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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Truth 4 the Streets
My friends Craig and Zola Allen at BNB (Beats-N-Blessings) just produced a documentary about their innovative, music and arts-based youth development efforts in Queens. Enjoy the 10 minute preview here, and then rate the video at Youtube.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Storytellas Present “The Blood is Real”
From The Man, produced by Crossroads Tabernacle
On Sunday, Crossroads reminded me why I appreciate them so. Hip Bop, Storytellas style, is another reason. Notice Pastor Joe on drums, and the (Alvin Ailey and Broadway) dancers. Wow.
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+ Pictures from Sunday (courtesy of Pastor Joseph Henry Cortese)
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Postmodern Multi-Media Mashups
Watch DJ Mike Relm mix audio and video media into a one-of-a-kind surreality that draws inspiration from myriad creative influences and styles.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008From Little Things Big Things Grow
If you thought socially conscious music in the mainstream was a thing of the past, turn your ears to what Australia is listening to. A song about justice and reconciliation in Australia was the highest new entry in the charts two weeks ago - starting out at #2 on the […]
Beyond Barriers
Monday, March 10th, 2008What a weekend! Much love and appreciation again to Richard Taylor, Jonathan Santiago, and the Youth Ministry team of the Baptist Convention of New York for inviting me to participate as retreat pastor for Pinebrook ‘08 this weekend. With 350 teens representing 28 ministries from New York and New Jersey, including Chinese, Indonesian, […]
Geoffrey Canada on Rap Music
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by US News and World Report (2005), Harlem Children’s Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada said this on a 60 Minutes story about the “Stop Snitchin” culture of hip hop:
“There comes a point in time when you just have to say, ‘Enough’s enough.’ …. They are preaching anarchy. […]
The Voice of Angels
Monday, November 12th, 2007I created a Myspace Music page for the rest of us to enjoy the voices of the Lilly of the Valley Angels. They remind me of the heavenly host who sang, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests” (Luke 2:14). Coming soon: the […]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Rich Mullins
4 weeks before he passed.
All the popular evangelical preachers … they’re not bad. They’re just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays […]
Devotions with Bono …
Friday, September 14th, 2007… this morning, in bumper- to-bumper traffic on the BQE.
First, the context. I have a mix CD of U2 music in my car that my son loves. Wednesday, he asked me to play Track 9, his “favorite song” (”Pride in the Name of Love”) for his friend Chris which is how the CD […]
Your Vote Matters: Actor of the Year
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Nelson Vasquez, my Uncle Michael’s collaborator and production partner, co-stars with J-Lo and Marc Anthony in El Cantante as legendary music producer Johnny Pacheco, the musical genius behind the Fania music label that brought Salsa music to the forefront. Nelson has been nominated for “Actor Del Año” (Actor of the Year) in the 2007 […]
Happy Independence Day
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Newsboys - I Am Free
From the album Go
Through You the blind will see
Through You the mute will sing
Through You the dead will rise
Through You our hearts will praise
Through You the darkness flees
Through You my heart screams I am free
I am free
Chorus:
I am free to run
(I am free to run)
I am free to dance
(I am free […]
Still I Rise
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I mentioned this song last month. Behold now, for yourselves, the powerful video.
“I Rise”
by Jamie Jones (with All4One)
HT: JT
When life sucks, sing
Friday, June 8th, 2007Psalm 59
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O God;
protect me from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from evildoers
and save me from bloodthirsty men.
3 See how they lie in wait for me!
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I got me some "wreckage." Still, I "Rise"
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007His song “I Swear” was central to the soundtrack of my romance with Diana. He ushered Diana and me into holy matrimony when that song accompanied our first wedding dance. And on Sunday, Jamie Jones (and an all-star band that includes Chris Coleman, Chaka Khan’s drummer; Oscar Cartaya, J-Lo’s musical director and legendary […]
Russel Simmons, gimme a break!
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007I have amazing respect for Russell Simmons and the impact his visionary embrace of hip hop has had on pop culture. But the latest from his Hip Hop Summit Action Network in the wake of the Imus scandal is ridiculous. He calls for rappers and producers to voluntarily bleep or remove the b- […]
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