Great text! Real food for thought! Thank you brother!

Amazing! God bless you for your insight and creativity.

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Respectful + conducive ...Reaching wider minds as ever!

Harry Allen, Media Assassin for Public Enemy loves this track and told me about it.  It's great Brotha!

By Martin Aerni, 2015
Vocals by Deanatta: 
https://soundcloud.com/deanatta/black-britain-black-america

Black Britain, Black America

Dean Atta on his poetry

To launch the Bristol800 Weekender – and the Festival of Ideas May season – we held a special evening of readings of newly commissioned poetry on the utopian theme on Friday 20 May in At-Bristol.  It was hosted by historian and presenter David Olusoga and included an introduction by the recently elected Mayor of Bristol, Martin Rees. The commissioned poets were: Fleur Adcock, Dean Atta, Helen Dunmore, Anna Hoghton, Matthew Hollis, Sarah Howe, Nick Laird, Tim Liardet, Andrew McMillan, Hollie McNish, Daljit Nagra, Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott, Michael Symmons Roberts, and Jane Yeh.

Photo by JonCraig.co.uk

Poets And Utopia 20 May 2016 Part 1

To launch the Bristol800 Weekender – and the Festival of Ideas May season – we held a special evening of readings of newly commissioned poetry on the utopian theme on Friday 20 May in At-Bristol.  It was hosted by historian and presenter David Olusoga and included an introduction by the recently elected Mayor of Bristol, Martin Rees. The commissioned poets were: Fleur Adcock, Dean Atta, Helen Dunmore, Anna Hoghton, Matthew Hollis, Sarah Howe, Nick Laird, Tim Liardet, Andrew McMillan, Hollie McNish, Daljit Nagra, Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott, Michael Symmons Roberts, and Jane Yeh.

Photograph by JonCraig.co.uk

Poets And Utopia 20 May 2016 Part 2

Taken from 0.0 EP which you can listen to here: 
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One More Reason (prod. Tom Misch)

We recorded this in a lovely living room in Saratoga Springs!

Guitar: Mike Haldeman
Bass: Chris Gaskell
Drums: Colin Taylor

Inspired by a poem by Dean Atta and several events over the last year. WOO. 

Blue (Living Room Session)

I Am Nobody's Nigger

Rappers when you use the word "nigger" remember that's one of the last words Stephen Lawrence heard, so don't tell me it's a reclaimed word.

I am nobody's nigger
So please, let my ancestors rest in peace
Not turn in their graves in Jamaica plantations
Or the watery graves of the slave trade 
Thrown overboard into middle passage 
Just for insurance claims
They were chained up on a boat
As many as they could manage and stay afloat
Stripped of dignity and all hope 
Awaiting their masters and European names
But the sick and the injured were dead weight to toss
And Lloyds of London would cover that cost.

I am nobody's nigger
So you can tell Weezy and Drake 
That they made a mistake 
I am nobody's nigger now
So you can tell Kanye and Jigga 
I am not a nigger... in Paris
I'm not a nigger in London
I'm not a nigger in New York
I'm not a nigger in Kingston
I'm not a nigger in Accra
Or a nigger with attitude in Compton
Cos "I don't wanna be called yo nigga"

How were you raised on Public Enemy
And still became your own worst enemy?
You killed Hip Hop and resurrected headless zombies 
That can't think for themselves or see where they're going
Or quench the blood lust because there's no blood flowing
In their hearts, just in the streets 
They don't give a damn as long as they eating
Their hearts ain't beating, they're cold as ice (bling)
Because they would put money over everything
Money over self respect or self esteem
Or empowering the youth to follow their dreams
Stacking paper cos it's greater than love it seems
Call me "nigger" cos you're scared of what "brother" means

To know that we share something unspeakable
To know that as high as we rise we are not seen as equal
To know that racism is institutional thinking
And that "nigger" is the last word you heard before a lynching.

I Am Nobody's Nigger

Author best known for THE BLACK FLAMINGO.

I Am Nobody's Nigger

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