Friday, 15h, the sky is covered in a single stroke, a quick glance at the weather site at the center monitoring hurricane. No big disturbance is indicated. A heavy rain, enough to create large caps at the start of the weekend but nothing too serious. But the rain does not arrive, instead, gusts of wind, slamming doors and all of a sudden downpour. 30 minutes storm, like a fleeting memory of the 2008 hurricanes. We close out the windows, we move away to avoid being injured if the glass breaks, you see the fallen branches and I look with fear, pine huge neighbor's hoping it does not fall.
Many fallen trees, billboards, power poles .... camps, panic, tent fly, take water, going in all directions seeking shelter but for now fearing a jolt in the minds of every Haitian , = natural disaster earthquake. 5 people died due to falling trees and several were injured fifties. It was a storm and fears of damage to the camps were interviewed as a warning signal? The hurricane season is indeed important, but all the hurricanes have so far spared most of the islands ... Hopefully it stays that way.
assassin known in the industry for its expeditious methods, Vinnie Paz is far from being a child of the heart. Framed by an army in his pay, mc sniper moves continuously with his trusty weapon supplier Stoupe within Jedi Mind Tricks and more generally Army Of The Pharaohs , but this new campaign for the crime Italian-American Sunni Muslim is going it alone for a season of murder, sex and art, all encompassed by a concept paranoid, "the earn from the Masses, And Then Teach Them . It will be brutal and uncompromising dryness, welcome to the world of Vinnie Paz and enter Season Of Assassin. More than a job, the murder remains in him a passion he has no frills and without detail. Some criticize him its barbarism and its lack of method, but others emphasize that it never misses its target and always gets away with it.
Ask Vinnie Paz change of style is like asking Ill Bill to a fan of RnB so hard beats interspersed reef sde guitar, punchlines excessive and virulent or batlle mcs, Louis Dog just give you your behalf. For skeptics usual, stop by Season Of Assassin pretext will only confirm your impressions on the gus, then better not linger!
No surprises in the design of the album or any real plot, Vin Laden is playing the suicide bomber from beginning to end, even though some songs can learn more about this complex character even going to do what might be called a hymn to women Righteous Kill (Just kidding) .... Booster for all, Ikon The Hologram has called for a wide range of producers not necessarily in the same vibe, but come to make the album a certain homogeneity because between Muggs, Madlib, Moss, Stu Banga, Lord Finesse, Bronze Nazareth, DC The MIDI Alien or Da Beatminerz and 4th Disciple , we can say that the means are bels and well there to deliver a masterpiece .
But then, what difference can we make between Frank Vinatra solo and Vinnie Paz in JMT? Actually no: the themes often revolve around, there are the inevitable: his religious vision on pretty crazy No Spiritual Surrender , life in general Life and his trademark by the paranoid as ambient End Of Days . Then of course, you will enjoy seeing Osama Vin Laden terrorizing Pusha T on Street Wars, it is surprising to his fragile Same Story, we will move on egotrip head of Aristotle's Dilemma (unless it is the instrument of soulful Madlib ), we participate in various deadly attacks that are accompanied Pistolvania Freeway and Jakk Frost , Kill Em All with Beanie Sigel Nosebleed or with RA The Rugged Man . But ultimately, this Season Of Assassin nothing new to offer. 21 tracks to digest, but still happy, the auditor is not a goose that can fill up and after a few listens the album crumbles leaving only ten tracks. The number of guests could be of some interest but the appearance of the whole big grub makes them avoidable ( Block McCloud or Paul Wall).
to temper criticism The Pazmanian Devil delivers an album more than drinking in the tradition of his previous work. Little piece where Vinnie Pazienza appears alone but Righteous Kill , Bad Day , Role Of Life , Aristotle's Dilemma and Beautiful Love certainly delight fans of the first hour. It will take Season Of Assassin as a reminder. For if the voices on the empire Jedi Mind Tricks , it is nevertheless the crew the most representative of this early 21 th century. Philadelphia has long been synonymous with The Roots , now it will take Vinnie Paz also with and his clique.
Today I discovered the new attraction in the metropolitan area: Giant. is the new Giant supermarket in Petion Ville with underground parking, 2 floor elevator to go from one to another. Recently it has become one of the few places where you can buy Barbancourt 5 stars. Everything costs an arm and it's hard to walk in the aisles between the caddies-cars to put both your shopping and your kid. This is evidence by A + B Haiti rebuilds, all due to bad language, those between one million and a few other Haitians who are still living in tents. Like what the priorities were clearly laid ... At this rate my schizophrenia between my lifestyle and situation of the country will follow an exponential curve ...
Casually, not content to go back and forth between the Northwest and the Central Plateau, I almost forget that I also have a 3 rd stronghold, the plain of the Tree. Said like that, we imagine the landscapes of Avatar but really it is very Chlorox as Caesar said. Chrlorox chore is the brand that serves both housewives, laundresses for drinkable water. And so yes the Haut Artibonite and the Plain Tree is particular may be more deserts, drier and more lost as NO. What's better than a weekend to do anything in NW than to organize a field trip to the other side (oh yes it is fair to the other side of mosquitoes where I work). Appointment was so taken with the engineer Enock to come get me. And then, upon re-entry into the car, the scene is set: OK Upper Artibonite is Chlorox but with alcohol, a figure that sorely lacks enough Mosquito. Well if it helps the driver to cross the hills and avoid the holes on the track, why not ... Directorate, hot springs, the well named because of the different hot springs and sulfur. At the beginning of the century, cures were still organized and spring water was sold in bottles. Now we can enjoy an outdoor pool with hot water. Well it's not as significant a nice hot bath after a day on skis but it's relaxing anyway.
the clothes horse
The first night was difficult between the disco-bar restaurant and hotel "in Manu 'where we slept, the trucks arrive to Gonaives to 2am Mast and evangelists who bellow at 4am with lots of drums.
the agenda of the visit:
- the rehabilitation of irrigation infrastructure after the devastation of the hurricanes of 2008 (and yes I was already there)
- visit other irrigated on which we may be worked from January next year (seems that the Belgian government is not dead anyway ...)
Good the rehabilitation work ... Obviously I am not a civil engineer but the structures seem already somewhat weakened after a few floods. "Sustainability, sustainability, ... do I have a face of sustainability? "Threshold Dam in North . I'm really tired of having to work 2or 3 times before getting to something sustainable. Why you can not get there the first time.
For the rest, we did not really budget for infrastructure in the next project. Fortunately, because what hangs above it was socialism, the committee of irrigators that bite from money but do not work, short of a joke in perspective (well, mostly for my successor, hehehe!). Okay, guys are always there to complain about the slightest glitch on the channel. Uh guys, you know we are in the arid region in a country with few resources and have concrete channels in fair condition after 20 years?? In Haiti, surface irrigation is indeed a lot of earth canals.
But most interesting about this visit was the multiple breaks / stops with committees of WUAs or other area residents to discuss development of course but also and above all political. And yes, you could almost forget that November elections are general elections and we also elects members (nearly one per municipality or a hundred for 8 million inhabitants) and one third of the Senate. And it just so happens that the engineer Enock is a child of the area and it stands to become a member. Needless to say, when he is fully confident in his election. So with his team, they have the minimum number of votes they need by locality. His team consists of his nephew and two of his cousins whom wants to become mayor in municipal elections postponed to early 2011. Leaders rallied to their cause even organize surveys in the villages!
So here distributes leaflets, T-shirts here promises 2-3 bags of cement here and there to gain votes (I am a practice to secure votes with money or other favors, I am, I am ...). And that is where development projects come into play, especially when they are worn by a white woman. What better argument that campaign to be proud of having participated in a project that has enabled the development of the sector shallot (and yes it is not much a win ...). From there to tell voters that it was through him that the project came here and it is through him a new project will emerge, it is only one step. Enock is not a bad person per se but I wonder about the risks of this political hijacking of our work.
4 configurations :
- OK + project Enock elected: Everything is going well but will remain Enock he handed in his work?
- OK + project Enock not elected: One option to secure political support than what is always an advantage ...
- Project + Enock refused elected: it can go wrong for Enock as he has promised people
- rejected proposal + Enock not elected: we are all losers
They told me Sunday morning brought an early age. We left Hot Springs at 4 o'clock, an hour after the Saturday night disco (which serves as a school within a week) closes.
And there to lull us in the midst of shaking of the track, the driver decided to abandon the kompa (ah yes the car had a speaker in each door) for us to spend the best of Michael Bolton. We must visualize the scene: desert landscape to the sound of crooner ballads that jumped slightly at each hole or bump, or all the time. For those who do not know too much Michael Bolton's "Missing You Now", "when a man loves a woman", "how am I Supposed to Live Without You", in short songs that give you potato! But I think the worst is that I realized I knew more than a song.
If some rain but not hurricanes (often by force 4) save most Caribbean islands. This does not prevent me from walking for nearly an hour in the mud and rain with my computer back on after the motorcycle taxi that knocked me over twice abandoned me loose on the track at the view of the sky gray.
Vallue few pictures of where the farmers' association is developing a rural tourism in recent years . It is above Ti Goave whose sounds are coming from discos at night.
As you can see, little novelty that spoils the picture a little, small watermark to remember who took the pictures. And yes I was naive too long and my pictures have been circulating freely, even on very public sites (for those interested, I'd pass off the story).
Black Sheep - From The Black Pool Of Genius (2010)
rap he deserves the bad boy image that sticks in years ? The choir boys do, of course, not many in this great family and even less at the time of radicalization symbolized by the 90. Yet, some players chose a guideline based on a more positive discourse and often embodied by a certain joie de vivre. As such, the collective Native Tongues of succeeded in imposing their dough with an impressive discography and charismatic leaders. of A Tribe Called Quest through the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul , the crew celebrated the joy of jazz samples. Today the crew is a distant memory trying to survive through the leaders of the new school are Kweli & Mos Def , Pharaoh Monch and somehow Kanye West
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We certainly regret the lack of a hard but the quality of the collective indestructible discographies members remember the good memories. And searching a little in this wealth of music, we take pleasure in highlighting A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing A pair of Queens Black Sheep. Masterpiece who drinks a mockery of the Gangsta Rap movement in a good mood child. The suite for Dres and Mista Lawnge not grow to the crisis of separation between failure and laugh, the return from training in the mindset of 1 st Opus appeared to be compromised. But now Black Sheep is a philosophy, a way of seeing life that is not in duo but each of them. So it must Dres rehabilitating the Black Sheep and home Native Tongue alone, nothing can stop him. This envy, Drs book, 19 years later, From The Black Pool Of Genius , opus 15 titles.
Far from being a cold shower, we plunge into this Black Pool Of Genius to refresh an omnipresent sense of humor and be carried away by the wave of joy that causes the tone of voice recognizable Drs. Certainly more mature in the image of Forever To Pray , Drs delivers 15 services of a highly structured level lyrical and poetic, if the team Native Tongues no longer in production, we can count on other veterans like Showbiz able to reproduce the atmosphere of the crew. Speaking to the Leader of DITC , the home of the shadow dance musical opens with Splash and soulful low water leaving Dres free to impose his groove. The relaxation continues with the funky Forever Lulvee that plunges the listener into A Wolf In A Sheep's Clothin . The atmosphere havin 'fun continues throughout the album and when the funk is on acidified Elevation , Drs a great lord of the smooth flow of positive thinking and just tame the beat for a result very addictive. The touch of madness (madness or short) invites himself with Psycho Les of the Beatnuts on Important Fact . The guideline of the title? It's on Hook Nuts! It closes its mouth and we appreciate the recipe for Grandma always effective in the ear canal! Psycho funky loop alongside AZ on Winner where eater beat just typing his piece of cake in a festive atmosphere as always. Whoever knows the tracklist dare say that the meeting of executives of the Native Tongues on Birds Of A Feather it does not put water in his mouth. Q-Tip (ATCQ ) Mike G (Jungle Brothers ) and Trugoy Dove (De La Soul ) join Dres (Black Sheep ) for a final symbolic gesture.
course, this delivery Dres contains its own set of sample ranging from soul and jazz more melancholy ( Party Tonight with Jean Grae or Come Back Home) but also some waste as Power to the Pih-Poh who suffers from a guest of Rhymefest completely off tempo. Muy Bueno give a smile plays at first and then disgust the listener to share his beat closer to a disturbance at night a ballad health.
amputated a limb, Black Sheep, Dres Emene by proves that one can still rely on a rich heritage to create a cake quality. No need to make comparisons with the Opus 90's from the crew, Black Sheep is definitely the keeper of the philosophy of Native Tongues and From The Black Pool Of Genius just remind some mcs supposedly son's spiritual crew as Talib Kweli and Kanye West that attitude does not replace the state of mind ...
camps, panic, tent fly, take water, going in all directions seeking shelter but for now fearing a jolt in the minds of every Haitian , = natural disaster earthquake. 
It was a storm and fears of damage to the camps were interviewed as a warning signal? The hurricane season is indeed important, but all the hurricanes have so far spared most of the islands ... Hopefully it stays that way. 
