My veiws on File Sharing and the arts

if your broke and hungry you should have access to free music, movies etc. museums should have free entrance for everyone and be taken care of with tax money. and their should be more free theaters

if your basic needs are met and you still have money to spend, then you should pay for your favorit music, movies etc.

simple. kulture is for everyone. but it costs money and time and energy to create. respecting the arts means allowing everyone access, and it means that those with resources need to support those who share their soul with the masses.

in a perfect world all artists should be supported financially by the state. but at present real artistry is a balance weight to the state. so until the state is a perfect representation of the people, musicians and movie makers should be supported by tha people.

Come to tha show. A.M. & JAH Rhythm Live

if you are logged in to facebook go here and click attending:
http://www.facebook.com/JahRhythm#!/event.php?eid=150890764955915

if you do not have facebook. go here and write down the time and date in your daily planner:
http://www.blackansmusikfest.blogspot.com/
see you there.

House Music, Vogue and another side of tha Black American experience

was at a film showing today that was hosted by a dance group in stockholm called P*Fect check: http://pfect.se/

to be totally honest. sometimes when i'm watching tv and i see some homesexual behavior i look away or change tha channel. but i do not consider myself homophobic. i think that probably some homosexuals just irritate me or something (i usually like bi-sexual woman though), just like many rappers irritate me.

anyway at tha movienight i was suprised to find myself very much enjoying  two films containing almost exclusively gay men.

crazy educational and entertaining. check these films out if you can find them

Paris is Burning

and

How do i look.

peace.

Past Work/Dues Payed

here you have 2 lps and 2 eps by me that were sold in CD format. for a little bit more info on them check www.myspace.com/jahrhythm and scroll down in my (myspace) blog to the Discography post.

i done
about as much recording on cassett tape prior to these cds. but due to an unstable life style i am not even sure where those tapes are.

anyway. download as you please.

in the next post i will be walking around the crowd with my hat out asking loose change. if you have any.

 JAH Rhythm - Seven Circles (2004).zip

JAH Rhythm - Patchwork (2004).zip

JAH Rhythm - Retarded Genius (2003).zip

JAH Rhythm and Johnny Bass- Path-A-Logik (2002).zip

Promo Mp3 for the coming album called "NOW" by A.M. & JAH Rhythm

Life is a Battle for those who Fight

the title sounds more poetic in swedish,

Livit är en kamp för de som kämpar

Life is a Martial Art, What Style do you practice? MMA is popular these days. Bruce Lee would be proud. correct me if i am wrong but Bruce Lee is the father of Mixed Martial Arts. his base was Kung Fu, but he is well known for having blended styles and creating hybrids of techniques and he had a philosophy of doing whatever works and/or is most efficient.

 i do mostly Aikido, Judo and Brazilian Jujitsu, but i've been known for some Hapkido and Kendo as well. despite my size, i prefer to rely on technique 

Sometimes i wonder what would happen if i was to go into a state of total Mental relaxation and maintain it for a long of time i believe this is what buddhism points

 to

I'm gonna dip into tha Dharma and see what i think.

i read the book below some years ago. i can definitely recommend it for anyone. it is very easy to understand and completely nonconfrontational towards the religiously adverse.

An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

Freestyle - the art of living

everyone is misunderstood, you are lucky if you have one or two people in your life that really know you.
in the end only GOD can judge you.
you shouldn't even be judgmental of yourself. just try to be the best you can. just be yourself

in the kulture of Hip Hop the art of Emceeing has many degrees, one degree is called Freestyle.
Freestyling (as a form of rap) is comonly considered to be the art of improvisational and spontaneous rhythmic speech, rapping/rhyming. specifically, rhythmic spoken poems that are thought of as they are being performed.

in the early days of Rap, a Freestyle was commonly a "written" rhyme that no one had heard before, performed in a live format. that is to say not previously recorded or intended as part of a structured song.

i would like to suggest that both of these defiinitions of Freestyle rapping are a metaphor for the Life of a Free Person. think about it.

You are the only one that is you. everyone must break tha mold and Make It Up As They Go Along.

another thought is this. If you do not Run Your Life it will be run For You. Steer your Ship. if you do not, then the winds and currents will decide your destiny. or you someone else will simply take over the Rudder.
But even if you choose to not be in charge of your own life, you have still made a choice. we are all held responsible for our own lives.

below is some recomended listening.

Misunderstood - Nina Simone


Be Yourself - Audioslave

the above insight is for everyone.

like me, some of you consider yourself to be Hip Hop.
below is a book about the art of Self-Creation specifically directed at Hiphoppas.

Discover Labtekwon

Here is a link to 8 videos from the new album

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2FC0331274CF2DB1

if you like real Hip Hop and/or intricate poetry over funky music, you will not be dissapointed

below is one of his other classics.

tried to load some videos the other day.

last week the supahumans got busy in kungsträdgården. i got some shaky video footage on my phone. will load up those videos when i get to a better internet connection.

the beach is not my shit

anyway that's why i didn't do a proper post today. i was at the beach all day. sand all over the place. i don't need a tan. and if i wanna lay around and take it easy, i'm better of staying in bed. swimming? i don't know. played some chess at the beach though. that was cool.

yesterday -i mean the day before  yesterday, bein' that it's past 12- i was hangin out with the Supahumans. they performed at Kungsträdgården. then we had a little cypher at a secret location.
i'll put up some videos from the evening tomorrow.

goodnight.

the Album is Done.

3 years in tha making. the new A.M. & JAH Rhythm album is completely mixed and Mastered and ready for Manufacture and Digital Distribution.

JAH Rhythm is in the Process of applying for a Loan to set it all in motion. but i we have to wait until my advisor gets back from vacation in the beginning of august to properly set that process in motion.

A.M. is about to play the album to a wealthy and influential record producer in hopes that he would like to help us some more. he has already donated some technical support for the album to be finished.

if any of you readers would like to help with your time, money, or promotional skills, you are more than welcome.

at the very least you may want to spread tha word to help us build some hype.

if you go here: www.myspace.com/amjahrhythm , you can hear an old snippet version of some of the tracks before they were mixed.

our first video for the album

below is one of the songs from the album that is featured on a compilation album for b-boys/b-girls that was released in china

question 2

was Van Gogh a loser?

question 1

am i just a psycho, or do i really have talent?
i suppose time will tell. will that be after i'm dead?

At Kulturnatta Umeå on May 22

Don't get Excited. just get Educated.

Why JFK was Killed

Why MJ was Killed

Even Those of you who think you know, don't really know much. like Guru said, "read study lessons, build your inner-power, the next level, it doesn't tolerate cowards"

²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
 ¹³Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
 ¹⁴Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
 ¹⁵And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
 ¹⁶Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Ephesians 6:12

Tha Realness as far as Sweden Goes

okay, if you didn't know. i live in stockholm, sweden. alot of Swedes got a hard on for all things swedish. in general they have no problem over-consuming their own shit. but here is a quick guide to Real Hiphop for the people in other countries and swedes that don't know the time.
i'm gonna start with my man Phonetik 'cause he got some stuff poppin right about now.

http://www.myspace.com/phonetiknosleep

Once more. all artists listed in this post are in my opinion some of  swedens best representation of Hip Hop music.
Authentic Soul Expression (i'll get to AM. & JAH Rhythm in another post)


http://www.myspace.com/akem77

http://www.myspace.com/mcpalestine

http://www.myspace.com/robertvalsinger

http://www.myspace.com/supahumans

http://www.myspace.com/houmansebghati

http://www.myspace.com/therealdeepspace69

http://www.myspace.com/hearinaid

i didnt ask for the spotligt. i just wanna live. that takes currency, and words are what i have ta give.

i do not have any desire to be famous. i would much rather be rich and anonymous like them cats in tha bilderberg group. but to be rich and anonymous you need to come from old money.

i should come from old money, but many of my ancestors were robbed, so that is not the case. when i say robbed i'm not just talking about way back in africa either. i'm talking about as close as my moms father and even more recent than that.

in the example of my grandfather (morfar) he designed a communication System for NASA. he was an IT specialist way before Personal Computers existed.

anyway, being that he had darker skin than me, in times previous to the Civil Rights movement, he was not given any credit for his very significant developements. his bosses put their names under all of his writings and inventions. kinda of like the way Record Execs used to do to soul singers on the regular back then.

i should have been born Upper Middle Class at the very least. but enough about that.

being that i came up in somewhat modest and unstable circumstances, i am forced to entertain if i am to achieve a comfortable existence for myself and my offspring.

Basically i'm trying to get mine in this world. and to do that. i'm gonna share everything about me with you. stay tuned, you are likely to be fascinated

btw. i have written a number of interesting things on my myspace blog in tha past. www.myspace.com/jahrhythm so don't for get to check their if you'd like to dig into some of my past writings. also you might want to check my www.facebook.com/jahrhythm page and go into my "Notes" to see more of my past Musings.

oh yeah. according to my Grandfather (morfar) i am related to a famous "Sell out". the book below was written about my great great uncle (or something like that).

for those of you who live in NY or can get there when you feel like it.

if you have physical access to NY city and you are in to real Hip Hop, Click on tha headline of this post for a stream of dope events

Welcome to my world

yeah so, this is what it is. i'm gonna be droppin in here on the regular postin' up pics, videos, text and whatever from my personal experience seems relevant to share with you at the moment.

alright then. lets get started. and don't forget to click on any and all ads that you find interesting. thanks.

to the left is the best book i have read in recent times. and below is 

another very dope read.