Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Upon what riff the music slips
. . . The Negro
With the trumpet at his lips
Whose jacket
Has a fine
one-button roll,
Does not know
Upon what riff the music slips
Its hypodermic needle
To his soul--
~Langston Hughes, Fields
of Wonder
Got My Mind Made Up (Uh huh, C'mon).
"The Mr. Meth-Tical from Staten Isle
We'll be back after this message don't touch that dial
Rarely do you see an mc out for justice
Got my guunnnn.. powder and my musket -BLAOW.
..... get swellings, I paint mental pictures like Magellen
Half of my Clan's repeat felons
Niggas best protect they joint the nine-nickel
Man I stay on point like icicles
Now who wanna test Tical then touch Tical
All up in your muhHuhHuhhuh mouth."
~Method Man
"...Confidence for you shaky-ass folks."
~Redman
Rifles
Wishing i could make you love you enough
to carry you instead of rifles
as if it’s really an equation
you are me we are they
bullet play
you are me we are they
bullet play
I used to think they were the same thing
any means necessary, last day obituary brothers
there’s petty crime on the front lines
and blood in my eyes cause i can’t define the finished line
we post lookout on your shoulders
our strategies in tact
our strategies in tact
police boast as if it’s all over, but our
strategies in tact . . .[meanwhile] we’re tripping over
trophies posed as terrorist attacks.
~Yvonne Gilmore, Rifles
Afrikan Music: Hard Times - Run D.M.C.
Hard times spreading just like the flu
Watch out homeboy, don't let it catch you
P-p-prices go up, don't let your pocket go down
When you got short money you're stuck on the ground
Turn around, get ready, keep your eye on the prize
And be on point for the future shock
Hard times are coming to your town
So stay alert, don't let them get you down
They tell you times are tough, you hear that times are hard
But when you work for that ace you know you pulled the right card
Hard times got our pockets all in change
I'll tell you what, homeboy, it don't have my brain
All day I have to work at my peak
Beacuse I need that dollar every day of the week
Hard times
Hard times can take you on a natural trip
So keep your balance, and don't you slip
Hard times is nothing new on me
I'm gonna use my strong mentality
Like the cream of the crop, like the crop of the cream
B-b-beating hard times, that is my theme
Hard times in life, hard times in death
I'm gonna keep on fighting to my very last breath.
~Run D.M.C.
Play fi unda Pay
Fela: I was talking to one of my friends today and he said the French government wants me to play at the French cultural centre and they’re going to pay me 45,000 Naira. Do you know that 45,000 is not even up to 500 Dollars, man? Could the French government pay any musician with a 16 piece band in France 500 Dollars? For a whole show? See the whole game, man? And here Africans are rushing for this bread . . . because to us one Naira seems like its equal to one Dollar. Do you know that for a Nigerian to watch my show for 150 Naira then I’ve killed him? Ah ha! You see now. It’s a lot of bread! Yeah this is what is called the Whiteman’s conspiracy—called the devaluation of currency.
Femi: So that westerners can buy our resources cheaper . . .
Fela: Thank you. Then I ask them, I am the one with the oil. They say, no your money is not one Dollar, your money is one eightieth of a Dollar. I say, but my oil has not devalued has it? .You see their f******g cheating man? All the heavy slapping, boxing, kicking, karate, leg kicking . . . My brother anything, they’re just giving it to us here in Africa. They are now telling me that our currency is of low value, but our crude oil is still considered as one of the highest qualities in the world. The validity of the oil remains the same.
Femi: So I mean...
Fela: You see now that’s democrazy.
( ..more ).
Long burn the Iyes, awo.
What Year Barak? Euh?
So old Barak gets up there
and starts talking about that old great America
and all that kinda stuff
you know, it reminds me of Reagan
talking about he's gonna bring back America
to the way it used to be
-
now what year in america
do you want to go back to?
~Chokwe Lumumba
Well Adjusted to Babylon: How Sad
i pledge allegiance
to the united ban on warfare
for which it stands
the return of indian land
one nation
under god we trust
in nature's law
to liberate itself
from hefty injustice
for all
i pledge allegiance
to the future
of elevated children
everywhere.
and the reduction
of global warming
and unrest
all nations
under one indispensible
and self government
and plenty
for all.
_
(mhm).
Yuta Sing Dem Pledge
i pledge allegiance
to the u.s. of concious uprising
and the republic for which it stands
to the instruction of sterilized mendacity
recorded for our children
to the anals of memory
in your body
to the structure of justice
to the rythm of love
i pledge allegiance
to making love
creativity's invitation to celebrate
i pledge allegiance to uprising
rise up
rise up.
_
(uuh).
But I Know What Consequence Means
Your vision of the mil got crept like Hey Lover
tried to rise to the top you just couldn’t recover
and ALL i WANT is my LACERATION OF THE PIE
to get this whip cream before the water runs dry
Niggas flash dancing yo I don’t know why...
tried to rise to the top you just couldn’t recover
and ALL i WANT is my LACERATION OF THE PIE
to get this whip cream before the water runs dry
Niggas flash dancing yo I don’t know why...
~MC Consequence Stressed Out - Tribe Called Quest w/Faith Evans
Aguacero - Sandra Maria Esteves
Stunning & beautiful piece called Aguacero by Nubian Boricua Sandra Maria Esteves
Hey Castle Voodoo Bold As Wing Wind
November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970
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Demsay, imitation is the highest form of flattery:
Chaka - Little Wing
SRV - Little Wing
Sting - Little Wing
Yuta
Anticipating Mn-nfr Negroes
“Never make the mistake of thinking that the object of being a man is to make a carpenter, the object of being a carpenter is to be a man.”
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~ W.E.B. DuBois, Does Education Pay
Don't neba sleep on WEB. DONT.
Oh yeah: idren feel bruddah Mos ode to Michael & auntee Marimba bun FUNDAMENTAL fya pon shituation hoy too.
Mos Def - hueman ntr
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Marimba Ani - ita Stinks
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Cambridgeland
This is livicated to dear brother Henry Louis Gates . Although, sometimes you have clearly forgotten either the hebrew saying (13:3) "Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering", or the afrikan saying that the “The shoulder never grows above the head", today you gave me a great tremendous spontaneous chuckle and wide grin.
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I wonder. Are you more upset at your neighbor jane or at officer charlie?
oh & nice bconx Intersection:
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