After the debut solo mixtape 'The Pulse of the Awakening' last year, with ill videos by Global Faction and Slim and collaborations with eMCee Killa (of Caxton Press), First and Last partner in rhyme OMeza Omniscient, and the rest of the Pantheonz of Zenn-la, the full debut album set for release.
The album is the manifestation of years of work, struggle, experience, study and energy. 'Reality Provoking Liberation' is more than an album title, it is a principle for resisting and overcoming the oppression endured by exploited people, whether outright and blatant or subtle and subliminal. Influenced by the teachings of Frantz Fanon and the interpretation of these teachings by Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party, 'Reality Provoking Liberation' is the use of the lessons and training acquired by our constant experiences of oppression (our Reality) to induce and inspire (to Provoke) ourselves and each other to take our freedom (our Liberation) for ourselves, by ourselves.
Music, like any art form, literature included, can only ever have a limited role in fighting for such action. Physical, grass roots grind and organisation are the only things that can bring about the essential unity, organisation and mobilisation that can lead to any kind of genuinely radical action. Musicians, like all artists, can only ever hope for their art to inspire, encourage, give strength and bolster those individuals and groups who take up this action. Equally, anyone who aspires to produce art that does this should also strive to be one of those individuals and a part of those groups.
This album is an offering to those individuals and groups. Largely self-produced, with additional production from OMeziah and DJ Fortune, the album is an attempt to give such inspiration and drill home the principle and philosophy of 'Reality Provoking Liberation', to argue continually that we already hold the tools needed to free ourselves. Amy True (of Caxton Press), Iron Braydz (of Triple Darkness), Hasan Salaam (of Viper Records) Invincible Armour (of Sensei FM), OMeza Omniscient (of First and Last/POZ), Seapa (of POZ) and Kyra all help to express this message through Neo-Hardcore Hip Hop music, a rebirth in a new form of the hardcore, gritty underground, intelligent, inspiring, bang-your-head-through-a-wall, mosh pit starting music that Tru Skool Hip Hop heads can't do without but don't get enough of in this day and age.
Also aiding to express the message though another medium, as always, is Global Faction. The first release from the album is 'Chaotic Revolt', written during the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings that showed that people all over britain were angered beyond words and banner-holding by the murder of Mark Duggan by armed police, the latest in generations of murder of our people by the foot-soldiers of the establishment. The video will be released on the second anniversary of the start of the insurrection on the 6th August. Go to http://www.globalfaction.com/ , or this blog from this date to see the video.
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twitter - @ApexZero00The album is the manifestation of years of work, struggle, experience, study and energy. 'Reality Provoking Liberation' is more than an album title, it is a principle for resisting and overcoming the oppression endured by exploited people, whether outright and blatant or subtle and subliminal. Influenced by the teachings of Frantz Fanon and the interpretation of these teachings by Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party, 'Reality Provoking Liberation' is the use of the lessons and training acquired by our constant experiences of oppression (our Reality) to induce and inspire (to Provoke) ourselves and each other to take our freedom (our Liberation) for ourselves, by ourselves.
Music, like any art form, literature included, can only ever have a limited role in fighting for such action. Physical, grass roots grind and organisation are the only things that can bring about the essential unity, organisation and mobilisation that can lead to any kind of genuinely radical action. Musicians, like all artists, can only ever hope for their art to inspire, encourage, give strength and bolster those individuals and groups who take up this action. Equally, anyone who aspires to produce art that does this should also strive to be one of those individuals and a part of those groups.
This album is an offering to those individuals and groups. Largely self-produced, with additional production from OMeziah and DJ Fortune, the album is an attempt to give such inspiration and drill home the principle and philosophy of 'Reality Provoking Liberation', to argue continually that we already hold the tools needed to free ourselves. Amy True (of Caxton Press), Iron Braydz (of Triple Darkness), Hasan Salaam (of Viper Records) Invincible Armour (of Sensei FM), OMeza Omniscient (of First and Last/POZ), Seapa (of POZ) and Kyra all help to express this message through Neo-Hardcore Hip Hop music, a rebirth in a new form of the hardcore, gritty underground, intelligent, inspiring, bang-your-head-through-a-wall, mosh pit starting music that Tru Skool Hip Hop heads can't do without but don't get enough of in this day and age.
Also aiding to express the message though another medium, as always, is Global Faction. The first release from the album is 'Chaotic Revolt', written during the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings that showed that people all over britain were angered beyond words and banner-holding by the murder of Mark Duggan by armed police, the latest in generations of murder of our people by the foot-soldiers of the establishment. The video will be released on the second anniversary of the start of the insurrection on the 6th August. Go to http://www.globalfaction.com/ , or this blog from this date to see the video.
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