Legendary Rapper Percee P Ready To ‘Crush’ The Mic Again
The path to South Bronx rapper Percee P’s 2007 debut is one forged over three decades in the rap game, writes Dan Rule.
IT’S 1973, maybe ‘74, summertime, and a four-year-old John Percy Simon is sitting by his open bedroom window, high atop the Patterson Housing Projects in South Bronx. A warm breeze flits through the window, carrying voices and music — pulsing, kinetic beat repetitions, soul and funk charged instrumentals looping back around and around to the same energy-charged starting point.
Little does he know he is witnessing the beginnings of something far bigger than any of its pioneering Bronx proponents — DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, to name a few — could have ever imagined.
Now 38 years old, the man behind the 28-year-long street-level myth that is MC Percee P says the memory is as fresh as ever.
The veteran principal of Herbert H. Lehman High School has agreed to step down at the end of the school year, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said on Thursday, after investigators found that two of his assistant football coaches had for years been paid overtime wages for time spent at home.
The principal, Robert Leder, said he had agreed to retire after 29 years in his post only after Education Department officials said he would otherwise be removed from the school midyear, pending a further inquiry into the payments.
Twin marmosets were born at the Bronx Zoo on November 11 to three-year-old mom, Squirt, and seven-year-old dad, King. Although his name implies royalty, his primary responsibility is child-rearing — shown here giving his little ones a “ride”. This is Squirt’s third litter and the family can be seen at the Bronx Zoo’s Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit. The Bronx Zoo is open everyday from 10 AM to 4:30 PM in winter. Photo taken January 3, 2007 by Julie Larsen Maher
Bronx Zoo Welcomes The Birth of Pygmy Marmoset Twins
Twin pygmy marmosets born to three-year-old mom, Squirt, and seven-year-old dad, King at the Bronx Zoo on November 11 are doing well, according to zoo officials.
The Pygmy Marmoset (Callithrix pygmaea), native to the Amazon rainforest is the world’s smallest monkey, with its body length ranging from 14-16 cm and its heads just a little larger than the size of a quarter. Adult males weigh around 140 g (5 ounces), while females weigh 120 g (4.2 ounces). Read more..
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