Name: Amendment VIII by WDET
Duration: 9 s
Description: WDET's Amy Miller reads the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Produced by Doc Illingsworth.

SelfSays would like to thank... Earnest Endeavours, Shigeto, Brandi and Illingsworth, Benny Ben, Hubert Sawyers the Third, Sweeney Kovar, Houseshoes, MySpace, Travis Wright, Audrey Avila, my sister, mom and dad, Chris Everheart, Aaron Johnstone, Crown Nation (Quelle, Denmark Vesset, Mosel), Sweatson Klank, Atoms Fam, Subterraneous, AML, Cryptic One, One be Lo, United States of Mind, Midcoast Most, CoOwnaz, Eddie Logix, mfp, Stray, fLako, Raj Mahal, K-Fresh, Blockhead, PhilaFlava, Detroit Cydi, The interwebs. Thank you Detroit. Thank you Ann Arbor. Thank you Ypsilanti, Matt G, Justin Bardic, Fat Cal, Samiyam, The Abolotionists, Nate Frick, Erik Simmons, Jamaican Queens, DeJrJr, Jeff Milo, Ellis Monk, Tadd Mullinix, Fat Albert Einstein, Mom and The Kone, Mike Eagle, Has Lo, Zilla Rocca, Curly Castro, Castle, Butch at Insect Records, Roxstar/Cream of Beats, Al Rogers Jr, Joey Sims, Ethan Holben aka DJ Contakt, DJ Defiant. Thank you Europe, Thank You London. If you're reading this, I thank you. Your support means the world to me and keeps me going.

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SelfSays - Have It Your Way

Available on vinyl and digital on Feb 17, 2015.
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art by Tony Katai
mixed by Chris Koltay
mastered by Heba Kadry

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"Strange Days" is the single from our forth coming EP. 

Strange Days

See him flossing in that metal 
the game’s in a higher level 
Dimensions; we into several 
You see we get them together 
DIY fringe be swangin’ 
bangers-bangers he slanging 
Show on point, he slayin’ 
He wasn’t always this way in fact 
Brown boy slanted eyes 
bleach-stained sweat suit 
Throwin’ water on me 
in the middle school restroom 
Only brown head in my 9th grade play 
13 walking in the streets of uk 
 
 
Now maybe there’s a lesson I've been given 
or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell 
And everybody's hoping and scraping and wishing 
they could be something outside themselves 
If I can be me, then you can be yourself 
might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
It’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
 
 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
 
 
Smiling through the vicious 
a puzzle piece never fittin’ 
a new thread that he was given 
to weave a singular vision 
Could never be avaricious 
instead a quiet ambitious 
No reason left to resist it 
a hater just sound fictitious 
So I’m not, quittin, they stay, squintin 
try to dictate a life they not, living 
T.O. been about that truth, spillin 
don’t buck like a deer when shots hit him 
Don’t Formula One this path that you’re on 
we all gotta make our own living 
Cry out loud, don’t stay, hidden 
fear to fail, say good riddance 
 
 
Now maybe there’s a lesson I've been given 
or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell 
And everybody's hoping and scraping and wishing 
they could be something outside themselves 
If I can be me, then you can be yourself 
might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
It’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
 
 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
 
 
Nathaniel said: “you can’t see me” 
In February, he freed me 
Cleared my head of debris, 
we shattered my boundaries 
and the lowered degree was healing 
Winter was sorely needed 
Like Pakistan, I seceded 
my leaving won’t be repeated 
Never read for them tight roles 
My eyes looked where the sky goes 
So rare like albinos 
Poachers, we zoom right by those 
Few in number like rhinos 
Reaching up for them high notes 
Study me like yo bibles 
cats fall in line like I’m Lion-o 
 
 
Now maybe there’s a lesson I've been given 
or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell 
And everybody's hoping and scraping and wishing 
they could be something outside themselves 
If I can be me, then you can be yourself 
might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
It’s like we’re never satisfied 
Right? 
 
 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
Got it locked 
with that namesake 
Won’t stay the same 
change like every day 
 
 
Now maybe there’s a lesson I've been given 
or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell 
And everybody's hoping and scraping and wishing 
they could be something outside themselves 
If I can be me, then you can be yourself 
might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied

Namesake

Five high school seniors chronicle their last four months at Cass Tech in Detroit.

04. The End of High School

WDET's Amy Miller reads the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Amendment VIII

An essential piece of DJ History here! Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name "The Wizard", was a recurring guest DJ on "The Electrifying Mojo" radio show on WJLB in Detroit. He performed DJ tricks like beat juggling and scratching during his sets (some of which were pre-recorded).

Recorded by a guy called Needlz way back when in 7 parts, more of which will follow.

The Wizard Mixes (Jeff Mills) - WJLB Detroit, 1986 to 1989 Parts 1 & 2

Detroit's News Station with Great Music on the Weekend.

WDET is a community nonprofit institution, actively involved in the life of metro Detroit. The station is the area’s most active promoter of the area’s music and is today one of the few remaining providers of local news. In addition, WDET’s national and international programming offers the best in news, music, opinion and entertainment.

Amendment VIII

WDET

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