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HipHOP PoeTry.
Beat by Fk 
SpoKen Words by Saul Williams
"Saul Williams" Def Jam Poetry     http://youtu.be/iesTgn0UM6I

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that
Which as been given for you to understand
The current standard is the equivalent
Of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional
And deformative symptoms and could not properly mature
On a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears

Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness
The role of darkness is not to be seen as or equated with ignorance
But with the unknown and the mysteries of the unseen
Thus, in the name of

Robeson, God's Son, Hurston, Ahkenaton
Hathsheput, Blackfoot, Helen, Lennon, Khalo
Kali, The Three Maria's, Tara, Lilithe, Lourde
Whitman, Baldwin, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lumumba

Ghandi, Gibran, Shabazz, Shabazz, Siddhartha
Medusa, Guevara, Gurdsieff, Rand, Wright, Banneker
Tubman, Hamer, Holiday, Davis, Coltrane
Morrison, Joplin, Dubois, Clarke, Shakespeare

Rachmninov, Ellington, Carter, Gaye, Hathoway
Hendrix, Kutl, Dickerson, Ripperton, Mary, Isis
Theresa, Hensbury, Justlove, Plath, Rumi, Fellini
Michaux, Nostradamus, Nefertiti, La Rock, Shiva

Ganesha, Yemaja, Oshun, Obatala, Ogun, Kennedy
King, Four Little Girls, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Keller
Biko, Perone, Marley, Magalin, Cosby, Shakur
Those who burnt, those still aflamed and the countless unnamed

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us
We are determining the future at this very moment
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone

Our music is our alchemy, we stand as the manifested
Equivalent of three buckets of water and a hand full of minerals
Thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
Supply the percussion factor of forever, if you must count
To keep the beat then count

Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious
Curve you circles counterclockwise, use your cipher to decipher
Coded Language, man made laws, climb waterfalls and trees
Commune with nature, snakes and bees let your children
Name themselves and claim themselves as the new day, for today

We are determined to be the channelers of these changing
Frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama
Photography, carpentry, crafts, love and love, we enlist every instrument
Acoustic, electronic every so called race, gender and sexual preference
Every person as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility
To uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking world

Any utterance unaimed will be disclaimed
Will be named Two Rappers Slain





CodEd LaNGuAgE (Saul Williams) - Remix Fk

DnB sub label Samurai Horo celebrate their tenth release with 'Scope', a compilation that takes in all the genre has to offer in 2013.

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Free Download: Indigo - 'Absent' (Samurai Horo)

Jazz musician Kahil El'Zabar explains (and plays !) how the rhythms of the African slaves gave birth to blues, jazz, soul, rock, rap and house. A 30-minutes audio documentary "The song of rhythm" coming soon on http://arteradio.com
Des tam-tams de l'Afrique à la house de Chicago, une brève histoire de la musique noire par le percussionniste Kahil El'Zabar. Un documentaire de 30 min "le Chant du rythme" bientôt sur http://arteradio.com

The Song of Rhythm (life teaser)

L'enfant rêve. De crottes de nez. De Harry Potter. D'un mec. Une création de Mehdi Ahoudig pour les souscripteurs de la revue Syntone.fr, et sur http://arteradio.com en version courte.
Enregistrements : 04-14 - Clarinette : Ijjou Ahoudig - Mise en ondes & mix : Arnaud Forest - Réalisation : Mehdi Ahoudig - Download http://bit.ly/1fZx30m

A quoi rêve la jeune fille

"We started really getting smooth. We'd get cool". The story of black music from Mahalia to Kanye - told by jazz and soul drummer Kahil El'Zabar - coming soon on http://arteradio.com 

The song of rhythm (jazz teaser)

Jazz and soul musician Kahil El'Zabar (Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Lupe Fiasco) tells the story of black music - with drums. How the songs and rhythms of the African-Americans gave birth to blues and jazz. How Chicago saw those genres mix and eventually breed soul, rock, rap and house. A vivid saga of the african-american genius illustrated with the finest tracks from bebop to hip-hop, from Mahalia to D'Angelo. 
Download : http://bit.ly/1gFQZ9V - Bilingual script (English/French) in pdf : http://www.arteradio.com/temp/SCRIPTthesongoftherhythm.pdf
Narration and percussions : Kahil El’Zabar - Interview : Silvain Gire - Recordings : Mehdi Ahoudig in Chicago, November 10th 2013 - Editing and mix : Samuel Hirsch - Produced by ARTE Radio
Le percussionniste Kahil El'Zabar raconte en musique comment les esclaves africains en Amérique ont inventé le blues et le jazz. Comment Chicago a mêlé les genres et vu naître la soul, le rock, le rap et la house. Une saga vivante illustrée par les meilleurs extraits du be-bop au hip-hop, de Mahalia Jackson à D'Angelo.
Download : http://bit.ly/1gFQZ9V - Script et traduction française : http://www.arteradio.com/temp/SCRIPTthesongoftherhythm.pdf

The Song of the Rhythm

Listen to an excerpt from Patti Callahan Henry's The Stories We Tell audiobook, read by Andi Arndt.

Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust.


Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah’s power couple. They’re on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. 

But things may not be as good as they seem. 

Eve’s sister, Willa, is staying with the family until she gets "back on her feet." Their daughter, Gwen, is all adolescent rebellion. And Cooper thinks Eve works too much. Still, the Morrison marriage is strong. After twenty-one years together, Eve and Cooper know each other. They count on each other. They know what to expect. But when Cooper and Willa are involved in a car accident, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories—what Cooper says, what Willa remembers, what the evidence indicates—Eve has to find out what really happened. And what she’s going to do about it. 

A riveting story about the power of truth, The Stories we Tell will open your eyes and rearrange your heart.


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The Stories We Tell audiobook excerpt

Well before the early 1500s, when Sir Thomas Moore first coined the term "Utopia," people have been thinking about how to design their ideal community. Maybe it's one that doesn't use money, or one that drops traditional family structures and raises children collectively.

For a community of people on the outskirts of the small Arizona town of Snowflake, "utopia" is just a place where they won't be physically sick. That's because everyone in this community is suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or MCS.

99% Invisible-123- Snowflake

Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix)

Saul Williams - excerpt from Said the Shotgun to

Here is an interview with the multi-talented Saul Williams. The interview was an exclusive for WMNF's The Damn Jams.

The interview has an abrupt ending, as I provided the outro and music live on the air.

Special thanks to hip hop scholar Mandy Modell for helping me with interview questions.

Saul Williams will be at Orpheum Tampa Sunday, February 26th. His latest album is Volcanic Sunlight.

www.saulwilliams.com

Interview with Saul Williams

I want my money back. 
I'm down here drowning in your fat. 
You got me on my knees praying for everything you lack. 
I ain't afraid of you. 
I'm just a victim of your fears. 
You cower in your tower praying that I'll disappear, 
I got another plan, one that requires me to stand. 
On the stage or in the street, don't need no microphone or beat. 
And when you hear this song, if you ain't dead then sing along. 
Bang and strum to these here drums til you get where you belong. 

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
You wanna be somebody? 
See somebody? 
Try and free somebody? 
I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
Hand to mouth! 

I wrote a song for you today while I was sitting in my room. 
I jumped up on my bed today and played it on a broom. 
I didn't think that it would be a song that you would hear, 
but when I played it in my head, I made you reappear. 
I wrote a video for it and I acted out each part. 
Then I took your picture out and taped it to my heart. 
I've taped you to my heart dear girl, I've taped you to my 
heart and if you pull away from me you'll tear my life apart.. 

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
You wanna be somebody? 
See somebody? 
Try and free somebody? 
I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
Hand to mouth! 

Call the police! 
I'm strapped to the teeth and liable to disregard your every belief. 
Call on the law! 
I'm fixin' to draw a line between what is and seems and call up a brawl. 
Call'em up now! 
'cause it's about to go pow! 
I'm standing on the threshold of the ups and the downs. 
Call up a truce! 
'cause I'm about to bust loose. 
Protect ya neck,'cause, son, I'm breaking out of my noose. 

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
You wanna be somebody? 
See somebody? 
Try and free somebody? 
I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. 
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand. 
We're living hand to mouth! 
Hand to mouth!

List of Demands - Saul Williams (TVC cover)

Saul Williams stopped by the 88.1 KDHX studio in St. Louis on February 23, 2007 for a live performance. Discover more great media at http://kdhx.org

Saul Williams "African Dirt Weed" Live at KDHX 2/23/07

Saul Williams "Untitled" Live at KDHX 2/23/07

Saul Williams "When the Clock Strikes Me" Live at KDHX 2/23/07

Musical composition from the haiku-performance Safety Pins

Paper Flowers

Le Vent Froid De La Nuit - Liberté Grande, Julien Gracq

Paul Auster's White Spaces

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1. Talk To Strangers / self titled album



2. Fearless / Amethyst Rock Star



3. Penny For A Thought into Untimely Meditations / live at the Fremont High School



4. Lalala / Amethyst Rock Star



5. Amethyst rock stars / from the movie Slam



6. Sha-Clack-Clack / from the movie Slam



7. Twice The First Time / Ninja Tunes Xen Cuts CD 3



8. Tao Of Now (freestyle on some television talk show)



9. Untimely Meditations / Amethyst Rock Star



10. Telegram live (spoken word)



11. Telegram / self titled album



12. this my motto, it's a part of the poem Coded Language / live @ The Scala, London



13. Coded Language / Amethyst Rock Star



14. freestyle inside a jail cell / from the movie Slam



15. Raised To Be Lowered / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust



16. List of Demands / self titled album



17. September 12th / Not In My Name



18. Pledge Of Resistance / Not In My Name



19. Our Father / Amethyst Rock Star



20. Black Stacy / self titled album



21. 1987 / Amethyst Rock Star



22. Banged And Blown Through / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust



23. When The Clock Strikes Me (poem)



24. Wine / Amethyst Rock Star



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The Ultimate Saul Williams mixtape (Tel Aviv, Nov 27th, Comfort 13)

Saul Williams / Scritti Politti Mash Up - Demo
Video at https://vimeo.com/67767495
Download the track here: 
http://www.saulwilliams.com

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