DrumLanguage

Come To Anger by Brother Ayinde

DuSable City promo by Brother Ayinde

Judah - Wangol

Sko: What's happenin family? Let's see… I walked up late, at like 2:08 so I want to give a shout out to the Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk and the Menominee.

[00:02:41] So, we out here talking about the theft of the lives of descendents of stolen people, on stolen land, and a bunch of folks are embarrassed about looting. Right? Is that right?

[00:03:07] I didn’t write no bars, I don’t have no songs in my pocket, I was brought almost to tears. One of the things, one of those lyrics 'Ti moun you pran lwa' that means roughly --it’s the invocation for young people to come to the gods of their ancestors. Now, I’m not a Christian, but Jesus was lynched. All my queer family, Stonewall was a riot led by Black trans women. So, what are you talking about?

[00:03:46] There’s people out here who heard about this day, were invited to this day, and I’m going to try to do well. At the time that they came out they were embarrassed, they were embarrassed at these young people with no degrees and you know like no education and no savoir-faire running around in the streets.

[00:04:15] And they wanted to say 'Yo, they out here. This is not right. This is not the way to dissent.'

[00:04:22] But I have to tell you when I see in L.A. they talking about major steps to defund the police.

[00:04:30] When I see the Minneapolis City Council talking about maybe like police is not what we need at all.

[00:04:37] Then I feel like for those who are embarrassed, like maybe you’re embarrassed because people got up in the street after hundreds of years, and decades, and even just these last four months, where the system told them over and over again that they didn’t care about them, they didn’t care about their voices, they didn’t care about their votes, and they tore down some capital, right? And in two weeks some things are actually changing faster than any of these votes changed anything.

[00:05:22] I’m not sure that I can add a whole lot to what Nick Davis and what brother Winchester and what that young sister Liana gave you. But I’m going to say this: a couple weeks ago a sister of mine called me weeping because there’s enough without George Floyd or Tony McDade or Breonna Taylor. There’s always something to weep about. She said, 'I don’t know. what does liberation look like?' And I can’t tell you that I know what that is, but I’mma just tell you the things that came through me when she asked me. And if you’re here and you’re about that, then you know, do something.

[00:06:17] My big brother Judah said, if you got some privilege risk it. So, we could talk about that, but I’m going to say liberation looks like, so far as I can tell, quiet to hear the voices of our ancestors and descendants.

[00:06:47] Space to live our purposes and destinies.

[00:06:50] Time and access to feel the earth, and touch the sun, and a deep practice of care and honor for each other’s humanity and divinity.

[00:07:00] And if you think that’s like feel-good shit then you don’t know about the strength of the spirit and what that looks like in practice and action. Sometimes what that looks like is self-defense.

[00:07:16] You know, Judah said tell the truth. Last time I was in a crowd this large or this mixed, I got myself in trouble. I was at Niles North High School talking about truth in Black history month. And afterwards I had to do a next set, which was like a teach-in with a whole bunch of faculty and staff to try to figure out how they were going to handle the outcome of what I said.

[00:07:56] Listen, here’s what I’ll say. I want you to listen critically. I want you to continue to talk to each other and among each other. And I want you to think about the things that were said today that were true. Think about the things that were radical, and think about the things that were said out of fear. Think about the things that were said because people want to hold on to the structures that we have right now and are afraid to imagine something new and something different.

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Heal Me (an ABSTRKT AFRIKEN interpretation) @DeepJust AQuaBeat (GetOpen Sessions Music)

The Dark End of the Street Lee "Scratch" Perry

Rectifiya KeiyaA

Blessing _ Troubled Waters (Interlude) Iman Europe

Bright Lights Bigger City CeeLo Green

Love On the Dub Casual Connection

Billie Jean (feat. Jean Rodriguez) Tony Succar

Billie Jean (Long Version) Michael Jackson

Avenues [Instrumental] Refugee Camp All Stars

All Night Long (All Night) [12_ Version] Lionel Richie

Dancè Machel Montano & Jacob Desvarieux

Bobby McFerrin - Thinkin About Your Body Virgin Magnetic Material Remix Li L Le

Lo Que Quieras Tú ChocQuibTown

Sweet in the Mornin' Bobby McFerrin

Helicopters _ Beware Jidenna

Oysters Meshell Ndegeocello

19.10 Childish Gambino

Fight For You H.E.R

Wonderful Burna Boy

uses of the erotic or ...the one about you

…this started as a workout, but spirits kept loud talkin all in my ear. I decided to submit again…

forces out here

proscribing folks’ existence

telling you who you should be

runnin round talkin bout: get like me

thing is,

we have the power to flip they whole demo

reject the false lights & reach down

deep inside for our own spark

mimic the sun & come back on ‘em

manman’m tap di mwen: bayo limyè w

my ancestors avenged the new world

dis generation can avenge the whole world

mwe got that fire

1ce more

again/anko

you are all attuned to DrumLanguage

— let it move you

All soul / No gold ~sko

Emerald City Sequence The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]

Lights Out Santigold

Street Lights Kanye West

All Of The Lights Kanye West

Return of the "G" Outkast

Banm Yon ti Limyè Manno Charlemagne

Phantom of the Synths J Dilla

Light the Way Africa Hitech

Youlogy Shabazz Palaces

Lightwork Lupe Fiasco

Our Bright Future Tracy Chapman

Hero (Intro) Michael Kiwanuka

Dedication (feat. Kendrick Lamar) Nipsey Hussle

Limyè Bokanté

we nah finish [Up ya Lighter] ~sko

Light My Fire J Dilla

From a Spark to a Fire Damon Locks & Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble

Streets on Fire Lupe Fiasco

Life In Marvelous Times Mos Def

Chimen Limyè John Steve Brunache

Lindelani Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Sing to the Moon Laura Mvula

SJGold

6.8.18

Gentleman Meshell Ndegeocello

let it shine T.O.K.

The Glow Willie Hutch x @jcashonthetrack

Shango Angélique Kidjo

Pyramids Common

Universal Mind Control (feat. Pharrell) Common

Stand Tall Childish Gambino

Jump Hi (feat. Childish Gambino) LION BABE

Chief Don't Run (feat. Roman GianArthur) Jidenna

Makeba Jain

Traveling Light (feat. Anderson .Paak) Talib Kweli

Hey Black Child The Black Fairy Cast

Behold, The Only Thing Greater Than Yourself Roots Score

Every Time I Feel The Spirit Paul Robeson

So Flute (Mozambo Remix) St Germain

Shango Waajeed

Flight of the Ancestors @FPTheShit

3 MUJERES (Iború Iboya Ibosheshé) Ifé

Disparate Youth Santigold

Get Ready (feat. M-1) Young Paris

This Is America Childish Gambino

The Light (feat. Bilal, Robert Glasper Jr., Kenneth Whalum, Burniss Earl Travis II) Big K.R.I.T.

So a Child May Follow Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

Tell Me Corinne Bailey Rae

We Are Here to Change the World Michael Jackson

Sango Babatunde Olatunji

Fire for Fire (feat. Kojey Radical) Poté

Red Riddim (feat. Eastern Eagle) A Tribe Called Red

Blessings (feat. Jamila Woods) Chance the Rapper

for Trayvon and Rekia and Renisha and Islan and Jordan and Ramarley and Sandra and Tamir and all the too-soon ancestors, may we tell their stories and make the world better for when they are reborn

Inspired by Viola Davis

To Be Young, Gifted and Black feat. Cody ChestnuTT Meshell Ndegeocello

Is There Anybody Out There? Laura Mvula

True Blues 1 The Last Poets

Bloodletting (Original) Saul Williams

Saints At Congo Square Francisco Mora Catlett[AfroHorn]

Eating the Dead Kamau Brathwaite

Akel Dama (Field of Blood) Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Body Down Novel

Gone Mikkey Halsted & Lupe Fiasco

Blackberry Molasses Mista

Casket Pretty Noname

If You're 17 (Trayvon Martin Tribute) Wyclef Jean

Itutu Song (Funerary Rites) Traditional

LetUSLive Erthe St. James

Scroll Call /Come Alive Cody ChesnuTT

Scroll Call (Danny Swain's OKplayer Remix) Cody ChesnuTT

for Big E

Oxalá Grupo Ofá

Opening Elegba/Obatala (1987) Casselberry-DuPreé

Orin Oxalá 1 - Ile Ase Kale Bokun

On Children Sweet Honey In The Rock

Rise Above Profanity [live] No-Maddz

Rise Above Profanity No-Maddz

Getting Easy Khari Mateen

Ori Ni Kan (Ori is the One) Sola Akingbola

Ayinde Babatunde Olatunji

Black Seeds Keep On Growing The Main Ingredient

Dis Generation A Tribe Called Quest

Obatalá Roman Diaz

I Stay Ready Cody ChesnuTT

intergenerational dialogue for right now

Fiercely urgent

we been the future for a long time,

#PeopleWeReady

De La Soul & Chuck D - The People

Eddie Kendricks /Jay Dilla/ Erykah Badu - My People...Hold On

Kamau Brathwaite - Caliban

Ayinsko Thunderer - The People [a definition in progress]

Common - The People

Margaret Walker - For My People

Black Classical meets Sarah Webster Fabio - Jubilee

Chris Hodgson / Mos Def - Umi Says

Mos Def & Black Jack Johnson - For My People

The Pharaohs ft Sulanya (Sue Conway) - People Make the World Go Round

Eddy François - Mize Pep Sa

Chuck Fenda - Rise Up My People

Seal/ Aretha Franklin [J. Period Mix]/ William Parker ft Amiri Baraka & Leena Conquest - People Get Ready

OhNo - The People [Ayinsko Thunderer intervention]