Starting at the school where they first met, they document the creative recording techniques from their first album, JMJ hooking them up with DJ Scratch, forming the Hit Squad and much more besides. But it's when things started to fall apart that it gets really interesting. Both artists talk openly about the fallout, the reasons, and the subsequent reformation. June 12, Quinine 2 - Part 2. Labels: Audio , Golden Era , Nine. June 8, Quinine 2 - Part 1. May 31, What do you ask god?
The Red Bull Music Academy has been consistently representing good hip hop for a few years now, but now they bring us nearly 2 hours of discussion with hip hop's greatest emcee. I don't think I need say any more, let Ra do the talking. Just take another look at that image! Props to Janka-man for sharing this. It turned up on one of the best websites there is for finding obscure and out of print records. I'd never seen it before, so I'm assuming many of you won't have either.
Here's the description:. Over 1 full day 33 live performances of vintage and official live throwdowns, spanning from to New York City's original school together in one complete set. This collector's set includes one data DVD containing 3. Each show is ID'd and sequenced, resulting in convenient use and enjoyment, as opposed to each show being one thirty to ninety minute-long continuous track.
The list of essentials on this disc is endless. Includes a 24 page full color booklet of vintage NYC show flyers and artwork. If you're an old schooler with a passion for this type of stuff, then download, buy some food supplies and lock yourself in a room for a couple of days whilst you reminisce. All the links and a detailed track listing can be found here:.
Last month was the 3rd anniversary of Guru's death. Somehow this tribute track from Marco Polo, Talib Kweli and DJ Premier completely passed me by, which is a shame, because it's pretty nice. See what you think. Nope, I'm not offering to read your mind, or bend a spoon. I've previously covered this demo and 29 others here , but the tracks were embedded and were not available for download, whereas this downloadable version contains all 6 tracks. Props to Warlord for sharing this rarity.
Producer Dominic Owen has released the 3rd instalment of his unreleased Rakim tracks. For me, this is an interesting piece of history that adds another layer to this track. As you can see from the Soundcloud title, Dominic produced this track in , but the LP wasn't released until ! This version is far superior to the album cut, but then I've always hated the LP version.
Because there is another bootleg version that ranks as one of my all time favourite Rakim tracks. Both versions are presented here, you decide which is better, but don't waste your time with the LP version. May 21, A Smooth Operator's History.
Labels: Big Daddy Kane , Documentary. May 11, Wu Excitement??? You've either been in a coma, working on the international space station, or stranded in a desert somewhere if you've missed all the hype around the latest Ghostface Killah project Twelve Reasons to Die.
But just because there's been a lot of hype, it doesn't mean that you've paid it any attention. I haven't, because experience has taught me not to get excited about the Wu, and I'm sure I'm not on my own. I should probably mention now that the Apollo Brown remix is currently only available on a limited edition free cassette that accompanies the CD album.
Most if not all of these have been sold, but I can help you out there so keep reading. Before I get into the music, let's just read the concept for the album, how it was conceived and understand that this album was recorded live. From the official website: As those involved tell it, the story came first, the music second and the lyrics last. Twelve Reasons to Die is the creation myth of a black superhero set in s Italy, which looks a lot like s Scorsese. The curtain opens on a young man born into a life of crime.
For these crimes, the criminal organization he came up in murders him and dumps his body in a vat of acetate. His former friends press 12 records from his remains, but when those records play, his vengeful spirit arises.
Though he was rebuffed and disrespected in life, in legend the Ghostface Killah becomes immortal. And just like it's cinematic concept, the album plays out like a film. The production quality is akin to the same creativity that Rza showed in the early days of the Wu, often using simple, effective, stripped back melodies and beats that give everything space to breathe.
It's not my intention to write a review of this album, so that's enough of my analysis. Why not check it out for yourself without having to part with your hard earned cash. Even better, why not check out the Apollo Brown remix for free too?
And just for good measure, I'll even embed the video too. If you're feeling this album, or just a fan of Ghostface, then you've got a full hit to you main artery here. Mike Check.
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Because we know that across this country every day there are CISOs, there are infosec professionals who understand the right thing to do, who see the threat reporting, who know about the vulnerabilities, who want to deploy the right controls in their environments, who want the right gates in place in their SDLC. But for whatever reason, their organizations find it hard to justify the changes in investment models in business practices, in software development practices, delaying products, delaying features that are necessary sometimes to put in the right level of security.
And we need to really closely partner with organizations across this country and, frankly, across the world to make sure that we are benefiting from real visibility into emerging cybersecurity risks, and that we take action in concert with the private sector, with other government partners so that we can actually have a higher likelihood of long term risk reduction change.
PAUL: You worked, again, Goldman Sachs, which is obviously huge target and also a company that has resources to invest in cutting edge technology. Same is true with the federal government. What have you seen the difference in just in terms of even issues like procurement and program development, private sector versus government?
ERIC: You know, I think it is certainly the case that the private sector is often, although not universally more able to move with agility in procurement and adopting new technologies, certainly in higher and talented personnel. But the government, I think, really is catching up. And there have been some interesting discoveries as a result of that. What has been the response to that? Is that something that you can see CISA pushing federal government agencies to stand up?
ERIC: Absolutely. Before this directive, there was, of course, no requirement for agencies to adopt even a policy, not least a program or a platform.
But moving forward, just this past summer, we rolled out a new shared service where we now offer a vulnerability disclosure platform as a service utilizing a well respected third party vendor that allows federal agencies to adopt our vulnerability disclosure platform without any of the burden on them.
To find a provider, go through a procurement stand it up. We did all of that work for them. Because, of course, we know that getting researchers to find a vulnerability is one key step. Getting them to report it into a trusted platform is a key step. Triaging it is one more key step. But then at the end of all that, you got to actually fix something. Can you talk a little bit about that? ERIC: This is really one of the most exciting things I think happening in government right now, not just cybersecurity.
Congress saw this concern, and a bill last winter authorized CISA to establish a new cyber planning and defense organization. Obviously the most kind of salient cybersecurity threat out there right now. This is a really big problem with many different heads to it, right?
There are many different causes and contributors to the ransomware pandemic, including tolerant foreign countries that are allowing these groups to operate from within their borders. And what steps has the agency taken to address this problem? The first is an understanding that even though there are infrequent ransomware events that use novel tactics, techniques and procedures, the majority of ransomware intrusions, probably the vast majority, are utilizing known vulnerabilities and known security weaknesses to perpetrate the initial intrusion and to cause highly impactful encryption events.
That, of course, are so harmful to organizations. And so our first goal is to make sure that every single organization in this country a understands the risk, understands the potential impact of the risk on their ability to provide their functions, their services to their customers or the constituents, and then make sure that those organizations know and adopt these known best practices that we know are effective in reducing the likelihood and impact of a cybersecurity or a ransomware event.
Now, looking back a few months, we surveyed the landscape of information about ransomware, and we identified a problem that probably will not be a surprise to any listener, which is the US government had a whole bunch of websites out there with information about ransomware and having just come from the private sector.
And so the government got together and said, you know what?
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