Once, Mikey and Kendell’s friends boasted they’d never get in trouble and never sell drugs, but by age 15 half of them have done just that. In this beautifully shot and intimate documentary, Oscar-nominated director Hubert Davis reaches beyond his own story-so eloquently captured in Hardwood-to follow two charismatic Regent Park boys as they make the transition from youth to manhood. Each runs into trouble with police, the courts, and school authorities despite having mothers whose love is palpable and Morgan’s heroic attempt at mentoring. With none of the privileges of wealth and all of the prejudices of poverty, with absent fathers, a landscape of half-demolished buildings, vacant lots and systemic racism stacked against them, the boys struggle to turn their lives around.
From Academy Award nominated (for Hardwood) Canadian filmmaker Hubert Davis.
There’s unconfirmed reports that this’ll make it to television next month; I’ll keep you posted.
Hopefully docs like this get us thinking more critically about where we live and the social circumstances of those around us.
This is the jump off video of a series of videos 9th Uno will be dropping in 2010. For those who’ve been sleeping, we’re gonna take you back a little bit. New videos, new music coming soon. It’s about to get majour…STAY TUNED!!!
hyperadmin | Video | Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
New video for JB’s latest joint featuring Sean Jones (formerly of In Essence). Shouts to Cazhmere for another great job. Video looks cleeeeean. Nah, that ain’t Miami trick. Cameos by Famous, the man dem and some hot girls.
hyperadmin | Video | Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Some new music/visuals courtesy of URBNET Records. This is my first time hearing of dude and if it’s the same for you just check out more info below or peep his site: www.urbnet.com/religion.
REL!G!ON grew up in Ottawa listening to his father sing badly. His father would also play the organ but it wasn’t his dad’s playing that fascinated him, it was the organ itself. What followed was a decade’s worth of guitar lessons, recitals and basement band jams with his teen rock group “Ardvark” which consisted of a lead singer, guitarist, bassist and a drummer who practiced on pillows. However, Ardvark was dead on arrival considering no one in the group knew how to play their instrument. The band folded and for REL!G!ON it was time to re evaluate his career options. He began skimming through his father’s old record collection and sampled records using an old Casio SK 1 keyboard with only two seconds of sample time. He would make beats and then write diss tracks about his high school classmates and play them for his friends at the school radio station over loud speakers. He grew tired of diss raps over cheap sounding beats and wanted to sound more like his early influences (Marley Marl, DJ Premier). It was time for the next step which involved a producing partner who thought he was a vampire, an idiotic insurance scam and a rasta who stole their equipment. Somehow in the end they were left with a professional ASR-10 sampling keyboard and for REL!G!ON it was like winning the lottery. (more…)
