The Whole Delivery

Note: This was originally suppose to be a piece for Jacobin, but strangely after they showed interest in it, they didn't want. It was originally a response to The New Republic's mostly dreadful mix of opinions from "notable" media center-liberals on the Democratic primary, specifically the expected asinine views on Bernie Sanders.  Now, it's also a response to good colleague & friend Terrell Starr's diligent piece in Fusion, where he feels again that Bernie Sanders didn't do enough for black people in this election. I firmly feel that even if Sanders had started campaigning back in 2014 and exclusively in black areas that it would not have made any significant difference. The media blackout on him along with this always being Hillary's time on the Democratic side, since the 2008 primary ended, was always going to make this a nearly impossible task for a 74-year-old not known in mainstream black circles. Just like every other race in Americ...

As always, Viewer Discretion is Advised, especially if you aren't black or haven't grown up in an American hood.  For the first of the Flashback Friday video choices this week, we take it back 10 yrs ago at this time with the start & peak of Yung Joc's career before the total irrelevance that it has fully become. It's of course time to get your Motorcycle Lean on, with "It's Goin' Down," your first of two Flashback Friday throwbacks. This is The Whole Delivery. 

And the second Flashback Friday on this 149th B-day for my Canadian connects, it's the original Toronto most famous rapper. From all the way back in 2001, it's Kardinal Offishall's T.Dot banger, "BaKardi Slang." This is The Whole Delivery.

For my Canadian connects on their Happy Canada Day, will have a few Flashbacks from standout Canadian artists not named Aubrey Graham. The first being from the one and only Nelly Furtado, at peak of popularity 10 years ago with this classic off her Timbaland backed album "Loose." She had many hits on that album, with this one being the biggest and her best song of her career after "Fly Like a Bird." It's "Say It Right", your first Flashback Friday choice this week, especially for my Canadian connects. ‪ This is The Whole Delivery.

With news of her possibly having her first child, only fitting that another Flashback Friday celebrates Janet Jackson and in particular, her "All For You" terrific release from 15 years ago. For many, her best album in the 2000s and arguably the top single that she has had in the 21st century. She, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis really produced a wonderful track and showed how her creative force was vastly underrated. It was the biggest hit of a big year in music in 2001, and although she hasn't produced a song as big since, it certified her career greatness. Today's Flashback Friday choice, it's Janet Jackson with "All For You." This is The Whole Delivery. 

Right in time for Mother's Day, and with Afeni Shakur gone up above with her son this week, a fitting Flashback Friday is in store for 2Pac's "Dear Mama" from 1995. Truly fitting and deserving of this honor. More to come at The Whole Delivery, stay tuned. 

With each passing day now in this unexpectedly engaging primary season on the Democratic side, someone on the “centrist left” will find a novel, silly thing to be angry at Bernie Sanders or his supporters with. And one that has now come fully to the surface has been the painting by a constant set of black journalist Sanders critics of the Vermont Senator being a regional elitist and, worse, a passive racist for saying why he felt Hillary Clinton dominated him in Southern states in the Democratic presidential primary. Although this latest over outrage has flamed up over the last week, this whole incongruous narrative of claiming Sanders is disrespecting the South actually started way back on the night he was trounced in the South Carolina primary in February. As he was giving a speech at his Minnesota rally ahead of that state’s causes there, Sanders complimented the crowd who uttered his now synonymous $27 average campaign donation phrase.   “There’s no way we are g...