Bklyn Combine Podcast

JACK TALK: Tracing The Roots by BklynCombine

Long lost Bklyn Combine member, young Tyhiem joined the squadron for a long awaited conversation about time spent in Ghana recently for Mali and Che's 25th wedding anniversary vow renewal ceremony. Shout out to Combine family, Aidah Muhammad for planning a wonderful week in Accra with loved ones. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Ep 13 Combine Cast Members: Kenneth J. Montgomery, Phillip Shung, Jazz, Didi, and Tye Music: 1. Lady by Rema 2. Rose Ave. by El Cousteau feat. Niontay 3. Africa by D’Angelo

CROSSROADS LIVE Ep. 1 (HOPE) feat. Tony "BX Tone" Windley by BklynCombine

After a brief break, The Bklyn Combine returns with longtime Combine family member Mike Rone. Lerone met Kenneth in their freshman year at Martin Luther King H.S. in Midtown Manhattan, and from that day, they locked in and remained brothers. This week we got some exclusive day-1 stories about growing up in NY in the 80s and 90s, alongside the theme of Distractions. Ep 11 Combine Cast Members: Kenneth J. Montgomery, Mike Rone, and Phillip Shung. Music:
 1. Take It In Blood by Nas 2. Revolutionize by Adrian Younge 3. B.Y.S. by Gang Starr 4. Speak Ya Clout by Gang Starr

Combine family member, Ray Tamara stopped through while he was in town to shoot the annual Met Gala and joined us for a meaningful conversation about art, life, politics as usual, and trauma. In addition we discussed propaganda with Merino Mali. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Ep 10 Combine Cast Members: Kenneth J. Montgomery, Mali X, and Phillip Shung. Reading: David Walker, 1785-1830. Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles Music: 1. The Star of a Story by Heatwave 2. Thank God by Kane and Katelyn Brown 3. Be (feat. Bernard Purdie) (First Part of Be-Yond-Er) by The Last Poets 4. Words2LiveBy by El Cousteau feat. Earl Sweatshirt

Combine family member, Ray Tamara stopped through while he was in town to shoot the annual Met Gala and joined us for a meaningful conversation about art, life, politics as usual, and trauma. In addition we discussed propaganda with Merino Mali. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Ep 9 Combine Cast Members: Ray Tamara, Kenneth J. Montgomery, Mali X, and Phillip Shung. Reading: David Walker, 1785-1830. Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles Music: 1. The Star of a Story by Heatwave 2. Thank God by Kane and Katelyn Brown 3. Be (feat. Bernard Purdie) (First Part of Be-Yond-Er) by The Last Poets 4. Words2LiveBy by El Cousteau feat. Earl Sweatshirt

For our eighth episode of the Bklyn Combine Podcast we had an illustrious braintrust of master strategists. We tackled a number of topics that impact us on a daily basis from the concept of ownership to the idea of scarcity and self hatred, and let's not forget our beloved NY Knickerbockers! We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Book 1. Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel by Cebo Campbell Music 1. Pac Blood by Danny Brown 2. Sweepstakes by Gorillaz 3. Never Catch Me by Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar 4. Afro Blue by John Coltrane Quartet at Birdland (1963) Episode 8 Combine Pod members: Keith White, Kenneth J. Montgomery, Mali X, Kenji Summers, Stan Lumax, Felton Brown, and Phillip Shung.

On episode 7 of The Bklyn Combine's latest season, we sit down for an intergenerational exchange. With our young men we explore topics of relationships, entering the workforce, social currency, and plans for the future among a few other topics. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Episode 7 Combine Cast Members: Kenneth J. Montgomery, Mali X, Phillip Shung, Stone and Jett Montgomery, and Myles Williams.

Destiny by BklynCombine

This week the Combine Collective had our usual free flowing conversation but we touched on the themes of accountability, self control (thinking for yourself and others), ‘Hands Off!’ Protests, tariffs, kleptocracy and much more. An intergenerational exchange is essential to our growth as a community. Focus up! We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Music:
1. Lady Day And John Coltrane by Gil Scott-Heron 2. Can it Be All So Simple by Wu-Tang Clan 3. Exhibit B by Jay Electronica featuring Mos Def 4. Evil Eye by MIKE Episode 4 Combine Cast Members: Divensley Charles, Kenneth J. Montgomery, Michael Bunton, Tino “Blackafari” Ellis, and Phillip Shung.

This week The Bklyn Combine is joined by some of our sisters to discuss who our real opps are as well as generational trauma, the reordering of the world, and much more. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Music:
 1. Slow by Navy Blue 2. Guess It's All Over by Mndsgn 3. Love To The World Prayer by L.T.D. 4. Black Panta by Lee "Scratch" Perry and The Upsetters Episode 4 Combine Cast Members: Cheshire Boone, Amy Obonaga, Yessica Urraca, Mali X, Kenji Summers, Jazz Joseph, Divensley Charles, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

The Brooklyn Combine returns with an episode dedicated to exploring several critical topics, with a particular focus on the concept of the "Black Middle Class." The criteria for defining this social category remain somewhat ambiguous; however, this episode examines the underlying complexities, including the intersections of capitalism, class mobility, class suicide, revolution, and the notion of the Talented Tenth, among other related themes. Stay woke. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Episode 3 Combine Cast Members: Michael Bunton, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung. Music: 
1. Sea Of Tranquility by Kool & The Gang 2. fortify by Stav 3. Bad Guy by Smif n Wessun 4. Niggers Are Scared of Revolution by The Last Poets

The Combine explores ideas of America as a banana republic, our baseline for humanity, and transforming our value system. Also, is Bad Bunny in your top 5 or nah? We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Episode 2 Combine Cast Members: Yessica Urraca, Divensely Charles, Tony Windley, Valentino Ellis, Keith White, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung. Reading list: 1. How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev  2. The invention of the white race by Theodore Allen Music 1. BREATHE.birth by Pink Siifu 2. FREE CAR NIGGAZ by ANKHLEJOHN 3. LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii by Bad Bunny 4. Fear Not For Man by Fela Kuti — BLACK ART By Amiri Baraka Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts beating them down. Fuck poems and they are useful, wd they shoot come at you, love what you are, breathe like wrestlers, or shudder strangely after pissing. We want live words of the hip world live flesh & coursing blood. Hearts Brains Souls splintering fire. We want poems like fists beating niggers out of Jocks or dagger poems in the slimy bellies of the owner-jews. Black poems to smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches whose brains are red jelly stuck between 'lizabeth taylor's toes. Stinking Whores! we want "poems that kill." Assassin poems, Poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys and take their weapons leaving them dead with tongues pulled out and sent to Ireland. Knockoff poems for dope selling wops or slick halfwhite politicians Airplane poems, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .tuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh . . .rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . Setting fire and death to whities ass. Look at the Liberal Spokesman for the jews clutch his throat & puke himself into eternity . . . rrrrrrrr There's a negroleader pinned to a bar stool in Sardi's eyeballs melting in hot flame Another negroleader on the steps of the white house one kneeling between the sheriff's thighs negotiating coolly for his people. Aggh . . . stumbles across the room . . . Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked to the world! Another bad poem cracking steel knuckles in a jewlady's mouth Poem scream poison gas on beasts in green berets Clean out the world for virtue and love, Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly. Let Black people understand that they are the lovers and the sons of warriors and sons of warriors Are poems & poets & all the loveliness here in the world We want a black poem. And a Black World. Let the world be a Black Poem And Let All Black People Speak This Poem Silently or LOUD

Your Brooklyn Combine family returns for a 5th season of the Combine Podcast with new and familiar voices to explore topics that impact our local and global communities. Join us as we explore value systems and ways we can get active. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Episode 1 Combine Cast Members: Kenji Summers, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung. Reading list: 1. Ontological Terror by Calvin Warren 2. New dimensions in African History by Dr Ben-Yochannan 3. The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams 4. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Sekou Odinga Music:
 1. You Send Me by Roy Ayers 2. No Stranger To Love / Want You by Roy Ayers 3. Africa Centre of the World by Fela Kuti (feat. Roy Ayers) 4. Running Away by Roy Ayers 5. I Am Your Mind (Part 2) by Roy Ayers 6. Gotta Find A Lover by Roy Ayers

We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on the African American experience by BklynCombine

We are back with our 5th season of reasoning, storytelling, critical thinking, in-depth analysis, and all-around op-eding on the things that affect the Brooklyn Community and beyond. In our first episode, we discuss American violence, music, and our very first fundraiser on Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Learn more about our Fundraising Fete: http://bklyncombine.com/fete Combine Approved Africa Travel groups: 1. Cape Verde - Avontade Tours https://avontade-tours.com/ 2. Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa - Away to Africa https://www.awaytoafrica.com/ Music: 1. Fly Metaphysics by Rahiem Supreme (The Pretty Prada Papi EP) 2. Roaches Don't Fly by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist 3. Evil Eye by MIKE 4. Eye to Eye by Lute ft. Cozz

NYE 2022 by BklynCombine

This week we get the lowdown on life as a digital nomad. World travel from a man in his late 20s can be interesting, especially considering dating, food culture, local customs, and getting around to name a few. Join us as Jazz shares his tales from abroad. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Music: 1. The Less I Know the Better by Tame Impala 2. Back It Up by Nameless and Wahu 3. Mau Mau by Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire ft. Maffew Ragazino 4. Rich Flex by Drake & 21 Savage

The Bklyn Combine ends our East Africa series with part 2 of our discussion with the charismatic, Mr. Lee, an 82 year old, legend in Lamu, Kenya. This Harlem expat has lived life fully and we are honored to have him as our guest. Join us as he shares stories and life advice. We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. Music: 1. Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Robert Glasper, feat. Lalah Hathaway 2. Try A Little Tenderness by Otis Redding 3. F by Raheim Supreme

This week The Bklyn Combine continues with the final installment in our East Africa series. Meet Mr. Lee, a legend in his own right and a humble, yet larger-than-life figure. This Harlem expat has lived life fully and we are honored to have him as our guest. Join us as he shares stories and life advice while occassionally breaking out in song. We couldn't get enough of Brother Lee's life stories and the live serenades were the best! We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities. 1. I Apologise by Billy Eckstine 2. Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue) by Nat King Cole 3. Four [The First Recording] by Miles Davis