2010 bwlp Message: Take It To The Streets.

get your nyc 5th avenue physical on... to some JB.

root

once a month i go to a musicians meeting where we bring a track we take 24 hours or less to produce.
it's like a challenge, or at least an exercise in practice.

check out root... little something produced over Sunday and Monday.
at the myspace page for the cut- up only through Friday, 'cause the
remix is going on Come Winter.

Just Listen...

Santa's on his way...
and Talib Kweli opens this up for Jay Electronica...with J Cole and little Mos too.
dang, everybody's gettin' on.

well, it's time to get son ready for a party, Peoria style.
safe travels to you all!

-bpp

http://drop.io/kmmr3jy/asset/reflection-eternal-feat-jay-electro-mp3

"Could It Be It Wasn't Me, I Was Feelin' Superfine!"

1980 yo.

"...the people in the back, if you not the wack, say..."
what i really love is that the crew in the back KNOW the refrain...
"DON'T STOP...THE BODY ROCK!"

funk, yeah, folks.

Dirty Brandon Bengz Touch

Fintal Be is remixed on Come Winter.
Ditry Brandon Bangs' first pass over the track is up at the myspace page
without vocals though...
i'll have to hit this when i get back from l-camp for the holidays by next week-
it's a rough edit
but that's fun to listen too, sometimes.

we're moving in that direction.
-bpp

Strut Your Stuff This Holiday

Strut Records out of Germany specializes in resurrecting rare rump shakers from the 70's.
If you're looking for a nice eclectic gift for the dj in your life...
give it a listen...
next door at the Got To Be There Section

konichiwa demo

my buddy diavola slipped me this to set
some projects up for 2010...
the first demo is up at the myspace link to the right
...or just go here www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

Father to Son

it takes everything in me not to get all lame
and say something that would no doubt be seen as judgmental

i can only say, what a time it is
as a father myself, this snapshot spoke to me

truth is freedom


and that's not it over there.

Got To Be There!

pee wee herman is doing a live show for about a month in LA.
January 12, 2010 through February 7th.
it goes down at Club Nokia, located at 800 West Olyimpic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90015 (as if you'd want to snail mail 'em tee hee!)

we're pickled tink over this.
looks like its' time to book a show in LaLa Land just to peep
what will no doubt be a resurrection of some long awaited
pee wee insanity!!

it's kinda trippy that Pee Wee's Playhouse went off the air in 1991.
dang- like on some contempo legendary isht, yo.

but to be truthful- my all time favorite movie scene is

life is beautiful.

Oakland North TV

the motorcycle show for Oakland residents to benefit Children's Hospital..
it's pretty, go.

Word Forests.

"three crew deep,
all aspect:
teamy"

catch the demo release of 'forests'
at the myspace page.

and for you lyric aficionados...

my lyrics go a little something like this-

welcome to live from the forest today’s presentation is underwritten by anonymous recordings
names not to be revealed kept out mouth of
you don’t have to get yourself in trouble for hate love
ravine steep, she slipped looked down
knew it was over HOLLERED OH SH$T but first thought

happiness is where you running to not from
realness sets in, when ain’t nobody come
mighty mighty construction blueprints lady up
town right around new toys brand new tints

some blue, some green cornucopia smokescreen fast mosaic darkroom prints
processed on her own fly eye keen
looks
analogous chop shop, all black speed crooks

snatchin over covers can’t hang wind stronger
usually breeze scarce scared waits longer
reveals brother’s secrets, sheds mistakes
sternum unzipped, heart drips lakes

swim crimson dredged owned slow more
found
objects not mine pine, no show for
weak, thoughtless, pull away, glued
gullible, infallible, misconstrued

thinking i’m another rhymer just like who?
phlecksi parmella just me boo.
when they made me they ain't make no mold
so they ain’t two
cold rockin’ it about to go right back
come here so:

you could walk word forests I know....
word forests I know, word forests
you could walk I know.... word forests
word forests I know... word forests

so back on the ravine or should we say off it,
where gravity has it’s way just about to sing,
including our photographer heroines free fall
all’s not quite lost such a sweet thing

ingenuity parachute happened to sting
screams
connected finger bones hard pull string poof!
north face mountain slows perspires
truth
be told ice not nearly as nice under

fire stoked anger never, ever ever touched, fine
I could tell it written all over her walk signs
just to get a little smidge and righten her mind
if she could only feel what I felt lookin behind

to dust come across lust letters under my ottoman
loves work I do but never knew that I though of him
what a trip could she meant me I’m not finished
I could really get into it if we had more minutes

lonliness landscapes sheets pristine
un
informed pens memories get reborn
meekest late bloomer deepest sneaker tretorn
navy blue canvases campuses true verse

write opaque sky backdrop reread
greatest
lover alive feedback true need
underneath purely practical v-neck tee’d
and
never met a mic that I just couldn’t commando

bird twig pomegranate black white logo
temperament akin aloof neglect perks
concrete cracker daytime public works
busy building opposition mergers jerks


contriving evidence cases closed wherein
manuscripts flammable matches pen cool like best well laid but hot like sin
cerity given sincerely, gleamy


3 crew deep all aspect, teamy
light bearer human being gardener dreamy
holographic cold audible see we
b dot w dot l dot p

dot could walk word forests I know....
word forests I know, word forests
you could walk I know.... word forests
word forests I know... word forests

The Secret's Out

In Cit Rock pt. 2

dedicated to bpp's son.
alive and well...having made it to big 5.
we put our best feat forward to close out the year with something
for long drives.

you pick your destination, y'heard what we said a few posts back about
storytelling...

here's the In Cit Roc,
December BWLP Broadcast setlist:

penmanship by skyzoo,
pleasure night by sarah white produced by dhundee,
know you by john robinson,
the knowledge by bill blass,
travesty make poverty history (rmx) by TRoy broadcite,
weapons (lova lova remix) by dj chief with k.flay,
fm modes 2000 by kon and amir,
in my mind by dj sam champion featuring kissey asplund,
tribe by presto,
over and out by $k!dm@t!c,
i wish you knew (remix) by souled,
fifty mile view by mount kimbie,
paid homage (rip jdilla) by finale and flying lotus,

hold that thought by gwendolyn bunn
**** BWLP VOTED BREAKOUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2009 ****

436A by the oh so live super producer mellow supreme Eddie McCaskill,
soundtrack fuers leben by rahel kraska,

fin.
have a wonderful new year’s!

from the triptych:
-b.p. d’oiseaux, b.phlecksi parmella and dj frank niao!!!

Minakwon

catch him at http://artst.com/profile/minakwon

BWLP December 2009 Podcast

December’s issue of Birds Who Like Pomegranate comes in two parts; a 2 disc cd set if you were to download it or find yourself as the lucky recipient of where they might be via gps locator. Yeah, we’re going there, because sometimes you need to get out and get your groove on in the name of seeing lovely places you might not have gone otherwise.
Or, maybe if you’re in East or West Oakland, you might find an autographed set at a bus stop. Play ‘em when you get back to the crib though... there’s no disclaimer on explicit lyrics- b’now!

There’s nothing but good music at our year’s end. Did we get it all? No. Is it all previous unreleased tracks? Pretty much. Some pieces are newer than others- but all the artists are some of our favorites: Finale, Scarlem D and Mr. Blue, Skyzoo, Kissey Asplund, Gwen Bunn, Presto, and 22 others.

Good dj’s tell stories in their mixes and compilations. Sometimes at a club, it’s an instance of instant- the crowd response dictating what gets pumped through the speakers, for when and how long...the ride is a product of place and time. But when it’s prepared for you in advance, like our podcasts, we get an opportunity to tell you a story. Most of the time you might not notice the tempo changes and subject matter. But believe us, it’s been quality crafted for your benefit.

For instance in part one, you might notice a perspective aimed from a season but winds and twists you through a 6 car deluge of mind. Real talk for real times. I’ll cut it out. But we just wanted you to know that for us, music is more than a show and a paper chase. For us, music is expression and the higher pursuits of life’s exactness.

We’ll be replacing Mike Dream’s birthday podcast and the Back to School edition to make room for these in our limited storage space. No worries, we’ll reprise them in the future as time permits.

Thanks for checking in.

-b.phlecksi parmella

Before Your Faculties Leave You

...believe that self-reflection can serve you well. There’s nothing like enjoying Thanksgiving with people with their own interesting bottles of perspective. And when the time comes to share the wealth and have a tasting of all outlooks, stances and reasoning- well it can get a little like Biggie’s Party and Bullshit.

I mean you find out who thinks Obama’s insistence on revamping health care is going to ruin the country- from someone like say, a lifetime nurse who is a cancer survivor. With rebuttals to confront the short term memory loss of the gradual and deliberate degradation of one said countries image and word through insufficient foreign policies as ingredients for our current political stew.

(I know, I know, I can hear all the "awwwwwww -isht"'s now..)

Or maybe it’s conversation about the social stratification across our nation that is surely finance based. Swaths of class position, determined by your annual income, inheritance, lineage and or place of origin that color our landscape from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceanic coasts. Sound waves awash with sentences that tell of how two young black women would look a man like b.phlecksi parmella up and down at the World Trade Center, hone in on his Yale sweatshirt, and vehemently let him know, “YOU didn’t go there!”
(He’s let go of that, but sends a warm Thanks for the lovely introduction to the East, ladies.) In that simple statement, they let a young black man know so much more...
- whom was only in New York by invitation from a long gone art hero- Mr. Keith Haring.

Life most certainly has it’s challenges - our conviction is this:

No matter what your preoccupation or aspiration, if you can find the time to make sincerity, patience and introspection a priority- these practices will indubitably see you through the fires that will decimate your landscapes of safety.

The BWLP message at the dawn of 2010 is to adopt your heart with a conviction towards truth. Not a truth that so much bears your own stamp of approval- it's rarely that... but the truth of what is, right then and there- without thought immersed in pure experience-

and move with who you are- from moment to moment.

We understand that this philosophy doesn’t appear compatible with planning-
but we're convinced there’s a bigger one for each and every one of us.

BE about it y’all.
Blessings to you.

"..a rock on, and YOU don't stop!"

From the BWLP crew:
b.p. d’oiseaux, b.phelcksi parmella and dj frank niao

Tippet and the Angels: Thanksgiving Boy Howdy!

okay, okay, Phil Tippett- sir animation himself- crafts deftly movement endowed imagery here in our neighborhood in West Berekeley- meanwhile Hell's Angels' Sonny Barger has breezed around the way a few times on his blue saddle-boxed hog...reminding me that there's only one Bay Area.
And we're all about it.



from C.W. Nevius in today's SF Chronicle...
"On Wednesday, the local chapter of the motorcycle gang will be downtown at St. Anthony Foundation, helping the faith-based dining room prepare for its annual free Thanksgiving dinner. Are you sensing a photo op?

This all came about because, although St. Anthony's has a large and enthusiastic group of volunteers, slicing up hundreds of turkeys takes some serious elbow grease. Trying to think of an organization with muscular guys who wouldn't mind doing some carving, someone suggested the Hells Angels.

"When we reached out to get some help carving turkeys this Thanksgiving, the Hells Angels stepped up immediately and graciously," said St. Anthony's media manger, Francis Aviani.

But the dinner is still short about 1,000 pounds of turkey. If you'd like to contribute, St. Anthony's has curbside drop-off beginning at 8 a.m."



Happy Thanksgiving to you and Yours

Sickness Video, Kid

get, well...

ill abilities crew turned -isht out.
as well did New Style Motherlode International
as did One Step Ahead
and DS Players
along with Loose Change
with Mind Over Matter
Future shock Bay Area
and the CRAZY MJ tribute by Kenichi Ebina
Plague
some truly BACKINTHEDAYREALNESS from Last For One from South Korea...
and although each of these crews
repped their mother f&%n ass off..
my personal favorite was Deep Down Dopeizm from Norway
because they took me back to Richmond, California in 1977 when the only people I knew getting down that hard were neighborhood crews and Bay Area funksters like the Criminons and Poppatrons, the GLOBE Boys, Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind in the 80's...
hip hop dance is in good hands world-wide.

wow.

So you now go to our myspace page and listen to the Sickness demo.

get well.
-bpp

'bout to bounce to this...

so i get a call,
"yo b, we gonna see if we still got tix on this.."
i've wanted to check this out in the past; Palace of Fine Arts is
a truly bangin' place to see anything...
so, i'll thow on the furry K and something slightly tippish and slide on through!

peep the techniques...go bang.

more to come on the recording session this next holiday week on the the first cut of the EP: Sickness.

-bpp

sickness preview at myspace

just hashing out a demo of a new cut for the xmas thang.
it's up along with a Saturday morning memo from me buggin' out
and doing some voice warm ups...(tee,hee!)
-bpp

www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

"Now, 'S' Come Steppin' Up..."

Like, Yo Kangol. (style, right?)

Throwback...

we've got a really interesting new EP for XMAS
so it's cool that we take a look back at our mAkE nIcE stuff and
post some of those underground efforts...
before we got our isht together.
you'll see what we mean in December.
we'll leave stuff up until November 15th.
after that, it's all new 2009 slash 2010 BWLP

word life.
-bpp

www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

Setlist November 2009 BWLP

it's like this:
karriem riggins doing see, Terry Devos doing greatest love, soul clap doing cookie, gwendolyn bunn doing turn the lights out, chris rumble doing pro active, hopper doing SAU spiritually active, lemy shorte lisika doing lemy, amanda diva doing supasonic supanova, Eddie McCaskill doing 126 am, slakah the beatchild doing kj-repeat remix, vintage suprise cut ** lucini**, visioneers doing 55 dollars - mr. marc mac hollahatchaboy!!, Phil Ranelin doing black on the nu, mark tate doing street lights, artifakt doing start today, camp lo doing on smash with styles p & pete rock, charles hamilton doing brooklyn girls, slakah the beatchild doing the answer with melanie durrant, karriem riggins doing sexy mama, paco sounds doing MM take it easy, abstract genius doing abstract super genius, Falty Dl doing made me feel so right
fin.

and you don't stop..
sureshot.
you go
out
to...

Something, Fo My Homegirl, E. Holman

Hold ya' head, sweetheart.

Coming Soon...

we should be good to go by the 10th.
"bwlp November 2009 The x-wing fighter sentry edition. soundstation bwlp cockpit system in Elana’s x-wing fighter sent on a mission to investigate territory previously unknown to her species. Her particular quad rolls engined vehicle has been modified with compression fuel tanks and a vendetta sound modifications audio unit; a future development between meyer sound system and ilm that merged in 2225. Elana, born into a pilot family- her mother was lead wing in the apocracy north american extinctions under 12th regime..."

stay tuned.

Nice.

q-tip still telling it like it is.

The Niceties of What Turntablism Inspires

via the archcupcake over in NY

Couldn't Wait...

okie doke, we try and post our monthly gift mixes on the 15th.
as much as we like to play Pontiac and build excitement,
we've already got a lotta stuff going on.
so let's just drop this month's BWLP Gift Mix on you righ' chan'

presenting to you..
The BWLP "..straight fire burned unknown, but not for long though."
ISTANBUL Edition October 2009 Gift Mix
set list:
intro diatribe over back to your roots by slangston hughes,
denemek by DOAC 2,
bu da son olsun by mizzah,
Hamam film clip,
scratch perverts 2000 dmc team routine,
unnamed by sirayet,
exhibit n by euphrates,
here comes that beat by pumpkin all stars (circa 1984),
tibalim engel by radyasyon,
Turkish nestle crunch commercial,
sukunet by desta,
P.H.A.T.W.A. promo by euphrates,
ac atlas i by fuat,
son kitap by mizzah featuring nafta yargi grejuva,
fight ayse (girl) trailer,
dusmez kalkmaz by uzzi featuring muhammet gunes,
e.t. boogie by the extra t’s,
treee koy by radyasyon,
tavana yazilan sarki by DOAC 2,
posse cut from surveyan,
ask tutulmasi film trailer,
day to night with nokz by sirayet

fin.

play on playa'
-b.p.p.

p.s. the geographical features in this months flick look very much like the Bay, hunh?

AAAAWWWW SHEEEEIII%#@!

now.
i'm old school but gottt amn!
WE ARE STRAIGHT UP ECSTATIC about Morpher Radio.


This cat brings the realness.
See THE REALNESS at our "Got to Be There" link at the side and 'ave a listen.
Great Stuff.
-b.p.p.

ISTANBUL

next bwlp:

"...straight fire, burned unknown, but not for long though" edition

it's an international hip hop collectible coming your way, set to drop on Halloween.

get mad ready.

-bpp

Reprise.

this one was an itunes pick and i deleted it by accident.
here's the reposting reprise:

Wayward Saints, Voodoo Jive
Presto, Conquer Mentally/On feat. Sadat X & Large Pro
Presto, State of the Art feat. Blu
Visionaries, Crop Circles
Visionaries, If You Can’t Say Love feat. Rhettmatic
All Right, Dilla for zen r.el.z.m.
LMNO, Piece of Art
Dert Beats, Funky New World
Chris Prolific, Essence
Chris Prolific, Aquarius RIP Dilla
Aceyalone, The Lonely Ones Outro feat. Bionic
Bus Driver, Pink Icing
Frankie Knuckles, Inspired Remix
Spooinie Gee, Spoonin Rap
Kool G Rap, on some 09’ isht
Sandman, Live At SXSW
Brother Ali, Ant & Slug, Begin Here
De La Soul, No feat. Butter Verses
Spike Lee (Church De La intro

yup.

-bp

Holiday's EP from BWLP

laying down the vocals for this one today.
a new EP special release for X Mas.
flip side will be a track entitled: finta b.
sneak preview at the myspace page on Sunday, October 4th.
there you have it; nothing more about this until Thanksgiving, but it'll involve our ETSY store, custom stationery with a CD of the tunes.

heck, alternative rap heads jot notes too, right?!

-bp b.k.a. bwlp

Just So You Know We've Got an Entire Female BWLP for Xmas!

we've been down the whole time.

Kam aka One of our Favorites...Supastition

Supastition 'bout to catch a little wreck.

ABOUT TIIIIIIME!

GO South; Louisiana Edition October 2009 BWLP

all right, already. whats' good? well today it was the Dragon Boat Festival at Treasure Island. good people, no STRAIGHT UP GORGEOUS people, (nothin' like REAL rowers, yo.) but anywho...
on with whas'up:
chilling with my son watching boats go zoom on a stellar Bay Area day, eating bagels with cream cheese in the lower Haight around 10:30 AM on a Saturday morning, copping more Rice milk at Trader Joe's, eating popovers and homemade potato soup with neighbors...and of course,
mixing the latest edition of BWLP!

welcome to a very special october 2009 edition of birds who like pomegranate mixed media music magazine. it’s good to be alive- just bust the tracks in this months edition. we mix it up with a HEAVY dose of n’awlans with some international flavor. it’s like the gumbo my auntie didi used to make: with the crab, the okra, the tomato base, onions, spices, home made rolls, chitlins, sweet potato pies, fried chicken, croquettes...no, no no, this is real shit- with my own folks from New Iberia and Lafayette and a last name originally delcambre. you still don’t hear me though...but maybe you do. it’s 2009 and a whole new bumper crop of emcees are cutting their teeth in a world where indie rap is developing alot like punk rock did in the 70’s. i am- can only imagine it to be for them. i mean i had my cookie crews, stetsa, too short, latifah’s, shineheads, scott la rock’s, fab five freddy’s, and sha rock’s. i mean i grew up with that. original b-boy m’damn self. but now?! hmm. and what’s it like to be somebody like jay z right now? with so much hating on success for just trying to come true. well...
let’s peep it.

s’go... project mooncircle doin’ lambent- smoothness extract, tygah woods doin’ i can’t help it, lyrikill doin’ this man, og scraper bike historical 101 from the bay with baby champ, fred, and lil d (ain’t nothin’ like the town special addy), blaze the verbal chemist doin’ message to the people, 5th child doin’ hip hop live, slangston hughes doin’ the righteous way to go, wes b doin’ beats breaks and rhymes, j-dubble doin’ still fan tas tic, zaki ibrahim & darm malone doin’ zaki dub a stand (Canadian special addition), vohnbeatz and MPAK featuring lil d doin’ candy bars, and mr str82dapoint doin’ you got me, fin.
Until the gift mix edition mid October.

World Class Graf in San Jose...come thru!

we'll be sure and get down to San Jo to represent

s'porting (the youth) life!

next BWLP for October is too sweet.
it's the
GO South! edition
puttin a little flayvah in ya ear!

(hmmmm, you gotta love it.. i smell a double dutch routine coming up rockin' to this...)

STILL doin' it for the kids.

-bpp

Bode Finished It.

It looks like the Peralta mural project over in West Oakland had to be completed by Mark on the dolo. It's sitting pretty on a rainy Saturday, here in the Bay.
More flix to come. It was a nice little destination on my weekend errands drive with my son.

Just cruising to the upcoming gift mix for this month, also soon to come to the podcast site. I'm coming through with a little something for the intro. But with school in...it's a hustle. But if Slick Rick can do WorldComm 8 to 5, heck I should be able to a little some' some' m'damn self! (tee, hee!)

Also, it looks like April BWLP previous bwlp was listed an itunes notable- so I'll have to put that back up.
Here's the set list for that episode:

Wayward Saints, Voodoo Jive
Presto, Conquer Mentally/On feat. Sadat X & Large Pro
Presto, State of the Art feat. Blu
Visionaries, Crop Circles
Visionaries, If You Can’t Say Love feat. Rhettmatic
All Right, Dilla for zen r.el.z.m.
LMNO, Piece of Art
Dert Beats, Funky New World
Chris Prolific, Essence
Chris Prolific, Aquarius RIP Dilla
Aceyalone, The Lonely Ones Outro feat. Bionic
Bus Driver, Pink Icing
Frankie Knuckles, Inspired Remix
Spooinie Gee, Spoonin Rap
Kool G Rap, on some 09’ isht
Sandman, Live At SXSW
Brother Ali, Ant & Slug, Begin Here
De La Soul, No feat. Butter Verses
Spike Lee (Church De La intro

Enjoy.
-bpp

Still b.phlecksi parmella muh'fka's!

mathematics, my next spoken word project in the works..
at 3:00 AM i'm on my grind...
here's one of my latest entitled:

prettiness lyrical


“It seems like all the mornings, afternoons, evenings blend together living the inside like everybody sees it. then realizing the whole thing’s invisible. indivisible of self. until it speaks...just the other night my buddy from back in the day said, hey b, you remember so and so- my little hood thang? Yeah man she’s at a center in Richmond on medication, mind all fucked up and shit.

In an instant I just spat- man you know I always thought that shit would happen to me.”


look at all the stars, could you count each one? worst
vice retired, though physically spoken

thrown up, granted identified keepsakes
verses who could play outside- no retakes

let em’ grow up, heck support you in your old age
don’t nobody gotta show you love but the page keep
speakin' us, maintain focus, laugh much

you see?

vocalize harmonies inner path touch down,
stay around those who love you to soul for they see you
reincarnated however you roll hard
ships be with, maintain control tell em
oh what a privilege to wake up vintage
classic dip elan, heavy percentage
Africa, South America, Eastern block
India, Ireland, Scotand stock

you know?

rhyme really relevant for livin' a clock
is what you
make of it, a whole lake of it unlocke
reciprocate spill all over lovers deep
you
have in real time, be the reason leap in
life ain’t really right to sleep through keep in
your light contributes to time place vibrates
actions, regardless, utterance, translate
fear survival mechanism kicked in more so

you see?


inner truth, manifest, shouldn’t be forceful
phenomena like the sunrise on creep
happening like it’s every day of the week she
could be that, prettiness, ain’t speak
mimic
got her own language, called show and prove
taught me everything she know when i speak move
ingredients environment on gorgeous
Lancome application tight light make up
[ you know? ]*

you see?
you know?
you see?
you know?

mathematical thin projects wake up
disseminated leaves here spoke rake up
spend time slow kiss when y’all think break out
so it could be the instantaneous
complete fake out ro
mance we kick it theatrical as she may
be her an expressionist she like Monet
promoter of a lovely time specified era
paradigm window, worldwide clearer

ever ready steadiness called her prettiness
catalogue'd every curvature within her city yes
rain comes close damp outskirts reset
what hadn’t been done ouch hurt regret
did it on prebet, speaks protection
lover where, more of her, seeks connection
limited by imaginative inspections
she doin' her job i objectify looking
like i hadn’t seen it before, so why lie

next to her within a bubble thought so round
drawn above my head so she could see word sound
wanna tell her so i spell her name, putting it down
bring it up again, wreckage crash site love thing

wanna keep it live; superficial cell phone ring?
evoke chi unseen oh felt though
right like bamboo gene pool grow
decisive rainy rebirthlike rinse
eyes blind frosted indigo tints

no loves worthier than love inside
distributed, blanketed, whole hillsides apart

be rhyme skill dedicated
started long ago trans word life assimilated

.... see?
you know?
you see?
you know?


you see?
you know?
you see?
you know?


we'll see if i can throw a little something up at the myspace link by Saturday...
you know?
-bpp

And if I....Before I Wake...

at least the new BWLP edition is up.
In Memoriam: Hasanni Campbell and Marquita Bosley

two people who didn't hold public office, didn't make hit records but were in the wrong place at the right time

like so many others, who might go unsung
we'll play some in your name.

set list:






he asked for it by sadat x featuring jay z
marc de clice lowe tips on a remix with a rhodes
doing the same (remix) by paddy fred
uptown (rough drift) by apollo
a kevin brown joint
waking life expressed in context by ramon tejada
i hate to hate you by the sweet vandals
porno mustache by jethroe
king me by senery & blu
raekwon from the coalition flick
infinite by intrmtrk
know u by cy tru f/LP and the cherished collective
doing well by by jamie j
say hey by by majestic legend featuring geneveive produced by snowman jack
grey shadows by scarlem d
abyssal plains x bioluminescence by busy bradford johnson
rah da god live in manhattan
love is all by by ayumi hamasaki
craig g on ghostwriting for 8 mile
rza's verse from you can't stop me now
they don't want by electric wire hustle
mind traveling by willie edward steward
play child by falty dl
styles p uncut on teamwork
struggle by eternia f/ wordsworth and kenn starr
life as a shorty by kid cus
raid by busy bradford johnson
opening credits by billy gomez
and the end is...

beat bop by rammelzee vs. k-rob beat bop

and tomorrow's the first day of school in Oakland, CA.

Peace Be Unto You.

-b.phlecksi parmella a.k.a. frank niao

Adjacent Queens, Kings; Word Life! No Act.

working on the one-man show, catch HGBOHFM video at an earlier post here; one piece among several...
meanwhile scouting locations for the Buffalo Bombing outdoor geurilla-style video performances:
emcees, spoken word artists, musicians- let's film you outdoors for free doing your thing!
one piece per artist.
unspecified locale, but pretty public.
go for it.
contact us if you're interested.
we're filming through December, in Oakland and San Francisco...alleyways, sidestreets, sidewalks, streetcorners, baysides, you bet.
at no cost to you...we just want to big up up and coming talent in the Bay.

-bpp

Outdoor Geurilla Performance in the Bay

okay, several years ago we launched an outdoor performance series featuring musicians, emcees, spoken word types in public spaces.
so with all the proliferation of public art popping up all over, we decided to dedicate some time to hosting the Bay Area's finest folks you may or not have heard of.
outdoors.
nothing original here, except the artists.

all it took was a few flicks of that piece on Ashby and Telegraph.
it just makes sense.
the bay area is just too flush.

coming at you weekly starting in September through December 2009.

...bless the mic with the gods.

-bpp

Public Art Reminds Me...

...that outdoors is a gallery all it's own.

Abuffalowithaheadofabomber.

Agreencitymuralindeftgraftechnique.

Allforagreatergood...

This week, rehearsal for HGBOHFM has gone great; performing it this Saturday night in Burlingame. ADAM, happy birthday, 'dunny!

Yeah; This American life of a 'yay emcee.

-b.phelcks parmella

of mAkE nIcE better known as BWLP
host and emcee
of Birds Who Like Pomegranate Mixed Media Music Magazine

Saturday Richness in the Town

I was told by a dear friend that a state of sapped creativity is a byproduct of ill communication... or a communication blockage, altogether.

Yeah, so I'm on production blackout, personally until December- taking time off to get the script together for my dolo spoken word show,
Adjacent Queen's Kings; Word Life! No Act.

So in the meantime I get to smile around Oakland knowing that the hip hop disciplines continue to play out around me.
Bust the Mark Bode and a wheat pasting by an unknown artist (until I find out who dunnit...I'll ask across the street at the Dream Yard)

It's about sustenance, right?
Don't worry, we've got a really nice September 09' Back to School Edition of BWLP on tap for 9/3 posting.

Wish me luck on taking some stuff to a new level.

Just A Reminder

to be a visionary.

The Teacher, Not the KRS one...

see the Got To Be There section to the right...

check out a reason to get your 'class' together and how to get your move and groove on at the same time!

Simple Man, My Thoughts This Morning

the Grouch speaking my state of mind this morning.
school starts soon.
gotta go back to work.
teacher business already. damn.

Also To Just Be Seen...

The Youth: Bojan Krkic

Messi.

Yeah, I'm Taking My Son To See The Realness!!!!

Barca vs. Chivas

8:00 PM.

Candlestick Park.

SF

And maybe some of this...

Can't Stop, Won't Stop...All About the Bay!!

c'mon now, you KNOW you can't front?!?!!!!!!

-bpp

p.s. this you You Tube thing could drive you bananas.
as an aside..
"theres' no way that I could pay you back..but my plan is to show you that I understand...you are appreciated...dear momma."

Tupac was FOR REAL.

Can you stand the rain?

check out Got To Be There...we seem to be slow dancing around the passing of MJ by exploring all around the 80's...
so be it.

G.A.F... INFINIUM.
Word Life.
-bpp

Good Morning...Friday.

Lost in Paris
Uploaded by s2o-Prod. - Arts and animation videos.

East Coast West Coast Graf Tribute

Stan is the man key speakin' on a tribute piece last month for NY writer IZ.
Damn, I love the Bay.

-b.p.p.

p.s. and all I was doing was putting together a syllabus for my teen summer reading group on a history of bay area graffiti..and i came across this. it certainly was cool catching some shots of the legends in this one. true that graf is still moving.

p.s.s. big ups to crayone for posting this to spread the knowledge. DO it too and check out his site in the Got To Be There Section for the upcoming Zulu BBQ in the Park in SF this August!

For You Could Know...

how it really does go down in the Bay...


The Supa Sic Wid It dance crew founded out of Hunters Point's SF Ground Movement. They've been doing their thing since at least 2006....
get your gigs on.

-bpp

HA! Remember Your Hot Isht.

BWLP August 2009 Podacast

The August, 2009 edition of Birds Who Like Pomegranate Mixed Media Music Magazine hones in on love.

As in: take off your shoes when you come in the house knowing the last supper is hanging in the front room colored by the comforting scent of adobo translating the vibe.

As in: the familiarity of the 3 foot tall rice dispenser in the kitchen, love.

As in: the joy of feeling at the top of ones game, hands clasped around your instrument- backstage, only to go on later live. Feeling like you were born to do it.



Bone up on your Tagalog for a few tracks. Oakland, San Leandro, San Diego, Las Vegas, Pilipino, and Mogadishu (and Berkeley, of course) is in the house.

We can't forget to mention our new favorite artist, the stratospheric Gwendolyn Bunn.

On Friday, July 31st, catch us on the web via a few portals:

birdswholikepomegranate.blogspot.com
doiseauxrecordings.podomatic.com, or on
www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice.

Go somewhere with your hip hop.
Learn something new.
I’m b.phlecksi parmella, one half of BWLP, for Birds Who Like Pomegranate Mixed Media Music Magazine.
And with regards to dj frank niao, “bob your head to what he’s doing.”

Fo' REAL.

Her name is Gwendolyn Bunn

I wish I could be the first to say she's gonna be
slaying the airwaves sometime

soon

good music
some really fu%$ng good music

peep her tunes in the Got To Be There Section:
Gwendolyn Bunn

Good Morning.

Kissey is BRILLIANT.
recognize.

More...And More

First off, peace to Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys for a safe and full recovery from his recent cancer discovery.
This just highlights the necessity for regular check ups & stuff.
(we know, try kickin' that to all the uninsured in a failing economy)

Sooooooo. We'll give you some more music.
No Emjay; we're not ready just yet.

Just a little something to chill to. BPP grabbed some records and saddled in behind the one and two's.

Isleys, Mary J, Kraftwerk, Brick, Brass Construction, Biz, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Blue Six, MF Doom, Heatwave, Michael Franks...awwwww sheeeeeeeeeit.

check out the podcast; gift mix July 22nd edition.

Go and do what you do to some chilled, layed back grooviness.

Cheers.

Who Is This Man...(with the bat)

Hint: like myself, grew up in Richmond, CA.
Hint #2: like myself, went to El Cerrito High, El Cerrito, CA.
Hint #3: UNLIKE myself, he was the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox- the last team in the majors to racially integrate.

catch the scoop by Scott Ostler, here:





http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/21/SPFP18RJNG.DTL

or at the Pumpsie link in our GOT TO BE THERE section

Rock You Some Paul Mac Innes

Even Though

What We're Gonna Do Right Here Is Go Back....

Peep what we used to sound like (and still will at a show...) back in the day.
We've posted up some d'oiseaux classics at the myspace page

http://myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

And You Don't Stop..Drivin'

From my homie film maker supremo Mike Hamm:

Race To The Bottom - will be screening in the city (SF) this Sunday at 4pm with the SF Living Wage Coalition, it should be good, come check it out if you can, see you all!


Race To the Bottom (20 m) US 2008
By Jonathan King, Michael Hamm
This story is about the 2,000 independent truck drivers working at the Port of Oakland. The film gives us a look into the lives of the drivers and their struggles to earn a living wage, support their families, and stay healthy as they do their jobs, transporting goods in and out of the port. It also shows their efforts to build a community coalition to protect their jobs and their health and make their voices heard.

CELEBRATING LABOR FEST 2009

SAN FRANCISCO LIVING WAGE COALITION presents…

Your browser may not support display of this image. Living Wage Video Festival

Sunday, July 19

4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

522 Valencia Street @ 16th St.

Videos*********Food*******Prizes *****Fun

Meet the Videographers


4 p.m. Race To The Bottom

a film by Jonathan King, Michael Hamm, and Daniela Rusnokova

5 p.m. Reception with Videographers

6 p.m. SF Living Wage Coalition Community Outreach Documentary

A half-hour documentary featuring the SF Living Wage Coalition’s campaign to raise wages for workers at city-funded non-profit agencies, highlighting interviews with Living Wage Coalition outreach volunteers and staff at SF non- profit agencies that provide a glimpse into the problems that non-profits are facing as funding is being drastically cut.

More info at: (415) 863-1225; sflivingwage@riseup.net

www.sflivingwage-sf.org

More For Your Feet and Your Mind on Haight

Got To Be There...

Check out the links to some Good Things
to the right at our
Got To Be There selections section

speaking of which...check out the vans lifestyle brandin' carry on baggage tip jimmmy jammies and the adidas bus..
fresh from dropping off a few reps at FTC for the 7x7 Contest After Party tickets and new SLAP PALS kicks.
Go check em at FTC on Haight.