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kept seeing this one dude at the anarchist book fair that was rubbing me wrong
one of many white guys there, wearing a crisply screened shirt emblazoned with the idiom “NO JUSTICE NO PEACE.”
central image is a photograph of a young black child aiming a pistol and looking stern
and dude that is not your kid
or our slogan
and what are you trying to communicate with this fetishized image. this appropriated expression. i don’t think that kid sold you his image or intended it to be sloganeered to show what a confrontational bad-ass you are who totally sticks it to the man.
hey people who like me are not made targets of police harassment and violence and misconduct, and who are not literally embroiled in unrest from which there is no apparent relief?
let’s get our own slogan. that one is not ours.
your newer stuff couldn’t be more calibrated to elicit the crowd response “gee are you ok?” you imbued it with a lot of shit you were processing when you made it. if people see you performing it and get the idea you might be struggling with something, then the art is serving its purpose and communicating, because you are (or were) struggling with something, and the art is the venue in which the struggle takes place. that’s why we make art out of our rough shit, so the struggle doesn’t all take place inside and wreck up the furniture.
i don’t think it makes for a crappy show to channel crappy emotions.
me (rap legend jesse dangerously) giving advice to a famous friend who heard some people thought something seemed “off” at their last big show.HEY JESSE LOOK AT THE ROUGHTING
this is what my friend Ames is like all the time. wearing an outfit and roughting you up.
to everyone who has been quite rightfully asking where their vinyl is… i got you. #canada #USA #Australia #Germany #France #UK #Switzerland
Here is me walking offstage at Ottawa Comic Con.
You can see my animal ears.
Thank you Jesse for inviting me to rap/letting me invite myself.
The rappers behind me (or, that I am behind) are Jesse Dangerously & Tribe One. They will be coming to EVERY US CITY this summer in July & August, so go see them. If you wear animal ears to the show Jesse would be delighted to take a photo with you for this blog.
Jess: http://rljd.tumblr.com/
Tribe: http://wecandonothingherebutperish.tumblr.com/this night was ill
that hilarious time when you use your dear friend’s name as shorthand for unleashing righteous feminist rage on some POOR UNSUSPECTING MISOGYNIST (and your mom knows exactly what you mean.)
I’ve been known to go kira-lynn for real on dudes. .. also I’ve seen Kira go jesse.
this is the Peace Wall on Sussex Drive. is anyone proofreading this thing? compare top right and bottom left…. (at Peacekeeping Monument)
the shithead convention is in town again. how many adults can you late term abort at once?
- This is the first part of a little project I will work on while traveling. I will take reader input on where to go next, and we will see where this goes. Updating from my phone so apologies for any awkwardness.
The beach is worn smooth and hard and the ocean is cold. Confused winds bring alternately sea-salt and the smell of smoke from somewhere inland. Before you jut black rocks like fingers. Two towers stand, skeletal, in the distance.
What do you do?> search the nearby shore
My great homie Apt, a fellow Halifax->Ontario transplant, who was just a kid back when I only just wasn’t, has finished his first new rap project since Canvastripper in 2005. It is called 12 Bits and I think it is AMAZING and I am not wrong.
Check out his sampler plate here - check out the GRIT on all surfaces. Wow!
This is what he says:
“This is a taste of what to expect from the album 12 Bits, to be released on Droppin’ Science in the next month or so. All production by Apt, featuring appearances by DJ Cosmo, Ghettosocks, Bix, Timbuktu, Saidah Conrad and of course: George the Pug.”
here is a 6 litre container made of 1/2 cent’s worth of plastic and worth ten bucks taxes in because of its trendy logo. this is a calvin fucking klein garbage box.
- What do you most want to be known for that you've already done? (not just albums or songs, everything)
I mean I WANT to be known for something I don’t think I’ve done yet - creating something really special and meaningful that connects with countless strangers the way the art that adds meaning to my life connected with me. I’m barely scratching the surface of what I hope to offer and I hope I get on the right track before I die.
That’s not what you asked though is it. I guess I just hope people who’ve met me tell their friends I’ve been kind to them, and said something so funny they almost barfed.
- Hey Jesse, did you watch Ice T's kind of useless documentary about lyricism where he gets all these amazing interview subjects and then spends the practically the whole time talking about himself? (The bit where Eminem talks about Treach is cool tho)
I sure did! I actually found it really charming, even though I think that Ice T is almost a surrealistically unintuitive host/director/producer for a doc on that particular topic. For all of his doggedly influential presence at a certain impressionable stage of hip-hop’s development, even when I was a kid I thought what passed for “lyricism” coming from him was laughably dull.
It actually makes him nearly perfect for the job, though - it turns him into a Diane Fossey, making observations on a species he has made himself intimate familiar to and with, but which he could never understand innately. Like when Rakim talks about plotting out sixteen bars, Ice T CANNOT HANDLE THIS INFORMATION. He has NEVER HEARD of knowing how rap works. It quickly becomes really clear why he did what he did, and never what they did.
His selection of interviewees is mostly pretty hard to find fault with, though - especially in the earlier, easterly-oriented segments. Talking to Snoop and Dre is kind of agonizing if you think about what other west coast style innovators he COULD have spent time with… neither of those dudes have ever been competent writers on any level. That was kind of weird
I was frustrated that he didn’t ask better questions, but I LIKED the camaraderie he had with almost everyone he spoke to, so eff it. The only sad thing was that you could almost taste how hard he was PRAYING every time he asked a hip-hop legend to “just say any rhyme that comes into your mind…” that they would kick one of his. It’s cringe-inducing when Snoop finally grants his wish… only to trail off, and have Ice T bring it back because HE IS SO EXCITED SOMEONE SAID HIMMMMMM!
Oh it was also weird how much of it was urban scenes of Ice T, age 67, wearing sunglasses and regarding New York City with an icily restrained yet seething hostility. I think that was because he is an ACTOUR.
- My great homie Apt, a fellow Halifax->Ontario transplant, who was just a kid back when I only just wasn’t, has finished his first new rap project since Canvastripper in 2005. It is called 12 Bits and I think it is AMAZING and I am not wrong. Check out his sampler plate here - check out the GRIT on all surfaces. Wow! This is what he says: “This is a taste of what to expect from the album 12 Bits, to be released on Droppin’ Science in the next month or so. All production by Apt, featuring appearances by DJ Cosmo, Ghettosocks, Bix, Timbuktu, Saidah Conrad and of course: George the Pug.”
(No streaming audio available)268 plays - Montreal’s Recordface remixed our unreleased track “Pro-War Bumper Sticker” and now it is way more synthy and aggressive and I want you to play this with BASS and I want you to shout parts of it at people you think are HOT and parts of it at people you think are ASSHOLES and if you get those parts mixed up then OOPS.
(No streaming audio available)273 plays - adamwarrock: The first single from the forthcoming EP, City Beautiful, featuring Jesse Dangerously & Beefy. EP digital release December 4! Lyrics and performance by Adam WarRock Production by Rob Viktum http://adamwarrock.comhttp://robviktum.bandcamp.com Featuring: http://dangerously.cahttp://beefyness.com click play on this, then reblog it with your favourite lines typed out! then you will Have Good Luck!
(No streaming audio available)791 plays - thattechnique: just playing with my music and I found that these two mashed up nicely. Celebrity Nudes - Jesse Dangerously Mineshaft - Croc 2 Soundtrack Holy cats, that works SHOCKINGLY well! Good work, “That” Technique! Shout out to Timbuktu for the original Celebrity Nudes remix beat, and to me for the original original celeb nudes beat which does not appear in this mashup, haha.
(No streaming audio available)547 plays - One day when I was reading in the news I seen somebody was sayingAbout a sister with my same last nameShe might have stabbed somebody who was stalking her outsideOf a pub, with a crew who not only was dogging her outBut slashed her, punched her with a glass in their handand yo it shattered, and punctured her salivary glandShe was cut and.. bleeding.. needing to make a path from themAll because they thought she was too masculine or somethingLosing blood and surrounded… (((((maybe she cut one down?)))))Hard times, but the part I find distressingIs that when the cops addressed it, only CeCe was arrestedNow that one raises questions, and answers unapolageticwas it because she is a trans person of colour?(((Bet it was!))) You said it, ‘cause the law puts you in prison whenYou stand your ground but aren’t named George fuckin’ ZimmermanIf you present as feminine and plus coloured like TrayvonNOT getting murdered is the charge you are arraigned onWalk with makeup painted on and pain is your rewardYo I’m saying, there’s no praying for an angel with a swordTo swoop and save you; (((you might gotta do something ratchet, baby)))‘Cause to let them fuck you up is just batshit crazyThat shit slays me - I’m all for non-violence, butIf you’re not white and seem queer there’s no smiling whenSirens sound and you seem astounded whenThe victim is the only one the cops are taking down with them(((Everybody saw it…))) they only thing they caught herDoing is refusing to be a god damn martyrThey called it manslaughter, locked up her fam’s daughterIn a men’s prison; justice left her but her friends didn’tTrans women, allies, stand up - some punksget beat down to jump the fuck back up
(No streaming audio available)260 plays - usedtobesoclean: March Hawk goes to to toe with rap legend Jesse Dangerously. punk rock!
(No streaming audio available)67 plays - JRemix 100% created this afternoon; inspired by the INUNDATION of Pumpkin Spice everything, now available everywhere! Pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin spice coffeePumpkin spice donut yeah the pumpkin spice got meNothing like pumpkin spice, your mother might have made thosePumpkin spice glazed ham, pumpkin spice potatoesPumpkin spice stays HAM, we all cakin now we got itPumpkin spice cologne on my throat and pumpkin shower productPumpkin spice narcotic on the corner, pumpkin spice potOrange lights and siren, that’s a pumpkin spice copOn the pumpkin spice block, pumping Smashing Pumpkin tapesPumpkin spice bootlegs, smash your pumpkin’s fuckin’ legsWhatsisname? Doesn’t say - pumpkin spice on foreign foodsPumpkin eggs benedict, pumpkin spice orange juiceTurn off the boring news, what’s this guy in line for?Midnight sale at Apple Store (PUMPKIN SPICE iPHONE)Hate it then you love it, that’s the pumpkin spice romcomNaked in the pumpkin patch, pumpkin spice condom Shorty let me tell you bout my only viceGot to do with lots of pumpkins and it’s called pumpkin spice (okay) Summers over, winter’s coming, Autumn brings its cargoPumpkins on everything, like I finished Star RoadPumpkins by the carload, trunk of my ImpalaAll-seeing eye on the pumpkin spice dollar!Got a pop a lotta bottles of that pumpkin spice chardonnaySaw a lot of models in that pumpkin spice lingeriePumpkin spice tanqeray, the new orange Gatoradepumpkin spice is here to say (NO MATTER WHAT THE HATERS SAY)Pumpkin spice the flavour they can’t use and have it not sellPumpkin spice conspiracies - pumpkin spice on RoswellPumpkin spice is hot as hell, even as thermometers dropit’s like a scarecrow - you know what belong at the top! You want me to stop?No? Get that economy popping, you wanna be shopping for quantity; stock yourPumpkin product larder from the malls to mom and pop storesPistol grip pumpkin for the wars, I hope you’ve got yours Shorty let me tell you bout my only viceGot to do with lots of pumpkins and it’s called pumpkin spice (okay) On the stand under lights, something like a gonerI know my fuckin’ rights - I’m pleading pumpkin spice, your honour x 2 … might have heard it once or twice… should have took your mom’s advice… bumping Kimya Dawson’s Thunder Thighs… AOL keyword: Pumpkin Spice!!
(No streaming audio available)1257 plays - We invented the remix of the remix! My new friend King K Rule, who was a chief cog in the magnificent machinery that produced Nerd Noise Night in Toronto last month, seems to be the first person to have taken on the implicit challenge to remix “Slept Through A Landslide,” using the a capella that’s provided with the download! I really like his woozy synths, which affront and challenge the key of the song itself, and the very intentional drum patterns that flow around the rhythms of the vocals. Also he was the bad guy in Donkey Kong Country! So that’s a surprising career change for the ol’ kroc, to be honest. But a welcome one. Let’s all grab this golden banana!
(No streaming audio available)143 plays - oh we hackin up Albert King today, eh Swagberg? Tough.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - The young grandson Nolely Nole has just blasted out a new one-off track, fueled by the incomparable M Mac (responsible for tracks by The Antiheroes, previous Nole joints, “I Tot Iann” by Lil B, and my own “Slept Through A Landslide”), and featuring my favourite member of Danny Brown’s Bruiser Brigade - DOPEHEAD. The hook is sampled from Robyn’s cover of “Cobra Style,” by that weird swedish buttrock band that featured dancehall vet Mad Cobra. So that’s automatic flavour. One of many ways in which Nolely is the Canadian Rye Rye? I can’t figure out my ultimate stance on Nole’s constant references to Chris Brown in this verse… on the one hand, he’s clowning on the dude’s bad temper and general poor conduct which I guess is appropriate… on the other hand though, some of that dude’s poor conduct is not any fun to think about, and it kind of makes me have less fun while I’m listening to this fun rap. And damn Nole, lay off Lil Mama! She looks great! Either way, though, this joint is a real swag receptacle. You will hear it leaking out of jeeps like radiator fluid all autumn if there’s any justice on the world (there isn’t).
(No streaming audio available)472 plays - Last weekend I attended the wedding of my good friend and rapping colleague More Or Les. It was a country club affair, and I was mad stressed about getting up to a level of non-bummy clothes so as to not have to be forcibly removed from the grounds. His family is Guyanese and hers is Scottish and that made it the most Torontonian thing I’ve ever been to. Anyway that was lovely but I’m posting this because his new album about food is dropping very shortly and you’re going to love it. The track I’m linking here features me, but I am far from the most exciting guest on the record - the big surprise that we’ve all been losing our ish over here at Backburner Industries is that Les & The Mighty Rhino brought in the legendary Chip-Fu of Fu-Schnickens to kick a verse and sing a hook on the song Top Chefs (Yammy). You can go stream the whole record from Soundcloud, but for right now at least peep the spot where Les very kindly invited me to kick rhymes about ice cream. Literally about ice cream.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - This joint by Kydd & A.Dd+ makes me think of early Goodie Mob - mainly the verses; if it had sixty layers of Cee-Lo harmonies for the hook, or if it was at least barked out like Khujo, it would be a little bit more on that tip, plus they never heard of having this many hihats before like 1996 even in the south, but STILL, you hear that?? This dude is in my top 10 right now. Maybe top 5 but I’m scared of commitment.
(No streaming audio available)922 plays - mmacbeats: Gold On Everything - Nolely Nole (prod. M Mac) This is one of my favourite songs EVER.
(No streaming audio available)318 plays - jim-nightshade: cnephas: of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal this is always gonna be my favorite song I had to take a break from these guys for a few years, because of emotions related to events, but this song is absolutely killer. It’s on a whole other level from like, music. Audra and I used to listen to it on long drives in Alberta. It was on almost every mixed CD we burned, when would make two or three for trips from Edmonton to Calgary or Lethbridge and back. I think we first heard it from Said The Gramophone’s list of their favourite songs of 2007… that and Britney Spears’s “Piece Of Me” and Amerie’s “Gotta Work,” which all passed into all-time favourite territory for me. I’m still not ready to listen to “The Past Is A Grotesque Animal” again yet, but one day I will.
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BuyThis single is a remix of "Tired Angels" by Krista Muir. The beat was built by M Mac, with other musical elements contributed by Peter Project, Jeff Ngan, and me. I creatively directed the whole thing and it made me feel like a mixture of James Lavelle and Kanye West. I asked my friend and colleague of nearly 13 years, Noah 23, to rap on it with me - there was a special urgency because it was the end of 2011 and he had announced he was quitting music at the end of the year. We had tried a few times to work together before but technical & timing issues plagued our language... so this felt like my last chance. He came through, and although it makes me really sad to think of him feeling the despair that he describes in his verse, he captured it beautifully. I'm so glad that he not only did me the honour of appearing, but of killing me on my own shit. Ouch. There are many things to say about the themes and ideas in this song, but I'm not going to write them here. I've written them in a zine that's serves as a companion to the single, which also includes short fiction and memoirs and comics and illustrations and other pertinent works by friends of mine. You can order that here! For now just listen closely, and figure out what you think it all adds up to. And take care of yourself.-
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BuyThe first single and video from Jesse Dangerously's self-produced 2011 album, Humble & Brilliant! It features Canadian feminist icon Audra Williams, rapping and tapdancing, and Bad DJ Budget Cuts on scratches. Included free with the single download is a high-res file of the exciting music video directed by Charlotte Wolf! You can also watch that video at-
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BuyJesse Dangerously IS "Humble & Brilliant!" This gorgeous book is the greatest rap album you have ever heard, unless you have ever heard A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing or Slaughtahouse. Halifax rap legend Jesse Dangerously has split his mind lengthwise, bisecting it along the lines that divide the synaptic processes responsible for “tough rap good times” from those governing “feeling very sad and almost crying,” and arranged this album into two hemispheres, accordingly. Nestled inside the front cover is a gently hand-picked Internet download code, empowering you to acquire the music and raps that Jesse made all by himself, except for also with help from the finest wizards in Canada.-
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BuyBack after a long time! Imaginary Friends 7" vinyl (actual, physical vinyl 7" mailed to your home and played on your turntable!) featuring the two songs on this site.
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- RT @extranapkins: As a nice person, it's cool to say really mean things to people all the time and they know you're joking
- RT @extranapkins: Contrary to popular opinion, the ONLY way in which my car is similar to the Flintstones car is that it tips over if I try…
- I'm at Playhouse Cabaret (5656 Rue Parc, MTL) and I'm gonna check my sound, then hit these VLTs til the show starts around 9! Get over here.
- was dope to meet @mollycaudle at the anarchist book fair! the internet is real.
- trash talking @elginskye my nemesis at Festive de musique Solitaire. i dont even think her music's great or you'll like her way more than me
- kept seeing this one dude at the anarchist book fair that was rubbing me wrong one of many white guys there,... http://t.co/1ReUHxII6m
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