The BlackRadioIsBack.com family recommends that folks check out this interesting interview done with Hip-Hop MC and legend KRS-One in the Special Edition issue of our people's magazine, Rapsoulution, by clicking here.
Also check out this issue (and the back catalog on the official website of Rapsoulution) to get some information on some quality up and coming independent Hip-Hop and Soul music artists, DJs and industry folks.
Hope that the weekend as gone all right for you all!
This if the first time that we've been what I suppose is "eTagged" (shouts to my folks over at The Punkin Patch for doing so), so I shall now tell you some random and hopefully somewhat interesting things about your lady DJ Fusion by these rules:
1. Link the person who tagged you. - Did That
2. Mention the rules in your blog. - Done It
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. - Shall Do Below
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them. - Will Be Done After My Wonderfully Unspectacular Quirks
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged. - Shall Be Doing After I Type This
Here Goes:
1. The tallest person I ever dated/was in a serious relationship with was 6' 6". Considering I am 5 feet tall flat-footed on a good day when gravity isn't teasing me, it was an interesting contrast on mulitple fronts (some of which are "grown folks' business") to say the least.
2. I have a voracious need to read something within 2 hours after I wake up - doesn't matter if it's a magazine, newspaper, book, stuff on the internet, etc. Don't know why, it just is what it is and makes me feel comfortable...
3. I absolutely cannot STAND potato salad with mayonnaise by itself and pretty much just eat my Mama's to this day (can't give away the secret reciepe, but it's that heat rock in terms of deliciousness).
It's not necessarily because it tastes bad (which it does usually), but because whoever imagined that white on white was a wonderful color scheme for tasty food had mental issues. It's just not very attractive to me.
Check it:
Mom's Potato Salad - Yum and Yay
Other Folks Potato Salad/Supermarket Potato Salad In A Carton, Etc. - NO
4. I still own a functional Game Boy from back in the days and play it occasionally (the games I have are Tetris and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - I had tomboy tendencies, you see).
5. My Personal BEST 10 Hip-Hop Crews Of All Time (in no particular order what so ever): * A Tribe Called Quest (MCs + heads who were in the production clique The Ummah - Jay Dee - R.I.P., etc.) * Gangstarr Foundation (with Guru, DJ Premier, Lil' Dap, Jeru the Damaja, Big Shug, etc.) * Wu-Tang Clan * Juice Crew * Dungeon Family (Outkast, Goodie Mob, Cool Breeze, Sleepy Brown, etc.) * Leaders of the New School * De La Soul * Death Row Records Before Dr. Dre Stepped Off & All Original MCs were there (Snoop, Tupac, Lady of Rage, Kurupt, etc.) * The Fugees * Geto Boys
6. 2 DJ Fusion Absolutes:
1. NO Kung Fu movie is better than Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon (although The Five Deadly Venoms comes close).
Check the action from the movie - CGI Free everybody:
AND
2. NO "conscious"/"message" Hip-Hop album has yet been made is better than Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet in regards to the combo of crazy production and rhymes (step it up Hip-Hop Nation).
Public Enemy's Flavor Flav pre-VH1 Reality Shows with "911 Is A Joke" off the album:
Now, with all of that done, I am going to tag the folks at these on point blogs:
I recieved this video clip while eyeballing MySpace (thanks Freedom Development Group Inc.) and felt that I should share it with everyone.
In case you're doing some criminal dirt (drug dealing, pushing unregistered guns, money laundering, etc.) and aren't using smoke signals or something while your cell phone is in range, you're pretty much doomed.
For the aveage man, this means the government has the ability to get more in your personal business - not a good look whether you're doing wrong or not legally (since we know at times legality and morality of doing things right sometimes don't cross-intersect in society).
Remember, this is what folks are publicly showing society, you KNOW there is some other mess out there that's technologically crazy to check people out if they want to.
Feel free to hit us with feedback at anytime about what we're doing over here on the site, want to do a link exchange and/or if you would like to submit music, books, magazines, DVDs, etc. for review for BlackRadioIsBack.com and/or the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast.
POSTAL MAILING ADDRESS: Mary Nichols (DJ Fusion) c/o FuseBox Radio/BlackRadioIsBack.com P.O. Box 2465 Waldorf, MD USA 20604-2465
I'm DJ Fusion (real name: Mary Nichols), a short (5 feet tall even), above average looking (I think at least a "B", even if a low one....) Black-American female DJ in my late 20s.
I'm originally from the Prince Georges County, MD/DC Metro area, now going back and forth between New Jersey and the "Middle East" (MD/DC/VA all day).
Since 1998, I've been doing my syndicated radio show, The FuseBox Radio Broadcast, bringing the best of Hip-Hop and Soul Music from all over the world along with news and commentary.
Why Is BlackRadioIsBack.com Around and What Do You Mean by "Black Radio is Back"?
My mission for BlackRadioIsBack.com, as the official blog of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast is to bring back the spirit of Black Radio via the Internet and the World Wide Web.
In the past few years, the term, mission and mentality of "Black Radio" in the United States has been at the very least ignored and that the worst, totally disregarded, disrespected and shunned.
In my mind, Black Radio at its best is & will always be the format that brings to listeners:
1. A balanced combination of diverse & interesting music in multiple formats – after all Black Radio was the format that first exposed Jazz, Funk, Soul, Blues, Rock Music - yes, Rock and Roll has Black American musical foundations - do the history, Gospel and Hip-Hop music to the masses.
2. A quality mix of news, interviews and commentary to the Black American community (and to anyone else interested) - editorial, political, health, social, etc.
3. A mission to truly connect with its listener community on multiple fronts Black Radio, in most of the mainstream airwaves, has been taken over by what's called "urban radio", "contemporary urban radio", etc.
It seems that with this format, what most stations, radio hosts and mixers do is keep things in a very narrow vision of what the Black American cultural experience is supposed to be like and how its represented - basically, watering things down.
For example:
* When you hear the same joint for the 1,000,000th time on the radio and you know the artist has an album release (or multiple releases) out that you can at least TRY to hear more tracks from before a 3 month period OR you always hear the same music artists in constant rotation = NOT quality Black Radio
* When "Old School" music is defined as being from 5 years ago and/or not acknowledging music from the past = NOT quality Black Radio
* When there is only one viewpoint of what Black America and Black Americans represent (either straight 24-7 criminality without consequences or creativity or only the civil rights generation is great with everyone else not under that being subpar) = NOT quality Black Radio
* Putting on the same sound effect and/or screaming over 10 times in a row for a 3 minute song that is not even hot = NOT quality Black Radio
This list can go on for days…
BlackRadioIsBack.com will have music audio & videos from all over the world along with reviews (for both mainstream and independent artists), written and audio interviews with various folks in the community (music artists, authors, businesspeople, activists, etc.), book, magazine and movie reviews and editorials.
BlackRadioIsBack.com will also be a location where others who are promoting the spirit of Black Radio will also be represented and highlighted.
I hope that everyone enjoys the site and gets stimulated by the true Black Radio Experience!
Peace,
Mary Nichols (DJ Fusion) Founder, BlackRadioIsBack.com FuseBox Radio/FuseBox Media LLC
