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Jay Smooth: No Accounting for Taste

July 28, 2023October 18, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

Here is another brilliant video blog post by Jay! In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a fan. 🙂 ill Doctrine is a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad.

Jay Smooth: Michael Jackson – Dance You Into The Sunlight

July 28, 2023August 15, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

I haven’t posted in a while. Been really busy with work and various and sundry things. I haven’t said anything here about the death and life of Michael Jackson. I’ve had a lot of thoughts and a lot of frustrations about the media hype. Then today I finally had a chance to listen to Jay …

Jay Smooth on ‘All Things Considered’

July 28, 2023July 7, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

I’ve posted here before about Jay Smooth and his great video blog (aka vlog) ill Doctrine. I was delighted to find out that he was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered on June 29th. I missed hearing it on the broadcast but Jay has a link to it on his site Jay Smooth: On Hip-Hop, …

Jay Smooth: Asher Roth and the Racial Crossroads

July 28, 2023May 13, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine wrote: A commentary that was supposed to be about Asher Roth but turned into an extended tangent about race in America. Watch and listen to “Asher Roth and the Racial Crossroads“by Jay Smooth, May 8, 2009 Excellent again Jay. Thank you.

The inauguration of Barack Obama

July 28, 2023January 20, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

Hi everyone. I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been really busy and also dealing with some health things. (No seizures thank goodness.) I wanted to post something for this amazing day, and I watched this video and thought Jay Smooth. Here it is – be sure to watch it to the end! Why I’m …

Jay Smooth: Machine Guns And Stupid Choices

July 28, 2023September 11, 2008 by Gabi Clayton

Please listen to Jay Smooth’s October 2007 commentary on rapper TI’s arrest on federal gun charges right before he was scheduled to appear at the BET Hip Hop Awards where he had been nominated for nine awards. Click To Play Jay goes way beyond acknowledging that if T.I. was guilty of those charges (which he …

Jay Smooth: The Republican Hater’s Ball

July 28, 2023September 5, 2008 by Gabi Clayton

Published September 4, 2008 on ill Doctrine, a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad.

“Yes We Can” – The George Carlin Remix – by Jay Smooth

July 28, 2023August 23, 2008 by Gabi Clayton

Thank you Jay for this excellent homage to the great George Carlin and his commentary on censorship and growing old: For the great one. One of the biggest influences on my understanding of everything, and his legendary “7 dirty words” court case happened at the radio station where I’ve spent half my life. One of …

Wow! Jay Smooth: How To Tell People They Sound Racist

July 28, 2023August 15, 2008 by Gabi Clayton

Please watch How To Tell People They Sound Racist – a brilliant July 21, 2008 podcast by Jay Smooth, host of WBAI’s Underground Railroad in New York City. He is a blogger at hiphopmusic.com and the creator of the video podcast ill Doctrine. Thanks to Bil Browning at The Bilerico Project for posting it there. …