With the weather here in NYC getting colder, I figured I’d post a recipe that will maybe warm things up a bit. Check out the details below…
Callaloo Soup with Crab Ingredients:
- ¼ lb pickled meat
- 2 – 3 crabs
- 1 doz eddoes or dasheen leaves
- 8 ochroes (okra)
- Celery, garlic, eschallot
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 pint boiling water
- Shrimp
Flying Overseas is the newest video from Theophilus London, coming off of the I Want You mixtape. The video (based off of Mighty Sparrow’s Only a Fool) is slightly different than the mixtape’s version with the addition of Solange and Devonte, it still works well and doesn’t loose anything the original had. Check the Might Sparrow version after the jump which provided the inspiration for the video.
Strange Planet is one of the newest videos from Homeboy Sandman’s album The Good Sun. This is one of those tracks when I first heard it thought it was alright but by the second listen thought it was dope. Check out his spin on planet Earth.
Another recipe inspired by Moms, who made this a few weeks back. Check out the details below…
Carrot Cake Ingredients:
- 3 cups grated carrot
- 1½ cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 4 eggs, slightly beaten with essence
- 2 tsp spice (cinnamon or allspice)
- ½ tsp salt
- 1¼ cup corn or vegetable oil
- A little baking powder
American business men have been investing in Dominican baseball academies trying to sell players to MLB teams. The boys are from poor backgrounds and minimally educated. The focus for the academies is baseball and get the best out of the kids – education as mentioned in the video is a side note. Here’s the story on what’s going on there…
Black Jews are a rare find but they do exist from Ethiopian Jews to NYC’s popular Bajan – Caribbean Fever host Dahved Levy. Rapper Shyne is one more person you can add to that list. NY Times recently did an article on Shyne’s transformation into the life of Judaism after his arrest and conviction for a shooting in 1999. Shyne made the move from a jail house to a Yeshiva, he changed his name to Moses Levi and started a new life as a Jew. Interesting things to note in the article is that Shyne’s father is the prime of Belize, Dean Barrow, the apple fell far from the tree in this case. Also when he now raps he incorporates yiddish… Maybe he will collab with Matisyahu…
Living as Moses Levi, an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem (he legally changed his name from Jamaal Barrow), he shuttles between sessions of Talmud study with some of the most religiously stringent rabbis in the city and preparations for a musical comeback.
His transition from troubled adolescent in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, shot at the age of 15, to celebrity gangster rapper turned prisoner turned frequenter of yeshivas, is the latest chapter in a bizarre journey that began with his birth in Belize 32 years ago. He is the son of a lawyer who is now that country’s prime minister and a mother who brought him to the United States and cleaned houses for a living.
“The science of Judaism” as Mr. Levi refers to it, has become his system for living, a lifeline that connects him to God and becoming a better human being. He sees no conflict fusing the hip-hop world with the life of a Torah-observant Jew.
Mr. Levi speaks in the style of the urban streets but combines his slang with Yiddish-accented Hebrew words and references to the “Chumash” (the bound version of the Torah, pronounced khoo-MASH) and “Halacha” (Jewish law, pronounced ha-la-KHAH).
As in: “There’s nothing in the Chumash that says I can’t drive a Lamborghini,” and “nothing in the Halacha about driving the cars I like, about the lifestyle I live.” As a teenager he started reading the Bible, relating to the stories of King David and Moses that he had first heard from his grandmother. At 13 (bar mitzvah age, he notes) he began to identify himself as “an Israelite,” a sensibility reinforced after finding out his great-grandmother was Ethiopian; he likes to wonder aloud whether she might have been Jewish.
He was already praying daily and engaged in his own study of Judaism at the time of his arrest but only became a practicing Jew, celebrating the holidays, keeping kosher and observing the Sabbath under the tutelage of prison rabbis. In Israel, he said, he had undergone a type of pro forma conversion known as “giyur lechumra” (pronounced ghee-YUR le-kchoom-RAH).
Full article here
Here is an interesting story that the Gaurdian reported on. 17 girls became sick, started rolling on the ground and speaking in tongues. Presumed to be a demon attack, local priest were called in to handle the situation. Believe it or not, check out the story for yourself…
Panic broke out at the Moruga Composite School yesterday as 17 female students fell mysteriously ill and began rolling on the ground, hissing and blabbering in a strange tongue, after suffering bouts of nausea and headaches. Two of the students reportedly tried to throw themselves off a railing and had to be physically restrained, triggering fears of a possible demon attack. The drama started during the lunch hour in the Form One block and quickly spread to other areas. Form Five student Kern Mollineau, who attends the Lighthouse Tabernacle Church, said he got worried when the girls’ eyes began rolling up in their heads and they began beating up on the ground.
…Roman Catholic priests, as well as pastors from nearby churches, including Josephine Charles, Deborah Charles and Pastor Gordon, visited the school and began showering the children with holy water and prayers. Two more students, Kriston Mollineau and Kishon Bethel, said they too were called by teachers to assist the ill girls. Kriston said the girls complained of headaches and some of them wanted to go to the toilet. Six ambulances arrived at the school accompanied by police teams from the Moruga and St Mary’s Police Post. A party of fire officers from the Princes Town Fire Station, led by acting Assistant Divisional Fire Officer Ramdeo Boodoo visited the school and began conducting several tests on the surroundings to determine the cause of the problem.
Full story here…
All white guys don’t look the same: these two are twins > german-made twins!
So along with cars and weapons, Germany provides great graffiti artists as HOW and NOSM. Better be great to reprezent the legendary Tats Cru, from the Bronx.
HOW recalls 2000, feb 7th : the day Big Punisher passed away, the whole Tats Cru took their cans out in the snow, and did The Bronx Legend a fitting Memorial. Huge.
…via NYMinute.
A quick note to our peoples out in L.A., be sure to check out the first ever exhibition of reggae pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s paintings and drawings right now in Hollywood…check out the info below…
….The inventor of the reggae beat and co-creator of dub music has been making these images since the 70s, combining spiritual iconography borrowed from Rasta, obeah and Afrocentric Christianity with comicbook heros and other fragments of pop culture into artworks that are as much ritual objects as illustrations….
Click the flier above or the link below for more info.
….via.
Been meaning to drop this one for a minute…check out the details below….
…From the weather is getting all cold and rainy the last couple days, this Mix is the perfect Soundtrack for you, to just stay in bed and cuddling with your beloved ones….
For more info on the mix and for more from Higher Level Sound, click here.
Check out the tracklisting after the jump…