FILM THE POLICE - B. Dolan feat. Toki Wright, Jasiri X, Buddy Peace, Sage Francis

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B. DOLAN's "FILM THE POLICE" pays tribute to N.W.A.'s infamous "F*ck the Police," serving as a call to action for the digitized media movement while responding to the recent explosion of police brutality all across the world.

This free MP3, courtesy of STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS, features a reconstruction of Dr. Dre's original beat, brilliantly reanimated by UK producer BUDDY PEACE. Label CEO, SAGE FRANCIS, opens the song by picking up the gavel where Dr. Dre left it 23 years ago, introducing a blistering, true-to-style flip of Ice Cube's original verse by SFR cornerstone, B. Dolan. TOKI WRIGHT (Rhymesayers Entertainment) follows up by stepping into the shoes of MC Ren, penning the people's struggle against cops as a case of "Goliath Vs. a bigger giant." Finally, Jasiri X (Pittsburgh rapper/activist) rounds out the track by filling in for Eazy-E, reminding us that police brutality disproportionately affects poor people of color.

With the Occupy Movement bringing various forms of injustice to the forefront of people's consciousness, "Film the Police" is a reminder that cops have been a continued and increasingly militarized presence in public streets. Thanks to the widespread use of smartphones and video cameras, along with the popularity of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, the power of the media has been put back into the people's hands as they document the injustices perpetrated by those who have sworn to serve and protect them.

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This video was directed by Mason Johnson (Klepticenter Productions) and edited by Weston Woodbury.

"Film the Police" will be included on B. DOLAN and BUDDY PEACE's "HOUSE OF BEES VOL. II" mixtape at http://StrangeFamousRecords.com

Where's Young Jeezy's Anthem for the Mid-Term Elections?

Young Voters Must Transition into an Engaged Electorate

Where’s Young Jeezy’s Anthem for the Midterm Elections?
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21

Back in the fall of 2008, to be young and voting age in America, meant that you were on the verge of something extraordinary. To vote for Barack Obama was the epitome of cutting edge cool. No one wanted to be on the wrong-side of history. Obama wasn’t simply going to be the first Black president, he was the first President branded for a generation for which branding (and perhaps hip-hop) was their lingua franca—their shared language across race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

And everybody got in the act from Will.I.Am to crack rapper Young Jeezy, whose “My President is Black” had everyone—from Big Mama to Pookie and ‘dem—singing and rapping for change. Two years later there are no more anthem, Barack Obama is fighting for his political life and there’s little guarantee that those same young voters that energized the electorate will find their way to the voting booth next month.

It is perhaps easy to suggest that young voters—and quite few others—were caught up in the allure of a candidate, who in comparison to the forty-three men who held the office before him really did look like change. No doubt Barack Obama the campaigner was an open signifier able to look like everything that the electorate desired whether they were independents, the fringe Left or first time voters.

Obama’s chameleon ways have been so successful that even his political enemies believe that he’s Leftist radical; Forbes Magazine publisher and failed Presidential candidate Steve Forbes manages to describe Obama’s economic policies as “soft Socialism” in every other paragraph of the magazine.

Many times throughout the last 18 months there were more than enough opportunities for young voters to provide political pressure on President Obama—the proverbial phone calls, emails, letters to House Representatives, Senators, committee heads, and even the White House—to weigh in on every thing from the environmental crisis in the Gulf region, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his choice for Secretary of Treasury, his tepid Healthcare legislation, to the (un)forced resignation of Green Jobs Guru Van Jones and the sad and embarrassing dismissal of Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Yet young voters seemed content to stay on the sidelines and let Obama, stand in as proxy for their concerns relieving them of rightful responsibility to hold elected officials accountable for their decisions.

Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21