http://www.myspace.com/jiggyjeffrey
In an age when every self-tanned pop tart talks tough about Pushing Boundaries by ditching the Hanes Her Way and getting arrested, Imani Coppola is sitting back on a stoop in Bed Stuy and not giving a shit. A brash, biracial beauty with the voice of an angry angel and a truck-stop vocabulary, she’s more concerned with creating music that feels like having a line of coke blown up your ass. The release of her eighth studio venture, The Black And White Album, which drops in November 2007, marks a departure from the sound to which many of her fans have grown accustomed. The melancholic, sample-heavy soundscapes featured on albums like Chupacabra and Aphrodite have given way to a more anarchic, visceral noise that settles on no genre in particular. After touring with Ghettotech collective Peeping Tom and taking on experimental side projects like Little Jackie—a 6os ponytail group based on the Lisa Lisa song of the same name—Imani has emerged with her most eclectic and personal album to date. There was a lot of biography to mine: As a multi-racial kid growing up in the whitest of Long Island suburbs, Imani basically grew up neutral until she was 13—when hip-hop blew up and she could finally cash in all her black chips. (“Woke Up White,” a punk track off the latest album recalls a similar identity crisis, which hit her when she was walking through her brownstone—but not brown-toned—neighborhood in Park Slope and realized she needed to move.) While studying Violin Performance in SUNY Purchase, she briefly thought she might be Asian. But she was given little time to explore this new twist in her makeup, as she was swept up by Columbia Records freshman year and pushed into the studio to record an album for them. A lot of transformations followed, including a period of entrepreneurial poverty that saw her living in Staten Island and reciting lyrics into a Dictaphone, until she formed a record label of one and began producing albums independently. For The Black & White Album, she teamed with Ipecac Recordings. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she continues to write and produce tracks that she fully expects will blow your fucking mind.
Gee Whiz!! You are absolutely Beautiful!! So glad I can listen to your page from time to time. When someone tells me " I love your hair" I TELL EM RIP IT OUT!! Your voice... the music...my senses react. Thank you for being you and please keep working!! Never stop.
when i look at the bears on your page they make me smile and then make me cry. thank you for your wonderful music, and thanks forereminding people what we are losing with those pictures.
The Spiritual Envoy - over 55 shows on spiritual cohesion!
Hi Folks!
Please do come listen to some of the shows for The Spiritual Envoy series on my site, or at www. blogtalkradio. com/thespiritualenvoy. Danah, Mary, Shawn, Jamilah, Mike and I have been working hard this year to make sure we bring you the best information possible on raising spiritual children, understanding spiritual approaches to educating our children and changing this educational system around, and a psychologist's approach to spirituality.
Also, check out my friend Eshe's site too, as she makes wonderful herbal formulas that are incredible for everyone, but especially women. She is putting on a conference in Atlanta next week.
Please help spread the word for this important source for women's health, and the men who love us!
Eshe - The Herb Sistah! www. myspace. com/herbsistah
Eshe wants you to join her at The International Fibroid Free Womb Wellness Women's Conference Oct. 11-12, 2008 - Atlanta!
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Friday - 10/3/08 Erick Morillo @ Crobar
$20 with RSVP before Midnight @ www. DustTraxx. com
Saturday - 10/4/08 Roger Sanchez @ Crobar
$15 with RSVP before Midnight @ www. DustTraxx. com
Monday - 10/6/08 BOOM BOOM ROOM - THIS IS A BENEFIT FOR PAUL JOHNSON
Derrick Carter
Brian Heath & Steve Melvage
DJ Diz / Michael Serafini / Just Joey / Uncle Milty
House Of Stank / Angel Alanis / Lady Foursquare / Chuck Bleu
SHE SPOKE TWO LANGUAGES, ENGLISH AND SIGN. SHE WAS THE TYPE OF WOMAN THAT YOU'D WINE AND DINE SHE WAS HALF BREED, MIXED WITH BEAUTIFUL AND FINE I TRIED TO READ HER LIKE A BOOK, BUT COULDNT READ BETWEEN HER LINES
SHE WAS BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL, SHE'D WALK AROUND AT NITE WITH SUNSHINE AND SOMETIMES, SHE'D BLOW KISSES IN MY BRAIN THAT WOULD FUCK WITH MY SPINE
SHE CRIPPLED ME
I KNOW IM WORTH ABOUT A MILLION AND SHE TRIPLED ME SHIT, SHE WAS STRONG AND SWEET LIKE RIPPLE BE HER BEAUTY LEFT ME DUMBFOUNDED, SHE NIC NAMED ME, SIMPLE D
SHE SET UP CAMP IN MY SOUL, THAT'S WHERE HER TEMPLE BE AND THE ONLY HOLES IN HER HEAD WAS WHERE HER DIPPLES BE
IM SPEECHLESS
SHE'D LEAVE PASTORS PREACHLESS AND SCHOLARS TEACHLESS SHE WAS SO INTUNE WITH NATURE, SHE WALK THRU THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND LEAVE THE TREES PEACHLESS
I WOULD LOVE TO EAT HER SHE WAS LIKE A DRUM WITH A HOLE IN IT, YOU CANT BEAT HER I WOULD STAND ON THE CORNER OF FOREVER AND ETERNITY, JUST TO MEET HER AND IF SHE COMPLAINED OF BEING COLD, I'D SET MYSELF AFIRE, JUST TO HEAT HER
YOU AMAZE ME
YOU COULD SIT ON MY FACE ALL NITE AND WOULDNT FAZE ME WE'D MAKE LOVE SONGS LIKE FRANKIE BEVERLY AND MAZE BE AND OUR MOVEMENT WILL BE CHOREOGRAPH LIKE THEM OLD SCHOOL DAYS BE.
Hope you guys made it home again... It has been fun. I..m looking forward to seeing you again. But next time we..ll have some drinks and all the other fun things...Squeezzeeee the Kiwi;)
Just wanted to let you know that our second CD "?!Interrobang?!"-- featuring guest appearances from our friends Rocker T, Dr. Ring Ding, King Django and others is available right now at www. stubbornrecords. com
wooop and yes, it's out now: the Lump200 album UNSIGNED
please feel free to comment, recommend etc. UNSIGNED is available on iTunes, finetunes etc. (world) and as CD (D/CH/A), please check your preferred shop
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