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Mos Def is back. Which means I am happy. This for Ski Beats’ new album coming out in September.

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If you can sit through Lil Wayne’s whiny rap, this has potential. Hello Brooklyn.

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“Half Colombian, Half Mexican Bandit” by California dj, Toy Selecta. (This one via Ghetto Bassquake).

Sean Jacobs

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.