EPISODE 45: Eric, Jeff and Jensen go sans-guest this week and take listener questions… again! Next weeks, back to the guests.
HypeMen (@itsthereal x @jensenclan88) Podcast Episode 45: The Q& A Part 2
According to a new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers, led by Gunther Meinlschmidt, PhD, may have found a connection between the brain chemical oxytocin and postpartum depression.
Postpartum depression affects close to one in five women and can create bonding issues with a newborn child. It can also cause suicidal thoughts, and is a leading cause of maternal death in the UK. It affects up to 19 percent of mothers and can adversely affect the mental development of a child.
Oxytocin, also known as the ‘love hormone’ or ‘feel good chemical’ is released during human contact. It is also connected to uterine contraction during delivery and the letdown reflex which occurs during breastfeeding.
In the study, researchers measured the blood levels of oxytocin in 73 women during their third trimester of pregnancy. Their blood levels varied from 14.4 to 245.7 picograms per milliliter. The women were given written screenings, both during pregnancy, as well as two weeks after giving birth, to determine their risk of depression. Of the women, 14 went on to develop postpartum depression, and these women also showed the lower level of oxytocin.
While this is just a preliminary study, researchers plan to further explore the possible connection between oxytocin and postpartum depression, as they believe it is one of several factors. They need to determine if the low levels are a (more…)
A few weeks ago I caught up with M1 from dead prez to discuss the
case of Assata Shakur. We did the quick interview on Crenshaw Boulevard
in LA while he had a break from filming “Broken Rhyme,”
a film set to come out where he is the starring character.
For those that don’t know, dead prez is one
of the most political groups on the nationwide radar of hip hop.
They say their music is a cross between “NWA and P.E.”
If you aren’t up on them, you need to be, so go to your nearest
record store and grab all of their works if you enjoy music that
has a message.
But unlike most political artists, M1 is not all
talk. He participates in revolutionary community campaigns that
better the community from coast to coast, with nationwide organizations
like the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, in which he is the Minister
of Culture. Check out what he has to say about our beloved Black
Panther freedom fighter Assata Shakur …
JR: Who is Assata Shakur?
M1: Assata Shakur is a member of our Black Liberation Movement, in particular
she became a member of revolutionary organizations from her involvement
in New York City with many organizations that were the ground organizations,
from the Black United Front all the way up to the Black Panther
Party, which is ultimately where she did the bulk of her political
work in New York City. She outlasted the Panther 21 Trial, where (more…)
Gee Roberson — co-CEO of Hip-Hop Since 1978, the management firm that handles Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj and others — has been named chairman of Geffen Records, a move that Billboard.Biz reported was in the works last week. He will report to Interscope Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine.
Based in New York, Roberson will oversee the creative direction and operations of Geffen Records, with a special focus on discovering and nurturing new artists. He will also be charged with expanding the reach of the label into numerous areas, including digital direct-to-consumer, merchandising, touring and management, according to a press release.
“Gee has a unique combination of talents that the music industry really needs running a record company today,” Iovine said in a statement.
Roberson began his music industry career under the tutelage of Jay-Z at Roc-A-Fella Records, where he rose to senior VP of A&R. He later moved to Atlantic Records as senior VP of A&R, heading up the label’s urban music division.
It was unclear at press time whether Roberson will continue in his role at Hip Hop since 1978.
Los Angeles-bred rapper Glasses Malone has exclusively announced to XXL that he will be lobbying the California State Legislature in the coming weeks for prisoners’ rights.
After watching his mother go in out of jail and recently die after being convicted of drug distribution and sentenced to twenty years at Dublin Federal Prison for women, the topic hits home for Malone.
“She was on a 20-year sentence for drugs in federal prison and died like on some health issues and it looks like it was a malpractice,” says Glasses when speaking of his mother’s death.
According to the West Coast rhyme-slinger, his mother died four years into her sentence, a death that could have been prevented. “The next day, a lot of the inmates rioted,” says GM. “It was a women’s prison, and a lot of the inmates rioted because they felt that she was [treated] unjust. People were getting out of prison and they were contacting me saying like, ‘Man, ya moms, they did ya moms kinda wrong when she died. They coulda did something about it.’”
Watching his mother pass almost two years ago (October 2009), the Cash Money artist is now on a mission to speak up and acquire rights for those currently incarcerated in the California prison system. The L.A. lyricist has teamed up (more…)
IAmNotADictionary Phrase Of The Day: Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s and the moon’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun, at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the summer solstice is an instant in time, the term is also colloquially used like Midsummer to refer to the day on which it occurs. Except in the polar regions (where daylight is continuous for many months), the day on which the summer solstice occurs is the day of the year with the longest period of daylight. The summer solstice occurs in June in the Northern Hemisphere north of the Tropic of Cancer (23°26′N) and in December in the Southern Hemisphere south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23°26′S. The Sun reaches its highest position in the sky on the day of the summer solstice. However, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the highest sun position does not occur at the summer solstice, since the sun reaches the zenith here and it does so at different times of the year depending on the latitude of the observer. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs some time between December 21 and December 22 each year in the Southern Hemisphere, and between June 20 and June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere.
Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied among cultures, but most have held a recognition of sign of the fertility, involving holidays, festivals, gatherings, rituals or other celebrations around that time.
The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still)
In California, ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger destroys his family by revealing that he had a love child with the housekeeper. In New York City, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is arrested for an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid. In Washington, D.C., Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich runs up a six-figure bill at Tiffany & Co. buying bling for his third wife, who also happens to be his former mistress.
Sounds like the lineup for an episode of The Jerry Springer Show! Has the time finally come for social scientists who blame the so-called culture of poverty for the lowly status of the black underclass to start focusing on the equally pathological culture of the wealthy, powerful — and, not coincidently, virtually all-white elite? Will conservative white politicians like Gingrich finally stop lecturing the black poor about their “bad habits” and start cleaning up their own acts?
If only it were so.
I’m not arguing that the self-destructive conduct of many of the black poor isn’t one of the major causes of their problems. Only a fool would assert such a ridiculous idea.
But as these incidents torn from this week’s headlines make clear, while the sort of self-destructive, irresponsible and slothful attitudes and behaviors that we impute to the poor souls stuck at the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder are also common at its pinnacle, we treat those at the top very differently.
For one thing, society does not tend to judge all rich white people by the standard of, say, Bernie Madoff or Paris Hilton. Their failings are seen as flaws resulting from their individual characters, not as manifestations of the inherent characteristics of members of their entire class. The black poor, on the other hand, are routinely subjected to blanket (more…)
Dosage’s new song titled “Hades” Directed by Shaina N. Cain
Dosage – Hades Prod. By Wes ManChild
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Drake – Trust Issues
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The Weeknd – The Birds Pt 1
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Wale- I’m On One (Freestyle)
J. Cole – Cheer Up
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Curren$y – 3 Wishes (Prod. By Sarom) < <--If
only that could've happened
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K-Boy – Malcolm X Feat. Kendrick Lamar
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UGK – Grippin Feat B.I.G. Krit
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Speech written by Mumia Abu-Jamal for a conference titled PRISONMENT OF A RACE
The conference was held at Princeton University on March 25th
Dear Friends, Activists, Scholars and Colleagues: On A Move!
Thank you for your invitation to join you and to participate in this conference. It is an honor to share these brief moments with you – a nod and a salute to your panelists, many of whom I know and admire.
Your topic, is, to say the least, a daunting one, for the sheer numbers are breathtaking, especially when you consider its familial, social, communal and political impacts. I dare say, for those among you who are African-American, no matter your class or income, you won’t have to think very long to recall a nephew – and far too often a niece – (not to mention a son or daughter!), who, if not presently a prisoner, is then an ex-prisoner of some country, state or federal system.
That speaks to the ubiquity of the problem, of the vast numbers of men, women and juveniles who populate the prison industrial complex here in America. As many of you know, the U.S., with barely 5% of the world’s population, imprisons 25% of the world’s prisoners. As Michelle Alexander (whom many of you will hear from in this conference’s evening program) has noted, the numbers of imprisoned Blacks here rivals and exceeds South Africa’s hated apartheid system during its height.
We shouldn’t take this analogy lightly, for the South African apartheid was the epitome of the racist police state, second only to Nazi Germany in its repellent nature. Moreover, much of its energy was consumed in a de facto war (or, at the very least, in military-espionage jargon, a low-intensity conflict) with the Black majority that criminalized almost every feature of African independent life, restricting places to live, work, study and even love.
This speaks to how blind we are in this country to the scope of the problem (much less its resolution), and how it has (more…)
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