Video: Janelle Monae: “Many Moons”

Artist: Janelle Monae
Label: BadBoy (Diddy says she may be the most important signing of his career)
Album: Metropolis Suite I of IV (recently re-released)
Sound: Soul, R&B, Rock, Funk…
Put On/Discovered by: Big Boi (OutKast)

I’m really feelin’ her right about now.  Reminds me of a time when there was creativity/thought/passion in our cultural work.  The song/video are pure fire!  How does she taste 2 U?

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New Music: One Day As A Lion

I’ve been waiting to hear from brotha zack for a minute.  I’m looking forward to this joint.

The band writes:

“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.”

“A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare.  It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask.  One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”

“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights.  It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’  This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

More info:

http://www.myspace.com/onedayasalion 

http://www.onedayasalion.org

Kd