When I heard that Smif n Wessun was going to be at the Shrine, I knew there was no way I was going to miss this show!! Tek & Steele better known as Smif & Wessun have been putting it down for Hip Hop since 1993, a Classic age for hip hop.
I got a chance to interview Tek & Steele, and the two were very down to earth, the 1st question I had was about their 2011 album with Pete Rock called “Monumental”. They explained how it all came together & how it was a blessing to work with “The Chocolate Boy Wonder”. We touched on a few others Subjects too, But Check out the Interview (Video) above.
This Their Classic “Buck Town”
“Black Smif-N-Wessun”
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Are you Familiar the song “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop” it dropped in 1999 & become an instant Hip Hop classic talking about Payola & the lifestyle of the Music Industry with verses like:
“For my brother locked up in the jump for a year
Shit is real out here don’t believe these videos
This Fake Ass Industry gotta pay to get a song on the radio.”
“Ay dogg that label is that slave ship
Owners got them whips and rappers is slaves
If you really wanna eat you gotta hear the same thing
With the football, b-ball, or if you slangin that dope
Ain’t never seen no hope, brainwash videos shows be foolin’ my folk”.
It’s funny how good music with good content is timeless.
M1 & Stic-Man were at the Shrine on July 2, 12 I got a chance to talk to them about their upcoming Dead Prez Album called “Information Age” coming soon to I Tunes & on Http://DeadPrez.com This album “Information Age” has been a couple years in the making discussing Life in the world of Today.
When I asked about the Inspiration of their music
M1
“I’ve been trying to turn this Mu’Fucker over, ever since I found out the System was broken and I wanted become revolutionary and that has helped inform everything I’ve wrote down as a MC EVER! And I learned that from some of the Dopest MC’s that could be, and they helped me become who I am.”
Stic-Man
“More Music, Listening to Music, Living Life, Struggling, Learning, & Survival, & Everything under the sun. Staying awake, staying woke & writing it Down.”
Later that night Dead Prez hit the stage and rocked the house with the crowd standing shoulder to shoulder at The Shrine. Below I have some more video performances and some pictures from the show
Recently I was theVideographer for the 1/2 pint poetics held at Depaul Unv (Lincoln Park). The event was put together by Kuumba Lynx ( Kuumbalynx.org ) Check them out!! Ladies & Gentlemen I was amazed by the content, considering all of the poets who performed were children under the age of 13 & some of the ages went as low as 7 years old. It was inspiring to hear today’s Youth expressing their feeling about topics like: Modern Slavery, Violence from domestic to everyday street Violence, Drugs, Crime, Saving the Planet & much more.
I took a lot away from this experience, I wasn’t ready for the content that some of these children were expressing, I had no idea. I understand & feel what the children were saying, but we, or I forget that They (the Children) experience the same things we as Adults experience. The difference between the children & myself is I’m locked in, I don’t pay as much attention to these Things that happen, with the Violence & Crime I just mark it down as the way life works, the way the World turns, but The Children don’t except this!! The Children want to know Why are “World” revolves like this! They want to know Why does it have to be like this! It feels great when I consider what I normally experience from the Inner City Youth! Life is about Hope, & these Children have given me a lot more HOPE!!
In all it was just wonderful to experience Children with Real Thoughts & Real Emotion about their common man. Never Forget that our Expressions are what makes us Human, Please tell the world what you think before time passes you by!
Here are 2 video’s from Raw Starz & Peace Poets & Please stay in tune with me at youtube.com/chuckdiesal312 because I will be publishing more videos from the event, Please Watch & Thank You.
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