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A Common Wonder - God Bless The Freestyle (Interlude) (Prod. Amerigo Gazaway)
A Common Wonder - God Bless The Freestyle (Interlude) (Prod. Amerigo Gazaway) Angela Malele 32 Views • 6 years ago

Amerigo Gazaway brings to life an imagined studio session between Chicago's crowned prince of Hip-Hop, Common, and Motown legend, Stevie Wonder.

A return to the Soul meets Hip-Hop formula of his Marvin Gaye + Mos Def pairing “Yasiin Gaye,” Gazaway connects the dots between Hip-Hop and the genre’s predecessor with a musical history lesson told through the intersecting themes of Common and Stevie’s respective catalogues. As Gazaway put it:

“Stevie Wonder’s early use of synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers, in a lot of ways, paved the way for hip-hop and sampling. Part of my motivation for this project was to highlight those contributions”

Picking up where Common and Stevie’s 2016 “Black America Again,” single left off, Amerigo brings his imagined recording session to life with a slew of uncovered resources (including multitrack instrument stems, interview audio, and documentary soundbites.) Re-orchestrating deconstructed samples, the producer interweaves Common’s vivid wordplay and Wonder’s passionate vocals for a project that blurs the line between a “mashup” and a modern day duets album.

Download the full album here:
https://amerigo.bandcamp.com/album/a-common-wonder

Download the instrumentals here: https://amerigo.bandcamp.com/album/a-common-wonder-instrumentals-bonus-tracks

Tracklist:

Tracklist:
01. Intro Theme (I Wonder)
02. I Was Made To Love H.E.R.
03. Living For The Chi-City
04. Resurrection To Higher Ground
05. Bad Girl feat. Kanye West
06. The Sixth Superstition
07. Innervision Intermission
08. Sugar by The Pound
09. For Once In My Life feat. Erykah Badu
10. Like They Used to Say
11. God Bless the Freestyle
12. The Light (I'm Yours) feat. Bobby Caldwell
13. Southside feat. Kanye West
14. Pop's Rap feat. Lonnie Lynn. Sr.
15. The Sixth Wonder (Bonus Track)

Credits:

Soul Mates Records 2017

Produced by Amerigo Gazaway
Executive Producer: Rickey Mindlin

Common: vocals/lyrics
Stevie Wonder: vocals/lyrics, instruments

Amerigo Gazaway: sampler, bass, guitar, keys, synth, turntables

DIY acapellas created by The Goodwill Projects

As always, thanks for your support, feedback and inspiration. Please remember to follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram for updates and new releases.

Website: http://amerigomusic.com
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Nana Amos Wilson • A Reflection w/ Queen Taese
Nana Amos Wilson • A Reflection w/ Queen Taese ShakaRa 32 Views • 6 years ago

This is a clip from the Blueprint for Black Power Groundation - Nana Amos Wilson Veneration

To watch in FULL, click the following link:
https://abibitumitv.com/v/GKyUOu

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:
BRO. LDR. MBANDAKA - Spiritual Leader of the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement. Political-Cultural Scientist/veteran activist.

IS AFRIKA REALLY RISING?: DISSECTING THE PROPAGANDA

QUEEN TAESE - Queen of Homeschooling, founder of Liberated Minds Black Homeschool & Educational Institute
EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN: THE POWER IS IN THE ACTIVATION

SABABU N. PLATA - Co-Founder of Afrikan World Info Systems

Hosted By: ShakaRa

Nana Amos Wilson is the Author of:
• The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
• Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
• Blueprint for Black Power

He also established @Afrikan World Info Systems, a publishing company dedicated to knowledge production, specific to the needs of the Global Afrikan Community. Few, if any, were more prolific in providing a more scientific analysis of the plight of Black people, and putting forward tangible programmes. Shortly before the publishing of Blueprint for Black Power, Nana Wilson passed away - 14th January 1995. He was on the verge of developing a credit union and other institutions around the community businesses and organisations he was involved in.

Nana Amos Wilson laid a Blueprint. He did his work. Now we honour him the best way we know how - profiling those who are building on this illustrious legacy, engaging the Blueprint in thought and action.

Non-African Linguists Be Like "This is a new way to quote!"
Non-African Linguists Be Like "This is a new way to quote!" Ọbádélé Kambon Subscription 32 Views • 6 years ago

Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon and Dr. Reginald Akuɔko Duah
LAG 2015 ||| KNUST College of Science
July 29, 2015 ||| 3:30PM

Non-African Linguists be like “This is a new way to quote!”
Abstract:
While conventional wisdom tells us that Asante Twi complementizer sɛ is derived from se 'say' (Amfo, 2010; E. Kweku Osam, 1994; E Kweku Osam, 1996), it is at least worth considering that understanding it as connected to homophone and homonym sɛ 'be like, resemble' would, indeed, be like the Black English way of quoting as noted by Lord (1993:151). The complementizer sɛ is typically glossed as ‘that.’ However, a corpus-based analysis of Asante Twi’s perhaps not-so-distant cousin, Black English, may point us to a more accurate alternative gloss, ‘(be) like’. It has been found that “‘be like’ is now so widely used it accounted for 20 percent of similar uses of the verb ‘be’ among a group of young AAE speakers in North Carolina” (Peterson, 2015). Asante Twi may help us understand the variable context in which aspectual/habitual be is found and also the varied context in which like is found, both of which linguists have found to be “notoriously difficult” to understand against the backdrop of European-descended varieties of English (Hofwegen & Farrington, 2015). We argue that Asante Twi sɛ is glossed as ‘that’, not from language-internal evidence, but because of recourse to glossing into “Standard English” rather than Black English which, in actuality, may be more reflective of what is going on in African languages and vice-versa. The connection between Black English be like and Asante Twi sɛ form may be a case of a common African (diasporan and continental) solution to a common linguistic problem.

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