Instinctive travels and the path of Rhythm

Silence

2009-11-13T10:11:00.000-08:00

move.inspire.motivate

2009-10-29T10:59:00.000-07:00

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil-Alfred North Whitehead

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth-Benjamin Disraeli

Love,Peace and Nappiness

2009-09-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

There are some things pure while certain things blur
Dilute it with the lie and you believe when it occur
Falsified information got my people in the stir
We have to be in search of something equal to the cure
Straight out the door, I come to give you more
Lay the law keep it raw, when I speak it from the core
Get underneath your skin like I scratched you with a claw
Conflicted with the rich 'cause I kick it with the poor
I laugh in the face of adversity-CHALI 2NA

Genesis 10:5
From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language

We have come a long way a long,hard,difficult route to "freedom" its kinda strange how you grow and your mind reacts to certain situations.The issue of race amongst YOU humans seem to stay the same.I think everything is twisted in this world and history as we see and understand it is one twisted version that we got wrong.When i was younger i fought this black/white war and up to this point it still seems to be at the same point.One thing i can tell yall the Devil played us all,for we are one people,same brother same sister we left our ant colony thousands of years ago.

I choose PEACE. peace LOVE & abundance for humanity today

A thousand times a million doors to eternity

2009-09-05T15:36:00.000-07:00

Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
And it seems as though the writings on the wall,
Superstar you finally made it,
But once your picture becomes tainted,
It's what they call,
The rise and fall

The vices of life,i wonder often actually i make believe more so.Tonight i found solace in the lyrics of so many of Sting's music lets say it just spoke straight to my heart.I often choose not to say much as my eyes devour and memorizes each uttered word,each uttered movement.FREEZE!Stand still,stop,blink,think for just one moment!I cry foul whats happening to humanity.Once upon a time long ago i absorbed many doctrines and many beliefs i fought for you and you,in the end i had to return to the teachings of my dad.My dads teachings was not Christianity no way his teachings has been about a relationship with God.This journey has been a amazing one of growth of understand of love.I Love you!So i stare once again over the ocean not knowing my fate but believing my purpose is of a higher calling which i cant define if u ask me as its definition is defined by each journey i descend upon.

Thank u Jesus

Her Heart

2009-08-23T11:31:00.000-07:00

A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
Proverbs 12:3-5

A sanctified union,a sacred clause,a friendship,a joint venture!What is love who discovered this thing we call love?Will love ever become redundant? Marriage at times seems like a lottery but what i realize is that any union that's connected through the basic principals could be a everlasting one.Yes that's true even in this lucky packet day and age.

a nation unified in exhale!

2009-08-07T09:27:00.000-07:00

In the dark it's more likely that you notice light
In the light more likely that you notice night
Hungry more appreciation for that meal
Dead broke more appreciation for that grill
A bad day'll make you really notice ones that's good
And that'll make things a little better understood-*Make you feel that way*-Blackalicious

It seems when you dont have you more likely to notice what you had.

a collection of words and sounds that mesmerizes me

2009-07-17T11:48:00.000-07:00

This Blog post wont have a lot of words the soul of this post is captured in the images and the sounds,im mesmerized by the beautiful music that enlightens me on this journey to learn and discover more about my world.

Comment | Copy This

Tupac Shakur

2009-07-08T13:49:00.001-07:00

Tupac Shakur, originally uploaded by ipwallpapers.

Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen-Me against the world

He came and left at a young age,he touched millions of people around the world.Tupac's music was often criticized for its violence and anger yet that anger and frustration is a botched up feeling that millions of urban and poor people suppress.I am because of you! Remember that take this young mans words and recycle it and see how it still applies til this day R.I.P Tupac

The Story of The Idan Raichel Project

2009-06-28T12:16:00.001-07:00

amazing collective if you into music this will def captivate your ears.

virtual insanity 2010

2009-06-27T07:08:00.000-07:00

http://bit.ly/SNx5R Musica for free

Qalazive http://bit.ly/YjQIg (free Track)

jbux http://bit.ly/3HWpr (I salute YOU)

The man who refuse to be moved

2009-06-15T23:50:00.000-07:00

Proverbs 3:3

3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart

The man that cant be moved! hmmmmmmmmm sounds like me.When best my words are spoken it's through a artist that hits straight to my heart,my mind and my soul.Each entry into this journal is like taking a step alongside Rushay Booysen if you find yourself sinking into quicksand be strong hold on every passage will be reached if you set your heart on it!The days when there was no electronic journals when there was no thought of blogging i sat silently and sewed my thoughts on a piece of paper, that was many miles ago and i kept the door to that book locked.My ear became tuned to the streets and sounds and words became my reality.This blog became my reality as of late as im able to share with you the tattered pieces of a fragmented mind that seeks to impose and decode the modern day Morse code,as a alienated race called humans we so often make new bonds and sometimes that bonds get broken.The beauty in all of this is that life is so unpredictable and just when you thought you reached dead end along comes a smile that lightens the room.

maybe ill get famous for the man who cant be moved
and maybe you wont mean to but you'll see me on the news
and you'd come running to the corner!

Nneka

2009-06-04T22:03:00.000-07:00

I am a music junkie im skinny cos the majority of my time is spent devouring sweet,thick sounds that feeds my mind,recently i stumbled upon Nneka might only be recently cos i do not spend my time listening to the airwaves.I am a digger i dig and search like a new aged Christopher Columbus.My aim to defrost those captured minds that looks at history and only see the negative aspect that is presented to us,minds that are conditioned by someone else's ideal and agenda!i had to change my mindset from that of a oppressed mind,oppressed minds still think in terms of devid,still think in terms of a cause for a particular group.I like to view global i like to think in confine's of individual's and selfishness,later on it would be transferred to groups and collectives but for now i think its important to search for that truth that makes sense to me.I so often find myself amongst people that speak about them who are they? nobody seems to be able to tell me who this THEM are!So im sharing with you Nneka this song speaks so much truth.

U keep pushing the blame on our colonial fathers
U say they came and they took all we had pocessed
They have to take the abuse that they have caused our present state with their intruding history
Use our goodness and nourishment in the Name of missionary
Lied to us,blinded slaved us,misplaced us,strengthen us,hardened us then
they replaced us now we got to learn from pain
Now it is up to us to gain some recognition
If we stopp blaming we could get a better condition
Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty

Why do we want to remain where we started
And how long do we want to stop ourselves from thinking
We should learn from experience that what we are here for this existence
But now we decide to use the same hatred to oppress our own brothers
It is so comfortable to say racism is the cause
but this time it is the same colour chasing and biting us
Knowledge and selfishness that they gave to us,this is what we use to abuse us
Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty

Those who have ears let them hear
Brothers who are not brainwashed takt ruins and rest
Pick them up and stick them back together
This is the only way we can change this african weather
Lied to us,blinded slaved us,misplaced us,strengthen us,hardened us then
they replaced us now we got to learn from pain

Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty

you got to wake up please
youuuuu got tooo
(wake up africa wake up and stop blaming)
blaming ha ha ha
open yours eyes your eyes
stand up and riise
road block oh life penalty
wake up...

Afrikaans is alive and well

2009-05-28T04:36:00.000-07:00

Jitsvinger has been blazing the airwaves brandishing his style of afrikaans hip hop.Me and some students just had a interesting discussion regarding afrikaans and its place in South African society.What i find so often is that history gave a misplaced journal of the language we are so often reminded of Soweto and the rise against the education of afrikaans.I think not many people know about the rise of the language in a community that was raised with it and that made it uniquely South African,a slave language that was transformed and recycled as it occurred in several colonized states around the world ala south america/carribean etc etc. so i bring to u Jitsvinger

True Sight Music - BYOA - Port Elizabeth/San Francisco exchange

2009-05-12T11:54:00.001-07:00

The WOMAN that took on the world

2009-05-10T13:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Mama's day to all the ladies,amazing woman that took time out to birth us alienated humans.I find myself in a world where male domination seems to be at a constant apex not losing any balance on this scale we call life.So this post is basically dedicated to a woman out of Zimbabwe .Every woman is special out there so Men learn to respect your woman.

"So sometimes in life when you suspect the absolute worst thing, God sends you an angel."-Jenni Williams

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-05-10-the-woman-who-took-on-mugabe

article courtesy of Mail and Guardian

Of all the terrible things that have happened to Jenni Williams over the past six years -- and there have been many -- there is one incident that stands out from the rest.

It was October 2008. She had been arrested by Zimbabwean police after taking part in a peaceful protest outside a government complex. The marchers were asking for food aid, in a population where three-quarters of the population is starving under Robert Mugabe's oppressive regime. Bundled into a police van, Williams and a colleague were taken to prison and denied bail.

She was in jail for three weeks. On one "particularly bad day" Williams recalls being forced by the guards to sit for hours in the burning sunshine. "I am of light skin, they knew I was going to get very badly sunburnt, and we were just made to sit there for some form of punishment," she says. "And when we tried to object, they started accusing myself and my colleague of being lesbians because she had been beaten and I was rubbing her back.

"So it was a very bad day, and our lawyer had not been able to come to give us any update on our appeal process and I just thought: I don't know how we're going to get through this."

At 47, Jenni Williams has experienced more brutality than most of us will face in a lifetime. She is the founder of the underground activist movement Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza), an organisation that, since 2003, has been mobilising Zimbabwean women to demonstrate in defence of their political, economic and social rights. In a fragmented country where women are marginalised by patriarchy, downtrodden by severe financial hardship (official inflation runs at 7 000%) and weakened by the acute lack of food or clothing for themselves and their children, Williams faces an almost insurmountable daily struggle simply to keep going.

Under Mugabe's dictatorship, the threat of state-sanctioned violence is ever-present. Despite being a movement dedicated to peaceful protest, Woza's 70 000 members are routinely arrested, beaten and intimidated.

As an outspoken critic of the current Zimbabwean regime, Williams is one of the most troublesome thorns in Mugabe's side. In a region where anti-government protesters have an uncomfortable habit of disappearing or turning up dead, her day-to-day existence is hazardous: although her main residence is in Bulawayo, south-west Zimbabwe, she moves in and out of safe houses and never stays more than six months in one place. She has been arrested 33 times.

Once she was abducted by police for 24 hours and driven 45km outside the city to an unknown destination. "They were telling me they were going to murder me and bury me and no one would ever know," says Williams. "Luckily for me, we ended up in a police station and some of the police officers were very sympathetic. There was no food there but one of those police officers came and whispered into the window of our cell: 'I'm bringing you food from your house. I know you are hungry.' So sometimes in life when you suspect the absolute worst thing, God sends you an angel."

She says, when I ask her if she ever loses hope in humanity, that this is her answer: finding goodness where you least expect it. Even at her lowest point in that prison yard, forced to sit for hours in the sunshine, her skin burning and her spirits shattered, something happened to salvage her hopes and keep her going. "My colleagues came and told me that Barack Obama had won and was going to be the next president of America and it was -- " She breaks off, then emits a loud squeal of delight: "YES! And that made the pain not so bad."
In person, Jenni Williams looks as strong as she sounds. She has a broad face, substantial shoulders and thick, powerful arms. Her hair is braided in tight plaits that snake across her skull. She is mixed race -- her mechanic father, who was absent for most of her upbringing, was black. Her mother Margaret is the daughter of an IRA man who emigrated to what was then Rhodesia from County Armagh. He became a gold prospector and married a local woman from the Matabele tribe.

Williams readily admits that dissidence runs in the family: "It's an incredible mix of this Irish and this Matabelean nation, which is a fighting nation. My grandmother was once arrested during the early 80s because the Mugabe regime said she had arms caches. That's the melting pot that I come from."

At first the combination of her looks and her history can make Williams seem a slightly forbidding presence, but as soon as you talk to her you realise that she has an internal composure that gives her a tender, almost maternal quality. She comes across as a protector rather than an aggressor. When she talks, it is in a bubbling stream of flat Zimbabwean vowels spliced with laughter. She smiles a lot.

We meet on one of her infrequent visits to the UK -- she is deliberately vague about her movements in case the Zimbabwean authorities attempt to stop her, but she has the backing of Amnesty International and this time has been able to move around relatively freely.

"We [Woza] get scared like anyone else," she says. "But I think what gives us the commitment to continue to do the things we do is that we speak 100% the truth, and we speak it from the moral authority that we are the mothers of the nation, and if your mother cannot speak out on your behalf then you have no one that will speak for you. So that is why we are committed to doing this: because we want a better future for our children."

The horrible irony for Williams is that being the mother of a troubled nation means she finds it increasingly difficult to be the mother of her own family. Her husband Michael, an electrician, and her three adult children -- one daughter, Natalie (28) from her first marriage, and two sons, Christopher (24) and Richard (22) -- all live in the UK. It would be too dangerous for them to stay in Zimbabwe.

When Woza organised its first Valentine's Day march in 2003 (14 February, with its connotations of love and understanding, is a crucial date for the organisation, which promotes strategic nonviolence), Christopher, then 18, was arrested for handing out roses. Although the Zimbabwean Constitution grants the right to peaceful protest, the authorities argue that it cannot be carried out in the streets without prior notification.

"I couldn't do anything," says Williams now, twisting her hands on the table in front of her. "It was just deeply frustrating for me to be a mother and see that my child had now gotten arrested for something that I was doing, and I was helpless. And so with Christopher's arrest, my mother-in-law [who lives in the UK] got a little bit worried and said: 'Look, please can we have the kids?'

"Also, because of my activism there were threats that they would be taken and put in the youth militia, where they train these kids to be violent, so I had no other option but to allow my two sons, who were still living in the house, to come and be in the UK. My daughter is much older; she had already left home.

"It's not easy for me to live apart from them. But we are very, very busy leading this organisation. I already work 14 to 15-hour days. There's no way right now I can be a mother to my children because I'm too occupied being a mother to the nation."

Does she feel guilty about the choice she has made, about placing the political over the personal? "No, I don't because I know and they know and we all understand and discuss these issues and they know why we're doing it. So it's not a matter of guilt. I miss them terribly. I miss my husband terribly. But I know it's for them I'm doing it, and they know that, too."

Much of her life has been spent taking care of other people -- at the age of 16 she dropped out of school to help her single mother care for her six siblings. And, like the Woza members, 70% of whom have not completed secondary education, she has experienced at first hand the vicious hardships of a Zimbabwean upbringing: in 1994, her eldest brother died of HIV/Aids, and because of her mixed heritage she has experienced racism from both sides of the ethnic divide.

"In some ways, my blood has been too black to be beautiful," she says sadly. "In other ways, my skin has been too white to be right. And yeah, it's been a problem ... My first marriage failed because, at the wedding ceremony, my ex-husband's mother and father arrived at the wedding and the reality that I was mixed race hit them when they saw my mother and they saw my brothers, who are much darker than me, and they just couldn't take it and they left the ceremony. They hounded my husband with all this stuff about the son of Ham and all this racist rhetoric, and: 'You're going to have black children' and our marriage failed as a result of that.

"And now under Mugabe, quite often police officers who do not know me, who do not know my background, will make all sorts of racist [anti-white] comments to me and so I've also had that ... So it hasn't been easy."

But perhaps it was this sense of never quite belonging, of having to prove herself in the face of adversity, that gave Williams the sheer single-mindedness she has needed to pursue what she believes is right in a land where the idea of justice is, at best, illusory. "Seeing my mother want something better for me and seeing her sacrifices [as] a single mother raising seven children -- it motivated me a lot ... It was her as a role model and the fact I had seen so much discrimination that made me want to become a human rights defender."

In what she refers to as "my previous life", Williams ran her own public relations company. From 1994 to 2002 the business was so successful that it won a sizeable contract to do all the communications for the Zimbabwean Farmers' Union. This brought Williams directly into conflict with the government -- Mugabe's controversial policy of land reform enables white farmers to be forced off their properties in order to "redistribute" wealth. "It was very hot and heavy and I was under threat," says Williams. "The police kept visiting the offices. It was just impossible. It ended up losing me my company." Enraged by the injustice of what happened, Williams became politically active. A year later, Woza was formed.

Its grassroots members, many of whom come to the organisation from church groups, are the ordinary women of Zimbabwe who would otherwise remain voiceless -- the seamstresses, the vegetable sellers and hairdressers. Williams leads regular street demonstrations, during which the protesters sing gospel songs and carry brooms, embodying their desire to sweep the government clean. It is a terrifying process: "Sometimes when we are singing, we are extremely discordant because, you know, your mouth is dry, you're scared and you're watching out the whole time for the police."

Dispiritingly, Williams says that there has been no noticeable improvement in conditions since the power-sharing agreement brokered in September between Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition. "We had huge expectations that it would have ... but we have not noticed any change. In fact, in some ways we can say the pressure on us has increased because post the signing of this deal, I then found myself back in prison. And after having made bail -- and it was a huge legal battle -- we then found that we were restricted to a 40km radius, and that has never happened before.

"Since Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in, there is more food on the shelves, but our members certainly cannot afford to buy that food. There's 94% unemployment, and the 6% that's left over probably cannot even afford to pay for their bus transport into work.

"Our members, what are they going to do? They can't afford the school fees. They're desperate for their children to get educated. The decision is: do I feed this child right now or do I buy chalk so they can go to school? And that's a horrible choice that parents are being forced to make in Zimbabwe. So daily life is just horrific."

In prison, conditions are even worse. "It's a living nightmare," says Williams. "It's a death sentence." At mealtimes food is so scarce that the portions are measured out in teaspoons. After Williams's three-week incarceration last October, a female prisoner begged her to leave behind her underwear. "They said: 'We have not seen a pair of panties for two or three years while we've been in prison.' And, I mean, someone can be stripped of their dignity, but if you're a woman you really want to be able to have a pair of panties -- it's something basic."

She has a vivid memory of being taken to a men's prison and seeing hundreds of skeletal inmates in the courtyard. "These were men who were -- what's the word -- you can't say crouching because that implies a bigger body space -- people were so thin that they looked like spiders, when they close themselves up and you can't see any limbs. They were like ghosts: rows and rows of ghosts."

Although she would never admit to it, it is clear that the prospect of being sent back there fills Williams with dread. The trial relating to her October arrest on charges of disturbing the peace is still ongoing -- at the time of going to press, Williams and her co-leader Magodonga Mahlangu were due to appear in front of the Bulawayo magistrate's court on 30 April.

Meanwhile, the daily struggle continues. Williams refuses to dwell on the negative, and perhaps this is a necessary technique of self-preservation: how else would she be able to carry on fighting, with such good-humoured courage and tenacity, in the face of such intimidation and danger?

Before she leaves, I tell her that I know no one who possesses the necessary strength to do what she does. "I know lots!" she shrieks happily, shrugging herself into a huge padded black coat. "I know all the Woza members. We are constantly arrested, hundreds of us, and we make each other strong, defend our rights and help each other cope. So I am in extremely good company."

She zips up her coat and gives me a warm hug. Then she walks away, back to fight the battles that no one else dares to face

more time with words and sounds that captures my vision

2009-04-27T02:27:00.000-07:00

A night of music,poetry,dub and splendor,each journey with every artist i come in contact with makes my own journey much smoother.I bring to you a night with Linton Kwesi Johnson,enjoy!

"duped
doped
demoralised
dizzied
dozed
traumatized

blinded by resplendent lite of love
dazzled by di firmament of freedom
im couldn deteck deceit
all wen it kick im in im teet
im couldn cry khorupshon
an believe inna man
im nevvah know bout cleek
im did umble an meek
im nevvah know intrigue
im nevvah inna dat deh league
im nevvah andahstan
dat on di road to sawshalism
yu could buck-up nepotism
im wife dangerous
im bredda tretchero
an im kozn very vicious"

Listen ♫♪♫♪♫♪

2009-04-19T11:13:00.000-07:00

"Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I will sing to the LORD, I will sing; I will make music to the LORD, the God of Israel"-Judges 5:3

Am i hearing Horns and Trumpets could that be the signal of war in the modern days! could life consist of recycled keynotes! Im wondering,the countless reference to music in the Bible/Torah proved to me the importance of music in the lives of those before me and also the importance in the lives of the present.If you should ever mummify me please concrete my ipod in my hand and keep it on repeat.My search for music that feeds my soul has taken me to the abyss of life,anybody can be a artist but not everybody could be a leader.I have dug deeper than your top 40 hits i have dug deeper than your conscious artist.My understanding of music and words surpasses your quote of the month it surpassed the thumping beats of your Scott Storch and whoever charges 100000 dollars a beat.You see im a modern day hippie with charisma and a frown that leaves you in doubt,im the manager that you want cos i paint a picture in your listeners ear's.Watch and listen carefully whats marketed to you,next time when you pick up a mic study what you mime..........become a leader and remember your instrument is a weapon

These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark came to rest-1 Chronicles 6:31

Im linked in with all of yall beyond the stereotype of self made media

2009-04-19T08:22:00.000-07:00

"my contact with conscious rap has made me tolerant of a lot of things.It has inspired me to seek answers to questions i have about the world"-Rushay

zataki

2009-04-18T18:55:00.000-07:00

South African/Canadian diva (diva is a female version of a hustler he he) Zaki Ibrahim

Fragmented beautiful world

2009-04-16T10:59:00.000-07:00

"You quench my thirsting soul and you fill my appetite
I give myself to you because you treat me right
Put my trust in the world and the world gets tight
Shift my trust to you it's like a crystal clear night"-Matisyahu

"You open up my eyes and give me sight
Super energized and everyday I feel you give me life
I seen the ways of the world intoxifying on pride
Young man don't you know drugs impurify your mind"-Matisyahu (Got no water)

A dedication to God and his creation that inspires me to be the change i wish to see!

Jbux interview on UCT radio

2009-04-10T10:10:00.000-07:00

Mr Phraser Interview on Uct radio in Cape Town

Free download Jbux-I Salute http://tinyurl.com/cjhpv6

Freedom of speech just watch what you say!

2009-04-07T11:26:00.000-07:00

SPEAK OUT YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL

This writing is a excerpt out of my mind will i remain silent will i allow my voice my mind to be infiltrated by exterior forces!

"aint no use in stepping if we aint stepping up"-Roots Manuva

Revolution has become tainted like slavery!I naturally excluded myself from conforming to any norm created in the society i grew up in,i searched outside of those boundries and i found the traits are similar,as much as freedom of speech is allowed its also controlled.Ads have taken over all our brain space and every fluid running through your body has been injected with a potion that controls what you buy,what you listen to and what you believe!Now you may say i have included alot of exclamations and you might ask me for concrete proof,well i cant give you concrete cos concrete came from fluid so when i reverse these liquid creation you will see things dont always come in concrete form.If you see wrongs speak out say it loud i meant LOUD!The writing is on the wall my time might be counting down so you need to carry my voice and the voice of those youth that's still to follow,tweet it,spray it,sing it but just destroy silence.

"This living dead noose, the bane of life in the west

But who's down for civil unrest?

In times like these comrades is hard to find

The beast keeps the masses toeing the line

With them sneaky tactics they'll keep them boys running

So they can have a market for their guns and ammunition

Keep the third world in a stagnant position

Begging for monetary aid from IMF

Who don't seem too keen to write of the third world debt

Cause they profit from holding it down

Soon there'll be no dollars, no yens, no pounds

Just madness, microchips and hi-tech war

And all because the beast wants to gain control

Of each and every mind, body, spirit and soul"-Roots Manuva (soul decay)

2010 til infinity

2009-03-15T02:42:00.000-07:00

So the question remains what does the football world cup hold for the average South African citizen that still struggles to put food on the family table? The hype is on the tickets have gone on sale and the worlds biggest event comes to Africa for the very first time.We have already seen the developments that's taking place and there has been doubts placed on the ability of South Africa to host this prestigious event.

So i have gone online i have placed my name in the draw and now im being patient about the outcome 2010 here i come!Some of my biggest questions i have asked myself what is the benefits of the world cup what would it have honored those south africans that have invested billions of rands into offering this magnificent sports event to the world.I bring to you the progress of the 2010 stadium in Port Elizabeth,South Africa

Discussion with a young mind

2009-02-25T11:43:00.000-08:00

dont mind the typos its I.M and we expressing freely without any borders without any constraints this is MY medium this is my VOICE so SHUT me up!

I had a question thrown at me by a national television channel and i had to get into the mind of the NOW who happens to be Sizwe,my answer would not have been a reflection of the current as i do come from a generation before before.Here goes our I.M thanks to Sizwe

Sizwe is online.
RuSh: they send me two copies one for u and one for me
i got it here

Sizwe: wow man, are u willing to post it to me? if it is possible?

RuSh: yeah i will just but tight to get to a post office

Sizwe: thanks hey. i'm not in a rush though. you can take your time. would really love to hear it
can i send you my address later?

RuSh: tell me that track itself
the one u did
would u say its a poltical track?

Sent at 9:05 PM on Wednesday
Sizwe: that was the whole intention. politics at that time was deteriorating in SA. no one was willing to speak about it.
so we went ahead with it
many people did think we did it just to sound 'conscious' and so forth.. that was not the intention really.
lotta research went into that track actually

RuSh: cos it seems nobody speaking bout whats happening in SA currently
and all the artist i find are performing for the %#*
but i know its cos these artist are manipulated by money
so nobody is willing to speak against the powers that be cos they feed and link these artist to more money
while the values in our society are declining

Sizwe: the whole point of expression has changed
its not about it anymore

RuSh: so what would u say contributes to the change in mindset in the youth THESE days
as opposed to when we had a STRUGGLE

Sizwe: well the common youth is very priviledged. i mean, i live around these people.
they just don' care what has happened and what is happening around them because it does not adversely or directly affect them
life is too good.

RuSh: so then we would have to say that people that do have access to making and recording music are more privaleged?

Sizwe: i really do not mean to generalise. but that is the common case.
there's nothing driving the,
they have it all already
no struggle to put into a song
that is what i have noticed myself

RuSh: so as someone thats PRIVILAGED what would u say keeps you from not falling into that mold?

Sizwe: i guess its my personal life experiences that have moulded me to be the way i am. i was very priviledged to have seen and spoken to many different types of people around South Africa, and i have a personal interest to unerstanding the human psyche.
it is something i always think about
its just the way that i am i guess

RuSh: i got ya
yeah im just trynna get a clear understanding as to what motivates artist these days
cos generally and yes we could possibly blame it on mainstream media
but it seems u need to fall into a certain mold to really be heard by the masses

Sizwe: no i completely agree with you. the media has a great influence on the youth. its greater than you think
i have friends who go all up on these music videos in short skirts and so forth just to be recognized
that 'Tippy Toes' video - da Lez. perfect example
half of the girls on that video are my friends. its rediculous as to why they went on there
and what they did too
its crazy man

RuSh: %#%&^#*(*#&v called me
and asked me do i know of any SA hip hop artist that speaks about whats happening
and i couldnt give them any artist straight off the head as i hardly find any hip hop artist speaking out against these things

Sizwe: you will hardly find artists talking about the political situation. in most cases artists just don't understand the full scope of the story
in other cases they are too scared to talk about it either because of public reputation or because of the current political situation
and people my age will HARDLY speak about it
hiphop is a way of being cool nowadays
the media would not even support artists speaking about politics
i don't even have to tell you that

RuSh: yeah i know
cos who owns the media
these exact people we stand up against

Sizwe: exactly
there is no more freedom in freedom of speech

RuSh: yeah its all a lie
democracy is a lie

Sizwe: its not about the people anymore. no one cares about that
and speaking about it here in SA won't get me very far
but i really don't care

RuSh: yeah

Sizwe: it's a personal interest and passion of mine. i am really close to it

RuSh: DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE!

Sizwe: even with the unintended pun, you're still right!!
but for real tho. it will take a lot for appreciation to come back

RuSh: i think our people are still confined to race
and they dont see that the new racism is class
when you poor u will believe any lie that OUR people tell us
the world has become globalized our leaders bought into a one world system
and we all becoming slaves to this system that was created whether we say its a white man we all are becoming numbers

Sizwe: racism is subliminaly everywhere
look at why PE doesn't like Bux
these pe cats tell me everything
no one will let go

RuSh: yeah nobody bro
thats why its important for us to pass on OUR truth to other generations
the past must die for the future to be borne

Sizwe: passing on to future generations is not that easy. i really wish it were. i was just lucky enough to have actually taken my father seriously when he spoke about the past
many people just don't care
my generation is already losing it
one will never truely know the true struggle unless one has been through it
i haven't even been through all of it

RuSh: YES

Sizwe: i try and relate. believe me i really wish i truly knew.
like you do not understand. it is a deep interest of mine
i see the people here and how they are right now. the next generation of people after me will be very watered down
i've seen many things here in Cape Town in such a short space of time already

RuSh: u studying at UCT?
yeah bro as much as i like ape town i also hate it
cos its so western and pushes western ideals in all mediums

Sizwe: yah im at uct
the main reason why i'm here is to see how people are over here
i remember Emile from black noise said to me that the Western Cape is seen as the most racist province because they were the only province that voted for the NP
in 1994

RuSh: yeah

Sizwe: i'm really trying to study how people's situations are in different cities and how they differ from city to city

RuSh: yeah

Sizwe: i really think it would help me understand people a lot more
help me have a better sense of relativity

RuSh: and what u made of it thus far?

Sizwe: people i study with here are very priviledged
its not they fault that they are
*their fault
it does affect the way they think and act. some of them are only used to the wealthy life. that's all they know. that's why they find varsity really surprising
my one friend here is HIV positive.
he tells everybody about it. its interesting to see the people's reactions.
i take notice of how different people react
there are a lot of different people here who come from ,any backgrounds. some people even assume that everyone here are from the same background as them and that they are just as priviledged as them
its quite a nice experience so far

RuSh: yeah take the expierances and learn from it
but do not fall into it

Sizwe: most definately. i know what i came here to do
i have gotten used to unfluences and all that stuff
*influences
i'm learning every way possible.
i really am passionate about it

Rhapsody

2009-02-20T16:30:00.001-08:00

Rhapsody, originally uploaded by Rushay.

Music evolution,or shall we dub it revolution? While constantly rewinding my tape deck into memory lane i cant help but sit and ponder about the days when i dreamt about the latest Eric b & Rakim tapes.I can recall the excitement,now time evolved and we moved to Cd's those laser disc that so often scratches and leaves the artist stumbling over beats with lyrics that ignites anger,love and joy.Modern day we mp3'in and ituning,how easy 99 cents for the latest singles,what more could we ask for? I remember how i venomously fought the transition,man i couldnt imagine not reading the booklet not being able to check the credits! Imagine no artwork? Then the Ipod came and blew away my imagination it had artwork,i could connect my player to any device that could play music loud as FFFFFFFFFFF.So im asking myself in post modern times when the internet is so freely available why do artist still seek deals?The biggest struggle for artist was distribution,getting our music into stores that was where our need for distribution was.The music industry is under great threat people are hardly buying cd's these days and our options to distribute music has widened,do we really need the sony's ? The internet has become the single most important resource for third world countries,while there is still a huge gap in terms of internet connectivity it leaves us with a much broader playing field than the one we previously held.What creates a buying pattern? do people really need the tangible ?