Community to International, Moombahton a new genre of the generation.

Moombahton, a music genre started from mixing house music with reggeaton is a community genre started in the D.C. area and is spreading. Already playing on BBC radio the real creator DJ Dave Nada is expanding daily.
Music is a collective, constantly evolving creation that inspires many to be individuals. Listening to DJ Nada is a whole new experience that I think many will begin to encompass into their own lives. His music takes many different genres from all over the world and creates a new category, sub-category that very much is a representation of our generation. It's political speech, it's world encompassing view and it's community.

Here is one of my favourites from DJ Dave Nada, a classic and new age mix. Youtube search him and you'll find many of your favourite songs with his influence as well as his live mixes that will make you want to break it down and salsa.

NPR Music story on Moombahton and DJ Dave Nada

This video was shown today during "Media coverage of terror in the Name of Religion" it was an amazing lecture  and I took a lot from it. Including a quote from the Quran which pretty well sums up my entire belief system.
"Let there be no coercion in matters of faith." (Quran 2:256)

Be bold, we all feel pain.

It's said he wasn't well known until after he began using his music to speak up against the Egyptian government, and instant fame also brought him into danger. Attacked and made an example of, Ramy Essam didn't hide after being beaten he used his suffering and spotlight to show what they're going through in Egypt daily.
Have American musicians ever been treated this way? No, no matter what the condition our musicians can get away with saying nearly anything and although they may lose fans they are still allowed the fruits of celebrity. Egyptian government and military are making more and more mistakes every day, and harming someone who the public adore is a huge one. Despite the pain Ramy feels there are good military and government personal out there who are trying to help the people, not tear them apart.

Domino affect?

Uprising, war, revolt, I wonder if the people who become the catalysts know what they're beginning? Tunisia, a man abused and ashamed with a college degree is trying to sell fruit to make money to support his family. Police ridicule him, so as an act of defiance and desperation he sets himself on fire. Did he ever think that he would start the revolution of our era? First Tunisia, then Egypt and now it's spreading to many more countries who have been unhappy for some time with the conditions they live in. All because one man was fed up.
What actions are we taking to spark a revolution? Those paying attention say that our generation was raised in a more connected world, a world where we triumph in the freedom and victories of others. This is easily seen as countries all over the world and celebrating with Egypt, as they celebrated with Tunisia and as more and more countries are fighting back.
This global support should mean more change, we should be supporting the causes we believe in, taking the actions that no one else is taking to make our world a better place. Maybe the step we take will be celebrated around the world, is that the new way of being immortalized? Is revolution the new black?

credit to AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/12/egypts-revolt-met-with-wi_n_822325.html

"It's NOT A PROTEST... It's a revolution."

Revolution in Egypt is supported by American rappers with a new work called #Jan25. The artists hope to bring awareness to the cause in Egypt.

The song features Oman Offendum, The Narcicyst, Freeway, Amir Sulaiman and Ayah it is a collaboration they've put out as a free download in hopes of not only raising awareness but to bring support and immortalizing those Egyptians who have stood up and said enough. The idea that the revolution is spreading, I believe has everything to do with a generation who's socially aware in a way that others haven't been before. We have become technology-fluent as it's been apart of our everyday lives since near birth and through access to the internet we get a very clear view of other countries. We are understanding that we should have right to freedom and free speech and we are supporting others who are asking for those rights. 




Artist Information:
Omar Offendum (MC #1) - http://twitter.com/Offendum
The Narcicyst (MC #2) - http://twitter.com/TheNarcicyst
Freeway (MC #3) - http://twitter.com/PhillyFreezer
Amir Sulaiman (MC #4) http://twitter.com/AmirSulaiman
Ayah (R&B Vocalist) - http://twitter.com/AyahMusic
Sami Matar (Producer) - http://twitter.com/SamiMatar
Artwork by Ridwan Adhami http://www.ridzdesign.com

Invading Species are Causing Dead Zones in Lake Erie

Article by Katelynn Hickman

Could revolt over the economic situation affecting our generation spread to other countries besides Algeria and Tunisia?

"Is revolt contagious? Even if the political situations in Tunisia and Algeria are radically divergent, the broke hopes and dreams of a youth feeling left out of economic growth tend to produce the same results."
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/11/algeria-is-the-revolt-contagious/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFz4TI5zdk&feature=player_embedded


These college students in Algeria and Tunisia, hopeful and eager to learn, are quickly realizing that their economic situation is nearly impossible to improve upon in the world they live in. They are protesting for equal working opportunities and to over throw the precedent of nepotism in their countries. 


This same issue is beginning to arise in America as college students graduate into a broken economic system finding the jobs they went into debt training for are not available. So what is the answer? Will those students coming from colleges like BGSU begin protesting as well? Will the upper crust superiority get to us from the lower class fighting those who are put ahead because they're the next generation upper class? 


And should we sit and watch while our foreign counter parts are being trod upon by a social cast system while having their basic right of voicing their opinion taken away? We have the free right to speak about our problems in a public forum and we should support those who are attempting to do the same for a better cause. Especially when that cause could soon be our own.


I suggest, if nothing else, helping them voice their opinions. Everyone should know why they're standing up and saying they want their futures back, if only because you may one day want them to do the same for you when the revolt spreads across the pond and you look around realizing they have a point.




Katelynn Mae
"Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong." -Daria


"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
--Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)