Kehinde 🇳🇬
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Rutgers PhD candidate: “I write without knowing the outcome of what I write/ I look between the lines/ My image is the lamp lit in the middle of the night” - OP
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To learn, exchange, and curate the history of Black Music and arts in community. I’ve met some great people on here just by doing that 🖤
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Has Kendrick ever in his over 12 year career come out and said or implied he was a “black messiah” or freedom fighter or are folks just going off of publications insisting that he is? I’ve been listening since the Kendrick Lamar EP, and never got the sense that he thinks he is.
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If you are 30 and over, be weary of how you speak to those younger than you. Do not allow your pessimism in the world to pollute the imagination of those that come after you. Allow the youth to dream big and fight for things that you will not see in your lifetime.
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Rest in music to one of the gods of music, Lee Scratch Perry 🇯🇲
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“True Black Music will be heard tonight”
- Roland Kirk
The story behind this Ed Sullivan appearance in 1971 is worth reading (contd.)
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Lots of surface level/vibe generalizations going on with interpretations of Kendrick’s music that has always concretized to me that a lot of folks who speak on rap don’t like rap but love its ability to produce spectacle or narratives that generate revenue
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Every Jazz musician in the 60s had a “Fuck you, Miles Davis” story 😂
Even Archie Shepp
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Madlib really put together the best ode to a fallen friend ever when he made “For My Mans”
Peace to Dilla forever 🖤
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Give it some time, and you will encounter some of the most diverse music styles you’ll ever listen to in this modern era
Peace to
@PinkSiifu
✊🏾
Tried to listen to Pink Siifu. It’s not clicking for me just yet.
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@John_Liberator
This! There’s such a political vacuum in hip hop and anyone who ostensibly grapples with racial politics automatically gets sloppily projected into freedom fighter status without any deeper inquiry into their political affiliations. Shit is so lazy
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Rest in music to Brazil’s own, Rita Lee 🇧🇷 still one of my favorite songs of all time 🖤
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Oluwatoyin means God is worthy to be praised. She is worthy to be praised and loved ❤️ forever.
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If you like the new Andre 3000 album, Roland Young’s 1980 album, “Isophonic Boogie Woogie” and Byard Lancaster’s 1979 album, “Personal Testimony,” might also be up your alley 👌🏾
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“One time for your mind
Two times for Mumia, Sekou”
“I am not an American citizen. I am a victim of America.”
Rest in everlasting power to Sekou Odinga ✊🏾
Breaking News: It is with great sorrow that I report that legendary Black Panther Party member Sekou Odinga has passed. Sekou was a member of the Black Liberation Army and former Political Prisoner. He literally helped free Assata. Rest In Power
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Memories Of J. W. Coltrane … a song Pharoah performed at the East in 1971. 4 years after Coltrane’s passing. Now 51 years later you have passed on Coltrane’s born day. We will have many memories of you, Pharoah Sanders. Rest in Music ✨🖤
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“The most dangerous weapon of mass destruction is bullshit”
- Amiri Baraka
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All in all, folks need to go read Greg Tate and remember Yasiin Bey’s words:
“Beef is oil prices and geopolitics/
Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip”
“Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic,
Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight”
- Mos Def
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I’m particularly pointing this out because of Drake’s “freed the slaves” bar which, to me, is such a lazy read of Kendrick’s music.
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“Why does it take a white man to discover black men?”
A jewel from Archie Shepp
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Cecil Taylor reviewing John Coltrane’s album, Soultrane, in 1959 for The Jazz Review
“Coltrane at times seems to play
away from everyone rhythmically,
and yet his line has a time that is
angular and evil and laden with its
own rhythm.”
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You can read an example of why this is true in Michael Heller’s book on the 1970s NYC loft era 🙏🏾
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🖤 God Bless Harry Belafonte’s life. One of courage, Art, and an unrelenting commitment to Black People everywhere
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier on Soul! (1970)
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@officialegle
He’s wearing that iconography to deconstruct the notion of a savior—the album makes this point quite explicit.
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Rest in Peace to the great Wayne Shorter🖤
"I knew Wayne Shorter first in Newark where we were both, malevolently, born. He was one of the two 'weird' Shorter brothers that people mentioned occasionally, usually as a metaphorical reference, "...as weird as Wayne." - Baraka, 1959
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Born 100 years ago, but his music will last forever 🖤 Happy Mingus Day
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Just so it’s clear:
I am not defending Kendrick’s politics. It seems to me that when I listen to his music that he’s constantly affirming that his politics are not to be heralded. He wears his contradictions openly. Not saluting that, just stating it as a matter of fact
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@kentekuzan
Exactly. How many times does Kendrick need to say that he’s not “your savior” before folks take him seriously?
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Kendrick rhyming over Teddy Pendergrass gave me Ghostface flashbacks 😂🔥
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I really love Max Roach’s subtle use of the word “attempt” here, as it leaves an opening on what the African American Instrumental music tradition was and can become:
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Copy pasted the exact same ceasefire Hamas presented about a month ago…..
but of course Biden hopes your too stupid to remember this 🥴 I can see the historical revisionist tales already on the way
Israel has now offered a roadmap to an enduring ceasefire – and the release of all the hostages.
Yesterday, this proposal was transmitted by Qatar to Hamas.
Today, I want to lay out its terms for the world.
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Ornette’s thoughts on what it will take for Improvised Music to survive (1987)
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This month I will constantly be updating this thread w/ some of my favorite Jazz liner notes. I've always marveled at how musicians used this space to politically and poetically speak on their own terms. First on the list: Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor 1966
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Used to spend hours listening to her music. We will forever bask in the shadow of your voice. Rest in music to Astrud Gilberto 🖤
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Fort Worth, Texas needs an Ornette Coleman statue
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Rest in peace to Tony Oxley 🖤
Here he is with Derek Bailey at the Knitting Factory (1995)
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Cecil Taylor speaking on the limits of a form of music journalism that is fixated on practicality and not, what he calls, “magic”
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“Negroes say let’s stick together then make funny moves
Black is beautiful, brother, but it ain’t super glue”
-
@BackwoodzHipHop
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Dhoruba Bin-Wahad welcoming Mandela to Harlem in 1990 on behalf of all political prisoners 🥲
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Happy 85th born day to a living legend in Black Music, Archie Shepp.
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Oppenheimer might be one of the best depictions of the mobilization of anti-communism as a silencer Ive seen in film in quite some time. I think the film also plays well with the limits of representing & reproducing violence on film (seizure of indigenous land in NM & Hiroshima)
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@officialegle
The lyrics themselves deconstruct the image. I don’t think it’s too much to ask listeners to actually listen to him explicitly say “I’m an not your savior.”
Def not a Stan of either artists, but just want to push the conversation beyond unfounded and contested grand narratives.
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Peace to Derek Bailey, who passed away on Christmas 16 years ago.
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This YouTube channel has all the gems! 😵
Sam Rivers, Norman Connors and Barry Altschul at Studio Rivbea 1973
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Happy Born day to the spirit of Rashied Ali. One of the greatest drummers of all time, and he had the best Coltrane stories. This one, I feel, is one of the most important stories:
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There are things that have happened in our lifetime that were deemed inconceivable to our ancestors— you are not immune to this position. Do not let selfishness and ego stand in the way of giving the youth all the affirmation they need to fight for a world you won’t live to see.
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Notice how Black Capitalism masquerades itself in the language of “inclusion.”
Homie was Citigroup’s Vice Chairman, and we all remember Citigroup’s role in the 2008 recession. Homie has the audacity to talk about the Black plight when he’s a part of the plight.
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I don’t know why, but this moment, this dialogue made my day. Lowkey emotional. Cause legends in the game don’t often get a chance to talk like this. And I’ve never listened to Ironman (prob my favorite Ghost album) w/the thought that he had just been diagnosed w/diabetes. Man...
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@Harmony_Holiday
Makes me think of an interview Sun Ra had where he talked about being neglected 😓 And what’s even more sad to acknowledge is that with all the talk of Afro-futurism in academia today, they still don’t get it.
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Pharaohe Monch’s verse on “Bring it on”
What’s the biggest I’M HIM/I’M HER moment from an artist?
Tryna find moments I might have missed…
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Julius Hemphill explained it best 🤷🏾♂️
Jazz heads. I was thinking last night and wondering why very rarely do I hear people express love for Wynton Marsalis as musician…He’s the most famous jazz musician of his generation and his name doesn’t come up that often when it’s time to name faves.
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Whether it’s the destruction of black neighborhoods to build all white schools, the economic fragmentation of Overtown by i-95, or the murder of Arthur McDuffie, there’s a history of violence against Black folk in Miami that isn’t discussed nearly enough
Today in Black Miami history, Arthur McDuffie a beloved insurance salesman & veteran, was pulled over by Miami police on his motorcycle Dec. 17, 1979 & beaten violently with clubs and heavy duty flashlights.
He died 4 days later. His death led to the 1980 McDuffie Rebellion.
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album from the 90s you think everyone should hear...
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Peace to the soul of Ornette on his born day. May we all be as free as his breath was.
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😣 prayers for Pharoah Sanders 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thinking of these two today my Mentors and Masters. Happy Heavenly Birthday John Coltrane! And asking for prayers for Pharoah Sanders and his family, as he is in the hospital.
#tenorsaxophone
#jazz
#legends
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Neneh Cherry telling some rich stories about her father, Don Cherry 🖤
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Happy 82nd Born Day to a legend in music, Andrew Cyrille 🖤✊🏾
Live in his wise words for the rest of the evening. Jazz cannot die 😎
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“Poet Laureate, swift chariot, the Maserat'
The one to watch, born the year of the ox
I got more than a reason to revel like
@desusnice
and
@THEKIDMERO
Lyrical religious hero on Jesus' level”
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@blackthought
You know you’ve made it when end up in a Black thought bar ✊🏾
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From Rob Backus, Fire Music 1976
Resistance is always necessary. Black Music is forged in the spirit of resistance.
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Rest in peace to a music legend 😢
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Cecil Taylor speaking on Miles Davis:
“He plays all right for a millionaire.”
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“When I say poet, it's an arbitrary word. It's a word I use because I don't like the word artist. Nina Simone is a poet. Max Roach is a poet. There is a whole list of people. I'm not talking about literature at all. I'm talking about the recreation of experience..”
- Baldwin
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“Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic,
Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight”
- Mos Def
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This is one of the greatest things I’ve seen in quite a long time 🔥🔥
Eternal peace to Sharrock ✊🏾
"This is going on the radio, might as well strike a bolt for freedom. This is dedicated to the South African government, the Israeli government, & those brothers that are gonna get your ass on the way home."
Sonny Sharrock Quartet, "Stupid Fuck" (1988)
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Who would you say are musical soulmates?
I’ll start with these two:
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Happy Born Day to the legend, Duke Ellington.
Here he is with Archie Shepp and Cootie Williams in 1969
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“Outside lie dark turned fields, with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. A solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. Blacks in the fields lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bowls of cotton. The shadowed agony”🖤
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "No Country for Old Men," "The Road," and "Blood Meridian," has died. He was 89
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For my folks 50 and over, your lived experience is not a substitute for picking up a new book or engaging with the youth. Yes, the world you’ve lived is vital and its context matters for the world we live in today—but it is not all encompassing.
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Peace to
@moormother
for giving me the opportunity to write liner notes for this phenomenal album 🙌🏾🖤 forever grateful.
Go cop Jazz codes at a record store near you!
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