An examination of corporate Hip-Hop culture.

[truthteacher2007]

How do we reclaim our power? How do we create an authentic identity that isn't a reflection of a white corporate industry, fed to us and embraced as an authentic reflection of who we are?
video.pbs.org/video/1409148147/

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Feb 4, 2014 13:40:28 GMT -5 truthteacher2007 said:

How do we reclaim our power? How do we create an authentic identity that isn't a reflection of a white corporate industry, fed to us and embraced as an authentic reflection of who we are?
video.pbs.org/video/1409148147/

Perhaps by following Joel Dorn, Jesse Jackson, and Roberta Flack's advice?
paraphrase:

^{Go up Moses} _{we been down too long.}

Pharaoh doesn't want you but he needs you
Forget Pharaoh, his tricks, his trinkets
My People let Pharaoh go
All you got to do to let him go is let him go
Wake up tomorrow morning and just say
Bye Pharaoh, ... honey.


Alas, in the words of the Last Poets:

but you know and I know
will party and
and party and
and party and
and paarrrrtayyyyyyyyyy
Some might even die before

what you ask comes about.

Go up, Moses, you been down too long
Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song
Go up, Moses, you been down too long
Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song

Blind man sees that things are wrong
Deaf man hears some funny changes
Boss man hears the people's song
Coats his lies and rearranges

Go up, Moses, you been down too long
Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song

Ain't no love and ain't no hate
Only dollars got the weight
Lift your heads and pass the plate
Sit back, just don't pay the freight

Am I clear this morning y'all
Am I clear this morning y'all
Am I clear this morning y'all
Am I clear this morning y'all
Am I clear this morning y'all
Am I clear this morning y'all
Go up, Moses, you been down too long
Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song

Go up, Moses
You been down too long
You been down too long
You been down too long

My people, let pharaoh go
You don't need him; you don't need his tricks, you don't need his trinkets
Let pharaoh go
Pharaoh doesn't want, but he needs you
My people, let pharaoh go
Without you there is no pharaoh
So all you have to do to let him go is to let him go
Just wake up tomorrow morning and say
Bye, pharaoh... Honey
You been down too long
You been down too long....

Go up, Moses, you been down too long
Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song