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The Photograph that Inspired the Writing of “America.”

December 28, 2011

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Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was just fourteen years old when 9/11 happened. Residing in New Jersey, Khan waiting to be of age to finally serve the United States and head out to Iraq where he passed away in Baquba. This was the photograph that Mickey Boston crossed published in The New Yorker that prompted […]

America: Cover-Art by Regimental Oneton

December 19, 2011

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“America” Cover-Art by Regimental Oneton “AMERICA” Cover-Art by Regimental Oneton http://regimentaloneton.blogspot.com/ I reached out to Montreal artist Regimental Oneton for a work of art that would capture the words and sense of “America”—the track written and performed by myself. In essence, I reached out to Regimental without hesitation, this was the exact artist I wanted […]

Ghassan Kanafani, Writing as Resistance and Hiphop – In the Wake of Egypt 2011

February 20, 2011

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Mic-Key Boston draws words from Life and Struggle of Kanafani. “I am someone who feels a very strong need for freedom and to not allow anyone to be backed into a corner” uttered late Montrealer Lhasa de sela, an artist who adamantly believed in the call for equality between all peoples. I (Mickey Boston) routinely perform a track […]

Da’ Arab Shoe – Egypt and the Mubarak Shoe Hospitality

February 14, 2011

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So this Whole Shoe Thing…You’ve Seen a lot of it, BUT…What does it all Mean??? Mickey ‘Big Brosky’ Boston was raised by parents who would threaten him with a shoe beatdown. My mother used to chase me with a spoon as a child if I did something wrong. I feared that stainless steal spoon as […]

The Hunchback and the Notre-Dame Gusher

January 30, 2011

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ORIGINALLY POSTED: Sept 3rd, 2010. Aight, so I have no idea how many exact days that oil has been gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico since I lost count after day 65. In any event, I was vexed by day 7. The first seven days weren’t so bad for me since we, the people/the […]

Underground Hip-hop – CHESS – Behind the Seams

January 30, 2011

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Chess Video Shoot – That so-called “Behind the Scenes” Look To begin, Behind the Scenes itself was a 1908 film directed by D.W. Griffith…but…nah, we don’t really care about that right now…this is about that Mickey Boston, Big Brosky clip shot at the beginning of May 2010, right? You are Correct. I am actually pleased […]

The Toppling

January 8, 2011

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How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war. by Peter Maass On April 9, 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, awoke at a military base captured from the Iraqis a few miles from the center of Baghdad, which was still held by the enemy. It had been […]

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