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Watch J Dilla Take The Stage with Madlib in Newly-Surfaced 2005 Concert Footage

2019-02-13T16:49:05.384Z

D2S Archives is a 2000's era Hip Hop time capsule that chronicles a culture at the brink of social media's reign, as well as the often under-appreciated Bay Area creative scene.

The team will be posting raw and uncut footage from Distortion 2 Static, known to Bay Area heads as D2S, a Hip Hop TV show on-air from 2001-2011 via local San Francisco broadcast networks. Footage includes a range of conversations with both chart-topping legends and underground kings. In a pre-YouTube world, when local television still had some clout, Distortion 2 Static used original programming to cover Hip Hop culture with a depth of knowledge and respect. D2S offered a mirror for its community to feel seen.

WATCH: Chris Rock brings down the house at MLK Now event with stunning James Baldwin reading

2016-01-20T20:53:49.218Z

Chris Rock brought down a packed house in Harlem’s Riverside Church with an impassioned reading from James Baldwin as part of the day-long MLKNow celebration on Martin Luther King Day. The event brought together a who’s-who of African-American activists and celebrities including Harry Belafonte, Octavia Spencer, Jussie Smollett, Lin Manuel Miranda and Anika Noni Rose. Rock took the stage and read from Baldwin’s 1963 “My Dungeon Shook,” expressing what it is like to live as a black man in white America. “My Dungeon Shook” is a letter written to Baldwin’s nephew — also named James — where he encourages his nephew to not give up hope. “Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. You, don’t be afraid. I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality,” Baldwin wrote. “But these men are your brothers—your lost, younger brothers. And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.”

I Know Sumptn - Method Man & Redman

2009-12-17T20:19:06.017Z

I Know Sumptn - Method Man & Redman (Un-Official Video)

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