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POH HOP 12 line Up Released
T
he line-up for this year’s POH HOP is
out. The 12th Portland Oregon Hip Hop
Festival – a four-day extravaganza of some
of the biggest and most-promising acts in
Northwest hip-hop — promises to be one of
the biggest and best.
Jan. 19 - The Someday lounge
Headliner: Speaker Minds feat. Diezel P
Animal Farm, Destro & L-Pro, Dubble
OO, Rose Bent, Pale Soul, Lyriseez, Dice,
Liquid Anthrax, AD, Starbuks, and Halfa
Hosted by Mr. DOG & DJ Fatboy
Jan. 20 - The Backspace (All Ages)
Headliner: Krizz Kaliko
JFK, Kenny Mack, Sapient, Maniac Lok,
Meezilini, Truth Universal, Tragedy,
PartyBoiNation.com, Eternal Family, Tone
G & Dami, Mack Dub, Endr Won, and
Stevo
Hosted by DJ Chill aka Chillest Illest
Jan. 21 - The Backspace (All Ages)
Headliner: Freeway & Jake One
Rapper Big Pooh of Little Brother, Tanya
Morgan, Illmaculate, Onry Ozzborn, Mikey
Vegaz, Al One, IAME, Yung Mil, Zito,
Easter Sunz, Beejan, Ad-Vice, and Teddy
LOKC
Hosted by Cool Nutz & DJ Fatboy
Jan 22nd-The Someday lounge
Headliner: Oldominion
Moka Only & REL!G!ON, Living Proof,
Raise The Bridges, Grynch, Serge Severe,
and Hives Inquiry Squad
Hosted by Luck One
page 6 The Portland and Seattle Skanner january 5, 2011
Simmons’ ‘Super Rich’ Is
About More Than Money
book review by kam
Williams, Special to The
Skanner News
“R
ather than any
state of material
abundance,
Super rich actually refers
to living in a state of con-
sciousness where you’re
able to see the miracles of
life unfolding in front of you
all the time it’s a state where
your connection to your
higher self is so strong that
you’ll be able to recognize
that there’s no difference
between being broke and
being a millionaire…
it’s a state where you’ll be
able to appreciate that your
entire experience as a
human being is blissful and
sublime. and as a result of
achieving this state, you’ll
understand that you don’t
need money or toys to be
happy.” -- Excerpted from chapter
One, “Redefining Rich” (pg. 5)
When a hip-hop mogul
writes a book with a catchy
title like “Super Rich: A
Guide to Having It All,” it’s
only reasonable to expect its
pages to be dripping with
advice about making a
mammoth fortune. It’s not
uncommon for famous
tycoons sitting at the top of
the economic food chain to
share their trade secrets in
similarly-titled tomes aimed
at ambitious folks who want
follow in their footsteps.
Just
consider
how
Captains of Industry rang-
ing from Donald Trump
(“How to Get Rich”) to T.
Boone Pickens (“The First
Billion Is the Hardest”) to
Sir
Richard
Branson
(“Business Stripped Bare”)
have previously published
such how-to texts. Yet, in
“Super Rich,” gazillionaire
Russell Simmons practical-
ly advocates the antithesis
of accumulating wealth for
wealth’s sake.
Instead, he redefines suc-
cess as not financial, but as
a combination of conscious-
ness and compassion, quali-
ties which one can cultivate
even if you don’t have two
nickels to rub together.
Consequently, some might
unfairly consider this spiri-
tually-oriented opus to be a
case of bait and switch,
especially if they still auto-
matically
associate
Simmons’ name with rap
music, a genre given to the
wanton celebration of
money and materialism.
But if you’re at all famil-
iar with the evolution of
Russell’s career, you are
well aware that he has long
since sincerely shed the
shells of accumulation and
conspicuous consumption
to walk the Earth in a man-
ner more harmonious with
nature and other living crea-
tures. A priceless life primer
stocked with the sage
insights of a reformed,
meat-eating,
substance-
abusing, bad-boy titan now
championing yoga, medita-
tion and vegetarianism as
the appropriate paths to ful-
fillment and to the satisfac-
tion of one’s every acquisi-
tive craving.
Super Rich by Russell
Simmons. Gotham Books.
Hardcover, $22.50; 208
pages.
ISBN 978-1-592-40587-9