Conversation recorded with Alexander Weheliye in Chicago on July 28, 2014
http://the-archipelago.net/2014/08/10/alexander-weheliye-claiming-humanity-a-black-critique-of-the-concept-of-bare-life/

ALEXANDER WEHELIYE /// Claiming Humanity: A Black Critique of the Concept of Bare Life

A golden 
Primarily white
Meadowlark 
Devastated the landscape 
With it’s trail of silver glitter 
Nuclear waste falls on the leafy flourishing green 
Falling off his wings 
Mother liberty 
Don’t be ashamed 
What does freedom mean?
His melody sung the truth 
“Why did I not get free from my birdcage  
Before it’s too late?”

I heard the reason the universe was created in 
The sway of the trees 
In the breeze 
Everything is holy 
The grass is holy
Ginsberg said “God” is no reason to take away
the sacred nature of every individual part 
each point makes up the whole system 

One by one
Brick by brick 
Up to the top of the romantic architecture 
Romantic orchestra 
Ludwig van Beethoven 

Mandala represents the inner connected nature of all 
We are enlightened in perfect harmony and balance
Bowling ball knock the systems down
pens fall down 

Rebuild it 
Back up from the start 
Beginning 
Rebirth again 
Take home the win 

That makes up the entirety of all 
even everything we are made of 
The inner clockwork 
Coincides 
Works together 
coalition  
Why are we by no means the same?


Almost out of gas 
Out of Nevada 
Heading into Tennessee

The rolling planes 
Make me curious to explore  
And unravel the horizon in the empowered observation of the enlightened moment 

flourishing and enlightened peace
flourishing and enlightened peace
Manifest the dreams to control the nations 
flourishing and enlightened peace for all

Meadowlark

Just a short verse I randomly wrote this afternoon. Just getting back into writing and recording again before I release a new project this year. Peace to Gab from the Writers Block Facebook Group-- his post inspired me to hop on this Dilla beat, too. 

Emcees - Feel free to add a verse or hook to this

Lyrics:
I conjure up these verses just to conquer, be iconic
You comics incompetent, so im gone off the common knowledge
come on, cuz im losin conscience, but concious of all the options
few things is remaning constant, my calling and this concoction

of beats and the constant clockwork of verses like kamikazee
skip the consequence, i got this when all you carbon copy
are caught in a common problem of probably tryna stop me
Its common they leavin comments but colleagues will never drop me

and oddly, being this "Godly," take my "prey" and disembody
I gotta drop it and rock it to top its more than a hobby/
but - aint no "deal" for I (eye) like I talked to a Shinigami/
my rhymes are "death notes," how many beats I gotta body/

I'm a "mad villian," I relapse and do miles (Daniel Dumile)
Yall "Doomed MF's" cant "mask" your used styles
these idioms im sendin em to idiots and simpletons
dont pity em, i sentence em, opinions, dependin when

we role "models" so the stage like runways/
Im tryna run away to one way, the suns rays/
we focus on our daughters and the way our sons raised/
uh, Ruby Ibarra, Ima make it one day/

Ruby Ibarra - Writers Block 1 (Verse)

Stairs With Eyes

Where the River Meets feat. Equipto and Calina Lawrence

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Lotus

Thin Blue Border, Vol. 2

Thin Blue Border

One musician.
All instruments recorded live.

Trailer Tracks

On My Way

Professor Joy James discusses the role of the captive maternal and the academy and celebrity culture in prison abolition through the lens of the case of the Central Park Five.

Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art

Joy James on the Academy, Captive Maternal, Central park Five, Prison Abolition, and Simulacra

Lyrics: 
Verse 1
And I'll weep for the years that went missing - 
for the hours that can never be given (back).
Too intoxicated with the re-runs,
too infatuated with the un-dones 
January nights up in the frost bite - 
Friday Night lights was the highlight.
Now I gotta settle for the high life - 
but shit, a quick hit'll make me alright. 

I'm missing all the things that I'll never be (thinking)
I wanna see my face on the TV (drinking) 
for every empty night that I spend along (sinking)
The bottom of the bottle is a home. 

I can hear the footsteps at the door front, 
but the buttons of my shirt are still undone.
Never was prepared for the long run - 
I don't want to hear from anyone. 

hook 
I don't wanna hear another empty sound.
I don't wanna hear from anyone. 
I got a room full of memories, but I never go in
a room full of memories, of honors and sins

chorus
too much... noise
too little... choice
lock is ... poised
silence your voice
too much. noise
all I hear. noise
phase out. noise
faded. noise

Verse 2
Irregular only in the usual way
and I'll mold and I'll shape
and I'll fold on an ace 
I just need me a place
not for putty & clay...
whiskey and I will have a debate, 
"Why you so down, you're a world within a world?"
"How bout' just a worm to the bird?
Last I heard, I could have a picture of a frame
I remember all the same, what you bench, what you curl?"

The whisky smiles & laughs
so I ask for the flask and a pen and a staff
and he said I'm a stat of those stuck in the past,
smoke a last cigarette now you lay in the ash

I can hear the footsteps at the door front, 
but the buttons of my shirt are still undone.
Never was prepared for the long run - 
I don't want to hear from anyone. 

Hook & Chorus

Verse 3
And the lease is almost up
at least I can crash on a couch for the month.
Spend my whole life searching for my adult
spend the rest of my life to find the kid in my heart. 

And the lease is almost up, 
at least I can crash on a couch for the month. 
Take another drink to get out of this funk
Take another drink to get out... to get out

Hook & Chorus.

Memory Room

Time is a hip-hop artist from the mid-west, and also in the group Calm. He has  been featured on Noisey/VICE, toured Europe, US the Vans Warped Tour.  From being compared to William S. Burroughs as a rapper mixed with  Andre 3000, Time is known for his reflective, poetic, lyrics often dipped in dystopia and social commentary. He is also the host of the Time Talks podcast.    
Time has worked with Kool Keith, Jake One, Budo, Xiu Xiu, Factor, Ceschi, Sole, Ron Miles, and done engineering/production work for Common on The Dreamer / The Believer with James Poyser and Black America Again with Robert Glasper.

Time was picked as one of URB's Next 100 Artists and was picked as top artist for MTV2 On The Rise. Time is also a journalist and has worked with Noam Chomsky.

Stairs With Eyes

Time (from calm.)

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