coolfool206 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

im feelin those organs.its diffrent but i like it

Rock4ND20LL (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

jesus christ are you still ranting about this? your obviously wrong and no one wants to hear it anymore, go take your grivences over to somone who actualy cares, oh wait no one does.

zoharsis (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

thx for sharing this info.my parents are from west africa ( ghana) and the only thing music wise i know about the culture is dealign with the inportance of drums and how the people speak their with drumsas u sed real hip hop is nto bounded by skin color or whatever, its all about the message

DayOneMedia (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

One is born and dies a Djeli. One is a Djeli from father to son, from grand father to father; from mother to daughter, from grandmother to mother. The Djeli is the inseparable link between the being and the spirit, between the woman or man and her or his history, between society and its vivifying blood. What we now call an MC/DJ, is nothing else than a surviving legacy of this sacred ancestral West African tradition born into a New World.

DayOneMedia (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

The djeli is a story-teller, poet, historian, philosopher, genealogist, and the archive of his or her people's traditions. The Djeli is a messenger, a broadcaster of good and bad news whether baptism, wedding, fetes, meeting, assembly, death, or war. S/he is also a troubadour who with a drum under arm carries the news from village to village. She or he performs the role of the radio, telephone, and television. The djeli profession is inherited, passed on from one generation to the next.

DayOneMedia (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Let us begin with the voice and rhythm of so called Hip-Hop and where it originated from in West Africa, to no coincidence where the bulk of Africans were accosted and brought here as slaves. In West African culture you have a lineage of both males and females who played the traditional role of what's known as a griot or djeli. Djeli's held the memory of their people in their hearts, preserving history through a vast repertoire of richly detailed chronicles set to music.

aznwarriorofhonor (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Man this shit is deep

DayOneMedia (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

My young miseducated children of the western imperialistic world. Listen closely before pushing empty rhetoric about what you think you know about so called Hip-Hop. First, try telling a black man that his color doesn't matter, even though he has and continues to face gross opposition based on his color. Tell nature, the grand architect of color, that color doesn't matter. If color did not matter, there would be no color. The only person color doesn't matter to, is the person without color.

rhymeforadime (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I'm not feelin those overalls.....cool song though

offbeatspoon (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

lol hip hop is world wide so it disint matter about colour its just people spittin about there life and shit so to hate on eney true emcc is like saying u didint live ur life that way when they did