Pharoahe Monch is ‘Still Standing’

http://youtu.be/tBfMuf_JjI0

One of the best rappers alive, featuring the lady who sang the original hook on “You Got Me.” Off Monch’s ‘W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)’ — the album has been out for more than 6 months already, but the music video is new. The subtext is Monch’s battle with asthma. Director Terence Nance has done work for Blitz The Ambassador before. Is that Jean Grae hanging around in the studio? This is your music break.

Further Reading

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

The new antisemitism?

Stripped of its veneer of nuance, Noah Feldman’s essay in ‘Time’ is another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state by smearing them as anti-Jewish racists.