The Crossroads Episode 10

Naturally Amazing - Streets Git A Hold Of Me (Blacksmith Presents: The Community Mixtape)

"I ride out like a native / that's shouts out to my Apache / [...]" - Naturally Amazing


J. Cole Feat. Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies off The Warm Up mixtape.

Yea, ay, look / when she talks she so closed minded / all she want to do is shop / she so clothes minded / wanna cop the latest before them other hoes find it / material girl yet somehow I don't mind it / probably cause she so fine it will blow your mind - she black and Pocahontas / [...]" - J. Cole  (Had to check that he said "Pocahontas" (Via.).)


60 Second Assassin Feat. Timbo King, 12 O'Clock, & Chi-King - Clockz N' Kingz off Sunz Of Man Presents: 60 Second Assassin - Remarkable Timing (2010).

"Counter clockwise, count the troops, not the lies / I see through your foolish attempts with closed eyes / I'm Sitting Bull with a peace pipe, wanna pull? / Got timberwolves dressed in all, sheep's wool / From the blocks to the box, from the fingers to the tops / Less is much more, but my need's a whole lot / [...]" - Timbo King (Via.)


Johnny Spanish - Raw Talent (The Lip).

"I been wanting this since I was 5, playing the piano / th'hustler in the streets, wondering if the D ain't know / so you can find me in the back of the beamer / rolling up a whole Sacagawea / know that I happen to be thuh / illest from my city dawg / [...]" - Johnny Spanish

As much as I love hip-hop and as much as it loves drugs, the fact that it makes nearly everything (Jimi Hendrix, Sacagawea, Sitting Bull, etc., et al.) into a reference to it can be exasperating at times.  Or just entertaining.  Sacagawea wiki here.

Again, not exactly hip-hop, although I'm still waiting for the Jack White x Jay-Z song(s)...

The White Stripes - Icky Thump.

"White Americans, what, nothin' better to do? / Why don't you kick yourself out?  You're an immigrant, too / Who's usin' who?  What should we do? / Well, you know you can't be a pimp and a prostitute, too / [...]" - Jack White (Via.)

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"The memory of oppressed people cannot be taken away and for such people revolt is always an inch below the surface." - Howard Zinn

Even The Rain movie trailer  (Via.)

I love Slick Rick, but this song is racist as . . .

Slick Rick - Indian Girl (An Adult Story).

"Freedom isn't given - it's taken / Freedom isn't free (It's earned) / Not known, it's learned / [...]" - Chrisette Michele

Chrisette Michele Feat. Talib Kweli & Black Thought - Let Freedom Reign.

"America the beautiful, suspect as usual / liberty and death, give me freedom or a funeral / I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant / my rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science / cause my evidence is spiritual / I know my sheer presence is a miracle / I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you / but here I am, standing with my chest out / I take my place in history I never get left out / you stressed out and scared so it's causing you to act hard / freedom ain't free, gotta put it on my black card / my passport claim I'm an American citizen / the constitution and three-fifths / I'm not a simian gorilla / make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon / truth is [settlers(?)] gave the native people syphilis / consider this: Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin' / so let's stop calling our native brothers Indians." - Talib Kweli

"We were carried here in shackles from the homelands / [...] all I'm trying to do is stay true to my community / the daily news ain't the only thing schooling me / watching these haters operating with impunity / running out of time, out of sight, out of mind / it gets realer and it's real in Palestine / troubles of the world start to seem intertwined / war criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home / and five star generals telling lies in press conferences and interviews / I'm trying to take back the power because it's been abused." - Black Thought

[REPOST]

Lupe Fiasco Feat. Jay-Z - Sittin' Sideways (Verse Remix).

"I seen 'em brawl for it, right on the wall for it / get kicked out the mall for it, run from the law for it / see things they should've never saw for it / long as it all well, Almighty, alrighty, they all for it, uh / Blackhawk fitted, get hit in the jaw for it / blue and black,  - Lupe Fiasco (2nd Verse)

Also, rare photos of "uncontacted tribes" here (Yahoo news article) or here (Survival International; a charitable organization that attempts to help indigenous people worldwide maintain their traditional lifestyles and assert their aboriginal/treaty rights).

(Via.)

Click here to take action for uncontacted tribes if you care to.

(Pocahontas, like Sambo, is a racial stereotype.)

(Via.)

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