The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces? (Part II)

Shabazz Palaces - Blast It (from the Village Beat film, Tough Bond).

Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum (not the video) from Sub Pop Records.

Tough Bond (2011) from Village Beat [Movie Trailer].

Tough Bond is an urgent message from Africa that documents the disappearance of the village, told through the lives of 3 Kenyan street kids, hustling, sniffing glue, surviving in a parallel society with no tribe but the one they create for themselves. Shot over two years, we lived with our characters and followed their stories from the most rural villages of the country to the hearts of its biggest slums.

* Original score by Shabazz Palaces

* Director/Producer/Camera: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck

* Editing: Austin Peck & Anneliese Vandenberg

* Sound Engineer: Erik Lohr

* Additional Photography: Marianne Romeo

* Fixer: Julius Lemuya

We are currently raising funds to return to Kenya with the finished film and show it everywhere. We’ll hang sheets from buildings and fire up the generator. We’ll park the truck where the road ends and project it. We’ll assemble thousands and play it loud. Help us do this tour. Make a tax-deductible donation to Village Beat through the Creative Visions Foundation. Click the button.

Click here for the website.

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces? (Part II)

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces?

Shabazz Palaces - Belhaven Meridian [Official Music Video/Short Film].  YouTube Description: "An allegorical short film/music video for Shabazz Palaces shot in Watts, Los Angeles, directed by Kahlil Joseph, Photographed by Matt Lloyd. Featuring a cameo of Dante (Ernest Wadell) from "The Wire" in homage to Charles Burnett's 1977 classic film "Killer of Sheep"."


Killer of Sheep (1981) [Trailer].  Click here for the IMDb.


Shabazz Palaces - Gunbeat Falls (Live at Sasquatch 2010)


Shabazz Palaces - W'Shappenin' (Live at Sasquatch 2010).


Shabazz Palaces - Kill White T A Parable (Live at Sasquatch 2010).


Shabazz Palaces - My Mac Yawns.

 

The People's Poseur Presents: Whatchu Know Bout. . .Shabazz Palaces?

Pardon My French Vol. VI - Congolese Music

Baloji - Congo [Music Video].


KONONO nº1 Sonar 2009 [Live Performance].


Tabu Ley - Karibou ya Bintou.


Baloji - Independance (Dir. by Spike Jonze).

Sadly, you have to click here to check it out because embedding is disabled.  Shouts to Colossus on this one.
Baloji Feat. Konono N°1 - Karibu Ya Bintou [Music Video] (Dir. by Spike Jonze).  YouTube Description: "Shot in the streets of Kinshasa, site of Muhammad Ali's legendary 'Rumble in the Jungle', Karibu Ya Bintou ("Welcome to Life in Limbo") is a short film with music from the 2010 album 'Kinshasa Succursale' by Baloji.

Electric finger piano (likembé): played by Konono N°1, the legendary Congolese band who collaborated with Björk & count Vampire Weekend and Beck amongst their biggest fans.

baloji.com
baloji.com/blog
myspace.com/baloji

Music & Lyrics: Baloji Tshiani
Thanks to Konono N°1
Arrangements: Betis Didier Likeng / Cyril Harrison

Universal Music Publishing - Kléa Songs

Short film

Directors: Spike and Jones
DOP: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Producer: Annemie Decorte (Dr. Film)
Styling: Ann Lauwerys
Mask: Katrien Matthys"

Pardon My French Vol. VI - Congolese Music

Wake Up?

Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 - Zombie [Clipped at the end].


Wu-Tang Clan & Killarmy - Justice For All.

Wake Up?

YouTube Is A Tribute To Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me No Nonesense.

"you're inspiration to all good minded African (e.g Nigerian) you're too gr8 a human..if u're born in State, u would've been more greater than michael Jackson bcoz you're too good, you used your music to influence the future event, u can sing anything, you're like a prophet bcoz what you sang about 30years ago still come to pass & you're very good with the instrument without been to music school..am very proud of ur talent & fighting for what u belief in until u pass away!! R.I.P Fela Anikulapo"

"I used to crying a lots while listening to this music as a growing up man, now I understand why I cried; its because its makes me realised how lucky I am to be alive and to remember innocent citizens who have dead in the hand of our corrupt leaders and his music always touches my heart whenever am listening to it. R.I.P"

"He plays keys, sings, even conducts his funky orchestra... this guy might well be the most underrated musician of all time"


Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense" (1/3) [LIVE].

"this is special - we must protect the perceived bad quality of this video. this is Fela, real and raw. We need no HD when it is so pure"

"I got chills listening to this. My first Fela experience. :)"


Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense" (2/3) [LIVE].

Check out the true skool call-and-response between 4:30 and 5:30.

"music is the weapon of the future"



"Thank you very much for posting this footage. Amazing artists, wonderful music, and finally get to see them performing. Thanks again."

YouTube Is A Tribute To Fela Kuti

The President of Uganda Rapping?

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (Official Video) - Do you want another rap.  YouTube Comments: (1) "Verse 1: The stick I cut strayed into Igara where Ntambiko reigns. Ntambiko gave me a knife which I gave to millet harvesters, who gave me millet, that I gave to a hen, which gave me an egg, that I gave to children who gave me a monkey that I gave to the king, who gave me a cow that I used to marry my wife. / She gave me a child I called Mugarura who raided back what belonged to me and my fathers." (2) "Verse 2: / Give me my stick! Invaders from Ngarama have arrived, shaking their bums like Rutendegyere. May thunder strike Rutendegyere from above where there is abundance that helps the rhinoceros to thrive. The rhinoceros feeds but reamins ready for a buffalo attack. The buffalo, whose meat is salty. The salt that comes from Nsharira deep inside the kingdom." (3) "I dont need another rap. I never needed any in the first place. I want good roads, hospital with drugs, jobs for my kids and a safe Uganda for my grand children. Am not begging for it. In my lifetime of work, i have paid over 100m in taxes, so i demand to see what this money has done. And above ALL, i want to see the grey haired thieves all in jail for life, does not matter whether they are in a presidential queue or whatever. That is what i want, not some meaningless gibberish."

The President of Uganda Rapping?

Pharaoh Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom

Pharaoh Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom off Africa (1987).

Pharaoh Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom

The Crossroads Episode 11 - The "We're All Fam" Edition

"We're all fam / we're all distant relatives / [...]" - Nasir Jones

Nas & Damian Marley (Distant Relatives) Feat. K'naan - Africa Must Wake Up.

"Your history is too complex and rigid / for some Western critics / they want the whole subjective minutes / [...] / The slave ship captured, our diaspora is the final chapter / the ancestral lineage built pyramids / America's first immigrants, the kings and daughters from our waters / the first architect, the first philosohers / astronomers, the first prophets and the doctors were us, us / [...]" - Nas

Afrocentric historian Ivan Van Sertima (among others with different agendas who argue for early Chinese or prior European connections with the "New World," etc., et al., in addition to Leif Eriksson and the early, but short-lived, Viking settlement of North America) has argued for Pre-Columbian contact between the indigenous people of the Americas and the rest of the world, which is what the above cited lyrics most likely pertain to.


Tha Alkaholiks Feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Hip Hop Drunkies.

"I divide square emcees like math / bend you in half and drink a genuine draft / I stomp 'em then skied out with all the wampum / [...]" - J-Ro

Wikipedia says that "Wampum are traditional, sacred shell beads of Eastern Woodlands tribes. They include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell; and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Woven belts of wampum have been created to commemorate treaties or historical events, and for exchange in personal social transactions, such as marriages. In colonial North America, European colonists often used wampum as currency for trading with native Americans."


Wu-Tang Killa Beez (Beretta9, Islord, Dom Pachino, 9th Prince, Killa Sin) - Dancing With Wolves.

Many things can be said about Kevin Costner's movie (click here for the IMdB) Dancing With Wolves (1990), but to sum it up with one fact, the Lakota/Nakota/Dakota peoples ("Sioux") have a masculine and feminine form of their language/dialects - the movie employed a female speech coach so that all of the male warriors in the movie talked like women . . .


Mohammad Dangerfield (Hasan Salam & Rugged N Raw) Feat. Immortal Technique - Break Of A Star.

"I ain't banking off of one chance / to [change something with max status(?)] I parallel sun dance / [...]" - Second Verse


The Sun Dance is a traditional Native American spiritual ceremony.  Wikipedia article here.

The Crossroads Episode 11 - The "We're All Fam" Edition

Lupe Fiasco "All Black Everything" off Lasers (2011 New Music)

Black History Month, y'all. . .

Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything (NEW 2011).

Repost?

Nas - I Can.

Lupe Fiasco "All Black Everything" off Lasers (2011 New Music)