Month: May 2007

With their astute mixture of soft and dark instrumentals, Larceny Ent will take you violently, by surprise. Squaq’d Out is based on oboe, soft clarinet notes that are constantly contrastring with the harsh electric guitar sounds and rhythmic claps. Feel the determination in the gritty voices of the group. Those guys are not playing. They perfectly know how to keep it ghetto and real.
Gotta Be Him is built on isolated piano notes combined with violins and an electric guitar background. Lyrically, the track is a banger too. You gotta love the rythmic dimension of the song.
Drums are rolling, instrumentals work together in order to process the dynamic spirit of Larceny Ent. Rhymes and flow are lead with a mastering spirit. Catchy beats will reinforce the conquerror spirit of the song.
Fly Away will enlighten a softer note of the dynamic group that is determined to spread its wings. The jazzy-soul dimension of the song is a delight for a black music lover’s ears.
The moving track is dedicated to all mothers who have lost a son in the streets and to all the people who have lost a homie.
Hungry for more? Check Larceny Ent here.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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On May the 6th, 2007, 53% of the French population gave its voices to Nicolas Sarkozy, voting in favor of a man who promises to rebuild France economically, to re-create work and to give hope to the most hopeless people. Last Sunday, he claimed to give people of different ethnic backgrounds the same chances and severely condemned racial discrimination.
Sarkozy made a whole speech in favor of America and claimed to do his best to help African countries.
Full of self pride and of authoritarian principles, Mr Sarkozy presented himself as France s new Messiah.
Well, I would have granted him a chance, if it wasn t the same man, who ignited severe trouble in our ghettos back in 2005.
When somebody claims to be able to run a country, he should also be able to choose the words that come out of his mouth carefully.
If Sarkozy is against discrimination of any kind, why does he discriminate against young people from poor economic backgrounds? Why does he have to use demeaning words such as scums to define young people from the ghetto? Why would he claim to clean them up with a karcher?
Isn t that metaphor very close to the Nazis methods aiming at the Jewish people s extermination?
Mr Sarkozy, who claims to be the solution to the high unemployment figures in France already pointed a discriminatory finger at the jobless, calling them lazy if they stay unemployed over 6 months. Non content to do so, he also created some masked fake jobs in order to flatter the job center statistics, but that won t help poor people on a concrete basis while being in Jacques Chirac s government. Those jobs are (please seize the irony here) called contracts of the future. Contracts of the future take at least 70 % of poor people s welfare that goes directly into the employer s account. All fiscal deductions beside , the subscribers of those mischievous contracts – I mean people on welfare- will earn 100 euros as a whole for an entire month of work. Wow, I sense some progress!
Mr Sarkozy might be perceived positively in Great Britain, but the British media s vision of this politician is a wrong perception of France s reality.
Mr Sarkozy happens to be a great admirer of Mr Blair and is known to spend some of his weekends in London.
Mr Blair also seems to be a huge source of inspiration for Sarkozy s economical vision of France. However, a system that woks for a liberal economy such as Great Britain could dig France s future grave. France needs economical solutions that are adapted to its own system and mentality. In the same way, you could barely make a « little America » of France. America is a federal state, France is a centralized state, which is completely different. Mr Sarkozy doesn t even seem to be conscious of those obvious differences that make a country s personality.
Sarkozy claims to be Africa s new hope. I am not convinced that a man who spreads racist discourses is even preoccupied with Africa s destiny.
So what matters to Mr Sarkozy?
Power, money, and domination, as far as I am concerned.
A good part of the French population has been blinded by a greedy liar that is closer to a dictator than to a democrat.
Just after his elections, riots and manifestations started, particularly within the ghettos.
Let s see what the future holds for a France lead by a man who is obsessed with power and glory. Sarkozy already proved that he didn t really care about the underprivileged .
Lets meet again in 5 years.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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“T.I. is trying to tell Marshall how to deal with Slim based on how he deals with Tip. Then Tip butts in, like, ‘You can’t tell nobody nothing.’ Then Em comes in and tells me, ‘Who are you to tell me anything?’ I was like, ‘I’m just trying to help, homie.’” —T.I./ Tip, describing a new song in which he gives Marshall Mathers/Eminem/Slim Shady some advice about their alter egos [MTV]
“I’m hoping when [audiences] sit down and watch it and see that it’s kind of this slice-of-life, character-driven drama with some humor to it, they won’t think, ‘Whoa, wait a minute. Where are the fart jokes?’” —Comedian Ken Marino, on his new movie Diggers [Premiere]
“My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel f***ing shirts … A sweater, a guitar, and the lyrics to ‘Teen Spirit’ — that’s what my daughter gets.” —Courtney Love, who is selling the rest of late husband Kurt Cobain’s belongings at a Christie’s auction [Spinner]
“This movie is about good and evil. Also religion plays a big part [in the visuals] … like James [Franco] laying, with the sun rising at the end like a sacrificed lamb or Tobey in the second one being over the people in the tram like he’s Jesus.” — Kirsten Dunst, on the Bible’s impact on the Spider-Man trilogy [Dark Horizons]
“I think a large diamond studded platinum satanic pentagram would be a little more fitting for him.” —Mark Dice, whose Christian organization, the Resistance, is calling for 50 Cent to stop wearing a cross [Baller Status] —Lindsey Thomas

The CEO of Redline Records also known as Duke takes over in a very offensive manner. With his great confidence, his gritty voice, a dark instrumental background, strident sirens that take over your mentals like a subliminal message, Duke introduces you into his tough world of his Californian hood with his Rubbish song featuring John Doe.
Welcome to saccaded piano notes and distorted instrumentals that will push the listener into a very chaotic universe. Birth Control fully enlightens Duke s rapping skills.
Break Wide is based on a monotonous rythmic background. The main weakness of the song is that instrumentals and lyrics don t seem to really match together.
This Ones For You is quite annoying as well. As much as the first songs attracted my attention, the following ones show some real weaknesses. The artist s voice isn t at its top either on Break Wide and This Ones For You. Generally speaking both songs give the listener an overall impression of morosity.
However, and because of the Rubbish and Birth Control songs, I d like to invite you to visit Duke s my space account.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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Listen to By Yourself here.

Real 1 is an emcee who hails from the Holy Land. What enlightens the man s originality is that he reps in Hebrew. Hebrew is a language I feel a special connexion with because of its emotional beauty, its gutturals and the way it is linked to spirituality through its holy language status that refers to the ancient times of the Bible.
I studied Hebrew as an autodidact for three years. I always liked its beauty and poetry in its intonation.
Real 1 s music is full of Israel s contradictions and prophetic visions. I exposes the pain and aims at a prophetic vision in a land that is destroyed by greedy politicians.
The Mirror mixes up different musical styles: a classical piano background is gently married with harpsichord and guitar sounds while Real 1 s voice in Hebrew reveals a bleeding heart. The bleeding heart of a man who is left alone at home in desperation with his kid because his wife died in a car accident.
The very emotional song teaches us about the fragility of life. Don t take anything for granted and ask God to give you the force to accept things you cannot change.
Seaching: ani mehapes… I am searching. Built on soft guitar sounds, the song expresses the artist s incessant quest that is reinforced by the soft instrumental background. Suddenly numerous violins intensify the very sincere quest that ends up on a very optimistic note.
Those in search of spirituality and truth will probably love the song.
Discover Real1 and his beautiful hebrew reps here.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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