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NEW Wise Intelligent interview w/ Davey D and Performance in Pittsburgh 2011

2011-12-18T18:44:00.000-08:00

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NEW Wise Intelligent interview w/ Davey D and performance in Pittsburgh @ the August Wilson Center...

I WAS IN PITTSBURGH ON THURSDAY @ the August Wilson Center to celebrate the completion of the first 1Hood Youth Media Academy w/ Jasiri Xtra and Paradise Gray. These two gentlemen personify what Hip Hop is and exemplify what art & activism looks like. It was POSITIVELY ELECTRIC: The Youth, the people, Dave 'Davey D' Cook, Bakari Kitwana, Brother Jesse Muhammad, Rhymefest, Malik Rhasaan, Kimberly Dr Goddess Ellis , DJ James Selecta Scoglietti. 1HOOD all day everyday!

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Check out the NEW HIT song from Maimouna Yousef "Reach into your Mind" feat Wise Intelligent and Jabari "AuraGin" Exum off the album "The Blooming"

2011-12-10T13:43:00.000-08:00

Check out the NEW HIT song from Maimouna Yousef "Reach into your Mind" feat Wise Intelligent and Jabari "AuraGin" Exum off the album "The Blooming"

Reach Into Your Mind by Maimouna Youssef

BOOKING INFORMATION FOR WISE INTELLIGENT

2011-10-22T10:35:00.000-07:00

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NEW Wise Intelligent video "ZION" feat. Rahzii Highpower

2011-10-18T06:10:00.000-07:00
ZION feat. Rahzii Highpower Produced by Masada and Directed by Jimmy Giambrone. ZION was shot at the first ever African American Pride Festival in Trenton NJ. 2011

LYRICAL HEAVEN: "This is 'black redemption' I am spittin...so they hold me in derision...cause I give them Hebrew children hope and vision as its written...minus fables, superstition...Darwin's Theory, science fiction...from the ghetto streets of Trenton...I see Zion in a vision..." BUY NOW at http://www.wiseintelligent.com

WISE INTELLIGENT...THE GARVEY SCHOOL FLOODED AND NEEDS YOUR HELP TODAY!

2011-09-05T14:38:00.000-07:00

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THE GARVEY SCHOOL/EGUN OMODE SHULE NEEDS YOUR HELP TODAY!

by Trenton Finest on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 3:49pm

Peace and blessings,

As Principal of The Garvey School/Egun Omode Shule, a small, private African-centered school in Trenton, NJ, I am writing to ask for your assistance in these times of need. Hurricane Irene made its way through Trenton and caused severe damage to our institution. Over 4 feet of water entered the basement from front to back, destroyed our oil tank, water heater, tables, chairs, supplies, toilets, fixtures, rugs, tile, etc. Attached are some before and after pictures of our basement. At this point, everything is up in the air-awaiting insurance claims, the city inspectors, FEMA (wow, never thought we would be in line waiting for a FEMA handout). Most importantly, until the insurance claims can be filed (who knows how long that will take), we need to replace our water heater. The city inspectors will not allow our school to reopen without hot water and a professional hazmat cleanup of the basement, which consists of oil and sewage waste.

We are asking for your assistance. We need monetary donations to help us purchase these items NOW. We estimate the immediate costs at $2500, which we have raised $500 so far. The daycare children that utilized the basement have not been in school all week which has caused all types of scheduling problems for their parents. In addition, the school year is scheduled to begin in a week and insurance adjusters may be weeks away from coming to our location.

Payments can be made in any form, payable to: The Garvey School, 102 Taylor St., Trenton, NJ 08638.

You can make payments to our Paypal account as well...Go to our main website and click on the DONATION BUTTON at the bottom of the page

http://www.thegarveyschool.org

We thank you for your time and concern on this matter. If you are unable to donate monetary, we ask for your prayers in this time of crisis.

Thank you,

Baye Kemit, Ed.M
Baale, The Garvey School/Egun Omode Shule

WISE INTELLIGENT IS IN A WORLDWIDE BOOK CLUB AND WE ALL LOVE #READING!!!

2011-09-04T13:46:00.000-07:00

JOIN US...ALL ARE WELCOME!!!!!

Wise Intelligent is performing @ The Queen Theater on Aug. 11th in Wilmington DE!!!!

2011-08-09T14:28:00.000-07:00

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Wilmington, Delaware GET READY!

Wise Intelligent will be in Wilmington, DE on Thursday, Aug 11th @ The Queen Theater

The Queen Theater
500 N. Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801

This show is being brought to you by the Legendary Twin Poets!!!!

Doors open @ 7:00 pm

Show starts promptly @ 8:00 pm

The show is Hosted by TNT (Twins N Tigg)

For more information about Wise Intelligent and to purchase his new album,"The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez and some new Intelligent Gear hit up http://www.wiseintelligent.com

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Keep taking and posting your #Reading pics to facebook and twitter...It's working!

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

WISE INTELLIGENT and the PEOPLE are READING!!!!

2011-08-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

Wise Intelligent RIPS the Rock Steady 34th Anniversary 2011!!!

2011-08-04T10:35:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent RIPS the Rock Steady 34th Anniversary 2011!!!

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Wise Intelligent says...FUCK Planking!!!!

2011-07-25T13:46:00.000-07:00
FUCK Planking! Let's start a new trend READING!!! Take a pic of yourself reading a book and share it! FLOOD TWITTER AND FACEBOOK

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The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez "4th of U-Lie" quote of the day

2011-07-04T09:11:00.000-07:00

"Why should I celebrate their independence in 1776...When they were murdering my ancestors in the genocidal bowels of slave ships...So before you spark your grill, call your family, and do what you do...Remember they celebrated by putting black men, women and children on their barbecue" The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET..."What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?" by FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH, 1852

2011-07-03T21:23:00.000-07:00

"What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH, 1852

Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1852

Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that the dumb might eloquently speak and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people.

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."

Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, "may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth"! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine. I do not hesitate to declare with all my soul that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse"; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, shall not confess to be right and just....

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not as astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, and secretaries, having among us lawyers doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; and that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshiping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!...

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!!!

Wise Intelligent's Lyrics to UndergroundSpiritualGame

2011-06-30T15:16:00.000-07:00

Wise Intelligent
"UndergroundSpiritualGame" Lyrics broken down
Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez
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UndergroudSpiritualGame Produced by Bigg Scott
http://soundcloud.com/wiseintelligent/wise-intelligent

I am the truth, I’m the light, I’m the way shit used to be before you sold out…
No doubt, I’m clear bout who I am…
don’t wanna be anyone else on the planet but Djezuz
oh he’s just, literally out of his right mind…

I’m quite fine, I write rhymes for my hood from a heavenly high place…
Think twice before steppin to my face, by God’s grace, I’ll dead them
Behead him, for the blaspheme, LIARRRRRRR, it isn’t just hot its FIRRRREEE
My ughhhhh, style does…more in a verse than most spit…on a whole disc

Nig*gas know this, but ask them…they’ll LIE, falsify my original freshness…
They’ll TRYYYY, but like a baptized baby God blessed this, old wine…
In a new skin, introducing, thee UnConKable, Djeez Djonez
Hip Hop don’t stop Keep on, Second Coming gottem runnin get gone…

PEACE, Assalamu alaikum shalom, oh this nig*a so not Rome…
Never do what the Romans do….
even if Caligula offering a nig*a 50 million, 10 women and a room with a view
persecuted for the truth I spew, Hebrews don’t get it confused
these dudes lack clues I’m Him…WHO YOU?

You know Djezuz, I really don’t know who you are anymore
I mean…all this time that we’ve been together and I thought I knew you
What I’m sayin is you’re a good man and all, and I really do love you
I just don’t understand how you can be so inconsiderate of my feelings
You write songs about loving, respecting and protecting women
But I don’t think you’ve ever honestly loved any of the sisters you’ve called yours Enough to convince them that you were ever theirs as much as they were yours

VS 2
They got me…all fucked up…all confused, all twisted…
Cause I gotta lotta black folk listening…government got me blacklisted,
I’m in my whipper whippin, BlackCherry Manischewitz I’m sippin…
I’m gifted, the present; the futures investment…

Wait a minute let me shine my halo…
Some peddle yayo, honest it’s not me
If I never got knowledge and acknowledged God the Father
Would I pitch dope, I don’t know prolly

That’s how this ghetto got we, this deprivations makin
A nig*a sell his soul to Satan, escaping poverty’s concentration…
Neurotoxins plaguing the hood and the way black babies in the hood behaving…
Can’t save’em, actin all savage, this is what happens when your ruled by cavemen…

Never mind what I am sayin, find a bride while my new shit playin…
Cut her eye’s over here she’s taken, father of general civilization…
Classes, the masses from Jerusalem to Nazareth
Know and understand I know what the math is

Never let em get a hold of my black ass…
Locked up in the Garden state, not quite Gethsemane
Caligula sending me threats that he bet he’ll erase my memory
Before Timothy Ima be Djezuz

It’s like “spiritual game” or something? No different in many ways than the games ran on Sisters by brothers of a lesser understanding, which actually makes it worse I don’t know what’s what and considering the other sisters in your life I don’t know Who’s who? I mean…am I your queen? Is she your queen? Do you love her more or less than I? Why do you not respond to my complaints, am I not worthy of some clarity? How can you come into my life for a season and disappear for two? You're NOT even listenin Djezuz...

VS 3
Should I dumb my oratory down to a corner story now…
To afford a better lifestyle, never that I’ll lay my life down…
For the children of the promise like right now
shoot… Break enter and loot this system,

for everything taken from the innocent…
impenitent, rich slave makers of the poor remember when
you refused to give water to the thirsty, New Jerusalem
better known as Jersey, never gave one fuck
bout a black child stuck in legislated subhuman tough luck
misinterpreted tough luck, like history experience, misery experienced

wasn't the result of how you always hated us?
Segregated plus, isolated us Integrationist
brown vs the board was a double edged sword In the greater sense,
we were greater when, we were teaching our own seeds
Providing our own needs, community a virtual all black wall street
When your blueprint that nig*a call me, that’s all she wrote..

So that’s all I’m writin now, I’m doin my mama proud,
Espousing…Low income housing…underground spiritual game…
Never wonder bout a lyrical flame, I’m hot
I’m the only muthafuckin hope Hip Hop got….
Shiiiiiiit, I ain’t who you thought I am…damn!

Just like I thought…no response, no reply
I’m right here Djezuz, and I have always been
Matter fact we’re right here, and we’ve always been
Not that I’m not just speaking for myself alone, I’m speaking for US
The women in your life who have always loved you and always will
Can we get half the integrity and commitment you give to the calling?
Can we be loved in the same measure in which you love this work?
Respectfully Submitted: ME...

Written by Wise Intelligent

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Wise Intelligent's UndergroundSpiritualGame video World Premier this Thursday (6/30) @ 7:00 pm

2011-06-28T18:33:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent's UndergroundSpiritualGame video World Premier this Thursday (6/30) @ 7:00 pm http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent SPREAD THE WORD!

NEW Wise Intelligent FINAL CALL INTERVIEW JUNE 2011!

2011-06-12T22:04:00.000-07:00

Wise Intelligent discusses 'The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper'
By FinalCall.com News
Updated Jun 12, 2011 - 10:07:34 PM

Known for his rapid fire, mind-bending lyrics, Wise Intelligent, the most visible member of The Poor Righteous Teachers, the pioneering pro-Black conscious rap group from Trenton, NJ, has continued to work as a mentor, social and political commentator, artist and now author. In honor of June being Black Music Month, he shared some of his thoughts with The Final Call's Ashahed M. Muhammad.

FinalCall.com (FC:) Many people refer to the “Golden Age” of Hip Hop as an era when there were conscious songs permeating the airwaves. It is generally believed that the era is long gone and it'll never be like that again. Perhaps we will never get back to a time where socially and politically conscious artists dominate the airwaves. In a time when Hip Hop artists still impact and shape minds, what are your thoughts?

Wise Intelligent (WI:) I think it's just a gross misconception of Hip Hop from what Hip Hop is in a broader sense. I think that we're allowing mainstream mediums through which corporations propagate a particular brand of Hip Hop. We're allowing that medium to interpret for us what Hip Hop is or isn't. I think that's where we fall short of understanding.

It's a plethora of MCs young and old who are still on the front lines of social and political relevant conscious music; it's just that mainstream media is not allowing a particular brand of Hip Hop because they only want to propagate one ideal. And we have this ideal that those ten MC's that we hear in every rotation in mainstream mediums are what Hip Hop is. So if it's not in the mainstream it's apparently not in the bloodstream for a lot of people because they are allowing mainstream media to dictate what Hip Hop is or isn't for them. But we're still right here. MC's are still touring, still putting out records and a lot of people don't want to get back to that era especially corporate people and for social, economic and political reasons also. Basically, more so political reasons. So I say that it's a myth that we are not going to get back to that era. For me it's not a matter of getting back to that era. It's a matter of becoming aware of the fact that that era hasn't left us. It's still here.

FC: When you were making songs in 1990 on the album “Holy Intellect” and then in 1991 with “Pure Poverty” as a follow-up, there was an ideological underpinning acting as a catalyst for your lyrical content. What was it primarily that caused you to inject that kind of information into your songs? Books, speeches, the general atmosphere in the community, what was it?

WI: It was a conglomerate of a lot of things that you listed. The circumstances, you know living in a state of poverty, living in an environment where poverty is concentrated into small areas and the environment is over populated with poor people. Growing up in an environment where the High School had a 71 percent and still has a 71 percent student poverty rate. These things exacerbate problems and small problems become major problems in such an environment. Then you have the influx of drugs, guns, things of that nature and it just gets blown out of proportion. So that was one influence in my view but really what oriented me and basically gave me the ability to interpret myself in that struggle differently for a lot of us at the time was the Supreme Wisdom.

You know the 120 Lessons as we had come to call the Supreme Wisdom—it actually gave us focus. It caused me to study and made me think more critically. It made me not take things on face value. It made me study not just myself but my surroundings, my environment. I learned that to understand yourself is to understand others. You can't understand anyone else if you don't understand yourself. You have to have an understanding of yourself first and foremost. It's just like before you can love someone else, you have to be able to love yourself. And love for us is an elevation of understanding, so understanding of others is almost impossible if you don't have an understanding of who and what you are. The Supreme Wisdom kind of put me on that path of study of research, of not taking things on face value, of rethinking, relearning, and unlearning. That basically was the underpinning of our approach to Hip Hop.

FC: From what you are saying, the motivation wasn't solely to get money. So what was the main motivation?

WI: It was a lot of things but for the most part it was a love for music, Black music in general. Whether it was a soul singer, a blues musician or a jazz musician, first and foremost is the love for the music; love of Black music.

FC: What are some of the primary influences of Black music you would say that really guided you?

WI: There's many Blues artists, Howlin' Wolf, Josh Swank, we can go back to Muddy Waters. Of course there's Billy Holiday and just moving right up through the years, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield.

FC: More soulful sounds definitely … I think back on that … there's definitely a soulful sound in your expression.

WI: Also it was a lot of reggae artists like eek A Mouse, Yellowman, just all over the Black music spectrum as far and as wide as it stretches I was into everything. As far as money, was money a motivation? Yes. Money is always a motivation. We didn't feel like our subject matter would block us and stop us from getting money and it didn't. It didn't stop Public Enemy from making money and selling millions of records. That was the difference.

Today it's like people would be like ‘that's career suicide for you to say something like that in a record.' Whereas when we were coming up, it wasn't career suicide because the number one rap in the medium was socially and politically conscious music. So we had KRS-One, Arrested Development put their record out and their record sold four million records. Public Enemy sold millions of records. It wasn't that conscious rap wasn't selling. It's just they wanted to stop propagating that particular brand of Hip Hop for reasons specified elsewhere like in my upcoming book.

FC: Tell us a little bit about the book.

WI: It's called ‘Three-fifths an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper.” And the book goes in on how Hip Hop got this way. How did we get here and why are we here. I don't want to give away the whole book but the bare bones of the book is basically dealing with how the mainstream MC is not a self-made MC. The environment that he's embedded in is contributing to what he delivers.

FC: What motivated you to write a book like that? What do you want the person who picks it up and reads it to come away with?

WI: I want them to get an understanding of what Hip Hop is and what Hip Hop isn't. You know from a perspective from all of the debate and discussion about Hip Hop being responsible for prison culture and gang culture. Every time they talk about Hip Hop and the mainstream they're connecting Hip Hop to random acts of violence, negativity and things of that nature. What I want people to get from a book is that Hip Hop didn't cause these problems. It was gang banging and drug dealing before 1976. These things were occurring long before Hip Hop. So we really need to get to the root causes of these things.

I think that Hip Hop is a scapegoat, it's a soft target to deflect blame off of the real cause of the social ills that we face on a daily basis. So the book goes into those social ills and defines them. Like the prison culture, I go into that and I show how that came to be. I show how the gang banging and drug dealing came to be. I show how the Black community ended up in this dilapidated state in so many cities in the United States so Hip Hop didn't do this. And that's what I'm saying we need to stop blaming ourselves for what others have done and have done to us.

(Follow Wise Intelligent on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent His most recent release: “Wise Intelligent Iz The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez” is available through iTunes. For more information regarding appearances and other outreach, go to http://www.wiseintelligent.com.)

You can subscribe to Wise's youtube page at http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent

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Wise Intelligent speaks in-depth about Hip Hop and The Black Community @ UW-Milwaukee 4/23/2011

2011-05-19T05:21:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent speaks in-depth about Hip-Hop, the Black Community, and how we can use our history constructively to create a better future. This interview took place at UW-Milwaukee's Hip-Hop Xplosion on 4/23/2011.

The interviewers, Pierrea Naketa and Angie B. Jones, lead the group Coversation. Education. Action. (C.E.A.) at UWM. For more information on their organization please visit their channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MakeChangeThruArt or their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/joyaw?ref=ts#!/pages/Conversation-Education-Action/21...

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Wise Intelligent Show in Atlanta Sat. June 11th @ The 5 Spot!

2011-05-17T11:13:00.000-07:00

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

Atlanta GET READY!

Wise Intelligent will be in Atlanta on Saturday, June 11th @ The 5 Spot!

The 5 Spot
1123 Euclid Ave
Atlanta, GA

The show being brought to you by SOS/TripleCrown

Hosted by Minister Server

Doors open @ 9:00 pm
$8 b4 9:30pm (Gas price)
$10 b4 10pm
$15 after 10pm

Wise Intelligent will perform alongside Sa-Roc & Tahir RBG

Music by Sol Messiah & Yah Quan

A Tribute to those who considered & committed suicide with a
reasoning from Ras Lumumba

For more info about the show contact Iras Levi @ sosiras@gmail.com or facebook.com/iras levi

For more information about Wise Intelligent and to purchase his NEW HIT album "The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez" hit up http://www.wiseintelligent.com

You can follow Wise Intelligent at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

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NEW Wise Intelligent Video "ILLUMINATI"

2011-05-13T22:34:00.000-07:00
NEW Wise Intelligent Video "ILLUMINATI"

INTELLIGENT MUZIK presents "ILLUMINATI." Wise Intelligent's latest video from the critically acclaimed "THE UNCONKABLE DJEZUZ DJONEZ" album - AVAILABLE NOW! http://www.wiseintelligent.com

The video was directed by Jimmy Giambrone http://www.jimmygiambrone.com/

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J Rawls (ft. Sadat X & Wise Intelligent) - "Face It" (Official Music Video)

2011-05-10T18:17:00.000-07:00
J Rawls (ft. Sadat X & Wise Intelligent) - "Face It" (Official Music Video)

J Rawls unites two legendary hip-hop crews for the first time ever, as Sadat X (Brand Nubian) and Wise Intelligent (Poor Righteous Teachers) drop jewels over Rawls' production. Taken from J Rawls' new album "The Hip-Hop Affect," in stores everywhere on May 17th, 2011.

Video shot in front of Harlem's iconic "Allah School in Mecca," where the Five Percent Nation has been headquartered for the past half-century. Also featuring an appearance from Scienz Of Life's John Robinson.

"The Hip-Hop Affect" is the first solo hip-hop album from J Rawls in 10 years, and also features appearances from Rhymefest, Diamond D, Edo G, Kev Brown, Oh No, Casual, Copywrite, Count Bass D, Tanya Morgan, Stalley, El Da Sensei, J Sands (of Lone Catalysts), John Robinson, Bad Azz, Fat Jon, and more.

To Follow J Rawls on Twitter hit up http://twitter.com/j_rawls

For Interviews and features hit up Born Free @ intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / globalreachmediagroup@gmail.com / 484-472-3745

http://nature-sounds.net/2011/04/j-rawls-the-hip-hop-affect

For more Intelligent Muzik hit up http://www.wiseintelligent.com

Wise Intelligent's Mother's Day Message 2011

2011-05-08T09:45:00.000-07:00

MOTHERS: take a moment to study what the term implies, infers and suggests. Such a study would heighten your awareness of this current movement to "liberate" you from everything that defines MOTHERHOOD, SISTERHOOD and WOMANHOOD all together. Being a MOTHER (and all that that is) and a WOMAN is not something you need to be "LIBERATED" or freed from. Hope you understand me.

http://www.wiseintelligent.com

Wise Intelligent's CLASSIC Mother's Day Tribute Song "Passing tha Time" Prod. by Masada

2011-05-06T08:55:00.000-07:00
Passing tha Time is Wise Intelligent's heartfelt tribute to his mom off the "Wise Intelligent Iz...The Talented Timothy Taylor" album released in 2007. This is one of the most honest and emotional songs that Wise has ever recorded. The track was produced by super producer Masada and it provides the perfect foundation for Wise to speak from the heart. If this song doesn't touch you...you must have a hole in your soul... For more Intelligent Muzik go to http://www.wiseintelligent.com

You can download the song at http://www.soundcloud.com/wiseintelligent

The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez quote #360

2011-04-29T07:13:00.000-07:00
The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez quote #360

"The news is straight garbage it's predictable and upsetting
Real stories get cut for bullshit about irrelevant weddings
I don't give a fuck about their marriage or the dimensions of her dress
While serious issues effecting us are barely even discussed in the press"

The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez

http://www.wiseintelligent.com

Wise Intelligent drops a jewel @ the show in Milwaukee 4/23/2011

2011-04-28T06:55:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent drops a jewel @ the show in Milwaukee 4/23/2011 Big Up to _Tynacity_ for sending it to me

IT'S NO LONGER SMART TO BE DUMB!

Wise Intelligent's Milwaukee Show Highlight!!!

2011-04-26T06:13:00.000-07:00

MILWAUKEE: Great Show, Greater People! Highlight of my night...came off stage, brother greets me says he's been a fan of PRT for years. Then he says YOUR SISTER performed an ABDOMINAL CERCLAGE on my wife who has had 4 MISCARRIAGES, she saved my seed! We named him HERU! My sisters a MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE Physician (MFM). Making a positive impact in WI

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Wise Intelligent I Will Die 4 U (The Roman Cross) Co Produced by Bigg Scott of 7XL Productions

2011-04-23T10:04:00.000-07:00
Because "Good Friday" reportedly recognizes the CRUCIFXION and RESURRECTION of one Jesus Christ, DJEZUZ DJONEZ offers I WILL DIE 4 U (THE ROMAN CROSS) - Pesach Same'ach

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Wise Intelligent, Dead Prez, & Rhymefest Show @ the University of Milwaukee on Saturday, April 23rd @ The UWM Union Ballroom

2011-04-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

Milwaukee GET READY!

Wise Intelligent The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez will be at the University of Milwaukee on Saturday, April 23rd @ The UWM Union Ballroom.

UWM Union Ballroom
2200 E Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI

Wise Intelligent will be rocking alongside Dead Prez and Rhymefest!!!!

Firey Phoenix, Viva Fidel, and Gat Turner will also be performing!

DJ Supreme on the 1's and 2's!

The show is being Sponsored by The Hip Hop Scholars!

Doors open @ 6:00 pm

This is a FREE concert!!! Open to the public!! Get there early, because once capacity is reached, no one else is admitted!

For more information about Wise Intelligent and where to BUY his new hit album, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez" and purchase some NEW Intelligent Gear hit up http://www.wiseintelligent.com

You can follow Wise on twitter @ http://twitter.com/wiseintelligent
You can also subscribe to Wise's videos @ http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent

For all booking, interviews, and features hit up Born Free @ 484-472-3745 / intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

Wise Intelligent on the set of the Illuminati Video Shoot in Trenton on Saturday March 26th Directed by Jimmy Giambrone!

2011-03-28T11:13:00.000-07:00

NEW Wise Intelligent interview with Brother Jesse Muhammad

2011-03-16T21:41:00.000-07:00

(Wise Intelligent served as the lead MC for the pioneering Hip Hop group Poor Righteous Teacher. He recently dropped a new album and has been consistently involved in community activism. I recently went one-on-one with him.)

Brother Jesse Muhammad (BJ): For the generation that may not know about you and the legendary group, Poor Righteous Teachers, please share a little background about yourself. How did you get started in music? How was the group Poor Righteous Teachers formed and what foundation did the group lay for those who are on the scene today?

Wise Intelligent (WI): My beginnings in music – Hip Hop music in particular, began when I sat down for a minute after being released from Mercer County Youth Detention Center, being pushed out of school by a principal that believed the Nation of God’s & Earth’s was a gang, and sobering up from all the weed we were smoking. This was from 13 to 17. I wrote my first professional rhyme when I was 15. I later titled it Shakiyla and it ended up on Poor Righteous Teachers 1990 debut album – Holy Intellect. I was first in a duo with a brother named God Father (GF for short). That didn’t go too well, he and Culture (who was making all the beats and DJing) had a couple irreconcilable differences if you will. Culture Freedom and I were like brothers since we were 11 and 12 and naturally, we moved on. Later we formed Poor Righteous Teachers.

We began recording songs, brought in a DJ named Divine, and later Father Shaheed. We made tapes at cultures spot on the 3rd floor of the 118 building in Donnelley Holmes low income housing projects in the North side of Trenton, New Jersey. I lived in the 132nd building, apt 3C. I don’t mean to be long winded but to answer the three questions in this one requires a little wind (lol). We were typical urban youth from the projects – talking “broken English and drug selling ” to quote KRS-ONE. However, we gave up much of that world, not necessarily to do music – but to try and be gods…really! Our brothers from other mothers, we would never give up – we were them and they were us and many of them made their lives in the world. When Culture felt we were ready he said “yo we need to go to the studio.” He arranged a battle between me and producer/rapper Tony D. Culture which was strategic…very!

BJ: What is your analysis of the state of Hip-Hop? Do you think the culture has been dismantled? Do you think it is fair to compare this era of artists with the time period when Poor Righteous Teachers was on the scene? How have you been able to protect your image despite the corporate machine that tears so many down?

WI: No, I would not say that “the culture has been dismantled.” However, I will say that the culture as presented in mainstream mediums has mangled public opinion of Hip Hop culture.

As far as comparing this era of artists with the era of PRT, I think it’s a fair comparison when we are fair. What I mean is, today we have many artists propagating culture, knowledge of self and consciousness just as in the era of X Clan and Brand Nubian. When we are not fair, we allow what’s playing on mainstream radio, video and internet networks to become our interpretation of what hip hop is or is not doing, and that’s an unfair assessment of the reality.

We cannot judge Hip Hop based on what Jimmy Lovine, Lyor Cohen or any other major label exec has decided to prop up as the representation of Hip Hop culture. In the event that the rosters and playlists at major record companies and radio/video stations were playing 50 Cent, Dead Prez, Lil Wayne, Immortal Technique, Nikki Minaj, Saroc, Jay Z and Djezuz Djonez then we can talk about what Hip Hop is in relationship to its mainstream propagation. As far as my image goes…I am who I am, Djezuz Djonez “…the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

BJ: Not only do you have a legacy of rocking the mic, but you've always been actively involved in social justice and community empowerment. Why have you always married activism with your music? What issues are you closely watching right now and involved in?

WI: Well, for me ACTIVISM is the most important element of the Hip Hop epistemology if you will. It was the activism of Afrika Bambaata that mobilized urban youth away from gangs and violent expressions of self-hatred into the elemental expressions of Hip Hop culture, love, peace, unity and having fun. He motivated them toward positive attitudes and lifestyles and away from death, destruction and mayhem. Therefore, activism is the source of power from which Hip Hop has been disconnected. Today, much of my focus is on efficiently building an arc sufficient enough to provide the proper spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional nourishment as well as psychosocial development for a larger family.

BJ: In December, you dropped a new album "The UnConkable Djezuz Djonez." Break down the title. Why did you decide to release this album at this time? What is this album bringing that you think is missing from Hip-Hop right now?

WI: Djezuz Djonez is like water in a rock so to speak. It’s like a rose growing out of the concrete in the middle of the projects. It’s godly healing power possessed by a poor ghetto kid that society has given up on, and in fact has condemned to a life of concentrated poverty, apartheid schooling and mediocrity – from which he emerges and ascends to redeem his people. You know, a black kid with power that can actually be used to help himself and his people unlike powerful black characters in the Green Mile, Bagger Vance, etc., who could only use their powers – it seemed – to help white folk, who hated them! (lol). With this album, I wanted to again show that being “CONSCIOUS” IS NOT a bad thing!

When, and how did “conscious” become a bad word? But, if someone calls you “gangster” or “hood” or “pimpin” that’s acceptable? I embrace my consciousness, I love it! This album demonstrates how black people in any ghetto America – contrary to popular belief - are not sex-crazed, drug addicted, gangbanging, or feeble-minded imbeciles! The work I do is to directly challenge mainstream perceptions of both the black and hip hop communities. I mean, we like tricking out an old Chevy, playing Hip Hop loud (no other way to play it), kickin it on the BLVD with our “homies”, and spittin rhymes as well as studying, going to school, taking our mothers and elders to the market, and raising our babies properly. Conveying that, in part, is my aim.

BJ: Over the last several years, we've watched the word "Illuminati" used in the same sentence with hip hop artists. Why do you think that is? Is it a publicity stunt by some artists?

WI: Well Hip Hop covers everything from politics, crime, sex, love, hate, religion, health the streets, race, etc. The Illuminati, can only be spoken of by a mainstream rapper if he is glorifying it in some way that demonizes himself, Hip Hop and the Black community. Other than that he can’t say nothing! Suppose a mainstream rapper in heavy rotation spoke of the Illuminati in terms of massive medical experiments being performed on predominantly non-white people in “Third World” countries without any regulations or watchdog groups to check such genocidal practices by major pharmaceutical companies? Suppose the quote on Jay Z’s shirt was not from the self-proclaimed devil, drug abuser, bisexual rich boy Aleister Crowley, but rather from Steve Cokely? Would he have been allowed to go that route with his message? I don’t think so. Publicity stunt or not, it has allowed us to open the conversation around the real causers of this world’s immiseration. I recently released another single from "The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez" entitled, "Illuminati" produced by Masada. My aim with the record is to help refocus the community to look at what's going on right in our daily lives and what we can do to move forward and upward. You can listen to the song and read the lyrics right here:

http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com/2011/02/wise-intelligents-illuminati-lyrics.html

BJ: You will be releasing your first book this year, “3/5th An MC: The Manufacturing of A Dumb Down Rapper.” What inspired you to write it and what do you hope to accomplish with it?

WI: The inspiration for the book was my sons. Looking at them made me realize that they are the reason I was born. The book is for them and their peers and the peers of their children’s children. The book documents what created, and maintains ghettoes, gang, prison and drug culture in Black communities across the country with Hip Hop as the narrator. The book says, Hip Hop is not the root cause of the urban decadence and neither is the Black community. I felt a need to give them a point of reference for why I rhyme about what I rhyme about, what Hip Hop was, is and can be. My hope is that the book helps black youth find their courage and go forward.

BJ: Thank you brother!

(You can find out more information about Wise Intelligent’s new book, album, upcoming projects, and the entire Konscious world at http://www.wiseintelligent.com. Follow him on Twitter www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

Wise Intelligent Presents "The Black Earth Project" Coming Soon!!!

2011-03-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

Wise Intelligent Presents

The Black Earth Project

"A Compilation of Dedications to The Mother of Civilization"

Coming Soon!!!

WWW.WISEINTELLIGENT.COM

BUY WISE INTELLIGENT'S NEW ALBUM, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez RIGHT HERE!

2011-03-12T05:36:00.000-08:00
BUY WISE INTELLIGENT'S NEW ALBUM, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez RIGHT HERE!

Listen and then BUY...

SUPPORT THIS INTELLIGENT MOVEMENT IN WORD AND DEED!

Wise Intelligent talks about his new album "The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez on - Bean Soup Times with Toure Muhammad 1/9/2011

2011-03-11T21:52:00.000-08:00

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

Hip Hop History with Wise Intelligent Saviors and How Marketing Affects the Black Community 1/9/2011 - Bean Soup Times | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio

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It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...DYING TO LEARN: ‘The building…is worn out’

2011-03-11T10:57:00.000-08:00

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

DYING TO LEARN: ‘The building…is worn out’

http://www.nj.com/opinion/times/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-1/129956671978230.xml&coll=5

“The building…is worn out” is the headline that bellowed loudly from The Times Monday, March 7th newspaper. The article was in reference to the deplorable condition the 79 year old Trenton Central High School is in, and has been in for decades. Not long ago, complained to their teachers and administrators about the appalling state of the bathrooms which had no doors on the stalls, no toiletries and in some cases only one or two toilets being functional. However, students complaints remained unaddressed until they took action, taking pictures of decrepit bathrooms with their cell phones and sending them to other students, teachers and eventually the newspaper.

Trenton Central High School was built in 1932 and was one of the largest and most expensive high schools in the country. The school was considered “an ornament to the city” and one of the “show places of Trenton.” Of course, this was when the school (like most schools in the city) was an all white high school. Since whites fled inner-cities in the 60s early 70s in a successful attempt at undermining Brown vs. Topeka Kansas Board of Education which declared segregated schooling to be unconstitutional – the school has been a proverbial ring of fire through which black and Hispanic students must be talented and agile enough to jump through on their way to receive a high school diploma from the wizards of inadequate education.

Now back to the building. Two weeks ago the ceiling collapsed in one of the classrooms. Luckily, there were no children present when this occurred. The ceiling had reportedly succumb to “rainwater from a leaky drain” also “spraying a wet mess of paint and plaster chips all over the floor.” Remember, the school was built in 1932, well before the 1978 ban on the use of lead paints and piping. Therefore, this “wet mess” of “paint and plaster chips” had to be accompanied by the dangerous presents of lead; a heavy metal that exists in dangerously high levels in TCHSs paints, plasters and piping.

A few years ago the school was allotted $150 million dollars to build a new educational facility. Recently, the state put an indefinite hold on the $150 million new school budget for TCHS. A decision leaving our children virtually at risk of suffering physical and psychological harm from dangerous structural problems and the presents of heavy metals on top of forged student transcripts and a state ranking of 317th out of 322 public schools. The Saga Continues...

Wise Intelligent

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

Illuminati Lyrics in the NEWS Part 1

2011-03-08T09:33:00.000-08:00

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

Illuminati Lyrics in the NEWS Part 1

"It's funny how these pedophiles market YOUR SONS and DAUGHTERS...target and breech your BORDERS...kidnap your seeds DEPORT THEM...transport them overseas, where devils fiend AUCTIONED and BOUGHT THEM..." - Djezuz Djonez/"Illuminati" http://www.wiseintelligent.com

Listen to the song here http://soundcloud.com/wiseintelligent

Prince Andrew named in sex quiz but billionaire pervert's girl aides refuse to say if they even know royal

By Stephen Wright In Palm Beach, Florida
Last updated at 10:41 AM on 7th March 2011

Prince Andrew has been sensationally named in legal documents concerning the perverted activities of his billionaire paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

The papers reveal that two women with close links to the pervert refused under oath to answer lawyers’ questions about the Duke of York’s visits to Epstein’s Florida mansion.

The pair – Epstein’s PA Sarah Kellen and his on/off model girlfriend Nadia Marcinkova – were questioned over whether Andrew had sex with teenage girls at the £4million property. They had an opportunity to say no but instead exercised their constitutional right to remain silent.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363701/Prince-Andrew-named-sex-quiz-Jeffrey-Epsteins-aides-refuse-say-know-royal.html

08 March 2011
www.dailymail.co.uk

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Wise Intelligent talks about the reality of the Ghetto in Rhyme and Reason (1997)

2011-03-06T20:23:00.000-08:00

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U-Stream of Wise Intelligent performing @ Dj Eclipse's Halftime Radio 13th Anniversary Show on March 2nd 2011!!!

2011-03-05T12:49:00.000-08:00
Check out the U-Stream Video of me rockin out @ Dj Eclipse's Halftime Radio 13th Anniversary Show on March 2nd 2011...The session I'm in starts about 56 minutes into the show

Big up to Dj Eclipse and the whole Halftime Radio massive!

Total respect 2 Master Ace, Rah Digga, Pacewon, The Artifacts (El da Sensei & Tame One), and Rock

Jersey was in there THICK!!!

Whatup 2 Apocalypse, Armageddon, Rasheed Chappell, and Punchline

Big up 2 Saigon, Vinnie Paz, Dres, John Robinson, and The UnConkable Djezuz Djonez all in a crazy cipher!

Yo! The producers dropped some serious FATBEATS!

Marco Polo Beats, Frank Dukes, Audible Doctor, Mr. Green as well as live DJ sets from Boogie Blind and DJ Precision were all CRAZY!

Pardon Self if I've forgotten anyone...It's all LOVE!

Pictures of Wise Intelligent rockin @ The Halftime Radio 13th Anniversary Show March 2nd 2011

2011-03-05T10:40:00.000-08:00
Check out these pics of me rockin @ Dj Eclipse's Halftime Radio 13th Anniversary Show on March 2nd 2011...Big Up to Robert Adam Mayer (Photo Rob) for taking these pics!

The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez quote #108

2011-03-02T13:21:00.000-08:00

"My view is kith and kin to the owl panoramic and unblinking
I can read your actions I know what you're thinking
I don't care if pulling up the root causes you to feel uneasy or nervous
Because I was raised to be unapologetically Konscious on purpose"
The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez

New Wise Intelligent interview w/Cedric Muhammad...The Second Coming of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): What Will Spark It?

2011-03-01T05:33:00.000-08:00

The Second Coming of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): What Will Spark It?

By Cedric Muhammad

All of us, in different ways, entertain, debate or ponder the question of just what is appropriate lyrical content in rap music? and the question of whether it is the duty of Hip-Hop artists to popularize knowledge, understanding and wisdom? Some of us have clear answers on these questions while others say it is not that easy to answer. The opinion of a late 30-something like myself is often different than that of a 14-year old, and I always find it interesting to see where the consensus is on the subject, across age and region. The relationship between artistic expression and any responsibility we feel it has to inform and enlighten thought and behavior is always a controversial topic – with an almost endless number of angles being brought up and out.

Of late I have concerned myself primarily with the economic aspects of the matter because I believe the relationship between art and commerce – which always exists - has been either ignored, diminished or oversimplified (by lovers and haters of business activity) by most opinion leaders in Hip-Hop. I have expressed that perspective in this Hip-Hoppreneur column which I am honored to have had published for a year now at AllHipHop.com.

My most recent thoughts (which I’ll keep to myself this week -smile) in this area and the question of whether or not a return to earlier days in Hip-Hop (when historical knowledge was championed and fashionable) is possible or even desirable were stimulated by the work of two artists: mikeflo – an emcee, DJ (for dead prez), producer and teacher; and Wise Intelligent of the legendary Poor Righteous Teachers, who also records under the identity/personality of Djezuz Djonez (and who continues to work with youth all over the country and in particular, his native Trenton, New Jersey).

I’ve been enjoying mikfelo’s mixtape (http://mikeflo.wordpress.com/), “Fly, Fresh, and Responsible,” hosted by M1 of dead prez, and Wise Intelligent’s “Illuminati’: (http://soundcloud.com/wiseintelligent/wise-intelligent-illuminati) off of his new album “Wise Intelligent Iz…The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez” (along with an outstanding blog deconstructing his own lyrics at: http://www.wiseintelligent.com/)

From two very important perspectives mikelfo and Wise make valuable contributions to discussing this decades old debate, in a timely and relevant manner. Seeking to place their up-to-date perspectives opposite this ‘timeless’ discussion (that at times gets stale, preachy, and even down ignorant) I interviewed both of them on their work and the success and challenge of entertaining and cultivating souls while feeding the intellect of a generation that wasn’t raised on Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Queen Latifah, X-Clan, Ice Cube, or Brand Nubian.

Cedric Muhammad: What is the motivation behind “Fly, Fresh and Responsible” and its connection (if any) to the principles of R.B.G. ‘Revolutionary But Gangsta” coined by Dead Prez?

mikeflo: The motivation behind “Fly, Fresh & Responsible” comes from an undying need to provide balance to an industry bombarded with an influx of imagery that is NOT useful in the war against all Afrikan people at home and abroad. Its a call to action for artists to remember that they can be fly and fresh, yet also be held accountable to their families (which I am and ALWAYS MUST THANK for my development as a man), communities and to Hip Hop as a whole. Impressionable minds are watching our every move and it is paramount that we communicate proactive and promising messages WITHOUT preaching. “Revolutionary But Gangsta” says exactly that for dead prez and for me it is the same. Its not enough to merely preach to the amen corner, but to meet the people where they are and take them to where they want to be, even if they aren’t sure where to go…..we speak clearly and make it plain.

Cedric Muhammad: Certain tracks on the mixtape flip recent popular records and turn the title, phrases, and hooks in a different direction than artists like Kanye West or Drake, for example, intended. Have you found that approach useful in connecting with young fans of the music - and introducing history lessons, concepts, and books they otherwise may not know or learn about?

mikeflo: Yes, I’ve found this approach very successful because at the end of the day the food must taste good. Its no different than taking a popular dish and substituting ingredients yet still maintaining the taste and integrity of that particular dish. At the end of the day people want to unite with things that are sonically pleasing and if you can manage to communicate some relevant messages then its all worth it. I have fun with takeovers but put just as much or even more into my original material. Young people love to hear what they know being translated in a different way, especially when you’re really spittin’ and relating to them.

Cedric Muhammad: Years ago in a Final Call interview I said (http://www.blackelectorate.com/print_article.asp?ID=1425):

“I think that it’s important for historical context that I make a reference to one of the memos of the counterintelligence program of the FBI dated August 25, 1967. It actually said that no political activist or somebody with an ideology that was perceived as a threat to the establishment should have access to a mass communication media. That’s actually the quote, “mass communication media.” And so, J. Edgar Hoover was fearful of any ideology or philosophy or charismatic leader or organization having access to a medium. And so, before we even get into the question of which rappers are more conscious than others, I think we have to respect the power of the medium itself. Hip Hop culture, the music and of course, radio, the records, the videos and other forms through which people can project messages and images that may spark a movement.”

What is the place of the DJ and the Mixtape in terms of COINTELPRO and ‘mass communication medium’?

mikeflo: The role of the DJ is to counteract the counter intelligence. DJ’s should have their fingers on the pulse of the people and an eye on the prize at the same time. Many “well known” to “obscure” DJ’s are dropping the ball because they are not playing the plethora of songs they really listen to in their own lives. Instead, they follow the formula of going with the status quo in attempts to NOT ruffle too many feathers, keep advertisers happy (in the case for radio DJ’s) and song by song dumb down the culture. The DJ is just one of the elements (many say the foundation) of Hip Hop and knowledge is the 5th element that can’t be forgotten. The DJ’s role is to play good records and break good records that the average music lover may not know about. Everything is political so every tactic is significant in war. The DJ definitely plays an important role in sustaining Hip Hop culture and keeping it solid so that certain agents aren’t so confident and successful in their infiltration into what is one of our most powerful tools for liberation.

Cedric Muhammad: “Fly, Fresh and Responsible” weaves in the language of different schools of thought and communities from the Working Class/Black Power/Black Nationalist/Pan-African Movements in a very credible way. In addition acknowledgment of the role of street organizations (on the track ‘One Blood’ we hear a call for the unity of Black and Brown people and to organize ’street tribes’). Do you believe that Hip-Hop lyricists have the ability to develop a universal unifying language that has eluded some of our organizations whose disciples and members to this day seem to operate with suspicion in dealing with one another - even in facing a common enemy?

mikeflo: Excellent question Brother Cedric. Many Hip Hop lyricists have the ability to paint pictures so crystal clear that permeate all kinda hoods from coast to coast and tribe for tribe. Any effective communicator must assess his/her audience before they can address them. It is very important for artists to have a scope that includes the hood, yet reaches far beyond those same hoods that tend to unify us. At the end of the day we all want the same things and are more alike than different. The problem is that many artists are digging deep into themselves to provide more balance and thus are underestimating what the working class really wants and needs….Artists must be fearless in these days and times. The stakes are too high. And yes, it is a common enemy. We must choose a side of the fence we want to live on. No more straddling the fence, especially for those that “know better”. Period.

Cedric Muhammad Do explanations which primarily blame corporate power and corrupt music industry influence for the ‘disappearance’ of ‘consciousness’ from Hip-Hop and rap music satisfy you?

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez Well, let me say first and foremost that I do not believe that ‘consciousness’ has ‘disappeared’ from Hip Hop, neither from rap music. Hip Hop artists, in America and around the world have continued to interpret the social-political landscape of our communities, nation and world without cessation. Its more so a question of ‘conscious’ Hip Hop leaving the mainstream mediums (corporation; label/radio/video, etc.) through which the culture is delivered to the masses. With that as our backdrop, we can safely say that corporate power (which is the music/media industry) is responsible for the shifts in what we hear or not within the mediums under their control. Let’s not simplify what has happened to the literatures of freedom or “consciousness’ to the mediums of Hip Hop propagation. We have ample evidence and or examples of how ‘conscious’ media has been caused to disappear from mainstream film, television, news, print publications – including but not limited to literary works such as histories and novels. Just as Fight the Power is no longer in the mainstream, neither is Malcolm X, or Rosewood.

Just as You Must Learn is no longer in the mainstream neither is The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality or Culture Bandits. When ‘conscious’ Hip Hop or “protest songs” – as I prefer to refer to much of what I do – were cut from the BET programming so was Tavis Smiley, Teen Summit and anything that could shine the least bit of light into a budding mind. When we make Hip Hop the sole focus of this process of DUMBING DOWN, we miss the reality that this is an assault on our collective conscience by Weapons of Mass Distraction targeting everything from the music we listen to and television we watch, to the books we read and schools we attend. Harry Allen still exists and so do many young people today doing what he did when PE made him famous. But, just because mainstream does not propagate this brand of content does not mean it does not exist or is not relevant!

-Cedric Muhammad: Of late we’ve heard Jay-Z more openly make reference to terminology popularized by the Nation of Gods and Earths (which has also been referred to as the 5% Nation of Islam) and many noted his reference to Minister Farrakhan - even placing a drawing of him in his new book, Decoded. What impact if, any do you see this having on younger artists who admire Jay-Z yet did not grow up in the 1980s (as Jay-Z did) when the Lessons and Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad were more common place in Hip-Hop culture/music?

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez: Hopefully they’ll Google Minister Louis Farrakhan. Sad day in black life when black teenagers have to Google Farrakhan to know anything about who he is. Jay Z, in my opinion is one of the dopest MCs ever, without any argument – I believe. I’ve always thought that he could take a rhyme wherever he wanted to take it, along with whoever’s listening to him. I also, thought that some 99.999 percent of his catalogue focuses primarily on the same things, i.e., money, ho’s and clothes (consumer oriented materialism). I must say, you cannot be forty years old and have nothing else to talk about other than having the “baddest” R&B “bitch” wearing your chain, or how much more money you have than the people you grew up in poverty amongst? Maybe you can? At some point in our lives that conversation gets old and demeaning. So, substance is required…guess I’ll try and kick a little knowledge. I hope this is the case…at least an occasional reference to the collective heartbeat of this people.

Cedric MuhammadThere is clearly a disconnect in Hip-Hop which as you may know [in "Why T.I. Needs Chuck D….(and Soulja Boy Needs T.I.)

http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/editorial/archive/2010/12/15/22527896.aspx)]

I have blamed for the lack of the transfer of business and creative knowledge from one generation of artists to another within the culture and industry. You also know that I have noted what I believe is a tendency for the older members of the Hip-Hop generation to be not just critical but judgmental of the tastes of its youngest members. Yet, you are over 20 years in the game, arguably still look like a teenager (and market yourself in ways that embrace youth), and are rooted in the work of community development via the use of technology which seems to captivate young people. Do you believe your personality and approach holds some keys for others?

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez: I’ll say that there has never in the history of music – as far as I am aware – been a time wherein there was a transferring of business and creative knowledge among artists (black or white).

Hell, we have barely passed down family trees for two generations in some of our households. What I do see happening is Hip Hop artists are passing business and creative knowledge down to their paternal offspring. Many Hip Hop artist and moguls are developing their children into mega artists as well as astute businessmen/women. However, you are correct in that there is no transfer of such business knowledge and skill among artists. I’m not sure if my approach holds keys, but I do know and understand that most ‘progressive’ and revolutionary movements were initiated by young people as young as 16 – 24 years old. The Civil Rights Movement with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Martin Luther King Jr. was a mere 26 years old when he stepped on the frontline. The Black Panther Party were fairly young as well. Che Guevara was what, 25 years old when he joined a young Castro? I just don’t believe all the BS about “young people don’t want” to hear or buy this or that because its “too preachy” or some other BS. We were once the 16 to 24 year olds listening to everything from Kool G Rap and NWA to Public Enemy and Too Short. We wore Dapper Dan leather outfits, fat gold chains, smoked weed and still read books, studied lessons and went to see Farrakhan and or a Leonard Jeffries speak. Being young and dumb are not synonymous. Just as being old and wise aren’t either. Wisdom and youth are not mutually exclusive.

I’m making music that explains the why of it all. Yes, some of us are cooking and selling cocaine and other drugs, yes we are filling the prisons, yes some of us are gangbanging…I’m interpreting how we got here. What created ghettoes, concentrated poverty, poor schooling, etc. ALL BLACK PEOPLE (and not just the youth) can relate to this! As long as an artist stays true to his root, his people, his source of power he’ll remain relevant far beyond the shelf life breathed into him by the mainstream apparatus.

Cedric Muhammad: Do you believe we’ll ever see an era like what existed in the 1980s-90s where the open embrace of knowledge was not only acceptable but an essential key to being popular and relevant, as an artist? If not, why not and if so - what forces, circumstances, events, individuals, and institutions would play a role or be a factor?

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez: YES, I do believe we will once again witness a healthy injection of knowledge and substance into the diets of a larger audience. I don’t think a child can drink energy drinks his entire life without one day seeking out and or asking for a glass of water. The cotton candy breakfast, lunch and dinner will eventually exhaust itself. Organic produce will once again be added to the mainstream menu when Wise Intelligent’s “ILLUMINATI” is accidentally played on Hot 97, followed by the adding of “Something About Mary” to urban radio playlists around the country. The masses are connected to mainstream mediums like babies to umbilical cords. Until they are fed knowledge through these – their mother mediums – if it ain’t in the mainstream it ain’t in their bloodstream.

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Cedric Muhammad is a business consultant, political strategist, and monetary economist. He’s CEO of CM Cap where he provides brand management services to Hip-Hop artists:

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IT'S NO LONGER SMART TO BE DUMB!!!!

Wise Intelligent Talks "Illuminati" And Why Jay-Z's Membership Is Irrelevant

2011-02-28T15:37:00.000-08:00

Wise Intelligent Talks "Illuminati" And Why Jay-Z's Membership Is Irrelevant

by Paul W Arnold

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.14226/title.wise-intelligent-talks-illuminati-and-why-jay-zs-membership-is-irrelevant

posted February 28, 2011 at 9:46AM EST

Exclusive: The former Poor Righteous Teachers front-man breaks down the meaning behind his thought-provoking new music.

Following the release earlier this month of his third solo studio album, The Unconkable Djezuz Djonez, HipHopDX reached out to Wise Intelligent so the lead emcee of one of the 1990s' most celebrated collectives, Poor Righteous Teachers, could explain the thought process behind his much talked about new single, “Illuminati”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kd_KacJKMo

link to the lyrics
http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com/2011/02/wise-intelligents-illuminati-lyrics.html

Speaking to DX on Wednesday (February 23rd), the author of countless cerebral classics (“Rock Dis Funky Joint,” “Nobody Move” and “Word Iz Life” just to name a few) provided some insight into two of the thought-provoking tracks included on the follow-up to 2007’s The Talented Timothy Taylor. First, the New Jersey native who utilized one of the most seamless flows in Hip Hop history to drop jewels for the “Gods, Earths and 85ers” explained why Jay-Z and other rappers could not be part of the Illuminati. Lastly, Wise addressed lyrics from “Water Walker,” explaining why “Obama is wearing a McDonald’s uniform.”

HipHopDX: Your new joint, “Illuminati,” addresses [Jay-Z’s] long-rumored ties to that secret society, but you dismiss his inclusion in the Illuminati, or any other rapper’s for that matter, as ridiculous. Why?

Wise Intelligent: I’m not dismissing inclusion, what I’m saying is it’s irrelevant if they are. What would be the point? The Illuminati…goes way back to the Crusades, and way back before that. These people were about world conquest and world domination. And they’ve already dominated and conquered the world, and [so] there’s no need to have a card carrying rapper member. What is the point? There’s no point in it. What is the criteria? What would he be doing that would benefit an apparatus that has already conquered the world? I don’t understand that; that just doesn’t make sense to me.

I think we need to focus more attention on the fact that public schools are being shut down intentionally, to disenfranchise many urban youth, from whom Hip Hop came. If this is about Hip Hop and the youth that created Hip Hop and where Hip Hop comes from, and everybody talking about “this is where Hip Hop lives,” we need to be focusing our attention on what’s happening to the children that produced Hip Hop, that brought Hip Hop to the world. And we’re not even talking about that, we’re talking about Jay-Z. It’s like, yo, Jay-Z is ill, Jay-Z is probably the illest emcee that ever wrote rhymes, but when we get right down to it, if we talking about the Illuminati…we need to get into what’s happening in plain view.

My point was to bring the Illuminati out of the boogieman space. It’s not a boogieman; it’s legislators that are right now passing legislation that disenfranchises so many people. We’re talking about 1% of the population in America controlling 50% of the wealth, controlling more wealth than 50% of the people here. We have 10% of the people all over the world making life miserable for 90% of the world and [all] we wanna talk about is Jay-Z gay, is Kanye gay? Are they in this secret society? It’s not a secret society, it’s right in your face. Everything they’re doing is right in your face. Everything.

So, let’s deal with that; let’s deal with those things. Let’s deal with all the sterilization programs they have going on around the world. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about the overthrowing of Egypt. Let’s talk about the overthrowing of the Middle East right now. Let’s talk about that! We don’t wanna discuss these things. Let’s talk about how mainstream corporations control what we see and hear everyday.

So my whole thing about the “Illuminati” [song], it’s about a protest – protesting disenfranchisement of the large majority of the population of this planet. That’s the bottom line. So Jay-Z don’t have nothing to do with that. Jay-Z didn’t start the eugenics programs. Jay-Z didn’t do that.

DX: You mentioned protest music…do you have any objections to Lupe Fiasco declaring on his latest single “Words I Never Said” that “Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist / Gaza Strip was gettin’ bombed, Obama didn’t say shit / That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either”?

Wise Intelligent: That’s some powerful shit. I love Lupe Fiasco. I love Lupe Fiasco because he keeping it real, and that’s what Hip Hop is for me. Hip Hop is the other side of the story. Hip Hop is not the official mainstream story that becomes the official story. Hip Hop is, Nah man, Amadou Diallo didn’t have a gun; he had a wallet. Nah, Oscar Grant wasn’t resisting arrest. Nah, Barack – c’mon Barack, you gave $800 million to the prison industrial complex. Why? When you know that there’s a predatory system that targets inner city youth.

So…yes, yes, I support everything in that line right there. If Lupe Fiasco said it, if that’s what he said, yes, I agree. He has the right to say those things. I think that they need to be said. And they need to be able to be said in the mainstream platforms – from everywhere, from HipHopDX to Clear Channel. It needs to be propagated; it needs to be put out there. That’s the other side. And that’s what Hip Hop was from the beginning; it was the other side of the story. And that’s what’s missing right now. It’s not that heads are not making conscious music anymore, it’s because mainstream corporations don’t want it on the air – for what it is, and for what it has the ability to do. Same thing that happened in Egypt; Hip Hop has the ability to do that. It was Hip Hop that moved those kids in South Africa to confront apartheid. So let’s keep it real official, man. Lupe Fiaco’s keeping it official.

DX: Is President Obama part of the “wickedness in high places” you’re speaking on in “Water Walker”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXSIan1l8o

Wise Intelligent: This the thing with President Obama, for me, President Obama is just like a superintendent in a public school district that has been setup to fail. In other words, he’s inherited a sinking ship.

Better example: he’s like all the black mayors in the inner cities around the country. Like here in Trenton, [former] Mayor Douglas Palmer…became the mayor of Trenton after the municipal budgets were already bankrupt, [and] after white flight and white people had fled out of the inner cities and shifted the funding from the inner city to these suburbs. So now the kids are not getting the funding that they need for adequate education and things of that nature. Now they redlined the whole inner city. Now that the white people left…all the banks and investors redlined the city, and now you can’t develop the city any further than a mom-and-pop chicken shop. Everything’s dilapidated. The public schools here in Trenton – we haven’t had a new public school [built] since like 1932. I’m serious. It’s like, yo, this school is like 85 years old. The school is almost a hundred years old. The high school here is the only high school in the city. So, we have to really pay attention to that. When the mayor took office it was already a wrap. The white legislators who control the legislature, they shift the politics. They shift everything to the suburbs. Everything went to the benefit of these new suburbs and gated communities that they built outside of Trenton, New Jersey.

And that’s what Barack Obama has done: he’s inherited a sinking ship just like the mayors of Trenton, just like the superintendents of these black public school districts. They’ve inherited sinking ships that they can’t fix. They can’t fix it, because you have legislators who are above them. You have people who are above them who are not gonna allow it. When you look at the House [of Representatives], you have like 300 white congressmen to about 42 black congress people. So the interests and concerns of the black masses in America will not be met because they always will stack their vote against it. I don’t care what happens.

Just like with the crack versus powder [cocaine] laws, the mandatory sentencing, the Rockefeller [Laws] – all of these laws that came up before the house as unfair and unjust laws, they ruled against changing these laws back in I believe it was 1995. But when LSD was brought under the guise of unfairness, they said it’s unfair. And a lot of white kids who predominately deal with LSD were let out of jail and shortened their sentences. And a lot of people don’t know about that because that never made mainstream [news coverage]. And the reason that our community don’t know about it is because they won’t let my songs on the radio! And the mainstream Hip Hop websites won’t discuss it honestly.

Back to what Obama is…Obama has inherited a sinking ship. America is what it is; America was on this course since 1913 when they set up the Federal Reserve Bank. The economy was centralized then. And now we’re seeing the results of that; we’re seeing the results of that centralizing of America’s economy. That’s what Thomas Jefferson said: don’t let ‘em centralize the economy; we don’t want a central bank here. He said the bankers are gonna ruin the country. And that’s what happened.

So, at the end of the day, Obama is wearing a McDonald’s uniform. He comes to work, [and] he punches the clock. He can’t come in there and say, I have this olive oil. We gonna fry these fries in olive oil from here on out. And they like, No! We ain’t frying in olive oil. The people ain’t complaining about fries cooked in 10w40 motor oil, so we’re not changing it. This is what we’re using. So, it’s what it is. You can’t change the rules at McDonald’s. You gotta wear the uniform, punch in and punch out.

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The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez quote #36

2011-02-19T21:02:00.000-08:00

"At the moment Mubarak stepped down Wall Street let out a rousing cheer...But at the same time it tries to stop the same thing from happening right here...What went down in Egypt wasn't the meal it was just a taste...And the next time black men gather we'll leave more than footprints on Lincoln's face"

The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez

Wise Intelligent's "illuminati" Lyrics Deconstructed

2011-02-15T07:11:00.000-08:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

ILLUMINATI Lyrics Deconstructed
by Wise Intelligent

http://soundcloud.com/wiseintelligent/wise-intelligent-illuminati

While I'm aware of the many informative literary works being published by some great men and giants in our community on the subject of Hip Hop and the Illuminati – this song, its lyrics, nor this blog are intended to prove or disprove any of what has been written, published and or lectured about concerning this subject. Rather, to interpret the lyrics to my work and direct our attention to the root cause(ers) of current world dilemmas. Below are the lyrics and a verse by verse overview of the works aim.

VS 1
Lucifer Son of the morning, shalom, good day good morning
All of the livin are mourning, he affixes sixes on them…
But didn’t the scripture warn them? delivered the revelations?
Still they debatin Satan's use of major corporations

I didn't intend on putting a song that addressed the subject of the Illuminati on this latest album. However, the producer Masada submitted the track right when we had just wrapped up the record. I mean we were about to master the project. I heard the track, and completed the song the day I heard it. I laid it and we mixed it. As, anyone familiar with Poor Righteous Teachers should know, the group’s 1996 album was called “The New World Order” and the inside cover album art displayed several books pertaining to the Illuminati and the lore surrounding it. The intent of this recording was to simply take the Illuminati out of the “boogieman” realm and demonstrate how its apparatus functions in our daily lives in plain view. I often say that the illuminati, like the freemasons ARE NOT necessarily “secret societies” rather they are a society of secrets.

Remember the plantation, remember the black enslavement
Remember the soul debasin, globe defacin, hidden persuaders
Remember your colonization, colonial education
Ignorance and nigger shit, we get from the radio station

The rhyme points out well known historical events that effected and in many ways changed the world – like the enslavement of Africans and the colonization of the continent. The point being that the illuminati represents the wealthy globe holders who were and still are responsible for initiating and financing some of history’s most notable experiences. The rhyme goes on to express how mainstream media is very well managed and controlled with the function of controlling public opinion and mobilizing the poor and laboring masses to behave as the wealthy – less than one percent of the populace – would have them do.

Performers are getting younger, the dresses are getting shorter
It’s funny how these pedophiles market your sons and daughters
Target and breech your borders, kidnap your seeds deport them
Transport them over overseas where devils fiend auction and bought them

The above four measures of the song deal with the international trafficking of children as sex slaves to the wealthy and in many cases involving United Nations soldiers, as well as politicians from all over the world. A couple of years ago we learned that a United Nations ship was used to transport young girls from India to islands where they were then sold as prostitutes. These are not isolated instances of child kidnapping and abuse. This happens by design and is linked to major politicians, kings and sultans. Remember the Lincoln, NE. child prostitution ring that was traced all the way to the Reagan/Bush White House?

In ayiti someone caught them, if these are the seeds we lost them
Tossed them to hell they fell for what his system taught them
Gimmie a minute to prove this, call it conspiracy theory
You never knew what the truth is, be sure that my enemy hear me

VS 2
All of this talk about Jay Z, being illuminati
Or whether they got to Kanye, or whether or not they both gay?
This is irrelevant subtext call it celebrity gossip
Your taking it out of the context of Lucifer's pertinent subjects

The point here is to say that if our focus is on Jay Z and Kanye West as Illuminati we do not understand and have missed the most fundamental function of the machine – world domination. The capping stone on the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill was set in place nearly one hundred years ago in 1913 with the establishing of the Federal Reserve Bank, thus centralizing the country’s economy. These corporation founders/owners enslaved Africans, killed off Native Americans, bankrolled pirate ships, insured slave ships, created eugenics programs, designed, staged marketed and promoted World War’s I, II, and the Vietnam War before Kool Herc “said it was Hip and we started to Hop.”

What is the criteria for a rapper being Illuminati? He sold a lot of records? P.E. did that! So did the Fugees and Lauryn Hill and Tribe Called Quest and Arrested Development? What would be the rappers purpose as a card-carrying member of the Illuminati – to mislead his fans? If so, we can include every well intended grammar school teacher, pastor, minster, etc. for disseminating misleading information to their students daily to make their daily bread – some unaware and some well aware. Can’t be the subject matter of the records or we would have to include rappers like Kool G. Rap, Too Short, Ice Cube, NWA, Tupac, Biggie, and a plethora of others – who in my humble opinion are simply poor kids from some ghetto attempting to play the best hand of spades they can with the cards they were dealt! How they interpret the struggle in which they’re embedded notwithstanding.

We live in the projects, we descend from slaves
A lot of us don’t even got shit, and do anything to get paid…
Who Jigga that nigga ain’t Satan, and West just hood at best
And If they homo, I do not know and I could care less

Nahh they ain’t the Bilderbergers, nahh they ain’t the Rothschild’s?
That’s right they da Rockefeller’s, nahh that’s just dem niggas style
Illuminati sellin your mind soul and body
and they ain’t ever need no rappers to accomplish that

Rappers, be they mainstream, underground, “conscious” or gangster, are not responsible for engineering much other than music. However, the wealthy members of this body we call the Illuminati are publically known to the world as “social engineers.” They have masked their dirty doings in the vision impairing art of philanthropy. They are the subjects of Proverbs 17:23 which says “A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.” Again, the rapper by my assessment is at best, guilty of accepting the gift of misfortune and fame to not use his platform to confront this beast – at least sometimes.

rhythm I ride on top of that, given you the truth so copy that
soon the e-conomy collapse, great tribulation after that
skull and cross bone pirate hats, British west indies company cats
we call that Steve Cokely raps, illuminati coming but I’ll be back

Jay Z, West nor any other rapper will be responsible for the collapsing of America’s economy or any other economy in the world. These grapes of wrath had been sown before Hip Hop was pushed out of the womb of black music’s blues.

VS 3
Before they collapse the market, they’re criminalizing farming
they're silencing you for talking, while turnin us all into peasants
Agricultural patents ConAgra created the famines
Monsanto’s seeds that terminate the natural birthing action

The above four measures are intended to address the Orwellian type reality in which we now find ourselves. Wherein, scientists of all fields are being bankrolled by major corporations, philanthropic foundations, and so-called “social engineers” like the real Rockefellers to use their talents NOT to sustain and preserve human life. Rather to reduce it via manmade famine, weapons of mass destruction, global sterilization initiatives, etc.

Controlling the food supply, choosing who should live or die
Confusion rules you choose the lie, illusion illuminates your mind
These are the last times, spend them getting organized
Victory be with the strongest tribe, the ones that forge the tightest ties

The light is ours, they’re the sons of darkness in disguise
Edom’s fall is Jacob’s rise, so the prophets prophesized
Cecil Rhodes mining more than just De-beers
We’re rewinding through the years but you would rather drink da beers

John Cecil Rhodes in his Confessions of Faith laid out his life, and after death, mission and goal when he said why not have a secret society with one purpose but to see that his race rules forever. He discussed taking over Africa, enslaving and exterminating the population on the continent (what part of that has not been done or isn’t progress? And how much of it was done by or because of rappers?). He spoke of Africa without Africans, meaning more land to produce more of what he called the most superior race – the Anglo-Saxon.

While your peers disappear, off the corner every year
Prison population risin’ abortion clinics everywhere
Truth is they don’t want us here, there’s no cotton left to pick
Physical labor is redundant, secret shifts in politics

In the event, Jay Z, Kanye West, the “Illuminati Princess” – Rihanna (LOL), or any other financially well-to-do rapper, athlete, talk show host (Oprah included) is caught going across the border with kilo’s of illegal drugs, weapons, or underage children smuggled out of some Third World country their asses are going directly to jail and will not be collecting $200 for passing go! They do not control, have membership in, or find favor from this monopolizing oligarchy. They are used by it at best!!!

Listen, rappers who promote and or perpetuate racist and or offensive stereotypes should be held responsible. However, they are not on the same level as the people and the system that funds apartheid schooling, controls, regulates, and collapses economies, concentrates poverty into hyper-segregated ghettoes, discriminates against black farmers, starts eugenics programs, denies you and destroys the health care system, lies to start wars, let us drown in Katrina, started blockbusting, redlining, and white flight, closes down libraries (in urban areas), stopped after school programs, environmental racism: high levels of manganese and lead in predominantly black communities, monopolizes the media, started global warming, imports and exports drugs, imports and exports children in sex rings, maintains Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, funds the prison industrial complex, let pedophiles priests run rampant in and out of the Vatican, and uses the IMF and World Bank to destroy and destabilize countries thru debt manipulation. Rappers, are for the most part symptoms of the aforementioned problems and by no means represent the causative factors in this reality.

Jay Z might have been on and owned Rocafella records but he didn't write and enforce the racist Rockefeller Drug Laws. It's time to take our focus off the puppets and redirect it onto the puppet masters. This approach will serve us well in our effort to raise the people’s awareness of this system of oppression that is so subtle it provokes neither rebellion or escape. Then maybe, some upcoming rappers of tomorrow will be able to see the big picture that many of their peers fail to see (and some pretend not to see) for poverty and want of all things.

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Wise Intelligent's NEW BANGER "illuminati"

2011-02-15T06:53:00.001-08:00

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“illuminati” is Wise at his lyrical best..With all of the talk about who and what are the Illuminati these days, Wise Intelligent has decided to step up to the mic and deal with the hardcore reality. Listen and judge for yourself! Masada’s flawless production makes this one of the hottest songs on the net today. Go to http://www.wiseintelligent.com for more INTELLIGENT MEDIA!

Wise Intelligent's NEW ALBUM "The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez" is out on Itunes TODAY!!!

2011-02-08T17:48:00.000-08:00

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http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/illuminati/id417993305?i=417993448&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

http://www.shockhound.com/albums/777935-wise-intelligent-djezuz-djonez-mp3s-wise-intelligent-iz-the-unconkable-djezuz-djonez

It's been a looong time coming, but it's well worth the wait!!!

Get @ me and let me know what you think!!!

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!!!

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez UndergroundSpiritualGame feat. Tara Courtney

2011-01-30T20:31:00.000-08:00

DOWNLOAD NEW SINGLE RIGHT NOW!!!

“UndergroundSpiritualGame”

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez feat. Tara Courtney

http://www.usershare.net/ew32eq9uno8f

The track was produced by
Bigg Scott of 7XL Productions

UndergroundSpiritualGame gives you a glimpse into the life of Djezuz Djonez at home and at work. When you’re out there on the frontline righteously focused on tryin to resurrect the youth from the grave of ignorance, racism, wack rhymes, and self hate the personal needs of your loved ones at home sometimes get lost in the process…

Trenton’s own Tara Courtney articulates perfectly the love, frustration, devotion, and insecurity of a woman who has sacrificed her life and her man to the struggle. Tara’s beautiful and heartfelt voice penetrates the soul as she beseeches her beloved for a little bit more time, attention, and clarity.

Bigg Scott of 7XL Productions has created a new millennium headbanger for your ass! This rock inspired call to arms has given Djezuz Djonez the perfect back drop to speak directly to his people and wake the dead. UndergroundSpiritualGame is the type of song that can’t be written off, boxed in, or ignored! It’s time to buckle up because Djezuz Djonez has taken the wheel and like it or not he’s “The Only Mother Fuckin Hope that Hip Hop Got”!

“UndergroundSpiritualGame”
(T. Grimes, Scotty “Bigg Scott” Clayburn)
Produced by Bigg Scott ASCAP
Recorded at Theo's Lab, Riverside NJ
Mixed and Engineered by B. Smith
beeezymusic@gmail.com
and Wise Intelligent
Written by Wise Intelligent
Featuring Tara Courtney
http://www.twitter.com/courtneydanger

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit:
http://www.wiseintelligent.com

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features,
contact Born Free at
intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez Sow Djezuz feat Tye Austin

2011-01-21T09:01:00.000-08:00

Wise Intelligent drops Djezuz Djonez on Feb 8th and releases new song "Sow Djezuz" TODAY!!!

2011-01-20T22:36:00.000-08:00

Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez drops on
February 8th, 2011!!!!

It will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic, and all your other digital download spots!!!!

Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez
(Back 2 School - Second Period)

1. Crown of Thornz
2. Introduce Ya Self
3. My Crucifix
4. Water Walker
5. Illuminati
6. Sow Djezuz feat. Tye Austin
7. Somethin' About Mary feat. B. Smith
8. What Would Djezuz Do? (Underdog)
9. Zion feat. Rahzii Highpower
10. Undergroundspiritualgame
11. Hey Brutha Man feat. Tye Austin
12. Mark of Da Beast
13. Intelligent Dezign feat. Courtney Danger
14. Miracles feat. Contro'versy
15. Muthafuckasizhatinonme
16. I Will Die 4 U (Roman Cross)

DOWNLOAD BRAND NEW SINGLE BELOW!!!!!!

"Sow Djezuz"
Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez feat. Tye Austin
http://www.usershare.net/fg2w2msrwryb

This track was produced by
Masada of HavKnotz Productions

“Sow Djezuz” is yet another undeniable example of Wise Intelligent’s ability to seamlessly merge style and substance
without compromising either one!
Masada’s flawless production mixes a classic Hip Hop sound
with a new raw energy that will snap your neck as soon as the beat drops!

"Sow Djezuz"
(T. Grimes, J. Pierre)
Produced by Masada ASCAP
Recorded at B Smith's House
Mixed and Engineered by Brian Smith, Masada,
and Wise Intelligent
Written by Wise Intelligent
Featuring Tye Austin

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit:

http://www.wiseintelligent.com

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features,
contact Born Free at
intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

For Immediate Release…

January 2011

Wise Intelligent is finally ready to reveal his highly anticipated new album, Wise Intelligent Iz…The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez. This will be the 2nd part of Wise’s 7 part; “Back to School” CD box set…

Trenton, NJ – Acclaimed artist and activist Wise Intelligent of the Legendary Poor Righteous Teachers has completed his highly anticipated 3rd solo album Wise Intelligent Iz…The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez. The new album will be released independently on Intelligent Muzik / distributed thru INgrooves. The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez was produced by Jumal “Masada” Perrie of the HavKnotz, Big Scott & D-Rel of 7XL Productions, Paul “PJ” Little, and
Kasar tha Star.

“When I travel through ya city while you listening to Biggie
I’m a bigger fan of Fela Kuti
Like I really give a f*ck about Gucci, I’m nobody’s property
I’m a beast of… NO Nation… I’m a beast by…vocation
Lyrically I will empirically blot the memory out of any MC”
-Djezuz Djonez/Water Walker

Wise Intelligent has never been afraid to take chances and push past any and all so-called limitations imposed on him by limited minds. With this new album Wise in the form of the UnConKable Djezuz Djonez is taking a stand for all the neglected, underprivileged, hyper segregated, redlined, and poverty stricken youth who have been forsaken in the bowels of the inner city.This will be a lyrical lesson and a reminder to every young rapper that you DON’T have to conform to the status-quo to make a dope Hip Hop album and be successful in this industry. Wise Intelligent’s main mission is to "motivate the youth towards positive attitudes and lifestyles" and to help recreate an environment that will give them a "high self esteem and enhanced racial pride".

“Call it blasphemous, Zoroastracist, sacrelige
This is black heritage...I am as the Master is
Nine gods out of ONE, Atum, Adawam.
I am ONE god son, like Jesus..."
-Djezuz Djonez/What Would Djezuz Do?

In order to perform this delicate resurrection Wise Intelligent aka The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez has created his most eclectic and cutting edge collection of songs to date. The lyricism that is displayed on this album is completely second to none and shows and proves that Wise is one of the most underrated MC’s in Hip Hop history. The production is daring and out of the box. The bravado of this sonic blend allows Djezuz Djonez to show us – better than he can tell us – how he can defy doubt and disbelief by walking effortlessly on primordial waters.

“I write rhymes for my hood from a heavenly high-place
think twice before steppin to my face, by God’s grace,
Ill dead them, behead him, for the blaspheme…LIAR
it isn’t just hot, it’s FIRE”
-Djezuz Djonez/UndergroundSpiritualGame

Follow Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent and subscribe to Wise's youtube page at http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez live U-STREAM and CIPHER at Collegedj.net

2010-12-25T21:17:00.000-08:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

DJEZUZ DJONEZ RULES THE CIPHER!!!

Watch Wise Intelligent of the Poor Righteous Teachers Interview and Perform Live on CollegeDJ.net Christmas Eve Show

A living Hip Hop legend and one of the biggest New Jersey rap artists of all time, Wise Intelligent, plays exclusive tracks and spits in live cypher.

Watch Jersey’s own Wise Intelligent interview and perform live on last night’s CollegeDJ.net Christmas Eve Show. Trenton native, Wise Intelligent a.k.a. Djezuz Djonez, returned to his hometown where he dropped not only new, exclusive tracks, but a great deal of knowledge. The lead emcee of the critically acclaimed hip hop trio, Poor Righteous Teachers, spoke with DJ D.Scott and Doc C at length about both his history and future in the game. Wise Intelligent explained how his career all started for him twenty years ago in the Trenton projects, how he is still on his grind now, and how, over time, things have changed both for him and Hip Hop as a whole.

We are waiting in anticipation for both Wise Intelligent’s new book 3/5 an Emcee: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper and new album coming soon. Check out video from the live cypher last night featuring Jersey emcees, Wise Intelligent, Da Boy Bake, and Big Worm.

You can follow Djezuz Djonez at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

Video of Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez Rippin Club 6 in San Fran to the ground on 11/26/2010

2010-11-30T17:51:00.000-08:00
Wise Intelligent aka The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez rips down Club 6 in San Fran on 11/26/2010 Big Up to King Kosh, Shine and the whole Gem Star Official...

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET... PRT has gone DIGITAL!!!

2010-11-25T20:38:00.000-08:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

PRT has gone DIGITAL!!!

THE ENTIRE POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS & WISE INTELLIGENT CATALOG IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES, AMAZON, SHOCKHOUND, NAPSTER, RHAPSODY, EMUSIC AND ALL THE REST...

Poor Righteous Teachers

Holy Intellect
Pure Poverty
Black Business
New World Order

Wise Intelligent (Solo)

Killin U 4 Fun
Blessed be the Poor?
The Talented Timothy Taylor
The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez (Coming Soon!)

LET'S MAKE THIS A REAL BLACK FRIDAY!!!

SUPPORT THIS MOVEMENT IN WORD AND DEED!

Wise Intelligent Digitally Re-Releases his "Blessed be the Poor" album!

2010-11-19T20:05:00.000-08:00

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010, WISE INTELLIGENTs: BLESSED BE THE POOR will be RELEASED DIGITALLY for the first time. NOW YOU CAN purchase this enlightening artistic expression @ AMAZON.COM, ITUNES, SHOCKHOUND, NAPSTER, RHAPSODY, EMUSIC and all the rest PEACE!

In the mist of the Legendary Wise Intelligent crafting his official independent solo release “Wise Intelligent iz…The Talented Timothy Taylor” he gave birth to this incredible and explosive musical jewel called “Blessed be tha Poor?”...The Un-Mixtape. Unlike most “mixtapes” that sound like a disjointed mixture of singles that should have been left on the cutting room floor, “Blessed be tha Poor?”...The Un-Mixtape has the flow and consistency of an official studio release.…This Un-Mixtape will definitely satisfy your fix for more Intelligent Muzik and set the perfect tone and environment for Wise Intelligent to bless us once again with yet another classic album later on this year…

“Blessed be tha Poor?”...The Un-MixTape contains 17 powerful tracks that elevates, provokes, as well as entertains. This album gives you a few more pieces to the puzzle of where Wise has been and what he has been thinking about over the last couple of years… As soon as you hear songs like…”Unda Fire”, “Mr. Rocket Launcher”, “Prince of Power” “BamBam”, “What tha guyz Do”, “Israelites” (This Uprising). “Can’t Afford 2 Luv Her”, and “Eye Wish” you will recognized that Wise Intelligent is the most consistent MC to ever bless the microphone! The God is the perfect combination of Style and Substance! The album is highlighted by an interview Wise did in New Brunswick NJ (his place of birth) with internationally known DJ Fusion & Jon Judah of Fusebox Radio at Rutgers University back in April of this year. Blessed be tha Poor? features all original production by an incredible array of talented producers. The bulk of the production duties were handled by Trenton’s own the Havknotz (Masada & Wise Intelligent). They have provided the ideal sonic landscape and canvas for The Talented Timothy Taylor to paint yet another masterpiece upon…

Track listing…

“Blessed be tha Poor?”...The Un-MixTape

1. Tha Wickedest Thing 03'
2. The Prince Of Power 00'
3. Mr. Rocket Launcher 04'
4. Tha Death Penalty (interlude)
5. The Globe Holders 03'
6. Unda Fire 03'
7. Stop Bitchin & Start A Revolution (interlude)
8. Bam Bam 05'
9. What Tha GuyzDo 00'
10. Love Means 4 Ever 02'
11. Niggaz Iz... (interlude)
12. Keep Getting Betta 99'
13. Israelites 05'
14. Can't Afford 2 luv Her 01'
15. Somebody Told A Lie 00'
16. Rock The Vote 04'
16. Eye Wish 99'
17. Weapons Of Mass Distraction 04'

For more information about Wise Intelligent, The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, and Intelligent Muzik

http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com, http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent, http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

You can follow Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

SUPPORT WILDSEED FILMS...
http://www.wildseedstudios.com/

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

SUPPORT THIS MOVEMENT IN WORD AND DEED!!!!

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez & Digable Planets show in San Fran on Friday Nov 26th 2010 @ Club 6

2010-11-02T12:30:00.000-07:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

San Francisco GET READY!

Wise Intelligent / Djezuz Djonez will be in San Francisco on Friday, November 26th @ Club 6

Club 6
60 Sixth Street (between Mission &Market)
San Francisco, CA 94103

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez will be rocking alongside Digable Planets, Casual of the Hieroglyphics and Killah Priest feat Kentyah...

Doors open @ 9:00 pm

Advance Tickets Sales http://algorythmmusic.eventbrite.com

This show is being brought to you by Algorhytmmusic...

If you're a real Hip Hop fan of that real Hip Hop music you CAN'T miss this show!!!

SPEAD THE WORD!!! LET'S PACK THIS SHOW BEYOND CAPACITY!!!

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit:

http://www.djezuzdjonez.com
http://www.youtube.com/wiseintelligent
http://www.konscioushiphop.com

http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com

You can follow Djezuz at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

SUPPORT WILDSEED FILMS... http://www.wildseedstudios.com

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez quote #16

2010-09-20T10:36:00.000-07:00

"Instead of asking if Obama is a Muslim and why he spent the day with Barbara Walters
You should be asking if O'Donnell is still casting spells on her bloody Satanic altar
Worshiping the devil is nothing new in American politics
Changing Africans into niggas was one of their most successful demonic tricks" The Book of Born Free...The Wisdom of Djezuz Djonez

Djezuz Djonez is on his way!!!

2010-09-17T18:03:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent Iz The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez FALL 2010

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez A cappella version of Water Walker

2010-09-09T11:52:00.000-07:00
DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez A cappella version of Water Walker

If your favorite MC CAN'T do it like this...then he or she SHOULDN'T be your favorite MC!!! It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!!!

Submit your Questions for Djezuz Djonez

2010-09-02T16:58:00.000-07:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

FACEBOOK...TWITTER...YOUTUBE...MYSPACE...AND EVERYBODY ELSE!!!

Djezuz Djonez wants to hear from you! This is your opportunity to find out about who and what is "The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez" and why he is "The Only Motherf**king hope that Hip Hop got"...

Send all your questions to intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com

Please put "Questions for Djezuz Djonez" in the subject and put all your contact info in the email as well...

Djezuz Djonez will respond to all questions via Skype and or U-Stream. Yall let him know which one is better...

Thanks to everyone in advance for all the LOVE and SUPPORT!

Let's get it in...

Proper
Education
Always
Corrects
Errors

Djezuz Djonez pka Wise Intelligent

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez Pride Freestyle

2010-08-19T16:09:00.000-07:00
Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez freestylin in Trenton, New Jerusalem...Some where near Divine Land...

Follow Djezuz on twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

Jersey Fresh Graffiti Jam & After Party with Djezuz Djonez

2010-08-19T00:01:00.000-07:00

Big up to Leon Rainbow and Will 'Kasso' Condry! Here goes some pics from the show... Shout out to G the Promoter (Wu Tang Clan) for taking and sharing these reflections...

CDJ Live: NJ Hip Hop Legend Wise Intelligent/DJezuz DJonez giving u a sneak peak of "What Would Djezuz Do?"

2010-08-18T23:53:00.000-07:00
CDJ Live: NJ Hip Hop Legend Wise Intelligent aka DJezuz DJonez
August 15, 2010
By CollegeDJ.net - DeeJay1

http://www.collegedj.net/hip-hop/nj-djezuz-djonez-wise-intelligent

CollegeDj recently attended a live show with hip hop legend Wise Intelligent aka “DJezuz DJonez” in Trenton, New Jersey. CDJ had exclusive access to the former Trenton rapper from the group “Poor Righteous Teachers” who is making his new music under the moniker Wise Intelligent aka “DJezuz DJones”. His new music reminds one of why Jersey hip hop is so unique. To get on… you must be able to rhyme quickly if you need to! A quick glance of NJ rappers include Fugees, Treach, Redman, Queen Latifah, and many underground hip hop artists, producers and legends started in New Jersey or have some deep roots there such as Jay-Z. As you can see from our short list, New Jersey rappers can flow.

DJezuz DJonez keeps the NJ tradition going with new music out now. The style of reggae, intelligent wordplay and lyrical ability from the Trenton legend is on par with top rappers who are gifted at rapping this way such as KRS-1 and Buckshot. He has command of his breath and is able to rhyme fast or slow at ease. Lookout for more music from the hip hop legend as he continues to keep minds interested in all you can do and say expressively with hip hop music.

Here goes a sneak peak at a new song from Wise's new album..."The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez"..."What Would Djezuz Do?"

http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent
http://www.djezuzdjonez.com

2010-08-07T21:06:00.001-07:00

2010-08-07T15:28:00.001-07:00

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez will be in Trenton, New Jersey on August 14th @ McGuinn's Place..

2010-08-02T00:04:00.000-07:00

DJEZUZDJONEZNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY

TRENTON GET READY!

Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez will be in Trenton, New Jersey on August 14th @ McGuinn's Place..

After Party-By Diffy Productions
Saturday August 14th 2010
9pm-2am
1781 Brunswick Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Doors open @ 9:00 pm

You can watch Djezuz Djonez's latest bangin ass video "Water Walker" Directed by Stacey M. @ http://vimeo.com/13610782 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXSIan1l8o

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit: http://www.djezuzdjonez.com, http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com / http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

You can follow Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

It's NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!

SNEAK PREVIEW INTELLIGENT DEZIGN BY WISE INTELLIGENT/DJEZUZ DJONEZ

2010-07-30T08:01:00.000-07:00
SNEAK PREVIEW INTELLIGENT DEZIGN BY WISE INTELLIGENT/DJEZUZ DJONEZ
by INTELLIGENT MEDIA GROUP

SNEAK PREVIEW INTELLIGENT DEZIGN BY DJEZUZ DJONEZ from INTELLIGENT MEDIA GROUP on Vimeo.

SEE IT ALL AT http://www.djezuzdjonez.com

SNEAK PREVIEW of the next video from INTELLIGENT MUZIK / IMG
DJEZUZ DJONEZ
"INTELLIGENT DEZIGN"
INTELLIGENT MUZIK / IMG
DIRECTED BY: STACEY M.

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit: http://www.djezuzdjonez.com, http://www.konscioushiphop.com, http;//www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com

You can follow Djezuz at http://twitter.com/wiseintelligent

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com /
484-472-3745

FILMED BY STACEY M & RH BLESS
EDITED BY S.M. / T.G.

Djezuz Djonez Iz a Burner!!!

2010-07-26T21:21:00.000-07:00
These incredible murals were done by the magnificent Graffiti team of Leon Rainbow and Will Kasso... Trenton Stand Up!!!

For more information about these extremely talented artists hit up

http://www.leonrainbow.com/vids/djezuz-djonez-water-walker/

NEW Wise Intelligent/Djezuz Djonez Single and Video available RIGHT NOW!!!

2010-07-26T09:34:00.000-07:00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...

Intelligent Muzik proudly presents the first sneak peak of Wise Intelligent's new and highly anticipated 3rd solo album, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez"

Class is back in session and The Talented Timothy Taylor has just stepped to the side and passed the mic to the lyrically elusive and socially unorthodox Djezuz Djonez...

"Water Walker" is the perfect name and metaphor that precisely describes exactly what Djezuz Djonez is doing when he effortlessly navigates around this scorching and addictive track. With this new song Djezuz Djonez takes the reins of today's Hip Hop landscape and successfully blends all things into one. With every word that Djezuz relentlessly spits he literally becomes a bridge that takes us from what was, to what is, and delivers us directly into his world of what will be. He is not here to discuss or debate about what real Hip Hop is, because to put it quite bluntly Djezuz Djonez is Hip Hop done fucking right!

You can listen to the song at http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

DJEZUZ DJONEZ Water Walker from INTELLIGENT MEDIA GROUP on Vimeo.

"Water Walker" is NOT a song for those who are musically challenged and content with the current lopsided Hip Hop paradigm, but if you're ready break with convention and tradition please come and join The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez up on the corner!

The track was produced by Masada of HavKnotz Productions.
"Water Walker" is a blistering assault on your senses, that not only shakes you up, but wakes you up as well...

1. Water Walker
(T. Grimes, J. Pierre)
Produced by Masada and Wise Intelligent ASCAP
Recorded at B Smith's House
Mixed and Engineered by Brian Smith, Masada, and Wise Intelligent
Written by Wise Intelligent

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit: http://www.djezuzdjonez.com, http://www.konscioushiphop.com, http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent /http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com

You can follow Djezuz at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

Wise Intelligent releases first single from The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez..."Water Walker"

2010-07-23T04:51:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...

Intelligent Muzik proudly presents the first sneak peak of Wise Intelligent's new and highly anticipated 3rd solo album, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez"

Class is back in session and The Talented Timothy Taylor has just stepped to the side and passed the mic to the lyrically elusive and socially unorthodox Djezuz Djonez...

"Water Walker" is the perfect name and metaphor that precisely describes exactly what Djezuz Djonez is doing when he effortlessly navigates around this scorching and addictive track. With this new song Djezuz Djonez takes the reins of today's Hip Hop landscape and successfully blends all things into one. With every word that Djezuz relentlessly spits he literally becomes a bridge that takes us from what was, to what is, and delivers us directly into his world of what will be. He is not here to discuss or debate about what real Hip Hop is, because to put it quite bluntly Djezuz Djonez is Hip Hop done fucking right!

You can listen to the song at http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

The Water Walker is NOT a song for those who are musically challenged and content with the current lopsided Hip Hop paradigm, but if you're ready break with convention and tradition please come and join The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez up on the corner!

The track was produced by Masada of HavKnotz Productions.
"Water Walker" is a blistering assault on your senses, that not only shakes you up, but wakes you up as well...

1. Water Walker
(T. Grimes, J. Pierre)
Produced by Masada and Wise Intelligent ASCAP
Recorded at B Smith's House
Mixed and Engineered by Brian Smith, Masada, and Wise Intelligent
Written by Wise Intelligent

For more information about The UnConKable Djezuz Djonez, Wise Intelligent, and Intelligent Muzik, visit: http://www.konscioushiphop.com http://inthehereafter.blogspot.com / http://www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent

You can follow Djezuz at http://www.twitter.com/wiseintelligent

For booking, Dj drops, interviews, and features please contact Born Free at intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com / 484-472-3745

R.I.P to the True and Living GURU!!!

2010-04-20T16:15:00.000-07:00

Stacey Muhammad's new film will be screening in NY on Friday March 26th!

2010-03-25T07:47:00.000-07:00

INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
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New York Get Ready!!!

Stacey Muhammad of Wildseed Films will be in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, March 26th @ The Spike Lee Screening Room at Long Island University

Spike Lee Screening Room at Long Island University
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, New York

Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Doors open promptly at 7:00 pm
Screening starts at 8:00 pm

In Celebration of Women's History Month, the IFNY (Independent Film New York) will highlight the contributions of Women filmmakers to the independent film community. At this month's IFNY Premiere Screening Series, we're going to highlight and premiere the following works;

UNTITLED by Natasha Ononogbo

Out of Our Right Minds, Trauma, Depression and the Black Woman by Stacey Muhammad The official trailer can be viewed at http://www.vimeo.com/8067851

TRIBES produced by Sonya Wells

Baggage by Sonya Malfa

Amazon Women by Kiara Jones

and a surprise premiere for all of you.

There will be a $10 doanation at the door

Panel to follow screening of films.

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Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right

2010-03-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

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Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/texas-education-board-app_n_497440.html

***UPDATE*** Think Progress flags some of the more eye-opening revisions the Texas Board of Education approved for its social studies curriculum and textbooks:

- The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, "replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin."

- The Board refused to require that "students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others."

The Texas Freedom Network live-blogged the debate over the changes. Read more here.
April Castro, ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN, Texas — A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.

Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.

"We have been about conservatism versus liberalism," said Democrat Mavis Knight of Dallas, explaining her vote against the standards. "We have manipulated strands to insert what we want it to be in the document, regardless as to whether or not it's appropriate."

Following three days of impassioned and acrimonious debate, the board gave preliminary approval to the new standards with a 10-5 party line vote. A final vote is expected in May, after a public comment period that could produce additional amendments and arguments.

Decisions by the board – made up of lawyers, a dentist and a weekly newspaper publisher among others – can affect textbook content nationwide because Texas is one of publishers' biggest clients.

Ultraconservatives wielded their power over hundreds of subjects this week, introducing and rejecting amendments on everything from the civil rights movement to global politics. Hostilities flared and prompted a walkout Thursday by one of the board's most prominent Democrats, Mary Helen Berlanga of Corpus Christi, who accused her colleagues of "whitewashing" curriculum standards.

By late Thursday night, three other Democrats seemed to sense their futility and left, leaving Republicans to easily push through amendments heralding "American exceptionalism" and the U.S. free enterprise system, suggesting it thrives best absent excessive government intervention.

"Some board members themselves acknowledged this morning that the process for revising curriculum standards in Texas is seriously broken, with politics and personal agendas dominating just about every decision," said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, which advocates for religious freedom.

Republican Terri Leo, a member of the powerful Christian conservative voting bloc, called the standards "world class" and "exceptional."

Board members argued about the classification of historic periods (still B.C. and A.D., rather than B.C.E. and C.E.); whether students should be required to explain the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on global politics (they will); and whether former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir should be required learning (she will).

In addition to learning the Bill of Rights, the board specified a reference to the Second Amendment right to bear arms in a section about citizenship in a U.S. government class.

Conservatives beat back multiple attempts to include hip-hop as an example of a significant cultural movement.

Numerous attempts to add the names or references to important Hispanics throughout history also were denied, inducing one amendment that would specify that Tejanos died at the Alamo alongside Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students "explain how institutional racism is evident in American society."

Democrats did score a victory by deleting a portion of an amendment by Republican Don McLeroy suggesting that the civil rights movement led to "unrealistic expectations for equal outcomes."

Fort Worth Republican Pat Hardy, a longtime teacher, voted for the new standards, but said she wished the board could work with a more cooperative spirit.

"What we've done is we've taken a document that by nature is too long to begin with and then we've lengthened it some more," Hardy said, shortly after the vote. "Those long lists of names that we've put in there ... it's just too long.

"I just think we failed to keep that in mind, it's hard for teachers to get through it all."

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Wise Intelligent will be performing in New Orleans TONIGHT! at The Maison

2010-03-11T10:08:00.000-08:00

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Wise Intelligent will be in New Orleans TONIGHT! Thursday, March 11th @ The Maison!

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