(Akiit.com) Some people question why African-Americans often make public notice of their accomplishments: When we tell our own story (1) we insure that we know the truth for ourselves and (2) we pass the truth from one generation to the next.

A wise man once said when Black people allow others to recount their history the story turns out to be another version of the Invisible Man. That explains how its possible for us to know more about Bill Gates than we do about Dr. Mark Dean. In fact if it weren’t for Dr. Dean, there might not have been a Microsoft or Michael Dell’s Dell Computers.

Dean holds a Ph.D from Stanford University. He holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. He’s been inducted into the National Hall of Inventors, he’s a vice president with IBM and he’s African-American.
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(Akiit.com) Philadelphia, PA Volunteers will patrol high-crime areas.

Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson is joining with civic leaders in an effort to recruit 10,000 black men to fight crime in Philadelphia’s toughest neighborhoods.

Dubbed “A Call to Action: 10,000 men - It’s a New Day,” the effort will begin Oct. 21 with a rally and recruitment drive at the Liacouras Center, followed days afterward by the training of the volunteers to act as community “peacekeepers.”

“It’s time for African-American men to stand up,” Johnson said in an interview. “We have an obligation to protect our women, our children and our elderly. We’re going to put men on the street. We’re going to train them in conflict resolution.”

Johnson said volunteers will be asked to patrol in high-crime areas for two to three hours a day for “a minimum of 90 days.”

He said that the effort wasn’t a city program, though many police commanders will be involved in training volunteers and supporting the patrolling peacekeepers, and training will take place at city recreation centers.

Community and religious leaders will be closely involved, Johnson said.

A key architect of the strategy is Dennis Muhammad, chief of security for Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. Muhammad has a Detroit-based consulting business that works with police departments on community policing and sensitivity training.

Muhammad met in City Hall last summer with Johnson, Mayor Street and some business leaders, and Johnson was enthusiastic about the notion of rallying African-American men to stem the growing tide of violence.
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(Akiit.com) I have been attending live stageshows of my favorite artists since 1991, & I must say I was thoroughly impressed by many of them. Some were good, some were great, & some were impeccable. That’s how I’ll describe the most recent performance I’ve visioned to date - impeccable. Thursday September 22nd, at BB Kings in Downtown NYC, it was none other than a celebration of the birthday of the epitome of lyrical macks to ever bless the mic….. ladies & gentlemen, the John Shaft of HIPHOP: BIG DADDY KANE.

For those of you who’ve never had the luxury of seeing the God live & consider yourselves lovers of HIPHOP, true HIPHOP, you are doing yourselves a supreme injustice.As does his fellow icon KRS ONE, Big Daddy Kane definitely has the blueprint for achieving an outstanding live performance, as well as a cerebral smithereening studio recording.
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(Akiit.com) Before there even was a Biggie Smalls in existence, I remember another fat genius emcee from Brooklyn by the name of Chubb Rock. Not only was Chubb Rock a cerebral wordsmith, but he also knew how to make us rush to the dance floor with fanatical hits such as “Treat Me Right” & “Ya Bad Chubbs“. To take diversity a horizon further, he even saluted a smorgasbord of HipHop veterans in his astonishing “Regiments of the Steel“. This is the personification of a classic Hip Hop artist-one who has originality, dexterity, dance heavy tracks, & thought provoking subject matter. In other words, one who possesses a significant quantity of intelligence. The Chubbster was not only all of the above, but he was witty as all out doors! And this lyrical locomotive had a vocabulary that would surprise many an anti-rap critic.

This is what was going on in HipHop music in 1988: Microphone Celebrities (MCs) had substance in abundance, who also knew how to have fun with it without degradation of their own community. I must give astronomical love for being intellectuals on the mic to: Melle Mel, T La Rock, L.L. Cool J, KRS-1, Kool Moe D, Rakim, Chuck D & Ultra Magnetic MCs. These brothers were undeniable proto-types for what I call “HipHop Intelligence“. The highly potent vocabulary usage and versatility of topics by those artists let the world know that HipHop music wasn’t all about a bunch of partying fools who just spoke jibberish throughout their recording sessions. You also had King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal {better known as Big Daddy Kane} who displayed the rawness of rhyme-ability to maximum capacity. Even to this day, the charismatic icon still is able to create that outstandingly complex, yet in-your-face simplistic mystical very artistical emcee rhyme we can all enjoy listening to.
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(Akiit.com) The Effect of Music Hypnosis!

9/11 is an important day in the lives of many Americans. This year marks the sixth anniversary of the largest enemy attack on U.S. soil–over 3000 people lost their lives, the twin towers fell to the ground, the Pentagon was badly bruised, and a fourth plane missed the White House and crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

But something else is happening this September 11, 2007–another attack on the minds of many unsuspecting hip-hoppers.

Confusing Kanye West and rap crap artist, 50 cent, are dropping albums laced with hip-hop-notic beats and mind-twisting lyrics. This occasion has been marketed as a second coming of hip-hop-nosis–a good vs. bad standoff. You see, rap crap sells are down more than 44 percent, signaling that someone has clap clapped a significant chunk of fans out of their hip-hop-notized state of mind that chants to them to love, honor and respect that in which will inevitably destroy them. Furthermore, it denies the listener the ability to see suffering happening in front of their very own eyes because it teaches that death, disrespect, dishonor, lewd, crude, and minstrel-type behavior is the way to win in today’s society.

The hip-hop-nologists very cleverly rewards a few for bad behavior so to trick the majority to believe that crime pays, (whether faked on camera or real encounters with the law), so the imitators get locked up in droves or killed for believing and acting out the hype lie that criminals are winners in society. In other words, pay a few handsomely for the well-articulated illusion of fame, filth and fortune, so to destroy millions.
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