from THURSDAY's show

This is another one of the videos featured on our show, PIRATE RADIO TV, last Thursday. This one is from the group, HORSESHOE GANG, and they are from Long Beach, California. Hope yall enjoy it, wish HIP-HOP had some more lyrical shit like this.


check out PIRATE RADIO TV every THURSDAY, 11PM, CH 56 IN MANHATTAN, NYC OR U CAN CATCH IT ON A LIVE STREEM @ MNN.ORG, JUST FIND PIRATE RADIO TV ON THE HOME PAGE

INSTRUMENTAL OF THE DAY

Check out KING LYKEN's instrumental project, worth a listen
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/man-down-ent-king-lyken-dinner-time

from LAST NIGHTS show....

Thanks to everyone who watched last night's show, the whole episode will re-run next THURDAY @ it's normal time (THURSDAY, 11PM, CH 56 IN MANHATTAN, NYC OR U CAN CATCH IT ON A LIVE STREEM @ MNN.ORG, JUST FIND PIRATE RADIO TV ON THE HOME PAGE). This is a freestyle by AC, an MC out of STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK. Special thanks to Rashid Sani management, END OF ERA prod, producer J GLAZE and UNDERGROUNDHIPHOP.COM, who this footage was taken by.

CHECK OUT AC ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/AConDemand

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Happy Friday all my peoples, here are some bangers for your cipher's.
I downloaded these beats off a site called Mixtapetorrent.com, big up's to them. Most of these beats are pretty fire, dude from DETROIT really doing his thing on this one, def worth the download.
CLICK ON LINK 2 DOWNLOAD
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/charlie-brown-beats

GRAFF OF THE DAY

Graff by: ASTRO
From: France

Convicts and unemployment...an AOL article

Out of Prison, Out of a Job, Out of Luck

Check out this article I found on AOL, courtesy of CNN

Ex-convicts are 'at the back of the line' in their struggle to find work during the recession. It's a burden Gregory Headley feels all too well.
By Aaron Smith

If you think it's tough getting a job during a recession, imagine what it's like for an ex-convict.Gregory Headley, 29, knows exactly what it's like. The Harlem resident was released from prison in July after serving two years and eight months for the criminal sale of a firearm. Now that he's out, he said, the conviction is dogging his attempts to land a full-time job."There's no nice way of saying, 'I sold a gun,' " Headley said recently as he headed to his part-time job cleaning sidewalks.
Headley was placed in the temporary, minimum-wage job by the Center for Employment Opportunities, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan that helps ex-convicts transition into law-abiding lifestyles

"I'm not going to lie: $40 a day hurts," said Headley, feeling the squeeze of the $28,000 in child support debt that he accumulated in prison. "But what I need to do is stay on the path I'm on, try to get used to the struggle instead of trying to beat the odds."Terrence Mason, assistant director of participant services at the employment center, described Headley as a "good guy" and a "go-getter." But he acknowledged that many employers will look no further than his rap sheet. "His conviction is a tough sell to employers," said Mason.
At the back of the lineFor everyone right now, the job market is tough. The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 10.2% in October, its highest level in more than 26 years, according to the Labor Department. Nationwide, 15.7 million people are out of work.That is really bad news for the hundreds of thousands of ex-convicts who are released from prison every year."They're always at the back of the line, and the line just got a lot longer," said Glenn Martin, vice president of the Fortune Society in Queens, a nonprofit that trains ex-convicts in job hunting skills. "On top of that, our folks are losing jobs just like anyone else, but it's more difficult to replace those jobs, because of the stigma of criminal conviction. Our folks can't get through the door these days."In the most recent available figures from the U.S. Department of Justice, 713,473 prisoners were released from incarceration in 2006. There are no nationwide numbers reflecting unemployment rates among ex-convicts.
But up to 60% of the formerly incarcerated in New York state are unemployed after one year of their release, according to a study from the Independent Committee on Reentry and Employment, of which Martin is a member. The number is even higher for parole violators, at 89%.
The temptations of the street can be overwhelming during a recession, said Martin, who was released from prison in 2000 after a six-year sentence for armed robbery. He said that his first post-prison job paid $16,000 a year, which paled compared to his ill-gotten gains.
"I used to make $16,000 a day when I was on the street," Martin said. "I used to rob jewelry stores for a living. Obviously, it would have been a lot easier for me to go back to the street to do what I was doing. But the idea is to move away from instant gratification."
Michael B. Jackson, an ex-convict and author of "How to Do Good After Prison: A Handbook for Successful Reentry," said the risks of recidivism during a recession cannot be overstated.
"Formerly incarcerated people and drug addicts, we don't need a lot of excuse to go back to what we were doing before," he said. "In these hard times, when ex-offenders can't get jobs ... they're going to be robbing people."
The conviction question
During a two-week job-hunting class at the Fortune Society in Queens, employment specialist Mitchell McClinton grilled 19 ex-convicts in a series of mock interviews. After coaching his students on how to present themselves, market their job skills and answer the dreaded "conviction question," he posed as an employer and put them in the hot seat.
"I noticed that you checked 'yes' on the conviction," he said to one of the ex-convicts. "Explain."
"Basically, I learned from the mistakes of my past, [that they] jeopardize my present and my future," replied the interviewee.
McClinton moved on to the next ex-convict, but she mumbled through the interview and wouldn't speak up until he threatened to skip over her. When she finally opened her mouth to speak, McClinton saw something he didn't like.
"Is that a tongue ring in your mouth?" he said. "You can't wear a tongue ring to an interview."
Many of the ex-convicts are seeking cleaning jobs, based on the skills they outlined in the interviews, and some of them are working towards their high school equivalency degrees.
Headley, during his citywide clean-up rounds, said his heart is set on college and eventually an office job at the Center for Employment Opportunities, where he could help other ex-convicts transition into the job market.
But for the short term, he said he's gratified to be a sidewalk sweeper.
"I'll take making minimum wage any day over prison or death," said Headley. "Now I can walk the streets more freely, without having to watch my back. Now, I consider myself a productive member of society. I'm not contributing to the city's downfall."

10 Hip-Hop Album Cover Cliches

http://www.streetlevel.com/2009/11/03/10-hip-hop-album-cover-cliches/

Meet 73-Year-Old John Scott -- L.A.'s Oldest Graffiti Artist

Meet 73-Year-Old John Scott -- L.A.'s Oldest Graffiti Artist

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Whats crackin Pirate Radio Tv nation, it's ur boy, ADRUG, and I got some new instrumentals for ya. Part 3 in FRONTIER's "INSTRUMIXTAPE" series, I truly believe that based of these instrumental projects that this young producer out of BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, will be a force on the Hip-Hop scene for years to come.

DOWNLOAD HEARING IN KOLOR 3 BY CLICKING LINK BELOW

http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/frontier-hearing-kolor-3

GRAFF OF THE DAY

By: INSAY

From: Lille, France

thanks 2: FATCAP.COM

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Happy Friday to all my people around the world, hope you kick your weekend off right. I got some new, original beats for all the HIP-HOP heads out there.

CLICK ON LINK 2 DOWNLOAD

http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/instrumentals-to-greatness-authored-by-marion-write

GRAFF OF THE DAY...TOYS!!!

Usually we have pieces or tags when we display our GRAFF pics of the day, but today, I have some exclusive hottness for ur collective bitchasses. For all the adults who ain't grow up yet, and for all the kids who buy things like adults, we have some new some new toys to show u that are def worth a look.

"Street artist and designer Mach505 from Truly Design presents his toy series called ‘Robocabs’ made of spraypaint nozzles and covers. The robots are painted with acrylic paint and are held together by glue and powerful magnets, which allow you to move arms and heads of the robots."

SHOUTS 2 FATCAP.COM

for always providing hot shit like this

VETERAN'S DAY....

I would like to take some time out to acknowledge all of the men and women (not just American soldiers, but every soldier) fighting in the various wars around the world. Now, we usaully only celebrate this day in commemeration of trained fighters serving and protecting our nation's interests, but I personnally dedicate yesterday to the families of these soldiers, as well as to all the men and women at home and abroad who are stuck in more localized wars and personal struggles, such as the war with them niggas down the block, the battle between you and them dick ass police who harass and arrest you any chance they can, and the never ending back and forth between you and your landlord. I hope everyone that reads and relates to the feelings conveyed in this post realizes that WE ALL ARE VETERANS of some war. Some people might think the person writing this has absolutley no life experience, that I am just taking out my ass and blogging some shit I have no idea about. To these people I say; One does not need to go to Iraq to be in a war, and if you knew the shit that I have been through and am going thru you (or, if you have ever been through anything similar) you might be a little more inclined to see where I am coming from. So my people, today, I ask you to thank not only the veterans off the often fought wars between nations, but to thank yourself and loved ones, regardless if you our your loved ones are or were formally millitary personel.

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Like always, we got some fire original beats for the up n coming MC and aficionado of crack instrumentals.

Just found these beats online this morning, hope yall fukss wit it.

100% sample free, original southern beats

DJ Smuv contact info
djsmuv@gmail.com678 499 7889

CLICK THE LINK 2 DOWNLOAD

http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/dj-smuv-fight-beats-vol-1

AD and GIO CASH on CHOBBILANDIA.COM pt2

Shouts 2 EL CHOBBI from CHOBBILANDIA.COM and my nig GIO CASH

check me out @http://www.myspace.com/adrug
holla @ GIO CASH: http://www.myspace.com/giocash212

GRAFF OF THE DAY

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

My dude DJ H2 put up some new fire on friday that I would like to share with the PIRATE RADIO TV faithfull. "FRACTURES" is an EP of 11 UNRELEASED Instrumentals by H2, hope yall like it. Even if u dont rap, one can still enjoy these inst if they enjoy good music.

CLICK ON LINK 2 DOWNLOAD

http://www.zshare.net/download/68091913e9b8912c/

GRAFF OF THE DAY

artist: FLOW

crew: TWE

from: FRANCE

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Got another dope instrumental/mixtape for my Hip-hop heads out there. Here is part 1 in the "instrumixtape" series of projects created by producer FRONTIER, out of Brooklyn, New York. I posted part 2 of HEARING IN KOLOR last week, sry for the messed up order. I fukz wit this.
CLICK ON LINK TO DOWNLOAD
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7DX83MME
contact FRONTIER @http://www.myspace.com/gepett0

INSTRUMENTALS OF THe DAY

Found these instrumentals online a couple of months ago, and Im still rocking to them. PIG PEN is an up-n-coming producer out of Lincoln Park, Michigan. He has already worked with many local acts, and is part of a group, WASTE MANAGEMENT. Hope yall enjoy.
CLICK ON LINK TO DOWNLOAD
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/pig-pen-best-of-2008


Like these beats, CHECK PIG PEN OUT @ HIS MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/pigpen313

INSTRUMENTALS OF THE DAY

Whats crackalating, this is ADRUG,and I have some new instrumentals for ya.
DJ DVIOUS MINDZ -Painkillers For A Broken Heart (an instrumental E.P) is def worth a listen, esp if ur an up-n-coming MC.
MORE DVIOUS MINDZ INSTRUMENTALS IN THE NEAR FUTURE, SO STAY TUNED
CLICK ON LINK TO DOWNLOAD
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/dviousmindz-painkillers-for-a-broken-heart-ep

the DJ H2 interview

DJ H2 (aka HALO SQUARED) is a Hip-Hop producer/Dj. Coming from Harlem, NYC, he has done a slew of remix projects, produced for up and coming Hip-Hop Artists,(such as my dude SCIRYL, KESED and others), and overall offers a new, unique take on Hip-Hop production. Here is our interview with dude (from early summer, 09).
PEEP IT



CHECK OUT DJ H2@
http://www.myspace.com/djh2

Mc/Producer DEE BLAZE

My nig DEE BLAZE been poppin up on some mixtapes recently, and he been going hard with production as always. Here are some mixtapes I found him on.
PEEP IT

Download Mixtape | Provided by DatPiff.com

Download Mixtape | Provided by DatPiff.com

Special shout to: T WATERS LARGE AMOUNT KING TUH DROOP POP VER$E D-BLOCK GANGSTA CLICK

big ups to UFC light heavyweight JON "BONES" JONES

Now usually we don't have MMA videos on this blog, but today I feel compelled to post some shit.Recently, my dude A.Wallace befriended UFC rising star JON "BONES" JONES, who is cool as shit. Besides this, he is an awesome, well rounded fighter. Any body in his division better watch they ass.
WATCH THIS SHIT