Showing posts with label flint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flint. Show all posts
1.28.2013
DJ Phyzx - - Universal Magnetic B-Boy Scientific
You can download it HERE and check out the rest of his site HERE for tons more goodies
Tracklist:
01. Formula 7 – Soundboy
02. Organized Konfusion – Bring It On
03. DJ Zinc – Reach Out
04. Craig Mack – Flava In Ya Ear (Instrumental)
05. Evil II feat. Ice Cube – Cops Ain’t Shit
06. Lemon D – This Is LA
07. Ascend – 1,2,3 (Remix)
08. Arrested Development – People Everyday (Instrumental)
09. Jeru The Damaja – D Original (Instrumental)
10. D’Cruze – Freedom
11. Redman & Method Man – How High (Acapella)
12. Company Flow – Vital Nerve (Instrumental)
13. Cut Chemist – Layered Laird
14. Maximum Style – Hard As Hell
15. Mickey Finn & Aphrodite – Bad Ass!!
16. Maximum Style – The Teacher
17. Bassface – Steamroller Tune
18. DJ Solo & DJ Aura – Wreckin’ Shit
19. Tek 9 – Libra
20. Mickey Finn & Aphrodite – Drop Top Caddy
21. Breakbeat Science feat. Camp Lo – Black Nostaljack
22. The Ballistic Brothers – I Don’t Know
23. DJ Krush feat. The Roots – Meiso (4 Hero Remix)
24. Junglist Posse & DJ Cam – Summersmashshit
25. A-Sides – Into Existence
26. Boogie Down Productions – I’m Still #1
27. Goldie feat. KRS-One – Digital
28. Beyond Reality – Spice
29. Beyond Reality – Control
30. Master Ace – Me & The Biz
31. DJ Red – Devastate
32. Minus 8 – The Sweetest Sounds
33. Run-DMC – Together Forever
34. Junglist Posse & DJ Cam – Freestylelifeshit
35. Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers (DJ Hype Remix)
36. Ed OG & Da Bulldogs – Be A Father To Your Child (Instrumental)
37. The Force Of One – Sign Of The Times
38. Skool Of Hard Knocks – Get Down
39. Tha Alkaholics – Likwit (Acapella)
40. EPS & 2-Vibe – Hype The Funk
41. Aphrodite – Hit Me!!
42. J-Majik – Arabian Nights
43. LL Cool J – Jack The Ripper
44. 2 Player – Extreme Possibilities (Wagon Christ Mix)
45. FJ – FJ Volume III
46. Bounty Killer feat. Jeru The Damaja – Suicide Murder (Acapella)
47. Oscar Da Grouch – Funky Crew
48. Lemon D feat. Camp Lo – Luchini
49. DJ Zinc – Super Sharp Shooter (Remix)
50. Method Man – PLO Style (Acapella)
51. u-Ziq – Lunatic Harness
52. Roni Size – Daylight
53. A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebum
54. The Almighty RSO – One In The Chamba (Instrumental)
55. Maximum Style – Steppin’ Stone
56. D’Cruze – The Funk
57. Biz Markie – Nobody Beats The Biz
58. DJ SS – Bite It
59. Goodfellas – Impact
60. Aphrodite – Tower Bass
61. Mulder – Stick Up Kid
62. L Double – Version
63. Jeru The Damaja – Come Clean
64. Natural Born Chillers – Rock The Funky Beat
65. Public Enemy – Miuzi Weighs A Ton
66. DJ SS – Niceness
67. Amazon II – King Of The Beats
68. Aphrodite feat. The Jungle Brothers – Jungle Brother
THE MORE YOU KNOW. He really goes in on the background and makeup of this tape, if you are interested, you can read it HERE below the tracklist.
11.28.2011
Best Of Cel Phone Pics V16 - Donde Edition
Fish fiend
Hello there
That 6am secret ritual
no beer at WNYU
C2D Chinatown Outpost
Vernors and a olive cheese burger plz
empty mace on the sidewalk, always a good sign
no questions asked
repost?
8.19.2011
How Ya Livin...
an awesome track that I've had on cassette for a decade plus that only recently surfaced on Youtube....
so good to see these old-school Flint tracks seein daylight again.....
so good to see these old-school Flint tracks seein daylight again.....
4.14.2011
12.13.2010
I See This Becoming A Trend Once All Those Unemployment Checks Stop Coming In
Hometown surpasses their homicide record, currently with the unofficial count of 62. The FBI will do their official tally at the end of the year. Scary shit, and now that those unemployment checks are running out I can see other areas around the country following suit, maybe not in homicide, but crime in general.
"up the herring bones and bamboos
I wouldn't give fuck if you're pregnant
Give me the baby rings and a #1 MOM pendant"
I wouldn't give fuck if you're pregnant
Give me the baby rings and a #1 MOM pendant"
Flint Journal put up a map and a chronology over HERE
"There have been no arrests" comes up waaaay to often.
Stay strong MI!
4.22.2009
"Decline In Flint Is Like Gravity, A Fact Of Life”
Interesting NY Times article about Flint Michigan.
The plan is to actually accellerate the decay, and turn the abandoned city blocks into forests and green spaces. Not to sure how quickly these forest will turn into scary crackhead filled wastelands, but its a neat idea.
I'll be in MI DJ'ing this weekend if anyone wants to hit me up!!
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FLINT, Mich. — Dozens of proposals have been floated over the years to slow this city’s endless decline. Now another idea is gaining support: speed it up.
Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.
The population would be condensed into a few viable areas. So would stores and services. A city built to manufacture cars would be returned in large measure to the forest primeval.
“Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life,” said Dan Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and chief spokesman for the movement to shrink Flint. “We need to control it instead of letting it control us.”
The recession in Flint, as in many old-line manufacturing cities, is quickly making a bad situation worse. Firefighters and police officers are being laid off as the city struggles with a $15 million budget deficit. Many public schools are likely to be closed.
“A lot of people remember the past, when we were a successful city that others looked to as a model, and they hope. But you can’t base government policy on hope,” said Jim Ananich, president of the Flint City Council. “We have to do something drastic.”
In searching for a way out, Flint is becoming a model for a different era.
Planned shrinkage became a workable concept in Michigan a few years ago, when the state changed its laws regarding properties foreclosed for delinquent taxes. Before, these buildings and land tended to become mired in legal limbo, contributing to blight. Now they quickly become the domain of county land banks, giving communities a powerful tool for change.
Indianapolis and Little Rock, Ark., have recently set up land banks, and other cities are in the process of doing so. “Shrinkage is moving from an idea to a fact,” said Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective Program at the University of California, Berkeley. “There’s finally the insight that some cities just don’t have a choice.”
While the shrinkage debate has been simmering in Flint for several years, it suddenly gained prominence last month with a blunt comment by the acting mayor, Michael K. Brown, who talked at a Rotary Club lunch about “shutting down quadrants of the city.”
Nothing will happen immediately, but Flint has begun updating its master plan, a complicated task last done in 1965. Then it was a prosperous city of 200,000 looking to grow to 350,000. It now has 110,000 people, about a third of whom live in poverty.
Flint has about 75 neighborhoods spread out over 34 square miles. It will be a delicate process to decide which to favor, Mr. Kildee acknowledged from the driver’s seat of his Grand Cherokee.
He will play a crucial role in those decisions. In addition to being the treasurer of Genesee County, whose largest city by far is Flint, Mr. Kildee is chief executive of the local land bank. In the last year, the county has acquired through tax foreclosure about 900 houses in the city, some of them in healthy neighborhoods.
A block adjacent to downtown has the potential for renewal; it would make sense to fill in the vacant lots there, since it is a few steps from a University of Michigan campus.
A short distance away, the scene is more problematic. Only a few houses remain on the street; the sidewalk is so tattered it barely exists. “When was the last time someone walked on that?” Mr. Kildee said. “Most rural communities don’t have sidewalks.”
But what about the people who do live here and might want their sidewalk fixed rather than removed?
“Not everyone’s going to win,” he said. “But now, everyone’s losing.”
On many streets, the weekly garbage pickup finds only one bag of trash. If those stops could be eliminated, Mr. Kildee said, the city could save $100,000 a year — one of many savings that shrinkage could bring.
Mr. Kildee was born in Flint in 1958. The house he lived in as a child has just been foreclosed on by the county, so he stopped to look. It is a little blue house with white trim, sad and derelict. So are two houses across the street.
“If it’s going to look abandoned, let it be clean and green,” he said. “Create the new Flint forest — something people will choose to live near, rather than something that symbolizes failure.”
Watching suspiciously from next door is Charlotte Kelly. Her house breaks the pattern: it is immaculate, all polished wood and fresh paint. When Ms. Kelly, a city worker, moved to the street in 2002, all the houses were occupied and the neighborhood seemed viable.
These days, crime is brazen: two men recently stripped the siding off Mr. Kildee’s old house, “laughing like they were going to a picnic,” Ms. Kelly said. Down the street are many more abandoned houses, as well as a huge hand-painted sign that proclaims, “No prostitution zone.”
“It saddens my heart,” she said. “I was born in Flint in 1955. I’ve seen it in the glory days, and every year it gets worse.”
Mr. Kildee makes his pitch. Would she be interested in moving if the city offered her an equivalent or better house in a more stable and safer neighborhood?
Despite her pride in her home, the calculation takes Ms. Kelly about a second. “Yes,” she said, “I would be willing.”
Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.
The population would be condensed into a few viable areas. So would stores and services. A city built to manufacture cars would be returned in large measure to the forest primeval.
“Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life,” said Dan Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and chief spokesman for the movement to shrink Flint. “We need to control it instead of letting it control us.”
The recession in Flint, as in many old-line manufacturing cities, is quickly making a bad situation worse. Firefighters and police officers are being laid off as the city struggles with a $15 million budget deficit. Many public schools are likely to be closed.
“A lot of people remember the past, when we were a successful city that others looked to as a model, and they hope. But you can’t base government policy on hope,” said Jim Ananich, president of the Flint City Council. “We have to do something drastic.”
In searching for a way out, Flint is becoming a model for a different era.
Planned shrinkage became a workable concept in Michigan a few years ago, when the state changed its laws regarding properties foreclosed for delinquent taxes. Before, these buildings and land tended to become mired in legal limbo, contributing to blight. Now they quickly become the domain of county land banks, giving communities a powerful tool for change.
Indianapolis and Little Rock, Ark., have recently set up land banks, and other cities are in the process of doing so. “Shrinkage is moving from an idea to a fact,” said Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective Program at the University of California, Berkeley. “There’s finally the insight that some cities just don’t have a choice.”
While the shrinkage debate has been simmering in Flint for several years, it suddenly gained prominence last month with a blunt comment by the acting mayor, Michael K. Brown, who talked at a Rotary Club lunch about “shutting down quadrants of the city.”
Nothing will happen immediately, but Flint has begun updating its master plan, a complicated task last done in 1965. Then it was a prosperous city of 200,000 looking to grow to 350,000. It now has 110,000 people, about a third of whom live in poverty.
Flint has about 75 neighborhoods spread out over 34 square miles. It will be a delicate process to decide which to favor, Mr. Kildee acknowledged from the driver’s seat of his Grand Cherokee.
He will play a crucial role in those decisions. In addition to being the treasurer of Genesee County, whose largest city by far is Flint, Mr. Kildee is chief executive of the local land bank. In the last year, the county has acquired through tax foreclosure about 900 houses in the city, some of them in healthy neighborhoods.
A block adjacent to downtown has the potential for renewal; it would make sense to fill in the vacant lots there, since it is a few steps from a University of Michigan campus.
A short distance away, the scene is more problematic. Only a few houses remain on the street; the sidewalk is so tattered it barely exists. “When was the last time someone walked on that?” Mr. Kildee said. “Most rural communities don’t have sidewalks.”
But what about the people who do live here and might want their sidewalk fixed rather than removed?
“Not everyone’s going to win,” he said. “But now, everyone’s losing.”
On many streets, the weekly garbage pickup finds only one bag of trash. If those stops could be eliminated, Mr. Kildee said, the city could save $100,000 a year — one of many savings that shrinkage could bring.
Mr. Kildee was born in Flint in 1958. The house he lived in as a child has just been foreclosed on by the county, so he stopped to look. It is a little blue house with white trim, sad and derelict. So are two houses across the street.
“If it’s going to look abandoned, let it be clean and green,” he said. “Create the new Flint forest — something people will choose to live near, rather than something that symbolizes failure.”
Watching suspiciously from next door is Charlotte Kelly. Her house breaks the pattern: it is immaculate, all polished wood and fresh paint. When Ms. Kelly, a city worker, moved to the street in 2002, all the houses were occupied and the neighborhood seemed viable.
These days, crime is brazen: two men recently stripped the siding off Mr. Kildee’s old house, “laughing like they were going to a picnic,” Ms. Kelly said. Down the street are many more abandoned houses, as well as a huge hand-painted sign that proclaims, “No prostitution zone.”
“It saddens my heart,” she said. “I was born in Flint in 1955. I’ve seen it in the glory days, and every year it gets worse.”
Mr. Kildee makes his pitch. Would she be interested in moving if the city offered her an equivalent or better house in a more stable and safer neighborhood?
Despite her pride in her home, the calculation takes Ms. Kelly about a second. “Yes,” she said, “I would be willing.”
11.28.2008
MC Breed Tribute Mix
Hometown hero and Flint native MC Breed past away this past week. I always liked this guy growing up, watching his videos filmed in Riverbank Park. Then later, he did all the stuff with Slum Village and all that. Pulled out some older joints I had lying around and through it all together the other night. Its definitely not a best of, just whatever records and shit I had along with Proof and some Jay Dee. Enjoy.
Ah yes, I Ain't To Be Flexed With, this was my shit!
2.26.2008
OG Tuesdays, The Premier
So, we decided to start blessin ya'll with some classic and obscure gangster og shit. Not limiting ourselves to strictly the west, we got some midwest and southern cuts to get your mind right. 40's and blunts type material right here ya know. To get it started right, C-Sick hooked up a quick little mix. Some gems from Easy E, MC Breed, DFC, Spice 1, and Whodini. Holler at us if you enjoy or have any requests.
Props on the MS Paint Photoshopping skillz
2.04.2008
Memoirs of Flint Michigan pt 2
More excerpts from working in Flint some years ago:
"Yeah, I really didn't think it was gonna get much worse, but boy was I mistaken. With "Tony" filling me in on electrical knowledge like with installing plugs..
him: "Alright now, whats the colors of a black trans am?"
me: " uh.....I don't know."
him: " you know, black with the big gold bird on the hood"
me: "oh yeah, that trans am" (acting like i'm down)
him: "yeah well remember the black wires go with the gold clips."
Between learning aids like that and the constant "whoa did you see the tits on that one" while we drive to get parts or "it should be illegal for girls that young to wear clothes like that." He is quite the classy fellow. Later I meet D. I don't know his real name but he is the owner's son and just like the turtle-faced senior, this guy is a character. This guy has quite the slick mullet, with the half and half consistency of grease and gel, slick back on top, with shiny curls folding down to the base of his neck. Its a real site of beauty. He heard Tony was in the hospital a few weeks ago and D assumed it was the ol " stickin that dick in some nasty pussy." Tony explained it was called Diverticulitus and its from not eating right, immediately followed by D's "oh, you been divin in that nasty pussy etc etc...." I don't really have to on. Later he tells Tony (he always talks to Tony, I have worked three times with these guys and he has barely uttered 5 sentances to me, 2 of which were pertaining to masturbating). wait, let me try that sentance again....Later he tells Tony that he beat his old record..what record is that....2 ladys in one hour. Then he explains how, but it doesnt really matter. He cant work without booze and he won't fuck with a condom, and he's got a pension for strippers, hoes, and X. Something tells me that I really don't want to go to their strip club if they like a guy like this. His auto is also a trophy piece. Brownish-gold 80's big Buick with, not a single part of the body without a dent, usually a big dent, and I dont think the passenger door opens. the hood and headlights are held on by ducktape and a coat hanger and the inside is filled with cig butts. He's got a thing for telling the ritzy ladys of Fenton that park next to him "Hey! Don't scratch my car!!" when they pull up in their Audis or Cadillacs. I even find that funny. He sure is sexy."
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Memoirs of Flint Michigan pt 1
A few years back I took an NYC hiatus and went back to Flint for a short stay, but due to some legal issues it became a bit longer. I was working construction in the Little Beirut projects and then in some other complex downtown that was a bit Mad Max meets Escape From New York. All the street lights were shot out, it was surrounded by abandoned houses, and full on SWAT raids on the buildings across the street were not uncommon. I wrote the following back then after I punched out.
One of the benefits of working in Michigans toilet (flint), is the wonderful people you get to meet. Tony, his real name is Rolando or Emando or something like that, but because of reasons I will not go into right now he likes to be called Tony. Tony is a regular Flint character, deer hunter,
fisherman, rude, crude dude with a pension for talking about tits and his health problems and how he doesn't seem to like anyone but white people even though he aint. Oh well, the wonders of Flint. So he gets to talkin about his old hair style, commenting on how long my hair is. "I used to have long hair a few years ago, shaved on the sides and short on the top. It grew really long in the back." He then went into details on the maintenance and upkeep of his beautiful mane, and how he couldn't go out in public since the ladies would flock around him everywhere he went and had to touch his plummage. Yeah, I imagine it was a beautiful sight. He is a bit of a paradox, how can anyone who has been in prison listen to so much phil collins???
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fisherman, rude, crude dude with a pension for talking about tits and his health problems and how he doesn't seem to like anyone but white people even though he aint. Oh well, the wonders of Flint. So he gets to talkin about his old hair style, commenting on how long my hair is. "I used to have long hair a few years ago, shaved on the sides and short on the top. It grew really long in the back." He then went into details on the maintenance and upkeep of his beautiful mane, and how he couldn't go out in public since the ladies would flock around him everywhere he went and had to touch his plummage. Yeah, I imagine it was a beautiful sight. He is a bit of a paradox, how can anyone who has been in prison listen to so much phil collins???
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