EMERGENCE

Check out this mixtape DJ Graffiti recently put together in preparation for the big show on Friday, February 5th.  Recorded live, the 11-track project features songs by M-1, Black Milk, One Be Lo, Buff1, and Invincible.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to buy your tickets for the show from Ticketmaster.

Tracklist + Download Link below

1.       M1 (of Dead Prez) – “I Am I’m Not”

2.       One Be Lo ft. Decompoze – “What It’s All About” [Rmx]

3.       Buff1 – “The Shift”

4.       Black Milk – “Give The Drummer Sum”

5.       One Be Lo ft. Mike Posner – “Pigs”

6.       Buff1 – “Beat The Speakers Up”

7.       M1 (of Dead Prez) ft. Ghostface Killah – “Been Through”

8.       Invincible – “Sledgehammer!”

9.       Black Milk – “Keep Going”

10.     Invincible & Finale – “Don’t Sleep”

11.     Dead Prez – “Hip Hop”

> > > Download HERE

5E Gallery Presents Ma Dukes is The Foundation - Celebrating Women in Hip Hop

Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 5E Gallery. 2125 Michigan Ave, Detroit (Corktown Area). 8pm-2am / Donation $10

This event is the first fundraising event for the J. Dilla Foundation. It will include live performances from Detroit's finest, Phat Kat, Big Tone, 5 ELA, Fatt Father, Miz Korona, One Be Lo, Finale, Invincible, Fat Ray and more. Sounds will be provided by DJ's; Dez, Sicari, LA Jedi and Mel Wonder. There will also be a special Awards Ceremony honoring Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey, the mother of J. Dilla.

The entire door goes to the J. Dilla Foundation so please come out and support you own!

Via Davey D:

A couple of months ago Detroit rap artist and activist Invincible touched down in Austin and San Antonio to share her musical talents and weigh in on an issue many in the community had been grappling with - Gentrification. Invincible noted that poor people being displaced from their neighborhood by more affluent residents was a huge deal in Detroit, so much so that she and her partner Finale did a song about it and accompanied it with a mini-documentary called Locusts. The video garnered lots of critical acclaim and has been a powerful teaching tool that Invincible often uses when speaking with young people while touring the country.

Locusts was a big hit when she swung through East Austin and talked with local youth over at PODER headquarters. The organization has long been dealing with gentrification, but Invincible being a popular Hip Hop artist with a video help crystalize the issue even more for the young people she met during her widely attended writing and political workshops. She encouraged people to hone in on their artistic skills and use them to bring attention to issues and concerns impacting their lives and the community. The workshops were incredible as many of the people stepped up and spoke truth to power. One of the people inspired was 16 year old Gabriel Padilla who has a keen interest in politics and pretty handy with editing and working the camera.

Padilla who has been a part of PODER’s Young Scholars for Justice Program wanted to get this issue wider exposure so he got together with PODER co-director Erika Gonzalez and counselor Peter Mendoza to do an ambitious full length documentary on gentrification in East Austin. In the weeks that followed, Padilla would come by the PODER office, meet with Gonzalez and Mendoza, help draw out a storyline, get feedback and advice, and basically grind away to craft what many are now seeing an important piece of work. His film which has been broken down into three parts was shown last month at Space 12. ...

We’ve gotten to know young Gabriel over the past few months as we would often see him and other young scholars speaking out at school board meetings and city council hearings. Padilla reminds us all that the future generation is on point and can move mountains if given the chance. We salute him for a job well done… Enjoy the documentary.

MCs Hakim Bellamy & Carlos Contreras welcome Detroit Hip-Hop phenoms Invincible and Finale for the first time to New Mexico. Plus special guests Def I, The People's Republic and Bat Wings for Lab Rats.

Saturday, January 9, 2010, 8PM at The Launchpad, 618 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque, NM.

$10 at door. Advance tix $8 available at Guerrilla Graphix - 2205 Silver SE @ Yale Blvd, ph 505-508-5202.

On the occasion of the Albuquerque meeting of the National Planning Committee for the United States Social Forum in Detroit, June 22-26, 2010.

Another World is Possible! Another U.S. is Necessary! Another Detroit is Happening!

Sponsored by the SouthWest Organizing Project. This event is a fundraiser for the US Social Forum.