not for nothin'... but i am soooo feelin' old school stuff right now. my favorite song of all time is So Whatcha Sayin' from the second album (Unfinished Business) of the classic heavyweight crew EPMD I don't pretend to know whether it would sound good to modern rap fans, but i can say the years have not eroded my love of this cut.
any idiot can make a list of "great" artists that influenced hip hop. actually, i do it all the time! but who the heck am i, anyway?
okay, so my man Khalid bought me a ticket to see Dilated Peoples and Little Bother and Defari for my born Day (thanks 'Leed)...
her name is Alkhemi Jones (pronounced AL kem ee, y'know, like "alchemy"...). i ran into this emcee's profile on mySpace, and listened to her shtuff and lemme tell you, she's pretty fresh.
i have it on good authority that seattle-based artista 2H will be in the denton/dallas area this weekend... one of my goals for the weekend is to get a minute to build with the self-professed dentonite before he returns to the house that starbucks built.
Come Holla Atcha Fetus and cop a FREE dj nature mixtape wednesday night at Rubber Gloves, suckaz!
jeauh!
Sin City costar and self-confessed comics fangirl, the extremely hot Rosario Dawson will co-create and star in her own comic... well, sorta.
"I know that the way we were able to get interest in this book was that my face was literally and figuratively attached to it," she said. "But this is not about me. The world that we're creating is the really cool part of this book. Believe me, this is a whole lot more than my making myself a sexy superhero just to feed my ego."
i could hardly contain myself... there are plot twists in this movie that follow exactly what was in the comic. my boy, khalid, had never read the graphic novel, and i hate to give anything away... so contain myself i did.
was AWESOME!
i know it's St.Patrick's day and i should put up a post about leprechauns, green garments and getting drunk off my behind, but if you thought that was gonna happen here, you don't know me very well...
A veteran of comics who is highly revered in a medium that already tends to worship its greats, has had several works made into films (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell), and who has at least one more in the pipe (his most highly read and perhaps his most venerated work, the deconstructionist superhero masterpiece, Watchmen), Moore hasn't been very enthusiastic about the adaptations of his works in the past, and this looks to be no different.
yeah, you heard right! me and my boys, the mighty ghost werks crew, will be at CAPE again this year, giving away free swag as well as selling stuff for free comic book day (may 6th, so mark your calendars...).
okay, ya'll... i owe you a BIG apology... i forgot to remind you about the blackalicous /Pigeon john/ lifesavas show (and i didn't even KNOW fatlip was gonna be there!!!)... my bad!
they did cuts from Gab's solo record, the groups new joint the Craft and the group's breakthrough record (and quite possibly my favorite record of all time [can anything really top Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back?]) Blazing Arrow. Definitely the best show i've been to in a minute.
okay, so i went to the Monday Night Fights last night... that mess was the BOMB! there was a crazy freestyle cypha where cats were representin' like a mug... b-boys were holdin' it down, with some mind-bogglin' back-bending break-dancin (yeah, niggaz still break, suckaz!)... so anyways, one of the cats that was in that cypher and made it to the final round of the freestyle contest to go down against Exile (i guess that's how you spell it...), was this nigga named Dow Jonez.
i heard this ILL rumor! Adam Kubert (Wolverine, Hulk, X-men) is gonna be drawing one of the superman books, the venerable DC flagship book Action Comics (the other will be done by Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, didn't you read my report, suckaz?!). that much is locked, but rumor has it the book will be written by original Superman film director Richard Donner ('longside DC darling, geoff johns)!!!
i know! i'ma go to the Monday Nite Fights at the Carribean Grill!!!
"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!
Damion Scott, definitely one of my favorite young comic book artists, has illustrated a new book about hip hop cartooning called How to Draw Hip Hop published by Watson-Guptill. the book is written by Kris Ex, a noteworthy brooklyn journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, XXL, Hip-Hop Connection, and many other publications.
i haven't read it yet, but based on D.Scott's breakthrough work on Batgirl and Spectacular Spiderman, i would recommend copping this book, sight unseen.
"Why is Boss Up, Inc. having this contest?
And Sistas, if the Lil Kim’s, Trina’s and Foxy Browns of the world don’t exactly represent where you coming from, then where YOU at? We want to hear from you and we putting our money where our mouth is.Good Luck!"
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.
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..."
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..."
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this weekend, i'll be in austin for STAPLE, the independent media expo, which is described on their website as "An event to promote independent creative media: comics, mini-comics, zines, art, and self-published literature. Building a community to encourage communication between creators and their audience. All the while having a damn good time in the Live Music Capital of the World - Austin, TX." there's gonna be all kinda fresh peeps there, like jim mahfood (felt, 40 oz comics), and tony millionaire (maakies, sock monkey) and more...
sounds good to me!!! i'll be there promoting ghettoManga, selling and trading my comics hand-to-hand like herb hustling, and just generally checking out the happenings... so if you see me, holla like you know me (mention reading this blog and i'll give you a free comic-NICE)! so hopefully, some of ya'll are going too, but if not, don't worry! i'll hook ya'll up with an in-depth report when i get back, so you can act like you were there when the cool kids ask...
dallas heads will likely remember Massive, of the MIGHTY Skwod X (ah, let's not get nostalgic...) anyways, he's moved to Atlanta, but he's still grinding out some of the illest hip hop you never heard...
