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Name: Dreamers (feat. Mai Khalil)
Artist: Lowkey
Album: Soundtrack to the Struggle
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Lowkey - Dreamers (feat. Mai Khalil)
Sometimes I really really hate myself / Sometimes I wish that I could change myself / Sometimes I don’t wanna give no more / Sometimes I just don’t wanna live no more -
"I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing … the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood."
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Nneka - Melroze Magazine
I do the music in the first place without my mind. I’m not very rational about it. I feel that the fact that I gained the inspiration in the dark, I use music as a sort of tube, a transmitter, kind of like a transition, a possibility for darkness to become light.
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"Now competition is none / Now that you’re gone / And these brothers is wrong / Using your name in vain / And they claim to be New York’s King."
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K'Naan Discusses Nas' Comments About Africa And Explains Why Other Rappers Backgrounds "Can't Hold A Candle" To His | HipHop DX
Yeah, man. I mean, I got a history that is a lot more – to put it mildly – directly impacted [by violence] than a lot of rappers. A lot of rappers that talk all that street talk can’t really hold a candle to the kind of experiences I’m talking about. And so, why then should I have been all these years kind of in the back, just watching it all unfold? And nobody really gives the kind of credit and due something like that deserves.
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Name: Nothing To Lose (feat. Nas)
Artist: K'naan
Album: More Beautiful Than Silence
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K’naan - Nothing to Lose (feat. Nas)
No, I don’t know pilots / N—-a, I know pirates
two of my favorite artists.
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Name: Toast to the Dead
Artist: Immortal Technique
Album: The Martyr
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Immortal Technique - Toast to the Dead (prod. J. Dilla) (cuts by DJ Green Lantern)
Fuck a moment of silence, I need a moment of violence / Like the nineteenth century Caribbean islands.
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"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life."
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Lowkey - Obama Nation Pt. 2 (feat. M-1 & Black the Ripper)
A master of disguise, expert at telling lies / And then they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize
(Source: youtube.com)
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Name: Keisha's Song (feat. Ashtro Bot)
Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Album: Section.80
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Kendrick Lamar - Keisha’s Song (feat. Ashtro Bot)
And in her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where / Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat / Rosa Parks never a factor when she making ends meet
This Raw Cold Life
This raw cold life is a beautiful thing. —Mos Def
My name is Shaun and I make paintings, drawings, and poems. My art is a reaction (one of many) to the countless and varied inspirations I encounter. This is an informal collection of such things, too scattered and far-reaching to be condensed into a single label.
See my art: shaungribouski.com
