Rappers 'n poets obsess on WORDS

Eminem talks to a Vanderbilt CIA/CNN operative on TV

Barry Obama raps Eminem's "Lose Yourself" 🎤

Standup comedian Prez. Barry O

(Celebrity Lens) B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama proves h's funniest president of all time

(Celebrity Lens) B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama proved he was funniest US president of all time, inadvertently also proving Michael "Michelle" Obama is and has always been a man dressed up and styled by professionals, so few noticed and even fewer dared say it, like Joan Rivers

Rapper Connor Price goes sicko mode

(Connor Price) "Sicko Mode" rap over

The next new mad rapper?

(ZCV) Connor Price spits bars best of raps, 25 fastest verses

Is this country music song racist? 🤠

(Key & Peele) Comedic geniuses

Jewish guru Rick Rubin is cringe

(Fantano) Jewish music guru, magician, producer Rick Rubin is cringe

(Trust Records) Straight edge hardcore from Boston a major influence without knowing how much of an impact they would have on my whole life because I was just into them for the music, as with the great Rudimentary Peni, Crass, EinstürZENde Neubauten, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, and a few other sincerely nonconformist bands not about partying and being drunk and dumb.

(Rudimentary Peni) British anarcho vegan punks: 1981 7" EP

(Conhuir) Linkin Park is much and enjoyable better as funk

Linkin Park to expose Scientology?

(Asa Park) Linkin Park is about to EXPOSE Scientology cult

(The Electro Hippies) "Play Fast or Die"

$5 RAVE: Pasadena Summer Solstice (6/20)

Does Pasadena know how to throw a rave? It did in Project X "Pursuit of Happiness" (music video)

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On the Summer Solstice of Saturday, June 20, 2026, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm the LAist is holding a rave at Remainders Creative Reuse. Total price of entry? $5.00 (five USD and 49 cent service fee).

Break out the rave gear and join Remainders Creative Reuse and LAist.com for a night of wild dancing, crafting, and community.

ALISON WONDERLAND trap, hip hop and bass DJ set in The Lab LA

(Kid Cudi) "The Pursuit of Happiness" (hopeless hedonism disappoints)

(Maskevito) Rave Music + footage (mainly early 1990s house mix)

It's on Washington Bl. west of Lake Ave.

DJ Tekfor will be on hand all night bumping the 90’s rave jams and all the other hits. And there will be not one, not two, but three crafting stations with instructors:

1. Make Your Own Junk Journal with Sarena
2. Circle Weaving with Courtney
3. Paper Mâché Sculptures with Aspen

• TICKETS: Craft Rave at Remainders w/ LAist
• LOCATION:
• Remainders Creative Reuse
• 787 E. Washington Blvd.
• Pasadena (LA), CA 91104

Shop — Remainders Creative Reuse - Creative Space & Thrift Store

Classes — Remainders Creative Reuse - Creative Space Thrift Store

Tove Lo "Habits (Stay High)" - Hippie Sabotage Rave Remix

What must non-Southern Californians imagine?

Already have a project in progress? Bring it along! Or if still looking for a spark, we’ll have a pop-up crafting table ready for everyone.

Whether a raver knits, collages, beads, sketches, or basketweaves, this is the perfect excuse to make something while soaking up the ravey 90’s vibes! Come as you are. (Bonus points will be awarded for 1990s-inspired outfits).

• PLAYLIST: Trip-Hop Vol. 2: Portishead/Massive Attack inspired mix [The Lounge Palace]

So get ready for a night of dancing, crafting, and fun. All ages. Families welcome. BYON (bring your own Narcan lol).

• Source: LAist.com

Trip hop is still a rave fave

(Pepito Tequila) Trip Hop Meditation? When the DJ spins Portishead's "Wandering Star"

 

COMMENTS

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  Can I sew my own outfit for EDC '27?

  Is this serious?!?! How...for only FIVE bucks?!
• It worked! It's SOLD OUT! You snooze, you lose.
• We wouldn't put anything past Larry Mantle or Pasadena's KPCC 89.3 FM and its long-running battle to seem more relevant than Madeleine Brand and Santa Monica's KCRW 88.9 FM.
• C'mon, everyone knows Larry is a [bleep]!
• That doesn't mean he doesn't put on a good show, what he claims is "the largest conversation in Los Angeles." Maybe NPR reporter Josie Huang wants to outdo science journalist... [Science bowl: Can NoHo… | KCRW]
• Who, Doualy Xaykaothao of NPR via KUNC?
• No, remember there was that Asian science journalist at KPCC and like the LA and Pasadena Weekly? She used to go to all sorts of parties, festivals, events, write about it, be on the radio all the time. Then KPCC booted her, KCRW picked her up? She lived in a small house in NoHo, the value of which kept going up, trapping her in LA.
• You mean Cary Harrison? He's over at KPFK (90.7 FM) on Friday morning, unless you mean Emily Kwong or these folks Honor Roll: Asian American Journalists Association? LMU?
• Oh, you must mean radio turned sex star Sandra Tsing Loh!

The seven levels of rapper

(duplee)

(blustre) Great songs by bad artists?

The 7 Levels of Rappers | REACTION MASHUP

(gozman) Drake on Iceman diss

The biggest meme in rap: Drake

• VIDEO: Kendrick Lamar in Los Angeles: Juneteenth
• US wanted 'Black Irish' slaves, too (Doherty)

BEST rap songs ever made? - Top 10 most streamed rap songs of all time

• Rapper of the Year: RAP goes too far: metal Ghostemane?

Rolling Loud festival and #IDIOCRACY

Rolling Loud is an international hip hop music festival that has been held in North America, Asia, South America, Europe, and Australia.

Established in 2015, it is "one of the biggest festivals in the world" according to Complex, while Billboard called it "the be-all of hip-hop festivals" [2, 3].

In 2019, an estimated 210,000 people attended the event in Miami [4].

HISTORY

The festival was founded in 2015 by Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, who met in elementary school in Hollywood, Florida [2, 5].

Once in high school, the pair began organizing and promoting parties which "leaned heavily on a mix of Southern and Midwestern rap" [2]. They moved on to professional live music events in 2010, beginning with an after-party headlined by Rick Ross [2].

Whale could teach these rappers something

The WHY and HOW of "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" - Alt Hit Wonders

By the summer of 2013, they were hosting monthly events in Miami featuring up-and-coming artists like Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar [6].

The pair also promoted artists from Florida's burgeoning SoundCloud rap scene under the brand name Dope Entertainment before noticing the need for a genre-specific music festival [7, 8].

The first Rolling Loud took place in Miami in February 2015 and featured artists such as... More

Benefits of music obsession: science

(Vandals) One of the best songs to come out of Los Angeles' hardcore punk scene was "Urban Struggle" (aka "I Want to Be a Cowboy"). Why? It's funny.

(Psychology of Rock) The benefits of being obsessed with music (according to neuroscience)

(Entertainment Weekly) 50th Reunion of the Rocky Horror Picture Show - music theater cult

Japanese women rock metal world in EU

(Kreciota TV) HANABIE. "Pardon Me, I Have To Go Now"

The British rockers Kula Shaker got spiritual with "Tattva"

Then aggro [heavy metal] groove rockers Pantera fell in "This Love" lol

Maybe we love music for the dancing?

Real RoboCop prototype enters the Hood

(ImDavisss) I took my new, fully automated robot pal into the Hood of Los Angeles: Venice Beach

We'll never have RoboCops.
ACLU would never allow it.

There were once Slave Patrols in these United States of America, formed by white men to gather up escaped slaves and any free Blacks who could be accused of being escaped slaves, dragged in for a bounty, and sold to the highest bidder. It was a wonderful time for the Deep South and the Confederacy. Modern slavery dictates that the only enslaved Blacks today be prisoners and parolees in the Prison-Industrial Complex. Could "RoboCop" prototypes such as this one be utilized in hunting down parolees, accused perpetrators, criminals, and any Black person late to work? The mind boggles. But Larry Ellison, David Ellison, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires probably have a strong opinion on the matter.

• Donate to your local ACLU chapter today

Prof. Richard Wolff: American Empire Has Fallen

CHAPPIE Official Trailer (when it was just sci-fi fantasy a decade ago)

This science fiction fantasy could never happen in real life

China just launched its first real Robotic AI Policeman (already on the streets)

Freeze, Stinking Organic! Down on the ground!

(AI Revolution) China has already deployed its first real AI police robot, PM01 ["Police Man 01"?], now actively patrolling the streets with facial recognition, voice command support, and advanced crowd-scanning technology [not to mention secret weapons not disclosed to the public].

The future is already here: China

(Living in China) They lied to us about China, already in the Space Age

Grimes can't keep secrets, Elon.

Meanwhile, XPENG, Elon Musk's Tesla, and Chery are racing to perfect humanoid robots for [sex, sales, police] tasks ranging from customer service to full-scale factory work.

• Don't worry. Elon Musk's baby-mama Grimes assures us that there is a massive "depopulation" (reduction in humans) coming soon, so there will be fewer human worker vying for the remaining jobs after the reset.

With new breakthroughs in AI chips from Huawei and powerful software agents like Abacus DeepAgent, robots are becoming smarter, faster, and ready to replace humans in everyday roles.

CHAPPIE - Teaser: What will happen to all the organic human beings?

🔍 What’s inside

• China deploys its first real AI police robot PM01 with facial recognition and crowd scanning
• XPENG, Tesla, and Chery unveil humanoid robots that talk, walk, and assist in real-world tasks
• Abacus DeepAgent gets a major upgrade, letting users build full apps and dashboards with one prompt

🎥 What viewers will see

• PM01 performing front flips and real-time surveillance on the streets of Shenzhen
• XPENG’s android Iron showing human-like motion and shared intelligence with self-driving cars
• Tesla’s Optimus walking naturally, and Zyrex, a six-meter robot, getting ready to build houses 

📊 Why it matters

• AI robots are now entering public safety policing, retail, and construction, while powerful tools like DeepAgent automate entire workflows, signaling a rapid shift in how humans and machines share everyday tasks.
• DeepAgent PRO Tier 👉 deepagent.abacus.ai
• All favorite LLMs in one place 👉 chatllm.abacus.ai

DISCLAIMER: This video explores the latest breakthroughs in humanoid robots, AI police deployment, and next-gen automation tools reshaping public spaces, labor, and infrastructure worldwide. #AI #robot #humanoid

• ImDavisss; AI Revolution, April 30, 2025; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Begging, Diddy fires off msg before prison

(Law&Crime Network) Sean P. Diddy Puff Daddy Combs fires off message on way to prison

Gathering of the Juggalos: Ohio 2025

• (Auntie Boy) Gathering of the Juggalos 2025, best festival?

We got ourselves a Family: Insane Clown Posse

The Gathering of the Juggalos (also known as "The Gathering" or GOTJ) [1] is a decadent annual music festival put on by Psychopathic Records, featuring performances by the entire label roster as well as numerous well-known musical groups and underground artists.

It was founded by Jumpsteady, Insane Clown Posse (the two-man white rap group Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler), and their label in the Year 2000.

• Is there ANYTHING redeeming about this insane festival of mayhem, madness, and what seems like a lot of meth? Yes: It's explained in the Epilogue

A Black man's fest experience

(Duke Dennis) Duke Dennis does the disastrous stretch of Ohio fields

Insane Clown Posse Festival

Described by Joseph Bruce as "Juggalo Woodstock" [2] (Juggalo being a nickname for fans of the ICP or Insane Clown Posse), the Gathering of the Juggalos spans five days and includes [lots of drug abuse] concerts, wrestling, games, contests, autograph sessions, karaoke, and seminars with artists.

Over its first eleven events (2000–2010), the festival drew a total attendance upward of 100,000 fans [3]. More

• The FBI and insane gang crimes of the Juggalos
• Zachcray trolls the most dangerous fest

Molester King Trump, Diddy, Epstein

• Tennessee Brando (Meidas Touch Network); (Trapp University) Trump lies and hypocrisy exposed; TMZ; Dillon Speaks; Eiriks; Conversations Among the Ruins; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Rap music, prison pipeline, nitrous oxide

(Black Stories Untold) How America uses rap hip-hop to DESTROY Black lives in the West

WARNING: Violent, vulgar, obscene, crass gangsterism promoting drugs and prison pipeline!

Inside Los Angeles’s Nitrous Epidemic

(No Jumper) Jan. 12, 2025: Vlogs. Come along while we discover the roots of the nitrous epidemic in the megalopolis that is Los Angeles, the City of Lost Angels. Full uncensored video available only at Patreon.com/nojumper.

(Lyrics) "No Tears" by gangsta rapper Scarface

Promote music with No Jumper (nojumper.com/pages/promo). Check out online store: nojumper.com. No Jumper Patreon: nojumper. Check out new Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... Follow on Snapchat (4874336901), Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/4z4yCTj...), iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n...), social media (4874336901) / nojumper / nojumper / nojumper / nojumper. Join the Discord: discord. Follow Adam22: adam22 / adam22 / adam22 adam22bro on Snapchat.

• Ice Cube/N.W.A "Straight Outta Compton"; 21 Savage "Redrum"; Black Stories Untold (Ice Cube exposes rap music industry); No Jumper, 1/12/25; Cypress Hill, "Insane in the Brain"; Eminem (industry plant?); Scarface "No Tears"; Pfc. Sandoval; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lollapalooza 2025: Korn, Olivia, Sabrina

Perry Farrell, man (multi-millionaire) of peace

The great Dave Navarro guitar god stays cool.

Coachella has come and gone. Aftershock is still a ways away. Warped Tour has just swept through town, pulling in big crowds, standing room only. The World Surfing League (WSL) is chugging along in Surf City, USA (Huntington Beach, Orange County). So Fairy Peril's brainchild is hogging all the limelight. Who? Pariss Fariss? The guy who tried to beat up Dave Navarro and ruined the chances of a comeback for the band. Lollapalooza has begun, and Friday night's lineup is something: Is there a crossover in the fanbases of old Korn and new Olivia Rodrigo? (Is she a stripper, or does she just dance that way?) Does Sabrina Carpenter rap to rival and potentially outshine A$AP Rocky? There are 170 acts on nine stages over four days. CBS News Chicago

(WGN 9) How Lollapalooza's changed over the years

Who needs Chappell Roan when we have new Sabrina? "Manchild"

This fest needs more hip-hop

• Tickets still available: lollapalooza.com
• When you're overqualified for the job with Nyango Star, world's greatest drummer
• Who in the world is Nyango Star?
• More info: WGNTV.com/lollapalooza
• Hundreds of thousands from across the country flock to Lollapalooza

Lifestyle of Zack de la Rocha: RATM

Rage Against the Machine (RATM) is, or was, a band. And Afro-Latin singer and sincere vegetarian activist Zack de la Rocha may have been the main reason for their success. Morello fans may disagree.

Kneecap releases new song ft. Mozey

KNEECAP feat MOZEY - THE RECAP (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Best Kept Secret (EU festival)

50 Cent: all the gay rappers with Diddy

50 Cent has details on Kevin Hart, Justin Bieber, and others

Cali Vibes Music Fest in the LBC (6/8)

WHAT HAPPENED?

T*ts McGee (Erin Micklow) was on the scene, reporting on and showing what is was like in a very fake influencer sort of way so that everyone could needlessly eat their hearts out. Now that she's been banned from Punk Rock Bowling and lost her business, let her hair down and been shunned by the scene, what can she do but conspicuous consumption and more TikTok videos? On the bright side she's vegan and she does yoga.

 

Long Beach Marina, Shoreline Dr.

Cali Vibes (calivibesfest.com) is a two-day music festival that takes place at Marina Green Park in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California. The seaside venue opens at 12:00 pm (noon) on both days. All ages are welcome, but 21+ for the Beach Club. Children 5 and under are FREE (when accompanied by a ticketed adult and excludes the Beach Club, which is strictly 21+). Show takes place rain or shine. Lineup, set times, festival hours, and venue are all subject to change [because of anicca].*

• RSVP: Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup

We're tired of work because all work and no play makes Jack and Jill dull folks. We're insane in the

LINEUP AND SET TIMES

• Kid Cudi
• Cypress Hill
• Ludacris
• Dirty Heads
• Marley
• Slightly Stupid and Friends
• Rome [formerly of Sublime]
• Stick Figure
• Rebelution
• Steel Pulse
• Iration
• Santigold
• Collie Buddz and much more...

Group meditation to put out Cali vibes

Where is the Marina in the LBC?

We're taking over this bitch BEACH by arranging ourselves all around, in the sand and on the green, in serene Buddhist meditation until reggae rappers and on the stage make us get up and shake our assumptions from our heads, like the one that says "meditation" is just for caves, closets, and church basements.

There is a way of being in life -- off the mat and into the world.

The top of the mountain is a great place, but it's not the only place. One comes down and shares what was gained -- insight, loving kindness, compassion, joy-in-others'-joy, equanimity (unbiased looking on) -- for the benefit of all humanity (our fellow humans who have not yet attained) and divinity (the devas all around us).

• Long Beach Marina, Shoreline Drive
• Long Beach, Los Angeles, Southern California
• How to PARTY in Los Angeles (RIP George Floyd)

Live Mass Meditation

Pull that prana, and follow the breath to bliss

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Come meditate with us in the Vibe Zone

Since sitting zazen is strenuous on the bum, we may have group yoga and yogic massage available, if people are not too distracted from putting CBD in their pipes and who knows what else.

Our goal is to get Cypress Hill to join us next to The Vibes Stage at 3:00 pm before they go on at 4:00 pm, which is when we join them so we can rap-rock out to "Ain't Going Out Like That" (from Black Sunday).

Aww, yeah, Man, this is the party to go to

Why these four meditative practices? These are called the "Divine Abidings" in Buddhism or Brahma Viharas ("Supreme Abodes"). Why at a rap, rock, reggae show at the beach? Why not? Where better to get "high" (elevated, ecstatic, enlightened) than among spiritually-minded Angelenos and friends of all races and walks of life? Will everyone come to an ashram or temple, or does the spirit house need to come to them sometimes? [Send complaints marked care of Ashley Wells in comments section.]

Ludacris better not play this X-rated song!

• RSVP FREE: (Disclosure Project) Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) Mass Meditation at Cali Vibes Music Fest, Long Beach Marina (The Vibes Stage), Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup

Will there be sex, drugs, R'n'R?

Now that sex is mostly illegal, maybe cybernauts will have to go inward

*No ins/outs with the exception of Beach Club pass holders and Hotel and Passes Package holders. There is no festival parking on site, except for the Beach Club [so what, are y'all gonna pay extra for the Beach Club, or what?] and limited parking in accessibility/ADA. Check website later on the Getting Here page for more details about parking near the venue, or use public transport. *Subject to change, everything is subject to change.

• CaliVibesFest.com; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly