response to Derrick Ashong, Holly Stevenson, Adam Leith Gollner, and Aaron Dana's post Derrick Ashong on Music
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Commented on March 22, 2007 by - Derrick Ashong
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Derrick Ashong works at Weapons of Mass Entertainment in Hollywood.
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I'm a musician and social entrepreneur committed to using the power of popular culture to empower youth around the world. I am the resident "Intellectual Hitman" at Weapons of Mass Entertainment - a media venture launched by multiplatinum pop legend Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics - where my job is to start hot companies. I am also executive producer of the Sweet Mother Tour: an upcoming global Hip Hop competition and reality TV series, exploring youth culture around the world as we search for a new "Voice of the Streets." I was born in Ghana, W. Africa (Happy 50th Birthday!) and raised in Brooklyn & The Middle East (long story). I did a couple of stints at a little school in Cambridge, MA and used to act before I came to my senses and got a real job as a professional musician. You can see me on the silver screen in Steven Spielberg's Amistad. You can track my latest adventures via Google. And you can hear me own sweet tunes at www.myspace.com/soulfege . Fight the power, have fun doing it, and hug me when you see me. One love, D.N.A
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Contributors: Derrick Ashong, Holly Stevenson, Adam Leith Gollner, and Aaron Dana
003: Media Issue - Feb 15 2007
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Hi y'all. Thanks for the comments! Here are some thoughts in response:
-Jennifer: there definitely is a blurring of the lines between corporate & countercultural these days. Corporations are actively trying to market "counterculture" which is kind of hilarious when you think about it...but is nothing new when you look back to the 60s & 70s. I think artists need to be smart about both their creative & commercial endeavours or we will just be singing into the wind. If you can make good music & make money I say go for it!
-Audbot: HA, ha, thanks for the shout-out! Here's a link to Soulfege & some of our videos.
-Jai: Word life. And that change is speaking to us in a thousand different languages across the globe...
-Robbie: Thanks, glad you dug the line. But I think you slightly misread. "I" wrote that line about how US Hip Hop is impacting my peers back home in W. AFrica. That track features some phenomenal artists and will drop this Fall along w/ a series of collabs from MCs overseas and some heads you know from over here. Stay tuned for the science on that project...
-Felafe: Welcome aboard! If you want to get down w/ our movement to change pop-culture check out the Sweet Mother Tour. It's a collab between cats in US, AFrica, Caribbean & Europe to flip the script on how the media depicts global youth culture.
-Rufanna: New sounds, new sights, new flavas all around. WME & Greenpeace have just launched a new project to amplify the voices of powerful artists who are putting a new spirit into that "Shift." Peep the [http://www.weaponsofme.com]announcement[/url].
That's all for now. Stay up and stay strong folks. We are just gettin' started...
Peace & AFrobeats,
D.N.A