http://www.38thnotes.com Bay Area. Hip-Hop. Culture Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:13:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/18/video-bay-area-bands-on-soul-train/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/18/video-bay-area-bands-on-soul-train/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:03:07 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3770 In the wake of Don Cornelius's passing, much has been said about the cucumber-cool Cornelius and his long-running and iconic show, Soul Train. I won't wax poetic about the show's societal impact and influence because it's been done by many who can say [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/18/video-bay-area-bands-on-soul-train/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/video-shit-oakland-as-fans-say/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/video-shit-oakland-as-fans-say/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:13 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3745 Everyone and their mama has made a "Shit _____ Says" video. I'm pretty sure the only variation that hasn't been conceived and filmed is "Shit Mute Czechoslovakian Prostitutes Say To Deaf Elton John Groupies." That said, there have been some pretty [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/video-shit-oakland-as-fans-say/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/concert-estelle-w-elle-varner-stacy-barthe-and-luke-james/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/concert-estelle-w-elle-varner-stacy-barthe-and-luke-james/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:54:53 +0000 niema http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3712 What are you doing this Friday? Oh. you don't know yet? Well, Estelle is hitting the stage at The New Parish as part of the BET Music Matters Tour. This London girl will be singing some of the tracks that got her U.S. buzz and promoting her new album [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/concert-estelle-w-elle-varner-stacy-barthe-and-luke-james/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/music-video-krypto-los-rakas-tha-jacka-gyangsta/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/music-video-krypto-los-rakas-tha-jacka-gyangsta/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:34:13 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3739 Haters are as old as the earth is round. I bet you there were Neanderthals who made cave paintings to clown rival hunters with less prowess. 5 pence says that medieval chamber maids put the kings' mistresses on blast at the market and that knights [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/07/music-video-krypto-los-rakas-tha-jacka-gyangsta/feed/ 3 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/04/event-valentines-day-with-martin-luther/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/04/event-valentines-day-with-martin-luther/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:56:38 +0000 niema http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3698 Have you made plans for February 14th? Did you remember to include a night at Museum of the African Diaspora with Martin Luther? If not, you still have time to grab your tickets for the unplugged session co-presented by the museum's young professionals [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/04/event-valentines-day-with-martin-luther/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/happy-138th-birthday-to-oaklands-gertrude-stein/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/happy-138th-birthday-to-oaklands-gertrude-stein/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3707 Author and art collector Gertrude Stein holds an infamous place in Oakland lore. She is the source of the often un-contectualized and misused quote, "there is no there, there," frequently used to down Oakland. Beyond that, not many Oaklanders are too familiar with her. [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/happy-138th-birthday-to-oaklands-gertrude-stein/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/event-community-thrift/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/event-community-thrift/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:39 +0000 niema http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3682 "Environmental and social degradation is the battle that I am trying to fight," explains Dominique Drakeford, an Oakland native  pursuing her masters in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Fashion.  "However, the war is really in changing attitudes. [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/03/event-community-thrift/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/02/too-hort-speaks-on-the-efficacy-of-the-hyphy-sound/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/02/too-hort-speaks-on-the-efficacy-of-the-hyphy-sound/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:56:05 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3672 Too $hort is the godfather of Bay Area rap and the independent hustle. His music may strike you as misogynistic and gross, but he's a very smart man. If you're an up-and-coming emcee, when he talks, you listen. The gospel $hort is preaching these [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/02/too-hort-speaks-on-the-efficacy-of-the-hyphy-sound/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/01/needed-perspective-on-occupy-oakland-from-kazu-haga/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/01/needed-perspective-on-occupy-oakland-from-kazu-haga/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:40:02 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3665 In 1968 Armory Douglass wrote a book entitled, Oakland's Not For Burning. Douglass himself was no real authority on Oakland or it's social movements, as he was a Yale-educated Wall Street Lawyer who tried to ice out the Printers union on behalf of the [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/02/01/needed-perspective-on-occupy-oakland-from-kazu-haga/feed/ 0 http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/01/26/album-review-daveed-diggs-small-things-to-a-giant/ http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/01/26/album-review-daveed-diggs-small-things-to-a-giant/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:55:11 +0000 Coolhand Luke http://www.38thnotes.com/?p=3655 Daveed Diggs is a soft-spoken maniacal motherfucker. He’s a quiet fellow when you first meet him–no rapper braggadocio or traces of ‘too cool for school’ bravado to speak of. He does stand out though. Aesthetically, Diggs fuses hyphy fashion sensibilities [...]]]> http://www.38thnotes.com/2012/01/26/album-review-daveed-diggs-small-things-to-a-giant/feed/ 0