dijijournalizm

Bout half-way through "Bomb the suburbs" by Upski and I'm revitalized as a journalist or just plain fan of the word. More Hiphop needs to serve this purpose. I believe the concept of 'journalistic integrity' applies quadratically to Hiphop, plus a notch. A Hiphoppa with integrity not only follows the code of reporting the truth but also refuses to do so in a wack way, upholding the code of dopeness as well. Truth and originality are therefore, although sometimes contradictory because truth has been handed down through our ancestors, the pillars of Hiphop power.

dope vs. wack

dope is...
original, fresh, inspirational
wack is...
a wasted flow claiming it's the best
we don't feel it tho
dope is soul prototypical
wack is old type miniscule
dope is NY fats sprayed tight
straight dissin fools
dope is what biters listen to, and emulate
then ya make it wack so dope is forced to innovate
dope is from the source, wack is a middle toy
dope is the difference between men and little boys
wack is insignificant lacking meaning, paranoid
it knows it's about to fade to black so it's always leaving
where a void is present, then a b-boy is never hesitant
to represent dope and rub wack's face in the cement
from 90's to downrock, dope is always six-steps ahead of them
wack gets a beat down without a weapon sounding cocky
dope is discreet, stoic confidence grounded in not being ignorant
flipping beats on some, always down to get chiefed and still ripping it
wack is weak-willed. dope is on some constantly go-get
street builders, notorious for the fillins
wack is in it for the glory, not the children's story
dope is slicker than, wack is richer in wackness
dope is proud to be broke cause it's wealth isn't taxed as if
impervious to the devilish mathematics of babble
dope is peacefully militant, wack wages war against civilians
in a battle, dope tag teams with honorable intentions
wack bites the dust and gets crushed again, and again
but in the end, wack is dope's best friend
cause without it? yo, dope would be wack, tho I doubt it.
their mutually necassary, if you really think about it
how did one get here without the other? Their step brothers
same father, different mothers.
you can't make the jams without the peanut butter!
word to the real GW Carver, you suckers!

peace
jæzi AQ, the dishwasha

white boys

Attention all confused sons of liberals feeling guilty about their obsession with black culture: get over it. We're not the only ones, people. All over the world, black culture is revered for it's intrinsic value and it's not patronizing to act on this appreciation. It's patronizing to single yourself out as a special exception to the world's spectrum of brown and think "we" have the worst relationship with blacks (or that "I" am the only white person 'down' enough to see it). America's racial reality is unique, I give it that, but we are still members of a larger context that looks at 'the white' man as just another shade of brown.

Anthropologically, 'the white man' will be looked at as the material war-mongerors who built rome, again and again only to disintegrate back into integration when the numbers grew out of control. The question is, from what socio-economic stage of development will the anthropologist be looking through with this world-view? Post-WWIII/apocalyptic back-to-nature rebuilding of Earth on Integral terms-ish? Who knows?

There are racial generalizations that are true, but getting hung up in their subtlties and importance in the overall picture is counter-productive. An impartial attention paid to the realm of race among other factors of human grouping is logical enough. But race is so lived, given lip-service to, mocked, satired, & beat over the head that I'm lashing out now in defense of more world-centric ethics that transcend and include the ethnics. It's important that this ability to prioritize emerge in more of the mental envorionment before the ethnocentrists have their bloody self-fulfilled revelation where their one true God finally hands out the hell-sentences to all the wrong-ethnics/coloreds.

I think the reason we are so appreciative of black culture is that we are all from africa, but the humans most closely connected to the mother land in heritage have more of that primordial foundation in their evolution. Their genetics haven't trailed off into mutations that focus their inclinations to things other than just-being, light-minded and immediate to all their activities, attuned to the natural flow of Earth life. I'm not putting all black people on this pedestal, nor am I counting any other shades of brown less able to tap into this flow. I'm merely suggesting that the oldest bones are black so they've had the most practice at staying true to just being alive, appreciating it, and trying to be good a that instead of vying for world domination. Blacks are better at all the things humans do that require a simple immediacy and no-nonsense attitude combined with a truly infinite-potential faith that there's no limits set on what they can achieve. And even that's an over generalization that stinks of the obsessing with the race issue I'm trying to denounce here.

I would like to just say what we're all thinking somehow and be able to point out the futility in dwelling on the race issue further. But as a self-confessing post-wigger trying to come to terms with my own race-identity attachments, it feels like a last-ditch attempt at proving that I am the alpha-white-with-brown awareness and therefore better than all other whites. Hypocritical existence is an on-going problem for transwiggers.

Even if I take up the ways of the brown man, sometimes it feels like I do it in spite of a white path that is in some way my 'manifest destiny' and not because I am truly drawn to it. My greatest gift from God, however, is this intense feeling of belonging to a more Kosmic strata of being that really doesn't give too much of a shit about any of this race stuff. I believe this is where the impulse to somehow rid the rest of humanity of this parasitical guilt/doubt/etc. is coming from.

When I rest in this Kosmic awareness and look at my habitual reccurring issues with race, it's frustrating but neither here nor there compared to any of my other frustrations with my ego's clingy nature. In spirit, I try to make note of any inclinations I notice my ego following through or denying then break them down from an emptiness authority-figure idea. There's this serious confidence in the superiority of an impartialiality when dealing with pretty much anything that arises that comes from my Taoist and Yogic studies/practices/understandings. I sometimes confuse this with residual racial-supremacy tendencies that got experienced on both extremes in my wierd little foray into black and white-ology in American culture.

Hiphop, I swear, is the integration catalyst that cuts with a flatland blade that both liberates me from ethnocentricity and bleeds me of my much needed logical appreciation of heirarchies.

Liberality is a trap. It's a self-righteousness founded on a weak cop-out from dealing with the reality of ethnocentric power-struggles. Hiphop is bigger than this. Liberality and Conservatism both push a style of HIphop that's self-aggrandizing to their slanted causes. But real Hiphoppas are some of the best skeptics since the scientific methodists, and our social awareness is very advanced and open (as long as it's dope/resonant, we'll respect and validate). We have a natural order of heirarchy based on this 'dopeness' factor. It's similar to the Rasta philosophy of, "who feels it, knows it" and thus anything clearly shown and proven is worthy of consideration, even respect and admiration.

The fact that both Hiphop and Rastafarianism stem from black(browner) culture are just more fuel to my racial inquiry though. If there really is a simple, race-based caste system that quantifyably gives those of browner complexion a higher tendency towards positive, building, more spiritual and therefore more powerful in the physical domain (and vice-versa relegates the lighter-skinned more prone to negative, destructive, more materialistic trickery and subsequently weaker over-all presence in the physical) then I'd be "cured", right? Done. Black and white, it's just true. That's our lot in being born, whatever color we are, it's integral to the kosmic karma we have to work out here in this physical manifestation. I mock this simplistic deduction in the same breath I try to earn it some truth-points. I just don't know beyond what I've read and heard from the most intelligent sources I have found.

Existence tells me I'll be dealing with the race issue for at least most of the rest of my life so I accept it. I'm a white boy fa sho fa sho, black-minded pseudo afro-centric truth-ho, worshipper of the dirty brown earthness we are all blessed with less or mo'. Am I a racist, supremecist, or seperatist specifically? Yes and No, my liquidity says both but neither. Definately global. Kosmic whole believer. All Praise infinity with every sip of ether.

Hiphop as a Yoga

Peace

Kosmic Crew is AQ9 and this is what we need to do.

Hiphop has to be solidified and recognized as a yoga with multiple branches/disciplines. An AQ Yogi of Hiphop practices all 9 elements and masters at least 1, in self, culture , and nature. The logic behind this is that all the other elements are integral to any 1 in particular one might feel compelled to master. Taking it to an Integral level means that Hiphop as a spiritual practice transcends the merely egoic or ethnocentric sheaths of self-identitiy to encompass and embrace a higher power or spiritual context. Thus the integral Hiphoppa operates from a transcendental summit skillfully applied down all previous levels (or chakras)of development to the core of Earthly connecection or primordial source. This is I-n-i in action.

If Hiphop's lessons can teach what the eight-fold path of Buddah outlines, then our culture can become a kulture. The K signifies the Kosmos, differentiated from the Cosmos, which is the merely gross-level entirety of the material universe. Once the interior domain or eye(i) of mind is properly balanced with the eye of flesh by the third eye(I) of contemplation, one becomes aware of the three basic levels of existence: gross, subtle, and causal. Causal is the crucial culmination of Self-knowledge that completes a cipher(10) of development bringing the summit of spiritual(9) all the way down to source of physical(0), and Integrates them, liberating the self from a polarized leaning in either direction, manifesting a Kosmic consciousness.

A culture emerging from the cosmos that refines itself to a stage of general awareness amongst its members that is Integral or higher, or kosmic, is thus a kulture of the kosmos. Knowledge Of Self Manifests Integral Consciousness in All Quadrants through all 9 elements. A devotee to this application of Hiphop is thus a Yogi of Hiphop and can access all the levels of development(and/or regression) available to yogi's of other paths or kultural intelligence. Enlightened practice is the key.

Peace
jæzi

the dijiblog delay pedal

peep game...
got a job, link card, unemployment call to make...
had a gig, some gals, and some sin for goodness sake
so offf from the blog, a little time I had to take
all good things have breaks