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Just before coming to bless us with some phat tuneage here in Wales, Troublemaker hit Nairobi, Kenya with HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) for 'the experience of a lifetime'. There to share artistic abilities and knowledge with the locals, he taught kids about DJing and how to use Serato, deejayed at the Sawa Sawa Festival, and recorded with Kenya's biggest Hip hop emcee.

As something of a follow up to his work there, he is offering an advance download from his upcoming album, The Maestro (out in July), to benefit the HOPE Campaign. The track is the punchy as hell Work It Out featuring Naptron and Phoenix Orion and you can grab it via the link below.

http://djtroublemaker.com/hope/

The donation price is set at a minimum of 60 cents and all the money goes to the HOPE Campaign (minus 10 cents to PayPal).

So download it, enjoy it, and know that all the proceeds go to incredible projects for the advancement of the arts in Kenya.

As Barack Obama jumps on the train from Philladelphia and makes the journey to Washington DC for his Inauguration ceremony on Tuesday. There's alot of excitement and anticipation for what the next few years might bring. Somebody recently on the BBC Introducing in Wales seemed to think this meant all the world's problems were solved and everything was going to be alright for a while. No matter how misinformed some of it might be, there's one thing that can be said for Barack Obama, he's brought alot of people (including me) one thing...



And alot of people are gonna need that as we enter into what could be "the worst recession in decades". Idealism isn't always realistic on a grand scale and although many of us like the direction his policies are going, there's nothing to say they'll work. Let's not forget that America became as powerful as it did using alot of the policies we would like to reject. Alot of people want what they feel is right but aren't willing to pay the price, so Obama could well be set to piss alot of the people off who are now singing his praises. I hope he manages to get through it relatively unscathed. I hope that history is kind to him and some of our ideals are fulfilled through his work, I hope he doesn't have to get assassinated to secure a good place in the books and I hope that eventually we can judge him on his merits and not our hopes.

And of course the musical tributes keep rolling in. The optimism can be summed up in part by the way many people have posted up this track by Busdriver and Flying Lotus. The track is called Will He but in most places you'll find it as He Will.

(YSI) BusDriver & Flying Lotus - Will He

The next is from Troublemaker who will be heading down to Washington DC tomorrow to DJ and enjoy the festivities with the Manifest HOPE family.

His dark Dubstep stomper is more of a goodbye to the old president than praise for the new, or as he puts it, "the passing of my George Bush kidney stone."

(YSI) Troublemaker - Follow The Leader (direct zip link)