The Ultimate Saul Williams Mixtape

אני נמצא כרגע בעיצומו של מסע מיסיונרי, אליו יצאתי לפני תשע שנים, להפצת האמן שהשפיע עלי יותר מכל אמן אחר בעשור האחרון – סול וויליאמס. המשורר, הראפר, הפילוסוף, הפאנקיסט, השחקן, המרצה, האקטיביסט, המטיף, הפציפיסט, נביא הזעם שאני כל כך אוהב מגיע לכאן להופעה אחת במועדון הקומפורט 13, תל אביב ב-27 לנובמבר ואתם הולכים להיות שם איתי. כוונו לעצמכם את הלב לרגישות מקסימלית. שכחו ממה שחשבתם על היפ הופ – זה גדול מזה. אז לקראת ההופעה הלא פחות מהיסטורית אני מתכוון להעלות לכאן מספר פוסטים בתקווה להרחיב את מעגל חסידי השירה הכל כך ייחודית שלו. אפילו שולי רנד, הברסלב החביב על הבלוג כבר יודע את המילים… סול וויליאמס הוא תופעה. אבל קודם כל מה שהכי חשוב –  המוזיקה, נו מה. קבלו את המיקסטייפ הזה באהבה. קחו הרבה אוויר. אנחנו צוללים.

נ.ב. – אלף נשיקות לחבר'ה שאחראים על הפקת האירוע – קבוצת הדי ג"יים האדירה TABAC שחוגגת בארוע זה יום הולדת שלישי. סחתיין עליכם הבאתם אותה בשיחוק ביג טיים!

נ.ג. – אם בכל זאת בא לכם לדעת קצת יותר – הנה מה שכתבתי ב-2003 על אלבום הבכורה שלו, Amethyst Rock Star, ב-ארספואטיקה או באתר השרת העיוור.

"God grant me wings I'm too fly not to fly"

4. Lalala / Amethyst Rock Star

"While you rhyme about being hardcore
be heartcore. what is it that we do art for?"

5. Amethyst Rock / from the movie Slam

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSR7H580e5U[/youtube]

"They’re trying to imprison my astrology, Put our stars behind bars, Our stars and stripes using blood-splattered banners as nationalists kites"

"Stealin’ us was the smartest thing they ever did. Too bad they don’t teach the truth to their kids…"

6. Sha-Clack-Clack / from the movie Slam

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojDKI8JxfLs[/youtube]

"And Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are standing in the corners with rifles
pointed at the heads of the little children
Don't shoot the children, I shout,
don't shoot the children!
but they say it's too late
They've already been infected by time
But that shit is before my time
I need more time I need more time"

7. Twice The First Time / Ninja Tunes Xen Cuts CD 3

"I will not rhyme over tracks niggas on a chain gang used to do that (Huh!) way back"

8. Tao Of Now (freestyle on some television talk show)

"Children of the night
Only some will star the sky
Only believers in death will die"

9. Untimely Meditations / Amethyst Rock Star

"I'm tired of trying to understand
Perceptions are mangled matted and knotted anyway
Life is more than what meets the eye and I
So elevate I to the third and even that shit seems absurd
When your thoughts leave you third-eye-solated
No man is an Island but I often feel alone
So I find peace through ॐ"

10. Telegram live (spoken word)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvVf2PKoV4[/youtube]

"(stop). We are discontinuing our current line of braggadocio, in light of the current trend in "realness". (stop).  As an alternative, we will be confiscating weed supplies and replacing them with magic mushrooms, in hopes of helping niggas see beyond their reality. (stop). Give my regards to Brooklyn"

11. Telegram / self titled album

"Damn that loop is tight. Nigga, found a way to sample the way the truth the light"

12. part of the poem Coded Language / live @ The Scala, London

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1uxwr4yv_8[/youtube]

"Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws. Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees. Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channellers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love"

13. Coded Language / Amethyst Rock Star

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY2-GRDiPM[/youtube]

"Thus, in the name of: ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN, LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA, MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON, MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI, LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY, SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED"

13. freestyle inside a jail cell / from the movie Slam

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJWDalZogE[/youtube]

15. Raised To Be Lowered / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

"To rise above hatred to love through seeming contradiction
To seldom take a side and learn to compliment the friction"

 

16. List Of Demands / self titled album

"I wrote a song for you today while I was sitting in my room. I jumped up on my bed today and played it on a broom. I didn't think that it would be a song that you would hear, but when I played it in my head, I made you reappear.

I wrote a video for it and I acted out each part. Then I took your picture out and taped it to my heart. I've taped you to my heart dear girl, I've taped you to my heart and if you pull away from me you'll tear my life apart"

17. September 12th / Not In My Name

"It’s not about retaliation – The history of war does nothing more than stark imagination"

18. Pledge Of Resistance / Not In My Name

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_o660d0oc[/youtube]

"We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names"

19. Our Father / Amethyst Rock Star

"I learned to beat box in my tree house Sounded good out there
Would you rather hear about guns fear Or broken glass in the tenement
Should I rob to make you fear me now
Dear goddess can you hear me now?"

20. Black Stacy / self titled album

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRsgavuG4sg[/youtube]

"I think I'm too black
Mom, do you think I'm too black?"

21. 1987 / Amethyst Rock Star

"I presented my feminine side with flowers She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes"

22. Banged And Blown Through / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojU8vwrM9us[/youtube]

23. When The Clock Strikes Me (poem)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=509PBo_QGWw[/youtube]

"Thugs and poets will laugh at themselves
Business men will serve humanity
World leaders will turn to their mothers for advice
And mothers will turn to their daughters for inspiration"

24. Wine / Amethyst Rock Star

"Never question who I am, God knows And I know God personally In fact she lets me call her me In fact she lets me call her me"

עוד על סול וויליאמס באור בזויות:

• לקראת ההופעה: הפגישה שלי עם סול וויליאמס בלונדון
• לקראת ההופעה – This Is Heartcore
• הערב שולי רנד, סול וויליאמס ואני סגרנו מעגל
• TABAC weekender