Monday, June 21, 2004

Enough. Stop now!
Someone's done a new bunch of Jay Z remixes - Jayzeezer - Jay Z vs Weezer. Groan (his best effort is his remix called Jay Zena - '99 luft balloons' with '99 problems' vocal over the top, truly absurd).
Here's a list of all the remixes done so far, from Jay Z vs Prince, Rage Against The Black Album - Jay-Z vs Rage Against The Machine, Jay-Z vs Kenny G, to Jay Z vs Grateful Dead. Warning; listening to this unimaginative tripe could damage your finely honed sense of irony.

Hiphop artist Michael Franti is touring the Middle East, performing solo. Here's his report from Baghdad... heres an excerpt...

"... Singing in the hospitals is a really amazing and intense experience for me, because it's hard to know what to say. I don't speak Arabic, and most people don't speak any English at all. So, you're there witnessing children with no limbs, children who are going through chemotherapy, adults that have incredibly infected legs that are about to receive amputations, and it's so moving that it's hard for me to even sing. You see a lot pain. There's no nurses or very few nurses in the hospitals, so family members sleep in the hospital with their children or their loved ones. Most of the time in the same bed. Some mothers are there 24 hours a day with their children. So, I sing songs to the mothers, and the mothers begin to weep. I begin to weep, and the children begin to weep, you know..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/20/public_enemy.html