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so remarkable....

Very Necessary Music

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Amir Sulaiman

Lupe is coming back for his...with a vengeance. http://veganrapnerd.com

http://veganrapnerd.tumblr.com/post/58223749303/lupe-fiasco-lupefiasco-slr2-lupe-drops-off

Lupe Fiasco - SLR 2

HipHop Ambassadors is a partnership with the Remarkable Current Musician Collective, an independent record label setting new standards for contemporary urban music for over a decade. Remarkable Current is founded and directed by Anas Canon.

Baraka Blue - Majnun's Lost Memoirs - 07 Life Without You (Feat. Anas Canon)

01 True + Living

3. Salam Alykum- produced by Anas Canon. Vocals and gumbri by Sidi Yassir. Drums, bass,  guitar, and percussion (brushes, hand claps, talking drum, triangles, claves, and woodblock) by Rhamis Kent. Drum Programming Anas Canon. Trumpet by Khalil Shaheed.

Sidi Yassir 'Salam Alykum'

Amir Sulaiman and Anas Canon 'Have No Fear'

Baraka Blue 'Sweetest Fruit'  Feat. Mos Def - (Produced by Anas Canon)

Promise - Sunni Ali of Model Dissidents

Lupe Fiasco The Show Goes On

Overall Theme:  Extreme Discomfort/Phobia

How suiting, for the challenge most feared in the VPC.  You have a wide open field here and can choose to rap about anything that entices fear, discomfort, trepidation.  It can be a phobia that you have, it can be a situation you have experienced.  The song does not have to be about the fear of that object or situation, it can simply be about it if you’d like.  Hate spiders?  You can write a song about spiders without having to write about your fear of them.  We just want you to embrace that uncomfortableness or fear.  

Dos Pharaohs - Agoraphobia

-From 'The Sounds of Making Love' - 

All Music Joel Vandijk and Anas Canon. Vocals by Kumasi Simmons, Anas Canon, Joel Vandijk, and Michael A. Spivey. 

Lyrics by Kumasi Simmons, Anas Canon, Joel Vandijk, and Michael A. Spivey.

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Anas Canon

www.remarkablecurrent.com

To Purchase... http://remarkablecurrent.bandcamp.com/track/l-o-v-e


The KAJ - L.O.V.E. (Produced by Anas Canon for Remarkable Current)

SOMALIA: NEVERMIND

black faces
white tongues
the smell of sea water
taunts with sarcasm
drink me

oh somalia 
im sorry i couldnt be there for you
but while you were trying to to get your daughter 
to drink her urine
a singer died
while your children
were falling from the tree of life 
scattered bushels of rotten fruit
some whiter children were shot

oh somalia
only if your beautiful wasnt so black
only if you were 
gaza or 
libya or 
bahrain or 
egypt or 
norway or 
england or 
japan or 
america 
or the moon
i would mention you in a poem 

only if you had 
oil or 
poppy or 
timber or 
rubber or 
white people
i would mention you in my prayers



oh somalia
only if your beautiful wasnt so black 
the world has grown accustom to watching you die
since i was a child
somalia - synonymous with suffering
african meant adversity 
an african struggling was like
a fish swimming
a dog barking
somalia meant starvation

nevermind the magic in your poetry
or
the glowing saints rising from your lands like a thousand moons

nevermind the beauty of your beaches 
or
the utter perfection in the hips of your women

oh somalia 
only if you didnt wear the resemblance of eve
like an ornate funeral shroud 
we wouldnt see you as our sin
and avert our gazes
in shame
turn our faces
to blame
only if your lack of the worldy
didnt remind us 
of our lack of the other-worldly
perhaps then we would mention you

oh somalia
only if your beautiful wasnt so black 

Somalia-nevermind

09-immortal technique-reverse pimpology (feat. mojo)

On Dear Dunya....... 

DJ Anas Canon- 

I awoke from a dream about a Ex of mine that reminded me of how happy i was to no longer be in THAT relationship. The emotion was intense and hard to shake so I sat at the piano to release some anxiety and these chords spilled out. Moments later i was singing the words on the chorus so i figured i might as well record it all. 
Some days later Mark Ultra aka Azeem asked me if i had anything new that he could write some verses to so i sent him this one with the disclaimer noting that it was fairly personal and that i didn't think he would find a way to make the subject matter 'His own'. I was very, very wrong. - Dj Anas Canon 

Azeem aka mark Ultra- 

'Dunya' = Arabic word for the material world 
This song "Dear Dunya" has a lot of truth in it. It's the first song I wrote after moving from Oakland to Harlem, NY. It touches on a past relationship in a way I think most people can relate to . . . then touches on finding a bit of financial freedom in the Father of all Cities . . . New York . . . and how love, lust, money and music can sometimes call you to the darkside. Yet somehow, if you're lucky, you can pull away before you Fall . . . -Mark Ultra

Creme De La Ultra - 'Dear Dunya'

Zhivago and DJ Anas Canon back at it again.  

Zhivago - 'SIERRA MAESTRA'

The next track from the Congo Square collective can only be described a 'Divine Cosmic Ecstasy'. The foundation of the song was written by Anas as a musical prayer which he later had sung by our beautiful sister Nassirah. Inspired by this concept and by Rumi's love poetry Poetic Pilgrimage then added their lyrics over this dreamy and cosmic musical bed. 

Secret Sweetness (Produced by Anas Canon)

By Anas Canon, featuring (in order of appearance) Nizar T-Man, Crème De La Ultra, Weld-Michel, Empire &amp; Kumasi. This Remarkable Current Presentation was recorded in Tunisia during Remarkable Current’s Hip Hop Ambassadors “2011 Tunisian Revolution Tour.”   www.RemarkableCurrent.com
To view "A Young Man's Spark" on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFpkfPXqaU


Anas Canon-A Young Man's Spark(Bouazizi)Ft. Nizar TMan,Creme De La Ultra,Weld-Michel,Empire & Kumasi

Immortal Technique - Young Lords (Ft. Joell Ortiz, Pumpkinhead)

Download the entire set here: http://www.mediafire.com/?9crubh5wp9nbm9i
All tracks will be uploaded here as well.

Immortal Technique - Young Lords

Immortal Technique - The 3rd World

from The Sounds of Making Love, track released 01 January 2012 
Written by Kumasi, Anas Canon, and Joel Van Dijk. 

Vocals by Kumasi and Michael A. Spivey. 

All music by Joel Van Dijk and Anas Canon with the exception of the Trumpet by Chris Bautista and The Saxophone by Joe Rudd. 

Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon for Remarkable Current

The KAJ - We Gone Groove

The album opens with a dua’aa (prayer). Anything worth doing should begin with a clear intention and a sincere prayer. The beat is a north/west African fusion and the brother blesses it with this melodic prayer for God to accept this from us.

"Love and Light"- Baraka Blue - (Produced by Anas Canon)

Cisse

#houlamassacre wouldnt let  me sleep. how many more infamous and secret child massacres are there?  i didnt know what to do.  i wept and wrote.

The Babies #houlamassacre #everymassacre

When you listen to This you will feel like it 1993 Again!!!!!!!! iA

Maghrib ft Amir Sulaiman & Brother Ali

Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)

Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way [Freedom Ain't Free] - Explicit

Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album PT 1 in stores/online September 25, 2012.
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/battlescars
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lupefiasco
Facebook: http://fb.com/lupefiasco
Website: http://lupefiasco.com

Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian - Battle Scars

03 Cant't Get Enough

05 Seeing Is Believing

In this chapter of the Lost Memoirs, Majnun confesses that an all-consuming love has rendered rational thought mute and torn him into a world in which the beloved is all. Although unable to reunite with the beloved, the universe has become an expanse of innumerable mirrors, which at every moment reflect her face from new angles. Woven together indistinguishably are the ecstasy of contemplating the beloved and the pain of separation from her lips. The tension of love builds until ultimately the lover finds his own self-awareness to be but a veil.

CREDITS:
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Anas Canon for Remarkable Current.
Music Written by Anas Canon. 
All Music by Anas Canon and Fred Nilsson.
Lyrics by Baraka Blue and Anas Canon.
www.RemarkableCurrent.com
www.BarakaBlueMusic.com
 
LYRICS:

Verse I:
 
This house of mirrors
got me deep in the zone
you know how I feel
Nina Simone
dig inside your chest
and unearth apocryphal poems
evil is what we do that makes you leave us alone
cuz life is gifted
every time we breath is a loan
you just want beef?
come on sink your teeth in the bone
and suck the marrow out
now tell me what is it you care about?
Mosesing my ego
I'm still trying to get the Pharaoh out
and if they ask about my whereabouts
I'm writing in the sands of foreign lands
like West African marabouts
to remember my original tongue
but now I'm stuck in this Babylon
under digital suns
born into the tent
and like the rivers we run
but the air is too polluted
for my physical lungs
so I inhale through my heart
and beat the rhythm it drums
and turn with every cell in my body
to the Infinite One  
 
Hook:
 
It’s so hard
living life without you
Habibi, uhibuka fi’llah
(Beloved, I love you in God i.e. “for God’s sake”) x2
 
Verse II:
 
Its so hard
but these painful emotions
are closer to true love
than ecstatic devotion
it's hand-to-hand combat
the blood, as it's soaking
there’s no telling if it's of me
or of my opponent
until I'm unblinded
and reminded I am my opponent
then duality dies and I'm not fighting
I'm floating
I'm not dueling
I'm dancing
it’s stillness in motion
whirling me open like the Milky Way
galaxies, oceans
as I'm sworn into existence
membership for the moment
in the embers of remembrance
smoldering, smoking
to be present in your presence
absent in your essence
they said I should just forget you
I could never be chosen
and we could never be together
they said it'd just be better
if I finally would let you go
and forget you forever
transformed, as all is perishing
except your face
into a continent of parched tongues
that yearns for a taste
 
Verse III:
 
Like I could die before I die
and just let you inside
so you can witness yourself
as I see through my eyes
if I could die before I die
and let you inside
so you can be the one
who sees through my eyes
If u don't count yourself amongst the deceased
word for the wise
count yourself amongst the deceived
I feel too alive
the letter killeth
and the spirit giveth life,
so I'm murdered and resurrected
every word I recite
I pray that you get this letter
and that when it arrives
there’s still time to revive me
to subsist in your eyes
pure longing
pulled like the moon on the tide
on the shore of transcendence
I’m watching you shine
as each drop in the ocean
connects and it binds
and calms
to reveal your reflection
I'm blind
as all is absent in your essence
and present in your presence
all is perishing except your face
I step and I dive

-Baraka Blue