I think the space suit stuff for Puffy and Mase was more of Uranus in Aquarius, which kicked in strong in 1997 and then Neptune in Aquarius, circa 1998. Both planets were playing off the Pluto/Sag energy.

My personal opinion of music is that what we hear on the radio and see on MTV is not the product of two turntables and a microphone. I have a CD set called “Brainwave Suite”. On a conscious level, each of the programs (”Insight and Intuition”, “Relaxation”, “Creativity and Awareness”) sound like random noises – birds chirping, wind through a screen door, a waterfall, etc. On a subconscious level, they work so well that no matter what state of mind you were in before listening, you can achieve a desired one with the CDs. I think all the music now is being manufactured by people who study that level of the science of sound. At whatever point music moved from the upper body to the lower one, the source of the music changed.

Black music (circa 2010) imparts a negative sexual energy. You feel the beat in your ass, your pelvis. It’s not a healthy, fruitful sexuality ala homegirl in your side bar but a contest of perversion, trysexuality, sex as sport. Also, a musician I know used to say Rap is being marketed to women now and R and B is being sold to men. Thats why its very few broke (imagewise) rappers and non sexually enticing RnB singers. You listen to a rap record now and feel like you have to find someone who sells MDMA to supply you the X pills you need to be dateable. You listen to a love song and feel like you need to buy a new car. When you think of the amount of money involved, yeah it makes sense that only the people with the playbook are allowed on the field.

I feel you on the NWA vs. PE thing. I hate West Coast Rap because of that ignorant jerri curl gangbanger nonsense just came out of nowhere and engulfed De La Soul, Brand Nubians, Nikki D and the other rap that was really cresting in NYC at that time. I hated that whole era and when the south took over rap and when the midwest did…there’s a theme here.

Astrologically, Puffy, Jay Z, the shiny silver spacesuits and excess belong to Pluto in Sag, no? I agree with you totally on Saturn in Libra heralding the return of the songwriter. Pluto in Cap does too, in my opinion. Capricorns love music and most are artists in some way. Maybe, hopefully, we’ll see a return to quality in music?

I think that Jay-Z is doing what most artists do at a very high level, and that’s sell out.

There was a time in the early nineties when PE was coming up and their peak was dovetailing with the rise of NWA who paraded around initially as simply reporting the horrors of Compton, which the mostly white music critics are up like sweet potato pie. It was gritty and real. I once flew on a plane with a journalist for Pacifica Radio who specialized in urban culture and hip hop and he told me that there was a conscious choice at the time to support NWA and their message over PE’s. It was a top down, industry based decision and MTV would help implement it. Thus there was a changing of the tide in the message of hip hop and you saw how the 90’s unfolded in a storm of violence, death, incarceration and addiction.

Jay Z and Diddy’s careers evolved out of this decision and direction.

I guess I’m biased and a West Coast guy when it comes to hip hop. I prefer the likes of Saul Williams, Carl Rux Hancock, Mike Ladd, Blackalicious, Mos Def and others. Intuitively, I never vibed with Jay-Z, but hey, I’m just an astrologer at heart.

But thanks for setting the record straight on York. This is what blogs and comments are for. Thanks for reading and caring enough to comment.

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Malachi York has done more to destroy the Black Community than possibly anyone else living, except for maybe Jerry Heller. He was preying on people who were mentally ill, TOTALLY disenfranchised and outcast from society. These people worked and gave him all their money, collected welfare and turned it over to him and signed over all of their worldly possessions. Then every time it got too hot, he hightailed it out of there and set up somewhere else, changed the sect’s name, their costumes and who they were praying to. Giving him credit for being at the center of the the rise in Black Consciousness at any time is like crediting Jim Jones with furthering Christianity.

At the time you are referencing (NYC 1985, 1987), Dr. Pork and his people were not Nuwaubians, they were Nubians, Israelites and Ansaars. These were the men selling incense and muslim oils in the train station who used to wear the flowing white robes and the women wearing face veils. This was not a mainstream thing and they were not reaching the young kids my age (approximately 11-17). The Five Percenters were. This is the height of the Eric B and Rakim, Brand Nubians, Big Daddy Kane era. The Five Percenter slang was hypnotic, the message (The Blackman is God, theBlackwoman is the Earth) was empowering and the livest dudes in every hood (who looked and dressed and could fight the best) were always the Gods.

My opinion is that JayZ was a Five Percenter and his man Jaz O was an Ansaar. Jaz was older than JayZ and a little past the rowdyness of the Five Percent energy. Even now I hear Jay using Five Percent slang and saying peace to the Gods in his raps. He might have fell off in some ways and started living the trife life but c’mon, leave Jay alone. Growing up he probably read all the classics: The Book of Will, Opening The Third Eye, The Iceman Inheritance (Liberalism = White Man’s Burden, Conservatism = Iceman Inheritance), The Isis Papers, etc. and decided to put what he learned to use. His music is motivation, and all about being the boss of your own life. What’s wrong with that?

Project Monarch/MK Ultra are terms that came up on my research into Lady Gaga and Beyonce. I’ll have to look them up more in depth to understand these projects.

These two ladies are way to similar lately. Gaga started off as an alter ego and Beyonce just came out with Sasha Fierce. Talk about split personalities right there. All of Beyonce’s recent video clips are SUPER hypnotic! It’s crazy to look at. On the Video phone video she is wearing a black and white costume. On her hip can be seen a mask split in two faces…You can also see a sun and moon symbol on her breasts…Gaga and Beyonce are pretty much going into the same line and they really look and act brainwashed/re-educated. Gaga makes a guest appearance on Beyonce’s “Video Phone” (the video suggests that it deals with surveillance) and Beyonce in turn made an appearance in Gaga’s “Telephone”. The lyrics of this song suggests that she cannot be reached…she is disconnected. All this is not coincidental.

I agree with what you said about Manson…I really wish him the best, but I worry for him. He’s smart though, and I think it was a good idea for him to expand his talents to other ventures (film, painting).

You don’t get to rise to the heights of hit maker in the music biz unless you play the game. It’s pure and simple, even more today. Back in the day, when people bought records and later, even CDs for a while, a record company could have a HUGE hit like “Thriller” which would fund some other projects and artists that were not on the hit list. Occasionally, like in the days of college radio and MTV, a band could break through on it’s own merit and talent. The Flaming Lips come to mind. But that’s not the case at all now, since those big projects don’t fund the smaller ones at all. Selling a million CDs these days is a very big deal, so there is intense application of marketing and manipulation of artists and audience alike.

There’s some research that’s gone on in this field. A lot of it deals with the 60’s, LSD, Project Monarch/MK Ultra. The Beatles it is claimed were a product of MI5 and Tavistock, through their association with EMI. I have some suspicions that the punk scene came out of Tavistock as well.

Manson is interesting. I read his autobiography many years ago and found him to be pretty fascinating. I think he’s trying to break free from the constraints of his own mythology and perhaps some of the dark energy that has surrounded him. I think Columbine really did a number on him.