As we prepare for Donuts Are Forever 4 tomorrow It is our honor to be joined by T3 of Slum Village. We will talk to him about Dilla's legacy and losing Baatin.
*Rare Form
Donuts Are Forever organizers, Dee Phunk and Tara from Rare Form join us all afternoon to talk Dilla, play Dilla and celebrate Dilla.
*Dealing with Death
Dilla tributes are a beuatiful thing. Christopher T. Burris, Ph.D., Professor, St. Jerome's University calls in to discuss how culture's deal with and celebrate death.
Special mix from Bodega Fam DJ NessDigi. Ness will be rocking the best from the original Black President. Get your Afro Beat and Funk on this afternoon.
Don’t miss this historic as we salute and celebrate one of the most important people in the history of Hip-Hop – BHF host, Bodega mentor and inspiration Uncle Ralph McDaniels.
Blacksmith Records has an early present for ya. Talib Kweli, Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady and producer extraordinare Pete Rock will all be unwrapping their skills at the Highline on December 23rd. Do we really need to say anything else? Deck the halls, spike your eggnog and come support some live Hip-Hop.
We have three tickets to this jam
Answer this question: Who was the other half of Pete Rock's group for two albums and one EP?
One of the Bodega’s favorite artists, Q-Tip, is going to be getting the new year started off right.
@BrooklynBowl New Years Resolutions Giveaway!!
YOU plus five of your friends could be @BrooklynBowl VIP for New Years 2010! Enter to win 6 passes for you and your friends including a $100 Food and Beverage Tab, complimentary bottle of champagne at midnight, and 1 custom art/poster, signed by New Years performers! (Retailed at $500.00) <– ($40/person entrance x6, $100 food/bev, $60/champagne toast, $100/signed poster)
@BrooklynBowl will be collecting New Years Resolution Tweets until December 28th with trending topic #NYresolutionBB. On December 28th at NOON @BrooklynBowl will pick the BEST NEW YEARS RESOLUTION as the winner of the NYE Giveaway.
Brooklyn Bodega is proud to be a media sponsor for this event so come pop a some bottles, support us, support Brooklyn Bowl, and support live Hip-Hop!
Sunday, November 8th - 8p.m. - BB King's - 237 W. 42nd Street
2009 marks the 30th Anniversary of Teena Marie’s recording career with the June release of her thirteenth CD, Congo Square – and there’s a milestone for every decade that has led to it. First is the 16-song CD itself, boasting all of the panoramic musicality a fan could desire.
Second is her fresh alignment with Stax Records that –after her storied Motown debut in 1979 – marks the second time Teena has been proudly affiliated with a bedrock black music institution. Finally, there’s a more personal revelation regarding her family lineage that once and for all proves why she has been bursting with indisputable soul all these years. Teena has New Orleans roots!
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The Bodega has joined forces with NYC's longest running weekly jam - FREEDOM
I you all do not know about the book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, you need to. Felicia Pride examines her favorite hip-hop songs while incorporating her own personal reflections on life. She found that many hip- hop lyrics spoke directly to what was going on in her life, an aided her journey. Thus she dedicated this whole book to the songs that have helped her learn and live.
Recently at the Q-Tip concert at summer stage I thought that what I was experiencing was very similar to church, it was hot, I was dancing and clapping, and Q-Tip and Tribe Called Quest spoke to my personal needs. Felicia Pride speaks to the fact that hip-hop can be forum where one reflects and releases. The Message is truly a beautiful collection of work that reminds us of the healing components of hip-hop. For Video Thursday I will leave you all with the videos to some songs that she has written about as well as quotes from The Message about those songs. Enjoy! And take time out to reflect on how hip-hop music has helped your life.
"Umi Says" is inspired by Mos Def's Mother, Sheron "Umi" Smith, the woman who told her son to fight and shine his light. The tribute reminds me of how my own mother, from the moment I could breathe, instilled in me that I was a star, part of the solution, special, unique. Powerful. When I get weary and the pressure to unleash my power weighs heavy on my shoulders, I have no choice but to excel. I'm a role model, an example, a leader, and embodiment of the potential that my ancestors fought for."
"Lauryn Hill's "Everything is Everything" could be the choir's selection at church on Sunday. Similar to her soul godfather Sam Cooke, Hill releases from the heart a hip-hop spiritual where "change, it comes eventually." She sings about self-love as a solution to failure, dedication to our harvest, where we reap what we sow, and how even when it seems like our dreams won't materialize, we must maintain our faith."
"As must as some rap music has glamorized a trife life, there are those gems to counterbalance the claim and show the dangerous sport of boxing with Death. On the realness radar, I give "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" a ten. I never hung up a poster of the Houston rap group, but this remains one of the dopest hip-hop songs, and it could have aired on television as an anticrime public service announcement. Over the backdrop of an Isaac Hayes sample, which provided an extra dose of soul, the Geto Boys are lyrically convincing that when you're doing dirt it'll start to smell, and it's only a matter of time before someone comes to take out the garbage. The paranoia they describe doesn't sound pleasurable: Ever several seconds you're checking out the window, fearful for your life. Bad deeds come back to haunt you. You try to pray for forgiveness. Regret weighs heavy on your heart. Fear is your companion but not your friend. You stare at the walls and they stare back. Nerves are shot. Your dreams are filled with adversaries taking you down. the only place free of worry is death. Is it worth it?"
"They Reminisce Over You" is dedicated to Trouble T-Roy (Troy Dixon), a friend of Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth and a former member of Heavy D. & The Boyz. It's a musical celebration of their friends spirit. "T.R.O.Y." reminds me to never forget...We all have developed methods to (not) cope with death, and many of us have found our own ways to keep memories alive. It doesn't matter if we pour otu liquor, rhyme about friends who have passed, hold candle light vigils, or speak to the departed at night. All that matters is that we never forget."
All passages from The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip-Hops Greatest Songs by Felicia Pride.
Revive Da Live announces its highly anticipated upcoming concert, Friday FEBRUARY 27, 2009 at Le Poisson Rouge. Celebrating the 2nd installment of their experimental concert segments, ‘The Flagship Series’ Revive Da Live seeks to bring people back to New York City's Jazz scene from the 1940’s and beyond. Revive Da Live will present jazz standards that were popular between years 1940 and 1970, swing, bebob, free jazz to fusion jazz era’s. While performed, these jazz standards will transition into the popular Hip Hop songs that derived from or were inspired by these particular standards.
The Theme of the event is Dizzy Gillespies "Night in Tunisia" which was later Gangstarr’s “Words I Manifest”
WHEN: Friday, February 27th - 11:00pm doors; 11:30pm Showtime
WHERE: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan)
SPECIAL GUEST MCS:
PHONTE (Little Brother & Foreign Exhange) he will be doing a special featured set as well as be a part of the show.
RAYDAR ELLIS (Brick Records)
JOHN ROBINSON aka Lil Sci (Shaman Work / Beatvizion / Highwater Music)
Special Guest DJ- GE-OLOGY
Special Guest Musicians:
MARC CARY- KEYS & MUSICAL DIRECTOR
CASEY BENJAMIN- ALTO SAX
BEN WILLIAMS -BASS
LOUIS CATO- DRUMMER
AMBROSE - TRUMPET
JAMES CASEY- TENOR SAX
COREY KING- TROMBONE
ETIENNE CHARLES- TRUMPET
TICKETS: TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE
PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS AT http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=32276
OR RSVP EVENTS@REVIVEDALIVE.COM FOR MORE INFO
ITS $15 WITHOUT RSVP or ADVANCE PURCHASE
TEAM: LEE TURLEY, JARED PAULY, TOMOKO SUGIYAMA, MARY PRYOR OF WE FANCY & FOUNDER OF LADIES LOVE NYC, LAURIE MARKIEWICZ AND BRINA PAYNE, BK BODEGA, HIGH WATER MUSIC, LADIES LOVE, WE FANCY and ARISE.
THANK YOU TO SEAN GALLAGHER FROM LTDplus.com FOR THE FLYER DESIGN!!!!!!
Revive Da Live announces its highly anticipated upcoming concert, Friday FEBRUARY 27, 2009 at Le Poisson Rouge. Celebrating the 2nd installment of their experimental concert segments, ‘The Flagship Series’ Revive Da Live seeks to bring people back to New York City's Jazz scene from the 1940’s and beyond. Revive Da Live will present jazz standards that were popular between years 1940 and 1970, swing, bebob, free jazz to fusion jazz era’s. While performed, these jazz standards will transition into the popular Hip Hop songs that derived from or were inspired by these particular standards.
The Theme of the event is Dizzy Gillespies "Night in Tunisia" which was later Gangstarr’s “Words I Manifest”
WHEN: Friday, February 27th - 11:00pm doors; 11:30pm Showtime
WHERE: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan)
SPECIAL GUEST MCS:
PHONTE (Little Brother & Foreign Exhange) he will be doing a special featured set as well as be a part of the show.
RAYDAR ELLIS (Brick Records)
JOHN ROBINSON aka Lil Sci (Shaman Work / Beatvizion / Highwater Music)
Special Guest DJ- GE-OLOGY
Special Guest Musicians:
MARC CARY- KEYS & MUSICAL DIRECTOR
CASEY BENJAMIN- ALTO SAX
BEN WILLIAMS -BASS
LOUIS CATO- DRUMMER
AMBROSE - TRUMPET
JAMES CASEY- TENOR SAX
COREY KING- TROMBONE
ETIENNE CHARLES- TRUMPET
TICKETS: TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE
PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS AT http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=32276
OR RSVP EVENTS@REVIVEDALIVE.COM FOR MORE INFO
ITS $15 WITHOUT RSVP or ADVANCE PURCHASE
TEAM: LEE TURLEY, JARED PAULY, TOMOKO SUGIYAMA, MARY PRYOR OF WE FANCY & FOUNDER OF LADIES LOVE NYC, LAURIE MARKIEWICZ AND BRINA PAYNE, BK BODEGA, HIGH WATER MUSIC, LADIES LOVE, WE FANCY and ARISE.
THANK YOU TO SEAN GALLAGHER FROM LTDplus.com FOR THE FLYER DESIGN!!!!!!
