Elucid - Automatic writing

Message from Elucid.

“If I learned one thing from the ‘Automatic Writing’ video experience it would be that there are only two ingredients necessary to accomplish any goal; vision and determination. Somehow the universe throws you in the path of whatever else required for the rest of your journey. This project was a true labor of love and testament to our resourcefulness. What started as late night random idea tossing via instant message (oracles, drapetomania, solar eclipses?!?) quickly morphed into a 4 page video treatment. Shot intermittently during the early months of 2009, without a penny’s investment, Boombaye and I trooped through the streets and subways of New York City in true hip hop/guerrilla style shooting illegally on lo-fi equipment without a proper permit. Five months and a number of sleepless nights later, I’m ecstatic to present this piece to the world. Automatic Writing’s message of self reliance and empowerment resounds even more so with the accompanying imagery.

‘Close your eyes, it feels different here/ Sign of the times, almost in the clear/
I see spaceships on Flatbush, calling me back home/ Resetting the clock to begin again’

Cuing inspiration from my personal musical trinity of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and Afrika Bambaataa, ‘Automatic Writing’ serves as a statement to the building of a new world. A future world. A better world. The idea of midnight trains, chariots, and even spaceships carrying oppressed people away from their suffering are common themes in American Black music. As a people robbed of their past, now living in the present as aliens in a foreign land that constantly seeks to disparage their identity, we have no choice but to embrace the future and the promise it brings.”

New Me - Produced by Von Pea

new me! - The Warriors

Spec Boogie - Warriors from spec boogie on Vimeo.

The first (or third if you count the superfly and bed stuy videos from last year) installment of my upcoming Summer Movie Season mixtape, where I rap over the scores to my favorite movies. I'll be releasing a new video mashup each week until july when I'll make the whole project available for download. enjoy!

Lessondary 101: study the greats

Apparently there are parts of the world where DJ Clark Kent is more known as an Air Force 1 guru than a classic hip hop producer, while most heads where I'm from don't even know that the man behind their favorite rapper's favorite song has a mean kick game. Read up on both sides of one of Brooklyn's favorite sons in this extensive interview at Inquiringmind

Ian Reid

grew up in the same hood as dude, same schools and all that shit. anyways I've always seen him skateboarding all around the hood not knowing that it's taken him around the world. Cop it and support a hood dude making good moves.