Start the day off Right with Wise Intelligent #InvestInIntelligence

"I am not here for contention.

You are not my competition

It's prophetic premonition

I see Zion in this vision..."

-Wise Intelligent 

#nowPlaying "Pure Poverty" by Poor Righteous Teachers #classic #hipHop

Now that I'm officially unemployed again, I need some good music while I do some freelance work, and found this playlist of Poor Righteous Teachers' sophomore album Pure Poverty. I bought this one after being blown away by their debut record Holy Intellect.

"Disappear fear and eradicate doubt. Say something real or shut your damn mouth..." @WiseIntelligent

Wise Intelligent was back in my inbox this morning with this banger, and I had to share it with you. Top 50 is an ode to Wise's career spent mostly under the radar, just to the right of the slim slice of hip hop culture represented by corporate-backed television and pop radio critique...

#nowPlaying The Talking Drum f/ Wise Intelligent & Foluso Mimy

Some cats emcee. Some rap. Some spit spoken word. A few (like the mighty Wise Intelligent) do all three...

Start the day off RIGHT w/Wise Intelligent

Good morning! thought I'd start the day w/ some brain food...

This Weeks' Cut

in case you didn't know, Wise Intelligent from the legendary Jersey crew PoorRighteous Teachers has a new record out called The Talented Timothy Taylor, Back 2 School... and i'm sure it'll be good (i already like cuts Bam Bam, I'm Him, and The Genocide), but until i get my next check and cop it, i'm bumpin' the new OH NO-produced cut Set U Free.

as usual, wise spits knowledge on some angry educated black man ish... over one'a them crazy indie rap beats. so far it seems Wise is goin' for the something for everybody style of album production, with mainstream, reggae-styled, and now indie wild-out beats all in the brew...

can't wait to hear the record, till then i'll bump the track, and you can too...

DOWNLOAD IT, FREE!

holla...

samax.

www.ghettoManga.com

comics. hipHop. news. art. culture.

HipHop Promoters Need To Get Wise...

hipHop pioneer Wise Intelligent of the mighty Poor Righteous Teachers is looking to do more shows promoting the August release of his new record, Wise Intelligent is the Talented Timothy Taylor, which Wise describes as "the first period in a five CD box-set that I’m working on called, 'Back to School.' It’s what Hip-Hop is seriously lacking right now... "

Wise has made a commitment to making music that's jammin', but he believes you can still keep your mind's eye open "Some people say, 'Conscious Rap doesn’t sell,' and yet Public Enemy and The Fugees sold millions..."

so anyways, Wise has just come home from a successful Midwest tour, according to Born Free at Intelligent Muzik: "Total Respect to all the fans/friends/family in Minneapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Chicago for giving Wise all your love, energy and support and making this promo tour a complete success! I just got off the phone with the God and he said that every city he rocked was the SHIT and represented exactly what real hipHop is all about... We love when these events come off without a hitch because it shows and proves to all the haters and non-believers behind the scenes that the hipHop community still loves, needs and wants Good and Intelligent Muzik! SO ALL PROMOTERS AND CLUB OWNERS! Get at us and make it Happen!"

so all you Promoters (especially in Dallas, 'cause that's MY area!!) out there, get at Born and bring Wise to your city!!!
for more of the interview with Wise, go here.
also, peep my Previous Blog.

holla!
samax.
www.ghettoManga.com

Wise Intelligent is Back...

"don't call it a comeback...." you know the rest. at any rate, Wise Intelligent (of the immortal golden age crew, the mighty Poor Righteous Teachers) has a new single out called "A Genocide" on college radio. WHEW! everybody knows how i love that conscious ish... this is a fresh mash-out joint, plus it's about somethin'... anyways, go vote for it on www.themusicinsider.com, and remember to check out Wise on mySpace... and tell 'im ya heard about it on ghettoManga!

peace, love, etc.
samax.

Hot Fire!!! MBQ is the TRUTH!!!

when i decided to call my blog ghettoManga, i was describing my own comics: fresh, dynamic storytelling, with the variety of any of the japanese fare, but with the street sensibility that comes from a life of listening to public enemy, ice cube and poor righteous teachers and made not in japan, but right here in the USA... the for us by us of comics.

since then, i've run into lots of stuff that fits the bill just as well, and none of it more than Felipe Smith's MBQ, published by TokyoPop.

The Jamaican/Argentin/American artist reps hip hop all up and through his book, as well as his mixed heritage. "The main character in my book," he says of his dreadlocked protagonist Omario, "wears an Adidas Argentine National Soccer Team windbreaker in every issue!" He joked with me in an email, "If you dig it, please cop yourself a copy, haha! I've got Tokyopop to answer to, and if this book doesn't start circulating, I'm back to serving drinks at a karaoke bar. Hahaha..."

His level-headedness and humility (not to mention his REDICULOUS skills with the pencil) are appreciated by his TokyoPop editor, Luis Reyes, who says when Felipe "submitted a story for our Rising Stars of Manga about a frustrated comic book creator who has decided to express his anger at a terribly misguided, conceptually myopic editor by shooting him right through the head, I knew that I wanted to be that editor..."

the story he's describing became MBQ, a book "about the poverty this creator lives in... the friends that help him out... the streets of LA and the cops and the thugs and the regular people and the tourists and the burger flippers and the yuppies and everyone and everything coming together, living together in an environment that could only be described as absurd... if you didn't LIVE it every day of your life..."

and apparently, this cat is on some next ish! Felipe sent me a link to his website www.felipesmith.com, inviting me to check it out, and now i'm telling YOU to do the same...when i decided to start sharing comics with my people, this is just the kind of stuff i was hoping i'd find...
COP IT!
peace, love, etc.
samax.
www.ghettoManga.com