MF DOOM The Man Behind The Mask. Documentary
Listening to MF Doom is very hip hop educational!
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday for Jan 5th 2021 MF DOOM
If you’ve never heard of MF DOOM. Now’s the time. Doom was the illist lyricist of my generation. MF DOOM Died Oct 31st 2020. Cause of death unknown. Doom kept his Business to him and himself. In fact he’s been known to have a concert and have DOOM look alikes perform in his place.
this evening I’m giving you his 1999 hour operation Doomsday! This album is heavy in sampling from the 1980s R&B. I failed to mention that he was an avid comic book reader as a child. His style and his lyrical choice centered around comic book characters. You can find MF Doom on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube music. See you next Tuesday! Peace, Love and Neosoul!
Adolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quiñones, whose moves changed the face of dance, dies at 65
Hip-hop dancing pioneer Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quiñones once had a message for dance aficionados who felt that break-dancing was merely a trend, one less legitimate as an art form than classical dance.
“Ultimately people will realize it’s a valid art form, on the same level as jazz or ballet,” Quiñones told Newsweek in 1984 following the release of the low-budget hit “Breakin’,” which featured him as a street dancer. “And it’s a dance Americans should be proud of.”
Quiñones, one of the most influential dancers of the hip-hop era and one of the innovators of the robotic dance style known as “locking,” died Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home. He was 65.
Known as “Shabba-Doo,” Quinones had a colorful career as a dancer, choreographer and actor. In addition to his starring roles in the popular “Breakin’” and its sequel “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” Quiñones choreographed for and worked with many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Lionel Richie and Chaka Khan.
He was also a founding member of the Original Lockers street dancing group and one of the Soul Train Gang dancers on the landmark R&B music series.
Quiñones’ publicist Biff Warren told the Hollywood Reporter that the artist had undergone a COVID-19 test that had come out negative but “the next day he’s dead. It opens up all kinds of questions.”
The day before he died, the dancer posted on Instagram that he was “feeling sluggish from my cold” but was feeling better. A picture showed him in bed, flashing the peace sign and declaring he “was excited” and had “lots of catching up to do.”
Chorographer/singer Toni Basil, who co-founded the Original Lockers, expressed “extreme sadness” about Quiñones’ death on social media, while several other celebrities also paid tribute.
Ice-T tweeted: “I just lost ANOTHER close friend… SHABBA-DO, LA Dance Legend,” adding a montage of Quiñones dancing. Sheila E called him “A great Hiphop dancer. We toured together w/ Lionel Richie 1983. Gosh, Rest In Peace my brother.”
Dancing was a form of salvation for the dancer, who grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project. Raised by a single mother, he said in a 2010 interview that he was a “bit of a hoodlum,” hanging around with street gangs.
“The only thing I could do that was special was dancing,” he said.
When the Chicago-based dance program “Soul Train” moved to Los Angeles in 1970 to establish a base for syndication, Quiñones and his family followed. He and other dancers started appearing on the show and they became a breakout feature as the Original Lockers, known for their kinetic dancing style.
“The Original Lockers changed the face of dance,” he said in 2010. “‘Soul Train’ was that sort of fertile soil for us. We were able to like, work it all out on the show coming down the ‘Soul Train’ line.”
“Soul Train” host and creator Don Cornelius had a major influence on young Quiñones. In a 2012 CNN interview, he said, “His influence on me was looking at him, being the spiffy dresser that he was. I mean, the guy was the epitome of cool, you know? I used to look at him and think, ‘God, you know, I want to be like him. I want to be like that. I want to wear clothes like that.’ He was just so cool, and he had swagger then before people knew it was swagger, you know, and so it had an influence on me as an artist, later on as a professional dancer.”
He added, “If you’ve ever taken note of my career, you would see that I wore a lot of suits and things, and I tend to dress up. So there was a handful of people that I aspire to be when I grew up and that was — one was Cab Calloway. James Brown, we always want to be James Brown. And then Don Cornelius. You know, being a young Black kid, you know, you want to be like that. You want to be like the man. “
Leaving the Lockers for a solo career, Quiñones was summoned by Bette Midler and choreographer Kenny Ortega to appear in her Broadway show, “Divine Madness,” starting in 1979. He was later called to choreograph Cannon Films’ “Breakin’” — and wound up with one of the lead roles.
In the 1984 film, young ballet dancer Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) joins forces with street dancers Ozone (Quiñones) and Turbo (Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers) to form a dance troupe.
In a promotional interview, Quiñones revealed that he had filmed most of “Breakin’” with a fractured wrist, but continued against the advice of his doctors. “It took me 12 years to get that movie role,” he said. “I wasn’t going to pass it up for a fractured wrist — no way.”
In later years, Quiñones called himself “The Ghost of Break-Dance Past” as he worked on various projects, including directing videos, teaching dance to inner-city kids and opening a martial arts studio. In 1994, he confessed in Variety to visiting clubs in Orange County to check out the latest dances.
“It’s like I wear hip-hop clothes but flannel underwear,” he said with a chuckle.
Original article here https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-01-01/adolfo-shabba-doo-quinones-dies-at-65
Hip Hop artist MF Doom DEAD at 49
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Daniel Dumile, best know as the rapper and producer MF Doom, died on October 31, his wife announced on the artist’s Instagram page on Thursday afternoon. He was 49.
To Dumile. The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for,” his wife wrote. “Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off. Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be. My world will never be the same without you. Words will never express what you and Malachi mean to me, I love both and adore you always. May THE ALL continue to bless you, our family and the planet. All my Love, Jasmine.”
No cause of death was provided, only that MF Doom had “transitioned” on October 31.
One of the most celebrated, unpredictable and enigmatic figures in independent hip-hop, Dumile was born in London, but relocated to New York City as a child. He began his music career under the name Zev Lov X as part of the trio K.M.D. alongside his brother DJ Subroc, and the group had a minor hit in the early 1990s. After Subroc was killed in a car accident in 1993, the group disbanded, and Dumile retreated from public view, only to reemerge toward the end of the decade with a new name and an extravagant new persona.
Now calling himself MF Doom and wearing a metal mask inspired by the Marvel Comics villain Dr. Doom, Dumile released “Operation: Doomsday” in 1999. Produced by Dumile himself under the pseudonym Metal Fingers, the album couldn’t have been more out of step with hip-hop’s mainstream; featuring Dumile’s signature plainspoken flow and head-spinning volleys of intricate internal rhymes, off-the-wall cultural references and non-sequiturs, the album gained him a sizable cult following.
Dumile’s career was anything but straightforward, and he followed up the notoriety gained through “Doomsday” with a flurry of collaborations, instrumental releases and projects under the alternate alias Viktor Vaughn. His aligned with the influential Minneapolis label Rhymesayers for his second album as Doom, “Mm…Food,” in late 2004, but it was another project from earlier that year that truly established him among the uppermost ranks of independent hip-hop figures. Released via the Highland Park indie Stones Throw, “Madvillainy” united Dumile with California producer Madlib, with whom he established an uncanny chemistry. By turns cerebral and goofy, drugged-out and lucid, the album offered heady, jagged-edged collages of jazz samples and obscure film dialog, while Doom’s rhymes were as absurd, inventive, hilarious and endlessly quotable as ever. The album saw Dumile enter the lower rungs of the Billboard top 200 album chart, and brought with it substantial press attention and praise from some of the biggest names in hip-hop.
The following year, Dumile returned to the charts ― this time breaking into the top 50 ― via a collaboration with producer Danger Mouse, dubbed “The Mouse and the Mask.” Dumile’s subsequent recording career was characteristically erratic, releasing plenty of unexpected projects (including repeat work with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim), while other long-rumored collaborations (particularly a joint album with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah) failed to materialize. Never seen in public without his metal mask, Dumile became notorious for sometimes sending masked impostors to lip-sync in his stead at concerts; asked about this habit by Rolling Stone, he explained, “everything we do is villain-style.”
His last full album as Doom (having since dropped the MF) was released in 2009 ― titled “Born Like This,” it featured production from Madlib as well as the late J Dilla, and saw Dumile break into the album charts for the first time as a solo artist.
Original link Here https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mf-doom-death_n_5fee60c1c5b61817a5361803
Napoleon re-enactor Oleg Sokolov sentenced for dismembering student-turned-lover
A Russian professor who beheaded his student-turned-lover — and then planned to commit suicide as Napoleon Bonaparte — has been sentenced to more than 12 years in a stockade, according to a report.
Oleg Sokolov, 64, a former history professor at St. Petersburg State University, was found boozed up in a river in November 2019 with a bag containing the severed arms of 24-year-old Anastasia Yeshchenko.
Her severed head was discovered in an IKEA bag in his luxury apartment, while her torso and legs were recovered from the Moika River in St. Petersburg, East2West News reported.
Sokolov — Russia’s most famous Napoleon re-enactor — sat impassively while wearing a mask as a court in St. Petersburg sentenced him to 12½ years in a penal colony on Friday.
“He shot her, then tried to strangle her, but she continued showing signs of life so he shot her again,” Judge Yulia Maksimenko said, adding that he shot her four times with a rifle before dismembering her with a knife and saw.
One of the bullets, which were fired from a Soviet-era TOZ-17 stylized as a 19th-century cavalry rifle, went through the woman’s right eye, East2West reported.
After killing her and hiding her body parts under a bed, Sokolov partied with friends.
“His friends visited him, they all drank cognac,” the court heard.
Once they left, he beheaded and dismembered the corpse in his bathroom.
Sokolov was caught when he was found in the icy river trying to dispose of his lover’s arms, which he had chopped off at her shoulders.
The disgraced academic pleaded guilty to her murder, but told the court it had not been premeditated and that the PhD student had driven him to “a state of complete insanity” by making insulting remarks about his children from another relationship.
It emerged that he had suspected Yeshchenko of cheating on him — and became violent when she told him she planned on going to a friend’s birthday party.
She had told him that her freedom must be respected, but the judge said Sokolov was fiercely jealous amid the 40-year age difference.
Sokolov — who had lectured at the Sorbonne and was awarded the Legion of Honour order of merit by France — and Yeschenko had both taken part in Napoleonic re-enactments in full historic regalia.
Earlier, Sokolov said in court: “I want to express deep and complete remorse for what I have done. I not only believe that I must be punished, I want to be punished to atone for the crime I committed.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/28/napoleon-re-enactor-gets-12-5-years-for-dismembering-student/
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Business teacher, 38, could face prison for ‘kissing and inappropriately touching’ her teen boy student
A former Morton, Illinois, teacher is facing charges following allegations she engaged in sex abuse of a male student, News Break reports.
The incident between the Morton, Illinois, high school business teacher and the student allegedly occurred in September.
Erin Kemp, 38, was slapped with a subpoena earlier this month.
The former Morton, Illinois, teacher was ordered to appear in Tazewell County Circuit Court for her alleged sex crime.
A conviction on the sex abuse charge could put the the Morton, Illinois, teacher away for seven years.
Or, if the judge is more lenient with Kemp, she could get off with just probation.
Kemp was a business teacher at Morton High School in Illinois before her downfall following sex-abuse charges, Patch reports.
She resigned from her post in September, shortly after the scandal broke.
Hill’s statement did not clarify any details about the exact nature of the sex abuse allegedly committed by the Morton, Illinois, teacher.
Kemp first began working as a teacher in the Morton, Illinois, school district in 2007 — a career soon destroyed by the sex abuse allegations.
During the last school year, she received about $70,000 in salary and benefits.
The Journal Star was able to learn that Kemp told school officials that she kissed the student in question and touched him in an inappropriate way.
When questioned by the Morton, Illinois, school officials, the student ultimately disclosed that the teacher had sexually preyed upon him.
The student permitted a forensic download of his phone.
There, investigators found sexualized text messages between the Morton, Illinois, teacher and her student.
Kemp expressed numerous romantic fantasies about herself and the child as well as worries that the boy would leave her in the dust in the end, Week.com reports.
via: https://knewz.com/morton-illinois-teacher-sex-charges/?utm_source=nypost
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Video shows woman falsely accusing Keyon Harold’s son of stealing her phone – later found in Uber
A woman falsely accused a jazz musician’s 14-year-old son of stealing her cellphone — lunging at the teen during a wild caught-on-camera incident in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.
Footage of the altercation, posted by New York-based trumpeter Keyon Harrold, was shared widely on Sunday, with many saying it was yet another example of racial profiling and bogus accusations launched against black people.
“I am furious!!! We see this crap happening all the time, but it hits different when it hits home!!!,” Harrold, who is black, wrote in the caption.
Harrold said the woman’s phone was returned to her by an Uber driver a few minutes after the incident.
The video shows the unidentified woman frantically telling a manager at the Arlo Hotel in SoHo that Harrold’s son had her phone.
“Take the case off that’s mine. Literally get it back,” she says, attempting to have the manager intervene.
The teen insists that he’s holding his own phone, as Harrold incredulously asks the woman “You think there’s only one iPhone made in the world?”
“My son has nothing to do with her,” the dad adds to the manager.
But the unhinged woman continues to say that “he has my phone” — before telling the dad and son she won’t let them leave the hotel and lunging at them.
At one point, Harrold can be heard asking the woman if she accused them simply because of their race.
The musician, who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z and Beyoncé, said he and his son were on their way to breakfast on Saturday when the woman “assaulted” them.
“This person quote on quote ‘lost’ her iPhone, and apparently, my son magically acquired it, which (is) merely ridiculous,” he wrote.
While his video is about a minute long, Harrold, 40, says the encounter lasted about five, during which the woman scratched him and tackled his son.
He also blasted the manager for “advocating” for the woman, who he said was no longer a guest of the boutique hotel, while he and his son were still staying there.
“Watch as the manager advocates for the lady who is not even a hotel guest, insisting and attempting to use his managerial authority to force my son to show his phone to this random lady,” Harrold wrote.
“He actually empowered her!!!”
She didn’t apologize for the “traumatic” situation for his son, or to him, and neither did anyone at the hotel, Harrold said.
An Arlo spokesman did later apologize to Harrold and his son in a statement and said that while the manager called the cops and hotel security stepped in, “more could have been done to de-escalate the dispute.”
“We’re deeply disheartened about the recent incident of baseless accusation, prejudice and assault against an innocent guest of Arlo hotel,” the statement said.
Police confirmed they were called to the hotel on Saturday afternoon for a report of harassment, saying the woman had grabbed and shoved the dad and son after accusing them of taking a cellphone she had misplaced.
The encounter drew comparisons to notorious Central Park ‘Karen’ Amy Cooper — who touched off a firestorm in May when she called the cops on a black birdwatcher who asked her to keep her dog on a leash.
Speaking to The New York Times on Sunday, Harrold said he was left “shell-shocked” by the incident and that he believed his son, Keyon Harrold Jr., was racially-profiled by the woman.
“I wonder what would happen if it were different, if it were a black woman and there was a white 14-year-old,” he said.
He said he worried about what would have happened if he hadn’t been there to protect his son, noting “I’ve seen people be hurt or even killed for less.”
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Harrold — who appeared on the Grammy-winning soundtrack for the 2016 Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead” — thanked fans for their support but warned Internet sleuths not to falsely accuse others of being the woman in the video.
“Let’s be mindful and spread love through this hatefulness,” he wrote.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/woman-falsely-accuses-keyon-harrolds-son-of-stealing-phone/
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Breonna Taylor sculpture smashed by vandals in California
A bust sculpture honoring police shooting victim Breonna Taylor was smashed by vandals over the weekend, prompting a probe by Oakland police, according to reports.
The memorial, installed two weeks ago in downtown Latham Square, was smashed in several places sometime Saturday, ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported.
The bust includes a plaque that reads: “Say Her Name, Breonna Taylor,” the station said.
“At first I was stunned and shocked and hurt and angry,” artist Leo Carson, who created the sculpture, told the outlet.
“Just a whole bunch of emotions,” he said. “It felt like I was personally attacked and also they attacked Breonna Taylor and the BLM movement.”
Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT technician, was shot and killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched raid on March 13.
Taylor’s death, and the May 25 police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, were among the catalysts that sparked massive Black Lives Matter protests throughout the world, including in the Bay Area city.
Oakland police said in a statement that a report had been filed in the vandalism of the Taylor bust and that police were investigating the incident, the Mercury News said.
Carson said he paid for the statue “out of my own pocket.”
He hopes to raise enough money to repair the statue and have it bronzed to make it more durable. He’s launched a GoFundMe page with a goal of $5,000.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/breonna-taylor-sculpture-smashed-by-vandals-in-california/
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