<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/973f5898-d21c-4893-b1bb-3b4008740ece/990F119B-AEFB-45FA-AB18-CFE0EC0EA8B8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://flickr.com/photos/kenstein/132600641/" href="http://flickr.com/photos/kenstein/132600641/" style="font-size: 11px;">flickr.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://flickr.com/photos/kenstein/132600641/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="502" id="photoswftd"><H1 id="title_div132600641">fast forward mecca</H1> <NOSCRIPT> <DIV>To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and<BR /><DIV><A href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player</A>.</DIV> </DIV></NOSCRIPT> <DIV id="button_bar"><IMG width="49" height="24" border="0" alt="" class="photo_gne_button" id="photo_gne_button_zoom" src="http://flickr.com/images/zoom_grey.gif" /></DIV> <DIV class="photo_notes" id="photo_notes"><DIV id="notes_text_div"></DIV> </DIV><DIV id="comm_div"></DIV><DIV id="rotate_div"></DIV><DIV id="shadow_div"></DIV><DIV class="photoImgDiv" id="photoImgDiv132600641"><IMG width="500" height="396" class="reflect" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/52/132600641_f17451231b.jpg?v=0" /></DIV> <FORM method="post" id="fave_form"><INPUT type="hidden" value="0" name="magic_cookie" /><INPUT type="hidden" value="0" name="faveadd" /><INPUT type="hidden" value="0" name="faveremove" /></FORM> <DIV id="About"> <DIV class="photoDescription" id="description_div132600641"><DIV>Mecca was one of favorite students at Pacific High School. Gifted and talented in math, logic, art, graphics, mechanics, basketball and rap, she was equally defiant towards the status-quo and made her thoughts known often.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> At what seemed like the height of 'gangsta rap', Mecca blew the competition away at a school rap contest. Words flowed from her like Victoria Falls.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> After she graduated I brought her into Black Betty and The Stinger Club in Williamsburg for open mic/free style nights. Soon she left for Atlanta burgeoning music scene.</DIV> So it was to my surprise last night when I went to see her preform with <A href="http://www.slackrep.com">her band</A> and got a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-7_Spyz">24-7 Spyz</A>/<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains">Bad Brains</A> flashback from the girl who turned me onto <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_Def">Mos Def</A>. </DIV> <DIV id="DiscussPhoto"> </DIV> <H3>Would you like to comment?</H3> <P><A href="http://flickr.com/signup/?redir=%2Fphotos%2Fkenstein%2F132600641%2F%26from_photos=1%26friend=14027144@N00">Sign up</A> for a free account, or <A title="Sign%20in%20to%20Flickr" href="http://flickr.com/signin/?cf=%2Fphotos%2Fkenstein%2F132600641%2F">sign in</A> (if you're already a member).</p> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/990F119B-AEFB-45FA-AB18-CFE0EC0EA8B8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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