The High Definite

Thanks, BP.  Click to enlarge.

RIP Walks on the Beach, Sail Boats, Spear Fishing, etc.

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Career In Photos

R.I.P

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Debuted at MoMA yesterday during the Tribeca Film Festival.

From Nowness:

“Basquiat produced thousands of artworks in his short life, dashing off his poetry-infused canvases at a hair-raising pace, but footage of the artist himself has been hard to come by since his death in 1988. Director Tamra Davis, who met and befriended Basquiat when he visited LA to exhibit at the Gagosian gallery in 1983, was one of few to document the artist during his lifetime. Profoundly affected by his death, Davis hid her reels for two decades. But in 2005, prompted by a friend working on MOCA’s Basquiat retrospective of that year, Davis returned to her 80s footage to create a short, 20-minute tribute to the artist. “ The film documents Basquiat’s transformation from slouching street kid into international art world darling,  accompanied by graphic animations by artist Shepard Fairey and a soundtrack from Beastie Boys Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond and Manhattan-based composer J. Ralph.”

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From his Shade 45 Showoff Radio Show:

i know alot of DJs have been doing Guru tributes… which is dope, but this is 2 hours of music… from 1988, thru his history including Jazzmattazz Vol 1-3, to the end of the Gangstarr days. I covered what i feel was truly Gurus greatest work. this includes unreleased music, the b-sides, remixes, etc.

i also had Big Shug, Doo-Wop, Freddie Foxx, Consequence, and Chubby Chub call in and leave some Guru Memories….

he was an icon to me, as well as a friend, and i definitely wouldn’t be who i am without the presence of Gangstarr’s music in my life growing up. Shout out to the Gangstarr/Year Round crew for always being real people as well…. through the trials and tribulations. Rest In Peace G…

Just got listening to it and it’s dope. Click the picture to download the mix.

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Keith Elam, aka Guru (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal), died at the age of 43 last night, succumbing to his coma and bout with cancer.  Guru was a hip-hop icon and a founding member of the legendary rap duo Gang Starr.

Rest in power.

“…everyone must meet their Moment Of Truth.”

15 years ago, Timothy McVeigh set off a fuel & fertilizer-laden truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people in the most destructive act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States and what most people would call a serious dick move.  The Denver Post’s “Captured” focuses on the terrible tragedy today.  Click the picture to see all of them.

LIFE continues their release of never-published photos with a set from the day Albert Einstein died.

Albert Einstein, the genius physicist whose theories changed our ideas of how the universe works, died 55 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to open doors and loosen tongues — Morse compiled a quietly intense record of an icon’s passing. But aside from one now-famous image (above), the pictures Morse took that day were never published. At the request of Einstein’s son, who asked that the family’s privacy be respected while they mourned, LIFE decided not to run the full story, and for 55 years Morse’s photographs lay unseen and forgotten.

Full set here | Previously: MLK, McQueen

The previously titled “Dilla Joints” mixtape features the mighty Roots crew paying homage to the late, great J Dilla with their rendition of some of his classic tracks.

Listen to the whole thing streaming after the jump.

Thanks to Steve from LLU for the tip.

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