Militant Minded Radio

Tonight we will be talking to Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed about his work to stop violence and senseless killings in our communities. Although many people are visiting family and friends this week, for many there will be an empty place at the table because of senseless violence. Silky Slim is a former gang member who once was about that "thug life" but after several near death experiences, he made a decision to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. You can check his space on the web at http://stopthekillinginc.org.

After we talk to Silky Slim, we want to weigh in on rappers speaking out or not speaking out on the issues rooted in racism white supremacy. There were many Black people who took issue with Jay Z not using his position, platform and power to speak out on racial profiling in a meaningful manner after he was pretty much forced to weigh in on Shop & Frisk, then there are those that gave him a pass as a victim of racism and as such should not be expected to say or do anything to confront racism and white supremacy. Now we got a white rapper who goes by Macklemore who used his position and the American Music Awards platform to speak out on the issue of racial profiling and the killing of young black men. Will Black people have a problem with a white rapper speaking out on racial profiling and the killing of young Black men?

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Join us tonight as Militant Minded Radio raises the question "Is Hip Hop in a State of Emergency?" Our special guest tonight will be Hakim Green from the group Channel Live. Green is also an activist who is organizing to stop the violence in our communities.

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Recently TRUTH Minista Paul Scott created a lot of controversy when he suggested that NWA should not be included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Various Hip Hop writers have gone on the attack. Tuesday night November 12th  at 9PM EST on Militant Minded Radio, TRUTH Minista fires back...It's coon huntin' season....

AllHipHop is reporting, "Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grand Wizard Theodore are working with the Windows of Hip Hop development project to establish a new exhibition hall in the birthplace of Hip Hop – The Bronx."

We will also discuss the killing of 19 yr old Renisha McBride who was shot in the face by a white homeowner in Dearborn, Michigan.

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What kind of psychological issues are Kanye West and Jay Z dealing with in their lives that make them seem so disconnected from the communities from which they grew up in? Kanye is selling a clothing line featuring the Confederate Flag and Jay Z’s response to the racial profiling issue concerning the high-end retail store Barneys seems lukewarm at best.

To help us decipher what may be going on with these two Slave-Ship-Hop corporate artists, Sister Abena Afreeka joins us on the broadcast tonight. Sister Abena will frame the conversation around “APoLE”. This stands for “Abena’s Paradigm of Lived Experience”.

“APoLE is how I view the world and it takes into account that we live or experience life on five levels, Individual, Family, Community, Society and Spiritually. The events taking place which involves those brothers are happening on and from each level and how it affects us on all those levels” - Abena Afreeka

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Hip-hop started as and has always been a youth movement and the youth bought into the messages conveyed through the music. Hip-Hop artist back in the day were teaching the youth about Black empowerment, Black History, White Supremacy, Police Brutality and had them sporting symbols of Africa and X. Tonight, we must ask who is reaching the youth today through their music and more importantly, what are they teaching them besides spending hundreds of dollars on designer belts?

Yasin360WiseGuy will sharing his experience as an artivist with a message who understands what the youth are going through and the launch of WarStarrHipHop!

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Over the years, there have been rumors about a secret meeting that took place that destroyed Hip Hop. However,  tonight on Militant Minded Radio, TRUTH Minista Paul Scott will reveal the truth about a secret meeting that took place decades ago that is still impacting the Black community in 2013.

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An open letter to Al Sharpton by a man who claims to be one of the founders of the National Action Network asks Sharpton to return the blood money he received from Cash Money in a deal to publish his memoirs. He also claims that he has personally heard Rev. Sharpton refer to Black politicians by the “N-Word”.

Rihanna who is on a concert tour was blasted on Instagram for some photos she posted of her posing in front of the Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi. Look at the pics here. Tasteful or Tasteless?

First Ice T blasts on the current state of hip-hop calling it materialistic and now Sean “Puffy” Combs comes out and says Hip-Hop is too soft. Does either man have a point?

After his little twitter beef with Jimmy Kimmel over Kimmel making fun of Kanye’s media interview where he was complaining about European designers not liking his idea for leather sweat pants, now Kanye is pushing a confederate t-shirt after bringing White Jesus on stage in Seattle. Is Kanye for real or just trying to keep his name in the media?