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  • At its core, “How Many Mics” is a critique of the music industry’s focus on materialism and the pursuit of fame, at the expense of meaningful content. The Fugees, comprised of Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras Michel, highlight their commitment to using their platform to address social issues and shed light on the plight of marginalized communities. The lyrics convey a strong sense of frustration and disappointment with the state of hip-hop and the superficiality often associated with it.[1]


    Go ask Alice if you don't believe me, I get in her visions like Stevie
    See me ascend from the chalice like the weed be
    Indeed we like Khalid Muhammad, MCs make me vomit
    I get controversial, freak your style with no rehearsal
    Au contraire mon frère, don't you even go there
    

    Run through Crown Heights screaming out, "Mazel tov!"
    Problem with no man, before Black, I'm first human
    Appetite to write like Frederick Douglass with a slave hand (Bing)
    Street pressure, word to papa, I ain't goin' under
    

    One got slaughtered as he coughed blood from his mouth
    The other tried to duck and caught a left with my Guinness Stout
    Brother, brother, can't you get this through your head?
    This is set up by the feds, they're scoping us with their infrareds
    

    Star light to star bright, the freaks come out at night
    Like my man Wyclef (I wear my sunglasses at night)
    And my panache will mosh your entourage
    Squash the squad and hide their bodies under my garage
    And when the cops come lookin, I be bookin' to Brooklyn
    

    [2]


    1. [1] https://beatcrave.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-how-many-mics-by-fugees/ ↩︎

    2. [2] https://genius.com/Fugees-how-many-mics-lyrics ↩︎







  • De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    The Georgia Democratic Party didn’t let up, making moves to appeal the secretary of state’s order.

    De la Cruz’s running mate, Karina Garcia, slammed the Democrats for trying to strip third-party ballot access: “Unable to defend their pro-corporate and pro-war record, the Democratic Party’s desperate plan is to twist the law to remove any alternatives from the ballot to cement the system of two-party rule. Working people are in crises, and neither party has any real answers.”










  • Duopoly will continue the status quo.


    Today Israeli forces killed Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-US citizen, in the West Bank, shooting her in the head as she protested one of the country’s growing and accelerating illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory. The US and Israeli governments are claiming that it is unclear who killed her, but as multiple US outlets report, eyewitnesses and Palestinian officials in the territory say she was killed by Israeli gunfire, and the Israeli military admits that it shot at the protesters.

    And . . . that’s it.

    No statement from the president, vice president, or any administration official. No condemnation of the unnamed killers, not even a tepid one, nor is there any vow that they will be brought to justice.

    In fact, reading the US statements, you wouldn’t even know that Eygi was killed by anyone — just that she tragically, mysteriously died, somehow. Nor has she received the warm, lengthy tributes to her life, character, and future dreams that officials rightly included in their statements on Goldberg-Polin. While officials went to great lengths to demonstrate their grief over his death, the response to Eygi is markedly emotionless.

    In fact, we could just look at the last couple of weeks alone, when multiple US citizens have been attacked and shot by Israeli forces and settlers at the exact same protest that Eygi was killed at, and US officials not only didn’t utter a peep about it, they didn’t even bother contacting and checking in on them.In fact, we could just look at the last couple of weeks alone, when multiple US citizens have been attacked and shot by Israeli forces and settlers at the exact same protest that Eygi was killed at, and US officials not only didn’t utter a peep about it, they didn’t even bother contacting and checking in on them.

    The end result is that the Israeli government effectively has a green light to kill Americans whenever it wants — a green light, and the means to do so, since these murders are supplied and underwritten by the US government itself.

    Given that the Israeli military has itself now killed more than forty-thousand people, engaged in sickening sexual torture, and now also killed US citizens, what does that say about the Israel Defense Forces? And why is the US government still giving such an institution billions of dollars in military aid?



  • Lots of Russia news, it seems: The Uhuru III trial in Tampa, Florida, is also going on; those were for socialists and for Black empowerment, though.


    “I said that our ‘favorite,’ if I may say so, was the incumbent President Mr. Biden. He was removed from the race, but he recommended that all his supporters support Ms. Harris. So we will do the same, we will support her,” Putin said, smiling wryly at an economic forum in Vladivostok.

    “It’s not surprising that Putin said this with a smirk on his face, that is what he tends to do when engaging in the most blatant and overt trolling of American audiences,” Giles said. “It is a burst of trolling, and he’s done it before. We had the same excited reaction from some sections of U.S. and international media when he previously endorsed Biden, but of course it is meaningless. There is a clear preference from Russia because there is only one presidential candidate that is so much in favor of Russian interests and would be so inclined to pander to what Russia wants from Ukraine, from Europe, form the world and from the United States,” Giles said, referring to former President Trump.

    The Biden administration accused Russia on Wednesday of attempting to interfere in the November election, including by creating fake news sites designed to covertly spread Russian propoganda among Americans.

    At a meeting of the Election Threats Task Force, which included FBI Director Chris Wray and other top officials in the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Russia Today, known as RT, a media outlet funded by the Russian state, had implemented a scheme to fund a Tennessee-based company to create and disseminate content that was consistent with Russia’s goals of pushing division within U.S. society and undermining support for Ukraine.

    Documents about another Russian campaign, called the “U.S. Social Media Influencers Project,” described the Republican Party as “currently advancing a relatively pro-Russian agenda” that can be “exploited by posing as ardent [Republicans] and relaying the part of their agenda that coincides with ours.”

    In July, U.S. officials with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security indicated that Russia was working to boost Trump’s candidacy in this election cycle, as it did in 2016 and 2020, though they did not directly name his campaign.