Bklyn Combine Podcast

Destiny by BklynCombine

This week the Combine Collective had our usual free flowing conversation but we touched on the themes of accountability, self control (thinking for yourself and others), ‘Hands Off!’ Protests, tariffs, kleptocracy and much more. An intergenerational exchange is essential to our growth as a community. Focus up!

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Music:
1. Lady Day And John Coltrane by Gil Scott-Heron

2. Can it Be All So Simple by Wu-Tang Clan

3. Exhibit B by Jay Electronica featuring Mos Def

4. Evil Eye by MIKE

Episode 4 Combine Cast Members: Divensley Charles, Kenneth J. Montgomery, Michael Bunton, Tino “Blackafari” Ellis, and Phillip Shung.

This week The Bklyn Combine is joined by some of our sisters to discuss who our real opps are as well as generational trauma, the reordering of the world, and much more.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Music:


1. Slow by Navy Blue

2. Guess It's All Over by Mndsgn

3. Love To The World Prayer by L.T.D.

4. Black Panta by Lee "Scratch" Perry and The Upsetters

Episode 4 Combine Cast Members: Cheshire Boone, Amy Obonaga, Yessica Urraca, Mali X, Kenji Summers, Jazz Joseph, Divensley Charles, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

The Brooklyn Combine returns with an episode dedicated to exploring several critical topics, with a particular focus on the concept of the "Black Middle Class." The criteria for defining this social category remain somewhat ambiguous; however, this episode examines the underlying complexities, including the intersections of capitalism, class mobility, class suicide, revolution, and the notion of the Talented Tenth, among other related themes. Stay woke.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 3 Combine Cast Members: Michael Bunton, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Music:


1. Sea Of Tranquility by Kool & The Gang

2. fortify by Stav

3. Bad Guy by Smif n Wessun

4. Niggers Are Scared of Revolution by The Last Poets

The Combine explores ideas of America as a banana republic, our baseline for humanity, and transforming our value system. Also, is Bad Bunny in your top 5 or nah?

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 2 Combine Cast Members: Yessica Urraca, Divensely Charles, Tony Windley, Valentino Ellis, Keith White, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Reading list:

1. How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev 

2. The invention of the white race by Theodore Allen

Music

1. BREATHE.birth by Pink Siifu

2. FREE CAR NIGGAZ by ANKHLEJOHN

3. LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii by Bad Bunny

4. Fear Not For Man by Fela Kuti

—

BLACK ART

By Amiri Baraka

Poems are bullshit unless they are

teeth or trees or lemons piled

on a step. Or black ladies dying

of men leaving nickel hearts

beating them down. Fuck poems

and they are useful, wd they shoot

come at you, love what you are,

breathe like wrestlers, or shudder

strangely after pissing. We want live

words of the hip world live flesh &

coursing blood. Hearts Brains

Souls splintering fire. We want poems

like fists beating niggers out of Jocks

or dagger poems in the slimy bellies

of the owner-jews. Black poems to

smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches

whose brains are red jelly stuck

between 'lizabeth taylor's toes. Stinking

Whores! we want "poems that kill."

Assassin poems, Poems that shoot

guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys

and take their weapons leaving them dead

with tongues pulled out and sent to Ireland. Knockoff

poems for dope selling wops or slick halfwhite

politicians Airplane poems, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .tuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh

. . .rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . Setting fire and death to

whities ass.

Look at the Liberal

Spokesman for the jews clutch his throat

& puke himself into eternity . . . rrrrrrrr

There's a negroleader pinned to

a bar stool in Sardi's eyeballs melting

in hot flame Another negroleader

on the steps of the white house one

kneeling between the sheriff's thighs

negotiating coolly for his people.

Aggh . . . stumbles across the room . . .

Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked

to the world! Another bad poem cracking

steel knuckles in a jewlady's mouth

Poem scream poison gas on beasts in green berets

Clean out the world for virtue and love,

Let there be no love poems written

until love can exist freely and

cleanly. Let Black people understand

that they are the lovers and the sons

of warriors and sons

of warriors Are poems & poets &

all the loveliness here in the world

We want a black poem. And a

Black World.

Let the world be a Black Poem

And Let All Black People Speak This Poem

Silently

or LOUD

Your Brooklyn Combine family returns for a 5th season of the Combine Podcast with new and familiar voices to explore topics that impact our local and global communities. Join us as we explore value systems and ways we can get active.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 1 Combine Cast Members: Kenji Summers, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Reading list:

1. Ontological Terror by Calvin Warren

2. New dimensions in African History by Dr Ben-Yochannan

3. The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams

4. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Sekou Odinga

Music:


1. You Send Me by Roy Ayers

2. No Stranger To Love / Want You by Roy Ayers

3. Africa Centre of the World by Fela Kuti (feat. Roy Ayers)

4. Running Away by Roy Ayers

5. I Am Your Mind (Part 2) by Roy Ayers

6. Gotta Find A Lover by Roy Ayers

We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on the African American experience by BklynCombine

We are back with our 5th season of reasoning, storytelling, critical thinking, in-depth analysis, and all-around op-eding on the things that affect the Brooklyn Community and beyond. In our first episode, we discuss American violence, music, and our very first fundraiser on Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Learn more about our Fundraising Fete: http://bklyncombine.com/fete

Combine Approved Africa Travel groups:

1. Cape Verde - Avontade Tours https://avontade-tours.com/

2. Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa - Away to Africa https://www.awaytoafrica.com/

Music:

1. Fly Metaphysics by Rahiem Supreme (The Pretty Prada Papi EP)

2. Roaches Don't Fly by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist

3. Evil Eye by MIKE

4. Eye to Eye by Lute ft. Cozz

NYE 2022 by BklynCombine

This week we get the lowdown on life as a digital nomad. World travel from a man in his late 20s can be interesting, especially considering dating, food culture, local customs, and getting around to name a few. Join us as Jazz shares his tales from abroad.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Music:

1. The Less I Know the Better by Tame Impala

2. Back It Up by Nameless and Wahu

3. Mau Mau by Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire ft. Maffew Ragazino

4. Rich Flex by Drake & 21 Savage