.... and so death came into my house claiming to bring peace. We laughed and cried and became best friends, and now death serves as a constant reminder to remain both humble and fierce all in the same breath.?/K THYSELF
"ERIE AVENUE STAND UP !!! ..." ?/K elinaj
OPA LOCKA , THE SWATTS, CHI CHI NITZA (YUCANTON PENINSULA), ROARING RIVERS (JAMAICA) AND ALL OTHER INDIGENOUS LAND STOLEN FROM OUR PARENTS !!!
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Philly native Thyself is comin’ to bring Hip Hop back to what it is supposed to be. Truth. Producer, Lyricist, Artist and Master of Ceremony; he is Hip Hop.Raised in the city of brotherly love, or more aptly, the birthplace of police terrorism; the environment that produced El was literally a war zone. At a young age Elinaj watched his city erupt when the Police bombed the house of Philadelphia’s MOVE organization while serving an eviction to the civil rights group. This vicious attack killed men, women and children and destroyed 3 city blocks in an all Black neighborhood. It left only one adult survivor, Ramona Afrika and it left an indelible impression on a young man coming of age. An MC was born and he shall be called Elinaj.The Philly streets that nurtured El were rich in Black Panther history and instilled in Thyself a sense of duty and community. Not only is he an artist, he's active in his community tutoring and mentoring young folk. He's worked with the Freedom Schools and on the campaigns of several incarcerated political prisoners, including throwing Hip Hop festivals to raise monies for the community.When it comes to the business of music, there is no one more focused, motivated and serious than, Thyself. Recently El wrapped up a promotional tour with R & B artist, producer Dre Allen promoting his Ghetto Rockstar CD, where he was accompanied by Grammy award winner Dawn Robinson of En Vogue and Lucy Pearl. He was a part of the promotional team working 10 to 15 hour days, six sometimes seven days a week, selling CD’s, scoping out hot spots and researching radio stations and DJ’s.With the heart of a lion he walks with a presence that enters a room long before he hits the door. Cloaked in this kind of energy, it’s easy to understand why El is dubbed, THE IMMORTAL MAGICIAN. He’s shared the same block and the same mic with Philly All Stars - Floetry, The Roots and Jill Scott. But don’t trip; this MC can hold a mic on his own.His "tell it like it is" lyrics are straight forward, socially relevant with meaty verses that leave you satisfied. It’s grimy yet inspiring. It’s thought provoking and liberating. It's dark and it's light. It’ll cut you like a double-edge sword. Love it or hate it, El’s music will grab your attention. Witness the Elinaj magic.MARVIN GAYE - SPACE REINCARNATION
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" You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution" ...FRED HAMPTON
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ZULU PRAYERWe Amazulus( The Peoples of The Heavens),bare witness to our way of life (Religion) which is Truth,back by facts of the known and not just beliefs althoughwe do have beliefs, we are always seeking,Truth of the Known and the Unseen, which is yet Known.We Amazulus respect The Scriptures of The Force,Who is The Source of us all, who sent down wordsand written words to all the Prophets, Messengersand Warner's of The Creator, The Supreme One.We Amazulus call on The Spirits of all our Ancestorsfrom the past, whom did righteousness, in theName of The Force, who is The Source, the Angels andother Life Forms,who do righteousness,In The Name of The Force, to watch over all ofAmazulus and all Human Beings on this planetso called Earth. We Amazulus call onThe Force, who is The Source, to blessThe Universal Zulu Nation always, to watch over,Mother Earth and all the Planets and Universes.To keep us always protected from our Earthly enemies,Subterranean Worlds enemies, Interplanetary enemies,Solar Systems enemies, Galactic enemies, Star Systems enemies,Dimensional enemies, Universe and Universes enemies.Oh Great Force, who is The Source, keep us strongand healthy in Mind, Body, and Soul. Keep us on a straightpath of righteousness and even if we fall of grace,here and there, keep us always searching for:Right Knowledge, Right Wisdom, Right Understanding,for we can Overstand as Gods and Goddesses andSound Right Reasoning.ALL PRAISE DUE TO THE FORCE, WHO IS THE SOURCEOF US ALL.US BEINGAs we prepare to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I take this opportunity to share with you portions of a sermon he delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31st 1968. Dr. King’s thoughts and concerns are as valid today as they were thirty-three ago.Dr. King reminded us on that occasion of the often-overlooked social reality embedded in the story of "Rip Van Winkle." When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountain, a sign had a picture of King George the Third of England. When he came down twenty years later the sign had a picture of George Washington. Things were different all right -- in effect, Rip had slept through a revolution. He slept through changes that altered the course of history. Dr. King’s point:“One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands.They end up sleeping through a revolution.â€The “revolution†today is more of an evolution in technology, demography, and society. Nonetheless, the challenges are as demanding as if it were a “revolution.†Dr. King’s own words best capture the demands of the day in our communities, this nation and the world:“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.â€A reality is that science and technology have compressed time, space and distance to create a “global village.†However, the village seems to be one of strangers, not of neighbors. A village of individual interests, not of collective concern. On these points, Dr. King’s admonishment in 1968 is just as applicable today:“Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.â€Dr. King further reminds us of our inter-dependence when he states that “we must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.â€Dr. King’s message is quite clear in these regards, while we all are not the targets of hate, discrimination and bigotry based on race, color and ethnicity, we are all the victims of these social ills.Dr. King also reminded those gathered in 1968 of the “challenge to eradicate the last vestiges of racial injustice from our nation.†He stated:“It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of White Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle -- the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly -- to get rid of the disease of racism.â€Progress in race relations cannot be left to the goodwill and effort of others. It is a responsibility that falls squarely on the shoulders of every member of our organizations and communities. The mere passage of time will not excise the evils of racism and discrimination. Active efforts must continue in the present and we must be deliberate in our planning to address these concerns in the future. Our children and grandchildren deserve a better inheritance than trite platitudes denouncing racism and symbolic efforts toward its eradication.On this point, Dr. King’s words are instructive:“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."Dr. King realized in his day, many of us today acknowledge, and many more “must come to see that the roots of racism are very deep in our country, and there must be something positive and massive in order to get rid of all the effects of racism and the tragedies of racial injustice.â€In the closing of his sermon, Dr. King reminded us that “there comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.†I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say that racism is wrong, eradicating it is right. Discrimination is wrong, eliminating it is right. Racial injustice is wrong, fundamental fairness for all is right.These are some of the challenges Dr. King reminded those gathered in Washington D.C. in 1968; these are the challenges that we are faced with in the year 2000, and beyond. These are important and critical matters that must be faced and resolved. As we face these challenges I am hopeful Dr. King’s words will serve to motivate us:"Our days begin to end when the day that we become silent about things that matter.†What life has taught me I would like to share with Those who want to learn...Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war, me say warThat until there are no longer first class And second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say warThat until the basic human rights are equally Guaranteed to all, without regard to race Dis a warThat until that day The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship Rule of international morality Will remain in but a fleeting illusion To be persued, but never attained Now everywhere is war, warAnd until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique, South Africa sub-human bondage Have been toppled, utterly destroyed Well, everywhere is war, me say warWar in the east, war in the west War up north, war down south War, war, rumours of warAnd until that day, the African continent Will not know peace, we Africans will fight We find it necessary and we know we shall win As we are confident in the victoryOf good over evil, good over evil, good over evil Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil The Ten Point Plan WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of our fifty million Black people. Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. We believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for the people.WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and in the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else.WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR All BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventive medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide our selves with proper medical attention and care.WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against black people, other people of color and poor people inside the united States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed for self defense of our homes and communities against these fascist police forces.WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION. We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe that if the United States government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars it is the right of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY. We believe that the many Black and poor oppressed people now held in United States prisons and jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses of men and women imprisoned inside the United States or by the United States military are the victims of oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We believe that when persons are brought to trial they must be guaranteed, by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trial.WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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ITS BEEN AN HONOR WORKING TOGETHER ---?/K THYSELF
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