DrumLanguage

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. [00:08:25] I want to ask you to be brave. [00:08:28] Being brave doesn’t mean not being afraid, it just means going on. I don’t know what tomorrow is going to look like, but I want to imagine it and build it together with you. And it can’t look like what today looks like. [00:08:44] So many people were talking in the last couple months about 'going back to normal.' Man, normal was killing us. Normal is still killing us. Imagine something else, y’all. And listen critically, think critically, cause we are not all saying the same things. And we don’t all have to, but we’ve got to find a way forward and sometimes that means we have to dare. [00:09:19] Sometimes that means we have to be bold. [00:09:23] I’m not going to leave you with no rah-rah slogans, that’s not what I’m feeling right now. We’ve got to all play our positions and bring the thing that our ancestors sent us with. The thing that gives you joy, the thing that makes you feel alive. Bend that into the service of justice and freedom. And you will have done what you came here to do. [00:09:54]

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

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…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

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]

5 years on, @Ayinsko Thunderer & @ManoliaLive offer #AyitiNanMenNou(Haiti in our hands) deeply personal & communal, woven with the words & work of Haitian spirit-workers, artists, activists, diplomats & scholars whom we have interviewed, shared stages, broken bread, spilled rum, & built family with a new narrative, b/c gods know Ayiti needs some sit with it, for the time it takes "Le Negre Marron No. 3" Acrylic on paper 2013 - Euzhan Marjani Lauture Sims by permission of artist http://euzhansimsart.weebly.com voices of #AyitiNanMenNou at https://twitter.com/i/lists/193507696?s=20 Kay La Mande Rouze live at MR Feb 2010 - @PaulBeaubrun excerpt from “Three Years Later, Haiti Endures” (Jan 2013) -@ManoliaLive Kay La Mande Rouze - Zing Experience(@PaulBeaubrun) The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti TEDxUMich - Gina Athena Ulysse Skin Castles - Gina Athena Ulysse CHRONIQUE RFI Erol Josué, directeur du bureau national d'ethnologie, défenseur du vaudou - @AmelieBaron Gédé Nibo ft. Erol Josue - @Vjeanty Remixxxxx by dj sauce batida indiana and john steve brunache - @paul-erick-claude Ayiti (Haiti) - @OkaiMusik #AyitiNanMenM w/Jimmy Jean-Louis Ogou - @TedBeaubrun Rasin feat. Sherley César(@Kreyol-Queen) - @Vjeanty The Freedom Cry - @Monvelyno 2000 Seasons - @TheSeshen Scream 4 Peace (Vokal Retouch)- @DeepJust AQuaBeaT Manyole - Chouk Bwa Libète - @Lakou-Mizik Gran bwa (James Germain Cover from Kreol Mandingue album)- @CyberLive Edwidge Danticat Reads “Tourist” by Felix Morisseau-Leroy @Marc-Bamuthi-Joseph w/ @DanielRoumain at Activating Networks Aliens - @LenelleMoise & Karla Mosley Enmi Pep - Blacka Ft. @2Goutan & Manno Charlemagne(prod. by @Dadou-Vag-Beats) WNYC Soundcheck performance - @CecileSalvant Lecture de Tout bouge autour de moi - Dany Laferriere E Si'l Pavle Vini - @tiga-jean-baptise Femiel - @DanielRoumain Ports of Sorrow interview & reading - Patrick Sylvain Edem Chante - Boukan Ginen(@DZgot Afrodized Remix) As Yet Untitled x Ezili Brooklyn Museum rehearsal tape - @Ayinsko Thunderer & Zing Experience (@PaulBeaubrun & @peyizanproduction) #AyitiNanMenM w/Emeline Michel Freedom Bound - Emeline Michel Timoun - Emeline Michel

part 2 - DrumCircle with Tanisha K. Douglas MSW, activist, teacher, & healer & Marlon Peterson, Peopleworker debts to Lupe, Tony Williams, Nina, The Temptations, Marz, Dilla & Jimi. Abridged tracklist is as follows My Life (The Renegades' Mix) @DynamixRecords, LLC - Mary J Blige Rosie - C.B. & axe gang [Alan Lomax] Old Slaves - Stephen Marley Let my People Go - Darondo Penitentiary Philosophy - Erykah Badu Victims - Steel Pulse Hold On, Be Strong - Outkast Strength/Kangpe (J.Period Dubplate) - Nneka Broken in Brooklyn - Jahdan Blakkamoore Pep La Vilnerab - @ZingExperience There Will Be Tears - Frank Ocean Titans (Prod. by MLHAVS & STNKMNR) - @Sun-Ka Productions LLC Soldier Of Love - Sade One Mic (Live at the Highline Ballroom) - Nas once more, shouts to MC, Sangodara & Kiese

touched down in Brooklyn for a cipher with Tanisha K. Douglas MSW, activist, teacher, & healer & Marlon Peterson, Peopleworker but this is DrumLanguage so call it a DrumCircle love pain truth & hope all in it more here - http://bit.ly/1czUStu Radio Freedom intro- The African National Congress and the People's Army Umkhonto We Sizwe Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)- Jorge Ben Piè Aleman Batala Lemiso- Lakou Badjo Sunshine of Your Love- Bobby McFerrin Everybody Loves The Sunshine- Seu Jorge And Almaz Brooklyn & Jamaica- Morgan Heritage Locked Up For Being (@Brotha-Onaci #Not1More Hip Hop Edit)- Luis Tubens Dying to Live- Blitz the Ambassador feat. John Forte Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment- Christian Scott Run Mary Run:Jubilee @ Weeksville Heritage Ctr- Rashida Bumbray & Dance Diaspora Collective feat. Adenike Sharpley Mandela [Listen to What the Drums Say]- @JasiriX

There are a few real fronts out here these days One of these is food. There are multiple registers of sovereignty In this consumptive world system A free people must needs feed themselves You are now attuned to Drumlanguage Seeds #nogeeMO I pray you will be both moved & fed more here http://bit.ly/1ddtoa7 Footworkin On Air- Traxman Konbit Zaka- Boukman Eksperyans Earth Song vs Sorrow Tears & Blood (Rich Medina Edit) - Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti Rise (Swizz Beatz Remix) - Seun Kuti Tables Will Turn (DJ @HardHittinHarry Afrobeat Mix) - Foxy Brown ft Baby Cham Egbe Mi O / Black Man's Cry (Medley) - Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes Beans & Cornbread- Louis Jordan & the Tympany 5 Bread & Butter- The Roots ft Truck North Eat to Live- Talib Kweli Green Garden (New Life Remix) - Laura Mvula Mango Meat- Mandrill Ingenue- Atoms for Peace 100 Zulu Warriors (Black Coffee Vocal Mix) - 100 Zulu Warriors & Roland Clark

heartbeats to breakbeats skins, traps & steel [pans] & wheels emerging voices from the global south on peoples’ sovereignty, ethics & human rights speak with Drum Language news, views & music dispatches from the corner hoods barrios & favelas more here http://bit.ly/1h88w8h Colonial Man- Masekela KPA Fuca- Keziah Jones Cálice- Criolo Street Sounds- Charlie Hunter Quartet ft.[Yasiin Bey] Fight to Win (for Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap) - @AgentOfChange Tropicalia (@A-Tribe-Called-Red Remix) - Caetano Veloso Time- Hemisphere Hurricane (Instrumental) - DJ @DviousMindZ I Am A Storm- Gina Athena Ulysse Black Skin No Value- Cody ChesnuTT Natasha Bachata- Wyclef Jean Love Jones (Extended Version) - J Dilla