THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY

NATIONAL MINISTRY OF CULTURE

PO BOX 25332 , NEWARK , NJ 07101

201-602-0780

www.newblackpanther .com

January 27,2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

NEW PANTHERS TO BLAZE WITH HIP HOP 4 HAITI UNITY KREW

On Saturday, January 30th, key voices of the New Black Panther Party will participate in the incredible united youth survival effort called ‘Hip Hop 4 Haiti.’

The idea for ‘Hip Hop 4 Haiti’ was conceived by Queen Yonasda, the granddaughter of Minister Louis Farrakhan and a powerful hip hop artist in her own right (http://www.queenyonasda.com) .

It will manifest itself boldly in performance in 32 U.S. cities and in Costa Rica, most on January 30th! It has already manifested itself with a powerful multimedia webpage, www.hiphop4haiti.ning.org.

See the promotional video

            The theme for this awesome  united effort is

‘Bridging the Families-Starting A Movement,’ to which the NewBlack Panther Party added ‘PanAfricanism or Perish!’

Haiti is considered the birthplace of the PanAfrican idea.

The New Black Panther Party will also play a significant role

in Houston’s, Hip Hop 4 Haiti.

Their performance will also take place on Saturday, January 30th, and will take place at the Black Cross Headquarters, 2417 Riverside from 2-7p.m.

The Black Cross is a community survival initiative of the New Black Panther Party,spearheaded by Sis. Crystal Muhammad, who was among several hundred Katrina survivors rescued by a crack New Black Panther Party rescue team headed by its leader attorney at war, Malik Zulu Shabazz.

In the tradition of the Black Cross Nurses in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, Black Cross is a community survival project that will train grassroots community people in the greater Houston area in rescue relief and survival as well as be a rescue supply resource.

Key players in this effort which will include performances and a community survival presentation are

Haitian-American Ministries and the Black Cross.

For more information, please call 832 978 0939 or 713 261 3558.

The overall Hip Hop 4 Haiti coordinating effort and the historical significance of Haiti to the global Black world will also be spotlighted in an ongoing way on newblackpanthertv (www.newblackpanther.com) in the coming days. All concerned persons are strongly encouraged to contribute to therelief effort of Yele Foundation at www.yele.org.

Incredibly,racists elements have tried to project the Yele Foundation and its founder Haitian son and hip hop star Wyclef Jean as a tax cheat in the media.

“There is a huge difference in making a mistake within one’s taxes and trying to defraud the government,” explained an angry Zayid Muhammad on behal fthe Party.

“TheNewBlack Panther Party needs no one to tell us who our friends are and who our enemies are, and we stand by our brother Wyclef Jean in his proven  efforts to help our people in need in his homeland with absolutely no apologies.”

            In Newark, it will take place at the new Central High School at 3p.m. Keycosponsors include the International Youth Organization, Temple ofHipHop, Stop Shootin’, WethepeopleMedia, CutCreators, the NewarkAntiviolence Coalition, Black Cops Against Police Brutality, the NewBlack Panther Party, among many others.

            It will be co-hosted by two powerful young women playing pivotal roles inefforts to turn local hip hop “away from the culture of violence forcedonto us by oppression,” Beautiful SeeAsia of the Newark AntiViolenceCoalition and Jaydah Jacques, founder of Nine Strong Women and featuredin the critically acclaimed documentary Brick City.

            Among the performers will be Newark’s own DoIt All Dupree of  Lords of the Undergroundfame, producer and emcee R-kitech, the IYO poet allstars, the MaroonSociety, featuring party voices mc swagga and m’kassa and fresh off thepremiere of their last cd ‘Revolution 101,’ artists from KRS-1’s Templeof HipHop, Jael Divine, Sanajah Simms, poets Peter Rainmaker and LamarHill and much more.

            Donation suggested is $10. Those with the means to give more are strongly urgedto do so. Proceeds will go to local families impacted by earthquake.

            “When hip hop is not in the callous cold captivity of commercialism, it hasthe capacity to do enormous things,” explained Zayid Muhammad, spokenword pioneer and the party’s national minister of culture.

Muhammad will perform ‘Boukman’s Prayer,’ and the late Oscar Brown’s ‘Spirit of the Dead,’ dedicated to the ancestors of the Haitian Revolution.

            This event will be streamlined live on its website www.hiphop4haiti.ning.com via ustream.tv and by one of the media sponsors Jah Jah Shakur's, Shades Media, www.shadesmedia.com and Ronella "Realism" Hargrave's Blackosity Magazine, www.blackosity.com.

For more information on the event and how else to contribute, contact Beautiful SeeAsia at 862 763 6604 or gotlove4haiti@yahoo.com…

Later on in Harlem at the historic Barbara Ann Teer National Black Theatre, Hip Hop 4 Haiti will get into full gear there.

            The Harlem concert will begin at 5p.m.

            It will be hosted by NYOil, who is also the Ambassador to Hip Hop for the Institute of the Black World.

The Institute of the Black World, headed by Ron Daniels, has its own Haitian Relief Fund, and has done important Haitian Solidarity Work in recent years.

The event will feature Styles P, Black Ice, Saigon, Supaslom Nova and Narubi Selah. The Party’s lyrically locked and loaded Maroon Societywill again be among the many performers.

See the promotional video  http://mag.ma/365175

Donation for this event is $20 or more!

"Our goal is to raise spirits and funds of at least $10,000. We are urging the entire community to come together and open their hearts and wallets for those who need our help. And of course this is Hip Hop so we're going in with both feet! Beats, Rhymes, B-Boys, DJ's and plenty of Knowledge for Self,” explained NYOil emphatically

Performers want to participate should contact Lynx Garcia at 917 204 5401 or at supersizespanishfly@gmail.com. For more information, contact NY Oil at 347 291 3094 or at nyoil0@gmail. com…

2 more Hip-Hop 4 Haiti Promo Videos from NYOil!

 

http://hiphop4haiti.ning.com/

K-Rino and Justice had a double album release party not too long ago...

K-RINO's SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

&

JUSTICE's SUPREME MATHEMATICS

Check out a great event...The Jet Lounge was packed with SPC fans and curious folxs looking for a party on a late night...we gave em what they came for, plus....we had specail guests like Ganksta Nip, Sex Fiends, Cle-Che, Texas Boys, Rapper K and hosted by K-Water!

The 6th Annual SPC Weekend was orignally scheduled for Sept. 12th.  It was canceled due to Hurricane Ike and resceduled Nov. 28th @ Club Royale.

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SPC Weekend Plumbs the Roots of Houston Rap

South Side Symphony

By Lance Scott Walker

Published on September 09, 2008 at 12:10pm

http//www.houstonpress.com/2008-09-11/music/spc-weekend-plumbs-the-roots-of-houston-rap/

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To pinpoint the birth of rap music in Houston is to place a number of pins along a scattered timeline of the late '70s and early '80s. You could trace it back to when the legendary Houston DJ Darryl Scott was first mixing rap into his funk and soul sets ? eventually developing (separately) the chop and screw techniques DJ Screw would later combine and turn into an art form.

You could say it was the South Park Rapper's early single "MacGregor Park," which celebrated the titanic block parties that still swarm the Third Ward park to this day. You could say it was when Houston's first major-label hip-hop signee, Raheem, got his record deal. Or when budding Rap-A-Lot Records mogul James Prince began hand-picking schoolyard rappers and a couple of Jersey imports to form what would eventually become Houston's highest-selling, most enduring rap ensemble, the Geto Boys.

But while Prince was building an empire on the city's north side, an equally influential (if not more) cadre of rappers was emerging across town.

South Park is a weathered, mostly black neighborhood just south of Loop 610 and east of Highway 288. The houses are showing their age; there are tattered lawns, abandoned businesses and crime. But the neighborhood is by no means desolate, and that's because South Park, for more than two decades, has given us some of the South's greatest rap artists ? many of whom will return to their old neighborhood for the sixth annual SPC Weekend, which starts Friday.

It was there in the mid-'80s that the grandchildren of the WWII veterans who settled the neighborhood began battle-rapping one another in the hallways of their high schools, in empty parking lots and in clubs like the Rhinestone Wrangler. One particularly lengthy contest that occurred one afternoon at a neutral location known as the Battleground (a parking lot at MLK and Bellfort) between two of the area's most notorious rappers, Ganksta N-I-P and K-Rino, resulted in a draw. The pair shook hands, their respective posses merged and the South Park Coalition was born.

"I just wanted to put together an organization of local rappers and unify the city in a sense," says K-Rino. "Because it was a lot of battling and hatred going on in those days. I just felt like we could be stronger if we came together. At the time I didn't know that it would grow like it did."

And it did. When N-I-P signed with Rap-A-Lot in 1991 and then released The South Park Psycho the following year, it drew attention to the SPC members who made guest appearances on it. The Terrorists had also issued an album on Rap-A-Lot in late '91, and now K-Rino, Klondike Kat, Murder One and the late A.C. Chill were bringing South Park into the national spotlight.

Sort of.

The primary strength of the South Park Coalition, and the reason it's been able to continue on as a tight-knit collective of artists for so many years, is because it operates at a slow burn. The members have been unified and consistent, and whatever else comes with that is fine.

"You move faster solo," explains Dope E of the Terrorists, "and you take a chance of everything you got getting taken away from you. When you move as a unit, you move slower...but you're unstoppable."

SPC's members are now the elder statesmen of Houston rap, a half generation older than the younger Screwed Up Click (also from South Park), and they're as active now as ever. In fact, not only is K-Rino currently prolific ? releasing three albums this year alone ? but as an MC, he's arguably at his best. One of the most-respected artists in Houston, Rino releases his records on his own label, Black Book International, and maintains a stream of appearances around the world to appease what has become a worldwide fan base.

By now, the SPC Weekend roster numbers well into the dozens (65, by one recent count), but the main event features a small cross-section. This year's bill includes K-Rino, Point Blank, Ganksta N-I-P, Klondike Kat, the Terrorists, Murder One, PSK-13, Rhyme Felon, Street Military, DBX, Ruff Eyque and the 144 Elite. Expect a host of surprises as well, like when famously reclusive rapper Z-Ro, fresh out of jail, rolled up unexpected to the 2006 event and did a short set onstage with Point Blank.

"I look forward to that weekend like a lot of people look forward to the car shows," says writer/promoter Matt Sonzala. "The car shows come up with all the big stars, but with SPC Weekend you get all the legends, like the people who really did start rap music in Houston. You'll see K-Rino and all the players in the SPC, but you might also see 3-2 and Bushwick Bill... you might see Z-Ro, Trae, people like that come out there to all kind of celebrate those ­pioneers."

"It's definitely high energy," Dope E adds. "Peaceful energy. I see a happy energy...appreciative energy, and that dedicated energy all combined."

"It's a chance for us to interact with the fans," says Murder One, another original SPC member.

"And not just fans, but friends. There are people coming in from overseas. And A.C. Chill...he would want us to keep doing this."

A.C. Chill's sudden passing in late 2005 from a brain aneurysm has been an added incentive for the SPC to keep going ? not that the group has ever really ­needed it.

"Paul Wall and all of those guys ? they know who started this shit," Sonzala says. "When Rap-A-Lot was starting and the SPC was starting, there was nothing here. They just built it from the ground up. And they all pretty much continue on to this day. That's what's amazing."