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Issue Four
Introduction: Sacred Ground Entertainment is a company that ventures into the unknown realm of entrepreneurship like a dusty road into the Reservation Mountains that may never become paved. Business was never meant to be easy, nor clear, and most times with no glitz and glamour along the way. We take risks, risks that become a story, our story. Whether failure or success, we celebrate the same because our heads are high and confident to turn anything into something through the knowledge gained and the experience endured. We are not a business that has failed much, but we’ve certainly learned a lot more than most, collecting assets, ideas, memories, networks, markets, and even debt because after all, we are real. Independently owned and operated like the Rez Car that simply gets us from point A to point B while playing music out of one right speaker to cater to our love for music and entertainment. Sacred Ground is more than just pop culture; we are people, young, energetic, proactive, and real. Staying ahead of the game and in the know is more like living our passion and duty to fulfill our need to be hip-hop and culture. Again, although we do a lot we are not here to sell you a product, service, idea, or vision. We are here only to connect, interact, and bond. With you, we are building something out of completely nothing and making it into a dream generations can follow. So check out the topics below and just maybe your interest is something worth poking at.
Food For Thought: “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” Francis Bacon - an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author.

Joke of the Day: Last Buffalo
An Indian brave returns from a scouting trip and seeks out the Chief.
"Chief, I have bad news, worse news and good news."
The Chief asks for the bad news first.
Scout says, "No more buffalo on reservation, we kill last one today."
Chief asks for the worse news.
Brave says, "Our land is being overrun by white men. They are coming by the thousands."
Finally the chief asks for the good news.
The brave says,
"Chief, the white men taste just like buffalo."
Top Hip-hop News: Urban Clothing Lines Face Bankruptcy; Uncertain Future

A slew of well-known Hip-Hop clothing brands are in danger due to large debts and an ailing economy. Kellwood, the parent company of Baby Phat, Phat Farm and XOXO brands could be forced into Chapter 11 due to a $140 million bond issue that is due to mature Wednesday (July 15). While Kellwood attempted to defer the bond payment while restructuring the debt, but the biggest bond holder - Deutsche Bank - is refusing to entertain the offer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Kellwood has over $500 million in debt and $800 million in annual sales. Russell Simmons launched Phat Farm clothing in 1992, while his wife, model/designer Kimora Lee Simmons, started Baby Phat in 1999. Simmons sold Phat Farm and Baby Phat to Kellwood in 2004 for $142 million dollars in cash. Mark Ecko’s Ecko Enterprises is also selling spin-off business in order to cut costs within the company, which at it’s height, raked in $1.5 billion annually. Ecko’s 275,000 square-foot, West 23rd Street headquarters, which cost $9 million dollars per-year, has been put on the market as the company attempts to raise cash. Like Kellwood, Ecko is attempting to raise enough cash to pay off Ecko Enterprises’ $170 million debt to creditor CIT Group, as well as manufacturer Li & Fung USA. In addition to the Ecko Clothing line, Ecko Enterprises publishes Complex Magazine and a video game unit, which published owns Mark Ecko Entertainment, a company that produces video games like the graffiti game Getting Up Contents Under Pressure. By Nolan Strong

Bigg B: Bigg B is what you would call a music fanatic, always looking for the
hottest and dopest sounds to provide listeners and riders with the hottest up-to-date music joints in the industry from artists all shapes and sizes. Host to his own radio show and major social circles, Bigg B is a workaholic in the industry of music. Stepping back into the recording studio last Thursday to record a new track titled “The New & Only One” droppin’ later in the summer, Bigg B has continued to take lyricism higher and higher into the wood works of creativity. Rappin’ and rhyming the craziest chosen words to simply cater to his ambition to put out great music that simply sounds good to he and his production team, Bigg is coming to be an inspiration for youth, young adults, and artists alike, expressing he is also sitting on two new heaters from his producer Mr. Jay. Bigg B’s Rezz’d Out Mixtape has still been greatly received by fans and growing, performing well with it’s free download offerings via the website and numerous uploads onto other websites. Bigg B is a person to know in the business as not only a host, but as a lyricist, hip-hop head, poet, and writer. Bigg Ups to the Bigg Homie.

Groove Central Radio: Created to feed the streets need for soothing beats, news, and rhymes indeed, Groove Central Radio defines the hottest of fire! Airing Thursday and Friday evenings, host Bigg B features some of today’s hottest Native lyricists and associates in the industry of Hip-hop and R&B. The greatest news for the show though is Groove Central Radio has found a new location for their show that is much closer to the town of Warm Springs, OR. The brand new Warren Clements Media Center is definitely a completed project to be proud for the local community and the Groove Central Radio show for sure. Bigg B has continued to go full throttle in producing the upcoming Groove Central Radio Compilation filled with Native Hip-hop’s Dopest Lyricists and Producers in the industry! Get it, live it, be it, and hear it for the first time and tune in to 91.9 KWSO!

Gold Mind Productions:
Producer Mr. Jay has recently produced some cuts and joints for his new collection of collaborations. In the studio last night to record the yet untitled track from one of Sacred Ground Entertainment’s newest artists, Mr. Jay has certainly got some tricks and tips up his sleeve for artists interested in getting to know the producer himself. He and his videographer also produced two new videos of the man making beats live for audiences across the globe later to be uploaded to the website. So stay tuned.

Recent Travel Review: In the time before contact with Europeans, the indigenous people of Nchi’Wana (Columbia River Gorge) and beyond traded throughout the North and West coast. The people utilized the Wana (River) by traveling via canoe up and down the river to participate in ceremonies, customs, traditions, and trade among many others. The canoes were carved mostly out of large cedar logs that grew close to the Wana (River) as the higher into the mountains the forest went the altitude and temperatures prevented such strong and large growth in the wood. The canoe carvings would take months at minimum to complete, but their magnificence were works of art we can only imagine and see in pictures today.
Over the weekend, members of the Coos Coquille Tribe of Southern Oregon took it upon themselves to contact inspirational members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and bring two of their sturdy traditional canoes up to the Warm Springs Reservation. We met at Indian Park located deep inland on the southern side of the reservation border, surrounded with some of the sharpest and steepest cliffs in Central Oregon, but some incredible land and waters for sure. With one canoe that seated 10 and another that seated 7, we took turns paddling around the Warm Springs waters like we were really on one of them canoe journeys or something counting 1,2,3,4 and so on, quite a good work out for a chill clear sunny Saturday if you ask me. The time on the lake in a traditional canoe was a true gift to receive from our friends from the Coos Coquille Tribe. Aside from the good workout you can get, it truly was a spiritual experience for us all to last a lifetime. I’m sure our ancestors looked down on us that day with a good smile saying ‘Hey, look at these Indians nowadays. They sure like to wear some chubby looking bright orange sleeveless ribbon shirts when they’re paddling around enit.’

First Nation Media: Indirectly invested in by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, First Nation Media began its work in August of 2008 to serve the promotional needs of not only Sacred Ground Entertainment, but also businesses in and around the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. From a HP printer, design software, a creative director, and a studio, First Nation Media erupted out of a simple vision, to provide impressionable and monumental artwork to businesses, entities, and organizations alike. It is a charismatic business with personable character, helping to expand associations throughout Oregon and beyond. It is not a business that holds multi-hundred thousand dollar accounts, as those clients were not the firm’s initial targets. This firm’s initial target has been the grass roots businesses that mean the livelihoods to the very families, neighborhoods, towns, and growing cities alike that run them. First Nation Media cares about the businesses that have come to its firm to receive its services because the belief these businesses have in their dreams is incredibly apparent in even the toughest of economic times. It is tough for numerous saddening reasons to mention, but dreams, hopes, and ambitions are alive as expressed by these inspirational clients. It has become one of the most personable firms in the Oregon industry of marketing, offering the most competitively affordable designs from a team looking to simply make a positively strong impact on communities and markets combined. First Nation Media currently maintains SACREDGROUNDENT.com, the overall business presentation, music, promotions, banners, and leads. It has managed to define a handsome business in the works while supplying numerous clients large and small with strategy, direction, and art. Not caring about the amount of competition, knowledge, and economic times of the local market, this business has stepped forward and has continued to build relationships with numerous professional individuals and growing. Now in need of its own space to conduct business and professionalism, First Nation Media is and will continue to be the firm that simply exists for the grass roots businesses that feed local communities and the people that reside within. Take CARE!
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