"The System" *Music Video* from Babylon Warchild

Babylon Warchild (Unknown Mizery x Legitimate) - The System (Prod. by St. Peter) [Official Music Video] off their upcoming alum The Gatekeepers (2012).

"The System" *Music Video* from Babylon Warchild

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 9: Turtle Island Architecture

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In 2000, Congress authorized the Wakpa Sica Historical Society (WSHS) to receive $18.2 million in grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to build the Reconciliation Place on land it placed in trust for eleven tribes of the Sioux Nation. The Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place will house an economic development center, the Tribal Judicial Support Center, the Native American Mediation Training Center, and the Sioux Nation Supreme Court. The Cultural Center will display and interpret tribal history, art, and culture.

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"Chilling in my TP / no Indian, but he be / the realest shit I must admit / I'm basking in my feces / [...]" - Kendrick Lamar


J-Lie Feat. Curren$y, Kendrick Lamar & Mickey Factz - Double XL

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The Lakota term for this project is Ake Okiciyuwastepi Wolakota Tipi. Its literal meaning is "house of people who come together again to share and to bring peace and goodness." The goal of the project is to build a place where all people can gather to work for better cultural understanding and improved justice.

The Reconciliation Place is being built on land that has been returned in trust to the Tribes of the Sioux Nation by Congress. This breakthrough project has been under developement for 16 years.

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The above is an example of modern Native American architecture; Oxford University Press's Native American Architecture (1990) book description says that "For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life." (Via.)

Below is a photograph of the Tribal Office Headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST), located in Fort Yates, ND, the reservation where Sitting Bull was murdered.

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"The Movement is deep-rooted / [...]" - Iomos Marad

Unknown Mizery Feat. PeepTheRevolution All Stars - Peep The Revolution.  YouTube Description: "Featuring:. ALI THE SON OF ABDUL, CROOKED SHAKESPEARE, NENA BLEU, LIFE LONG, CHECKMATE, IOMOS MARAD, ILLSKILLED and RESPECT THA GOD / Produced by: Aneeway Jones / Album: Empty Handed Warrior / The album is a collaboration project with UNKNOWN MIZERY (Canada) and producer ANEEWAY (France)."  This song features collaborators from Canada, Brooklyn, NJ, Chi Town, & France.

"Street corners feel cornered in the fear of the road / [...] I can speak to the trees, listen to a shell as I free to a seashell / whisper to a jail how I've grown in my speech / [...]"  - First Verse

"Spliff in my hand, feel the half of a gram / combine my energy and transform / water to sand, wander these stolen lands / make music cause I need it / intentions loyal, who believes him? / not even his seed sees him / give me a piece of reason, they rather give me a piece for squeezin' / no peace in Eden, pack a peace pipe with a piece of green 'n' / raise my middle finger to the world / before my end day, join for peace achievin' / how can you tell her to smile with a broken heart? / how can you tell him to stop his crime, how's he going to fill the shopping cart? / We need to know who we are, turn off the TV / and turn this on / [PEEP THE REVOLUTION / PEEP THE REVOLUTION, THE REVOLUTION] / [...]" - Second Verse

"The book'suh eye doctor to the blind and eye patch wearin' cyclops(-es) / unlock your optics, see my people skyrocket / set 'em free, 12 bars of revolution, mentally / secrets held the key - decipher signs that's sent to me / th' spiritual awakening, sounds of levees breaking / the comet's coming, Mother Earth is spinning and shaking / a master mason building with planets and constellations / escape the domination with powers of concentration / meditation 's helped me evade being assimilated / the Matrix always waiting for rebels to be eliminated / that's the cycle, your life force is really the gem / far from where we started, but it's coming back around again /" - Third Verse

Incidentally, many traditional Native American societies view time as circular, rather than strictly linear.

The Crossroads Episode 9: Turtle Island Architecture