The long awaited "we are the world" video. Way too many artists to even start naming lol!
Every word sent chills down my spine, even sent some tears to the tear ducts
History in the making, remember where you saw it FIRST!
7 months ago
This a late post, I know! But it is still a worthy post. This last weekend was a big weekend for Caribbean’s in Toronto; we were blessed with the presence of Rita Marley the widow of the late great Robert "Bob" Nest Marley... This was all for good cause, The Mayor of Toronto officially declared this day as "Bob Marley Day"!
This year Feb 6th was used to party in the name of Bob but all for the cause of Haiti. A prominent attorney-at-law Courtney Betty proposed this idea at a Toronto Council meeting (which I attended) saying that “Marley’s messages are still relevant today and many people, no matter their discipline, can identify with his passion, his cause and his message."
This was a great way for us to bring in Black History Month, which is celebrated in February in the Americas. I'm very proud that Toronto realised how much our community needs to celebrate its culture. We are still a far way from where we need to be but we are on the journey there.
The last major step that Toronto made towards appreciating our African culture, was our first Afro centric school, the "Africentric Alternative School". This is a new school focused on African culture and heritage for African-descent children from the ages of 4-13. Unlike UK schools, in Canada we don't wear uniform to school unless you attend a Catholic school, but the children at this school sport African dashiki waistcoats with matching ties. This school was also different because it has an all black teaching staff.
There was a lot of controversy about this school when it first opened, people believed that this was re-segregation and that children leaving this school wouldn't be able to fall back into the public school system and then be ready for post secondary education. Then there were the people who opposed this idea saying that this would help with the racial barriers in the public school system and would help the children of African descent bring their test results to the same level as their Caucasian/Asian peers.
I think any step towards helping people know their history is a good step, and I hope that the city, and cities around the world embrace this more, so that the next generation have more of a chance in this society.
To remember where you have been, is to know where you are going!
Happy Black (African) History Month!
This year Feb 6th was used to party in the name of Bob but all for the cause of Haiti. A prominent attorney-at-law Courtney Betty proposed this idea at a Toronto Council meeting (which I attended) saying that “Marley’s messages are still relevant today and many people, no matter their discipline, can identify with his passion, his cause and his message."
This was a great way for us to bring in Black History Month, which is celebrated in February in the Americas. I'm very proud that Toronto realised how much our community needs to celebrate its culture. We are still a far way from where we need to be but we are on the journey there.
The last major step that Toronto made towards appreciating our African culture, was our first Afro centric school, the "Africentric Alternative School". This is a new school focused on African culture and heritage for African-descent children from the ages of 4-13. Unlike UK schools, in Canada we don't wear uniform to school unless you attend a Catholic school, but the children at this school sport African dashiki waistcoats with matching ties. This school was also different because it has an all black teaching staff.
There was a lot of controversy about this school when it first opened, people believed that this was re-segregation and that children leaving this school wouldn't be able to fall back into the public school system and then be ready for post secondary education. Then there were the people who opposed this idea saying that this would help with the racial barriers in the public school system and would help the children of African descent bring their test results to the same level as their Caucasian/Asian peers.
I think any step towards helping people know their history is a good step, and I hope that the city, and cities around the world embrace this more, so that the next generation have more of a chance in this society.
To remember where you have been, is to know where you are going!
Happy Black (African) History Month!
The New Orlean Saints won the superbowl!
The superbowl is like a national holiday in the Americas...
If you don't watch you pretty much can't join a conversation for about another month lol..
This was a well deserved win for New Orleans after all that has happened, bringing back hope to their city.
Here a throwback to put you in the New Orleans Moood...I heard this on the radio this morning and all I could say was CHHUUUNNEE! I remember these days *sigh*
Joe Ft Mystikal (from New Orleans)- Stutter!
Today, Jan 15 2010 would have been the 71st birthday of the late and great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Today In America is a national holiday with many festivities including a parade.
MLK Jr was known for being one of the biggest activist in history and can definatley be called a human right icon , he was born in a time where people of African descent had no rights. He is most popular for his speech "I have a dream..." where he talks about one day dreaming that his children will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. ("I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.")
His dream has somewhat come true, there is still racism, but its just not really accepted. But a huge step in history, which happened nearly a year ago is the fact that there is now a Black president of the United States. I know MLK jr is looking down on us now smiling. Congrats to Barack Obama who in 5 days is about to be reaching his one year.
In light of all the bad that has happened in Janarary (earthquake in Haiti and the death of Teddy P), there is a silver lining.
Happy Birthday Reverend Martin Luther King Junior from all of us here at TWISB!
Bougie...
Not sure who made this, and I doubt its actually an official doritos commercial, but I thought the little boy was so cute and the commercial was well put together...
take a look...
Bougie...
This video has a lot of symbolism, this bring the questions of free masonary back.
I AM SPEECHLESS! WHAT FLAV? HUH?
I myself thought that Auto-tune was put to death, but I guess, when the bank accounts has run dry, you have a dozen kids running around, this is what you have to do...
SMH...Bougie
This is another fellow Torontonian, I must say I love the creative design and direction of the video. It matches Wolf J McFarlane's style and personality.
This is Grizzly Bears Panda by Wolf J McFarlane
Take a look-see!
WolF J McFarlane - Grizzly Bears Panda [OFFICIAL VIDEO] from WolF J Mcfarlane on Vimeo.
TDOT stand up! Bougie Baby!
So I have been long awaiting this music video, no one was sure if it was coming out but it did.
It's the music video for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" directed by my fav Spike Lee.
Take a gander!
It's the music video for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" directed by my fav Spike Lee.
Take a gander!
The song kind of forshadows MJ's death...a little creeepy
RIP MJ, you will always be missed!
Monday, 21 December 2009
Top 10 Government failures of the Decade according to Bougie
Posted by just Bougie!These are the top 10 government failures according to mee!
1) 9/11
2) Hurricane Katrina
3) Tsunami
4) London Bombings
5) Swine Flu/ H1N1
6) War In Iraq
7) Economy Crash
8) SARS
9) Mad Cow Disease
10) West Nile
Bougie!
These are my top five upsets of 2009, or the ones I could remember anyway.
1) Michael Jackson
...but if there was a list of the top 200 balling (crying) moments of 2009 his memorials would be the top 199. I was so upset, but I know he is in a better place.
R.I.P Michael Joesph Jackson (1958-2009)
2)Tiger Woods
UGH! What a waste of time! I had your back when you were the best golfer, even though you denied us, but now that your the loser that you are, Ive denied you, you can be by your self... all by your self!
No wife, no groupies, no kids, no fans, no sponsors, no golf...
3)Oprah
Cancelling your show!
HOW DARE YOU!!
How can I be on the show if you cancel it? All I need is 3 years.
4)Chris/Rihanna
Im sure everyone has heard enough about Chris Brown and Rihanna. * sigh * I love them as a couple, beautiful, successfull and young. But I guess everything is not all it seems to be.5)Lady Gaga
Just Lady Gaga as a person was an upset.
(she could have quiet easily been number one)
Just her. Nothing she did. JUST HER!
Those are my top 5 upsets...
Signing Out, Bougie Baby!
I think this is the best video I've seen in 2009, especially for an underground artist, and a Toronto artist as that. This is Shaun Boothe, who I blogged before, the one who did "the unauthorized biography"...
This is his new video "Poor Boy"
And this his last video, I love the song, lyrics and video... "Music Man" ft Amanda Diva
Dear Raz B,
I have.. well ummm... 10 comments/questions about your new so called video
1) It was hella corny and low budget
2) My boys make better music videos with their handy cams
3) Why does the song sound so familiar?
4) Why was there a blend of two shots? One with a silhouette, did that look good in the editing suite?
5) I thought you were gay, why do you have a leading lady don’t front...
6) Is that peanut butter your eating off of her nose?
7) Why was your leading lady the director and the producer?(well I guess it is a recession, nevermind I answered that question myself)
8) Book you for a show? Umm like what kinda show, not singing right?
9) PLEASE get back with B2K, or QUIT
10) Michael Jackson is finally in a better place where people aren’t making fun of him, why must you disgrace his name with your "dance" moves?
But I’m just saying...
Sincerely,
An old B2K fan
The music industry in Toronto is basically non-existant, but the hip-hop community is large, and the support is even larger! Im pretty sure a lot of people, even me before I moved here, confuse Canada with America, or don't even know about Canada. So to differentiate ourselves, Canadian show their artistry in creative ways...
A fellow Torontonian named Shaun Boothe, (who is know for his hits "Music Man" and "Poor Boy" Youtube him!) has come up with the idea to create a rap song about different worldly influential people, and then accompany it with video clips and graphics. He calls is "The Unauthorized Biography Series". There is 12 parts and he is currently on part 6.
So here are parts 1-6, and I shall update as they come....Unauthorized Biography of James Brown (1st of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Unauthorized Biography of Bob Marley(2nd of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Unauthorized Biography of Muhammed Ali(3rd of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Unauthorized Biography of MLK and Barack Obama(4th of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Unauthorized Biography of Jimi Hendrix(5th of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Unauthorized Biography of Sean Combs(6th of 12) by Shaun Boothe
Mr Sean Combs actually saw this and then tweeted it!
Signing out from the land of the yellow traffic lights across the pond,
Bougie!
Here are some new videos that came out in the last two weeks, I myself have been steadly awaiting the release of Kid Cudi new video Pursuit of Happiness. I am very satisfied. Genuis. Another video I have been awaiting was Timberland ft Drake "Say Something", which I loved, but I seem to find it pretty familiar...oh yeah! Pursuit of Happyness... 1) Drake, 2) Drake in the suit 3) the restaurant/bar scence 4) the alcohol 5) the toasting through out the video. *sigh* Here we goooo!
Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness...Cameo: Drake
Timberland ft Drake - Say Something..
But as a future director/producer in the industry my fav videos to look for are 50 cents'..his newer videos are always like little movies. He subsitutes the usual booty shaking/naked girls on cars/'making it rain' with actual actors... here it is!
50 Cent - Do you think about me... cameos Vivica A Fox, Tahiry and Tamala Jones
and why not some Mary J to keep us going through the week, this is her song I am
and here is some good 'ol Mariah Carey..this one is called H.A.T.E.U
and lets finish off with what seems to be the team on the come up...Young Mulllah Baaaby! with Bedrock ft Lloyd...
...not sure if anyone else noticed but something simular in alll of the videos is the Beats Headphones from Dr Dre, nothing like a little product placement...
Signing out. Bougie!
I'm a little bias, But the cover says it all, he is UNSTOPPABLE! Is it me but Drake is spitting out like 2 videos a month..without an album. Anyway here are his newest additions...
DJ Khaled- Fed Up ft Usher, Young Jeezy, Ricky Ross, & Drizzy!
4 My Town - Birdman ft Drake & Lil Wayne
Bougieee xoxo
Im all ways down to try something new! Ive been to a lot of different events, from the passa passa type jams to the networking socialite type of events, but never in my 20 yrs have I been to an art exhibit...or in that case been interested.
So yesterday I walked into the loft where the Le Groupe Doué was being held, and I had the greatest feeling... I was in a room full of support and positive energy...Black youth, showing that they were something. Le Groupe Doué consists of a group of young artists Brittney M, Zoran White, Sean Brown and Courtney Eastman... (pictured below)
Here are some pics of the art exhibit (excuse the quality these are BB pics)...
(this exhibit is called Behind the Curtain... pictures of the play Secrets of a Black Boy)
(the ladies legs are a representation of Barbie. This piece was called Ken pt1)
These types of events are also good for networking with new people...I got to meet Darren Anthony and Samson Brown. Darren is the a young playwright and actor (he wrote and starred in the play Secrets of A Black Boy) and Samson Brown played Buscuit in the play. We talked and talked for hours, and its safe to say we are its history in the making.
(Samson Brown looking at Ken pt2, Like a Boy and Saltwalter Sketches)
Mr Darren Anthony
"I don't wear colour, I hold colour "~ Samson Brown
The most interesting exhibit at Le Groupe Doué was by Zoran. This piece made everyone stop and look and really try and understand it, Zoran had just been through a tough breakup and this was his interpretation...It was accompanied by the quote "I coughed up what you left me . . . brightness decays brilliantly"
FYI: They are pictures of a black subtance in a toilet
This was a fun and fulfilling night, so I encourage everyone to go out and do something you dont usually do, it might turn out to be more fun than the usual...
The
walk home...
Love and Blessing fellow Blocksterssss. Bougie Oougie Signing out.
WELL MORE LIKE A SWINE SURVIVOR!! (H1N1 aint got nothing on me!)
It's Bougie here in the land of the 3a's...Canada!
And after 4 long hard weeks, of cold sweats, shivers, vomiting, pains, coughing, sneezing, not being able to sleep or breathe, and did I say vomiting, oh and a few hospital visits....I can actually say i survived!!!
You see I thought I was the Queen of hand sanitizer, washing my hands throughly and all of that infection control stuff, what I didnt know is that if someone has SwineFlu and coughs, the virus stays airborne for 7 hours...UGH!
So Public Transport + Public Schooling = The Big Swiney! (even though i think i caught it from Tahirah over BlackBerryMessenger LOL)
In a weird way I'm glad I got because I sure as hell wasn't going to get the SwineVacination, call me a conspiracy theorist.. BUUTT, in 5 years you'll be watchin the news and it will go a lil something like this...
"Breaking news, I'm Trevor McDonald, and we have just found out that the H1N1 that was given to millions in 2009, is not now actually mutating humans into pigs, people are growing hoofs, snouts, and little cury tails..."
It might be a little far fetched, but im just saying, say this was to happen...I'll have one word...HA!
But back to reality!
Im back and in FULL EFFECT!
So for all my other Big Swiney survivors! Together we UNITE, i made us this pic:)
It's Bougie here in the land of the 3a's...Canada!
And after 4 long hard weeks, of cold sweats, shivers, vomiting, pains, coughing, sneezing, not being able to sleep or breathe, and did I say vomiting, oh and a few hospital visits....I can actually say i survived!!!
You see I thought I was the Queen of hand sanitizer, washing my hands throughly and all of that infection control stuff, what I didnt know is that if someone has SwineFlu and coughs, the virus stays airborne for 7 hours...UGH!
So Public Transport + Public Schooling = The Big Swiney! (even though i think i caught it from Tahirah over BlackBerryMessenger LOL)
In a weird way I'm glad I got because I sure as hell wasn't going to get the SwineVacination, call me a conspiracy theorist.. BUUTT, in 5 years you'll be watchin the news and it will go a lil something like this...
"Breaking news, I'm Trevor McDonald, and we have just found out that the H1N1 that was given to millions in 2009, is not now actually mutating humans into pigs, people are growing hoofs, snouts, and little cury tails..."
It might be a little far fetched, but im just saying, say this was to happen...I'll have one word...HA!
But back to reality!
Im back and in FULL EFFECT!
So for all my other Big Swiney survivors! Together we UNITE, i made us this pic:)
Bougie signing out!
Bougie here,
(boi have i been neglecting my blogging duties!).
There has been a lot of changes in hiphop...changes toward degrading women more and more. Especially on BET ( a whole other blogging topic)...
But today i sat down and took to some youtubing to catch up on my dancehall and saw a whole other type of degrading or so i think...
You see I saw this video and i can actually say I'm not sure if this is degrading or not?
Play the flim (yes i said flim) and tell me what you think...It called Pon De Floor....but its not quite a song more of a riddim with some hardcore daggering..
ohh and dont start me on the blond fro hawk...SMH!
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