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mal_tiempo

Aug 14 2005, 02:59 PM

Well, I love Talib Kweli, and Mos Def is kinda alright to me so I checked out the group they formed called Black Star. One album. Fucking awesome. BET and MTV be damned, this is real hip-hop. If you actually check out the album (just look up Black Star in the iTMS) tracks you really wanna get:

Respiration-> Marcus Garvey is alive and well in this song. Working class and urban residents get fucked everyday.
Thieves in the Night-> along the same lines as Respiration.

For those who don't know who Marcus Garvey is:

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Garvey's ideas particularly resonated with African Americans during the postwar period. At the core of Garvey's program was an emphasis on black economic self-reliance, black people’s rights to political self-determination, and the founding of a black nation on the continent of Africa. . . .

Perhaps the largest endeavor of the UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (UNIA,) was the Black Star Steamship Line, an enterprise intended to provide a means for African Americans to return to Africa while also enabling black people around the Atlantic to exchange goods and services. The company’s three ships (one called the SS Frederick Douglass) were owned and operated by black people and made travel and trade possible between their United States, Caribbean, Central American, and African stops. The economically independent Black Star Line was a symbol of pride for blacks and seemed to attract more members to the UNIA . . . .

As a result of large financial obligations and managerial errors, the Black Star Line failed in 1921 and ended operations. . . . Early in 1922 Garvey was indicted on mail fraud charges regarding the Black Star Line's stock sale. . . . [Garvey was convicted but released after serving three years in federal prison. He was then deported to Jamaica.] In the United States Garveyism was central to the development of the black consciousness and pride at the core of the twentieth-century freedom-movement.

These guys aren't your typical "gangsta" artists. They actually give a fuck about something else besides making money. And they don't glorify drug dealing as the new "in" thing to do. In other words, they kick the ass of just about every hip-hop artist around. Listen to the album!! I command THEEEE!!!

Versellios

Aug 14 2005, 03:12 PM

Dude, where you been?

These guys and peeps like Pete Rock, Common, MF Doom, Planet Asia, Eric Sermon and KRS One are keeping true hip hop alive. FUCK BLING!!

mal_tiempo

Aug 14 2005, 03:29 PM

Dude, like, duuuuude

I've had the one song "Respiration" for a long time and decided to check out the rest of the album. I also *ahem* obtained a copy of Common's new album. I've also heard that T. Kwili (+10 if you know what song on the album "Quality" that name is from) and Mos Def are actually working on some new albums for next year. And Kweli is definitely gonna put out some mixtapes. That is why I hate being in FL, no way to get that shit unless I knew someone up north.

Carcharodont

Aug 14 2005, 04:46 PM

.......but they have a 'red' star in the picture. The creator of it must have some new variant of color blindness.

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