JusKev

Just wanted to share some history with you all (I know I am little late on this, too).

John "Mr. Magic" Rivas was the first radio disc jockey to have an all hip-hop radio show on WBLS in New York, of course.  Also a co-founder of the oh so legendary Juice Crew. (Masta Ace is still doing his thang on the mic til this day)

"Mr. Magic's Rapp Attack featuring DJ Marley Marl."

It was the year of 1983, the explosion of hip-hop truly making it to main stream.

The years of the Beastie Boys, Afrika Bambaata, Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, Kool G Rap, Roxanne and host of other great mcees and music pioneers could be heard no where else but on this radio station.  Well if it was heard somewhere else, it did not receive the attention and acclaim this radio station and dj received.  A lot of my close associates and very good friends of mine are djs.  Mr. Magic paved the way for them and many great radio djs of the 20th and 21st century.

Not only is he black history, he is an eternal musical presence.

I am in love with my hip-hop and good music.

RIP MR. MAGIC

-juskev

Where does my strength come from?
The relationshipS we hold.
Different types but the friends and family are the ones which mold
Us into the beautifully strong people we are.

God's love provides eternal strength and joy
But because we are human
God also provides us structure within our environments
The people who are placed there to uplift us and truly give us unconditional love
It is our choice if we choose to see it or not
To run with our low-self esteem greed
Believing that things won't happen to us
And when they do
Project our disbelief and anger when we were wrong
Onto others
Then also believing because it could happen that you are now much weaker for it and you fooled yourself

This clouts your thoughts and manifests into your relationshipS of the very people who truly love you
And creates a repetition of behavior of unhappiness to restore your thoughts of comfort you may have once had
Only to blindly push away the gifts God set forth in front of you.

So again I ask where does my strength come from?
How do I get through the struggles of making just decisions in a unjust world?
There is a people whom of which I share a rich tradition where the village, the community, raises a child.
My relationshipS developed from the environment from which I was presented, then eventually chose, to continue to perpetuate through my spirit of love creating an aura which rejects your projection of low self-esteem, anger and negativity believing my world of positivity has no place in this reality because it does not give negative notions a priority in the progressive journey but yet recognizes that no success is without failures for which those failures are only progressive pit stops to refuel yourself with inspiration lost during the journey.
Inspiration carried from my blood to the muscles built from my community of hardships unshared but recognized by those held in my relationshipS.

If your relationshipS are weak, you will be weak.
Use God as your root and your branches will be strong.
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Just wanted to share my piece of inspiration to the family and stress the importance of relationships. I know I have not shared much of my writing in a while but that's because I didn't want to...

-juskev

Yall know I can be a health nut when I want to be; but at the end of the day just keep ya self happy and as healthy as possible within your means and taste buds cause anything can take you out.  With that said here is my spill...

So, you like dipping those Oreos in milk?  Well after a dinner table discussion with some colleagues and friends of mine I discovered some interesting facts about cookies, specifically the Oreo, made by Nabisco. 

Here is fact #1:  Oreos are not kosher and "used" pork fat (i.e. lard) when quick frying the cookie after it was baked.
That leads to fact#2: Oreos are flash fried, as I've heard it referred to i.e. they quickly dip the cookies in a deep fryer for a few moments.  It is a very common practice in the U.S. to fully fry an Oreo at carnivals and festivals.  If you do not believe me about the "flash frying" of a the cookie.  Check out the trans fat content of a Nabisco Oreo;  very high.  Then ask, why is it so high?... (but just b/c it has an extremely high trans fat content, does not necessarily mean that it is still currently being fried but my guess is that it is..)
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It was very hard to pull any truly concrete sources on this one but I know how to use the internet as an extremely powerful and resourceful tool.  But once again, I am only disseminating this information to provoke thought and discussion.  I really like that coin phrase "u do the dishes", haha.

Peace!
-juskev

I read this article this morning.

A small media firm (turned global) that specializes in online music retail has turned the hearts and minds of the CEOs of Google, MySpace, and Facebook. Lala Media, Inc, has won contracts with these internet giants to offer music media service such as streaming and purchasing mp3s.

I wanted to share this news because of the huge paradigm shift that has been going on in the past few years with the purchasing of music.  This is huge mark as continue to step even further away from the purchasing of compact discs.  Yes, many of us may still enjoy the satisfaction of having some of the artwork included with cds but now and days, we just want to here the music and could care less how it is packaged.

La La pretty much gives you your own online iTunes...very interesting.  They have been around for several years.  They are similar to places like iLike and Imeem but they seem a bit more structured and offer many more features.

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enjoy your Friday and the weekend!