yesterday, October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s 67th birthday, is designed to bring people together while honoring her late husband’s memory. Envisioned in 1967 by Ono as a sort of conceptual “light house,” the monument, located on Videy island, near Reykjavik, is comprised of a large, cylindrical “wishing well” structure adorned with the phrase “Imagine Peace” in 24 languages that projects intense beams of light skyward to form a temporary “virtual structure” similar to the memorial twin towers of light once projected at Ground Zero in New York. Scheduled to be lit annually from Lennon’s birthday on October 9th until the anniversary of his death on December 8th, the tower serves to project the handwritten wishes for peace collected by Ono from thousands of fans worldwide which now lie buried in time capsules around the tower into the sky. The artist chose the remote nation for the memorial’s location because of its environmentally and politically positive stance and also the country’s northern orientation so that, in her own words, “peace may filter down throughout the world”…

What is Bling-Pack Music ???

J-DILLA R.I.P. (1974-2006)

THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG IS IN PART THE TITLE OF THE CURRENT MIXTAPE THAT I AM CREATING WHICH WILL HAVE A LINK HERE IN THE FUTURE FOR A FREE DOWNLOAD. BUT ANYWAYS "BLING-PACK" IS A COMBINATION OF THE STEREOTYPICAL CATEGORIES THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED BY HIP HOP MEDIA/AND RECORD COMPANIES TO LABEL SPECIFIC GENRE OF HIP HOP MUSIC. I WILL BRIEFLY EXPLAIN: IN THE POST GOLDEN DAY ERA OF HIP HOP "traditional hip hop" was labeled "BACK PACK RAP" THIS LABEL WOULD BECOME THE STAMP FOR ANY ARTIST PROMOTING TRADITIONAL, CONSCIOUS, AFROCENTRIC,BOHEMIAN, OR EXPERIMENTAL (READ SIDE BAR ARTISTIC) EXHIBIT #1-ME(SMILE)



READ THIS ARTICLE FROM IMAGEYENATION.COM (http://www.imageyenation.com/?itemid=507). THE BIGGEST STEREOTYPE BEING THAT ITS CONSUMERS AND SUPPORTERS ALL ROCK BACKPACKS EVERYWHERE.THEN AS HIP HOP BECAME A BUISNESS THAT CONSUMED THE GLOBE LABELS CHOSE TO MARKET ARTIST THAT EXEMPLIFIED MATERIALISM THUS SPAWNING THE LABEL"BLING BLING RAP". THE FUNNY THING ABOUT IT IS THAT I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT ECCENTRIC LIVING , FLASHY IMAGERY, AND HIGH PRICED AUTOS,CLOTHING AND JEWELRY WERE MORE ABOUT BLACK CULTURE THAN ANYTHING LOOK AT SOME OF ERIC B AND ALBUM COVERS
or RUN DMC
OR SLICK RICK I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS...

I was ridiculed the other day for having a rolex. I don't apologize for that or My Last Range Rover i had. That cars craftsmanship saved my life in the auto accident where i was rear ended by another vehicle. People of African Decent have always been eccentric as hell.See pictures of KIng Tuts TOMB (www.kingtut.com) Now i don't want to hear 16 tracks about the size of your rims and i wont make a cd that has that content but that is part of our culture... so Bling-pack is just the amalgamation of all of what i am. Buy your conscious rap fan girlfriend a diamond engagement ring and see if she objects. And in the words of the late great "J-DILLA" DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND copy and past this link to listen (http://nerdwithswag.com/2007/04/17/j-dilla-diamonds-prod-by-nitti/) ending note Hip-hop has never been completely one thing but a mixture of things related and unrelated...

WHy Grown Men Love Sneakers .....

I ONCE HAD A GIRLFRIEND THAT DID NOT UNDERSTAND MY AFFECTION FOR VINTAGE SNEAKERS. SHE ACCUSED ME OF LOVING THEM MORE THAN HER. AND EVEN THOUGH I STILL HAVE THEM AND NOT HER I THINK THE COMPARISON WAS NUTS INSERT *(SMILE)* HERE.lol

THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS.... FOR SOME ONE OF BLACK HERITAGE ME AND MANY OF MY FRIENDS CAME FROM WORKING CLASS FAMILIES WHICH MEANT ONE PAIR OF SNEAKERS ONE PAIR OF CHURCH SHOES AT A TIME. AND THAT ONE PAIR WOULD BE TREATED LIKE GOLD. I DID ALL TYPES OF THINGS TO TRICK MYSELF INTO BELIEVING THAT I HAD MORE BY CHANGING THE SHOE STRING COLORS ( I HAD A BOX WITH EVERY COLOR IN THE CRAYOLA COLOR FAMILY). I WOULD LACE THEM CHECKER BOARD , TWO COLORS IN AT THE SAME TIME. ONE COLOR IN ONE SHOE AND ONE IN THE OTHER. THERE WAS A FEELING THAT HAS TO BE THE SAME AS WHEN A LADY BUYS HERSELF A NEW HANDBAG . SNEAKERS ARE THE SAME THING TO MEN, AND IN MANY RESPECTS A GROWN MAN HAVING A COLLECTION IS RECLAIMING AND HEALING THE TIMES OF NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE SO MANY. LIKE KANYE SAID "WAIT TIL I GET MY MONEY RIGHT" I PROMISE!! I WILL BUY A WHOLE SNEAKER BOUTIQUE !!

Ever sat at home on a Saturday Night bored Stiff ? of course not but anyways keep you butt at home to check out my Collegues radio show on http://www.wrfl881.0rg/ for some pure hip hip for 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 am every Saturday .... At its free and i know you love free stuff LOL - Sblack

WHATS GOOD PEOPLE ? I HAVE BEEN STEADILY WORKING ON THAT HEAT. BLING-PACK MUSIC THE MIX CD!!

THE PROCESS HAS BEEN NUTS ALL TYPES OF MONKEY WRENCHS THROWN IN BUT ITS COMING ALONG AND WILL BE THAT FIRE GAUREENTED. IT WILL BE A COLLECTION OF MY WORKS COLLABORATIONS AND SOME OF MY FAVORITE JOINTS. SO HOLD TIGHT.MAN ALMOST FORGOT DJ-Q (SLUGGAH ENT., CORD DJ-S, SHADYVILE DJ.S) my ace . be sure to peep his up coming Mixtape with Nike Team Skater P-rod . That will be nuts and i prolly will have an exclusive track on there for that... peace