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A NASTY FLAVOR MAGAZINE FLASHBACK!

[[ June 11, 2007 ]]

What's upper? Did anyone see the season finale of HBO's "Sopranos?" All I can say is, "There was no good ending, so 'The Sopranos' left off without one." For real, when it came to the very end, I thought my cable went out or the electricity died & then next thing you see are the final credits! LOL. Hearing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" leads me to believe that Tony & his posse will all be back on the BIG screen at a theater near you sometime in 2009!

Attn MySpace heads! If you haven't joined our exclusive RAP ATTACK page on MySpace, log on NOW & join at: http://www.myspace.com/rapattacklives...

Blue Scholars have an awesome new video for the single "Back Home" and you can peep it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8DwCeKa6M. This video is deep & hits a homerun dealing with our men & women fighting in Iraq. I got so caught up in this video that it brought a tear or more to my eyes. Great to see my boys outta the "206" puttin' it down with a hot single & video that'll get lots of love & respect for years to come...

Rap Attack's own DJ Static from Canada's CKUT "We Funk" just took home a Stylus DJ Award for "College Radio Show Of The Year!" Now that's what's up. Log on for the exclusive Static 411 at: http://www.stylusgroup.ca/2007_winners.php...

My dawg outta Bedstuy, New York, Poison Pen is about to drop his "Picture Poison The Mark Of The East" (Fontana/Universal) mixtape album. This promises to bring some serious heat featuring Immortal Technique, BeatMinerz and Diabolic to name a few. I asked Poison Pen what he thinks heads think about him & he replied, "I'm a fat loud mouth kat who's always smiling! Sure I keep it street but I don't take take things so serious! I smile in my pictures." You can hit up Poison Pen for drops, interviews, etc. online at: poisonousmaximus@yahoo.com...

RUSSELL SIMMONS GETS TESTY DURING NPR VISIT: Mogul nearly walks out on interview with Farai Chideya.
http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur34195.cfm
Russell Simmons grew irritated during a recent NPR interview with Farai Chideya and was close to walking out on his appearance to plug his new book, ironically about finding inner peace through Yoga.
Simmons had the unfortunate bad timing of launching a book promo tour for "Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success" during the fallout surrounding Don Imus’ “nappy headed hoes” outburst. Instead of asking questions about his book, interviewers instead preferred that he weigh in on the national discussion regarding misogynistic rap lyrics.

Apparently, the last straw happened when Chideya attempted to broach the subject during his recent visit to NPR.

"I had a book tour about peace and love, and everyone wants to talk about b***ches and hoes," he snapped.

Chideya writes in her article about the interview: “At one point, Simmons characterized our discussion in less-than-family-friendly terms. You'll have to listen to the interview to get Simmons in full feather, but let me take you into the studio at that moment: Russell is sitting a few feet from me, wearing spotless white athletic shoes, a shirt with a yoga theme, and a crisp baseball cap tilted to the side. While he is going off, he is leaning off — away from the mic, that is. He's talking to his assistant in studio, complaining about the interview, and I'm thinking, "Is he about to run the heck out of here?
“Luckily, he didn't. In the end, after a long back-and-forth, Simmons explained that his role is to promote all of hip-hop, good and bad, not to be a judge or a gate-keeper.”

You can peep Ferai's Interview with Russell here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10706519

Hip Hop May Not Be Dead, But Internet Radio May Soon Be
by Davey D
A few years a ago I ran into former FCC Chairman Michael Powell as he was leaving Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Project conference in New York. He was the man of the hour due to the fact that over 3 million people had hit up the FCC demanding that he abandon his plans to allow big media conglomerates like Clear Channel to further consolidate.

I confronted Powell about many of the complaints I was hearing from media reform activists around the country including the Bay Area's People Station Campaign, Detroit's Black Out Friday campaign and the 'Turn off the Radio Campaign' which drew 1500 people including Chuck D, Afrika Bambattaa, Doug E Fresh and numerous other rap stars and launched in a Harlem church the night before.

It was there that members of NY's City Council held a tribunal and listened to over six hours of testimony where person after person complained about lack of musical diversity resulting in listeners having to endure the same ten songs in row, the lack of local airplay for independent local artists and an abundance of harmful stereotypes being broadcasted everyday resulting in Black and Brown communities being marginalized. The most troubling was the management of NY's then number one station Hot 97 allowing their on disc jockeys to constantly use the N and B words on the air.
Powell listened and then dismissively told me the solution was not to regulate radio and prevent further consolidation but for concerned listeners to turn to the Internet radio. It was there he stated that people could find all the diversity and niche programming their heart desired. I tried to explain that a lot of people especially in poor communities where broadband was scarce, couldn't listen to Internet radio. Sadly Powell wasn't trying to hear it and he bounced.
Fast forward 4 years later and people faced with little changes in radio found their way onto the Internet and an industry that once boasted a scant few million listeners a month now has mushroomed to a medium that attracts over 70 million people. Apparently people got Powell's memo.

In a cruel sense of irony, what has become a viable alternative and a place of solace for many is threatened. In recent weeks while the country was focused on Don Imus, the major record labels along with their organization Sound Exchange successfully petitioned the US Copyright Board and convinced them to increase royalty fees a whooping 300-1200% to be applied retroactively. The rates which were supposed to kick in May 15th threatened to bankrupt the Internet Radio industry.

Just to give you an idea of how that looks, locally based Soma FM in a recent Eastbay Express article explained that they had an annual webcasting bill for 10 thousand dollars. Under the new rates they would immediately owe 600 thousand dollars. I spoke with owner Rusty Hodge who noted that the high rates are the result of him having lots of people who listen for long periods of time. He also noted that if he manages to stay afloat in 2007 he will owe the labels over one million dollars.

The largest Internet Radio company Live 365-also locally based explained to the Washington Post that their annual 1.5 million dollar bill would increase to 6 or 7 million and bankrupt the company.
What makes this new ruling even more insidious is that all webcasters no matter how big or small would be required to pay 500 bucks annually on top of the increased rates, meanwhile commercial broadcasters who have in recent months been aggressively pushing their own online stations and HD broadcasts along with satellite radio would NOT be paying these increased rates.

If you listen to commercial stations all around the country you will hear many of them pushing for listeners to check out their new on line spin off stations. The ultimate plan of action for many stations is to launch specialty stations that focus on a specific genre. For example in New York City, Hot 97 now has a online station called the 'Original Hot 97' where listeners can hear the station in its original dance music oriented format. Here in the Bay Area Kiss FM which plays classic R&B and soul has launched an online station where they play classic commercial Hip Hop.

Now this in itself is not a bad thing except the playing field is not even. For starters the commercial outlets at the very least will be able to barter with major labels to overlook online fees in exchange for terrestrial airplay. What also is not being stated is that for the commercial giants this will be the place where they can legally exercise pay for play (payola) especially if they wind up being the only game in town.

A likely scenario that will soon emerge if it hasn't already is that labels seeking airplay will hit off these commercial giants with a set amount of money and then after the stations 'determine' that the songs are doing well online will then bounce them up to regular rotation on the terrestrial stations. The pay for play scheme online will be a welcome cash cow for commercial stations while labels will be able to exercise control over projects that they are promoting.
For those who don't know, the way things work now, is that a major label comes up with a marketing campaign for a particular artist. They set up a marketing campaign with the album's first single followed by a video. They depend upon broadcasters to go along with their game plan. They expect stations and video outlets to play the second and third singles at the prescribed time and will actually discourage programmers from playing album cuts or upcoming planned singles 'too soon'. In some instances labels will use their muscle and threaten to stop servicing stations with music or will prohibit their artists from doing interviews or summer jam concerts if the broadcasters don't cooperate with the marketing plan. This focused marketing is what many of these label executives feel will lead to increased album sales and hence that's the main reason you hear the same ten songs being played on air from coast to coast.
Internet Radio helped break that strangle-hold. With the average webcaster it's usually been people first not labels first. The industry seems bent on changing this dynamic The first step is to eliminate all these independent Internet Radio stations by making it too costly.
For those who think what I'm saying is far fetched, talk to any online broadcaster and ask him/her about the 1998 DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) which governs Internet Radio and was pushed through Congress by the RIAA and the major labels, it is technically against the law for Internet radio to play songs from the same artist 2 or 3 times in a 3 hour period. Hence unlike commercial giants who can break format and do a Prince special or have a Jay-Z or Public Enemy hour, webcasters are forbidden to this by law.

When James Brown passed late last year and Rick James passed the year before, radio stations all over the country broke format and played hours of music from these legends. Thanks to the DMCA, Internet radio was forbidden to do this unless they got special permission from the labels which was damn near impossible for most people who actually go out and purchase their own music as opposed to commercial stations which get it sent to them for free and have relationships with record label promoters.

The Sound Exchange people said they need to raise rates and make all these rules for the benefit of the artist. They said that because album sales are down and that the industry needs another income source. Webcasting fees will help offset the economic downturn. They also stated that they were doing this for the artists who they feel need to be paid.Well according to Wendy Day of the well respected artist advocacy group Rapcoalition that's not exactly true. Day who is responsible for brokering deals for artists like Master P and Cash Money stated;
"From the negotiation standpoint in the music industry, the major labels are fighting hard to retain as large a percentage as possible for digital rights. Much like record deals of the past (old formats such as records, cassettes, and CDs), the labels retain the lion's share of the profits giving the average artist a lowly 12% of the selling price AFTER they've paid back every recoupable expense from their share of the royalties. That business model still stands in digital formats. The labels still keep the lion's share of the money, using the artists measly percentage to pay down the debt. I have, personally, seen labels budge on allowing artists to be non-exclusive to their label, but not give an inch in negotiating digital rights. Artists still get pennies in comparison to the labels' dollars".

The Sound Exchange people have also stated that webcasters can easily pay the increased fees by selling advertising. That's a huge fallacy. To start, what wasn't stated by SE was the fact that these small webcasters are now in direct competition with traditional broadcast giants who are going after those same ad dollars for their own online webcasts.

In short the chips are stacked against the average online broadcaster who was chased on line by Powell and the lack of response by broadcast mediums to their initial concerns. The little guy who does this as a passionate hobby where he was willing to pay reasonable rates is suddenly up against a huge company with a sales staff that at the end of the day can barter for ad dollars with a variety of on and offline platforms. As I said before Internet and digital broadcasting is new terrain that the industry wants cleared out with them being the only game in town. If that happens all the same complaints consumers had and continue to have with traditional radio will resurface with these commercial online outlets.

So disconcerting is this latest assault that there has been a groundswell of support and broad coalition of groups opposing the rate hikes ranging from Christen broadcasters to Yahoo radio. The end result are two bi-partisan bills being pushed through Congress and the Senate. In the House its HR 2060 and in the senate S1353 the Internet Radio Equality Act. Which would repeal the rates. People are asked to call their representative and get behind the bills or risk seeing the Internet radio landscape permanently change and be a thing that only the rich and powerful can afford to do. You can go to SaveNetRadio for more info on this: SaveNetRadio.com...

Finally, the previously-unreleased, formerly-shelved, certainly never-heard, super dope full length masterpiece from The Wascal's will finally be released in July! Produced by J-Swift their "Greatest Hits Disc 1 &2" (Traffic/Delicious Vinyl) includes the original ten song album, eleven instrumentals, four bonus tracks and two extremely rare videos for "Class Clown" and "The Dips." All of which was done back in 1994 when rap actually meant something. For more info, log onto: www.trafficent.com, call (617) 845-0088 or hit up Ty-C online at: tycamp2004@aol.com...

Be the first to peep out Skull's new 3-D/animated video for "Boom Di Boom di" here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?

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Public Enemy has been added to the all-star line up of artist performing at this years' "Rock the Bells" Hip-Hop festival scheduled for August 11th in San Bernardino, CA.. The festival, at the National Orange Show Events Center will also feature Cypress Hill, the Roots, Mos Def, EPMD, the Coup, MF DOOM, Jedi Mind Trick, Murs and Sage Francis. The festival will also hit Randall's Island in New York City on July 28th and McCovey's Parking Lot in San Francisco on August 18th. The San Francisco show will have Nas headlining and he will join Wu Tang on 15 more "Rock the Bells" dates in other cities to be announced soon. In response to the 20-minute sell-out of the previously announced Saturday, July 28 Randall’s Island/New York City date, Guerilla Union in conjunction with Live Nation have revealed they will add a second ROCK THE BELLS festival show at the venue for Sunday, July 29. Confirmed artists for both NYC-area shows are headliners Rage Against The Machine, The Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill and many more. This second Randall’s Island/New York City show now marks one of five opportunities where fans can experience the highly anticipated return of Rage Against The Machine which includes Coachella and other Rock The Bells shows: Saturday, August 11 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, CA and Saturday, August 18 at McCovey Cove Parking Lot in San Francisco, CA. Tickets for ROCK THE BELLS Sunday, July 29 at Randall’s Island go on sale Friday, May 4 at 10:00 am via Ticketmaster...

Rap Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:

Garbs Infinite (WRUW-OH): "THE CAVS ARE IN THE FINALS!!!! Many of you know I’m a true sports head, especially when it comes to my hometown teams. Hopefully, we will be able to continue the success and take it all. On another note, some of you might remember last year when my partners and I put together the 1st annual Ohio Hip Hop Awards, well we are back at it for the second installment! The first one was a huge success, but this year is going to be even bigger and better! The event will take place September 22nd @ The Galleria at Erieview 1301 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44114. Google it and you'll see what I’m talking about!

We have just recently launched the Official website, www.ohiohiphopawards.com. This year, leading up to the Awards ceremony we will be doing a handful of showcases in different cities around the state which will give a number of artists the opportunity to win a chance to perform on the historical night! Visit the webpage to download the sponsorship package; we have numerous options that will appeal to the small independent businesses all the way up to the largest corporations. Check it out!! We write history as we go. Mark the date on your calendar"...

EarthQuake (Live365.com): "Thanks to Leeor at Terrorbird for the Blue Scholars. That full length release is banging and I can’t stop listening to it. My wife and I had a great time in Las Vegas last week. It was only 2 nights but it was great to get away (but hard for mommy to leave her son)"...

D-Tragic (805HipHop.com): "Yet another cool week here in the 805! The most requested track we have here is set to be a national classic: DOWN aka Kilo "LEAN LIKE A CHOLO". If you didnt know, DOWN is coming straight out of the 805 area. It is truely a blessing to see people from our area reaching out and being heard all over the US. This usually doesnt happen for cats in this area. There are cats all over Cali, from the Garment Districts to Washinton DC, New York, to Florida bumpin this one! This song will definitly become a classic hit! So remember ELBOWS UP, SIDE TO SIDE!!

The Connect was off the hook last week with Super classic group N2DEEP! JayTee of N2Deep Came down to rock with us in the 805! I gotta say Young Dru and Cognito were off the chains as well! Bay Area definitly shows support!!

I would like to send a personal invite out to all my family members in Radio Land for this weekend @ "THE CONNECT". This week we feature The Wake Up Show Heat makers: CHINO XL, ROC-C, OHNO and DJ Romes of Stones Throw Records aka Team Get Em'. The show will be off the chains Im Sure!! I gotta give it up to all the peeps who have been spreading the word and support! Big Ass Shot outs to Nasty Nes of RapAttackLives.Com (Just bumped you on Eazy E's "RADIO" cut this last weekend) and to Chris Roker of Spin Doctors Music Group"...

Nesto (WODU-VA): "Aight party people school is out for the summer (unless you taking summer classes) and it's time to have a little fun. Stop worrying about all the BS with school, work, etc. and just have a little fun. I FINALLY took my own advice and checked out a baseball game this past Saturday in DC. Went to watch the Nationals and the Padres. Neither one of them are my teams, but I wanted to get a way and just enjoy a friendly game of baseball. It was an awesome day, clear skies, nice breeze, low 80's, real low humidity and a lot of ladies in attendance. I've only been to 2 pro baseball games in my life and I don't remember seeing this many at the last baseball game I went to. Anyway, there was some interesting things to see at the game. Lots of beautiful ladies, kids bugging out, and one thing I still can't believe. A group of ladies come in and hooks up with some guys they know. The game is going on and the beer is flowing. Towards the end of the game the ladies decide to leave. One is tall and slim, but got the goods and she knows it. She has on a skirt that doesn't cover up her legs a whole lot, but she keeps it lady like and bends down so not to show the world her goods when picking up her stuff. Her friend isn't as blessed beauty wise or slim wise, but she's rocking an even smaller skirt and and I guess the beers make her say "screw it".. she bends over and her ass is facing me and my boys direction and wouldn't you know it we are getting a smiley face and one of the lips is sticking out like it wants to say something. That was something I didn't expect to see at a baseball game, but hey anything can happen right. Gotta love it when it gets warm"...

Bri-G (RPM Promotions/Mixtape-New York): "I honestly had something else in mind when I started to type this out today, but due to certain ramifications, I've decided to put that off till next week. I've got too much to get off my chest to just have a regular column this week. So here we go.

Seriously, who the fuck is this Ray Lavender guy and did he give T-Pain the courtesy of a reach around while he was f'n him in the ass and taking his style. I know the whole voice effect isn't a new thing, I know T-Pain didn't invent it. But it's really his signature thing right now and he's making hits doing it. I know you guys are getting calls right now of people asking for that T-Pain, My Girl Got Girlfriend record, which ironically is a lyric stolen from another rappers record. This guy's incredible.

I think we can all stop the Jordan/Lebron comparisons. I don't ever remember MJ having a game in the Finals like Bron Bron had last night. I understand that he doesn't exactly have an all-star supporting cast, but if you look at the Bulls without MJ, they weren't exactly the '84 Celtics either. So lets just slow it down for a while.

Do record promoters ever call a DJ from say, Louisiana, and say the following "Yo, this record is huge up north; you need to jump on it." I'm just curious.

Every 3 or 4 years Swizz Beats stumbles upon a crazy new style. Then proceeds to make every record should like that over the course of the next 3 or 4 years. Is there a difference between Tambourine and Money in the Bank? I didn't think so.

R Kelly is insane, pees on young girls, and simply makes hits.

Amy Winehouse is up 50% in sales this week, Robin Thicke is up 146%. Make good music, promote it properly and people will buy it. Meanwhile, Lil Boosie & Webbie are down 53%, catch my drift.

Did Saigon realize the irony in naming his album, The Greatest Story Never Told?

I believe the universe was formed in a shorter time than it's taken the FCC to approve this Sirius/XM merger. As we stand now, Sirius is at $2.74 a share. I'm down 35%. Excuse me for a second while I throw up in my mouth.

Curt Schilling went 8 2/3 without giving up a hit yesterday. 1 out from a no hitter. Sox needed the win regardless so it was nice. It's kinda like having sex with your girl, but she surprises you with some mean head before. Sex is always fine, but head on top of it makes it that much nicer. You don't really need it, but I will gladly smile and accept it.

Speaking of head, it's good to see Paris Hilton got ordered back into jail today. I was beginning to think that celebrities and people with money got preferential treatment in the US justice system. In related news, OJ Simpson's search for the real killer continued as he shot a 74 at the Malibu Golf & Country Club.

On a serious note, send your thoughts and prayers to a Hip-Hop icon, Marley Marl who suffered a heart attack. Marley's most recent album with KRS-One is incredible and shows that both these guys still got it. Hope Marley gets up on his feet soon and continues to make great Hip-Hop music.

Finally, this week's YouTube Pick is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z6PjMb9pgeA...

Jaws (KSJS-CA): What up ya'll! It's been a minute since I spoke on thangs here at KSJS. Usually I just drop our rotation charts on ya, and let that speak for how we get down over here. But, with the change of the seasons comes change in general, so I'ma put you up on game.

Summer time is here and school is out. Ya boy has graduated, and is now offically a graduate. I finished classes back in December, but just barely got the Degree in the mail and just walked in the ceremony this past weekend.

Anyway, I've been working hella hours (like 60 a week) at two major radio stations here in San Jose, California and still trying to hold down my duties at KSJS, but it's been hectic (please forgive me if it took a long time for me to holla back at some of you).

I've been delegating some of my work out to my two assistants over the last 6 months, but I've been handling the emails, and listening to product myself to formulate the charts. I've strived to accurately chart music that is actually getting played at KSJS, rather than doing what some do: paper charting wack tracks that don't even deserve play. That's why our charts look different than everyone else's, and we report to everyone to show that we're not slaves to the industry.

On a side note, KSJS is also not fully equipt to deal with college radio's major push to go mostly digital. I know ya'll labels are trying to save money on manufacturing and shipping, but damn... it ain't all good. KSJS is still working with CD players and Turntables ya'll. The station doesn't even have a CD burner, and I can't do all that on my joint, so most of the MP3 priorities (if you noticed) get kicked to the curb... and actual product gets play here. Sounds wack, but not every station is rollin in fetti (actually this whole push toward mp3 priorities is what's wack).

Anyway, I've heard that KSJS is going to try and make that change soon though, so MP3's will be making it into our rotations once that move gets made. But, when will it? I can't say. The General manager has to clock that loot, and then break it off. So it's up in the air.

Lastly, Ya boy is out of the Urban Music Director position in a few weeks. It's been a cool, and long, year and a half. But the next director will be solid, so don't trip. There are several canidates, but they're all straight. I'll introduce ya'll to the Winner via email soon, and ya'll can build from there. But, I'll be working with them behind the scenes, showin them everything I know, until they got all the knowledge they'll need to keep their game tight.

I am still staying at KSJS, but rather doing the regular format of spinning the new cuts in rotation with a mix of classics for four hours like every other urban DJ here, I'll be doing a 1/2 hour specialty show where I'll be examining choice cuts off of classic rap albums every week and breakin'em down for the listening audience. I'll be expanding that formula to include new albums in future so expect me to holla"...

Solo (WECI-IN): "I am calling my reporting days to a close. Numerous reasons apply, but the main one is my family needs me right now. My wifes stress level is thru the roof and my daughters autism is wreckin havoc. I am moving into my new house at the end of this month and I have a feeling I will be without internet for a while. Verizon is some slow ass bitches. As far as radio goes, I still plan on rockin the airwaves like always, but you know as I do the music industry isn't the same anymore. Hit me up any time and take care"...

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

nastynes1@aol.com

SHOUT OUT TIZIME: Happy Birthday this week to Papa-D (WRBB in Boston & Rap Network) celebrating this Thursday, June 14th, to Jessica Weber (SPECTRE Music) celebrating this Saturday, June 16th & to Arabian Prince celebrating this Sunday, June 17th...Our prayers go out to the legendary producer Marley Marl who apparently suffered a heart attack last week. Get well my friend... HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the dads out there celebrating this Sunday, June 17th...