AFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE, KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2 + HEAL THE HOOD WIN BEST HIP HOP ORGANISATION

AFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE + KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2
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AFRICAN BATTLE CRY 16TH DEC 2010 @ JOSEPH STONE IN ATHLONE, KHOISAN INFO SESSION 2 + HEAL THE HOOD WIN BEST HIP HOP ORGANISATION

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mixed Mense - Coloureds - rhymes 4 my new CD

COLOUREDS – MIXED MENSE

Chorus
Coloureds x 2 ... Mixed mense
Mixed, thats how the planet will get fixed
Mixed, Im tired of your your polit-trix
Mixed, when will the gangs the drugs get fixed

1st Verse
Mixed is who we truly are, there’s no such thing as race
Trace all humans to Africa in the first place
Face the fact, race is socialization of people
Difference in cultures so slight its feeble
We’ll find more similarities than differences exists
Insist we're family, open up your collective fists
Botanists lists, influence these separatists
To separate the masses to benefit capitalists
Capital lies get told to keep us separated
Division with religion and race is manipulated
Hatred, created to shift the masses attention
Distractions used to thwart the enemies detection
Detect them in their media influencing how we think
Its not true just because its on TV or in ink
Sink their flagship of racist classification
Declassify their lies and their mental occupation

Chorus

2nd Verse

Before I was too black and now it seems I be too white
Simunyeah we are one , yeah right
If might makes right, we might be wrong for too long
Why do politicians still sing Apartheids song
Same racial terminology and focus on diversity
A country of tribes and still no unity
The worlds in denial, everyone’s actually mixed
Mixed is the only way this planet will get fixed
So you can call me mixed, I’m just more honest than you
We’re from one race called human, you know that’s true
Glorified gangs that’s all tribalism is
With cultural diversity being your euphemism please
It’s a racist disease, cultures always evolving
Everyone take from each other for problem solving
Xhosa mixed clicks from San to change Ngone
Xhosa and the Zulu came from the north to this country


Chorus

3rd Verse

Xhosa, Zulu, Mixed and Sotho
Black, White, how long will tribalism continue
Divide and conquers entrenched in our mentality
A mental shift is needed by all of us globally
So we can see the capitalistic manipulation
Media manipulated for mental occupation
Occupying minds to fuel racial violence
Distracting from the force that causes compliance
Silence is consent so capitalists keep winning
Spinning into turm oil, salivating at their sinning
Grinning at victories, hiding behind democracies
This demon is all about maintaining its economies
Eco-catastrophes & revelation prophecies
Human property, devils aren’t detoured by these
Please reach inside, take courage with a deep breath
Our long walk to freedom requires capitalisms death

The Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game was a BORING, EUROPEAN STYLE OF SOCCER BY NUMBERS THAT HAD NOTHING SOUTH AFRICAN ABOUT IT.

The Ajax Cape Town vs Santos game was a BORING, EUROPEAN STYLE OF SOCCER BY NUMBERS THAT HAD NOTHING SOUTH AFRICAN ABOUT IT.

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”.

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?

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 …

Emile YX?
Cape Flats Uprising

Black Noise 22nd Anniversary & Dance Battles at the Baxter Theatre

Black Noise Celebrates its 22nd Anniversary at the Baxter Theatre
DANCE BATTLES Starts at 17H00 with Breakdancing/ b-boying, Popping, Krumping, New Skool Wniners get money and prizes and showcase at Concert

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

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.

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.

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

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