Never thought anyone could top Sam Cooke’s original version until today...Louis Price (formerly of The Temptations) blew the roof off of this cover giving everyone chills🔥 Sang with every fiber of his being!!!!!
Anderson .Paak and Cordae dropped a freestyle over Mobb Deep’s “Quiet Storm” on the Justin Credible Freestyle Series 🎙️
“I still can’t f*ck with Justin Timberlake, gentrified the Rap game, we only asked to renovate”
Happy 42nd birthday to Thundercat!
A bass virtuoso who sings and writes as much as he plays. Jazz, funk and electronic elements, solo albums, and a key collaborator with Flying Lotus.
Joe Rogan almost has the Michael Rockefeller story right. The real version is darker, and it reads like a thriller.
November 1961. Michael Rockefeller is 23, a fresh Harvard grad and the son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, one of the richest families on earth.
He could have done anything. He chose the swamps of Dutch New Guinea, home of the Asmat people, master woodcarvers and, at the time, still practising headhunting.
He was collecting their art: towering carved ancestor poles, shields, canoes. He wanted to bring it back to New York.
Then his catamaran flipped in rough water at a river mouth, miles off the coast.
Michael and a Dutch companion, René Wassing, clung to the hull and drifted. Hours passed. No rescue. Michael made a decision.
He tied two empty fuel cans to his body as floats and told Wassing he thought he could make it to shore.
Wassing was rescued the next day. Michael was never seen again.
What followed was one of the largest searches of its era: ships, planes, helicopters, thousands of locals combing the coast. His father flew in personally. Nothing.
The family accepted the official explanation: he drowned, or sharks got him.
But the Dutch missionaries living among the Asmat heard a different story, almost immediately.
Three years earlier, in 1958, a Dutch police patrol had raided the village of Otsjanep and shot several of its leaders. In Asmat culture, a killing created a debt. The spirits of the dead couldn’t rest until balance was restored.
And three years later, a white man walked out of the sea, exhausted, alone, onto their beach.
According to the accounts the missionaries collected, the Otsjanep men didn’t see a Rockefeller. They saw payback.
The reports were filed and then buried. A colonial government in a fragile region didn’t want a scandal. A grieving family didn’t want to hear it.
In 2014, journalist Carl Hoffman went back, lived with the Asmat and published Savage Harvest. His conclusion: the missionaries were right. Michael made it to shore, and the village settled its debt.
Not because he insulted them over a sacred object, as Joe suggests. Because of something done by men he never met, years before he arrived.
Today, the art Michael collected sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a wing bearing his name.
And the Jameson whiskey story Jamie pulls up in the clip? Also real.
1888, the Congo. James Sligo Jameson, heir to the distillery, was on Stanley’s expedition. In a village on the river, he was told he’d witness something if he paid. He paid six handkerchiefs.
He later wrote that he never imagined it was real until it happened, and called it the most sickening sight of his life. He died of fever months later, before he could fully answer for it.
Two heirs. Two of the richest families of their era. Two lessons the hard way: money doesn’t buy you understanding of a culture you walk into.
History is wilder than any podcast.
It's interesting how many men “kill themselves” after clearly say they will never kill themselves
You say this when you are uncovering information that you know powerful men don't want uncovered
Codename: KND wasn't even trying to be subtle with warning kids how the US government set Millennials, Gen-Z & Alpha up for absolute failure. No wonder Cartoon Network was taken down in a monopolistic coup.
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