OAKLAND – For the school renowned as the Princeton of Pot and the Harvard of Hemp, the high times have wafted into a downer. Enrollment has plummeted at Oaksterdam University, the Oakland college that since 2007 has attracted 15,000 students to study cannabis cultivation and related careers, while boosting commerce in ... Read More

By Jim Kirwan 9-13-11 The ARTS have been the most heavily censored area of society since before the Renaissance. It's the one area of human activity that has not managed to free itself from the clutches of the world's wealthiest and most influential individuals and organizations. The case-in-point by the Oakland Children's ... Read More

http://www.facebook.com/olondis.walker download here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tears-memory-bonus-track-version/id304133331 Download FREE music from O-zone here: http://o-zone.bandcamp.com/releases ... Read More

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Oakland Emcee Releases New Video From Latest Album Vigilante The Video: Last Thursday marked the release of Esinchill's sophomore album, Vigilante, and already the album is receiving a good amount of hype, but in case you haven't heard of the Oakland, California rapper quite yet here's ... Read More

For my folx in Sacramento and the Bay Area................ I am writing everyone I know in the Sacramento and Oakland areas.  I volunteer with a group called Remote Area Medical (see  www.ramusa.org <http://www.ramusa.org/> ) and they are going to be in Sacramento at the Cal Expo on ... Read More

Damon J. Smith Interview Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about one of the riders attempting to make the night show at the west coast Supercross events. Damon J. Smith is the rider’s name and he’s got quite the interesting story. I caught up with Damon to ... Read More

Dangerous Crew was hella tight. This was dope. ... Read More

22 Facts Reflecting The Demise Of California 1-22-11 The following are 22 facts about California that make you wonder why anyone would still want to live in that hellhole of a state.... #1 The California state government is facing a potential state budget deficit of 19 billion dollars this year, and California debt ... Read More

Dope shit as usual. Hieroglyphics - "Reputation" 01.19.2010 The Legendary Hiero Crew Releases New Single In Conjunction With W.A.I.L. Collaboration Bay-Area super group Hieroglyphics are back in a big way, releasing a new song "Reputation" in conjunction with a series of paintings inspired by the group from When Art ... Read More

Raphael has always been super creative with his music. This was extra dope. Good to hear some new stuff. starring Olivka ( at Major Paris ) Artist: Raphael Saadiq Song: Radio Label: Columbia Director: Tracemaker Cinematographer: Benjamin Rufi 2nd Unit LA: Ari Robbins ( Paradoxal ) 1st Assistant Director: Mathieu Bedaride Editing: Sébastien Rippon Grading: Romain Kunstlinger VFX supervisor: Eddy Moussa ... Read More

Red Bull brought Roc Raida to "the Town" to show the Bay how they put it down in NYC! ... Read More

The Jealous Guys have my vote as the ILLEST duo out of the San Francisco Bay Area and "First Sight" is the first track off of their up coming mixtape appropriately called "The Love Mixtape". They exhibit lyricism and emotional intelligence way beyond their 20 years in life, and their ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up……….. Man, y'all had to know it was gonna go down like that. That verdict doesn't surprise me at all. Oscar Grant supporters cry foul and take to the streets after Mehserle verdict. The Johannes Mehserle sentencing of two years was shorter than it would have been ... Read More

This was dope. Man, I aint heard these cats in awhile. Good to hear that Hiero flow. NEW VIDEO off of the album "MONTEZUMA'S REVENGE" PURCHASE NOW at http://www.hieroglyphics.com/ & iTunes- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mont... http://www.myspace.com/soulsofmischief http://www.myspace.com/hieroglyphics http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOULSOF... http://www.myspace.com/handsandfeet http://www.myspace.com/opio http://www.myspace.com/a_p_l_u_s http://www.myspace.com/phestodee ... Read More

Classic Too Short. Bay Area Rap at it's Finest.  This that shit I was talkin' about. Straight flow. Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by his showbiz name Too $hort, is an American rapper who started his career at the age of fourteen in Oakland, California. Too Short ... Read More

Ahhhh, this shit was toght. Classic Bay Rap. The Conscious Daughters, who emerged in the socially aware, Afrocentric milieu of early-'90s Bay Area hip-hop, were a female rap duo from Oakland consisting of Carla Green and Karryl Smith. Ultra-political, militant hip-hopper Paris championed the pair early on and helmed their 1993 ... Read More

This from part of the last segment of Hammer: The Vindication which features MC Hammer during a long radio interview with Davey D in 2006. Also notice the picture of him and Pac I snapshot straight off the Documentary DVD Thug Immortal put out in 1997. It seems that this picture ... Read More

Former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the back while he was handcuffed, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on July 8. Involuntary manslaughter, for a police officer killing an African-American man who was already in custody. Yet some were surprised that ... Read More

Why Vote? By Paris, August 7, 2004 http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc4848.html Paris Like the child who cried “wolf!” too many times and was eaten when he really needed the help of people who had grown to ignore him, the media and Bush administration are faced with such massive lack of credibility issues that we now must adopt ... Read More

Rich always been tight. Good to hear this new slap. This shit tight. null ... Read More

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Racial rivalry between Black and Mexican populations seem to be increasing in California and other states in the U.S. I spoke with Davey D, a radio show host from Oakland, CA, about this problem and what we all can do to solve it. Davey D participated at Netroot Nations 2009 as ... Read More

On the eve of the Oscar Grant trial which will be held in Los Angeles, Minister Keith explains to an Oakland crowd the Policeman's Bill of Rights and how it will impact the upcoming trial against former BART cop Johannes Mehserle... He also talks about the steps organizers took to make ... Read More

Today the Oscar Grant trial kicks off in Los Angeles with a whole lot of drama surrounding the proceedings. The most glaring is police officers rallying to invoke the Policeman’s Bill of Rights which essentially allow officers on trial to not have their history brought up while the accused or in ... Read More

May 28 By LISA LEFF and MARCUS WOHLSEN OAKLAND, Calif. - Local governments in California and other Western states have tried to clamp down on medical marijuana, but Oakland has taken a different approach. If you can't beat 'em, tax 'em. full article ... Read More

The Bay Area sound cannot be replicated. I've come to that conclusion.  Bay cats make some of the coolest West Coast Rap Music. Period dot. ... Read More

Baby Ray's Oakland Classic, Ain't Nothin' Like The Town is where it all began for the hyphy movement. This video was feature on The Box Music Network (now MTV2) for 9 months and was more popular than the Cash Money Millionaires during it's long reign. This song is considered a Oakland/Bay ... Read More