I Am Hip Hop

"Mood Swing" featuring Talib Kweli
by Asheru

Mood Swing feat.  Talib Kweli

"The Boondocks" (Full Song)
by Asheru

This is the full, original track by Asheru from which The Boondocks theme song was cut & produced. 

"The Boondocks" (Full Song)

"Chocolate City"
by Asheru & Blue Black
October 2013

Asheru x Blue Black x DJ Fillup Banks
produced by AB the Pro

Asheru & Blue Black - "Chocolate City"

"Gauteng" (featuring Raheem Devaughn)
by Asheru
http://www.asheruworldwide.com

From forthcoming album "Sleepless in Soweto"
Release Date:  11/12/13 
Tuesday November 12th, 2013

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From Asheru:
 - The track "Gauteng" (feat. Raheem Devaughn) is dedicated to Johannesburg, South Africa and the province of Gauteng, which literally translates to "Land of Gold".  The chorus acknowledges the people that live there as being worth more than gold, beyond the actual resource that Gauteng is built upon.

Gauteng (ft. Raheem Devaughn)

"Clay Davis" 
by Asheru
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Sleepless In Soweto is out now! Buy it here:
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Released by: Guerilla Arts Ink
Release date: Nov 12, 2013 

Watch the official music video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSkeQDi0omY

Lyrics:



[Verse 1]

A beautiful mind
One of a kind being
King Ash, baby boy of the All eye seeing
And all I’m seeing
Is a future so bright
You gon' ask Teddy Pendergrass to turn off the light
I am the general
Soldiers know my position
Quiet leadership style, when I speak it’s non-fiction
Listen more than I talk
& tell less than I know
Cuz game is to be sold not told
That’s how I go
Its called Guerilla Arts for the tactic
Not the animal
"by any means necessary'
Written on the manual
Rough you off and and ride on through just like Hannibal
And elephant stomp the shit outta you
And ya mans if you
Take it for a joke/get yolked
Egg on your face
Niggas going for broke with each quote
No second place
For anybody still asking if Ash can spit
Hit ‘em with the Clay Davis like sheeeeeeeeiiiiittttt

[Hook:]

What you talking bout?
Man, Get on Your Head!
You should never ever doubt
One Man, $100 and a One track mind...
Man, Get on Your Head!
For anybody still asking if Ash can spit
Hit ‘em with the Clay Davis like sheeeeeeeeiiiiittttt

[Verse 2]

You know its funky funky funky cuz you heard it from hear say
A jam that you love that don’t be getting no airplay
As for my competition they ain’t playing the fair way
Thinking they’ll catch me slipping, shit that’s on a rare day
This is that boom bap for getting bent in the stairway
To play where the real lions in the lair lay
$200 from the door guess it wasn’t their day
Too many in your crew and yall gotta share pay
Ash vision is bigger
No frame for this picture
I use my signature to stamp me as the victor
The champ, the head nigga in charge
MC at large
My constituents got all this love
Like a Debarge
Now that must be good for something
You saying nothing
Like the good book say
There ain't no future in your frontin
Word to MC Breed
Do Ash give you what you need?
Hit em with the Clay Davis like sheeeeeeeeeiit

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

If there’s one thing you should know bout me
I exercise my unlimited potential
So when I run them streets & shout BMIG
I don’t only mean over these instrumentals
You talking to an entrepreneur on 1 million
"New Ventures" is my middle name
I bring Hip Hop to the schools, the juvie or public housing
To give them youngins a little game
Cuz out here, them people playing chess not checkers
Be careful how you move around the board
Have you thinking you a King when you only just a pawn
Go to battle and die by the sword
My OG sat me down and gave me a jewel
To this day I never will forget
He said for every 1 winner
There has to be 10 losers
Which one are you? Me?
I said sheeeeeiiiiitttt

[Hook x2]

Man, Get on Your Head!
"He said for every 1 winner
There has to be 10 losers
Which one are you?"
"Me?
"I said sheeeeeiiiiitttt"


Clay Davis

"Last Days (featuring Hip Hop Pantsula, Kingpen Slim, Kanjia)
by Asheru
http://www.asheruworldwide.com

From Asheru's new album
"SLEEPLESS IN SOWETO"
Release Date: Tuesday November 12th, 2013
11/12/13
The 40th Anniversary of the Universal Zulu Nation!!!

Lyrics:



[VerseAnnotate 1: Asheru]

As we move closer to the end
Many men pretend to know when
Armageddon begins
Warfare and terrorism
Military slaughter
Famine, disease, lack of clean drinking water
Earthquakes, hurricanes, strange weather patterns
Man-made disasters
Past or hereafter
All trying to capture
The coming of the rapture
But really, who's prepared
Who's scared?
Who's unaware of what awaits
As we enter the gates
2010 black men still
Enemy of the state
And it's a state of emergency
Code red
Get on your deen with all urgency
Go head_
And push harder go farther
Spread wide and leave a legacy
The hope is that tomorrow brings a
Better you/ better me
Man it better be
Hope my loving ain't in vain
Bad enough these politicians
Got the whole world going insane

Chorus:
[Kanjia]
This day might be the last day
(Cuts)
The last day, might be this day
(Cuts)

[Hip Hop Pantsula]
We're living in that last world order
That ice age bowl bout to be flooded by water
That Wande Coal bumper to bumper disorder
That Ghandi sole we walk in cannot afford to be taken for granted...
Otherwise we'll be abandoned
We don't want a better life
We demand it!
When it comes to reading dibuka
You can't thet'
But when it come to making lebotha you count it
How Did?! You cannot Pantit
You cannot live in a Khuti like Sadaam did
You chant one thing
Kamo o chuna annè ding
You want one thing
Kamo o dula mo lapeng
O dilwe Keng?
Get on your feet again
This end is only the beginning monna breath again
Be the better brother
And plant the seed again
With your knowledge I swear
You're gonna win. You'll be insane...

Chorus:
[Kanjia]
This day might be the last day (Cuts)
The last day, might be this day (Cuts)
In these last days
Who is awake?
In these last days
Got no time to waste
In these last days
Don’t be afraid
In these last days we will find our way…

[Verse 2: Kingpen Slim]
It’s hard feeling like a winner
When summer’s feeling like winter
Winter is feeling like summer
It’s the eye of the storm
Of the weather that I’m feeling right under
People got AIDS, still look healthy
People with low credit scores still look wealthy
Politicians switch they pitch
When they win elections
Try to overthrow oppression threw an interception –
Won’t nobody stand up
Grown men dressed like girls won’t nobody man up
Guess it’s hard being broke tryna pay attention
So most people miss the message in the things they mention
Watch for the sign saying “Yield”
Slowing down tryna level out the playing field
As the days grow, hearts grow colder
Soon we just might see hell froze over –
Last Dayz

[Hook]


Last Days (ft. HHP, Kingpen Slim, Kanjia)

"No Matter Where You Go (featuring Wayna)"
by Asheru
http://www.asheruworldwide.com

From the forthcoming album "SLEEPLESS IN SOWETO"
Release Date: Tuesday November 12th, 2013
11/12/13 - 40th Anniversary of the Universal Zulu Nation

No Matter Where You Go (feat. Wayna)

"Make Magic"
by Asheru
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SLEEPLESS IN SOWETO is out now!!!!
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Make Magic

"Do U (featuring Omar Hunter El, Hip Hop Pantsula, and Teepee)"
by Asheru
on the album "Sleepless In Soweto"
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Do U (ft. Omar Hunter El, HHP, and Teepee)

"Funky DC"
by Asheru, Sitali & The Funk Ark
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On Asheru's new album "Sleepless In Soweto"
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Funky DC

"It Ain't Hard To Tell"
by Asheru
from SLEEPLESS IN SOWETO
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It Aint Hard To Tell

"Simphiwe's Theme"
by Asheru
Sleepless In Soweto LP
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Simphiwe's Theme

"Life After The Show (featuring ProVerb, Hip Hop Pantsula, KG)"
by Asheru
Sleepless In Soweto LP
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Life After The Show (ft. ProVerb, HHP & KG)

"Love On The Go (featuring Omar Hunter El & Hip Hop Pantsula)"
by Asheru
Sleepless In Soweto LP
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Sleepless In Soweto is out now! Buy it here:
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Love On The Go (ft Omar Hunter El & HHP)

"Sleepless (featuring Dimes, Omar Hunter El, & Heron Gibran)"
by Asheru
Sleepless In Soweto LP
http://www.asheruworldwide.com

Sleepless In Soweto is out now! Buy it here:
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Sleepless (ft Dimes, Omar Hunter El, Heron Gibran)

"PSA by Diamond D"
Recorded by Asheru
April 29th, 2014
http://www.asheruworldwide.com

PSA by Diamond D

**New Album "Sleepless In Soweto" drops on Tuesday November 12th, 2013!!
http://asheru.bandcamp.com/album/sleepless-in-soweto

Asheru is a hip hop artist, educator, and youth activist. He is widely known for his collaboration with Blue Black to form the Unspoken Heard, releasing the critically acclaimed album, "Soon Come" in 2001, and its followup, "48 Months" in 2003. Asheru has since released several 12" singles, and collaborations with international producers with his progressive, genre-bending style of Hip Hop. In the last couple of years, Asheru has released two solo projects, "Insomnia Vol.1", & "3 Stars, 2 Bars", featuring collaborations with Talib Kweli, Raheem Devaughn, Phonte, Grap Luva, Kev Brown, Oddisee, and many others.

Asheru is also famously known for writing and performing the opening theme song of the popular TV series, The Boondocks. He went on to win a Peabody Award for his writing contribution to the show's controversial "Return of the King" episode.

Lastly, Asheru is a professionally trained educator of 14 years and in 2005 founded Guerilla Arts Ink, a community arts and education organization based in Washington, DC. He is well known as a pioneer of the Hip Hop Education movement. 

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