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December 17th, 2011 is a date that states that it is rather “safe” to say that the war in Iraq has “officially ended.” While some say that there was anything between 103 000 and 116 000 civilian deaths, truth be told, it is very likely this figure is a bit more higher. As I write […]
June 13, 2011
Just Another Mickey Boston Piece… While the summer edition of the 2011 Park Jams finally debut in NYC, many hip-hop heads true to the art and elements of the culture may sometimes become weary of where hip-hop is headed in context of mainstream and commercial shifts. Indeed, one may find solace in the new efforts […]
April 18, 2011
In the summer of 2010 I was invited to perform at a few festivals. One of the fests I was invited to drop conscious grassroots political hip-hop had me travel by bus and taxi which was no biggie for me. Despite such givens after eleven hours of straight traveling from Montreal, I finally reached the […]
April 18, 2011
Colonialism brings with it the effacement of the culture, identity and heritage of the colonized. Moreover, Foucauldian conceits aside, despite such a givens, after crossing the photography of Rebecca Fudala, I also came to realization that capitalism itself can also contribute to the effacement of a culture’s art and tradition by means of running smaller […]
April 12, 2011
eL Seed and I met a while ago. We actually crossed over an upcoming Montreal show being done at Sino Shop on the East side of the city. I saw the flyer and immediately hit Seed up. We met a day later in which I brought my calligraphy sketches and shared them with him on […]
April 11, 2011
Brosky Style Olives As some may may know, Yves is a Brosky. Before one reads any more, one may be questioning: “well, what the hell is a Brosky exactly?” One should delve more thoroughly into the Big Brosky article on Broskies to learn more. In any event, staying on topic, Yves is one of the […]
February 20, 2011
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 […]
February 8, 2011
So Big Brosky kinda crossed something rather intriguing and maybe even Ironic; an Israeli building and restoring a Mosque in France…France itself being a strongly Islamophobic state within itself whose population in itself will be over 50% Muslim by the turn of the decade. In essence, some demographic surveys predict this percentage to only be […]
December 23, 2011
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