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OXNARD'S REPRESENTIN'
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KCAQ's DJ J Scratch, Skull &
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WE GOT GAME!
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What's upper? Monday night TV just got fun again &
thank God for T-VO cause I was mad busy
flippin' channels watching Ian from "90210" &
Joey from N'Sync do their thing on "Dancing
With The Stars" (ABC) to switching over to watch
10 grueling Mixed Martial Art fights on "IFL
Battleground" on My Network TV & to top it off
with VH-1's, "I Love New York"...
Skull
&
Mighty Mystic are about to collaborate on their new
joint "Here To Stay" (YG Entertainment). Both
Skull & Mighty Mystic will be performing together at
this years Urban Network Conf at the Hyatt
Regency in Newport Beach, CA this Friday, March 23rd at
6PM (poolside). See you there...
UPDATE
ON SEATTLE'S DV ONE TRIAL
"Unfortunately, as often happens, the trial is not going
to start on Monday 3/19 as scheduled.
The prosecutor is in trial in a case that will last
through 3/21 at least. Then he has several other in
custody cases on that may get sent to trial before ours.
That means that we can't say for sure what date it will
actually start, and we probably won't know till the day
before. Which makes it challenging to organize a show of
support, I know.
When we finally know the firm date, we will email, call,
etc. to alert folks. It should be a 3-4 day trial so
most people should be able to find a time to drop in.
I love all of u for keeping us in your thoughts and
prayers," DV One...
Just
peeped out the all new DVD/CD of Run DMC "Live At
Montreux 2001" (Eagle Vision/Records). It was
like goin back down memory lane watching Run DMC & the
late Jam Master Jay back together on stage again.
Although certain parts was hard to watch as DMC's voice
isn't the same as of DMC from the 80's but beyond that,
their concert performance was hype! Straight up
turntables, no dat machines, no Serato, just
vinyl on the wheels & 3 mics! The dvd/cd features their
classics: "It's Like That," "It's Tricky," Sucker MC's,"
"King Of Rock," "Walk This Way," "Peter Piper," "Down
With The King," "Mary Mary" & more. I've been down with
Run DMC since they first dropped back in 1983 & I'm
still down with the group who by all means are the
"KINGS!." For more info, log onto:
www.eaglerockent.com...
Keepitclassic.com
just
dropped their Volume 8 CD for Spring 2007 and is hosted
by Rawkus Records Allstars, The Procussions,
Kidz In The Hall & Panacea. You can
download the full CD and tracklisting here at:
http://site.keepitclassic.com/kic-vol8.zip...
RIAA
Moves to Squash Internet Radio By Charging High Rates
RIAA
Moves to Squash Internet Radio By Charging High Rates
by: Davey-D
Music fans who have sought out the Internet for solace
over the mundane offerings of commercial radio may be in
for some bad news. After a year of intense lobbying the
RIAA has gotten just about everything they wanted from
the Congress and the Office of Copyright in terms of
royalty rates for Internet radio and other digital media
services. Things are at such a high rate that it will
effectively shut down most Internet radio broadcasters.
I saw this first hand a few years back while working at
one of the biggest Internet radio companies. One of the
services they offered was for free and because of the
the then current rate structure that the RIAA lobbied
for, as the more and more people began to tune in and
the service got hot, the company was hit with this crazy
bill that was in the millions. The company big wigs
attempted to try and work things out with the RIAA based
labels but to no avail. The end result was putting time
limits on the service and then eventually closing it out
altogether. It was just too expensive.
If such things can happen to the big giants that have
millions in their coffers, then you can see that the
little guy will be toast. Keep in mind at the time, the
large number of listeners we had may have been around a
million, which ain't all that large when you consider
that you can reach the entire world.
As far as I'm concerned this was a move to eliminate
competition and centralize the places that people go on
line to get their music. In this case it's from the
commercial radio stations who are now experimenting and
expanding formats with their HD radio systems. As I
noted during last year's LA FCC hearings, what i likely
to happen is that commercial radio will do some behind
the scenes bartering and not pay such high rates in
exchange for air play on their regular outlets.
This is a very foul move and sadly it happened on the
watch of the Democrats. Where's Hillary, Barack and
others on this issue? or did that all that David Geffen
(Geffen Records) money along with contributions from
other Hollywood entertainment big wigs buy their
silence?
What's even sadder is this happens just as activists and
concerned community groups have been setting up their
own stations to bring attention to key social issues
overlooked by mainstream outlets. to top all this off,
the new rates are going to be applied retroactively.
Now we can thank Congressional Black Caucus member Bobby
Rush for selling out to big time commercial interests
like AT&T and trying to get rid of Net Neutrality
protections. We can now thank his fellow Democrats for
allowing this bullshit rate hike to pass through without
a whimper. Didn't they say they were gonna bring about a
new day? Hasn't Barack been calling for a new type of
politic? How can you have new type of politic that
involves the people when you have folks in the same
political camp making it real expensive to have a voice
in the digital age?
What's crazy is as the Presidential election heats up
and these "Demo-craps" find themselves getting clobbered
to death by right wing talk shows, maybe then they'll
think back and realize that they helped in killing a
medium that could've been flipped to be key asset for
them by grassroots independent organizers.
I will find out what can be done to turn this around, in
the meantime, I suggest people start calling their
congressional representives and demanding some answers.
Oh yeah, don't let them tell you some nonsense about
digital downloading being the cause of their economic
slump. Hardcore Democrat and talk show host, Rosie
O'Donell was on The View last friday spewing that lie.
Some of these bigtime artists have seen their album
sales drop in half by mllions. I.e 50 cent saw album
sales slip from 8 million albums to 4 million albums.
There's no way 4 million people downloaded the Massacre
album. Platinum selling artists like P-Diddy and Busta
Rhymes who barely went gold with their last releases
were NOT victim to MILLIONS of people downloading their
albums.
Again folks the name of the game for those in power is
to CONTROL THE FLOW OF INFORMATION AND WHO ACCESS TO
MEDIA OUTLETS.. The RIAA is enacting what I call the New
Net neutrality.
RIAA Moves to Squash Internet Radio
courtesy of Radio Paradise and
www.Kurthanson.com
The US Copyright Office has released their new set of
rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio,
and they ignored all of the facts presented by
webcasters (including RP) and gave the record industry
exactly what they asked for: royalty rates so high that
they will put RP and every other independent webcaster
out of business. See Kurt Hanson's newsletter for
3/2/07 for the details on how the rates work and what
they will mean to stations like RP. You can participate
in the discussion about this issue in our Listener
Forum.
For some time, we've suffered with a system where we pay
a large chunk (10%-12%) of our income to the Big 5
record companies - while FM stations and radio
conglomerates like Clear Channel pay nothing. Now they
want even more. In our case, an amount equal to 125% of
our income. Our only hope is to create as much public
awareness and outrage about this staggeringly unfair
situation as possible. Neither the record industry nor
Congress are ready to listen to us at this point. But
members of the media may well be, and we need to get
their attention.
If you have a blog, write about it. Feel free to quote
anything I've written in the Listener Forum. If you find
a good blog post about the subject, Digg it or Slashdot
it. If you work for a media outlet, look over the facts
of the situation and see if you don't feel the same
sense of outrage that we do. Write a letter to the
editor of your favorite magazine or newspaper. Let
everyone you can know what a loss it would be to you
personally if your favorite Internet radio stations,
including RP, were no longer available.
The RIAA can, at any time, agree to strike a deal with
independent webcasters to allow us to pay a more
realistic royalty, one based on a percentage of our
income. We're hoping that if all of you make enough
noise they'll be more inclined to do so. We'd also like
to hope that at least one member of Congress will take a
look at this situation and become willing to propose
amendments to the deeply flawed 1990s pieces of
legislation that are responsible for the unfair
treatment of Internet radio.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of this. BY DANIEL
MCSWAIN
http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its
decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all
of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting
the "per play" rate proposal put forth by
SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body
created by the RIAA).
RAIN has learned the rates that the Board has decided
on, effective retroactively through the beginning of
2006. They are as follows:
2006 $.0008 per performance
2007 $.0011 per performance
2008 $.0014 per performance
2009 $.0018 per performance
2010 $.0019 per performance
A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song
to one listener; thus a station that has an average
audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances"
for each song it plays.
The minimum fee is $500 per channel per year. There is
no clear definition of what a 'channel' is for services
that make up individualized playlists for listeners.
For noncommercial webcasters, the fee will be $500 per
channel, for up to 159,140 ATH (aggregate tuning hours)
per month. They would pay the commercial rate for all
transmissions above that number.
Participants are granted a 15 day period wherein they
have the opportunity to ask the CRB for a re-hearing.
Within 60 days of the final determination, the decision
is supposed to be published in the Federal Register,
along with any technical corrections that the Board may
wish to make.
Within 30 days of publication in the Federal Register,
it can be appealed (but only by the participants) to the
U.S.
Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
...
Because a typical Internet radio station plays about 16
songs an hour, that's a royalty obligation in 2006 of
about 1.28 cents per listener-hour.
In 2006, a well-run Internet radio station might have
been able to sell two radio spots an hour at a $3 net
CPM (cost-per-thousand), which would add up to .6 cents
per listener-hour.
Even adding in ancillary revenues from occasional video
gateway ads, banner ads on the website, and so forth,
total revenues per listener-hour would only be in the
1.0 to 1.2 cents per listener-hour range.
That math suggests that the royalty rate decision — for
the performance alone, not even including composers'
royalties! — is in the in the ballpark of 100% or more
of total revenues. —KH
PETITION LINK TO SAVE INTERNET RADIO:
http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html
Planet Asia's
Gold Chain Music now has a JV deal with RBC/Navare.
The new album is called, Planet Asia as Medallions -
"Jewelry Box Sessions : The Album" dropping ((June
26))...
Rap
Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:
Solo
(WECI-IN):
"Nes I am erked, I read bout the RIAA
thing, it all comes down to not allowing the minorities
have anything. look at the situation... mainly all Hip
Hop related issues go back to slavery... rappers become
slaves to labels...the govt has it set up so the
majority of america lives paycheck to paycheck or run
the dope game & really become a slave.money is the
biggest reason why married couples fight, I know.. the
RIAA wants to strip us of our ways to make paper.. I
dont know when a mixtape caused a health condition like
crack causes but they must see it that way.
.................em. you can fill in the blanks. Take
care pimp"...
Jason-D
(RadioBoise.Org):
"CMJ is October 16th -20th. That trip to
India just got me enough frequent flyer miles for a free
round trip to NY so I booked it. That's whats up. I'm
ready"...
Damian Rodriguez
(KGNU-CO): "March madness, spring break & warm
weather finally in Colorado. I’m happy we’re not on the
news anymore being a 3rd world country w/ all
the snow. Hot tracks & reppin the part of Hip-Hop that
isn’t dead. Wild night & last night I gave up drinking
for lent. Funny being the sober dude while other ppl
wyle out.
Ghetto highlight of the week #1:Someone
sent me this picture saying “look no hands!”. Yeah,
great party dude, you’ll get all the chicks this way.
Moral:
You’re ghetto w/ a slight hint of flame when you’re a
guy bragging you can do this. You’ll be getting a lot
more than a hot chix number at the end of the night. I’m
gonna guess this could have been a jail trick?"...
Kazzeo
(KHDC-CA):
"It was a history making week as Grandmaster Flash &
The Furious 5 were inducted into the Rock & Roll
Hall Of Fame. It was awesome to see them do it old
school style with the harmonies and such. That being
said, I have to make a statement now that may piss a lot
of people off but what else is new when it comes to me
right? So I’m watching Flash do his thing and I can’t
help but feel as though his cutting just isn’t up to par
with today’s party rockin’ style. I think his cuts just
went a little too long and weren’t as precise as they
were back in the day. I hold Flash in the highest regard
and consider him a huge influence on what I do, but this
is just how I saw it.
I went to check out that movie Black Snake Moan over the
weekend and have to say that it wasn’t the greatest
movie. I’m a fan of Samuel L. Jackson but he
obviously just did this for the payday. The best part of
the movie is that Christina Ricci is topless a
few times in this movie. As Borat would say,
“Very Nice!"...
Nate
Abney
(WKDU-Philly):"Another
week of stuff here in Philly. I actually got out a
couple of days so you know what that means lunacy.
Saturday it started at Fluid with some of my people. We
had not been there 5 minutes and all of a sudden this
girl punches this dude and Quest Love then almost
like tackles her. As we stand stunned and trying not to
laugh, the dj puts on you haven't done nothin by
Stevie Wonder. Monday was free private show for
Musiq Soulchild. Free Courvosier all over, people
dropping glasses you know the usual. The Kingston
Killa snuck in to another free show without being on
the list and ofcourse had his
fair share of the free drinks all night. Musiq did all
his hits for the crowd packed into the World Cafe Live.
The night was highlighted by Monie Love doing her
verse from De La Soul's buddy and then
having an old school battle dance with Musiq. The night
did end rather peacefully. I'm good for at least two
weeks now"...
DJ
Lokash (WNHU-CT): "I'M BACK!!! I know I've
been seemingly in the background lately and it's for
good reason... I recently earned my letters and am now a
member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. It has
been hard to maintain everything that has been going on,
but I have persevered and will resume being in all of
your faces asking for vinyl on a regular basis!!"...
Anilast
aka
Stuart de la Rosa (KSMT-CO): " Whats up my
people?? Just dropping in to welcome everybody to
spring.W bush is going around f*cking up our sleep by
turning the clocks forward a month early so I am a
little tired and hungry. I understand it’s for the
economy but why on the night I had to DJ at the club.
That America, got to love it. By no mean is this a
political speech but I am trying to get up in her bush
like W. Well I hope everyone is enjoying the spring as
much as I am. Holla at me and let me now whats good...D.I.T.C
For Life (serato capable)"...
Edgie
Kokoski
(WUNH-NH):
"Okay…computer problems are now solved so it’s back to
my normal assface commentary… have to say that the most
hilarious thing I have seen in weeks is the new Scott
Storch video “Built Like Dat”, dissing Timbaland. If you
haven’t seen the video, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8cOvBfrtb4&eurl=
http%3A%2F%2Fblog%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm
%3Ffuseaction%3Dblog%2Eview%26friendID%3D39772737
%26blogID%3D236360123%26MyToken%3De63078c5%2Daa4
My
favorite line: “I just signed Magoo for 10 bucks”.
Thanks to my man JJ for the link. If you don’t
know who JJ is, just look at a picture of Patriots’
linebacker Mike Vrabel. They were separated
at birth.
More
hilarity from Busta Rhymes and Snoop Dogg
who are co-winners of the “Tripping Over My Own Dick”
award for this week. Busta, for being banned from the
set of a movie he was acting (and I use the term
loosely) on, and Snoop Dogg for yet another overseas
narcotics arrest. These two must be taking career advice
from Scooter Libby.
After hearing him speak on Nasty Nes’ conference
call this past week, I’m really excited for Evidence’s
new LP. With production by Alchemist, Joey
Chavez, Babu, DJ Khalil, Jake One
and Ev himself, this should be one of the better albums
of this year. And that would be a welcome sight
considering that 10 weeks into the year, I’ve purchased
exactly one CD.
I’m
not sure what possessed comedian Richard Jeni
this week to take a pistol, and blow his face off. But
I’m guessing it probably had something to do with having
to hear Mims’ “This Is Why I’m Hot” one hundred
times a day. I know this, because I’m about 5 listens
away from doing it myself. I’m seen better crafted hooks
on a fishing lure"...
DJ
S.A.
(KHQT-New Mexico): "I know its been a minute, but
things got shady at the station, so I have moved back to
KRUX 91.5 FM at New Mexico State University.
Sorry its been so long, it took a while to get things
situated, but Im Back!!! Thanks for your patience in
bearing with me.Peace and God Bless"...
Dan
Shores
(WHRW-NY):
"Here's my new cell number to reach me at. Please update
your files:
New cell: 607 372 3395"...
Here
is our address for 2007 to send material for review, etc
(vinyl & cd's)! Same address, just a new Ste. number:
RapAttackLives.com
4750 Kester Avenue, Ste. 11
Sherman
Oaks, CA 91403
Attn: Nasty-Nes
SHOUT
OUT TIZIME:
To my
fam over at KCAQ in
Oxnard,
CA. (see photo above). Thanks for welcoming me, K-Sly
& Skull to your station (J Scratch,
Myron, Soundwave, Relyt, Santiago,
Keetah Key, Creativity, FredRock,
Stephanie, Bear, Capitol Records' Clyde
Carson & Glen Aure and everyone else who
grubbed with my posse! Thank you again...
PEACE, LOVE & HIP-HOP UNITY (God Bless & Isa Mahal),
Nasty-Nes
http://www.myspace.com/nastynes
http://www.myspace.com/rapattacklives
(Pinoy
Pride4Life
/ John 3:16) |
