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Hmmm...Well I guess since most of you guys either know me personally or have been chatting with me for years LOL.. I am hard pressed to find something that you guys don't already know. After all we Maxfam have shared and shouldered much, with and for one another over the years, births, deaths, and everything in between!We have been very much like family!!I started writing The Maxwell C hronicles about six years ago. "Dreamer" posted a challenge on the old M.U.S.E board. She/He posted the end of a date with Maxwell and challenged others to write the begining and the middle. I posted a little something to it and the rest is history...soon there was so much of it that it literally needed it's own space. In 2000 The Maxwell Chronilces found a new home on my own Maxwell Fan Site... NETFREINDS
.I've been writing The Maxwell Chronicles ever since. The story continued to grow and has literally out grown the Msn spot..I have many exciting plans for The Maxwell Chronicles and it is now (still LOL) in the editing and "Finishing" process. I will make the original posts available on THE MAXWELL CHRONICLES
site, so that many of you can get caught up before the finished product goes to print.In closing I'd like to say THANK YOU to all of you for your longstanding love and support.P.S. M, I hope you are as honored by this story line as I have been to write it over the last six years!NicNaj ______________________________________________________ R.I.P. SEKOU SUNDIATA____________________________________________________ __________________Featured Article______________________Featured Article:The Story Behind Interscope Records Lyric Committee Body: From Davey D (Live From The South).. width="425" height="355" ..Informing the Hip Hop Community:Interscopes Lyric Committee by Wise IntelligentAbout a week or so ago, rapper Young Buck made an appearance on New York's Hot 97's Angie Martinez's show to promote his new album "Buck the World", the first single of which is incredible (I love that record).You know, it was pretty much your typical rap interview except for one revealing exchange in particular. This was when Young Buck spoke of a record addressing Police Brutality that unfortunately did not make the record? It was said in the interview that Interscope Records (home of Dr. Dre's Aftermath, Shady Records; Emenim, G Unit; 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck; The Lox; Jadakiss, Styles and Sheik, amongst others) has an official "Lyrics Committee."Buck stated that it was this Interscope "lyrics committee" (more like committee of ONE person; Jimmy Iovine) that decided it best to leave the police brutality track off of the album. Their reasoning being, that they [Interscope/Jimmy Iovine] felt the record that portrayed violence against police officers could heighten the chances of a police officer getting shot or killed and that, Interscope did not want to be responsible in whole or in part for the death of a police officer. The interview went sort of like this:Angie: There's this wild video on youtube that I just got a little clip of its called f the police Buck: oh yeah, they wouldn't let me put that record on my album Angie: too violent Buck: They said it was too violent; Interscope Angie: Interscope said too violent Buck: they blamed it on the lyric committee, so I researched to see if it was a real lyrical committee Angie: no they didn't Buck: It was the lyric committee Angie: they said the lyric committee said you can't put this out Buck: So I went as far as trying to find out well who is the lyric committee Angie: shut up Buck: the lyric committee is in Interscopes building Angie: is there really a lyrics committee, no Buck: you tell me Angie: nahh there's not, I'm telling you its not, that's your man Jimmy Iovine saying I don't want to deal with thatNow isn't this just fucking beautiful! A "Lyrics Committee" designed to monitor (read censor) lyrics of artist on the Interscope roster? The question I present to Interscope, the Hip Hop and Black Communities is, if Interscope sees something wrong with a rapper releasing a record addressing police brutality (because Wal-Mart won't except the record) due to fear of violence against police officers, why then is it common place to spend millions of dollars marketing the other 12 tracks on the rappers album that may heighten the violence in the black community against young blackmen, women and children????Why did not the "lyrics committee" come to the same conclusion when listening to lyrics that portray violence against young black males who work, go to school, and live on these same blocks that the police officers patrol? Ladies and gentlemen of the INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY, this is the nature of the beast with which we are dealing!When we consider the fact that it was Jimmy Iovine who posed on a cover in the 70's with the words "Rock & Roll Niggers" painted on his chest, we get a greater understanding of this beast.Here, we have a mainstream rapper attempting to address an issue that not only affects himself but the entire community. A political issue, if you will, and his Major Label tells him that that song is NOT going to make the final cut of his album. They made a principled stand which reveals without a doubt that they completely understand the power of this music, and its ability to influence and motivate its audience (positively or negatively), and they will NOT support lyrics and songs that promote an atmosphere of violence and intimidation directed at the police department. Do you see how fuckin insulting, hypocritical, and dangerous this is. We have to organize our efforts to take away their power to choose what’s best for our community to see, hear, and experience!It has always been my position that the black rapper is NOT allowed to address or lend his voice to any issue that confronts the community from which he comes, knowing that if he did, like Don Imus, he would lose his major corporation sponsorship, i.e., his contract!The black rapper runs the risk of losing his recording contract if he dare engage his demographic in anything that resembles intelligent dialogue? And yes, I do mean, the black rapper. In the event that the black rapper would have written the song MOSH (Emenim; anti war record), he would have been dropped from his label faster than Jimmy Iovine can say "Rock & Roll Nigger!"Black and white America must understand this very pertinent point; BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT CONTROL THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANYTHING IN AMERICA; nothing! Everything from the food on his table, clothes on his back, roof over his head, education in his head, to the drugs and alcohol on his corners, is controlled by others who are not black!So, what is it that makes us believe that the BLACK rapper is responsible for the distribution, diffusion or dissemination of the music and images (positive or negative) that you hear and see on MTV, BET and or Clear Channel Radio, etcThe fact that Major Labels have "lyrics committees" is evidence enough to show that multi-platinum, gold, and wood selling rappers are NOT even responsible for the subject matter that is or is not allowed on his or her own album, let alone the distribution of this subject matter! The artist can make a song about anything from life to death to love to lust and everything in between, but the records companies and their lyrics committees make the final judgment on what get pressed up and sent to Wal Mart, Target, and the like.Now let me make this final and crucial point crystal clear before I bring this to a conclusion. As artists we must and should be held accountable for what we say and do on wax and video, our words and actions have a profound impact on our communities whether we know about it or not, but we should not be held responsible for which of our records get major or minor video or radio airplay. That decision is in the hands of the radio and video stations and their parent companies. They decided that Little Brother was too “intelligent” for the B.E.T. audience! They made the decision not to promote any rappers whose music would motivate black youth toward positive attitudes and lifestyles. Do you really think Immortal Technique, Wise Intelligent, Little Brother; Public Enemy etc…took themselves off the radio and video shows? Corporate America and their entire support system made the decision to make the thug, pimp, hustler, and drug dealing rapper the face of Hiphop culture by placing him or her on the cover of every mainstream magazine around the world! The rapper is but the most visible part of this sick and twisted daisy chain of events…If you have the heart to make a move against Snoop than have the heart to ride heavy on Jimmy!The point of this article is not whether there is really such a committee at record companies that scrutinize the lyrics of rap artists. The point is that the major record companies do, as evidenced by the aforementioned incident, ultimately decide what lyrics the rapper can or can not put on his or her album.It's no longer SMART to be DUMB! WISE INTELLIGENTPROPER EDUCATION ALWAYS COUNTERS EXPLOITATION:)

My Interests

Civil Rights, Writing, THE MAXWELL CHRONICLES
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I'd like to meet:

I would love to travel back in time to meet Malcolm X! Of course I would love to meet Maxwell too LOL!!Don Watts, Editor of the Liberator Magazine, Rev. Albert Cleage (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) Minister Wilford X (Malcolm's Brother) Minister Malcolm X of New York

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------From: RBG Street Scholar Date: Aug 14, 2007 11:00 PMAmankwatia Baffour II [Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard III]22 August 1933 - 12 August 2007By Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.CAIRO, KEMET (Egypt) - August 2007 - One of the giants in the academic world left us this past weekend in the most appropriate place it could happen, in Cairo, Kemet (Egypt), where he studied, wrote about, lectured, researched, conducted tour groups and redeemed his soul. He was attending the ASCAC (Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations) Conference, an organization he co-founded, and giving lectures to the Pastor Jeremiah Wright tour group.Early reports state that he passed due to complications of contracting malaria. More details are yet to come and funeral arrangements have not been made thus far.Those of us who knew Baba Baffour, and/or were familiar with him, knew him as one of the premier scholars/researchers/educators/authors this world has ever seen. He was supremely dedicated to the total liberation and education of Afrikan peoples specifically, but humanity in general. It was his efforts that primarily started the Curriculum of Inclusion Movement, balancing school curriculums by adding information and lessons on Afrikan people. He was an educational psychologist, but dedicated his life to improving teaching/learning methods for children, and educating Afrikan people about our history. Family was the highest point of his consciousness.In an interview I conducted with Baba Baffour, seeing parents as the first teachers, he stated, "What kids get from us most of the time are instructions: 'do this,' 'don't do that,' 'watch out for this,' 'watch out for that.' That's a monologue. What has to happen, if you want to activate the child's intelligence, and release that intelligence, that child has to be invited to engage in questioning, in critique, all of those kinds of things. Parents have to organize their communication with children. All we have to do is remember to do it. We know how to do it, but we slip into some awfully bad habits.I'm not quite sure what the reasons are for those bad habits, but they are very prominent among our people. You know: 'shut up,' 'be quiet,' 'sit down.' That may give you control over the child's behavior, but doesn't give the child's mind anything. The child has, if the mind is going to grow, it's got to chew on something. It's got to turn it over, try it out and not be directed from moment to moment. Nurturing that independent critical orientation is a part of what a parent has to do for a child."In the land he loved so much, Baba Baffour wanted to go beyond just admiring our ancient past, where the foundation of civilization existed. Being pro-active he did the following. "Somewhere in the late sixties, mid sixties to late sixties, I became acquainted with people who enhanced my information about Afrika, especially classical Afrikan civilizations. I knew that at some point I had to do more work to share this information. I tried to figure out a way to do that, mainly through slide presentations and lectures and so forth. But it occurred to me, that it would be much more powerful to be able to examine concretely whatever is left of that civilization, where it is right now.The way to do that would be through a study tour. So my wife and I designed a study tour and tried to locate people who were really serious about study. We're not interested in folk who want to collect ashtrays and float on the Nile and do all that. It's a very hard working tour. We were up early and we go to bed late. We felt by being on the site, by visiting the museums, by visiting the monuments, by getting some sense of the space, geography, time perspective, that would help to make more real what this thing was in the past."In his parting statement, which applies even today, he leaves us with, "Let me say the thing that's of course on my mind. We require a massive mobilization of Afrikan people around the world. We need to see what the future looks like for us in the next thirty to forty years. We need to take a long view. In fact, we need to think about the next two hundred years. To be real conservative, where do we want Afrikan people to be in the world twenty years from now? If you get an answer to that question that's anywhere near correct, it tells you what you got to do now to get ready for that.I'm concerned because we are not now doing what we need to do to get ready for the world I think we would like to have, if we thought about it. I just would really hope we begin to mobilize our thoughts and ultimately our resources toward creating a new future for Afrikan people. That we revise and revitalize the continent so we will be safe wherever we live, anywhere in the world.And for the young, there was an old Bible verse that my mother emphasized when I was growing up, I still live by it and think of it all the time. One of the few I can remember completely. It was II Timothy 2:15 which says, 'Study to show yourself approved unto God, not unto man, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.'"Amankwatia Baffour II [Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard III]by Dr. Kwaku Person-LynnBooks by Dr. Asa G. Hilliard ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socializationby Asa G. Hilliard, III List Price: $16.95 - Paperback - Black Classic Press; (December 1996)Customer Review This book is one of the most important books I have ever read. I constantly refer to it whenever I have the opportunity to speak in front of a group. Incredibly insightful, it makes perfectly clear what direction people of African descent need to be headed in if we are committed to positive community development. YOU NEED THIS BOOK!------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------The Teachings of Ptahhotepby Asa G. Hilliard, III List Price: $6.95 - Paperback - Blackwood Press (December 1995)Book Description This is probably the oldest complete book, written sometime between 3800 and 2350 B.C. in ancient Egypt.------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mindby Asa G. Hilliard, III $ - Paperback - Makare Pub Co; (January 1998)------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------Testing African American Studentsby Asa G. Hilliard, III List Price $ : - Paperback - Third World Press; (November 1996) ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeriaby Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III List Price: $24.95 - Paperback - Black Classic Press; (March 1996)Book Description The value of Lady Lugard's book is that while she is telling us about the interplay of power between religions and other competing forces in Africa before slavery, she provides us with a much needed look behind the curtain of slavery. In telling us what African states had been, she is cleanly indicating what African states could be. this may not have been the intent of her book, but this is the message that came across to more than a generation of African activists.This book list is from: ..DR. ASA HILLIARD / AFRICA WITHIN

Music:

I love all types of music doesn't matter what the genre as long as it's good. Maxwell, Me'shell Ndegeocello,Terance Trent D'arby,Les Nubians Presents Echos Chapter One! And anything old school LOL! From: Haiti Bluez (Ayiti Bluez) Date: May 2, 2008 6:41 AM----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Simply Me - TLC 2008
Date: May 2, 2008 6:11 AM

Part 1........Enslavement, Arab and European involvement, Colonialism and Neo Colonialism

Part 2....Educating Afrakans to work against Afrakans....the legacy of colonial rule, the erosion of our spirituality

Part 3.....Religion as enslavement - the abruse of religion - erasing spirituality - eraditation of identity

Part 4....Rebunking the myths

Part 5....Examining the envolvement of Afrakans capturing Afrakans

Part 6....

Part 7....
Part 8....Unity and Rebellion

Part 9....The crime against humanity, the attitude, the apology / lack of..... no reparation! and no regret

Part 10....Reparations, repairing the damage that has been done...........educationally, mentally, fiancially.........?

Part 11....Understanding Culture, language and idealogy, using our own

Part 12....Dr Henry Clark.......the relationship between our history and our people.

the benefits of knowing our history

Part 13/Final part....Facing the future with confidence

The story remains the same /simular for most indigenous peoples, CONTINUE TO STUDY AND GROW, SIMPLY ME!

Thank you to Akhenamen.....ONE!

Movies:

"X" "Crooklyn" "American History X" "Love & Basketball"

Television:

Grey's Anatomy

Books:

The Bluest Eye, Thier Eyes Were Watching God, Manchild In The Promised Land, Black Christian Nationalism...etc... Stolen Legacy African Presence In Early Asia The Isis Papers Lest We Forget Medical Apartheid Without Santuary They Came Before Columbus The Distruction Of Black Civilization Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization Visions For Black Men

Heroes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-UpHlB9no

My Blog

Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman / PAOCC

    ..http://www.shrinebookstore.com/img/Albert_B_Cleage.jpg" border="0" alt="" />   Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman , the first of seven children, was born Albert Buford Cleage, Jr., on June...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:31:00 PST

Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman......

If you could imagine a place of worship where you cannot maintain membership without attending classes or keep up with the required reading .... IMO every Black Church needs to be that way  Cleag...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:01:00 PST

Dr.Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, esteemed elder and scholar of "Black Man of the Nile", Africa, Mother of Western Civilization" and many others is recouperating from a hip injury.  All are asked to contribute...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:37:00 PST

Peace Keeping In Haiti!!!!! Extremely Graphic

**WARNING EXTREME GRAPHICS, VERY DISTURBING VIDEO, THESE TRUTHS MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS. IF THE VIDEOS IS TOO BRUTAL FOR OUR EYES ...WE STILL HAVE EARS, SO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN WHAT...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:24:00 PST

Haiti

Haiti’s Poverty Stirs Nostalgia for Old Ghosts Ruth Fremson/The New York Times A slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some disenchanted Haitians yearn for the days of the Duvaliers, a dynasty...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back.....

 When we have children many of us imagine our child having all the things we had growing up, the family the friends the, birthday parties, the sleep overs, spending summers with our grandparents ...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:25:00 PST

Support A Maxwell Fan!!

Listen up..... There is a Maxwell fan out there who needs our support. Log on to Maxwell Fanforum   www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Maxwellfanforum   and read the thread "Sister2Sister....
Posted by Max Chronicles on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:45:00 PST

Another Dose!

Invictus   Out of the night that covers meBlack as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried ...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

Max Radio / The Maxwell Chronicles

Aight yall... for those who plan to tune in to Max Radio ( www.blogtalkradio.com/sumberge ) on Saturday at 3pm Pacific time, the beginning of The Maxwell Chronicles story line  is loaded to ...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:32:00 PST

Max Radio!

I don't know if many of you have heard but Maxfam Mama almighty has started a Maxwell Fan Radio show! You can check it out on www.blogtalkradio.com/submerge every Saturday at 3pm Pacific Time. You can...
Posted by Max Chronicles on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:33:00 PST