tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91102730298138772032024-03-13T11:15:44.955-07:00Emile YX?South African Hip Hop Pioneer and Activist. Founder member of Black Noise. Rhymes, thoughts, articles, etc on any and all topics Hip Hop and Life.Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-31259211479713815492022-08-27T19:47:00.004-07:002022-08-27T19:47:47.647-07:004 R's Project (1) 1st - 30th Sept Buy Local Books (2) Initiate the 40 Book Clubs hosting local books <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We (<b>Heal The Hood Project & Emile YX?)</b> hereby invite you to participate in our new project called</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">The 4 R's Project, </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">planned for September 2022. Read more about it below and include your school or your community in the schedule of launches and book clubs we are planning to start. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>The 4 R’s Project</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYqQdDLm5n0668cOfHoiTalF0SeRaxlLW3Dm3b_eZsZvXURoqo0Hnd9QklmybtKPB8X6lLouNSca4dRbV-ofrNwzUQgYwS8nTUxBrg4KXykbDrke_t3yMhIMxNZ6wb48ev5QGpS3hpSJltqAhPhMLgVE0hxDkchyhGLfvORtEVUDXCRMmyaVKOSrX/s1110/4765cf0d-1f08-41c0-9931-cbf2d6644c0e.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="627" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYqQdDLm5n0668cOfHoiTalF0SeRaxlLW3Dm3b_eZsZvXURoqo0Hnd9QklmybtKPB8X6lLouNSca4dRbV-ofrNwzUQgYwS8nTUxBrg4KXykbDrke_t3yMhIMxNZ6wb48ev5QGpS3hpSJltqAhPhMLgVE0hxDkchyhGLfvORtEVUDXCRMmyaVKOSrX/w335-h320/4765cf0d-1f08-41c0-9931-cbf2d6644c0e.JPG" width="335" /></a></b></div><b><br />The Concept</b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>4 R’s </b>is a remix of the 3 R’s of education. Our remix is localized to benefit our communities and address deeper issues of self-hate embedded in our current Eurocentric based education system. Our 4 R’s consist of:- </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(1) w<b>R</b>iting our own stories,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(2) <b>R</b>eading our own stories,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(3) overstanding the <b>R</b>emuneration that products related to our stories can generate and explaining ways of diversifying our income<span style="letter-spacing: 2pt;"> </span>streams from these creations. This also involves assessing and addressing times when others made money from our stories and ancestral intellectual property and demanding reparations.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(4) The last R is for <b>R</b>ehumanization and the sense of equality, humanity and pride that spreading our own story creates. It also helps to develop more than the one story told about our heritage and potential. It demands that others have no excuses to read about our stories and return our humanity that was and is stripped from us by the racist and singular views being spread. <b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>The 4 R’s Project consists of</b></p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 38pt;">(1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Buy Local Books Month</p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 38pt;">(2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>40 Book Clubs</p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 38pt;"><b> </b></p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40pt;"><b>(1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>BUY A LOCAL BOOK MONTH</b></p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40pt;"><b>#buyalocalbookmonth is from the 1st September– 30<sup>th</sup> Sept 2022</b></p><p style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">From the 1st September 2022, we will launch the first ever <b>#buyalocalbookmonth</b> in South Africa. For many years we have had other people writing about us in languages and styles that are just not our own. Ironically, these same people assess our reading and story telling abilities to determine that we do not like reading. Very few people have stopped to ask if maybe the problem is the overwhelming content of foreign stories that we are being fed from birth. None of them resonate with our deep heritage of storytelling and thus challenge our innate story telling techniques that go back to the oldest DNA on the planet. I will even go as far as saying that it was divisive to separate us from our true selves, as a means to further dehumanize us during colonialism, slavery, Apartheid and now neo-colonialism. It is 2022 and no one has come to help us, so we have taken it upon ourselves to create local Book Clubs (in communities, schools, libraries/ true-braries, universities, garages, lounges, Wendy houses, etc), where people will be encouraged to read, debate, discuss, dream and gathering in our communities. We are also encouraging these new readers of local stories to both read, write and promote our own stories in their own languages. We will also assist locals to see the power of our stories to create job opportunities and the understanding of <b>BUYING LOCAL </b>to allow money to rotate in our communities longer. We cannot speak about reading our own books, when we do not create our own publishing houses and distribution spaces. For too long others have decided what they think will sell or if our stories are good enough. In order to take our power back , we have decided to launch BUY A LOCAL BOOK to sell the 480 books needed for the 40 Book Clubs for 2022. We are encouraging South Africans locally and internationally to support this effort as a means to get youth reading, thinking, debating, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40pt;"><b>(2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>40 Heal The Hood Project Book Clubs 18<sup>th</sup> Sept – 7<sup>th</sup> Oct 2022</b></p><p style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The <b>40 Heal The Hood Project Book Clubs</b> will form part of the classes that are <span style="color: black;">currently hosted in 15 schools and communities where we have learned that many young people are drawn to reading stories that they can identify with and that are culturally relevant to their realities. We have thus decided to share such stories with these <b>15 school Book Clubs</b> and give the opportunities to <b>25 other interested communities or individuals</b> that wish to host these book clubs and monthly online gatherings. Emile will return in September to <b>tour these 40 Book Clubs</b> to share the books and encourage locals to tell their own stories and write their own books. Heal The Hood Project will publish these collected stories. The tour of the 40 book Clubs will end in October at the South African Hip Hop Museum in Gauteng. The 25 other interested communities or individuals wishing to host a book club can email <b><a href="mailto:info@healthehood.org.za" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@healthehood.org.za</a></b> <wbr></wbr>. </span>People can buy PDF copies of his book and donate the hard copy to one of these 40 Book Clubs. Contact Heal the Hood Project at <b><a href="mailto:info@healthehood.org.za" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@healthehood.org.za</a></b>. Internationally funds is being raised through <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-what-hip-hop-taught-teacher&source=gmail&ust=1661639158170000&usg=AOvVaw2rF-jB9qib6C8Y6HcVC6PQ" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-what-hip-hop-taught-teacher" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.<wbr></wbr>com/f/support-what-hip-hop-<wbr></wbr>taught-teacher</a> <span style="color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>The 4 R’s Rough Schedule for 2022 (14<sup>th</sup> September / 7<sup>th</sup> October 2022) </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>September 2022</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> 1st Thurs - (USA) Launch of #buylocalbooksmonth - Online Launch </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> 5th Mon - (USA) Travel to San Francisco for Tri-Continental Hip Hop Education Gathering </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">11<sup>th</sup> Sun - (USA) Flight to South Africa for 4 R’s Project & 40 Book Clubs</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">14<sup>th</sup> Weds - (RSA) Arrive back in Cape Town</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">15<sup>th</sup> Thurs - (RSA)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">16<sup>th</sup> Fri - (RSA) Launch of Project & Reconnect the String at Bertha </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">17<sup>th</sup> Sat - (RSA)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">18<sup>th</sup> Sun - (RSA) 6pm Zoom with WBL presents Global Hip Hop Futures</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">19<sup>th</sup> Monday</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">11:00-12:00 - (RSA) Portia Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">13:00-14:00 - (RSA) Belmor Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">14:45 -15:45 - (RSA) Wittebome High </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">(RSA)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">20<sup>th</sup> Tuesday</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">10:00 – 11:00 - (RSA) Thomas Wildschitt</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">11:30 – 12:30 - (RSA) Die Duine Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">13:30 - 14:30 - (RSA) Montigu's Gift Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> (RSA) <i>Open Slot</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">21<sup>st</sup> Weds </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">11:00 – 12:00 - (RSA) Parkfields Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">13:00 – 14:00 - (RSA) Buck Road Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">14:15 – 15:15 - (RSA) Grassdale High</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> (RSA) <i>Open Slot</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">22<sup>nd</sup> Thurs </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">10:00-11:00 - (RSA) <i>Open Slot</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">12:00-13:00 - (RSA) Heathfield Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">13:30-14:30 - (RSA) Edendale Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">23r<sup>d </sup> Friday</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">11:00-12:00 - (RSA) Pelican Park Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(RSA) <i>Open Slot</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">14:30 – 15:30 - (RSA) Girls & Boys <i>(Numbers Issue - After School)</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">24<sup>th</sup> Sat</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">10:00 – 11:30- (RSA) !Khwa Ttu Bushman Heritage Center</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">13:00 – 17:00 - Project Create Variety Concert at Pelican Park</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">25<sup>th</sup> Sun - (RSA/JHB) Launch of 4 R’s Project & Hip Hop Cultural Ed </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">at The Hip Hop Summit in JHB prior to Back To the City</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">26<sup>th</sup> Mon - (RSA/JHB) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">27<sup>th</sup> Tues - (RSA/JHB) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">28<sup>th </sup>Weds - (RSA/JHB)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">29<sup>th</sup> Thurs - (RSA/JHB)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">30<sup>th</sup> Fri - (RSA/JHB)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b>October</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">01<sup>th</sup> Sat - (RSA/ JHB) Back To the City Hip Hop Festival</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">2<sup>nd</sup> Sun - (RSA/CPT)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">3<sup>rd</sup> Mon - (RSA/CPT)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">4<sup>th</sup> Tues - (RSA/CPT)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">5th Weds - (RSA/CPT)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">6th Thurs - (RSA/CPT)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">7<sup>th</sup> Fri - (RSA/CPT) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">8<sup>th</sup> Sat - (RSA/CPT) Return to USA / Atlanta</p></div><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank You </div><div>Emile Jansen </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-34787599880961324842022-05-09T08:32:00.001-07:002022-05-09T08:32:55.180-07:00Os is van 'ie Cape Flets<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JOHMZfjfTpo/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/JOHMZfjfTpo" frameborder="0"></iframe>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-2797236902499252502021-09-24T19:17:00.001-07:002021-09-24T19:17:15.525-07:00Emile YX? Biography 2021<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Emile YX? Biography</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Emile YX? (Emile Jansen) was born in Grassy Park, Cape Town. He is the son of a primary school teacher Mom and soccer coach Dad. Emile is thus a proponent of experiential education and is also a qualified </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">teacher</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. He is often considered to be one of the Pioneers of South African Hip Hop and is a founder member of the legendary South African Hip Hop Group, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Black Noise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. He is best known for developmental work and community outreach projects through </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Heal the Hood Project</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2SGYaDnf_c/YU6FDbEXa5I/AAAAAAAAjQc/IFpTiTKDLOwpBQi_9yYQk5HvNmem7JEZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s851/Facebook%2BPage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="851" height="118" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2SGYaDnf_c/YU6FDbEXa5I/AAAAAAAAjQc/IFpTiTKDLOwpBQi_9yYQk5HvNmem7JEZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Facebook%2BPage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b id="docs-internal-guid-6011f761-7fff-1ae9-1483-227feff6df28" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Dancer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I started b-boying (breaking) for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pop Glide Crew</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in 1982 & am thus seen as a pioneer of South African Hip Hop. In 1984 we won our first competition at Route 66, Town Centre, Mitchells Plain. From 1993 I started spreading B-boying throughout South Africa by teaching and creating events. I was a member of the Black Noise Crew 1997 when we won 3rd place at the World Champs at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Battle Of The Year</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in Germany. I also managed the South African All-star team that won 4th place at Battle Of The Year in 2000. From 1997 – 2008 I helped Heal The Hood Project fundraise to send more than 250 of our best dancers to international events like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Battle Of The Year in Germany, R16 in Korea, Red Bull BC One</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in Brazil & India, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Trinity International Hip Hop Festival</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in the USA and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">IBE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in The Netherlands. From 2011 – 2013 I judges a reality dance show on ETV called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Step up Or Step Out”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C-ZPOICyqB8/YU6GejtuxxI/AAAAAAAAjQ0/FzklXNVnH3EBayBb95cCvpNMjxadqOm5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Emile%2BBackground.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C-ZPOICyqB8/YU6GejtuxxI/AAAAAAAAjQ0/FzklXNVnH3EBayBb95cCvpNMjxadqOm5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w435-h180/Emile%2BBackground.png" width="435" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The MC</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In 1988 I founded the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Black Noise Hip Hop Group</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> with other members of the group. I have recorded and released 13 albums with Black Noise including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pumpin’ Loose Da Juice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1992), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rebirth Of Mind & Hip Hop Culture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1992), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Black Facts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1994), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rebirth CD</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1995), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Questions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1996), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hip Hop Won’t Stop</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1998), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Circles Of Fire</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2000), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rotational High</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2002), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Jam Sessions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2004), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Getcha On The Floor</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2006), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Best Of Black Noise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2008), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Stone Garden Soldiers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2010) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Black Noise Matters</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2019). I also recorded and released 13 solo </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Emile YX?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Albums:- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Who Am I?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2003), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Conquering Lions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2006), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Roar – Live it Loud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2008), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Conscious Rhymes For Unconscious Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2010), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Afrikaaps</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> soundtrack (2011), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Born & Bred of the Cape Flats</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2012), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Mixed Mense</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2013), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Take Our Power Back</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2015), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Demockery</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2016), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">From B-boys To Being Men</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2016), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Songs & Stories For My Son</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2017), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Songs & Stories for my Daughter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2018), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Afrocation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2018) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Kaapse Katte</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2019). I’m also featured on 9 compilation albums like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Monster Hits</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (1992), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Do For Self</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Compilation (1994), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">A Moment In Cape Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2001), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Battle Of The Year</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Compilations (2000, 2001 & 2013), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Afro-lution</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Compilation (2004), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Baobab Tree</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Compilation (2005), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Mother City</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Compilation (2007), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Anti-World Cup</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2010), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Internationally Known</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> 2 (2012) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Fees Must Fall</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2015). I also helped to release 7 Heal the Hood compilation albums and helped 6 local artists release their solo albums. Artists like Plain Madnizz, Isaac Mutant, Lionz Of Zion, Ancient Men, Jamyaka Poston, Conquering Lionz and Resistencia. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Author </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In 1990 I created Black Noise News (BNN), which was the foundation for creating South Africa’s first Hip Hop Magazine </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Da Juice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in 1993. It was originally called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Message</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. I have since written and contributed to 24 books: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What is Hip Hop?,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">My Hip Hop is African & Proud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Conscious Rhymes For Unconscious Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Heal The Hood B-boying Grade 1 Manual</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, (Rhymes, Articles, Poetry, Short Stories and Sketches) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">R.A.P.S.S. version 1-3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Land i Forandring</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Barn och unga i sodra Afrika</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bushman Creation Story</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Story Of The Wind</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Fire The Dancer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Princess Vlei</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Big Water-snake</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Lioness</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Sally the Salmon</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Why Turtles Cry</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Saartjie Baartman</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Girl That Made The Milky Way</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Reflections on Knowledge Learning & Social Movements</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Hip Hop Cook Book</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">& Reconnect the String.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> I recently co-edited </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Neva Again</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> with UCLA Professor H. Samy Alim & South African Professors Adam Haupt & Quentin Williams. I am currently working on 3 more books called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Making A Black Noise 1 & 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hip Hop Education: We Live This</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> and I have co-written a chapter for the book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The 5th Element</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, edited by H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, and Casey Wong on the University of California Press (2021) </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Community Work</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">My involvement with politics in the 1980s demanded that our Hip Hop culture in Cape Town would operationalize our community activism. As soon as we were writing rhymes about the situations in our community, we had to take action. In 1991 Black Noise started with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rap To The Rescue</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, then Library Holiday Programmes tours to motivate and teach kids to read, followed by teaching them the elements of Hip Hop Culture (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What is Hip Hop?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Library tour</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, followed by the book). In 1998 I created </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Heal the Hood Project</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, which won </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Best Hip Hop Organization </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in 2010. As a qualified school teacher, I brought education into South African Hip Hop. I helped raise funds for more than </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">250 artists</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> to travel to international events. I have taught many others how to teach in order to spread the dance. Heal The Hood Project is currently in 15 schools. I created a syllabus that is being taught to 1500 youth in the Western Cape. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Events</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In 1991, as a member of Black Noise and a schoolteacher, I assisted Peninsula Feeding Scheme to raise funds to feed school children in Cape Town, an event in conjunction with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rap To The Rescue</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. I also assisted the local Hip Hop community in hosting events like the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Power Jam</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in Mitchells Plain. In 1993, as a member of Black Noise, we created the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Do For Self Concerts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> to help schools and the Hip Hop Community, which were hosted in Grassy Park, Retreat and Mitchells Plain. In 1995 I hosted the South African version of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Universal Hip Hop Nation Anniversary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. I also created events like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">African Hip Hop Indaba</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Battle of the Year South Africa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Shut Up Just Dance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">African Battle Cry</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cape Flats Uprising</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Learn To Surf Day</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Up The Rock</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cape Flats Film Festival</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Positive Poster Week</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cape Flats Performing Arts Conference</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Our Hip Hop Festival</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Reconnect the String</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Black Noise Anniversary and Freestyle Session South Africa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Documentaries </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I have been involved in various documentaries like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cape Of Hip Hop</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cape Town Vibes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Creators</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What Are We Doing Here?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">From B-boys To Being Men</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bomb It</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (2 of my songs feature), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Afrikaaps</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Emile YX? B-boy Basics</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Coline & Robbie</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> (wrote C.A.R.A Song for doccie), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dressing The Princess</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Break Like You</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">One Table Two Elephants</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Plays </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I have written and performed in award winning plays like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Afrikaaps</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, which is a play about the black history of the language that was created in Cape Town and co-opted by the Afrikaner community as a key part of their white supremacist, nationalist project The language’s origins expose the mixed heritage of the community that created it. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Teaching & Speaking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I have also been invited to teach & speak at University of California, Stanford, Harvard, University of San Francisco, Duke, NYC, Washington University, Sacramento State University, Teachers College, Trinity University, Gothenberg University, University of Cape Town University of the Western Cape & Stellenbosch University. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Awards</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I was recently inducted into the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">South African Hip Hop Museums Hall Of Fame</span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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I also received an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Honorary Award & Ubuntu Activism Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> from the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">South African Hip Hop Awards</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. Other awards were The Mayor’s Award for Black Noise song about Greening The City. I also won a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Lifetime Achievement Award from Iconic Urban Dance Awards</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> for my solo contributions to Hip Hop Dance & Culture, as well as Black Noise winning a Lifetime Achievement Award. Other awards include the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">LeadSA Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">ETV South African Heroes Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Mandela Monday Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Arts & Culture Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> for contributions to Literature, and the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Moshito Music</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> Conference Award for my contributions to Hip Hop Culture in South Africa. With dance I have been blessed to tour & perform in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, England, Italy, USA, Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Sharing Stages with Notable Artists & People</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I have also been able to share stages with President Nelson Mandela, Dr Alan Boesak, President Jacob Zuma, The Queen Of Sweden, Robbie Jansen, Tony Schilder, Hilton Schilder, Prophets of Da City, Manu Dibungo, Salif Keita, Baba Maal, Lemmy Special, Brenda Fassie, Shabba Ranks, Dr Alban, Duran Duran, 2Unlimited, Snoop Doggy Dog, Pharrell, Joe, Shaggy, Mario, Arrested Development, HHP, Kurt Darren, Steve Hoffmeyer, Black Thought of the Roots, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Kyle Shepherd, Jitsvinger, Blaq Pearl, Bliksemstraal, Moenier Monox Adams, Lukmaan & Emo Adams, Shane Cooper, Vicky Sampson, Jennifer Jones, Zane Adams, The Boyz, K’naan, YoungstaCPT, Dr Victor, Freshly Ground, The Rasta Rebels, Sons of Selassie, Marc Alex, Walk This Way, Smoking Brass, The Usual, Syndicate Sisters, AK 47, Sisters In Command, Jam B and many more.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier,monospace; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-55600543144414014502018-03-18T11:52:00.001-07:002018-03-18T11:52:13.156-07:00"In Your Arms, Where All my Journeys End" - Living Between Cape Town & San Francisco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Living Between Cape Town, South Africa and San Francisco, USA</div>
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This is the 3rd time that I am in San Francisco and its becoming easier to wrap my head around living across continents. Now that my wife and kids are settled here in the Bay, I see the idea of a global village more clearly and how complicated it is versus the ease of knowing where one is based. </div>
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It took my Cancerian self a while to be at ease that the whole world is my home and not only the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa. I have travelled before and been to many places, but it has always been to perform and I knew that I was heading home. The irony of that is that often South Africans don't even see being so-called coloured as being South African, but what do they know at times ne. </div>
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Anyway, I must say that being here in the USA during what seems like trying times politically has made me think about the global illusion of democracy and how "we the people" seem to be at the mercy of capitalisms deciding money that paid for election campaigns. In South Africa we had Jacob Zuma and his connection to the Gupta family and here in the USA we have Donald Trumps connection to the NRA and every other business interest versus that of the peoples will. It's kinda sad for the global family to be sold an illusion of division and borders as a way to secure economics, when in truth money has no borders and the same people keeping us apart, are really making sure that they keep us away from realising that we have collective power and if we do see our similarity, we will become more of a threat to their economic strange-hold over humanity.</div>
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So as I travel between my family in South Africa and my family in the USA, I am constantly seeing the movement of people between worlds and the global family seems to become so much smaller. The enforced stereotypes that I have been forced to have of various communities are broken by speaking to them at airports and gatherings in far away places and in the comfort of a seat on a plane for a very very long time. They open up more than they would if they were to be in their designated box back home. Here on this plane or waiting to board, we are just travelling souls heading for the fulfilment of our hearts across time and space. So we speak easier and we see the humanity of each other much easier ... until we get to the border control and are suddenly not as welcomed as we were on the journey between. The passport control and check if you are allowed in and standing in that long ass lines, often make me sad about what we have become for the benefit of economics. The illusion of difference and the divide of the global human family. But, it is what it is for now and we do what we have to do to see our loved ones. </div>
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The joy awaiting on the other side of that passport control is impossible to calculate and what we would not do to ensure that those loving arms and smiles enfold us and plant long deep kisses of joy and completion onto us ... We have come home ... And HOME IS IN THE ARMS OF OUR LOVED ONES. </div>
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When I heard and fell in LOVE with the song "THE PROMISE" by Tracy Chapman, I had no idea that it would mean so much more to me as time went on and that the line ...</div>
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"Together again It would feel so good to be In your arms Where all my journeys end ..." </div>
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would have such profound meaning in my life.</div>
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Thank You Tracey Chapman ...</div>
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Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-55851306270182015302015-06-09T04:18:00.001-07:002015-06-09T04:18:42.476-07:00Black Noise Born & Bred On The Cape Flats<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yw6pLyZUruA" width="480"></iframe>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-61713521049679930032015-06-08T05:08:00.001-07:002015-06-08T05:08:53.379-07:00The Internalisation of Knowledge Of Self <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>The Internalisation Knowledge Of Self & Self Worth/ Love ... We Are NOT POOR ... </b><br />
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"Ek hettie geld ie ... Os is ma arme mense ... Os skarrel elke dag. " These are words that I hear around me all the time and I wonder about the power that these words may have.<br />
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I see our people with the latest clothing and cellphones and always buying airtime, yet I hear them say how little to nothing they have. I hear parents tell children that they are poor and I wonder what poor they are talking about. Its like when I was growing u on the Cape Flats and people never referred to where I live as a ghetto, but a neighbourhood and we treated it as such by looking after each other in the community. Playing together and making things work for us. You seldom heard kids say that they are bored or had nothing to do. All we had stick, that we broke from a tree and we made a hole in the sand and put the stick across the hole. Then with another stick, we flung the smaller stick away from the opens housing guard and this was a game called "kennetjie". We played for hours. We would sometimes use stones if we could find it laying around as well. Then we played "Drie Blikkies", if we found 3 tins somewhere and so on.<br />
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We were never poor ... we were innovative and creative. Our minds were not pushed in that direction, but now the children of that generation seem to have been given Playstation etc and constantly say how bored they are. They also say how little they have and how they see themselves as poor. I listen to parents speak to their children about how things were when they were young, yet they do not instil that same drive in their children to see themselves as PRICELESS. We seem to be creating our own poverty by the way we have been taught to speak about ourselves and our ability. I remember hours of playing "Kerim" / Carrom" with with my brasse and being completely content about it.<br />
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Maybe with all the load-shedding we should disconnect our laaities from the grid and move them away from the virtual world and back to the physical / REAL world ne. I know I am saying this from an internet platform, but BALANCE IS NEEDED.<br />
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Finally, I would like to say that WORDS HAVE POWER and if you do not believe me, just see what happened to Biggie and Tupac after speaking about dying and being shot. We manifest what we speak and one of the greatest such manifestations is ... "In the beginning was the word and the word was made man." I wrote a rhyme about this called "Babblers from Babylon" <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/emileyx/song/2368020-babblers-from-babylon-">http://www.reverbnation.com/emileyx/song/2368020-babblers-from-babylon-</a><br />
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Heres the lyrics of that song:-<br />
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Babblers from Babylon-Talk is Cheap<br />
Lyrics by Emile Jansen<br />
Chorus<br />
These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2<br />
Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon,<br />
when you dont know whats going on<br />
Verse 1<br />
Ohmmmm !!!!!<br />
In the beginning was the word and the word was made man<br />
See even God took actions on the words in his plan<br />
Can you understand when our words were our bond<br />
Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds<br />
Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your wordsworth<br />
When your words never ever into action even give birth<br />
Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless<br />
Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes<br />
The meaninglessness of words has now escalated<br />
Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated<br />
Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke<br />
Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke<br />
Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page<br />
At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage<br />
Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest<br />
Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best<br />
Chorus<br />
Verse 2<br />
Talk is cheap, now everyone is an MC,<br />
But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery<br />
Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property<br />
Promptly, promoting commodities a priority<br />
See these slaves endorse products aplenty<br />
Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90<br />
Empty MCs on Empty TV's<br />
Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze<br />
Please - I never thought that I'd see the day<br />
Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say<br />
Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for<br />
So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore<br />
Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity<br />
No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free<br />
Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty<br />
Empty like the beers they consume after entry<br />
Chorus<br />
Break<br />
Drums come and call on the son<br />
To return the meaning to where word came from<br />
Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain<br />
When all fades away only the word will remain<br />
Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!<br />
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Verse 3<br />
These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun<br />
They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one<br />
Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue<br />
On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung<br />
Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies<br />
These global capitalist media monopolies<br />
Empty promises from politicians to economists<br />
The conning list, they insist silences pessimist<br />
Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists<br />
Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches<br />
B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization<br />
Our nation sold to foreign economic occupation<br />
Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom<br />
See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...<br />
Their battles won if the words meanings gone<br />
On your words be impeccable and true change will come<br />
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Masses minds won when medias brainwashing gets done<br />
These sons of capitalism control the sales of the gun<br />
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Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-62753729195770315052014-11-18T06:39:00.000-08:002014-11-18T06:39:02.913-08:00Emile YX? Awarded Honourary Awards from South African Hip Hop Awards 2014 & Iconic Urban Dance Awards 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Emile YX? Awarded Honourary Awards from South African Hip Hop Awards 2014 & Iconic Urban Dance Awards 2014</b><br />
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I started dancing in 1980, like Michael Jackson and in 1982 moved on to Popping and then B-boying or as we knew it back then, Break-dancing. my first crew was called ... and later that changed and we formed the Pop Glide Crew. <br />
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These b-boys went on to form groups like Furious Floor Rockers, who later became Black Noise. I am writing a book about my whole experience in Hip Hop and will share that everyone early in next year. It is called "Making A Black Noise". In the meantime, here is a copy of the activities that I have been involved with since way back then.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile YX? (</span><a href="http://www.emileyx.co.za/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">www.emileyx.co.za</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">) is often considered to be one of
the Pioneers or Godfathers of South African Hip Hop and is a founder member of
the legendary South African Hip Hop Group, Black Noise (</span><a href="http://www.blacknoise.co.za/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">www.blacknoise.co.za</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">). He is best known for his developmental
work and community outreach projects like the Heal the Hood Project (</span><a href="http://www.healthehood.org.za/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">www.healthehood.org.za</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> ) and hosting events like African Hip
Hop Indaba, Battle of the Year, Shut Up Just Dance, African Battle Cry, Cape
Flats Uprising, Surf Day, Up The Rock and Freestyle Session.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Emile YX?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is also known for being a founding
member of legendary Black Noise Hip Hop Group and his work on eTVs “Step Up or
Step Out”, but he has helped to raised money for and sent 159 young people to
travel to international events globally. He has recorded and released 12 albums
with Black Noise, 6 solo Emile YX? Albums, 1 Afrikaaps soundtrack, 9
compilation albums, 7 Heal the Hood compilation albums and helped 6 local
artists release their solo albums. Emile started South Africa’s first Hip Hop
magazine “Da Juice” and wrote 3 books. He also helped graffiti artists Falko
and Mak1 to release their own magazines and a compilation of Rhymes, Articles,
Poetry, Short Stories and Sketches R.A.P.S.S. His achievements are too many to
list, so we decided to list them by year below:-</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1982</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile started break-dancing with Pop
Glide Crew & is thus one of South Africa’s Hip Hop Pioneers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1988</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile makes it to the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">regional finals of the Shell Road to Fame</span> with “the Chill
Convention, who later that year becomes the legendary South African Hip Hop
Group, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Black Noise</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">
- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile qualified as a
school teacher and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">taught at Battswood
Primary<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">1989</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Black Noise wins the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mayors Award
for Greening the City</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> rhyme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1990 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black Noise as they win <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Most Promising New Artists” </span>in Super-curl Contest and end up
performing with Yvonne Chaka Chaka<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1991</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile and Black Noise self- funded a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tour to JHB</span> to explore their own record deal and performed with
Brenda Fassie & Marc Alex. Tour to Johannesburg<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1992</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile and Black Noise signed a record
deal with Tusk Records & release Black Noise 1<sup>st</sup> Album “Pumpin’
Loose Da Juice”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Emile decided to leave formal teaching
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Africa’s first Hip Hop Magazine <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Da
Juice Magazine</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Released
Black Noise 2<sup>nd</sup> Album as cassette “Rebirth “ as the first
self-funded album</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
Noise song Dance in the Party selected for Monster Hits Compilation 2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
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Tours for Album launch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993 -
Tarro leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993 -
Mikey leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993 -
Marley and Emile discuss focus of BN <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993 -
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ANC
election campaign, first democratic election<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1994</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Black Noise Helped with <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Voters Education</span> before South Africa’s first democratic election
campaign before our countries first & 2<sup>nd</sup> election</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Performed
at the Cape Town Inauguration of Nelson Mandela</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
attends Universal <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zulu (Hip Hop) Nation</span>
Anniversary in New York, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">USA</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
& Black Noise perform with Shabba Ranks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1994 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Trip
to Zulu Nation Anniversary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1994 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1994
- Warro and Ernie leaves BN – Jacking the equipment for cash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tour<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
releases Black Noise 3<sup>rd</sup> Album, “Black Facts” <span style="color: #262626;">in St Louis Missouri, USA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile & Black Noise were part of a movie about youth
globally called Juvenis and performed in Sweden for the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">UN 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">released
Black Noise 2<sup>nd</sup> Album as a CD “Rebirth” in South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Do
For Self Jams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Universal
Hip Hop Nation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Rebirth of Mind and Hip Hop
Culture<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Tape
independent release <o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Finding
the new character for BN<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Prep
for the recording at Desirees place , the Farm<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Prep of the new show</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Developing
the Do For Self Concert and Album - 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Falco
joins BN for 4<sup>th</sup> element of hip hop <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">International
connection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ray and
the Swedish connection. Global Youth Movie Juvenis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sponsorship
by Adidas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 -<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Swedish
Tour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Master on
DAT pressed as payment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">CD
released in 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
Facts , Tape release with Birthright records in St Louis Missouri<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1996</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile created 30 day holiday programme<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, African Battle Cry </span>that still
runs in December every year released Black Noise 4<sup>th</sup> Album, as a
cassette “ Questions”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1997</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile was part of Black Noise Team that
won 3<sup>rd</sup> place at World Break-dance Championships in Germany<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">toured
South Africa with Senegalese Rap Group “Positive Black Soul”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
part of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Robben Island Artist in
Residence programme</span> Emile, Black Noise and Mike-T-Frank create a song
about the race issues between so-called coloureds & so-called Blacks. The
song is named <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Nobody Knows”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Launch
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">African Battle Cry</span> to teach hip
hop in South Africa</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
tours with Black Noise to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Namibia &
Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1998</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile created a NPO called Heal the Hood
Project and toured SA to teach Hip Hop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brought (Brazilian Martial Arts) ABADA Capoeira to
South Africa</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> which now run
by Angolan Belesa who teaches in and around Cape Town</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">released
Black Noise 5<sup>th</sup> Album “Hip Hop Won’t Stop”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tour
Sweden and Germany</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">performed
with <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Manu Dibangu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Hosted South Africa’s first National
Break-dance Champs to select S.A. team <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Co-owned the first Hip Hop Shop in Cape
Town called “The Hip Hop Corner”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Toured
nationally to promote hip hop especially break-dancing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">11
– 21 October 1999 – Tour Ireland with Angelo and Daniel van Wyk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> created an annual Hip Hop Event called
“African Hip Hop Indaba”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">S.A. leg of World Break-dance <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile is part of the South African Team
that <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wins 4<sup>th</sup> at the World
Break-dance</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Champs</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Released
Black Noise 6<sup>th</sup> Album “Circles of Fire”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile was invited to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">represent South Africa at NJPAC in the USA</span>. Invited to be on a
panel about International Hip Hop at Harvard.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">won
the Blunt Skate Magazine <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Activist of
the Year</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
helps Black Noise to be one of the first 8 groups to get <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">funded by MMINO</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">started to help other artist get recorded
at the African Hip Hop Indaba. He has since compiled 6 compilation CDs released
in small quantities. He also released CDs for Plain Madnizz, Isaac Mutant,
Lionz of Zion, Conquering Lions, Jamayka Poston and Ancient Men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2002</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile helped <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Black
Noise</span> sign a deal in Sweden and release their <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">7<sup>th</sup> Album “Rotational High” </span>with Integral Music AB</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tour
Sweden and established <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heal the Hood
Sweden</span>, with Jenny Berg</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
performed with Black Noise at Black August with Black Thought, Talib Kweli,
Dead Prez<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2003</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile release his first solo album “Who
Am I?”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
release his second book named “My Hip Hop is African and Proud”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Performed
at <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alsang Pa Skansen</span>, a huge
Swedish National live TV broadcast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">2004</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">created</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and release South Africa’s <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">first Hip Hop DVDs Vol#1</span></span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">released
Black Noise 8<sup>th</sup> Album, “Jam Sessions”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tour Sweden, Holland, Norway</span> and
released “Jam Sessions” & Hip Hop How To DVD with Black Noise</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
& Black Noise perform with Joe & assisted the ANC election campaign<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">2005</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">created</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and release South Africa’s <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2<sup>nd</sup>
Hip Hop DVDs Vol#2</span></span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tour
Norway and Sweden</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">creates a book called R.A.P.S.S</span>
which stands for Rhymes Articles, Poetry, Short Stories and Sketches that gives
a voice to young peoples stories from the cape flats communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2006</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">presented a
talk at UCT</span> International Confluences Dance Conference. -<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wrote 3 books</span> “What is Hip Hop?”, “My
Hip Hop is African and Proud” and “Conscious Rhymes for Unconscious Minds” -<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">created a break-dance/b-boy syllabus</span>
and taught others how to teach - released <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5 solo CDs as Emile YX?</span> - Created events like <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">African Battle Cry, Freestyle Session, Battle
of the Year South Africa, R16 SA, Our Hip Hip, Shut Up Just Dance</span>, -
Released more than 15 local DVDs</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">released
Black Noise 9<sup>th</sup> Album, “ Getcha on the Floor”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">released Emile YX? & Jamayka Poston</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> collaborative album between South Africa
and Angola addressing the issues like racism, Afro-phobia, Xenophobic attacks
etc and the album was called <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Conquering
Lions</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2007</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I presented a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">talk </span>about
International Hip Hop <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">at Harvard
University, USA</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
was asked to judge at the World Finals of Red Bull BC1 in JHB</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tour
Schools as part of Anti – tik drug Campaign on the Cape Flats – Emile YX?
releases 2<sup>nd</sup> Solo Album, ROAR – Live it Loud – Emile YX? <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wins Community Builder Award</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile YX? tours Heal the Hood to Norway,
Italy and England<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile helps Black Noise to release their
10<sup>th</sup> Album Best of Black Noise, Vol.#1</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0cm;">Emile
released his 2</span><sup style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0cm;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0cm;"> solo album called Roar – live it loud, African and
Proud</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
helped young break-dancers travel to be a part of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Afrika! Afrika!</span> a travelling creative platform that toured Europe
for 4 years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2009</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wrote a break-dance syllabus called “B-Boy Grade 1”</span> and taught and
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2010</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Emile was part of a team that <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">created “Afrikaaps” a musical play</span> about the untold black history
of the Afrikaans language which went on to win numerous local and international
awards. A <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">documentary</span> was also
made of the play & won</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Best
Production, nomination for Best new Afrikaans Production, Kanna KKNK
Nominations 2010 nomination for Beste KKNK-Debuutwerk, nomination for Beste Aanbieding</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Afrikaaps </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">documentary won </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Encounters Film
Festival</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Cape Town 2010 <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Audience Award</span> , Runner Up Best SA
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">asked
to represent SA on A<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">nti-World Cup song
and then toured the USA</span> - Emile assisted in the creation of a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">documentary </span>about the work done by
Heal the Hood called <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“From B-boys to
Being Men”</span> which has already been screened in Austria, USA and Sweden -
Was part of a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">documentary</span> about
artist activists in South Africa called <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Creators”</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
helped to release Black Noise 11<sup>th</sup> Album, “ Stone Garden Soldiers”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
releases his 3<sup>rd</sup> solo album named Conscious Rhymes for Unconscious
Times</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
also won the Western Cape Arts & Culture <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Award for his Contribution to Literary Arts </span>in 2011<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2011
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">- - selected from
national audition as a Judge for reality TV show on eTV called Step up or Step
Out - ran for Ward Councillor in Grassy Park - Heal the Hood were Awarded by
Words Beats and Life with the award for “Hip Hop Organisation of the Year” -
toured the play Afrikaaps for a month in Amsterdam - student from Heal the Hood
syllabus chosen to create a similar project for regional government and is
teaching in schools throughout western cape while creating jobs for other youth
as well at various schools</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Afrikaaps <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">won </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kyknet Fiesta
Awards</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ( SA) 2011 Moenier
Adams – Best upcoming artist & professional debut, Best Musically Driven
Production, Kanna KKNK Awards (SA) 2011 Moenier Adams; Beste Opkomende
Professionele Kunstenaar.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Afrikaaps </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">director
Dylan Valley was nominated as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Best
Director</span> at 6<sup>th</sup> annual <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">SAFTA</span> (South African Film & Television) Awards 2011as well as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fleur du Cap</span> Awards 2011 nomination
for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Best new South African Script</span>.
Afrikaaps documentary won an Award from Keuze van de WijkJury Amsterdam 2012 for
Beste Voorstelling Amsterdam 2011/12, Babel Film Festival Sardinia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Italy 2011 Best Film, CWFF (Cape
Winelands Film Festival) Awards 2011 Best new South African Documentary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">releases an album with Afrikaaps</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">created</span>
South Africa’s first Hip Hop <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">dance
production</span> called <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mixing it Up</span>
and showcased 16 dancers in <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cape Town
and Johannesburg</span> - selected to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">judge
for the 2<sup>nd</sup> season of eTVs Step Up or Step Out</span> - Youth I
taught from Lavender Hill are now paid by Heal the Hood to teach workshops
after School hours for free to marginalised youth - Created a group with
Lavender Hill youth called <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mixed Mense.
</span>Emile released his 4<sup>th</sup> solo album “Born & Bred on the
Cape Flats”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile released his 5<sup>th</sup> album
with Mixed Mense . He was also selected as a judge for the 3<sup>rd</sup>
season of ETVs Step Up or Step Out - created second Hip Hop play called
“BREAK” & showcased it at Artscape - nominated for Hip Hop Pioneer of the
Year, International Award - Performed with Mixed Mense at Darling
Voorkamerfees - Emile and Mixed Mense assist Natural Justice with creating a
Theater of the Oppressed drama piece to perform to the Bushman community and
get to perform at the grave-side of Ooom Dawid Kruiper while in the Kalahari
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emile’s track “The Rhythm”
selected for Battle of the Year 2013 Soundtrack</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile started the year preparing Heal the
Hood Project to become more focused and created round-table discussions to
increase the network of NGO’s in the Western Cape working with youth. Emile was
then also invited to create a song at !Khwattu for Infecting the City. In March
he organized for Black Noise to perform in the USA at The Kennedy Center as
part of the One Mic Global Hip Hop Festival. Emile both performed and spoke of
a panel about community activism. He then also performed and spoke on panels at
Trinity International Hip Hop Festival in Connecticut. Emile also travelled to
San Francisco to speak about Princess Vlei, as well as the affect Knowledge of
Self has had on his life, work and interactions with Hip Hop and its community.
Afrikaaps, the play, was hosted at Artscape. Recorded “Set Your Goals Up High”
for Mxit and Marikana Massacre. The Mxit song got 37000 downloads in a week.
Initiated the 1<sup>st</sup> Annual Heal the Hood Hip Hop Lectures at UWC, as
part of African Hip Hop Indaba 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile has thus far helped to raise money and
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">sent 163 youth artists to international
events </span>toured and taught Hip Hop and anti-racism in Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, England, Italy, USA, Namibia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emile also performed on same stages as
Robbie Jansen, Hilton Schilder, Prophets of Da City, Manu Dibungo, Salif Keita,
Baba Maal, Brenda Fassie, Shabba Ranks, Dr Alban, Duran Duran, 2Unlimited,
Snoop Doggy Dog, Pharrel, Joe, Shaggy, Mario, Arrested Development, HHP, Kurt
Darren, Steve Hoffmeyer, Black Thought of the Roots, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez,
Kyle Sheperd, Jitsvinger, Shane Cooper, Vicky Sampson, Jennifer Jones, Zane
Adams, The Boyz, K’naan, Dr Victor, Freshly Ground, Sons of Selassie and many
more</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I wrote this song with some youth I work with from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats. Its about the provinces intention of building a mall at a heritage site called Princess Vlei. </span></div>
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Please have listen and let me know what you think. <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_16407857" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>reverbnation.com/play_now/<wbr></wbr>song_16407857</a></div>
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Also please join me on my music Facebook Page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emile-YX/48042893547?sk=app_2405167945" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>pages/Emile-YX/48042893547?sk=<wbr></wbr>app_2405167945</a> </div>
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Please help to save our vlei and heritage by signing the petition <a href="http://www.princessvlei.org/petition/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>princessvlei.org/petition/</a> </div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mixed Mense</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mixed Mense is a practical performance Hip Hop school that I
started with kids that Heal the Hood Project and Emile YX? has been working
with from Lavender Hill for the last 8 years. Stefan aka B-boy Mouse,
Leroy Phillips aka B-boy Malis and Charlton Eftha aka B-boy LangGenoeg have
been teaching for Heal the Hood in various communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mission</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Emile Jansen (aka Emile YX?) has decided to share the experience
he has gained over the last 30 years of being involved with entertainment
through Hip Hop culture as a break-dancer/ b-boy and rapper with Black Noise,
with these youths. Last year Emile assisted the British Council by sharing a
concept called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Mixing it Up”.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The idea was to combine Hip Hop
culture dance styles with local dance styles and music like Zulu traditional,
Namastap, S’bujwa, Gumboot, Pantsula and others. Prior to sharing this concept
for the play, Emile had run a website called “Mixed Mense” that dealt with the
search for identity and sense of self-worth among the positive s-called
coloured community. The site showed that if all people came from Africa, then
we are all African and that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>RACE
IS AN ILLUSION</b>, but in South Africa the impact Apartheid’s racism still
stereotypes races according the lies of its time. The only way to change this
is to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>learn about each other</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and see that we are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>more similar than different</i>.
This is the learning process that I am taking these youths through in a way of
healing their heads about themselves. I have taught them the skills of rapping and
break-dancing, now I wish heal their heads and become confident men.
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2012 – Preparation & performance,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>recording an album</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and addressing various issues that are
related to their daily experiences. This 12 track album will give the real
experience of writing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>and
recording their songs</i>, how to release an album, record a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>music video</i>, write a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and document the experience as a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>documentary.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>They will also contribute to Emile
YX? 7<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CD, which is a
B-boy CD, that will go along with the documentary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“From B-boys to Being Men”.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Stefan Benting aka B-boy Mouse got to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>travel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Sweden</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>earlier in 2012 to talk about the
documentary. We plan to have the CD ready for the end of April and at least a
music video and group poster by then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2013 – We have been performing and promoting Mixed Mense at huge
festivals like “the Switching on of the Lights in Cape Town and Concert in the
Park. We are also planning a huge fund-raiser to tour locally, nationally
and internationally. We will record a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>documentary</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>about the entire process of preparing
for tour. The Emile YX? and “Mixed Mense”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>tour
throughout South Africa<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>will
take place in September, October and November 2013. African<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hip Hop Indaba</i>, will see Mixed
Mense release their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>2<sup>nd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Album</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and documentary. December will see the
crew touring regionally and nationally for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>African Battle Cry</i>.
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> For More Information please call
Emile YX? Jansen at 021 7060481 or 0823958125 Email:-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:emileyx@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">emileyx@gmail.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></div>
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Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-39406941059065376792013-02-21T12:07:00.001-08:002013-02-21T12:07:13.087-08:001st MARCH 1510 VICTORY OF KHOI KHOI AGAINST PORTUGUESE VICROY D'ALMEIDA <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE AGAINST COLONIALISM</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Introduction</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There is nothing wrong with honouring one’s ancesto</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">rs and using their lives and decisions as guidelines. This guiding principle provides us, therefore, with the necessary framework to investigate the happenings of 500 years ago and its relevance today; for our voices alone are crying of the horrors and outrages committed against our people.<br /><br />AN HISTORIC ASCOUNT<br />On 1 March 1510 Francisco De Almeida, the Portuguese Viceroy of India, led a punitive expedition against the Goringhaikhoe/ Huri !Xai Khoe (Kaapmans) on Woodstock beach. The gallant Goringhaikhoe acting in accordance with their heroic traditions in the defense of their homeland sent the invaders reeling back in dismay, disorder and defeat. In this battle, the most European loss of lives in a war with the Khoi khoi were accounted for and only after three-quarters of a century were Khoe khoen-European contact resumed.<br /><br /><br />The KhoiKhoi & Boesman during De Almeida’s time<br />In the Cape, Francisco De Almeida came in contact with the indigenous people, who were the Khoe Khoe (Hottentots) and the San (Boesman). Latest research indicates that the Khoe Khoen moved away from the hunter-gatherer existence to a cattle herding mode of survival. Academia is split with regards to the origin and the migration route of the Cape Khoe Khoen from the Northern region in Botswana. According to the research done by G.M. Theal and G. Stow it was previously accepted that that the Khoe khoen had its origin in East Africa and from there migrated in a westward direction across the sub-continent to Angola. From there they moved down along the coast of Namibia to the Northwestern Cape, and the Southwestern Cape and then eastwardly to Eastern Cape. Latest research indicate that the earliest Khoe khoen herders moved out of the Botswana region in the direction of Matabeleland then what is today known as Transvaal all along the Harts river till the !Gariep (Orange river). From there the main group spilt in two; one group the forefathers of the Nama moved westward till the mouth of the !Gariep. There the group split again; one moving north and the other south. Last mentioned group would later meet the Cape Khoe khoen north of the Cape. The other group who were the forefather of the Cape Khoe, moved in the direction of the Vis- and Sondags– river, where the group known as the Gonakhoe migrated east, while the forefathers of the Attakhoe, Hessekhoe, Kochokhoe and the Cape Peninsula Khoe khoen traveled west past Mossel bay till in the region of St. Helena bay.<br /><br /><br />The Western Cape Khoe khoe lived in one of the best places in Africa. Good rainfall and grazing lands secured that the population were fairly high for Khoi khoi standards. They spoke the same dialect, had similar cultural traits, and their lineages of chieftainships were all blood related. The most important groupings in the Cape (or better known as //Hui !Gaeb) were the Goringhaikhoe (who fought the battle in 1510 against De Almeida), Gorachoukhoe, Goringhaikona and other smaller groups, while to the north of Table bay were the Kochokhoe, further north were the Gurikhoe or Carigurikhoe(/Karihurikhoe) or Saldanhars, while the Chainoukhoe and the Hessekhoe’s pastures were from the Hottentots-Holland till Swellendam.<br /><br />The Boesman/ San were the earliest human community who lived in the sight of Table Mountain (The mountain of the seas - Hoerikwaggo; in Nama huri ╪oaxa coming out of the sea, or “huri” Nama for sea, xkoago for high mountain (/k)ui= mountain/ stone, ╪gō= high). The name suggests they must have probably witnessed or had the knowledge of the rising of the mountain out of the sea. They lived in small nomadic groups engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering field foods and their art dating back to 27 000 years has been described as one of the ‘high points of human visual creativity’. The relationship between the Boesman/ San and Khoe khoen often fluctuated between conflict and collaboration. The Khoe khoen herds often grazed on the hunting grounds of the San and used their water resources often amounting to conflict. Often smaller Boesman/ San groupings attached them to bigger Khoe khoen clans and were later absorbed into these communities, because they were stronger in number and had a more stable economic basis. The Khoe khoen owing to their protein rich diets were bigger in physical appearance than the San due to their adaptation to the pastoral economy. These two are ancestral brothers who initially spilt due to different lifestyles.<br /><br />Who was Francisco De Almeida (1450-1510)?<br />Francisco De Almeida was the appointed Viceroy of India; a military genius on land and sea who fought bravely for Portugal in conquering two cities, subduing 3 rulers under Portuguese rule, and conquering the Turks of the Great Sultan by Diu. His conquests amounted in great loss of lives and guaranteed that the Turks never set foot on Indian soil again. He also fought bravely to oust the Moors out of Spain and won great favour with the Spanish and Portuguese kings. He grew up, like most other nobles, and enjoyed his cultural refinement and military training in the kingly court of Afonso V.<br /><br />Last journey of De Almeida<br />After handing over his position of Viceroy to Afonso de Albuquerque on 4 Nov. 1509 he boarded the ship Garça. On 19 Nov. 1509 accompanied by the Belem under command Jorge de Mello Pereira and the Santa Cruz under Lourenço de Brito, he set sail on his voyage back to Portugal. They anchored in Mozambique, few days before Christmas, to do repair work on the Belem. He initially decided not to land at the Cape of Good Hope because King Manuel commanded Portuguese ships to pass Table Bay and Mossel bay. After they sailed pass the Cape, it became apparent that all 3 ships needed fresh supplies of water. De Almeida then instructed the ships to turn around and set anchor by Aguada da Saldanha on 20 Feb. 1510. De Castanheda described Aguada da Saldanha as a beautiful river which flowed into the ocean near Cape of Good Hope. Khoe khoen-krale was located nearby the watering hole, which were used by their cattle.<br /><br /><br />One of the crew members, Diogo Fernandes Labaredas accompanied the Khoe khoen to their kraal a distance of a legua(6,66km) in the region of Mowbray, and received a flat tailed sheep which he in turn gave to De Almeida. Because of the need for fresh meat, De Almeida sent 12 crew members to the kraal along with Labaredas to engage in trading. The Goringhaikhoe was well pleased with the trading goods of the Portuguese and roasted a sheep for them, and also took sheep to an open area outside the kraal for trading. The 12 crew members waited there, while Labaredas was scouting for oxen, which were also taken to the open area for trading. After the trading, the Portuguese were on their way to the ships, when Gonçalo Homem, servant of De Almeida , wanted to “take” / ”kidnap” a Khoe man for De Almeida; apparently to be clothed in European wear & presented with gifts. A skirmish erupted and the Khoe man was injured but managed to signal his colleagues for assistance. Hurrying to the scene, the Goringhaikhoe was upset that their hospitality were so abused and started attacking the Portuguese. Labaredas realizing the difficult position they were in, decided to release the wounded Khoe man and also returned the sheep and oxen but to little or no avail. With great effort they narrowly managed to escape. Returning to their ships with bloody noses and broken teeth, the Portuguese reported to De Almeida lying that the Goringhaikhoe refused to trade their oxen and were responsible for the skirmish.<br />The Battle at the kraal<br /><br /><br />Although there were opposition from 3 of his most experienced captains, De Almeida decided to “teach the Khoe khoen a lesson” and to stamp down Portuguese authority. It was decided to launch an attack on the Goringhaikhoe kraal around midnight and on 1 March 1510, 150-200 choice crewmembers were selected to execute the attack armored with swords, lances and crossbows. After sailing with the landing boats towards Woodstock beach, they landed at the mouth of the Saltriver. They were more interested in the loot, in the form of cattle, souvenirs & children, than in the actual battle which they regarded as “childsplay”. At a steady pace they reached the kraal around day break under command of Pedro Barreto de Magalhaes and Jorge Barreto, entering the kraal from two directions. But the attack came as no surprise to the Goringhaikhoe, because 170 confident Goringhaikhoe already prepared with skin-bags wherein stones were carried while their arrows, spears, fire-hardened assegais with iron-tips were carried over their shoulders. The victory of the day before made them self-assured and with these weapons they soon forced back the Portuguese towards the beach.<br /><br />In spite of the resistance of the Goringhaikhoe, the Portuguese still managed to capture a herd of oxen that was behind the kraal. They attacked the kraaland captured a group of children and women, hurrying towards the beach and their boats. The ensuing Goringhaikhoe attack was of such a resilience forcing the Lourenço de Brito to command his troops to immediately release the loot. Even after the Portuguese freed the children, the brave Goringhaikhoe pushed forward forcing them to release the oxen too. The Portuguese could not come close enough to effectively use their weapons and were no match for the skillful and accurate attack of the Goringhaikhoe spears and assegais. With great strength and precision they flung stones in a sling made from animal-skin carried around their waists. They also had great command over their oxen by means of a series of different whistling techniques and other signs, indicating them to act as barriers or barricades between them and the Portuguese. It was behind this obstruction that the Goringhaikhoe launched their attacks raining assegais, spears and arrows on the retreating Portuguese. Many of them were killed en route to the boats, while some were stampeded by the oxen and others wounded. Those who made it to the beach found the boats were moved to another place by Diego de Unhoa due to the roaring winds .and choppy seas. The light-footed Goringhaikhoe ran circles around the retreating and tiring Portuguese. The nobles put up a brave fight out of love and respect for De Almeida, while the other ordinary men ran ahead. A few managed to chase some oxen ahead of them.<br /><br /><br />Seeing his country men retreating with some oxen, De Almeida thought they were successful and started moving towards the place where the boats had landed, unaware that de Unhoa moved the boats to a location closer to the watering hole, thus forcing them to move in that direction. Hot on their heels the Goringhaikhoe started mounting another wave of attack moving in between the oxen and with signals brought these oxen to a standstill. Panic-stricken the Portuguese hasten their attempts to move towards the boats and De Almeida seeing the chaos started regrouping his troops to conduct a more orderly retreat. So doing they became easier targets’ for the Goringhaikhoe assegais and stones did not miss. The Portuguese had no answer for the tactfulness and strategy of their opponents leaving bodies spread out over the terrain between the kraal and the beach. As De Almeida was wearing a striking red cloak, all attention was soon focused on him. While he was loosening his neckpiece, an assegai struck him right through his neck. De Almeida’s last command to Jorge de Mello Pereira was to protect the kings flag which he took from him when he died. After the death of De Almeida confusion struck the Portuguese anew and it was a case of every man for himself. In his attempt to retrieve De Almeida’s body Diogo Pires was killed. Later Pereira and Jorge Barreto along with their countrymen tried in vain to rescue his body again, but 20 of them were killed. Everyone who didn’t die was wounded. When the Khoe khoen saw that some Portuguese managed to reach the safety of their landing boats leaving behind the bodies of De Almeida and there country men, they started leaving the beach area.<br /><br />During the Portuguese defeat on 1 March 1510, the loss of European lives was 50-65; including Francisco De Almeida, 12 captains, a number of prominent nobles, soldiers and sailors. They were all experienced warriors who won numerous battles in the East. This Goringhaikhoe victory ensured that the Portuguese favoured to sail around the tip of Africa for 150 years preferring Angola and Mozambique to acquire fresh water and meat supplies. The Khoe khoen were therefore, mistakenly underestimated by De Almeida and his countrymen and proofed to be great defenders of their ancestral lands in the Cape, //Hui !Gaeb.<br /><br />In Closing<br />On this day, 1 March, annually the entire Khoe and Boesman (San) nation should pause, in the round of our daily activities to take stock of the nation, to review the events of the past and to re-dedicate ourselves to the accomplishments of the tasks which lie before us<br /><br />Xuge ne !khams !na ta da sâ. Toa tama !khams ge. So let’s not rest in this fight. The struggle continues!</span></div>
Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-90772865830356385542013-02-21T11:59:00.001-08:002013-02-21T12:08:05.001-08:00Princess Vlei is our link to our humanity and reclamation of our African identity and Self-worth.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Princess Vlei is our link to our humanity
and reclamation of our African identity and Self-worth.</strong><o:p></o:p><br />
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It is with deep pain and disgust that I
write this plea to avoid the building of a Mall on the banks of our beloved
Princess Vlei. “Skelmpies”, as a kid, I ran to the vlei with my “brasse” to
catch fish. I say “skelmpies”, because we all knew the legend of the Khoisan
Princess that was raped and lost her love there and how her spirit would take a
boy or a man’s life in the vlei every year. When I was a kid I was taught by
the Apartheid system to fear anything African, but today I am who I am because
of these magnificent first peoples blood running through our veins.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It is with this knowledge and realization
that I now encourage our communities to stand up and make sure that this memory
is not cemented away for greed and so-called progress. This heritage is what
will stop gangsterism, crime, drug abuse and violence. This knowledge will
bring a sense of belonging to the so-called coloured community that is made to
feel like immigrants in their own country. This knowledge will give back our
connection to the first people of the land and we will reclaim our self-worth.
Yes, that very same Princess I feared as a kid, I now LOVE as an adult. It is
said that they took her to “Elephants Eye” as a hostage and when she cried her
tears formed, ran into and live on in Princess Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Rondevlei and
Zandvlei. These are stories I wish to tell my children while relaxing along the
banks of the vlei, so that they can feel at home. I will tell them that we come
from long lineage that stretches back to the beginning of mankind and like
those tears our peoples blood are in all people. My children will finally feel
equal and part of the human race and not some bastard tribe that Apartheid
created. I will tell them that we belong to the land and have to protect it
because it is our only home. I will tell them how we were taught to forget and
write the San and the Khoi off as uncivilized and child-like by our oppressors
because they knew it would destroy our humanity. I will tell them how the Khoi
and San live on when we say “er” and “he er” as they mean yes and no in Nama/
“Bushman” language. I will show them Nama words like Gogga, Kriekie, Gwagga,
Dagga, Boechoe, Abba, Eina, Aitsa, that are still in the Afrikaans dictionary
and how they helped to create that language. I will tell them about the natural
fish traps at Kommetjie and the name Hoerikwaggo for Table Mountain and they
will be proud. I will tell them how the Khoisan named the Xhosa (which means
angry looking man in Nama) and how they shared the three clicks out of four in
Nama with them. I will tell them how everyone in South Africa is living on the
land of the San and Khoi and how forgetting them, will be like forgetting our
common humanity.<br />
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As
we sit and watch the sun set, I will dig my fingers into the soil and know that
I am blessed, for within them lie ancient dormant “fynbos” seeds that can be
found nowhere else in the world. As I watch my children play on her banks,
maybe she will not take our men any longer, for we have stood up and saved her
from being raped this time. Toa tama !kams ge (Nama for “The Struggle
Continues)<o:p></o:p><br />
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<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/emileyx?"></a>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-55886950355787480322013-01-19T16:08:00.001-08:002013-01-19T16:08:44.039-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mm_mcPV04
Emile YX?, S.A. Hip Hop Pioneer with Black Noise, Step Up or Step Out 1 & 2 Judge (yes the one with the Afro), qualified school teacher and creator of Heal the Hood Project, has decided to select 4 students from Lavender Hill to be part of the 2nd Heal the Hood Hip Hop Performance School. The group has been named "Mixed Mense". The aim is to share skills and supply these young men with another income stream to assist their families in a positive way.
In 2009, Emile did the same with 2 breakdancers Alfred Burgess and Daniel Van Wyk, from Kuilsrivier and 1 female hip hop dancer, Latecia Denis from Mitchells Plain. They were paid a monthly salary and got to tour with Emile to Norway, England, Ireland, Sweden and Italy. Heal the Hood Project also paid them for teaching in less fortunate communities for free. The main focus back then was to show these dancers that they could earn a living from the dance skill. Last year both Alfred Burgess and Leticia Denis won an all expenses paid trip to the World Breakdance Champs in France, from Heal the Hood Project.
This time around Heal the Hood School 2 consists of 4 young men whom Emile taught to breakdance, have been with the project for the last 8 years and have recently learned to rap. They have already written 7 songs and plan to release a CD. Emile has decided that what they need to learn can be placed in rhymes for discussion and internalization. Emile learnt a great deal from conscious MCs from around the world and sees this as a way to arm these young men with self confidence and pride. The songs and group, Mixed Mense, wish to show the face of the GOOD MAJORITY from the Cape Flats. Leroy Phillips, Stefan Benting, Gershwin Muller and Charlie Ephtha will also be teaching free breakdance classes in Lavender Hill, CAFDA, Parkwood, Ottery and Lotus River. Last year Leroy & Stefan were part of the Theatre Production "Mixing it Up", a concept created by Emile and supported by the British Council. Stefan also got to travel to Sweden to talk about the documentary, Heal the Hood and to do workshops. They ended last year by performing at the cities "Switching on of the Lights". They will start this years performances at the Madi Gras on the 2nd February, a weeks master classes with British artists 10-15th February and Ottery Concert in the Park on the 16th February 2013. They also have a music video on Youtube called "Ek leer vir jou." The group will tour and perform in Cape Town for the next few months and then plan to tour nationally. They will also feature in the remixed version of the hip hop documentary DVD & CD "From Bboys to Being Men", that was created by Emiles brother Tanswell Jansen. Heal the Hood & Mixed Mense will then tour to promote the documentary.
Both CDs and DVDs are being released independently and any schools interested in screening the documentary and having them do inspirational talks can call Tanswell at 0824744750 or 0217060481 or Emile at 0823958125
Thanks
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For pictures and further interviews with members of Mixed Mense please call me.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mm_mcPV04"></a>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-38186312528278144962012-02-28T12:23:00.000-08:002012-02-28T12:24:21.063-08:00SUIP - S.A.B. issie grootste drug dealer ...Os ver Suip<br /><br />Chorus<br /><br />Suip! totdat die problem verdwyn<br />Suip! sober up & its the same <br />Suip! the "dop systems" got a new name<br /><br />Suip! X 3 <br /><br />Verse One<br /> Ek's 'n Hottnotsgod ma julle sien my net as 'n bergie<br />Hoeko, want want ekkie virrie witman werkie<br />Os trek hie vannie plaas wa rie oppression obvious is<br />Ma rie oppressions innie stad issie selle yessies<br />jus gotta nicer name, call it 9-2-5 game<br />they change the name but the oppressions the same<br />the blame then returns to the victim once again<br />Pyn van apartheid word verdrink innie wyn<br />Soessie dop system slavery se pyn lat verdwyn<br />again and again our conscience drives us insane<br />Draining your brain, hiding your maines glory<br />Gory is the kroes hare or kinky hair story<br />Ek is sorri khoisan dat ek embarres oor julle is<br />Yes 'ie problem is mixed mense se geskiedenis<br />en dis selfhate dat maak dat osself hate<br />Apartheid made many not fight, but stay gesuip<br /><br />Verse Two<br />Tafelberg, noem my bergie want ek is van hie<br />Wie is jy, ma net my mense se enemy<br />en it be criminal you still own stolen property<br />Ironically you're the first squatters in my country<br />Arrest me for vagrancy, when you the squatters be<br />My poverty enforced by whose greedy politically<br />Bergie I be, cause Im strong like the mountain see<br />Not flat on my back like the Cape Flats refugee<br />Think that they free, but enslaved mentally<br />Our mentality ensures they control our economy<br />Conning we into controlling our money<br />Funny how the dop systems revised now sunny<br />Gave money and dop to ensure our addiction <br />Restrictions removed increase shabeen affliction<br />Mixing hate and addiction brings self anihilation<br />While the khoisan in us is heading for extinction<br /> <br />Verse Three<br />Awe, Julle se ekke loaf, ma daais'ie eintlik wa nie<br />Ek collect rent vir land wat julle nie voor wil betaal 'ie<br />Soes die taal hie, Afrikaans, het die slawe create<br />Julle goodneighbourliness is wa julle vir os uitsmuit<br />Apartheids nog sterk, is os wat vir julle ryk werk<br />Os ryk sterk van glue en spirit wat os op trek<br />Osse kerks S.A.B, die grootse drug dealer <br />Ko weg met moord, wie control die drunk driver <br />Supplier vannie drug virrie khoisan annihilation<br />Im Breaking the silence of slave mind occupation<br />Invasion of the mind, kills our peoples pride<br />Behind self inflicted genocide the problems cause hides<br />Sides vat os maklik en maak osse self dood<br />As ie gangsters saamstaan, is osse army lekker groot <br />'n khoisan army wattie maklik disperse 'ie<br />Jdy 5 minute om te disperse op my hotnot oorloosie ...Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-44264872883540348472012-01-24T01:35:00.000-08:002012-01-24T01:37:08.159-08:00TO HELL WITH THEIR INDUSTRY ...lyrics of song from new CDTO HELL WITH THEIR INDUSTRY <br /><br />Chorus<br />To hell with their industry, its modern day slavery<br />Let’s stop making money for the people’s enemy<br />Buy from your community, Good peoples the majority<br />Act collectively to topple their monopoly<br /><br />1st Verse<br />Wake Up! and see who the real enemy be<br />The greedy multi-national corporate industry<br />That capitalist YOUROPE ‘round the neck of Africa<br />With Anglo & American tools imbedded in her<br />30 pieces of silver that crucified Christ<br />The minority behind this recession heist<br />Disguised as our saviour, that tax payers bail out <br />Repossessed their houses & then threw them out <br />Technology distracting us from our humanity<br />Discouraging us from our priceless creativity<br />Every block has mall that sells the same thing<br />Sheeple follow our self expressions suffering<br />So much for diversity and self determination <br />The new world order owned by one corporation <br />The same songs on every radio and TV<br />So words of our prophets are spread through piracy<br /><br />Chorus<br />To hell with their industry, its modern day slavery<br />Let’s stop making money for the people’s enemy<br />To hell with their industry, buy from your community<br />Encourage cre-a-tivity for self sustainability <br /><br />2nd Verse <br />To hell with the media controlled by industry <br />Airwaves are invisible strings for mental puppetry<br />S.A.B.C is like S.A.B <br />Aimed at keeping Africans Drunk & Disorderly<br />Suddenly, we like what they play repeatedly<br />Record industry is who the real pirates be <br />Stealing more than so called music piracy<br />20% airtime in our own damn country <br />Won’t play this on No Hope, Heartless, kkk FM<br />I’ll play this to my people myself, so F%$@K them<br />Stop your fronting, its time to make a confession<br />There’s a reason it is called op- PRESS- ion<br />The Voice & Son, crucify us on poles daily<br />Maybe we’re being strung up by the same damn enemy<br />Who saw Jesus, Ghandi and Biko as a nigger<br />Propaganda be their bullet and the medias their trigger<br /> <br />Chorus<br />To hell with their industry, its modern day slavery<br />Let’s stop making money for the people’s enemy<br />To hell with their industry, buy from your community<br />Encourage cre-a-tivity for self sustainability <br /><br /> 3rd Verse<br />To hell with this industry built on slavery<br />G 8 too much and now they’re G20<br />I M- F you! W.T.O<br />Silence is consent, so Hell no, we won’t go<br />Their technologies clearly surpassed their humanity <br />Unplug your TV, disconnect your mentality <br />Leave cell-phones at home, so their satellites are blind<br />Remain undetectable, your signal they can’t find<br />Put away your cell phones, no recording please <br />Stop being the eyes for the people’s enemies<br />Downloaded and sent to masters laboratories<br />Where fear is marketed through media monopolies<br />Their universities encourage a pollution of degrees<br />The polar caps unfreeze & all life on earth will cease <br />To be or not to be 2012 Aztec prophecies <br />Masses killed by weather satellite induced Tsunami’s <br /><br />ChorusEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-67638394618805472302011-05-06T16:37:00.000-07:002011-05-06T16:38:30.811-07:00Their World and Silent Cycle of Self-Enslavement<span style="font-weight:bold;">Their World and Silent Cycle of Self-Enslavement </span><br /><br />You are born into their world. Your parents are forced to register you and soon finger-print you so that they can control your movements and determined your worth. If your parents were not economically secure enough to have you, then your arrival has enslaved your parents even more to take a loan or spend money they are yet to earn. Food, drink, shelter all costs because they have placed economic value on the land that they have stolen, yet if your parents try to steal it back, they will enforce their law (which is based on land ownership rights or possession onto the very people they stole the land from). <br />If your parents were born into their twisted biblical philosophy of “go forth and multiply”, coupled with the self-hate enforced on them by colonialism, slavery, apartheid, etc, they are ill-equipped to make a decision that is to the benefit of you, your community, your country or your planet. I say this because they will have to sacrifice themselves to the system to give you all that they think you need according to what they have been brainwashed. They will buy disposable diapers / nappies, because it is cheap, yet poisonous to the very planet that you will have to live in once they are long gone. They will buy the latest outfits that their media sells as cute and trendy for the new parents to get for their kids. They will save for your education or disguised Euro-cation that will enslave you as an African even more than your enslaved parents are doing unwittingly. Your mother has been your primary teacher and no one asks, what if your mother is just a mental slave euro-cated by the very slave master to enslave you. Who needs the ropes and chains, when your own parents share the slave-masters info to enslave you? Ironic, isn’t it. You attend their schools, read their books, watch their TV, listen to their music, where their brand name clothing, play their play-station, spend your family money to enrich them and wonder why Africa remains on its knees. <br />Your primary school euro-cation could also be seen as a holding pen to prepare you with only enough information to work for them. If you think I am crazy, then why are you never taught to start your own companies, but instead to find a job in theirs. All the while you are fed advert after advert, cartoon after cartoon, one blood thirsty game after the next until you mimic their decadence, their disrespect for elders, their disregard for life, their destruction of the planet and hopeless and their macabre advertising of darkness and selling negativity as news . You counter their darkness with religious or spiritual search for external Godliness, when internally you hold the essence of God. Yes, they have even infiltrated the very religions we run to and shifted its focus from empowering our God-selves to bowing down to their images. They strip away our belief and greatness by twisting the truth from literature to scripture to novels to media, they have a hand in glorifying themselves and demonizing the masses. See they control what you read and see. They own the networks that get information to the masses. They own the media and can thus decide what you are allowed to read or see or learn. In a blink of an eye they can turn a people’s hero into a terrorist, they can make the whole world call its greatest entertainer a whacko and have millions celebrate the killing of an unarmed human being. They can make the colour black be associated with evil, while white is associated with purity and cleanliness. They remove the title of creators of rock music from African Americans like Chuck Berry and Little Richard and hand it to Elvis Presley and the whole world keep quiet and let’s it be. They can make Egypt seem like it not a part of Africa with movies featuring white skinned people, when the Kemites / Egyptians were black. They can even make the symbol of Christianity, Jesus Christ, look more like a Swede, than the blackman he truly was. For if the Son of God is white, then what colour must God be? So you bow down to their image every Sunday and wonder why your Mom or Dad changes their accent when white people call the house. They made you believe that Adam and Eve were white in all the books you read, but Africa is the cradle of civilization and humanity. It is proved that all modern human being descended from the San, so should Adam and Eve not look like the San? All peoples come from Africa, so Africa means Human and race is just a lie and all people are mixed from that very first San people. However, this is not taught in their schools or universities, because it does glorify them. In fact, try telling this to your teacher or lecturer and ask that it be included in the history textbook to give Africans and Africa back its self-worth. They will demand that you supply the proof in triplicate from someone that has a degree from their institutions. You see, only they can credit you with that accreditation. How can we the people allow their slave master to continue to educate and inform their people? <br />You finally complete school of university if you are lucky and have become your parents. You have a huge debt of the student loan you took and have to search for job, because your parents were not able to supply all their children with a home. You don’t only have the student loan, but have to pay to survive in their world where you don’t make your own food or farm or own anything. In fact, you are just a supplier of a skill for their empire to grow and you the modern day slave can do just enough to live pay-check to play-check. In fact, that is how they sell your life to you. Your pay-check is divided into repaying credit cards, student loans, rent, phone-bill, food bill, light bill, petrol bill, school fees, car loan, etc. Usually this adds up to your entire pay-check or even leaves you in debt. The irony of it all is that when our ancestors were slaves, the accommodation, food and water was supplied by the slave master. Today’s slaves pay the slave master, now known as the estate agent, back for rent, water and visit their stores for food and other survival needs you might have. How do a people put their survival in the hands of their enemy?<br />By this stage of your life, you have met someone and society demands of you to settle down and have a child or children of your own. Can you now see that the cycle of enslavement has become a silent cycle of self-enslavement? We have internalized their silent mission from one generation to the next, since our ancestors were mentally brainwashed with their information. Only when you know this information, can you step away from it and create and alternative path. I always find it interesting when people say that it’s just the way it is. WHY? It is way it is because they made it seem to be the norm. In the same way that they created this norm, you/ we can create a new norm that sets us free from their cycle of enslavement. It begins today … with youEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-51330027471514474832011-05-06T13:39:00.000-07:002011-05-06T13:42:25.057-07:00Verse I wrote for a Global Anti-World Cup 2010World Cup 2010 be nothing but a scam man<br /><br />Welcome to the Land of the San, the birthplace man<br />All humans on this planet be originally Africa<br />Chorus<br />World Cup 2010 be nothing but a scam man<br />Africans, its time to over-stand their masterplan<br />The World Cups a Charade<br />South Africa’s getting played<br />Big business …<br />That’s whose really getting paid <br />As 63 billion rand of taxes they raid<br />What profit will THE PEOPLES investment have made <br /><br />Verse<br />Thee attention world gathers for the wrong reason<br />It’s the long cold hearted capitalist season<br />Where basic human freedoms violated for money<br />In the land of gold, we chase a gold cup that’s funny <br />Suddenly money changes “never & never again”<br />Never say never, The same money’s running everything<br />Where Khoi & San bodies hung, impaled & battered<br />Is where they built the stadium & 4 billion got Blattered<br />But we’ll foot the bill, just to foot their ball <br />On the graves of our ancestors, how can we stand tall <br />Here Hegemony erases the memory of the San <br />And lands send players to get played by the man <br />This scams like “Yes we cans tans” distracting nations<br />Subduing revolution with media mind occupation<br /> When FIFAs money making machine moves on<br />Has Africa finally the Worlds respect won<br /><br />Listen to the whole track here - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8BILblAXTSUJ:nomadicwax.bandcamp.com/track/world-cup-mixtape+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&source=encrypted.google.comEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-21068707501408114702011-05-06T13:24:00.001-07:002011-05-06T13:26:25.976-07:00The Babblers from Babylon Babble on ... Talk is CheapBabblers from Babylon - Talk is Cheap<br />Chorus<br />These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2<br />Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon, <br />when you dont know whats going on <br />Verse 1<br />Ohmmmm !!!!!<br />In the beginning was the word and the word was made man<br />See even God took actions on the words in his plan<br />Can you understand when our words were our bond<br />Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds<br />Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your wordsworth<br />When your words never ever into action even give birth<br />Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless<br />Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes<br />The meaninglessness of words has now escalated<br />Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated<br />Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke<br />Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke<br />Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page<br />At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage<br />Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest<br />Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best<br />Chorus<br />Verse 2<br />Babblers babble 'bout blowing up as an MC <br />But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery<br />Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property <br />Promptly, promoting commodities a priority<br />See these slaves endorse products aplenty <br />Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90 <br />Empty MCs on Empty TV's <br />Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze<br />Please - I never thought that I'd see the day <br />Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say<br />Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for<br />So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore<br />Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity <br />No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free<br />Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty<br />Empty like the beers they consume after entry<br />Chorus<br />Break <br />Drums come and call on the son <br />To return the meaning to where word came from<br />Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain<br />When all fades away only the word will remain<br />Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!<br /> <br />Verse 3<br />These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun<br />They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one<br />Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue<br />On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung<br />Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies <br />Feeding these global capitalist media monopolies <br />Empty promises from politicians to economists<br />The conning list, they insist silences pessimist<br />Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists<br />Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches<br />B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization<br />Selling our nation sold to foreign economic occupation<br />Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom<br />See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...<br />Their battles won if the words meanings gone<br />On your words be impeccable and true change will come<br /><br />Masses minds won when medias brainwashing gets done<br />These sons of capitalism control the sales of the gunEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-53248197754951526402010-12-13T09:40:00.000-08:002010-12-13T09:41:29.984-08:00AFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE, KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2 + HEAL THE HOOD WIN BEST HIP HOP ORGANISATIONAFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE + KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2<br />Press Release<br /> <br /> AFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE, KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2 + HEAL THE HOOD WIN BEST HIP HOP ORGANISATION <br /><br />Heal the Hood Project ends the year with their annual end of year fund-raisning event “Afican Battle Cry” on 16th December 2010 at Joseph Stone. This year however, they celebrate winning the award for the “Best Hip Hop Organisation in the World” as voted by Washington DC based organisation Words, Beats and Life. We would like to thank all who helped and help us make this possible.<br /> <br />African Battle Cry is happening at the Joseph Stone Auditorium in Athlone. It starts at 12H00 with an information session about Khoisan heritage and the history of Afrikaans hosted by the cast of the play “Afrikaaps”. This is followed by a house workshop by a dancer from England at 14H00. The main event is a dance competition showcasing the best breakdance group, hip hop new style dance group, krumpers, poppers, under 16 breakdancer and best female breakdancer. Tickets are R40 and more information can be obtained from Heal the Hood offices at 0217060481.<br /> <br /> Heal the Hood has this year started exchanges with the USA and Sweden. 2011 will see Cape Town hosting some dancers and hip hoppers from the USA and Sweden. Annual events like Black Noise 23rd Anniversary & Shut Up Just Dance at the Baxter, African Hip Hop Indaba, Up the Rock, Hip Hop by Bus and Hip Hop Camp. Heal the Hood will also tour regionally and nationally to structure a network for arts, cultural exchange and economic empowerment. They will also host screenings of a documentary about the work they dothroughout the country. It wil be screened in Sweden, USA, Angola, Zimbabwe, Australia and Germany. <br /> <br />Anyone interested in getting a chapter of Heal the Hood Project started in their community or in their school next year, can call 0217060481 or Emile at 0823958125.Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-89510227304186233682010-04-09T16:10:00.000-07:002010-04-09T16:12:47.348-07:00Mixed Mense - Coloureds - rhymes 4 my new CDCOLOUREDS – MIXED MENSE <br /><br />Chorus<br />Coloureds x 2 ... Mixed mense<br />Mixed, thats how the planet will get fixed<br />Mixed, Im tired of your your polit-trix<br />Mixed, when will the gangs the drugs get fixed<br /><br />1st Verse<br />Mixed is who we truly are, there’s no such thing as race<br />Trace all humans to Africa in the first place<br />Face the fact, race is socialization of people<br />Difference in cultures so slight its feeble<br />We’ll find more similarities than differences exists<br />Insist we're family, open up your collective fists<br />Botanists lists, influence these separatists<br />To separate the masses to benefit capitalists<br />Capital lies get told to keep us separated <br />Division with religion and race is manipulated<br />Hatred, created to shift the masses attention<br />Distractions used to thwart the enemies detection<br />Detect them in their media influencing how we think<br />Its not true just because its on TV or in ink<br />Sink their flagship of racist classification<br />Declassify their lies and their mental occupation<br /><br />Chorus<br /><br />2nd Verse<br /><br />Before I was too black and now it seems I be too white<br />Simunyeah we are one , yeah right<br />If might makes right, we might be wrong for too long<br />Why do politicians still sing Apartheids song<br />Same racial terminology and focus on diversity<br />A country of tribes and still no unity<br />The worlds in denial, everyone’s actually mixed<br />Mixed is the only way this planet will get fixed<br />So you can call me mixed, I’m just more honest than you<br />We’re from one race called human, you know that’s true<br />Glorified gangs that’s all tribalism is <br />With cultural diversity being your euphemism please<br />It’s a racist disease, cultures always evolving<br />Everyone take from each other for problem solving <br />Xhosa mixed clicks from San to change Ngone<br />Xhosa and the Zulu came from the north to this country<br /><br /><br />Chorus<br /><br />3rd Verse <br /><br />Xhosa, Zulu, Mixed and Sotho<br />Black, White, how long will tribalism continue<br />Divide and conquers entrenched in our mentality<br />A mental shift is needed by all of us globally<br />So we can see the capitalistic manipulation<br />Media manipulated for mental occupation<br />Occupying minds to fuel racial violence<br />Distracting from the force that causes compliance<br />Silence is consent so capitalists keep winning<br />Spinning into turm oil, salivating at their sinning<br />Grinning at victories, hiding behind democracies<br />This demon is all about maintaining its economies<br />Eco-catastrophes & revelation prophecies<br />Human property, devils aren’t detoured by these<br />Please reach inside, take courage with a deep breath<br />Our long walk to freedom requires capitalisms deathEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-75998702285886514112010-01-23T12:10:00.000-08:002010-01-23T12:16:12.577-08:00The Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game was a BORING, EUROPEAN STYLE OF SOCCER BY NUMBERS THAT HAD NOTHING SOUTH AFRICAN ABOUT IT.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_94J0o3F14-s/S1tYsg1HtPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8NeLhMjgSj4/s1600-h/Image0028.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_94J0o3F14-s/S1tYsg1HtPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/8NeLhMjgSj4/s320/Image0028.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430031297475491058" /></a><br />The Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game was a BORING, EUROPEAN STYLE OF SOCCER BY NUMBERS THAT HAD NOTHING SOUTH AFRICAN ABOUT IT. <br /><br />If this is what we can expect for 2010, then I’m more than convinced that we wasted 4.5 Billion Rand on that new stadium. I know that everyone wants to be positive for Bafana Bafana and South African soccer, but WHAT SOUTH AFRICAN SOCCER? All I saw was a combination of the European long ball and pass the ball to the player that you’re facing. IT WAS BORING AS HELL. The talk of Cape Town and South African 2010 was immediately replaced by Ajax Amsterdam and European sterile technical, feeling-less play-soccer-by-numbers. It had NO PASSION, NO FLARE or hint of LOVE for the game. People started doing the “Mexican-wave” to entertain themselves and the game was like a screen-saver. “Professional” soccer players that played like ROBOTS, doing what the coach or what THE NORM of how soccer is played in EUROPE and what seems to be what is expected of them. WHERE WAS THE SOUTH AFRICAN FLAVOUR? Don’t even try to tell me that the “Vuvuzele” was it, that’s just some noisy uncoordinated – eardrum - rupturing crap. It’s dull drone seemed to be in sync with the dull unimaginative play of our cities “best”. <br /><br />I have begun to question the concept of “our best”. Have you noticed that watching some Saturday or Sunday-league game or a game of “hondjie” now seems to be more exciting than watching what is considered to be our top teams? It’s like Pop Idols or S.A.’s got talent. Where the hell is the real talent hiding? You will find it in our clubs and churches and schools and malls and on mattresses on township fields. And the truth is, that what we are seeing being paraded as our best, is just the ones who are dedicated enough to find out about the trials, know someone with a connection and have transport to make it to “try outs” and auditions. Our best are working a low-income job to help families pay bills or dropped out of school to hang-out on street corners or just do not have the drive or dedication to be on time every single time. It’s a messed up social system that keeps the mediocre in the limelight, while the real talent slips through our fingers. That is what it felt watching Ajax Cape Town play against Santos. Remember “Teenage Dladla”, he brought himself and our SOUTH AFRICAN way of playing to the game. Saturdays game was a sterile game of text-book European, Brazilian technique analyzed and regurgitated soccer without feeling. That’s not ours. That’s not what we play in the township streets of South Africa. Why are we play like they do? <br /><br />We should be dancing to our own drum and not try to catch up with their way of playing a game that we play completely different. You can never beat someone at a style that they created. OUR SOCCER is losing support because we have all these international coaches teaching our players to ignore their natural flare and enjoyment of the game of soccer. Who cares if we loose, if we are not having fun playing this game the way we do? Laughing, tricking, creating, enjoying and mostly celebrating OUR WAY of playing soccer. I’m not insulting our players, just the coaches inhibiting OUR SOUTH AFRICAN STYLE OF PLAYING. I thought it was the OUR 2010 World Cup … <br /><br />Emile YX? <br />Cape Flats UprisingEmile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110273029813877203.post-69537633953629592342010-01-22T11:44:00.000-08:002010-01-22T11:50:38.021-08:00Black Noise 22nd Anniversary & Dance Battles at the Baxter Theatre<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_94J0o3F14-s/S1oBfV-MWMI/AAAAAAAAAAM/0krEqhbva90/s1600-h/9335_146310632234_518222234_2525237_1303451_n%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429653938734127298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_94J0o3F14-s/S1oBfV-MWMI/AAAAAAAAAAM/0krEqhbva90/s320/9335_146310632234_518222234_2525237_1303451_n%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />Black Noise Celebrates its 22nd Anniversary at the Baxter Theatre<br />DANCE BATTLES Starts at 17H00 with Breakdancing/ b-boying, Popping, Krumping, New Skool Wniners get money and prizes and showcase at Concert</div><br /><div><br />CONCERT Starts at 20H00 Performances by Black Noise, Emile YX?, DJ Angelo, Breakdancers & moreDate:- 13th February 2010cc:- R50 pre-sold by group and tickets at computicket<br /></div><br /><div>South African Hip Hop Pioneers and oldest Hip Hop group celebrates its 22nd Anniversary at the Baxter Theatre. Black Noise Anniversary will showcase performances and footage of songs from throughout their career.</div><br /><div><br />It will also showcase some of the hottest MCs, singers, breakdancers/ b-boys, krumpers, lockers, poppers and new skool Hip Hop from the Cape Flats. Many of these groups have been influenced by Black Noise over the years. This event will launch a 10 leg Cape Flats Uprising Hip Hop Tour throughout the Western Cape of which all proceeds will go to the schools, Hip Hop Artists and Heal the Hood Project. Come support this historic event and legendary legacy of the Western Cape.</div><br /><div><br />Brief Black Noise History:-Black Noise was formed from the original breakdancers/ b-boys from 1982. They were South Africa’s fist all elements Hip Hop Group, i.e. DJ, MCs, B-boys, Graffiti Artists and Hip Hop Activists. Black Noise was the first South African Hip Hop Group to record, press and tour its own CD nationally and internationally. Emile YX?, one of the groups founding members, with the help of Black Noise, has created many community outreach projects like African Battle Cry, Battle of the Year South Africa, African Hip Hop Indaba, Freestyle Session South Africa, Shut Up Just Dance, Up the Rock, Cape Flats Uprising, Positive Poster Day and sent more than 100 b-boys to the World Breakdance Champs in Germany, etc. Through these events and national touring, Black Noise has created thousands of new Hip Hop activists throughout South Africa and the world. Black Noise have shared stages with artists like Robbie Jansen, Hugh Masakela, Basil Manenberg Coetzee, Brenda Fassie, Prophets of Da City, Black Thought of The Roots, K’naan, Snoop Doggy Dog, Brasse Vannie Kaap, Joe, Duran Duran, Sean Paul, Talib Kweli and many more. Black Noise is self managed and toured Sweden, Norway, Belgium, USA, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, England, Germany and Ireland. For more info on Black Noise, check www.blacknoise.co.za<br /><br />Black Noise<br /><a href="http://www.blacknoise.co.za/">http://www.blacknoise.co.za/</a></div><br /><div><br />For Ticketing Visit:<br /><a href="http://www.computicket.com/">http://www.computicket.com/</a></div><br /><div></div>Emile YX?http://www.blogger.com/profile/14092306971094823823noreply@blogger.com0