June 1st is less than a week away, so you would not be remiss to expect Volume II of Radio Elite. While we put together and finalize the playlist for the second mixtape, we decided that it might be a good idea to provide an appetizer of sorts … musically and visually speaking, of course. This is just a short-list of 10 phenomenal music videos (in no particular order) that do a lot more than justice to the respective songs. Creative. A little quirky. Maybe even flat-out bizarre. But hey, who cares about adjectives, right?

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Dr. Cornell West matters. And yet he hardly gets airtime outside of what is conventionally labeled the “liberal media.” Listen to the man talk about Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein, poverty, race, religion, and hip-hop:

(video courtesy of Al Jazeera on YouTube)

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Nothing makes sense anymore. Nothing at all.

USA TODAY says: Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it.

“Embarassing?” Really, Condi? That’s the best you can come up with?

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“Just do your thing, man. It’s all yours,” he bellowed, dramatically gesticulating towards one empty white wall of his new condo’s dining room. It wasn’t furnished, yet. In fact, the place looked like it needed a lot of work. The wall-to-wall carpeting spanned the living and dining rooms, decorated with insolent stains and holes. The bedroom and bathroom to the side seemed limp, like paralyzed limbs dangling from their sockets.

I am still uneasy in my pretense. I am supposed to be an artist. Or some sort of person versed in visual creativity. It seems my visual creativity for most of my life may have consisted mostly of imagining the circumference of a random woman’s areola. Of course, that has its merits, too. Just not for a friend’s dining room mural.

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