The G Manifesto

Never Die Alone Movie, DMX

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I have written before about my love for the book Never Die Alone by Donald Goines.

The movie is pretty decent too, even though I have said before that, “Most movies starring rappers suck.”

In this updated version of the book Never Die Alone, DMX plays King David, one of the most sinister and ruthless characters ever put to paper or the silver screen. A classic tale of an East Coast Player taking over the West Coast. Something I am all not unfamiliar with.

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“We reap what we sow.
That’s what the Bible says.
Payback’s a motherfucker.
I think James Brown said that.”

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“The Hindus have
a word for it–karma.
They believe in reincarnation–
that a man pays in the next life for all
the shit he’s done in the previous one.
Keeps on payin’too,
till he gets it right.
Now, if I had to do it
all over again…
well–
Responsibility. Redemption.
In order to be truly redeemed, a man
has to own up to his responsibilities.”

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She had me wrapped
around her little finger, and she knew it.
I used to laugh when I heard
niggers talk about bein’ in love.
Even writin’ the word makes me
feel helpless, but it’s true.
I’d never felt this way about another
person in my life, except my mother.
And I didn’t like it. I mean this
from the bottom of my heart.
I hated this feeling
that I had for Juanita.
It made me feel like I was–
like I was weak.
We couldn’t have that.
They say revenge
is a dish best served cold.
I was about to take my shit
right out the motherfuckin’ freezer.
Bitch thought she was gonna
get by without me…
she’d be thinking again real soon.
Might as well call me
a broken-down trick.
Using me for my money, then telling me
a quarter mil ain’t good enough.
A quarter mil’s always good.!
It was good then, and it’s
sure in hell still good now.

Still good now.
Still good now. Still good now.

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The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Never Die Alone (Trailer)

DMX Jail Interview part 1

DMX Jail Interview part 2

WALE – Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes Freestyle

New Freestyle from Wale:

WALE – Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes Freestyle

And an older one he killed it on:

Wale – From MD Freestyle

The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Sick Sample: Slum Village – Selfish, Aretha Franklin – Call Me

Aretha Franklin’s classic “Call Me”

Sampled on:

“Selfish” (Slum Village feat. John Legend & Kanye West)

The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Dope Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier

I saw this movie recently and I have to say it is probably the dopest movie of this decade so far.

No Joke.

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Rise of the Footsoldier is based on the true story of Carlton Leach, a former football hooligan heavy with the notorious ICF (Inter City Firm) who later moved up the criminal underworld by bouncing, minding, and muscling.

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The first part of the movie is like Green Street Hooligans times 100. So if you liked Green Street Hooligans you will love Rise of the Footsoldier. Plus in Rise of the Footsoldier, there is no Elijah Wood. Hell, Elijah Wood hasn’t been good in a movie since The Good Son with Macaulay Culkin! Just playing.

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Anyways, Rise of the Footsoldier then follows Carlton Leach through the bouncing scene and the early days of Ecstasy and Raves.

Which just so happens to be the scene I cut my teeth in as a young Baby G.

Anyways, just buy and watch it.

Dopest movie of the decade.

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Click Here for Green Street Hooligans

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The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Rise of the Footsoldier theatrical trailer

Rise of the foot soldier

City of God’s Son by Kenzo Digital

A few days ago, El Miz tipped me off on Kenzo Digital’s City of God’s Son (click to download the project for+ free).

Then my little brother, Nicholas Alfonso Mason, AKA The Jaguar, emails me telling me that his friend (and mine) worked on City of God’s Son.

I just checked out the trailer. Looks crazy. And dope. And crazy dope.

“City of God’s Son” Trailer – Kenzo Digital – www.CityofGodSon.com

Kenzo is the apprentice of world-renowned video artist Nam June Paik and has had films screened at both the TriBeCa and Mill Valley Film Festivals. He served as Director of COGS and co-wrote the project with Academy Award-nominated writer/director Victor Quinaz.

COGS (City of God’s Son) is quite unique. It can be described as an epic, a musical, a soundscape, a movie for the blind, an art installation and a coming-of-age story. Kenzo also refers to COGS as “viral musical sound art.” COGS is a blend of multiple media and art genres and it explores new grounds for unconventional storytelling and ultimately gives rise to what Kenzo terms the world’s first “Beat Cinematic”. Kenzo arrived at this term by combining various mediums including 3D audio, multiple musical genres, and sound bites. Using some of hip-hop’s and film’s greatest talents (including Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie Smalls, Samuel L. Jackson and Joe Bataan), his aim is to create his own cross-medium ensemble cast, and out of many mediums, to create something epic and new.

Hip-hop is the perfect choice for this because, just like COGS itself, hip-hop is a genre created using only the resources available, and re-contextualizing them to create something bold and innovative. In effect, Kenzo aims to redefine remix culture, through creating a Quentin Tarantino-esque piece of pop art that uses 90’s hip-hop culture as its palette. More than just a remix or mash-up, COGS comments on the icon of the gangster, the media obsession with this character, and its function within hip-hop culture. An homage to arguably hip-hop’s most culturally potent era, COGS explores the mythology behind both musical icons and gangster film icons alike, and creates a world in which the two co-exist. COGS is part Sin City, part Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio programming, and part Nas’ Illmatic. Essentially, COGS ties these works together by playing off of the listener’s familiarities with these genres and re-contextualizing them within a coming-of-age crime drama set in a mythical, jungle metropolis.

Set in a world of magical realism, the story explores the relationship between father and son and the struggle to define themselves in a world where their futures appear pre-ordained. COGS riffs on the icon and myth of the gangster used generously throughout the history of hip-hop and American pop culture. The story embraces both the dichotomy of such societal reverence and media obsession with the moral quandary such a lifestyle calls into question. By using the genre’s most influential artists and manipulating them into characters that humanize and, at times, contradict their media persona, COGS aims to dissect concepts of machismo and push the envelope for using music as a more directly narrative medium. It also interweaves many classic crime films into the sound design and score of the piece, melding together the world of film with music into a new format of super visceral soundscape and musical narrative. In all of this there is the unique invention of self-proclamation; artists labeling themselves, touting beefs with other artists, and challenging the status quo to a sort of existential shout-out session. By exploring these themes within a familiar story structure COGS hopes to dissect the phenomena and redefine remix culture.

Source

http://www.cityofgodson.com

The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA GFK
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com