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SOLDIERS OF SATAN
HIP-HOP IS DEAD. Nas has said what I’ve been saying since the late-nineties. The Corporations have monopolized the industry and a generation of prostitute-rappers has been born. With the exception of a few rap veterans and the underground, some originality can still be found.
I’m not a Political Rapper. I’m not a Gangsta Rapper. I’m not a Pop Artist. I make music based on how I’m feeling at the time. And at this point in time, WAR happens to be a part of daily life. Not only the War in Iraq, but also the never-ending Religious War, Race War, Class War, Culture War, Gang War, and the War within ourselves. Music has always been my gift and burden. It is my weapon in the fight for change, and it is the parasite that keeps me up at night. Coming soon... Ravage 2099-Ghost Town.
"The creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as opposed to ideal) gods of our society--- the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the "idols" of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people." -Rollo May
"The child we were and are learns by exploring and experimenting, insistently snooping into every little corner that is open to us--and into the forbidden corners too! But sooner or later our wings get clipped. The real world created gy grown-ups comes to bear down upon growing children, molding them into progressively more predictable members of society, This devolutionary process is reinforced throughout the life cycle, from kindergarten through university, in social and political life, and most expecially in the world of work, Our newest and most powerful educational institutions, television and pop music, are even more thorough than school in inculcating mass-produced conformity. People are grown as a kind of food to be gobbled up by the system. Slowly our eyes begin to narrow. Thus the simplicity, intelligence, and power of mind at play become homogenized into complexity, conformity, and weakness."
"Fidget" Comes from an Old Norse word that means "to desire eagerly." Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on. We are taught to be bored, to seek easy entertainment, to ardently desire the ephemeral. There are multibillion-dollar industries--television, alcohol, tobacco, drugs--based on feeding this fear of emptiness. They provide opportunities for our eyes and brains to fidget and forget. Shorter and shorter attention spans are inculcated in us by the rhythms of society, which become increasingly nervous and jittery, which shorten our attention spans further--another vicious circle."
"In Politics more than in any other sphere of life, what most clogs creativity is fear. What we see behind the seeming impossibility of humans to make peace among ourselves or with the planet that nurtures us is a kind of rigidity, freezing us into outmoded categories and frames of reference. This is why totalitarian states and fudamentalist religions make it their first order of business to restrict free speech, art, film, and other avenues of expression and communication. Humor in particular is anathema in such settings."
"Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars, involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the Earth."
-Stephen Nachmanovitch
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