Digital Negro Absolver

DNA clears Fla. man after 35 years behind bars

He is longest-serving prisoner exonerated by genetic tests, attorneys say



BARTOW, Fla. - James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and raping him in a nearby field.

Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the rapist.
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Are WE the only ones who go thru this bullshit? What is my man James (Uncle Ben, is that you?) supposed to do now? Just walk that shit off?

Thank GOD for DNA.

Time Says The Chef Is Top 10 in '09

7.(Out of 10) Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt 2 by Raekwon





By JOSH TYRANGIEL
"The sequel to Raekwon's much loved 1995 solo debut picks up as if no time has passed. He's still rhyming about cocaine deals, hustlers and urban menace — which makes for an elevated degree of difficulty, since a song about the production of crack ("Pyrex Vision") should be not only impotent in 2009, but deservedly so. The reason it works, like all of Cuban Linx, Pt 2, is that Raekwon is a poet of grime, a storyteller who understands that rap is less about an easy hook than the collision of carefully chosen words. He's also a melancholic who prefers replaying the circumstances of growing up in hell ("All my life around drug niggas, villains who want millions/ Niggas with them hoodies on with Teks in the building") to celebrating the trappings of success. With production from nearly every top name in hip-hop, it's a spooky and sad monograph — not lovable, but quite powerful."



I don't give a damn if you agree or not- Rae' delivered. Although I'm a bit skeptical of my boy Josh's list because there's no mention of Deeper Than Rap or BP3. Yeah I said Deeper Than Rap- you hip-hop snobs. But I guess they only had room for ONE "rap" album huh? SMH.

Foreign Exchange Gets Noticed

Congrats to Phonte and Nicolay- well deserved recognition. Even though the album didn't change my life like my man at Black Star (Harlem!) said, Daykeeper is dope and the album does have a consistent, cohesive sound and direction to it. Note to other rappers next time you go in the studio to make an album (50, you listenin'?).



Now can we please get another Little Brother album?