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About Me

I have interviewed Fela Kuti, The Last Poets and Roy Ayers and contributed to publications both here and in the US including Soul Underground, Straight No Chaser, Spare Rib, Socialist Review and the award-winning Left-Turn.I am a songwriter and poet. Past performances have included: The Black and Asian Film Festival, launch of E.R.A.S.E Ending Reliance and Supporting Empowerment, Organic and I am a stalwart artist at INSPIRE. My work is about being honest and expressing my feelings about a world turned upside down by Capatalism. Despite the inequality and corruption there is immense love and beauty. My aim is to capture all the contradictions of the short trip we call life in glorious detail. If I light the fuse of creativity in anybody I feel honoured. I am a revolutionary and believe in using words and music for agitation and propaganda purposes. Also music and lyrics are my method of engaging and understanding myself.I have a catalogue of songs and am always on the look-out for enlightened collaborators. If you share my vision, have an adventurous taste in music, get excited by challenging lyrics and endeavour to be inclusive in your behaviour, welcome to my world.I'm on the look-out for producers, musicians and rappers who are prepared to work through the changes musical artistic expression can bring.If this sounds like you, step up.One Love Adeola

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Member Since: 7/6/2007
Band Members: Adeola Johnson
Influences: Gil Scot Heron, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Paul Robeson, The Last Poets, Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Assaata Shakur, The Black Panthers, Motown, The Specials, Velvet Underground, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx, Richie Havens, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Common, Dead Prez, Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield, Billie, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, Los Van Van, Soulcyde, Nick Drake, Roy Ayers, African Art, Prince, The Beatles, Tracey Chapman, Stop The War, Respect, Lee Perry, Stax, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Lovers Rock, Cuba, Santaria, Simon and Garfunkel, Terry Callier, Karen Wheeler, Spearhead, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Minni Ripperton, Stevie Wonder, D'angelo, Angie Stone, KRS1, Philly, Luther Vandross, John Lennon, Zora Neale Hurston, Spike Lee, Sidney Poitier, Oscar Wilde, Shakepeare, Shelley, Meditation, SWP, British Soul, Light of the World, Beggar and Co, R.I.P Max Roach, Nelson George, Ali, The Tell It Like It Is (Campaign and book to stop black children failing in schools), Winston Silcott, Stephen Lawrence, Rock Against Racism, Johnny Cash, Sylvester, Raphael Saadiq, Love, Love, Love "A revolution in how I came to be".
Sounds Like: You tell me.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ggg Gun Gun

Ggg Gun Gun Ggg Gun Gun Shred of lead to take you out Black blood go run run What was the beef beef? That lead to grief grief Mama's bawling as she's laying down your wreath wreath A ghettoe war...
Posted by Adeola Johnson on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:05:00 PST

Jena 6 Petitions to Governor Blanco and DA Walters

Dear Governor Blanco, I am writing to request your intervention into a situation of great injustice taking place in Jena, LA, as well as a written response to this letter. Last fall, when two Black ...
Posted by Adeola Johnson on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:10:00 PST

Nothing in the N word

Nothing in the n word Boosts my dignity Nothing in the n word Tells of my fighting history There's a photo in my minds eye Reveals a bygone picnic scene Where the entertainment play out Is repellent a...
Posted by Adeola Johnson on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:53:00 PST