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Timbo King Feat. William Cooper - From Babylon To Timbuktu [Official Music Video] from Nature Sound Music.

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Revolutionary Theme Music: Babylon Warchild

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Older black-and-white clips of various political events is interesting enough content for the first video, but the second song/video combo below goes a step further.  Using a Soviet Russia era propaganda film, which opens with the claim that

This film, both in its theme and artistic treatment, was something new in the world's cinematographic art. It was the first film to be based on a revolutionary event, with the people as it's hero.

is a short silent film juxtaposed with a good underground hip-hop song.  The video utilizes various early filmic avant garde and experimental techniques that make it an interesting watch in itself, especially if interested in the early Russian genius for the 'cinematographic arts' - Eisenstein (wiki here), anybody?


Babylon Warchild (Legitimate, Unknown Mizery, Rumpletiltz) - Call Of The Warchild (Prod. by Jordi Lafordi) [Video - with some mildly graphic content] (2011) off Babylon Warchild (2011).


Babylon Warchild Feat. Fresco P, Black, Symmetry, & BK The General (Prod. by Rumplestiltz) [Video] (2011) album (click here for iTunes) out by Gold From Straw Recordings.

The People's Verdict:  Dope album with three guys from Toronto, who probably won't be confused for Drake.  Babylon Warchild (2011) has that alien Annunaki revolutionary vibe with lyricism more reminiscent of an Immortal Technique.  Rumplestiltz handles an MPC, looper, as well as wielding a cello in live performance, while Legitimate and Unknown Mizery handle the rhyming.  Album features the cats witnessed in action aurally above as well as a song with Reef The Lost Cauze.  Click here for the website.

Revolutionary Theme Music: Babylon Warchild

The Crossroads Episode 25

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Litefoot - I Am It [Official Music Video].


Doctor Dré & Ed Lover Feat. King Just, Todd One, & The Notorious B.I.G. - Who's The Man (1994).

"So heyyea heyyea heyyea ho! / Yah can't catch the flow, too late I let it go / [...]" - Ed Lover


Native Rhythms - Ya-Hey [Jazz-n-Groove Deep Mix].  Click here for the alternate "B's Groove Mix" version.


Gooch featuring Kool G Rap - Fifty Wayz (Kut Masta Kurt Remix) (1997) [HQ].

"I'm from the city that never sleeps / so how can I sleep? / when ever piece is a freak sweating athletes in new jeeps / ain't the type to roll a Cherokee / [...]" - Gooch

Cherokee, Pontiac, Thunderbird, (click here for more info; viz. De Soto), etc. - what's in a name right?

The Crossroads Episode 25

The Origins of Hip Hop - Jamaican Sound System Toasting

"Freedom Train" by U Roy chanting over The Heptones version of "God Bless The Children" (released in JA 1972 on the Pressure Beat label by Joe Gibbs).

Definition: Toasting is a style of lyrical chanting which, in Dancehall music, involves a deejay talking over a riddim. Though the art of chanting over a beat is quite ancient, and found in many African-based musical traditions, toasting became quite popular in Jamaica in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and "sound systems" (traveling deejays and producers with large speakers and a library of beats and riddims) would feature toasting as part of their musical entertainment.

Toasting is not only important in Jamaican music, but also featured heavily in the development of American popular music, as it was Jamaican-born toaster DJ Kool Herc who brought the style to Queens, subsequently setting off the entire history of rap and hip-hop music.

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U-Roy Chant Down Babylon [LIVE] at Montreal Reggae Fest 2009.

The Origins of Hip Hop - Jamaican Sound System Toasting