Check out this video: Vote Like A Rockstar: The After School Special
VIEW VOTE LIKE A ROCKSTAR: The After School Special AND VISIT or SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL for more video footage that was unable to fit into the two hour special (this is only the first 30 minutes of the show, I have to find a way to upload larger files!). The extra footage by LOS POBLANOS, TRUTH 505 and ROSE SIMPSON, was not included due to formatting issues (tech difficulties) and some of the other interviews and profiles that will be added to the channel SOON were not included simply due to time restraints (we just reeled them off in the order that they were taped). So forgive us. But special thanks to Trillion Art Space and Channel 27 Public Access.
This aired the night before the election and the day of the election in the Albuquerque Metropolitan viewing area, now you have access to it world wide.
The videography was submitted by various participants and the staged footage of the bands and the profiles was done at Trillion Art Space by Tom Wright Productions. The Band you see is the Law of Attraction (www.myspace.com/theoriginallawofattraction) and Element 37. New Mexico Youth Organized was the sponsor of Vote Like a Rockstar: The After School Special.
Thank you all who participated and most importantly, thank all of you who got out and VOTED!!!
No really, America THANKS you.
Hakim
Influences
Saul, Reggie Gibson, Jerry Quickley, Sekou Tha Misfit & Sundiatta, Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Sonia Sanchez, Kipling, Chaucer, Frost, Whitman, Gibran, Shakur, Christopher Wallace, Q-Tip, Phife, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, De La Soul is Not Dead, Dickinson, Neruda, Perdomo, Barraka, Gil Scott Heron, Jill Scott, Musiq Soul Child, Common, Talib, Kanye, Marley, Bonton, The Last Poets, Ben Harper, DiFranco, Jack Johnson, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, THE ROOTS, J.Ivy, Malik Yusef, Black Ice, Taylor Mali, Jessica Care More, Every Church Song and Negro Spiritual I Know, Rasheed Bellamy, TKP...The Most High...and My Grandpa for one particularly personal piece. AND OF COURSE (AND INTRODUCING - insert drumroll here!) my beloved son who is re-educating me on how to be enchanted with life and the love of learning it and letting it learn you...yes, the one and only, the child who made Kool-Aid go "Oh Yeah", the hijo that invented the Nike Swoosh...KAYLEM MIKAH BELLAMY...and below you'll see why his is the influence I drive under...
Sounds Like
Old problems with new solutions. Sounds like same old shit, with a different flava. Sounds like oppression and overcoming. Sounds like nothing you've ever heard and everything else. Sounds like love. Sounds like pain. Sounds like game. Sounds like passion. Sounds like struggle. Sounds like Hip-Hop. Sounds like rock. Sounds classical. Sounds realistic. Sounds optimistic. Sounds like yesterday AND tomorrow. Sounds like today, and it's only getting better from here. Sounds like you, if you can relate. Sounds like me, if you can feel it. Sounds like...like...something you gotta hear to KNOW what it sounds like.
Double Duty? Nah, if you disect "Az-Hiz-Elf", you would soon stagger past appearances, because everything is not always as it seems, I am not an Elf of God/Allah or Lucifer...if all, any or either is a He...we, believe in the act now philosophy of the Earth Liberation Front, we aren't referring to those elfs, Keebler or the likes of Will Ferrell(F)...just Hakim Bellamy...as....him...self...like Bill Cosby, but...not. So there's a bio already rambled into cyberspace on My "other" Space (www.myspace.com/tirods) or www.tirods.com....me and mine, me and my band, Me, Myself, and I...rene or De La...whatever it be...or it NOT be is all me. "They sing so fine, don't you agree...SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!" Confused yet? Then YES, you have read my bio.
Gavin Castleton is currently on tour with Taking Back Sunday, he and his trio will be gracing the 508 stage this FRIDAY.
w/ Baretta May (members from One For Hope and more..)
& Zack Freeman
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Vinyl & Verses sets it off again for our annual Pre Thanksgiving mash up! Arrive early because we max capacity every year and we don't want you in line out in the cold.
Peace Hakim! Divine pleasure crossing paths at Chromas :) Missing the Burque vibes already! Looking forward to being graced by your presence at Real Histories of the Americas II! Con*Paz
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Yo what up Hakim. Keep up that conscious thought, We need That.Sometimes we get caught up in our own ish that we forget that we are the (grown) Folkz in charge of takin care of this country now. (or at least me). Peace
Don't miss the 18+ Back 2 School Bash on Wednesday September 2nd w/ DJ Mantra, DJ 12Tribe & Mercury Ecks! No cover for girls in Naughty School Girl Outfits before 11pm! This is the kickoff party for 18+ Dirty Wednesdays which will be every Wednesday Night at Lotus!
