We Want You to Be a Part of the #10FriskCommandments Remix Video!

We. Want. You.

With the release of the #10FriskCommandments remix TWiB! is preparing to release a new music video for the song highlighting the issue of Stop and Frisk. To show this is an everyone issue we want to ask you to record yourself rapping (lip synching – you don’t have to spit hot fiyah, just mouth it like you were in the shower) to the song and we will add you to the official release of the video. Grab your camera, cell phone, web cam or whatever you use to capture moving pictures and rap the lyrics to the song (lyrics are below.) We want all types, young, old, all races and religions. This isn’t something that only young black and hispanic males care about.

Send us the video via youtube, dropbox or whatever  works best for you (clips can be sent to shoutouttothechatroom – at – twib – dot – me.) Make sure its 16:9 (in other words turn your phone the long way) and spit some fire Try to frame your shot in a similar way as the image above to help us out in the editing room. Send your clips by Saturday morning (preferably by Friday night) and lets make magic.

#10FriskCommandments Remix LYRICS

Hands up if you ever seen a handcuff…

Hands up if you ever seen a handcuff…

My little man touched me in the heart, we was at the park

Watch him run the rock, time to go cause its getting dark

Last play of the game, hard foul fight starts,

i’m peeling out because i don’t want my son to see the night sparks

before i get the 5 feet, the blue lights behind me.

Pulling over, cool as ice til something reminds me

My little man is in the car, that something was him

asking me if i was gonna get taken away by them

I laughed like i wasn’t concerned

But in the back of mind i remember the time when i made a U TURN

And got pulled over for suspicious action

My white friend got pulled out so they could ask him

what he was doing with me, that incident was one among many

I wanna tell my son that that’s silly

He’s only 3, and im not even sure its wise

or fair to have to teach him to survive before he’s five

That night I read him 10 commandments and I nearly cried

cause it wasn’t the bible it was from Jasiri’s rhymes

Its the 10 frisk commandments…

 

I’ve never known a time when I wasn’t really warned

about how blackness is perceived with some malice and some scorn.

But Mama I’m sure I didn’t do nothing wrong

And then she said that’s not the point I just don’t want to see you gone.

Growing up it was me who was questioning the fact that being black

That I was somehow always under some sort of attack

It was the bad kids, the thuggish ones, I will be okay

and that’s the same bullshit they used on Kimani Grey

Its 2013 how is not being white still a crime

and the innocent still get stopped and frisked all the time

I’m American, I thought that came with some sort of rights

That was undeniable whether my skin was dark or light

Such a fright, abuse of authoritative might,

Such a sight, to see young folks scared to even fight

For their rights, guess what, we need more voices who are white

lets unite, and put this shit to bed and say good night…

It’s the 10 Frisk Commandments

 

Driving through New York I see’em inside my rear view

Lights on, sirens sound, pull over, yeah I hear you

I guess you see four black men in an SUV so you expect we sling

I felt like Ice T, it was six in the morning

He asked where we going, we rolling to a performance

He asked if was I drinkin’, I told him I don’t indulge in the spirits

but he wasn’t trying to hear it

He pulled out the breathalyzer, like i was the best of liars

but my man Radee, had the Canon 5D

Commandment number 9 yeah we film the police

And because were were recording, we got off with the warning

I asked why he pulled us over, What a surprise

He said my lights were off but it was passed sunrise

And I was thankful that none of us died

Stopped and frisked in N-Y but at least we survived

By the 10 frisk commandments.

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Still Ruthless..The Inner workings of NWA..Intv w/ Jerry Heller

In this interview segment which originally aired Oct 21 2010, we sat down and chop it up with late Eazy E’s business partner and former NWA manager Jerry Heller who just released a book of his memoirs called ‘Ruthless’.

Not only does Heller meticulously detail the inner workings and all the behind the scenes dirt that went on with NWA, he also goes into great detail about the seedy music world of Rock-N-Roll’s hey day in the 60s and 70s where he played a key role. Make no mistake the music biz is definitely grimy.

In this segment we talk to Heller about the music biz in the hey days of Rock-N-Roll. Heller talks about all the key players that he came up with and rolled with including people like the late Bill Graham, David Geffen, Clive Davis and many more. He talks about how he actually was responsible for bringing Elton John to the US and giving him his first break.

Heller breaks down the rough and tumble tactics of old-time music guys and explains that while much of it was mob controlled and sometimes seedy ‘it was fair and that there were fast and hard rules that everyone played by’. He noted that all that changed and went out the window when Death Row CEO Suge Knight came in the game.

Heller talked to us about the importance of negotiating and striking good deals. It’s a key highlight in his book and during the interview he explained how and why Ruthless stayed successful while other small labels which actually sold more records like Delicious Vinyl wound up folding because of bad deals.

Eazy E w/ Jerry heller

He explains the type of relationship he and Eazy E had and how each of them brought a certain style, flare and business insight to the table that allowed Ruthless to be one of the music industry’s most successful record labels. He explained the decision behind rejecting Eazy E’s initial offer to go into business 50/50. He felt that Ruthless should 100% Black owned and that he would work for Eazy. He described Eazy as his best friend and one of the smartest men he had ever met.

He also recounted how the pair first met. Heller said that Eazy offered Alonzo Williams of the World Class Wrecking Crew 750 dollars to introduce him. It was at this meeting that Eazy played a rough cut of the now classic record ‘Boyz in the Hood’. He described the song as Gill Scott Heron, the Last Poets, The Black Panthers and the Rollingstones all rolled into one.

Click link below to peep pt1 of our interview w/ Jerry Heller

Still Ruthless An Interview w/ Former NWA Manager Jerry Heller pt2

Click HERE to peep pt2 of our interview w/ Jerry Heller

In this segment Heller talks at length about the early rap scene in LA and how he got involved via Macola Records which housed West Coast pioneering acts like Egyptian Lover, LA Dream Team, World Class Wrecking Crew, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, Ice T and JJ Fad to name a few.

In this segment Heller talks about why he called NWA the Black Beatles which each player MC Ren, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, Dr Dre and Eazy E all holding down key roles. Cube was the chief lyricists, Dr was the beat maker, Eazy was the conceptualizer while Heller was the financier.

Lastly we talked at length about the crack game and the type of impact it had in the community and how it was reflected in NWA’s music.

In part 2 Heller opens up and airs it out about Ice Cube and refutes Cube’s claims about him not getting paid.  Heller breaks out some solid numbers and contractual breakdowns to illustrate his point. He also touches upon the situation he had with Dr Dre and Suge Knight when they formed Death Row Records.

Heller also detailed the situations that lead up to the group doing the song F—Tha Police and the reaction to it including the infamous letter from the FBI. Heller noted that they recently discovered that Al Gore’s wife Tipper Gore may have been a key reason that ominous letter was sent out.

We also talked about Eazy E’s visit to the White House where he sat down and met George Bush Sr in the aftermath of the FBI/ Police backlash. For Eazy it was brilliant marketing ploy.

Heller also laid out the circumstances behind the death threats Eazy E received and how it was discovered that he was on hit list by some Neo-Nazi-Skinheads. The FBI never bothered to inform Eazy that his life was in danger.  Heller speculates that it may have been because of the F– Tha Police song.

Heller talked about the relationship Eazy E had with the now defunct Jewish Defense League (JDL) and how he admired the group for their slogan ‘Never Again’.  In fact Eazy had plans to do a movie about the group.

Jerry Heller details the inner workings of NWA

We talked about the recent revelations of JDL members supposedly extorting money from rap artists including the late 2Pac. Heller claims he had no knowledge of that, but it was no secret that in the aftermath of the Suge Knight shake down incident where Eazy was forced to sign over Dr Dre, Michele and DOC, that Ruthless was protected by Israeli trained/ connected security forces.

Our conversation later turned to a brief discussion of Black-Jewish relationships in the music industry. Heller felt that the partnership him and Eazy formed was model one and that it helped build lots of bridges.

We concluded our interview with Heller talking about some of his upcoming projects including starting a new record label that focuses on Latino Rap and Music with a message

Click the link below to peep pt2 of our Interview with Jerry Heller

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