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Timid releases the first music video off of his latest album No Time For The Jibba Jabba

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Timid releases the first music video off of his latest album No Time For
The Jibba Jabba. “Let Freedom Ring” is an aggressive politically charged
song that takes shots at injustices that hinders the freedom’s all men and
women have the rights to. Location backdrops enhance the message of the
song with graffiti messages of ‘Freedom”. The video was directed by Kanin
Murphy with beautifully done visual kinetic typography by Anita Rani
(Olympics title sequence (UK)). Hip Hop producer Domingo (Big Pun, Fat
Joe, Eminem, G-Unit, KRS-One, Rakim) lays a track for the remix that helps
to convey the seriousness of the topic Timid is speaking on.

Lyric excerpt
“The revolution will be televised
Because when I get a chance to tell them lies
I’m going on the television, to tell a vision
Channel zero’s the only place the people will listen”

Let Freedom Ring by Timid from the album No Time For The Jibba Jabba.
Directed by Kanin Murphy.
Animation by Anita Rani.
Remix by Domingo.

TimidMC.com (best quality): http://www.timidmc.com/Let-Freedom-Ring.html
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPsopNiMyRg

No Time For The Jibba Jabba is Available Now!

Timid is available for interviews; please contact pr@headnodmusic.com with
your request.

SFBayView –BLOCK REPORT – Police terrorize Black KPFA programmer

Editor’s note [Javier Reyes]: The Aug. 20 brutalizing of longtime KPFA programmer Nadra Foster by police who were called to KPFA by station and network management has the Black community and all justice seekers seething. How could managers, including two Black women, of the radio station that proudly considers itself the most progressive in Northern California not know the dangers of calling the police on a young Black person? As KPFA programmer Weyland Southon exclaimed on the Block Report that broke the story on Flashpoints the next day, “Situations like this get us killed.”

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Texas Stand Up

Here is a very inspirational website passed along to me. They are posting videos daily explaining why people should register to vote!
Texas Stand Up!

We’re in the final leg of one of the most important and exciting Presidential elections in our lifetime. We also have an opportunity to make serious change at the state and local level. For example, as the first Black district attorney in Harris County history, the second in Texas history, Democratic candidate C. O. “Brad” Bradford will have an opportunity to change the culture of the criminal justice system in Houston if we do our part and elect him.

When Atlanta rap star Killer Mike spoke at last month’s Ozone Awards held here in Houston, he was asked what sort of influence would he and other rap stars have on the 2008 elections.

Killer Mike reminded the capacity crowd that we owe a lot to Obama for holding up a tradition that is dear to our communities and to Hip Hop which is to make a way out of no way. At the same time Obama owes a lot to Hip Hop, because it was the Hip Hop generation of all races that came out and supported him early on without hesitation. But Killer Mike cautioned we have more work to do.

Bun B likewise stated that its not enough to simply say you’re for Obama and wear a t-shirt. He said that people need to put their money where their mouth is and step it up. In addition to registering, Bun suggested that artists go out and rent buses and donate them to local churches and civic organizations and see to it that people come to the polls.

Bun B and Killer Mike underscore a basic theme which sometimes isn’t fully appreciated and embraced by our generation which is Stand Up, be counted and lets make it happen.

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