Rosenberg Flip Cam Files

Everybody knows that BOOKiDO likes the Flip Camcorder and as you will see Peter Rosenberg is taking digital media to another level in hip hop. Here is a tribute to DJ Premier!

BOOKiDO x DJ Premier

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Che - The Movie

Go see this movie if it comes to your town. Starring Benicio Del Toro this is the biographical movie about revolutionary Che Guerava. In two parts this film has been receiving good reviews and even a letter of congratulations from Dr. Guevara's wife.

Cee-Lo on the Wake Up Show

Cee-Lo kicks a crazzzyyy freestyle on this interview at around 5:11 into the video( HIP HOP is NOT DEAD!)

BOOKiDO TV

Jay Z vs. Fela Kuti Nigerian Gangster

This is a awesome mash up of Jay Z and the legendary Fela Kuti by DJ Mike Love.


Guerrilla Radio

Sidney Poiter's Acceptance speech for Oscar 1964

In 1964 Sidney Poiter won an Academy Award for best Actor.




then he predicts "Obama" in the movie "Guess who's coming to dinner?" A great screenplay movie!

Video of the week- Bush Attacked by shoes

Tony Yayo - PREACH ON

Inner Focus in Martial Arts

By Melissa Stranden

"Each day, I will live by honoring my parents and instructors, practicing to the best of my abilities, and having courtesy and respect for everyone I meet!" -- Part of an oath recited at the beginning and ending of each Karate for Kids class at the ATA Martial Arts center, in Martinez, California.

Jordan Schreiber greets a first-time tae kwon do student by complimenting his new uniform and white belt. The student is shy, and Master Schreiber takes him aside to teach him some basic poses and Korean commands. The boy's eyes stay glued to the red-and-black mat. Schreiber gently nudges him to look up.

"Look at my eyes. This is how you show me your attention. Now say, 'Thank you, sir.'"
A barely audible "Sir" is heard before the student takes his position in the class. Forty-five minutes later, after numerous kicks, blocks, and punches, two recitations of the student oath, a discussion of this month's life skill, a visualization exercise, and a hundred or so repetitions of "Yes, sir," the same student faces Master Schreiber, looks his teacher in the eye, and shakes his hand. It is a small but meaningful step.

Look at BOOKiDO for books on Martial Arts

Bamboo laptop and flip cameras

Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory

'We're doing something we haven't since the 1930s,' labor organizer says

CHICAGO - Workers laid off from their jobs at a factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed.
About 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant's operation.

“I have to stay,” Raul Flores told a local news organization. “Not just for me. For my family. For my children.”

Leah Fried, an organizer with the United Electrical Workers, said the Chicago-based vinyl window manufacturer failed to give 60 days' notice required by law before shutting down.
Workers also were angered when company officials didn't show up for a meeting Friday that had been arranged by U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat, she said.

During the peaceful takeover, workers have been shoveling snow and cleaning the building, Fried said.

"We're doing something we haven't since the 1930s, so we're trying to make it work," Fried said.
Union officials said another meeting with the company is scheduled for Monday.

Representatives of Republic Windows did not immediately respond Saturday to calls and e-mails seeking comment.

Police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said authorities were aware of the situation and officers were patrolling the area.

Crain's Chicago Business reported that the company's monthly sales had fallen to $2.9 million from $4 million during the past month.

In a memo to the union, obtained by the business journal, Republic CEO Rich Gillman said the company had "no choice but to shut our doors."

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Joker Brand Presents Estevan Oriol

Shout out to Joker Brand clothing! Here is a short video of Estevan Oriol at work doing what he does best----SHOOT!

Scarface-Emeritus LP

Texas MC Scarface drops another album called EMERITUS.

DJ ALSPIN

FINAL HOME x Casio G -Shock watch

Kosuke Tsumura’s technical label Final Home, follows a muted yet technically refined approach towards design. Consisting mainly of monotone garments, the aesthetic continues Tsumura’s belief that clothes can adapt according to natures elements, in a way becoming their own “ultimate shelter”. The lifestyle brand is synonymous with the concepts of protection, survival and functionality which makes their latest collaboration with Casio ideal, considering the G-Shocks model familiarity with functional and technical aspects. The watch is available in two colorways, black or white, featuring FINAL HOME’s conceptual vision.

DJ Premier x Ludacris in the studio interview

This is hot to see Premo in action from scratch showing off his "scratching" skills! Real hip hop fans will know that Youtube is a life saver to see the legends in action!

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American Folk Music Legend Odetta Passes at 77

American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
Dec. 3, 2008, 6:41 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. [Just a couple of weeks ago, the original songstress met with Leadbelly curator and family descendent, Alvin Singh II. Still at it, Odetta said she wanted to perform at Leadbelly's Exibit at the Grammy Museum in L.A., February 2009 to rekindle the legacy of an old friend. We will remember her legacy as she takes her last bow.] She was 77.

Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said.
In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability never diminished, Yeager said.

"The power would just come out of her like people wouldn't believe," he said.
With her booming, classically trained voice and spare guitar, Odetta gave life to the songs by workingmen and slaves, farmers and miners, housewives and washerwomen, blacks and whites.
First coming to prominence in the 1950s, she influenced Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other singers who had roots in the folk music boom.

An Odetta record on the turntable, listeners could close their eyes and imagine themselves hearing the sounds of spirituals and blues as they rang out from a weathered back porch or around a long-vanished campfire a century before.

"What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer," Time magazine wrote in 1960.

"She is a keening Irishwoman in `Foggy Dew,' a chain-gang convict in `Take This Hammer,' a deserted lover in `Lass from the Low Country,'" Time wrote.

Odetta called on her fellow blacks to "take pride in the history of the American Negro" and was active in the civil rights movement. When she sang at the March on Washington in August 1963, "Odetta's great, full-throated voice carried almost to Capitol Hill," The New York Times wrote.
She was nominated for a 1963 Grammy awards for best folk recording for "Odetta Sings Folk Songs." Two more Grammy nominations came in recent years, for her 1999 "Blues Everywhere I Go" and her 2005 album "Gonna Let It Shine."

In 1999, she was honored with a National Medal of the Arts. Then-President Bill Clinton said her career showed "us all that songs have the power to change the heart and change the world."

"I'm not a real folksinger," she told The Washington Post in 1983. "I don't mind people calling me that, but I'm a musical historian. I'm a city kid who has admired an area and who got into it. I've been fortunate. With folk music, I can do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing."

Among her notable early works were her 1956 album "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," which included such songs as "Muleskinner Blues" and "Jack O' Diamonds"; and her 1957 "At the Gate of Horn," which featured the popular spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."

Her 1965 album "Odetta Sings Dylan" included such standards as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Masters of War" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

In a 1978 Playboy interview, Dylan said, "the first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta." He said he found "just something vital and personal" when he heard an early album of hers in a record store as a teenager. "Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar," he said.

Belafonte also cited her as a key influence on his hugely successful recording career, and she was a guest singer on his 1960 album, "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall."

She continued to record in recent years; her 2001 album "Looking for a Home (Thanks to Leadbelly)" paid tribute to the great blues singer to whom she was sometimes compared.
Odetta's last big concert was on Oct. 4 at San Francisco's Golden State Park, where she performed in front of tens of thousands at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Yeager said. She also performed Oct. 25-26 in Toronto.

Odetta hoped to sing at the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, though she had not been officially invited, Yeager said.

Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., in 1930, she moved with her family to Los Angeles at age 6. Her father had died when she was young and she took her stepfather's last name, Felious. Hearing her in glee club, a junior high teacher made sure she got music lessons, but Odetta became interested in folk music in her late teens and turned away from classical studies.

She got much of her early experience at the Turnabout Theatre in Los Angeles, where she sang and played occasional stage roles in the early 1950s.

"What power of characterization and projection of mood are hers, even though plainly clad and sitting or standing in half light!" a Los Angeles Times critic wrote in 1955.

Over the years, she picked up occasional acting roles in TV and film. None other than famed Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper reported in 1961 that she "comes through beautifully" in the film "Sanctuary."

In the Washington Post interview, Odetta theorized that humans developed music and dance because of fear, "fear of God, fear that the sun would not come back, many things. I think it developed as a way of worship or to appease something. ... The world hasn't improved, and so there's always something to sing about."

Odetta is survived by a daughter, Michelle Esrick of New York City, and a son, Boots Jaffre, of Fort Collins, Colo. She was divorced about 40 years ago and never remarried, her manager said.
A memorial service was planned for next month, Yeager said.