Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Joell Ortiz -Project Boy prod By DJ Premier
Joell Ortiz is holding BK down if i am lying i am flying!
The Love is Gone! Why do our favorite Hip Hop Groups Break Up?
Why in music especially urban music groups tend to break up. At the peak of success?
Over the weekend i seen the twitter argument between 9th wonder and Phonte both with Rapper Pooh was in a group called Little Brother who in my opinion took the torch from a Tribe Called Quest. Lil Brother is one of my favorite groups so you know it hurt my heart reading the twitter response between Phonte and 9th. But it makes me wonder? Are there any groups in hip hop any more? Talk to me people? and if so let me know cause i cannot think of one group who have not broken up once. What's really going on?
Over the weekend i seen the twitter argument between 9th wonder and Phonte both with Rapper Pooh was in a group called Little Brother who in my opinion took the torch from a Tribe Called Quest. Lil Brother is one of my favorite groups so you know it hurt my heart reading the twitter response between Phonte and 9th. But it makes me wonder? Are there any groups in hip hop any more? Talk to me people? and if so let me know cause i cannot think of one group who have not broken up once. What's really going on?
Phonte speaks on Little Brother/9th Wonder from Phonte Coleman on Vimeo.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tony Yayo Obama
Say what you want but Yayo keeps it street and hood all the time. The music i like.
"I punish mics like frank castle"
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Murs & 9th Wonder -The Problem Is (Ft. Sick Jacken, Uncle Chucc
"i encourage you to live put the worst behind"
Monday, March 22, 2010
pssst Peep this! "Artist to look out for: Deena Jonez-The night
We at elevatorhustle.blogspot.com always support new hot artist sign and unsign.
And i must say Deena Jonez is a breath of fresh air. enjoy you can check her out at DeenaJonez.com
"hay young girl the world is yours"
And i must say Deena Jonez is a breath of fresh air. enjoy you can check her out at DeenaJonez.com
"hay young girl the world is yours"
Freeway "Hustler Prayer"
Freeway is mad under rated the dude got flow
"philly freezer from the street y'all"
Health Bill what does this mean? And is a good thing or a bad thing?
With health reform passing the House, a comprehensive overhaul of our health care system draws another step closer.
Coverage will expand to cover nearly 95 percent of legal U.S. residents. With a recent study showing that patients without health insurance have a shorter life span, coupled with the number of uninsured approaching 50 million in 2010, that is perhaps the biggest reason to cheer.
But with a critical shortage of primary care providers, these newly insured patients may have nowhere to turn for medical care. Massachusetts, the only state that offers universal coverage, suffers from some of the worst primary care wait times in the country despite having the highest concentration of doctors nationwide.
Health reform tries to help, mostly by modestly increasing both Medicaid and Medicare payments to primary care clinicians. But it's not nearly enough to convince medical students, already grappling with crippling school debt, who continue to gravitate toward lucrative specialty practice.
And what about the current primary care work force, where, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine, more than a quarter of doctors reported being burnt out and 30 percent indicated they would leave the field within five years? Health reform gives few solutions to alleviate the bureaucratic obstacles and time pressures that frustrate doctors and impede their relationship with patients.
Finally, the mere $50 million allotted to medical malpractice reform doesn't help patients hurt by medical mistakes, who are trapped in a dysfunctional system where one in six receives no financial compensation, the average case takes five years to resolve, and 54 cents of every awarded dollar go to pay legal fees. These individuals deserve an improved liability system that more fairly expedites compensation and helps doctors reduce errors and improve patient safety.
Although it's worth celebrating that the United States is close to joining the rest of the industrialized world in providing near-universal health coverage, the health reform conversation must continue -- both to improve the plight of injured patients and to ensure that the millions of newly insured have access to quality primary care.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Count Bass D and DJ Pocket Feat. Little Clayway-Start to Finish
"new funk 12 month 29th day"
Been a fan of Count Bass D and have worked with DJ Pocket on a number of projects he is like family props to these Brothers!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Gotta Believe It?-Saigon Ft Just Blaze"
"I know this song is old but this song is my isssh perfect for Mondays"
"I am the new public enemy i am different from Young Joc"
The Death of Conscious Hip Hop!
Is Conscious Hip hop Dead?
I mean are we as a people to comfortable? We as a people really do not have that much to complain about. Not saying we still don’t have issues but lets face it, are we still in slavery? Are we in a depression? Are we not going to the best schools and accomplishing the goals we put in front of us? Again I am not saying life is easy but I do see we as a people making progress. I remember when we had Public Enemy, Poor Righteous Teachers, X-clan, PARIS, Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, Two Kings in a Cipher, Divine Scholar, Tragedy etc We had all these artist/groups that spoke about what was going on From PE on the racial tension of the late 80’s to Brand Nubian dropping the five Percent Knowledge. Would you say all these conscious rappers was birth as a effect of the hard times that was before us? Or is it not profitable to make money off conscious hip hop? We do have a few Common, Reflection Eternal, Dead Prez,Mos Def, etc but lets face it how come some of these artist mention are not being played on the radio? I feel we, as a people should be able to request a KRS-One just as the same way we can request a Jay-Z and a Lil Wayne song.You tell me is conscious rap dead?
I thought this was interesting shout out to Diamond District this interview is the question i was asking.
I mean are we as a people to comfortable? We as a people really do not have that much to complain about. Not saying we still don’t have issues but lets face it, are we still in slavery? Are we in a depression? Are we not going to the best schools and accomplishing the goals we put in front of us? Again I am not saying life is easy but I do see we as a people making progress. I remember when we had Public Enemy, Poor Righteous Teachers, X-clan, PARIS, Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, Two Kings in a Cipher, Divine Scholar, Tragedy etc We had all these artist/groups that spoke about what was going on From PE on the racial tension of the late 80’s to Brand Nubian dropping the five Percent Knowledge. Would you say all these conscious rappers was birth as a effect of the hard times that was before us? Or is it not profitable to make money off conscious hip hop? We do have a few Common, Reflection Eternal, Dead Prez,Mos Def, etc but lets face it how come some of these artist mention are not being played on the radio? I feel we, as a people should be able to request a KRS-One just as the same way we can request a Jay-Z and a Lil Wayne song.You tell me is conscious rap dead?
I thought this was interesting shout out to Diamond District this interview is the question i was asking.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Big Boi-Fo Yo Sorrows (feat Too $hort & George Clinton
This song is crazy Outkast 4 Life. Props to Big Boi
Monday, March 8, 2010
R.I.P. B.I.G.
Funny Mondays" Pinky Nikka!
As all of you know every Monday we at Elevatorhustle.blogspot.com love to get the laughter out Being that it's Monday the long week has begun enjoy!
Elzhi's" Deep"
Elzhi's is one of my favorite rappers. This dude bars are never weak.
"I blow trees with the budha man squeeze with the warlord"
"I blow trees with the budha man squeeze with the warlord"
The rise and FALL of the american middle class,
Is it me but are things getting more expensive? are we making the money we are worth? Is there even a middle class? I remember growing up in a middle class household. We was not rich but we was not poor either. Can we say this today? Does middle class even exist any more? or is it just rich and poor?
The rise and FALL of the American middle-class, back to the bad old days
America is changing and most people know this but don’t know how it is changing and what it will become.
It took America decades to build a middle class. In early rural America most people were poor and relied on their own actions to grow their own food and supply their own service; volunteer fire departments, police, schools, etc.
With the industrial revolution jobs were created in factories, mines, oil fields and the workers were mistreated, worked 60 to 80 hours per week, had no benefits and there were no regulations protecting worker safety. Unions and political reformers fought for worker rights and for regulations that changed the face of America.
The Christian hypocrites and Republicans fought all the laws that protect workers and the environment as being against freedom; the freedom of the rich to oppress the poor.
We now have a 40 hour work week; over-time pay, worker safety regulations, some have benefits, social security, Medicare, and a stable middle class.
We have regulations protecting our environment and all this had to be fought for against the Republicans, the greed businesses and the rich, who wanted no such society.
What is a middle class? A middle class person is a person making a living wage with some disposable income to spend or save. Without this class the country is either rich or poor. Without a middle class there is no middle class economy driving consumer products and services.
Unless you make a middle class wage you can’t buy a home; a new car, appliances, go on vacation, own a vacation home, own a boat, you can’t afford to have healthcare and many other things that benefit both the individual and society. All this came because of laws passed to protect the majority, those who work for a living.
Things changed with the advent of technology and worldwide transportation systems. We created a worldwide economy. This allowed multi-national companies in America to move most middle class manufacturing jobs toCommunist China where they can pay slave wages, avoid regulations that protect the worker, the environment and the consumer. These companies moved all customer service jobs to India for similar reasons.
Estimates are that over 10 million middle class jobs were eliminated by corporations so they could maximize profits for the richest Americans and theirCEOs. Republicans even provide huge tax benefits to corporations that moved American jobs to Communist China, a dictatorship with no freedom of speech, press or religion and no democracy.
These jobs took with them another 10 million jobs that relied on these jobs. Most of these jobs provided benefits in the form of healthcare and retirement programs.
The middle class jobs eliminated by greedy corporations were replaced with minimum wage jobs with no benefits at Wal-Mart and the Mall. These jobs don’t provide a living wage and have no real disposable income to drive our economy. These jobs don’t benefit America; they only benefit the corporation and their rich stockholders.
Without a middle class we will go back to a society of a few very obscenely rich people, about 10% of Americans and 90% will be the working poor, with no benefits and no disposable income.
This didn’t just happen. It was planned and executed by the rich and their Republican allies in their war on America.
Everybody's Business NY TIMES
Warren Buffett -In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning
By BEN STEIN
Published: November 26, 2006
“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Warren Buffett the second richest man in America, his net worth is over $40 billion has had the guts to tell the truth about what is happening to America – he even brags about his class, the rich, winning the class war.
The final act was played out during the 8 years of Republican control with Bush at the helm. Low tax rates on the rich and big corporations and the elimination of all programs except those for the military. No regulations on business to control fraud and mismanagement of banks and Wall Street, followed by a $2 trillion taxpayer bailout of the crooks.
The solutions; raise the personal income tax to 50% for all income over $150,000, limit lifetime capital gains tax at $5 million per person, tax all corporate revenues at 2% of gross revenues. Enact universal healthcare immediately; give block grants to the poorest cities and school districts to save all their jobs and to create another 10 million middle class jobs for teachers, firemen, policemen, and social workers and maintenance workers.
Am I right? What do you think?
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Stat Quo-Success
StatQuo is one of the most underated mc's in the game.
"in the game people hate to love you me and success make a pretty find couple"
"in the game people hate to love you me and success make a pretty find couple"
Monday, March 1, 2010
New Artist to Look Out For:Nomad Carlos
On May 5, 1987, Nomad Carlos was born in Miami. By the age of 5, his family had relocated to Kingston, Jamaica, which became his new home. Living in the land of his parents, Nomad was much closer to the reggae and dancehall genres of the country. The influence of Jamaica’s rich musical culture was difficult to resist.
Like most youngsters, Nomad listened to the reggae and dancehall veterans of the 1990s as well as the leading international singers and rappers. As much as Nomad loved music, he had no desire to become an artiste. Of course, all of that eventually changed.
During the early 2000s, Nomad’s cousins, Hunka Gold and K-John, had been rapping as members of a Hip Hop group called Wall$treet. His classmate, Five Star, was also writing raps, often letting friends at school hear them. Despite being surrounded by so many rappers, Nomad would only attempt to freestyle as a joke but never give consideration to picking up the pen.
Then Nas’ Stillmatic was released. The album quickly became Nomad’s favourite and inspired him to try his hand at writing rhymes. “When I first heard Stillmatic, I felt like it was the best rap album I heard at the time and I always admired how Nas could express himself and tell stories”, he says, adding that, “that album in particular made me feel like I could be on the same level if I continued to take rap seriously.” Initially, Nomad wrote some of his first verses with another classmate, Shermon Dadz. The two then decided to form a group. Five Star was recruited and the group was dubbed ‘The BP Army’. Sosa and Simo-B, also classmates, joined shortly after.
The group released mixtapes and performed throughout Kingston for years, granting them a place amongst the city’s leaders in the Hip Hop movement. Fans and fellow emcees fell in love with Nomad’s intriguing flows and precise yet unpredictable rhyme schemes. The most recent promotional mixtape, City Lights, was released in November 2008 and featured the street single, ‘BP Meets UC’, for Nomad Carlos’ debut album, ‘Fuel to the Fire’. Subsequently, a music video for the street banger was directed by 13th Tribe Productions and released to much fanfare on the Internet.
“Fuel To The Fire is about my life. It describes what I was going through for the whole of 2008 and explains why I am the way that I am.” The album, which features production from Sosa, Cruxxx and Mainsource Muzik, is scheduled to drop in the 3rd quarter of 2009. Nomad Carlos is currently working with Planet Destination and is expected to release a sequel to his first project “Fuel To The Fire Pt. 2”. He can also be heard on projects produced by SOS Productions Inc.
Funny Mondays: Roy Wood JR.
It's The first Day of the work week and as for all Monday is not the most favorite day so we at Elevatorhustle.blogspot.com offer you laughter every Monday morning enjoy. And wake your ass up!
Dollars and Cents:Joint Finances- Is your Relationship Ready?
I am a firm Believer that Joint finances is good and bad for relationships. The reason why i say this is if he or she are bad with money to begin with having a joint account is going to cause problems cause now you or her a not dealing with your own individual money it now OUR money and if you start messing with Our money we are going to have problems what do you think?
The decision to share finances is as huge as the decision to become cohabitational in a relationship. This can be a deal breaker or a partnership maker depending on how it goes. Here’s some tips on how to make the decision together, and how to make that decision work for you.
One of the first things you need to do is figure out how you both are inclined to view the bills. There are a few different ways new couples view joint finances.
Then & Now
One way is the “Then & Now” way. The “Then” bills would be the ones you’ve each arrived with: your student loans, your car payment, your credit card bills. Charities you’ve chosen to support. Your insurances and investments, your obligations and any other loans or debts. The “Now” obligations would be the ones you currently have together: Rent. Utilities. Food.
Agree & Disagree
Another way to view your bills is what I call the “Agree & Disagree” way. The “Agreed” bills and obligations would be things you both feel are worthwhile. He may feel your student loans were a good investment into both your futures, and agrees that this is a valid bill and doesn’t mind sharing in the payment of it. However, he may feel her $25,000 in credit card debt is not an investment, it isn’t a worthwhile bill, and he does not agree to help you pay it off.
This one isn’t as cut and dry as the previous way. Even the current food bill may incur disagreements. She may not want to pay half of a food bill that includes a lot of junk food, red meat, and snacks, since she eats nothing but Jenny Craig and salad anyway. He may not agree with the utility bill because he’s constantly turning the heat down, and she’s forever turning it up.
Figuring Out Your View
That’s going to involve a real conversation. Make a list of all the bills, and all the income, and sit down together over a pot of coffee and honestly discuss this. Look at each bill and honestly say how you both feel about paying it. It might surprise you to find out you have a problem paying for some and not others.
After this conversation, you should be able to figure out whether you’re looking at the bills from a “Then & Now” or a “Agree & Disagree” way. She may be one, he may be the other As long as you understand the motivations behind the feelings, this shouldn’t be a problem.
This exercise is to learn and understand your thought processes. Going forward from here, you need to try to work together to understand how to balance them out.
Taking This Step By Step
The income that you are both bringing into the situation will be a huge factor in proceeding from here. Look at the bills you each have resentment toward paying, and look at your incomes.
If you resent having to pay her credit card bill which may be for example $300 a month, yet she earns $600 a month more than you do, you can pretty much see that her extra income covers this bill, so in essence you have nothing to worry about.
In most cases though, this won’t be quite as easy and simple as the above example. There will more than likely be a whole list of factors, pluses and minuses.
Agreeing to pool all your money and resources, and debts and obligations, means you are agreeing that you’re equals in incoming and outgoing monies and contributions.
For many couples, that is where the problem occurs. They don't understand or appreciate the total value each brings to the table. There are many factors. Before anything becomes an issue, discuss them.
Here is a very rough example of what I mean:
Let’s say, she’s an accountant, and he’s a car salesman. Her office is in the house. He commutes to work. Since she doesn’t commute, she has more time than he does to invest into housework.
When they look over their bills and their income, they need to consider that they each have a low car payment because of his work discount. They don’t have to pay a year end tax accountant to do their taxes because of her expertise. They have to consider that she puts more time into the cooking, cleaning, laundry, bill paying, and other household commitments. It's not enough to just say she earns more than he does. There is so much involved. Even outside of the day to day part of the finances. Maybe his family gave them the down payment on their apartment. Her family is constantly asking her to send $50 towards somebody's bail. He spends more on hobbies. Etc etc.
Everyone has assets and liabilities.
As long as you can both really consider the whole picture - all the things you both contribute financially to the relationship - and as long as you both believe that overall, it's fair and even, you're good to go.
It's when you do not feel it's fair that you'll crash and burn. If one of you feels the other is not doing their fair share, you're heading for disaster.
What About Just Being a Team?
Does this sound too businesslike for you? Would you prefer not to compare all these details?
I’m all for that. My husband and I didn’t nickel and dime everything when we made the decision to live together and join our finances. We were in love and committed to our future. It didn’t matter who did more housework, or who earned more. It didn’t matter who came into the relationship with debt. It didn’t matter who drove what or did what, or had what.
But not everybody feels that way. In today's world you'd be safe to examine finances closely prior to making any commitment.
Bones of Contention
Like anything else, this really comes down to communication. If you can discuss openly and honestly the way you both feel about money/bills/debts and expenses, you have a good chance of at least understanding where the other one is coming from, and at least compromising.
Verbalizing that you have an issue with this bill or that debt may be enough. Maybe one of you just needed to express their feelings on it. Sometimes acknowledgement is all you need.
I’ll give personal examples here. His family is huge, and mine is tiny. Christmas/birthday/baby gifts for his side are just out of control. I don’t feel good about spending so much on them. But guess what. It’s his family. There is no getting around that. I get to express that once in a while, and that’s the end of it.
On the other hand, while my husband is extremely charitable, he is not quite the sucker that I am. I tend to give to the charities I support a bit more than we can afford sometimes. He will look at the checkbook and say, “You gave $ XXX dollars to the Humane Society?” I explain how I gave extra this month because of the dogs rescued from a shelter that closed… or whatever happens to be going on. And he always says, he can’t be upset at me for something I do with my heart. It’s part of why he loves me. Maybe he thinks of it as “my” family. He knows we spend serious bucks on his family. So maybe my over-charitable expenditures balance out for him in the big picture.
The Bottom Line
Conversing about how you both feel about money and each other's spending and earning may reveal things that surprise you.
I’ll give another personal example. I spend money on beauty. Don’t get me wrong, we can afford it. But it is probably more than some women spend. I get my hair done, I get manicures and pedicures. I buy good skin & hair care products, and cosmetics, and update them often. We do alot of winter activities like snowmobiling, so I want to make sure my skin survives.
Many men would look at the $$$ and say, “Are you out of your mind??” But in my relationship, my husband LOVES that I do my hair and make up, I and enjoy feeling girlie and pretty. He does not see these expenses as a burden to our budget at all. He sees this as “gifts I give him every day.” – Yup, that’s a direct quote. I come home from the salon and he doesn’t ask how much. He says, “Thank you for spending your afternoon being beautiful for me.”
Obviously, this is a specific example, and not for everyone. I'm just saying you may be surprised. You may go into the conversation about finances with your girlfriend thinking - she is going to hate that I drop a couple bills every month at my poker game. Meanwhile, she LOVES having that night to herself, to take a bubble bath, eat ice cream and watch a chick flick.
Communication is the key. Express your feelings on what expenses you don’t feel OK about, and really listen to their feelings as well. Try to get to the motivation behind these feelings. Don't assume this conversation means you're going to be judged or forced to cut out things that matter to you. The goal is learning how each other thinks and feels.
And not everything can be compromised. Agreeing to disagree about some things is fair, honest and workable. He doesn’t like that you spend so much on unhealthy food and shoes. She doesn’t like that you spend so much on luxury items like porn, or car accessories. But as long as you both realize that somehow in the larger scheme of “who–does-what, who-makes-what, who-spends-what,” it basically all balances out, then there shouldn’t be any resentment.
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