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Blackalicious Michael Franti & Spearhead (Ft. Gift of Gab) – What I Got
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Blackalicious is the collaborative project between Gift of Gab and producer Chief Xcel.

Although Chief Xcel does not appear on the tribute album, Blackalicious did perform at the Look at All the Love We Found live event. Their performance of “Alphabet Aerobics” was later featured on the concert DVD.
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(Shoes is on my feet y'all) Michael Franti & Spearhead (Ft. Gift of Gab) – What I Got
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In contradiction to Gift of Gab and the original Sublime lyric (“I strap shoes on my feet,”) Franti talks about his peculiar habit of rarely wearing shoes.

I started going without shoes because I’d travel to places where people couldn’t afford shoes. When I first tried it my feet were so tender, I couldn’t do it. So one day I thought, let me see if I can go three days. Three days turned into a week, and then a month. At 10 years, I started partnering with Soles4Soles, which helped out after hurricane Katrina. We now send shoes to 50 countries.

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I called my man Zulu Michael Franti & Spearhead – Piece o' Peace
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(Subcommander) Ras I. Zulu is an associate of Michael Franti who worked with him during the 90’s. Home’s “Red Beans & Rice” featured Zulu playing the flute.

Additionally, Zulu performed vocals on Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Chocolate Supa Highway, and the Franti club mix to Dr. Lonnie Smith’s “Move Your Hand.”

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... at that age where they know everything and the answers are obvious, and we old farts just need to get with the program. They don’t stop to ask why a service like this doesn’t already exist on the net (hint: they’ve all failed, badly) and they don’t go studying the past to learn from past mistakes, because they know better. So they go off an implement the old mistakes in new and technologically fun and geeky ways. The Genius Problem | Chuq Von Rospach • Writing & Commentary

I’ve never heard of older annotation programs that failed. I would love if you could name some, because I’m genuinely interested.

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i think that’s why you haven’t heard of them

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ive got a short list here

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...y built and control their own products. The annotation functionality Genius provides just piggybacks on other things that you and your friends build, write and post, so the bar should be even higher. I hope the existence of this code will force them to step up and dedicate substantial resources to handling this issue. Genius Web Annotator (Mostly) Beaten by New WordPress Plugin | | Observer

I’m curious. If Genius handles the issue, would Mr. Assar delete the code?

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Fortunately, it seems like members of the Genius community are bending. One poweruser and editor, DoyleOwl, wrote about the incident on the site and proposed that the community acknowledge that it made a mistake. Genius Web Annotator vs. One Young Woman With a Blog | | Observer

Mate you’re becoming an internet personality!

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@DoyleOwl

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...ers to improve their work. But to be effective, a certain level of sensitivity is needed, and that doesn’t seem to exist at present. In many cases, the work being tackled isn’t factually incorrect or particularly high-profile, and there’s a lot of empty criticism: The first annotation on one BuzzFeed piece is just “lol”; in another, one of the annotations is simply a link to a Google search for a phrase that’s been used. News Genius wants to annotate the entire Web. At what cost?

I’m not sure why this is a relevant critique. Dawson mentioned she thought Genius was intended for “interrogat[ing] high-profile publications”, but that doesn’t seem to be the actual intention of Genius. The slogan’s not “annotate the high-profile publications of the world,” right?

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Also what is the threshold for a “high-profile” news publication or even an independent writer when literally everyone’s aim is to create as much traffic and interest in their own personal writing and brand in 2016? Is there a legal threshold that distinguishes “high profile publication” from “private citizen’s blog”?

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...th agile framework Made hiring, purchasing, and resource allocation decisions based on community needs Created and executed a lyrics strategy with a focus on meeting requests from potential partners, delivering a 443% increase in content Hire Me — dalmo

Woah – I actually had no idea the growth was of this size.

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✔ Wintersessie 2016 - Seffelinie 101Barz – Overzicht Alle Sessies
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Downward Spiral Ras Kass (Ft. Freddie Foxxx & Onyx) – Downward Spiral
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“Downward Spiral” features 4 hip-hop heavy-hitters with their intense boastful styles and disses for the whack MC’s. The lead single is the first forthcoming from Ras' Intellectual Property, scheduled for a June 2016 release.

Ras Kass' SoundCloud summed it up as the following:

With slick references to Killer Mike, Conrad Murray (the doctor who killed Michael Jackson), artist Dorian Gray, and wack trend-hopping rappers, Ras steals the show here with his attention-commanding opening verse before passing the mic to his talented collaborators. Each emcee offers gritty, raw, and timeless rhymes that ultimately point directly back to the hook’s message of flushing all the bullshit directly down the shitter like it deserves.

Ras recently appeared on ONYX’s “Da Liquor Store” and “Mad Energy”, but had never released material with Freddie Foxxx before.

Instead of the actual song artwork, Spotify featured a different cover for the single, portraying the topical “downward spiral”:

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