Ah-dult Supervision Required

Django Unchained (2012) Trailer 2.

Ah-dult Supervision Required

It's That Real Arab, Money. . . the 1st. . . Palestine Lyrical Front

"So do the knowledge, son / before you do the wisdom." - RZA


DAM (Da Arab MCs) - Meen Erhabi (Who's the Terrorist?) [Video].  DAM is Arabic for "eternity" and Hebrew is "blood" - meaning "'eternal blood' - like we will be here for forever."  Click here for Tamer Nafer of DAM on Democracy Now.

"Small, cute babies are considered a 'demographic bomb.'" - Tamer Nafer


Ramallah Underground - Qararat.  Shouts to Gabriel Morgan for putting me onto this one.


OneWorld - Freedom For Palestine [Music Video].  Click here for a Glenn Beck meltdown about this single or here for endorsement from Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu.


Ramallah Underground - Sijen ib Sijen (Prod. by Stormtrap) [Music Video].


Lowkey - Tears To Laughter (Long Live Palestine) [Dynamic Text Video].


Slingshot Hip Hop - Straight Outta Palestine [Documentary Trailer].


DAM - Born Here [Music Video].

It's That Real Arab, Money. . . the 1st. . . Palestine Lyrical Front

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces? (Part II)

Shabazz Palaces - Blast It (from the Village Beat film, Tough Bond).

Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum (not the video) from Sub Pop Records.

Tough Bond (2011) from Village Beat [Movie Trailer].

Tough Bond is an urgent message from Africa that documents the disappearance of the village, told through the lives of 3 Kenyan street kids, hustling, sniffing glue, surviving in a parallel society with no tribe but the one they create for themselves. Shot over two years, we lived with our characters and followed their stories from the most rural villages of the country to the hearts of its biggest slums.

* Original score by Shabazz Palaces

* Director/Producer/Camera: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck

* Editing: Austin Peck & Anneliese Vandenberg

* Sound Engineer: Erik Lohr

* Additional Photography: Marianne Romeo

* Fixer: Julius Lemuya

We are currently raising funds to return to Kenya with the finished film and show it everywhere. We’ll hang sheets from buildings and fire up the generator. We’ll park the truck where the road ends and project it. We’ll assemble thousands and play it loud. Help us do this tour. Make a tax-deductible donation to Village Beat through the Creative Visions Foundation. Click the button.

Click here for the website.

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces? (Part II)

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces?

Shabazz Palaces - Belhaven Meridian [Official Music Video/Short Film].  YouTube Description: "An allegorical short film/music video for Shabazz Palaces shot in Watts, Los Angeles, directed by Kahlil Joseph, Photographed by Matt Lloyd. Featuring a cameo of Dante (Ernest Wadell) from "The Wire" in homage to Charles Burnett's 1977 classic film "Killer of Sheep"."


Killer of Sheep (1981) [Trailer].  Click here for the IMDb.


Shabazz Palaces - Gunbeat Falls (Live at Sasquatch 2010)


Shabazz Palaces - W'Shappenin' (Live at Sasquatch 2010).


Shabazz Palaces - Kill White T A Parable (Live at Sasquatch 2010).


Shabazz Palaces - My Mac Yawns.

 

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces?

The Man With The Iron Fists *UPDATE*

The RZA continues to dish out wisdom via his Twitter for #WuWednesday such as "The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore." - Rumi; Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! - Chopin; First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus; A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time. - (from the samurai classic) Hagakure; and Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. - Hemingway.

Although I can't find anything new from Wu-Tang's Abbot himself regarding his forthcoming martial arts flick starring himself, Lucy Liu, Pam Grier, Russell Crowe, and various other martial artists, I found the follow short interview with Eli Roth and you can download a free mixtape from The Kickdrums that the RZA recommended.


Eli Roth on making The Man With The Iron Fists (2011).

 

 

Oh and dig this Yuen Woo Ping martial arts epic. . .

True Legend (2011) Trailer [HD].

2011.05.18 12:08 PM EST *UPDATE* Actor Rick Yune (most recently acting in Ninja Assassin (2009); click here for the IMBd) has also signed onto appear in the RZA's forthcoming flick.

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Also, I failed to mention that Quentin Tarantino has finished the script for his latest movie ("Django Unchained" click here for the IMBd), which will be a spaghetti western continuation of the Django Saga...

Reputedly the most violent film ever made up until that time, the graphic violent content of Django (1966) was responsible for its being banned in several countries (it was rejected by the UK until 1993 and not rated in the US).  Click here for some of the related titles.

The movie also spawned hundreds of unofficial sequels and was so popular in Germany that nearly every subsequent western of Django star Franco Nero has Django in the title (Via.)  If you're unfamiliar with the first two installments (most critical to understanding Tarantino's) watch the trailers below.


Django (1966) trailer.  Click here for the IMBd (dir. by Sergio Corbucci).


Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) trailer.  Click here for the IMDb (dir. by Takashi Miike).

Below is a trailer for Miike's latest film, now in theaters.

13 Assassins (2010) trailer.

Click here for what a fansite has to say about Django Unchained.

The Man With The Iron Fists *UPDATE*

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

Red State!

(Via.)

Red State (Dir. by Kevin Smith) - Coming 2011 - HD.

Red State!

The Crossroads Episode 4

"The memory of oppressed people cannot be taken away and for such people revolt is always an inch below the surface." - Howard Zinn

Even The Rain movie trailer  (Via.)

I love Slick Rick, but this song is racist as . . .

Slick Rick - Indian Girl (An Adult Story).

"Freedom isn't given - it's taken / Freedom isn't free (It's earned) / Not known, it's learned / [...]" - Chrisette Michele

Chrisette Michele Feat. Talib Kweli & Black Thought - Let Freedom Reign.

"America the beautiful, suspect as usual / liberty and death, give me freedom or a funeral / I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant / my rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science / cause my evidence is spiritual / I know my sheer presence is a miracle / I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you / but here I am, standing with my chest out / I take my place in history I never get left out / you stressed out and scared so it's causing you to act hard / freedom ain't free, gotta put it on my black card / my passport claim I'm an American citizen / the constitution and three-fifths / I'm not a simian gorilla / make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon / truth is [settlers(?)] gave the native people syphilis / consider this: Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin' / so let's stop calling our native brothers Indians." - Talib Kweli

"We were carried here in shackles from the homelands / [...] all I'm trying to do is stay true to my community / the daily news ain't the only thing schooling me / watching these haters operating with impunity / running out of time, out of sight, out of mind / it gets realer and it's real in Palestine / troubles of the world start to seem intertwined / war criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home / and five star generals telling lies in press conferences and interviews / I'm trying to take back the power because it's been abused." - Black Thought

[REPOST]

Lupe Fiasco Feat. Jay-Z - Sittin' Sideways (Verse Remix).

"I seen 'em brawl for it, right on the wall for it / get kicked out the mall for it, run from the law for it / see things they should've never saw for it / long as it all well, Almighty, alrighty, they all for it, uh / Blackhawk fitted, get hit in the jaw for it / blue and black,  - Lupe Fiasco (2nd Verse)

Also, rare photos of "uncontacted tribes" here (Yahoo news article) or here (Survival International; a charitable organization that attempts to help indigenous people worldwide maintain their traditional lifestyles and assert their aboriginal/treaty rights).

(Via.)

Click here to take action for uncontacted tribes if you care to.

(Pocahontas, like Sambo, is a racial stereotype.)

(Via.)

The Crossroads Episode 4

So Evidently They Made Canadian-Screened Grindhouse Trailer Hobo With A Shotgun Into A Movie...

UPDATE 2011.01.27 10:16 a.m. EST - New video of Rutger Hauer bringing out a shotgun at Sundance (Via.)

(Via.)

I wish Rob Zombie would make Werewolf Women of the S.S. - or release the footage he already did for it.

Hobo With A Shotgun Trailer.  Official website here.

(Via.)

Wikipedia says that "Hobo with a Shotgun, directed by Jason Eisener, was initially a fake trailer made for an international contest to promote the release of Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez's double feature Grindhouse.  It won the contest, and was screened in Canada as part of the actual release of Grindhouse."

With Eli Roth working with The Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and Russell Crowe in China on The Man With Iron Fists and Hobo With A Shotgun showing at Sundance, that puts the filmic offspring of Grindhouse at two movies (Rodriguez's 2010 "Mexploitation" Machete), but Roth has been quoted as saying he would like to make his twisted Thanksgiving trailer into a feature picture!  And like I mentioned above, Rob Zombie complained that it was painful for him to cut down what came pretty close to being a full-on movie, down to one trailer so maybe he still has the footage?

Oh yeah and there's this as well . . .

(Via.)

Click here for the Wiki article.  Tarantino is always going in multiple directions at once, but he has said that Vernita Green's daughter may come after The Bride a.k.a. Kiddo Beatrice (Uma Thurman); actress Daryl Hannah. who plays Elle Driver may have evidently survived being blinded and left in a trailer in the desert (with a Black Mamba loose).  A blind Zatoichi-type character (via) would be just the thing to tickle Tarantino's fancy.  Although everybody seems to hate 3D (and although the above poster of unknown origin in no way makes 3D definite) - it might be interesting.  Oh and IMDb (click here) confirms 2014.  And the return of Elle Driver.

Rutger Hauer introduces Hobo With a Shotgun: "We Shoot Movies."

So Evidently They Made Canadian-Screened Grindhouse Trailer Hobo With A Shotgun Into A Movie...

Street Struck: The Big L Story Doc + New/Unreleased Music

Big L - Zone of Danger by The People's Poseur

(Via.)

Click here to head over to DJ Premier's blog where you can listen to/download an extended, unreleased 10 minute version of the Big L & Jay-Z freestyle on the Stretch & Bobbito Show.

 (Via.)

Official Big L website here.


Big L Documentary Trailer (First Draft) - "Street Struck: The Big L Story." COMING SOON!

Street Struck: The Big L Story Doc + New/Unreleased Music

"What Kind Of TOOL Do You Have To Be To Live Out In The Desert & Make Wine?"

So evidently James Maynard Keenan (of Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) teamed up with a wine snob (Eric Glomski) to start making wine out in Arizona.  Oh, and they made a movie about it.

(Via.)

You can check the trailer out here.

I wonder if he ever has to show his papers?

"What Kind Of TOOL Do You Have To Be To Live Out In The Desert & Make Wine?"

Machete . . .

Official Machete Movie Trailer HD (Via.)

Machete . . .

Warr-yi-iors, Come Out And Play-e-ayyy

(Via tropical toxic.)

"Shame On A Nigga" by Wu-Tang Clan.

The Warriors movie trailer.

Warr-yi-iors, Come Out And Play-e-ayyy

Cash Rules Everything Around Me

(Via ~Feenster64@deviantART.)

"Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan (Trailer)" directed by Gerald K. Barclay (Via Cosby).

(Via Cosby.)

Cash Rules Everything Around Me

MORTAL KOMBAT!

"We want you to find Shang Tsung . . . and finish him."

Just over 300 viewers? This looks disturbed . . . and I like it. And boohoo for anybody that cries about Johnny Cage. I mean, really? What do you like playing as Cyclops, too? (Via Kotaku.)

MORTAL KOMBAT!

Watch This Shit. Yesterday.

The official movie trailer for RZA's Wu-Tang vs. The Golden Phoenix, which is different from "The Man With Iron Fists" - learn about it here - above.  Shaw Bros.

(Via hiphophypedog.)

Watch This Shit. Yesterday.

Cinco De Mayo "Machete" Movie "Illegal Trailer"

"Machete (The Illegal Trailer)" directed by Robert Rodriguez (who says, "Happy Cinco de Mayo, Arizona!").

(Via Super Punch.) *This Video Will Probably Be On The News & It Hasn't Even Been Watched 400 Times Yet*

[UPDATE] It was on the news and the original video got taken down.  New video (Via hiphophypedog).  Evidently this movie has white people worried (check the via link).  Good old controversy.

I am a fan of Quentin Tarantino and when he teamed up with Robert Rodriguez, his friend and the director of the Mariachi Trilogy, as well as de facto director of "Sin City," to make "Grindhouse" I was pretty excited.

Splitting "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror" up into two different movies for the DVD release might have made economic sense, but the true experience was sitting through the fake trailers for "Machete" directed by Rodriguez, "Werewolf Women of the SS" directed by Rob Zombie, "Don't" by Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz"), "Thanksgiving" by Eli Roth, and . . . if you were in Canada, evidently the below-embedded "Hobo With a Shotgun."


2007 SXSW "Grindhouse" Trailer Contest Winner.

That, the fake commercials, the missing sex scene, and the movies one after the other were awesome.  Oh, that and finding out that "Machete" was actually going to get made.

Cinco De Mayo "Machete" Movie "Illegal Trailer"

"People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly."

In 2005, Bansky tagged the Palestinian-side of the controversial wall that Israel has erected for purposes of "safety."

"All art is propaganda;

 on the other hand,

 not all propaganda is art."

 - Georg Orwell

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Banksy's site offers two snippets of conversations with an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian who happened upon him while he was in the process of creating the series of nine pieces on the Wall, in Bethlehem, Abu Dis, and Ramallah.

Soldier: What the fuck are you doing?

Me: You'll have to wait til it's finished.

Soldier: (to colleagues): Safety's off.

Banksy is the anti-Leni Riefenstahl and anti-Richard Wagner, reclaiming public spaces as a space for public imagination and enlightenment where they have become propagandistic barriers to thought and awareness, as is the very terminology for Israel's West Bank barrier itself. Banksy's summer project on Israel's Wall stands out as one of the most pertinent artistic and political commentaries in recent memory.

(Via the Brian Sewell Art Directory.)

Bansky has a documentary coming out that will be screened in select cities April 16th through May 21st.

Movie trailer after the jump.

"People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly."

Sometimes Dynamite Is Black

Sometimes Dynamite Is Black