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Legendary WOL Radio Personality Bobby “The Mighty Burner” Bennett Dies at the Age of 72
Bobby Bennett, who as the Mighty Burner fired up the airwaves in Washington and beyond for more than four decades with jive-talking patter and a deep playlist of soul sounds, died Sept. 8 at his home in Punta Gorda, Fla. He was 72.
The cause was respiratory failure, his wife, Connie Payne, said.
Starting out in 1968 as the overnight DJ on the District’s most popular black-oriented station, WOL, and continuing until 2008, when he retired from XM Satellite Radio, where he headed the Soul Street channel, Mr. Bennett was a rhyming, ad-libbing advocate for local and lesser-known artists and was a distinctive, clarion pitchman for local businesses such as the Junkyard Band’s Cavalier Men’s Shop commercial (see video clip below) and the former Dimensions Unlimited concert promoters.
A Rose Is Still A Rose
By NENA BROWN
There are 17 year olds taking senior pictures, preparing for SATs, studying for their driver’s license, whipping, nay-naying, quanning and ignoring you right now because of those earbuds they never seem to take out of their ears.
They are posting memes of RGIII, bashing rival football teams and discovering that there were five members of NWA, not just three.
Pictures of countless other teenagers are plastered all over my Facebook reporting to work, school and boot camp, their families annoyingly snapping pictures every step of the way. My own 18 year old is waiting for her books to arrive as she continues to adjust to college life. As I fill my calendar with parent meetings, football games and cheer competitions, sneaking peeks at my teen’s social media accounts in between time, I am terribly heartbroken.
There is another 17 year old sitting in a cell, hopefully for the rest of his life, for senselessly murdering my friend as effortlessly as these other kids post a snapchat or send a tweet. I am painfully aware that a person the same age as my child has taken a mother away from her children in a world where sometimes a mother’s love is all you have. While some teens are ducking the responsibility of waking themselves up in the morning this kid has taken on the responsibility of creating an absence, a void in the lives of so many people. My comprehension is at an all-time low; my confusion is at an all-time high.
I am well aware of what happens in the streets, what certain conditions can do to a person, how life can change the best of us. I know all too well what happens when you’re angry and the sometimes lifelong consequences of making a bad decision, even when those consequences don’t let up and you’re dead tired from endlessly paying your dues.
I know what thoughts and emotions occur when your blood is boiling and you grind your teeth, the taste of blood flowing from the back of your throat as the tears well up in your eyes, so hot that you can’t see and you have to remind yourself to breath!
These excuses don’t excuse a thing when so many of us have turned our lemons into lemonade, made something out of nothing, turned tragedy into triumph just as Tenika did. Now her children and family will have to do the same.
Tenika was constantly grinding and turning over ideas and possibilities with her loved ones. She was very excited about life, recent breakthroughs and personal victories. She cooked, did hair and made clothes. I recently asked her if she had to choose which would she do. She laughed but quickly got serious, responding “That’s not a fair question, that’s like asking me to choose between my son and my daughter”.
Her eyes would get big right before her thoughts erupted into a large smile, some joke, some jone; she was funny, witty and silly. She was always recording, always taking pictures, lending her long arms, smile and pose critique to group selfies. Kevin Durant, her son playing for the Redskins (even though they are Cowboys fans), Leo Season-to include her and her daughter’s upcoming birthdays were our most recent topics of conversation.
Tenika was an artist. Nicknamed Skinnie Pimp by Buggs of the Junkyard Band, she was very stylish, lending her lean physique to artistic projects like modeling and music videos. Taking cues and lessons from her grandmother, she spent time creating, customizing and designing clothing and accessories to include her very popular tutus, belts and scarves for all shapes and sizes. Described by Ms. Chuk of SOS as “indescribable on the mic”, she was also a writer and rapper appearing with the Junkyard Band, Backyard Band and as a member of the group SOS, (Sensations of da Opposite Sex) as a rapper.
Dad Sings Anti-Bullying Song To Daughter
This girl, like many others, is facing being bullied at school. When her Dad, Khari, hears about it, he has the perfect solution to fight back with these bullies in a way that leaves them powerless. No doubt, his heart was broken hearing that his beautiful daughter was being ridiculed. The world is different today, even if a child was bullied at school, when they went home they had a reprieve from it. But in today’s connected society, even in homes, bullies can make their way through social media.
So, using his talent, and also the power of social media, this loving Dad wrote a song for his daughters to let them know how loved they are and though there will always be those to criticize, they don’t have to rely on other people’s approval. They have to know they are beautiful and priceless. This is one very wise father with a perfect message for everyone to hear.
Download this song on Itunes – https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album…
www.kharitoure.com
Bootsy Vegas: Redskins Song Week #1 | Beat Them Dolphins 2015
It’s that time once again, Ladies & Gentlemen! And what better way to do it than to set the tone with the Bootsy Vegas’ Redskins song of the week, entitled “Beat Them Dolphins”?
HOPE – Yusha Assad Ft Alfred the MC and Brittany Tanner
Single from the Album entitled “With Great Care: The Dream” available on Itunes, Google Play, and Amazon Music. Video shot by Nocturnal Charms Media
With Great Care LLC Production
Featuring cameo appearances by Pep of Mambo Sauce and Comedian Eddie Bryant!!!
The Story of Tom Browne’s “Jamaica Funk”
You know the song! You’ve partied off of it for all so long.
Well now… “here’s the story of the making of “Funkin’ For Jamaica,” and of the fertile musical breeding ground that produced so many of ‘the cats!'”
– Tom Browne
Watch Backyard & Scarface as they Rockout The Howard Theatre
The following is a trail the leads to DC’s own Backyard Band & the Legendary Scarface as they rocked out the Howard Theatre on August 28, 2005.
@brothermob @anwanglover @backyardband #mitchcraft @howardtheatre @tmottgogo
Fantasia Rocks RE’s “Overnight Scenario” & EU’s “DaButt” – Go-Go Set at Essence Fest 2011
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