#hip hop nation

[vibezzonerrythang]

Some graphics I seen online. This is really hitting so hard. I’m a big Pat Stay fan and the stories you hear and the memories, he was one of one! No one can ever copy or be what he was. I send my love and thoughts to his family in this time 🕊 REST IN PEACE, PAT STAY 💐

[kala-ya-aan]

MIND THE FLOW (FREESTYLE)

I be that raw kid

Straight up out the block

You was half asleep caught up in a Z

snoozing, dreaming about that rock

I’ve been captivating minds testifying

to the youth you’re better off

on the transit lines sketching rhymes,

testing your I.Q manifesting power,

break it down to a math

and science, knowledge

in a cypher be reborn like Black

Hebrew Israelites path to Zion

when intrinsic minds

stack up building blocks

form a rap alliance

like DJ Medmessiahs

movement I illuminate,

pioneer a way for five

pillars to liberate

A new Hip-Hop declaration,

Stating rappers must act their age

Waving accolades to simpletons

Whose hardest writtens

don’t compare to fillers

in the top of my brain

Freestylin’s bring back

Cage when he was wildin’

under Agent Orange,

& Senim Sillahs, lyricists

from subterrains to

encapsulate the rage

We segregated via lyrics

in our culture that attract

one great decisive aim

(...& that’s violence...)

And, honestly,

I’m tired of trying

Cus I’m a son of Cain

Pursued like the death of Stalin

Finding saving grace in hellfires

Raps become adept to killing silent

Like United States or a starving stomach

of an artist so to heart, take this sonnet

Tell the artI was, for sure, gonna die for like Main Flow & Talib, It’s shamefully retarded this was once a religion for the true and living now she can’t grow because she stuck in a love triangle boomeranging back to and fro...

#IAmHipHop #HipHopKulture #HipHop

[surra-de-bunda]

Foxy Brown photographed by Jeff Fusco during The Hip Hop Summit National Town Hall Meeting (July 2006).

[useless-catalanfacts]

The rap singer Valtònyc (wearing dark green in the first photo) has returned from exile. It's the first time he steps in his homeland Mallorca in almost 6 years.

He was sentenced to 3.5 years of prison because when he was 18 years old he wrote a song where he criticized the Spanish monarchy and uploaded it to YouTube. He wasn't famous and his most listened song on YouTube had 8,000 views, but in Spain it's a crime to say "injuries against the crown", and the laws are often applied more harshly against national minorities (Valtònyc is from the Catalan Countries). His song was found and he had to go to trial over it, and was sentenced guilty of the crimes of injuries against the monarchy, praising terrorism, and threats.

Valtònyc refused to accept the so-called "justice" of the Spanish judicial system, so he decided to escape. He managed to sneak to France unnoticed by the police, and went to Belgium, where there was already a community of Catalan people on exile for their political involvement in the Catalan independence process. He has lived on exile in Belgium these last 5 years and a half.

Had he come back to any Spanish territory, Valtònyc (same as the other exiles) would have immediately been jailed. In fact, Spain issued an international order of extradition, demanding Belgium arrest him and send him to Spain to be imprisoned. But the Belgian courts found that these kind of cases should be allowed under freedom of speech and, instead of sending Valtònyc to Spain, Belgium got rid of their own law that punished "injuries against the crown" as a crime. With no Belgian law to punish him, he was allowed to stay in Belgium. This is a similar process that had happened with other Catalan exiles, who Spain has demanded be extradited multiple times but Belgian law has protected for human rights and freedom of speech reasons.

By the way, the song that got him sentenced to prison had been a commission from the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias (leader of Podemos, the left Spanish party) for his TV show La Tuerka. Valtònyc has explained that Iglesias never called him, never showed any solidarity nor interest in his case. Iglesias was vice-president of Spain during Valtònyc's exile.

The crimes expired six months ago, meaning he can no longer be imprisoned for it. However, the Spanish courts did not notify him of it (as they should have done), so his lawyer and him just found out.

After saying goodbye to other Catalan people on exile in Belgium, who are not allowed to come back yet (in the photos, shared by Valtònyc on his Twitter, he is saying goodbye to the politicians Lluís Puig and Carles Puigdemont), he has come back home.

He was welcomed by 200 people in his hometown. He has thanked all the people who helped him and showed solidarity. He also reminded that Pablo Hasél (a rap singer from Catalonia) is still in prison for the lyrics of his songs and the contents of his Tweets, sentenced guilty of injuries against the crown and praising terrorism. You can read more about Pablo Hasél's arrest in this post, and an explanation of the tweets and lyrics that got him sentenced in this post.

As we celebrate Valtònyc's return, we cannot forget that Spain has repeatedly ranked number 1 in the whole world for country that sent the most musicians to jail for the content of their music, in 2018 and 2020. By the way all the 14 rap singers condemned to prison for their lyrics were Catalan (Pablo Hasél and the 12 members of the band La Insurgencia from Catalonia, and Valtònyc from the Balearic islands), not one of any other culture group or from any other area. Curious, 100% of the sentenced, when the population of the Catalan Countries is less than 29% of the population of Spain. Wonder why!

[bunabi]

This whole Taylor thing has made me realize I haven't really enjoyed radio pop since 2010 and whatever happens to the genre now is none of my business

[beyondthesurface]

Being yourself is free.

[cantcatchmeee]

Joey Bada$$ & Tyler, The Creator at the Roc Nation Brunch

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

“- Indians have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years.

- Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years.

- The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2500 years.

- Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2000 years.

- Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa 1400 years.

- Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1300 years.

- Shiites have been waiting for Mandi for 1080 years.

- Drussians are waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1000 years.

Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves! ”

Riccardo Dablah

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

We still winning in 6 but Ant Good

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Public Enemy released their second album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back June 28, 1988

[6i]

WESTSIDE GUNN

[afrotumble]

[kala-ya-aan]

Hip Hop is my religion.

Hip hop contains the DNA and spirits of my ancestors.

Hip hop literally is my lifes identities true manifestation of God.

#IAMHIPHOP.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Working for Vacation • Spoon • Flowers • Lint of Love • Moonchild • Sci-Fi Wasabi • Clouds • Speechless • King of Silence • Blue Train • Sunday Part I • Sunday Part II • Stone • Mortming

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[hiphophardware]

Rihanna

[legendarytragedynacho]

Megan Thee Stallion at Madison Square Garden in New York for the Hot Girl Summer Tour on May 21 

📷 Kevin Mazur for Live Nation